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Post by lethargilistic on Mar 26, 2012 15:14:07 GMT -8
So we have this board space and it's sitting mostly unused. I say we should put it to work for something. How about we use a thread to discuss our favorite things? Someone puts up a subject (Movie, book, dinosaur) and we each respond. What do you think?
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Post by missdetermined on Mar 26, 2012 16:19:12 GMT -8
Moulin rouge, Once a Thief, and a Chelsasoars, a hybrid between a t-rex, and my sister.
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Post by lethargilistic on Mar 26, 2012 18:14:32 GMT -8
((I didn't mean start with those, but I guess that's an "I'm interested" ^^' ))
Moulin Rouge is so underrated. Who cares if the singing wasn't perfect: they were actors, not singers. The arrangements were absolutely genius.
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Post by missdetermined on Mar 26, 2012 18:22:51 GMT -8
Yeah but i didn't know what else to put. I loved the story and the acting
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Post by Pentharis on Mar 26, 2012 18:40:35 GMT -8
I've heard that Moulin Rouge is a terrible movie that's lots of fun to watch. I don't get it, myself, but then I have weird taste. I'm no good with movies, but I have a lot of favourite series. BBC's Sherlock, of course, and the 1992 Batman series (as well as the rest of the 90's DC cartoons, Superman, Batman Beyond, Static Shock, Justice League, Justice League unlimited... and technically Zeta Project, but nobody gives a flying shite about that one). I'm such a DC comics nerd that I "taught" an unnofficial Batman class. Which was completely not objective, and full of my own personal biases. (I refused to talk about Damian, Talia Al Ghul, Silver St. Cloud, and a number of other characters that pissed me off. Believe it or not, I dislike Silver more than I dislike Talia.)
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Post by Pentharis on Mar 26, 2012 18:42:05 GMT -8
and by "I don't get it" I mean I've never seen it and therefore don't get to judge Moulin Rouge.
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Post by lethargilistic on Mar 26, 2012 20:42:27 GMT -8
Moulin Rouge is a very good story, if you can push back the "Why the hell am I still watching this?" twitch when things get especially whacky. The only thing is that they cut out the musical numbers almost entirely after a point and those were a big draw. Also, Obi-Wan Kenobi singing, but you don't give a flying shite about Star Wars. Anyway, I was thinking we'd make a game out of this favorites thing. Someone suggesting a subject, people responding to it with answers. People responding to posts other than the first one that was supposed to be hypothetical.
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Post by Pentharis on Mar 26, 2012 21:56:48 GMT -8
Lead by example, my friend. You should start if you want it to get anywhere.
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Post by KirbyOfHyrule on Mar 26, 2012 22:07:34 GMT -8
I wouldn't call Moulin Rouge a good movie. it's an ok movie,it's fun to watch,but what bothers me most is, that the whole fuckin' movie -as far as I remember- is completely lacking any original songs.
If a movie is about songs and singing and stuff ike that, it should brin it's own songs.
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Post by lethargilistic on Mar 26, 2012 22:24:08 GMT -8
They were arrangements of pop songs presented in visually interesting ways. And they advertized it as such, which makes that OK in my book. There's nothing wrong with springboarding off things. Take the scene where Christian and Satine (I have very good reasons for remembering those) sing to each other on the jeweled elephant without context for Pentharis: the songs they sang were all famous, but the medly and arrangements were the moviemaker's art. That scene was fantastic.
In conclusion: "Above all things I believe in love. Love is like oxygen. Love is a many- splendored thing. Love lifts us up where we belong. All you need is love!"
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Post by KirbyOfHyrule on Mar 26, 2012 23:24:12 GMT -8
I still think,it's "okay".
Another movie: Equilibrium.
even though the "No-Feelings"-Agenda is not perfect and need some work, it is a great movie, with an interesting story and neat action scenes.
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Post by missdetermined on Mar 27, 2012 11:29:11 GMT -8
I think I will say no more of Moulin Rouge. The songs were perfectly placed and the story plot was amazing, but no no more said as for "No Feelings" never heard of it.
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Post by KirbyOfHyrule on Mar 27, 2012 11:41:15 GMT -8
"No Feelings" is the solution they chose to stop wars in Equilibrium. After the WW3, it was decided emotions were the cause for war ander murder and all this bad stuff, so a drug was made to surpress feelings. If you don't take it, you're an outlaw. If you have stuff,that's pretty instead of practical,you're an outlaw. Everything that causes emotions is illegal and get's destroyed. In the beginning of the movie, they even burn the fuckin' Mona Lisa.
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Post by missdetermined on Mar 27, 2012 11:45:29 GMT -8
0_0 Interesting I feel the urge to watch this movie now
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Post by KirbyOfHyrule on Mar 27, 2012 12:08:48 GMT -8
go watch it. Especially if you like nice martial arts and gun-fu-scenes. gun-kata is one of the movies main-elementes.
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