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I'm gonna watch Pirates of the Caribbean for the first time--ordered it on pay-per-view. Should be fun.
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I'm going through my set of the 1st season of Stargate SG-1. Very gradually -- there are 5 episodes on some of these disks. "The First Commandment" is playing right now.

Are there any Stargate SG-1 fans here? SG-1 watchers?
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I rented the dvd for Pirates of the Caribbean last week, and couldn't get past the first 10 minutes of the movie for some reason. I just lost interest in watching it. So I returned the movie unwatched. Yet at the same time I rented that, I picked up Lost in Translation, watched it through, and thought it was great.
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I got Pirates for Christmas, keep intending to watch it ...

I even think Johnny Depp is cool, since he had his kids and grew up. I just don't seem to get around to that movie. So what did you think of it, Foul?

(BTW, is Lord Fowl another of yours? Can we expect the clucking of doggerel soon? :twisted: )
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:haha: No. I made him to be my alter-ego who disagrees with me on everything, but then I had a second thought and decided there's enough real people to do that. ;)

As for Pirates, I enjoyed it a lot. It was a bit predictable and dragged just a tad, but it was very enjoyable. Nothing but a good time.

I've also seen Lost in Translation. Very moving movie. It closes beautifully, without betraying the characters.
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Now watching Quiz Show, with John Turturro and Ralph Fiennes, Robert Redford directing. Very well done film, another of those that I have practically memorized.
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Foul, what do you have in mind for this thread that you stickied it for?

I haven't seen Pirates. Looked worth a shot, but I haven't seen many movies lately. :( :( :( OTOH, the reason is that I'm usually here or reading. Currently ASOIAF, so... :D
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Fist and Faith wrote:Foul, what do you have in mind for this thread that you stickied it for?
Same reason "what are you listening to" is stickied. Everyone can post here what they plan on watching or are going to watch.

As for me, I watched Seven Samurai all the way through for about the third time. This time I watched it with my grandfather. He enjoyed it thoroughly.
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I was defending The English Patient earlier, on another thread, and discovered I had to rewatch it. So that's what's playing now. Marvelous film. I just watched as the sound of Juliet's feet playing hopscotch, cues a segue to the sound of drums in the desert years before.

THE ENGLISH PATIENT is another book that handles time line changes perfectly, even lyrically.
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"The rocky horror picture show" for the umpteenth time. And I still possitively quiver with antici......pation. ;) Absolutely totally weird... and I love it! ;)
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Rented a bunch of movies on Friday, then borrowed a bunch more from my wife's parents, so we're set for the week. :D

Rented:

My Boss' Daughter: Absolute dreck. Stopped watching after 45 minutes. Mind you, we typically like stupid funny movies but this was CRAP.

Matchstick Men: Great movie. The ending was surprising but good.

Gothika: Great movie that scared the crap out of us a couple times

Lost In Translation: Started watching it last night but just didn't get into it. I hear that seems to be the case with this flick: either you love it or find it boring. We seem to be the latter... :oops:


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American Me
Bad Boys II
Secondhand Lions
The Commitments
Windtalkers
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Have you seen Windtalkers yet? I was impressed by all 5 of the main actors. Cage, of course, was wonderfully anguished, but I was equally impressed by his partner (Adam Beach, I think?).
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Joy wrote:Have you seen Windtalkers yet? I was impressed by all 5 of the main actors. Cage, of course, was wonderfully anguished, but I was equally impressed by his partner (Adam Beach, I think?).
Haven't watched it yet. We watched American Me night before last and started watching Bad Boys II but didn't have a chance to finish it last night. I'll prolly watch Windtalkers within the next couple of days, though.
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Going to buy Donnie Darko on DVD soon. I haven't seen the whole thing yet--only parts.
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I have PHONEbooth, but haven't seen it yet. Any opinions?
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Snake Eyes. I'm watching it until The Whole Nine Yards comes on in 20 minutes. Makes no sense, this way of watching TV, because I own both movies. :roll:
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Donnie Darko... good movie, definately need to see it at least twice. Not as deep as most people seem to think, but not for those that don't like to think.

Phonebooth was interesting. Not for people who don't like dialogue or insist on elaborate set construction. Farrell and Sutherland deliver solid performances, and the movie would be a complete waste if they didn't.
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Watched Gothika and Assasination Tango this weekend-both good entertianment values. Gothika was good, if predictable, Halley Berry actually acted-it's probably better than I feel as I'm a major fan of In Dreams (which had Robt. Downey Jr. in it as well) in a way it was sorta a remake-if you haven't seen In Dreams you'll prob enjoy Gothika quite alot. Assasination Tango was very good effort from Robert Duvall-He stars, produces, directs. The dancing is great, the movie is shot very well-Duvall is a great actor, but someone should have monitored his caffine intake-too damm hyper! But then again an assasin should be hyper...I guess I'm just tired of seeing people get killed...I prob should stop watching CSI, NYPD Blue and L & O CI too-three of my top five TV shows almost always open with someone popped! :faint:
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I rented Gothika this weekend. It wasn't a bad film but once it became clear what was going on I began thinking "What? This again?" It may be that I've watched this kind of scenerio play out too many times. "I see dead people." Okay. I get it. Please think of something else. :D
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I know, like I said, remake-predictable--kinda like Ashley Judd movies--I mean they're very good, for the most part--but after a while they look like clones...
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