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Superb film. I once had a notion to buy an extremely remote property and become a hermit, but this film changed my mind. The key to happiness is other people. It would still be an interesting experience though, contending with nature one on one.
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Marns
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Where's the 'That's right FREE, you don't pay a cent! What are you waiting for? That address again........."
Sorry, sounded like a really cheesy commercial.
LOL yep it did sound cheesy so sorry about that. But!!..the website is true..free movies. I have been using it for a year and so have my kids and we have spent no money on it. Until you have a look for yourself you won't believe it.
www.***********.com
or click the next link for the 2008 movies
http://www.***********.com/forums/forumdisplay.php/2008-movies-151.html
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ferdy
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whenever I look at your avatar I thnk "ah lady penelope" ... meets a chainsaw
I think Team America is a direct send up of "that show that lady penelope is in"
(my memory just went on the blink, forgot name of that puppet show)
edit: i had to google it. it is thunderbirds of course.. lollerooney..
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ferdy
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i have redneck neighbours that make horrible noises all day and night..
and it was madeleine today so far..
and it was madeleine today so far..
Mud Cake
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lol..............
Haven't watched all of Team America yet....... I'm hoping china gets a good unsulting in this movie. I just fast forwarded to the infamous puppet sex and couldn't keep a straight face to watch the movie properly.
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Goldenberry
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I've heard excellent things about "Into the Wild" and that movie is a founding member of the "list of films I must see", from 07 - along with "There will be blood" and "No country for old men" which I still havent' seen.
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smileyface
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I saw 'American Beauty' yesterday on TV (third time). I couldn't get the ending. Why did the neighbour killed him? I think it was a good movie even without that sort of ending.
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Mud Cake
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I think the kids psycho dad killed the girl's father didn't he?
Something about thinking he and his son were gay lovers.
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Ravenau1
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Spoiler tags, people!!!He was a closet homosexual and obviously hated himself for it. When he discovered his son might be gay, he was outraged, yet turned on at the same time. This caused such an emotional conflict, he beat up his son. Then son leaves home, and the father, stricken by a crisis on top of a crisis, goes wandering in a daze towards Spacey's house. He confronts Spacey, who offers a hug from what I can remember, and military father in a moment of madness, perhaps to escape his excruciating emotional turmoil, seeks some kind of sexual gratification by kissing Spacey. One can only imagine the affect this has on psycho dad. I would have thought it more realistic that he kills himself next - maybe he does, but he also decides to take out Spacey. Maybe he seeks to erase the embarrassment of being rejected, maybe he blames Spacey, who knows.
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smileyface
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Thanks 
I was thinking on the similar lines but wasn't quite sure as its difficult to interpret psycho's mind.The movie was great and people really acted very well.
I was thinking on the similar lines but wasn't quite sure as its difficult to interpret psycho's mind.The movie was great and people really acted very well.
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smileyface
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Yep so true! It feels good when well deserving movie is awarded though. Oscars are popularity awards that is most popular movie wins it though other nominated movies are also special or better in some way or the other.IMO
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toddkw
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In 1994 Forrest Gump took all the oscars, leaving the equally great movie, The Shawshawnk Redemption, in it's shadow. Some years there are multiple magnificent films that sadly miss out, and other years it's a "best of a bad bunch" kind of deal.
In 1999, however, American Beauty was certainly deserving of all accolades it received.
In 1999, however, American Beauty was certainly deserving of all accolades it received.
tarn_seiche
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I have see them all and loved them all (And American Beauty as well.) Can't go wrong with any of those.
Wonderfully unlike the so-so movies I am seeing now.
Like St Trinians or Be Kind, Rewind, for instance.
It ought to have been a good film. It has a brilliant concept, clever effects, and (with one exception) competent actors. It is set in the Real USA, the one you occasionally see in a Jim Jarmusch road movie, but not anywhere else in Hollywood, where big, brand new, generic franchises are not always celebrated as harbingers of individual prosperity and progress. Where there is a cloud of cynicism and suspicion hanging over the Great American Dream.
It is hard to pick exactly what went wrong here, too. Apart from Jack Black. Who thinks this bombastic clown is funny? He plays the same character he always does, but it is more noticeable than ever that his timing is off. A lot of superb actors choose to avoid physical comedy because they know how important it is to have impeccable timing (like Jacky Chan, Jim Carey, Harpo Marx, Charlie Chaplin do.) The fall has to happen just after the audience has been set up to laugh, and just before they see it coming. Jack Black is consistently late, so it is utterly predictable, and worse, when it happens time and time again, it creates that irritating feeling when you have a series of sneezes that are all atish and no choo. You are set up to laugh, and again and again it is not funny.
It is not all bad. In fact, it is mostly very well acted and put together. Mia Farrow is excellent as an ordinary middle aged woman (that alarmingly reminds me of me). Danny Glover does a good job, Sigourney Weaver has a small part as a bad ass mother. It has some great moments.
It just could have been brilliant, and it is only an alright one dollar weekly.
On Into the Wild
I don't believe that Christopher McCandless died by eating vegetation. He was armed with a field guide, and there was no forensic evidence that he had been poisoned. His body was extremely low in body fat, but as a young man who had lead a very active life, that is not suprising. Midsummer is when wild food is at its most pleniful, and I doubt that a man who has the bush skills to survive an Alaskan winter, and a plant guide that particularily mentions the seeds of the Eskimo potatoe are poisonus (when it is the tubers that are consumed anyway, and the tubers become too wooden to eat, before they become too poisnonus to eat.)
I think it was something like typhoid, that either killed him in the lockjaw stage, from fever and dehydration, or left him too emaciated and weak to go out and get food and water. It used to be late spring that was the most dangerous time for snow country, before antibiotics, because all the frozen corpses and craps would thaw and all kinds of waterbourne diseases would be swept into the rivers and streams.
Anyway, it is eating meat, not veggies that kills people.
Did you cry, Pawlini? (joke)
I think it was something like typhoid, that either killed him in the lockjaw stage, from fever and dehydration, or left him too emaciated and weak to go out and get food and water. It used to be late spring that was the most dangerous time for snow country, before antibiotics, because all the frozen corpses and craps would thaw and all kinds of waterbourne diseases would be swept into the rivers and streams.
Anyway, it is eating meat, not veggies that kills people.
Did you cry, Pawlini? (joke)
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TOOLEY
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SAW IV.................Awesome
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Nikki
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Not sure if its already mentioned here somewhere but I loved Blood Diamond, saw it a while ago now and again on Fox last week, a movie with a story, and I thought Leonardo's south african accent was pretty good.