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    I think that Hook is only popular among people who are in their late 20s to 30s who saw it for the first time as children and the nostalgia allows you to get around sillyness that you wouldn't be able to get around had you seen it for the first time as an adult.

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    Ugh.

     

    Blech.

     

    I liked Kingdom, that's it (and Udo Kier is great in that). I can't believe I even bothered watching Antichrist. I can't think of a director I actually despise more. Jesus, if you really want to hate yourself and him, go track down a copy of Von Trier's "Epidemic".

     

    Yeah, I wasn't big on Antichrist, beautifully shot, but it just didn't come together. However, I really enjoyed Europa, Dogville and The Five Obstructions.

     

    I was thinking that he did The Conversation, but that was Vinterberg taking up the Dogme 95 challenge (and probably producing the only good Dogme 95 movie)

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    I'd say the number is probably more like 5 crappy films to 1 good one (or legit one), but I think that it takes a lot less time to make a crappy film than a good one. He is the quintessential German guy, so he will always have a role when a story calls for "a German guy."

     

    I like Von Trier. His films aren't always good, but when they are they're great. I also enjoyed My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done? quite a bit, but then again I am kinda gay for Herzog.

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    Udo Kier is the only actor that I can think of that has made a career out of being in really good and really bad movies at the same time. Usually actors either start off in bit parts in bad movies and work their way up or after their career fizzles out they can only get roles in really bad movies. Kier somehow seems to be able to do both, he's somehow a regular in both Lars Von Trier and Uwe Boll movies.

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    I get the impression that most movie posters are made with scenes from the film and not from photoshoots. I bet his absence has more to do with the success of Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer than anything and decided to show young attractive people. They weren't exactly aiming this one at the Lion In Winter fans.

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    Inside my head I was like "Wasn't this one directed by Guillermo Del Toro?" so I went to IMDB to look it up, nope, I had it confused with Mimic. I wonder why:

     

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    How could I be so stupid? Mimic has three people with tense faces around an off-center green light and a purple banner at the top on a black background, where as Phantoms has four people (none are minorities) with tense faces around a centered green light with a purple banner at the top on a black background.

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    I wonder if another xXx movie would do well. Babylon AD and Chronicles of Riddick's problems were bigger than Diesel and with a decent script (decent in the dumb action sense that xXx was) I could see it doing well. Then again at the time xXx came out Bond was in a bit of a slump (they expected us to believe that Denise Richards was a nuclear physicist named Dr. Christmas Jones for fucks sake!). I'm sure if Riddick does well it will get greenlit, if not we may never know.

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    I remember back in what must have been 1997 or 1998 I caught an episode of 48 hours where they were profiling three hopefuls trying to break into hollywood. The three they profiled were Darren Aronofsky, Nicholas Sparks and Vin Diesel, who had not broken through. Aronofsky was putting Pi together and trying to get people to care about that, Sparks had just one of his books optioned by Kevin Costner (now it seems like he's somehow figured out how to churn out the same movie over and over and have it sell) and Diesel was trying to sell the film he wrote, directed and starred in; Strays. At the end they gave a "where are they now" update and said that he had landed a part in Saving Private Ryan and since then I have never forgotten his role. I really wish it was up on youtube because it was interesting back then and I imagine it would be cool to watch it now that all of their careers have taken off.

     

    And a young Vin Diesel in his first role:

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    I don't know if I've ever watched XXX. I've seen parts of it on tv so many times I feel like i've watched the movie yet I sorta got that feeling i have not. You know what i mean?

     

    I've tried to watch Chronicles of Riddick but never could get into it. you see I hate Vin Diesel. he's such a bad actor and yet I find him great in the fast and the ridiculous movies. I guess he's believable as playing the kind of idiot that would be driving around town doing street racing for a living.

     

    *cough*Saving Private Ryan*cough*

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    Just bumping this 'cause of the Riddick thread. This movie is available on Netflix instant and the most helpful review is:

    As a college student in the early 1960's, I was a big, big James Bond fan. Well, now that I'm whole lot older, I'm switching to a better "Bond" - Xander Cage, AKA "XXX". The DVD was awesome - kept my attention the whole time. The X game stunts ae way better and more effective than the Bond movies' stuff. The cinematography and camera work was excellent. Even the sound was awesome - and I don't even like heavy metal. The three main characters, Vin Diesel (XXX), Asia Argento (the girlfriend), and Martin Csokas (the villian) were excellent choices and really made the movie gel. The DVD special features were even really good - they could easily have been overdone, but there was just the right balance between "mechanics of stunts" and the director's "movie vision." I highly recommend this DVD to any age group...

     

    Of course I gave it a helpful vote.

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    I felt like this movie was the equivalent of a poorly told campfire tale where the storyteller's reaction was as if the twist is up there with the ending to Oldboy, but the reality is that there are scarier goosebumps stories. It would be a good one for a HDTGM Halloween episode.

     

    What kind of astonishes me is that the director of the movie, Mathieu Kassovitz, made a really good movie called "La Haine," and then made a French blockbuster called "The Crimson Rivers." You'd think that, after making at least two good movies in France, it'd be easy to make a good movie in America. Then he makes "Gothika," and five years later comes out with "Babylon A.D.," a movie so bad that its initials actually spell out "B.A.D." (In fairness, he claims Fox interfered with the movie so much he was never allowed to shoot scenes the way he wanted to.) Since then, he appears to have stuck to French films.

     

    La Haine was excellent, The Crimson Rivers was a bad ripoff of Se7en with a bit of Boys From Brazil thrown in.

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    I think it's slightly different, more robust than say American Pie or Frideberg/Seltzer because Perry regularly sells out gigantic venues for his live shows and has multiple shows on TBS. Maybe in a sense it's more akin to Kirk Cameron or Blue Collar Comedy.

     

    But it's why I suggested someone like Charlie Murphy (or maybe another African American comedian who would be easier to get, although I think Charlie is a good sport and may be getable). It's easy to judge these movies and poke fun at them, it's difficult to examine the cultural divide in an entertaining manner.

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    I watched CSTC a few weeks ago and really enjoyed it, especially the story of Trent Acid . It's funny though 'cause I haven't watched wrestling in probably 20 years and I enjoy documentaries about it now. There's something that's fascinating about the real side of something so fake.

     

    I'm going out on a limb to bet you've seen Bigger, Stronger, Faster*. That's another great documentary tangentially related to wrestling.

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