Movies! Movies! Movies! (Non-Japanese)

bmwracer wrote:
So when are you gonna check out the movie?

I have to attend a funeral tomorrow, so Sunday. :victory:

Wynter wrote:I have to attend a funeral tomorrow, so Sunday. :victory:

The night's still young today.... :victory:

bmwracer wrote:
The night's still young today.... :victory:

Yea, but I have loads of marking I need to get done.

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And no date. :beaten:

Wynter wrote:

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And no date. :beaten:

That hasn't stopped me from catching a movie.

bmwracer wrote:
That hasn't stopped me from catching a movie.

I've watched a movie by myself before. Once...

Wynter wrote:I've watched a movie by myself before. Once...

It was hard for me at the beginning as well... But if you catch the matinee show, like I do, you're less self-conscious about being by yourself. :victory:

bmwracer wrote:
It was hard for me at the beginning as well... But if you catch the matinee show, like I do, you're less self-conscious about being by yourself. :victory:

Yea, I think that's when I watched it that first time. Mind you, I wasn't completely self-conscious, since I'm used to being a loner.

Wynter wrote:Mind you, I wasn't completely self-conscious, since I'm used to being a loner.

Then you're set.

Log off right now and go to the theater.

bmwracer wrote:
Then you're set.

Log off right now and go to the theater.

I can't. I have marking... :shamefulcry:

But I promise I'll have seen it on Sunday. :fingerscrossed:

bmwracer wrote:Back from watching Indy 4 a couple of hours ago.... Good show. :victory:

I mean, it's not Raiders, but I liked it as much as Temple of Doom and I thought it was better than Indy 3...

As expected, there's lotsa great stunt work and CG, though the antagonists (KGB) weren't nearly as evil/nasty as the Nazis...

One last thing:

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ANTS. :mrgreen:

Apparently Harrison Ford can still move with the best of them. I wasn't too excited and geeking out much, but it was a good movie. Not as spectacular as the others, I guess?

You forgot one other thing, though:

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aliens.

:victory:

FarOutFreak wrote:Apparently Harrison Ford can still move with the best of them. I wasn't too excited and geeking out much, but it was a good movie. Not as spectacular as the others, I guess?

I don't think it could've been "as spectacular" as the first or second one, because they're familiar ground for a lot of moviegoers... But I thought it was pretty fun... And it was good to see Marion: she was the best Indy girl. :thumbsup:

You forgot one other thing, though:

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aliens.

:victory:

I didn't... It wasn't nearly as creepy as what I mentioned. :sweat:

bmwracer wrote:
I didn't... It wasn't nearly as creepy as what I mentioned. :sweat:

Of course.

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That shot of the face being consumed was pretty cool. Beats the pants off of ho-hum extraterrestrials.

:bleh: :bleh: :bleh:

FarOutFreak wrote:

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That shot of the face being consumed was pretty cool.

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And getting the entire body dragged into that hole. :sweat:

bmwracer wrote:Back from watching Indy 4 a couple of hours ago.... Good show. :victory:

I mean, it's not Raiders, but I liked it as much as Temple of Doom and I thought it was better than Indy 3...

As expected, there's lotsa great stunt work and CG, though the antagonists (KGB) weren't nearly as evil/nasty as the Nazis...

One last thing:

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ANTS. :mrgreen:

saw it too :victory: . didn't like it :beaten: . i'm not a fan of the whole Indiana Jones thing to begin with. yeah but that part was cool, and the lady badguy.

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am i the only one who hates the whole E.T. thing?? I mean, aliens.. guarded by Incan and Mayans!! wth. I could've sworn i thought the alien was going to say "I am your friend..." on a bike :beaten:

i thought it was kinda lame, compared to the other 3

monta wrote:

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am i the only one who hates the whole E.T. thing?? I mean, aliens.. guarded by Incan and Mayans!! wth. I could've sworn i thought the alien was going to say "I am your friend..." on a bike :beaten:

i thought it was kinda lame, compared to the other 3

Not as great, yeah, but it may need to be considered that the three other movies were filmed long ago, and somehow the expectations of the public are already colored by any other movies that were shown in between.

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But the whole sudden sci-fi angle did kinda throw it off, though. The stories of the three previous ones were all kinda hardline adventure, and there was a risk in taking the story a bit farther than that.

monta wrote:saw it too :victory: . didn't like it :beaten: . i'm not a fan of the whole Indiana Jones thing to begin with.

Why would you even bother going to see it, then? :headscratch:

That's like those people who said they hated Gokusen 2 and still go on to watch 3.... :shakehead: :crazy:

FarOutFreak wrote:

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But the whole sudden sci-fi angle did kinda throw it off, though. The stories of the three previous ones were all kinda hardline adventure, and there was a risk in taking the story a bit farther than that.

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yeah. i sorta believed the whole they hung their heads so the shape becomes like that. But when that huge UFO thing span... :shakehead: . i prefer the mystic stuff

bmwracer wrote:
Why would you even bother going to see it, then? :headscratch:

That's like those people who said they hated Gokusen 2 and still go on to watch 3.... :shakehead: :crazy:

i'm on a 2 month holiday! :beaten: yes, literally two months. i'm just waiting for a whole lotta results right now. dorama... movies... how do people spend two months??

Watched The Chronicles of Narnia last weekend.

well, it seems like this second Narnia is not as best as the first Narnia. Prince Caspian in the books much much better than Prince Caspian in the movie :sweat: :sweat: but yes, all the Pevensies performed 100% better than in The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe! :thumbsup:

monta wrote:how do people spend two months??

Not watching bad movies (Speed Racer *cough*), that's for sure... :beaten:

'Indiana' whips up a frenzy at the box office

By Scott Bowles, USA TODAY

Having proved over the weekend that he still cracks the whip at theaters, Indiana Jones' next mission may be the search for the next sequel.

Despite a 19-year hiatus between installments, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull took in $126.1 million for the four-day Memorial Day weekend holiday, according to studio estimates from Nielsen EDI.

The haul was the second-biggest Memorial Day weekend opening on record, behind only last year's Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, which earned $139.8 million.

Throw in the $25 million that Indy grossed on Thursday, and the fourth episode of the Harrison Ford franchise has nabbed $151.1 million. Analysts had considered Crystal Skull a threat to the record holder, Star Wars, Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, which raked in $172.8 million in 2005. But Crystal Skull ended up No. 5 among biggest five-day debuts.

Still, few movies take in that kind of money without already having a sequel in the works. So far, though, there's no solid plan \ a situation the studio that distributes the Indy films, created and produced by George Lucas, hopes changes soon. "I don't know if George is interested in another," says Rob Moore of Paramount Pictures. "But if he is, we're going to pick up the phone in a hurry."

He has reason to be bullish. Beyond the size of the opening, more than two-thirds of the audience was 25 or older \ nearly a third of them parents \ which could be good news for the franchise. Though teenage boys create bigger debuts, family movies tend to stay in theaters longer.