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Offline Puke

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« Reply #15 on: October 22, 2002, 01:35:49 PM »
I enjoyed the TRL.  Very esoteric and beautiful.  Though it is probably a little too preachy or spiritual for my taste.  But in war, you can go from beauty to sheer terror which can freeze a man in an instant.  I know I got something from this movie, it's just hard to put into words.

Just spotted this sentence:
"Everytime they cut the scene back to the "wife" who wrote the Dear John letter, I got disgusted... too much poetry/roadkill dialogue and I was sick of seeing the damn woman swinging/bathing."
Contrast between where you want to be and where you really are.  Yeah, a bit poetic, but that stuff did happen.  That could have a profound effect on your actions in wartime.
I'm not sure too many people know it, but Randy Cunningham received a letter from his wife requesting divorce/split just a short time (maybe even just days) before he made ace in Vietnam.  I've been through a divorce and though I wanted it, it takes a lot from you and I can just imagine what it would do to you during wartime.  

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« Reply #16 on: October 22, 2002, 01:54:47 PM »
i didn't see it
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« Reply #17 on: October 22, 2002, 02:06:43 PM »
so some of you guys watched this movie, thought it sucked, then sat down and watched it again.  now it's a great film.  hell maybe I should give 'dumb & dumber' another go
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« Reply #18 on: October 22, 2002, 02:07:45 PM »
If I had to choose, I'd rather have to watch "Pearl harbor" again.

Enough said.


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« Reply #19 on: October 22, 2002, 02:20:10 PM »
I loved it.
Guess there are different tastes for everything.

(I absolutely hated We Were Soldiers)
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« Reply #20 on: October 22, 2002, 02:26:09 PM »
I think TTRL beat SPRyan by a wide margin.

Ryan was good up until the unit was given the assignment to find Ryan. After that it became just another mish-mash very predictable, ive-seen-this-before, cliche ww2 movie.

TRRL oth had a completely different perspective. I did think they made it overly "poetic", but the movie, acting, narration and the way it is presented to the audience is original and captivating.

TRRL is one of the few movies I actually bought after renting it.

And please, dont mention Pearl Harbor here, its TITANIC with A6M Zero's zooming by. Yuck.
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« Reply #21 on: October 22, 2002, 02:28:57 PM »
SPR is like Britney Spears and TRL is like Bob Dylan…enough said……

The movie does have some really brilliant parts:  Like when the Captain is being relieved of his command and says-in Greek-"you have all been sons to me."  Warm scenes like these are usually coupled w/ calming nature scenes like the two parrots preening each-other.  Nature vs. Man thing was really deep in this flick…harsher moments where coupled w/ darker things in nature..like snakes slithering through the grass.  I love it when Sean Penn said, "This whole thing is about property."  Very deep and moving………This movie flirted w/ true greatness………..
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« Reply #22 on: October 22, 2002, 02:44:09 PM »
SPR is a Story. And it was a pretty good one AFAIC.

TTRL is a message movie. If you like your movies preaching at you, then you might like it. If you want to escape into a story and become immersed in the characters, TTRL ain't it. Guess its a mood thing.

OTOH, anyone who thinks people didn't like TTRL just because they didn't get it should go stand in the corner of some fru fru New York Art exhibit and rub nobs with the other snobs.
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« Reply #23 on: October 22, 2002, 03:41:56 PM »
i have gone to probably a hundred movies in my life. I have only fallen asleep in the theatre once. Anyone have a guess which movie it was during?

IMO this movie sucks balls.
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« Reply #24 on: October 22, 2002, 04:14:12 PM »
The Movie is excellent, My only Gripe is the length.

For those of you not understanding the film maybe it would help to read the book.
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« Reply #25 on: October 22, 2002, 04:17:25 PM »
read a book ?

I think your overestimating the attention span of most people here :D
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« Reply #26 on: October 22, 2002, 05:15:06 PM »
OK... I'll listen to people argue that the movie had good cinematogrophy and base its merits on that... but ENOUGH OF THE "YOU DON'T LIKE IT BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T UNDERSTAND IT" CRAP.

This is a movie that transparently hints at being cerebrial.  All of the sudden someone labels it a difficult movie to understand and prides themselves on being able to get it.  That in and of itself is good... so the movie is good.

You can get a movie and still not like it.

The movie had good cinematography.

The movie had horrible dialog and no real story.  It was badly written.  What now? Let's add another rhetorical question and cut away to a dead bird.  Rinse and repeat.

That is why I will never like it.  Pure and simple.

Hell... Uncle Buck was a deeper movie than this one.

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« Reply #27 on: October 22, 2002, 05:17:45 PM »
OMG! Are we agreeing? >
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« Reply #28 on: October 22, 2002, 05:24:14 PM »
Damn!!!  Never saw it, now I gotta go rent it.
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« Reply #29 on: October 22, 2002, 05:25:14 PM »
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Originally posted by midnight Target
OMG! Are we agreeing? >


Speaking of rain of frogs, have you seen the movie Magnolia?
It stands divided just like TTRL.
I liked it but cant watch it more than twice.
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