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Onhell said:
Man,  just when I thought I'd give the film a chance you talk about John Wayne.  Now I'm definetly not going to see it.  Thanks Genghis,  for I shall save 2 hours of my life .  Obviously I hate John Wayne :D 
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Deja vu  :ok: :D
 
Natalie said:
I recently saw 'Perfume - The Story of a Murderer' (I must say right here that I prefer the German title 'Das Perfum - Die Geschichte eines Mörders').
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You know German?
Onhell said:
Man,  just when I thought I'd give the film a chance you talk about John Wayne.  Now I'm definetly not going to see it.  Thanks Genghis,  for I shall save 2 hours of my life .  Obviously I hate John Wayne :D 
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I think it's more like 4 hours long. And John Wayne isn't that annoying in that film ;)
 
Perun said:
I think it's more like 4 hours long. And John Wayne isn't that annoying in that film ;)
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I hate him in any movie...

Anywho, Last night I watched The Departed directed by Martin Scorcese (sp?) and with the likes of Jack Nicholson, Leonardo Dicaprio, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen, Matt Damon and Alec Baldwin. This movie was BRILLIANT! I mean fucking AMAZING! I was curious about it because I had seen the previews and liked the cast and director, but man did it meet and surpass my expectations! The basic story is Jack Nicholson is a crime lord in South Boston and sometime in the 80's gets a good kid, with a good family to start running him favors, later that kid (Matt Damon's character) becomes a cop and basically Nicholson's guy on the inside. Dicaprio on the other hand had a shady family history, but he himself was a good kid, he too becomes a cop but, because his uncle also is a mobster and he has a shady past (his family anyway) he gets recruited to be an undercover agent, being the cops guy on the inside with Nicholson's crew. And a very intense game of cat and mouse begins that let me tell you... WOW. EVERYBODY must see this movie.
 
Perun said:
You know German?
I think it's more like 4 hours long. And John Wayne isn't that annoying in that film ;)
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Nobody has a large role in that film.  I saw it basically because of the relevance to the IM song.
Onhell said:
I hate him in any movie...

Anywho, Last night I watched The Departed directed by Martin Scorcese (sp?) and with the likes of Jack Nicholson, Leonardo Dicaprio, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen, Matt Damon and Alec Baldwin. This movie was BRILLIANT! I mean fucking AMAZING! I was curious about it because I had seen the previews and liked the cast and director, but man did it meet and surpass my expectations! The basic story is Jack Nicholson is a crime lord in South Boston and sometime in the 80's gets a good kid, with a good family to start running him favors, later that kid (Matt Damon's character) becomes a cop and basically Nicholson's guy on the inside. Dicaprio on the other hand had a shady family history, but he himself was a good kid, he too becomes a cop but, because his uncle also is a mobster and he has a shady past (his family anyway) he gets recruited to be an undercover agent, being the cops guy on the inside with Nicholson's crew. And a very intense game of cat and mouse begins that let me tell you... WOW. EVERYBODY must see this movie.
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I will definitely see it.  As soon as I saw the first promo for it, I said to my g/f "we're there".  By the way, the plot to The Departed is similar to Lucky Number Slevin, which is a #1 rental in my town.
 
Natalie said:
Not personally, no. :P

Yes, I speak German. I was born,grew up, and still live in Vienna.
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I was just wondering... How have you learned Swedish? And, how many languages do you speak?
 
My mother is Mexican and my father is Swedish. I speak Swedish, English, German, some rudimentary Spanish and school French.
 
Oh, I speak school French too! It's so good that the people in Paris answer in English when I speak to them.  :bigsmile:
 
I think the only thing the French like hearing less than English is French with a German accent ;)
 
Natalie said:
My mother is Mexican and my father is Swedish. I speak Swedish, English, German, some rudimentary Spanish and school French.
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I think you are my new hero... :D or rather Heroine
 
Perun said:
I think the only thing the French like hearing less than English is French with a German accent ;)
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I've just now started to learn French. Before I started to learn it, I was studying German. So I speak a little French with German accent which has a big touch of Swedish.

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Onhell said:
I think you are my new hero... :D or rather Heroine
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Why thankyou. Touched, to be sure. :wub:

Yax said:
I've just now started to learn French. Before I started to learn it, I was studying German. So I speak a little French with German accent which has a big touch of Swedish.

:bigsmile:
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Jackpot, eh?  :lol:
 
Ok, I've been watching a few horror movies, because well, IT'S OCTOBER DAMN IT! So last sunday I watched Jeepers Creepers and John Carpenter's The Thing. Jeepers Creepers was amusing, had good tension and I just have to say one of the most unsatisfying endings. Not because the creature "wins" (sorry if I spoiled it for anybody, but meh) but because it doesn't really END.

The Thing was awesome. I had never seen it and it is a treat to view old movies back before CGI fucked it up for everybody (Yes, I'm looking at you George Lucas!!) and how clever writing, camera work and ACTING moved the movie forward. Really good stuff.

After Two days ago I watched the original 70's The Wicker Man. after watching the movie I looked up info online and it says that they had "editing problems" which Christopher Lee hated and said it cut continuity and made the movie not-that-great. I liked it anyway, a very good mystery and not to mention quite... relevant. The sargeants religiosity is matched by that of the neo pagans and his death made me wonder if maybe I should go to scotland and dance naked with beautiful women instead of going to church on sunday :D

Last night I moved on to Poltergeist. This movie would have freaked me out if I was 12, but now it only made me tense, but at least I cared for the characters and it was a good story. I have to say though, that a couple of seens (the clown doll and the mother laying in bed after taking a bath) reminded me of Scary Movie 2 and they weren't as serious as they were meant to be, hehe. What I found odd is that it had a PG rating... um, I wouldn't let my kid watch this movie, only because it has no foul language (though I think they say "shit" a few times) and no gore doesn't mean it's a PG flick. Oh well. I'm thinking of watching Jason X next hehe, who knows.
 
Onhell said:
After Two days ago I watched the original 70's The Wicker Man. after watching the movie I looked up info online and it says that they had "editing problems" which Christopher Lee hated and said it cut continuity and made the movie not-that-great. I liked it anyway, a very good mystery and not to mention quite... relevant. The sargeants religiosity is matched by that of the neo pagans and his death made me wonder if maybe I should go to scotland and dance naked with beautiful women instead of going to church on sunday :D
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They were in a rush to get the movie out.  Christopher Lee was so keen on starring in and pushing this movie, he (among others) actually worked without pay in order to get it out on time.  However, the film had to be recorded in October, when it was set in Spring; those girls dancing naked round the fire when Howie first meets Christopher Lee's Lord Summerisle?  They're actually wearing skin-coloured shifts/leotards...and the blossoms had to be stuck onto the trees!

Still, it is a very good movie, and much better than many of the 'horror' movies that have come out in the past 10 years.  Most modern horror movies rely on flashy CGI and demons/ghosts/monsters to give scares, but 'The Wicker Man' chills because it's very feasible...the people on Summerisle are human, just as anybody...and the poignancy of the fact that Howie's stubborn faith is just as bad as the islanders' murder of him makes the ending all the better.

Interesting fact: Originally, the movie "bosses" (I presume the heads of the film company producing it) wanted the movie to end on a happier note, with a sudden rain shower putting out the fire...I prefer the proper ending...it just works so much better.

Oh, and Britt Ekland was hot. :D
 
Last night I watched Saw III. It was an interesting movie, much slower paced than the first two and almost as a half prequal, filling in gaps from the previous two. Don't want to give too much away since it is a movie worth watching, it is, as the previous two, a smart, gorery, suspense thriller. The relationship between jigsaw and his "apprentice" is the centerpiece here and lets just say I've lost my appetite for the next couple of days thanks to a specific scene :puke:
 
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