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    #2432
    Dave_The_Sheep
    Registered Users Posts: 7,336 ✭✭✭Dave_The_Sheep


    Synode wrote: »
    I'm in the 20+ years club. Still have nightmares about not studying the night before the exams

    Same though mine are about college mostly. The relief when you wake up and realise is one of life's simple pleasures.


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    #2433
    sydthebeat
    Subscribers Posts: 41,037 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    Closer to 30 than 20 for me.... Jaysus!


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    #2434
    Podge_irl
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 25,383 Mod ✭✭✭✭Podge_irl


    I'm 16 years so I'm falling somewhere in the middle.


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    #2435
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    I sometimes have a dream where I have to repeat 6th year for some reason and I'm walking around the halls of my old school in my uniform trying not to look like a man in his 30's


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    #2436
    molloyjh
    Registered Users Posts: 24,745 ✭✭✭✭molloyjh


    22 years and have never had any recurring dream despite being a bang average exam taker and a repeat student. Does that mean I never really cared in the first place?


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    #2437
    thomond2006
    Registered Users Posts: 45,433 ✭✭✭✭thomond2006


    Buer wrote: »
    It's not so much that it was in Missouri or Chicago or NYC or Alabama.

    It's that a significant portion of a large crowd anywhere thought it was appropriate to boo a group of people who silently linked arms in a symbol of peace. It's that they felt they could or should.

    It's absolutely mind boggling. There's nothing to not support.

    It was grim to watch. The players looked disgusted.


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    #2438
    awec
    Administrators Posts: 53,384 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    I’m watching Goodfellas for the first time ever.

    Is there anyone from the Sopranos who wasn’t in this movie?


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    #2439
    FACECUTTR
    Registered Users Posts: 1,507 ✭✭✭FACECUTTR


    awec wrote: »
    I’m watching Goodfellas for the first time ever.

    Is there anyone from the Sopranos who wasn’t in this movie?

    Great movie


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    #2440
    awec
    Administrators Posts: 53,384 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    FACECUTTR wrote: »
    Great movie

    Melfie, Paulie, Phil Leotardo, Chris, Carmine Lupertazzi, Pussy, carmella’s ma.

    Thought I saw Vito too but I’m not sure.


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    #2441
    Buer
    Registered Users Posts: 24,179 ✭✭✭✭Buer


    awec wrote: »
    I’m watching Goodfellas for the first time ever.

    WTF. How?


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    #2442
    awec
    Administrators Posts: 53,384 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    Buer wrote: »
    WTF. How?

    Yea it’s a good question cause I really like gangster and mafia stuff.

    It’s just one of those things I’ve never watched, pure coincidence.


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    #2443
    Synode
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,967 ✭✭✭Synode


    awec wrote: »
    I’m watching Goodfellas for the first time ever.

    Seriously awec, what rock have you been hiding under :pac:


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    #2444
    awec
    Administrators Posts: 53,384 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    Synode wrote: »
    Seriously awec, what rock have you been hiding under :pac:

    I just finished it. Going to be honest, I thought it was decent but that's about it.

    Sopranos was better. Sure, TV vs film, but the Sopranos was better by a distance IMO.


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    #2445
    Synode
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,967 ✭✭✭Synode


    awec wrote: »
    I just finished it. Going to be honest, I thought it was decent but that's about it.

    Sopranos was better. Sure, TV vs film, but the Sopranos was better by a distance IMO.

    Have you seen The Godfather


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    #2446
    awec
    Administrators Posts: 53,384 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    Synode wrote: »
    Have you seen The Godfather

    Yes.

    I think I prefer Godfather to Goodfellas.


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    #2447
    awec
    Administrators Posts: 53,384 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    I've never seen Casino either, just to throw that out there.


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    #2448
    FACECUTTR
    Registered Users Posts: 1,507 ✭✭✭FACECUTTR


    awec wrote: »
    I've never seen Casino either, just to throw that out there.

    Ah stop


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    #2449
    connemara man
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 6,773 Mod ✭✭✭✭connemara man


    awec wrote: »
    Yes.

    I think I prefer Godfather to Goodfellas.

    The amount of voiceover in goodfellas annoys me


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    #2450
    OldRio
    Registered Users Posts: 5,919 ✭✭✭OldRio


    One of the best films I've ever seen is 'Once upon a time in America' The last film made by Sergio Leone. Utterly stunning portrayal of Gangsters in the USA.

    Performances, music cinematography and direction are in a different league. The final cut is the version to watch. It's over 4 hours long but it's worth every second.


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    #2451
    jacothelad
    Registered Users Posts: 5,907 ✭✭✭jacothelad


    connemara man wrote: »
    The amount of voiceover in goodfellas annoys me


    So, .....these are talkies..... New fangled stuff. They'll never catch on.


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    #2452
    connemara man
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional West Moderators Posts: 6,773 Mod ✭✭✭✭connemara man


    jacothelad wrote: »
    So, .....these are talkies..... New fangled stuff. They'll never catch on.

    I just like a film that just happens that doesn't need to hold your hand the whole way through. Working in TV and the bits I've worked in its seen as the lazy way out.


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    #2453
    irishbucsfan
    Registered Users Posts: 37,978 ✭✭✭✭irishbucsfan


    connemara man wrote: »
    I just like a film that just happens that doesn't need to hold your hand the whole way through. Working in TV and the bits I've worked in its seen as the lazy way out.

    On a complete tangent to this...

    I remember a few years back Sorkin had a movie about that one poker lady that done all the crimey stuff. I remember I heard a complaint that the movie was awful because it was just basically a sequence of scenes where she said (via voiceover) what she did one after another. And then the review was a rant about “show don’t tell” etc. But it completely missed the point of the movie. It wasn’t a movie about how she ran this poker operation, it was a mavis about why she did it. And the voiceover (I think it was her explaining the story to her solicitor before trial or whatever?) and how it changed and explained in that context was actually the core performance of the film, rather than being a lazy way out.

    Not that I thought the film was particularly great myself, but I thought it worked fairly well rather than being lazy and I thought that view of the film spectacularly missed the point. Sometimes the narrator is not just a narrator.


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    #2454
    Paul Smeenus
    Registered Users Posts: 4,328 ✭✭✭Paul Smeenus


    OldRio wrote: »
    One of the best films I've ever seen is 'Once upon a time in America' The last film made by Sergio Leone. Utterly stunning portrayal of Gangsters in the USA.

    Performances, music cinematography and direction are in a different league. The final cut is the version to watch. It's over 4 hours long but it's worth every second.

    Haven't seen the four hour version, but the regular version is a masterpiece.


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    #2455
    Paul Smeenus
    Registered Users Posts: 4,328 ✭✭✭Paul Smeenus


    The worst film for voiceover, and I say this as a big Lynch fan, is his Dune. Shot after shot of people standing about, while the actors narrate their thoughts. Unwatchable.


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    #2456
    kuang1
    Registered Users Posts: 3,438 ✭✭✭kuang1


    Not a movie that involves narration, but a movie that I felt was misinterpreted big time was Shayamalan's Signs.
    Great cast with Mel Gibson and Joaquin Phoenix.

    But because it had a backdrop of aliens invading earth, it got pegged as purely a Sci fi movie by a lot of people.

    But if you watch that movie knowing that dealings with grief and bereavement are a core theme, makes the movie much more enjoyable imo.


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    #2457
    Dave_The_Sheep
    Registered Users Posts: 7,336 ✭✭✭Dave_The_Sheep


    Bloody stupid twist though.


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    #2458
    mfceiling
    Registered Users Posts: 12,775 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    Never watched Goodfellas, any of the Godfather movies, Casino and only watched a couple of episodes of The Sopranos.

    Or any Star Wars or Star Trek.


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    #2459
    Synode
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,967 ✭✭✭Synode


    mfceiling wrote: »
    Never watched Goodfellas, any of the Godfather movies, Casino and only watched a couple of episodes of The Sopranos.

    Or any Star Wars or Star Trek.


    You've missed out on some great TV and film. Star Trek is the best


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    #2460
    kuang1
    Registered Users Posts: 3,438 ✭✭✭kuang1


    Synode wrote: »
    You've missed out on some great TV and film. Star Trek is the best

    The first half of this post may be true, the second half is probably true.


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    #2461
    MaybeMaybe
    Registered Users Posts: 1,294 ✭✭✭MaybeMaybe


    mfceiling wrote: »
    Never watched Goodfellas, any of the Godfather movies, Casino and only watched a couple of episodes of The Sopranos.

    Or any Star Wars or Star Trek.

    I reckon you'd like Stargate


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