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Films

  • 17-04-2003 8:31pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,590 ✭✭✭


    I've just bought a few films yesterday and today and it got me thinking... What films do y'all think are worth buying?

    Last few films I got were:
    The Wicker Man
    Twelve Monkeys
    Millers Crossing

    <only have a VHS player... i know i know>


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 760 ✭✭✭TheAlmightyArse


    Well. Star Wars IV-VI, LotR, Akira, Mallrats.

    And a DVD player, you swine!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 649 ✭✭✭strawberry


    Shaolin soccer.
    The experience will no doubt be heightened by whatever substances you are consuming at the time ;)

    Sven-haven't seen you in too long. Beach Sunday, some french girls in bathing suits. Will wait for your call. :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,590 ✭✭✭lordsippa


    Can nay make it. Will be in touch next week. :)

    Hmm... Indiana Jones trilogy... mmm...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 408 ✭✭purplepolkadot


    THE GOONIES. amzingly splendiferous.
    e.t.
    scarface.
    carlito's way.
    arlington road.
    charlie and the chocolate factory.
    indiana jones. all three.
    pulp fiction. you know you have to.
    reservoir dogs.
    gladiator.
    high fidelity.
    in the name of the father.
    dogma.
    you'd get sick of mallrats after a while.
    the matrix. thereisnospoon.
    heat.
    leon. aww.
    the graduate.
    the (original) thomas crown affair.
    the great escape.
    nurse betty.
    man on the moon.
    an ideal husband.
    that one that's set in black and white up in scotland where these dudes are trying to put on macbeth in a church.
    FROM DUSK TIL DAWN. ohh sweet jesus.
    boogie nights. if only for the final shot. plus heather graham and julianne moore in the nip alot. of no benefit to me. but mark wahlberg.... *well of drool forms*
    three kings.
    sense and sensibility.
    emma.
    good will hunting.
    the shawshank redemption.
    the commitments.
    men in black.
    spinal tap.
    chinatown.
    goodfellas.
    BRAVEHEART.
    or the patriot.
    or both.
    or get ransom and go for all three. the one where the little boy pees himself when he sees gary sinise. maybe that's payback.
    the green mile.
    evolution.
    the one about the little knackers and the horse called oisin.
    lotr. if only for orlando bloom. i want the dvd of the second one JUST for him sliding down the steps on the shield and killing the orc WITH THE SHIELD. oooooh.

    just off the top of me head. like.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 197 ✭✭Bazookatone


    Okay. I actually have a sizeable and respectable collection of videos, so I'll share the benefit of my wisdom:

    All Star Wars (yes even II, it is the greatenst love story of our time, you know, I mean Romeo and Juliet was just two spoiled little kids who pop themselves in the end)
    All "Alien" films
    All "Indiana Jones" films but NOT those Young Indiana Jones ones
    All "Lord of the Rings" when they are all out (by the way, why does everyone like Orlando Bloom so much, I mean I thought he was cool, but usually no one shares my taste)
    All "Jay and Silent Bob" films
    Any Star Trek film with an even number in it's title ( First Contact is a particularly good movie, even if you're not a Trekkie)
    The Shawshank Redemption
    The Quentin Tarantino collection ( I won't bother naming them all)
    The first two Jurassic Parks
    The Hunt for Red October (one of the Best films of all time)
    Blade (I don't like Blade II much, but there's no accounting for taste)
    Both Mission Impossibles
    Armageddon (the second greatest love story of our time)

    I can't remember any others right now, but as soon as I do, I will crowd the website with a mind numbing list of them


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 451 ✭✭Zukustious


    Here are some.... ahem.... more pleasing titles:

    Sperminator 2: Fudgement day
    Edward Penis Hands
    Saving Ryan's Privates


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,590 ✭✭✭lordsippa


    Zukustious, your ideas intrigue me and I wish to learn more...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,028 ✭✭✭oq4v3ht0u76kf2


    High Fidelity
    Ocean's Eleven
    Snatch
    Johnny English
    Gangs of New York
    Billy Madison
    The Tao of Steve
    Wayne's World
    Mallrats
    Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
    One Hour Photo
    Analyze This
    Analyze That
    Porridge
    The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
    The Usual Suspects
    In The Name of the Father
    The Commitments
    The Snapper
    The Van
    The General
    Finding Forrester
    Donnie Darko
    The Story of Microsoft, it was on one night at like 2am on Sky MovieMax.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 451 ✭✭Zukustious


    Originally posted by lordsippa
    Zukustious, your ideas intrigue me and I wish to learn more...

    .....Forest Hump
    The Empire Strokes back
    Planet of The Apes (This just rocks)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 197 ✭✭Bazookatone


    You forgot one or two classics:
    What's up Cock?
    Good Will Humping
    Star Whores: Episode 4, A new Hump
    Episode 5, The Empire Strokes Back
    Episode 6, Return of the Red Eye (it's supposed to sting if it lands in your eye)
    The Fifth Analment
    The Hunt for Red's COCK-tober
    Clear and Pleasent Danger
    Alien Res-ERECTION
    Predator, the Ultimate Humper
    Glad-he-ate-her ( I am particularly proud of that one)
    Beauty and DA BEAST (ditto)
    Deep Blue Se-men
    Dawsons crack (and the sequel, Dawson's Crack Ho, ie Joey)

    But seriously, have you ever seen the film "Wild Things" oooghlaagaraglahaaaaghglglhglgh (pity Matt Dillon was in the shot, oh well, ho hum)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,028 ✭✭✭oq4v3ht0u76kf2


    D'ya know what's better than porn? Real women. No, you cannot find them on the internet, buy them at Games Workshop or meet them at Star Trek conventions.

    ;p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 102 ✭✭Happy CTYI guy


    Originally posted by OrangeRhino
    buy them at Games Workshop or meet them at Star Trek conventions.

    ;p
    you can get them at games workshop?I'm so there


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,177 ✭✭✭oneweb


    Oceans Eleven is definitely on my wishlist.

    We also have Gone in 60 Seconds, Shrek, and one or two others.

    It is what it's.



  • Hosted Moderators Posts: 11,362 ✭✭✭✭Scarinae


    Did anyone else find Gangs of New York really predictable? Myself and a friends tried to guess the entire plot just from looking at the poster, and we were scarily accurate. Also, Leonardo Di Caprio only had an Irish accent when he talked about "the Oirish". Psh.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 337 ✭✭Green Hand Guy


    If you're going to buy Lord of the Rings then make sure you get a pirate copy. I don't want any money going to that bloodthirsty heathen, Peter Jackson or stupid Elijah Wood who couldn't be Frodo on the Frodoist day of the week (which is Friday).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,880 ✭✭✭nosmo


    Originally posted by Green Hand Guy
    ....stupid Elijah Wood who couldn't be Frodo on the Frodoist day of the week (which is Friday).
    LIES! SACRELIDGE! WHO ELSE COULD DO IT?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,590 ✭✭✭lordsippa


    <points to hugh>


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,648 ✭✭✭smiles


    Originally posted by OrangeRhino
    D'ya know what's better than porn? Real women. No, you cannot find them on the internet, buy them at Games Workshop or meet them at Star Trek conventions.

    ;p

    Ah now, thats all lies, I have frequented those places regularly! Maybe I don't count as a real woman so :(

    << Fio >>


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 337 ✭✭Green Hand Guy


    LIES! SACRELIDGE! WHO ELSE COULD DO IT?

    I always thought Warrick Davis would be a great Frodo. In Willow he was brilliant and they wouldn't even need to use special effects to shrink him down.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 408 ✭✭purplepolkadot


    elijah wood was only picked cos he sent a video him and his friend made of him reading an excerpt from one of the books to peter jackson. he got it at more or less the last minute because the open castings and all the first choices turned out to be unsuitable. so i think lots of people coulda played frodo, but elijah wood was the most suitable actor at the time. he's got the whole wide-eyed innocence thing down to a t.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 337 ✭✭Green Hand Guy


    Yeah, but his problems are:
    1. He's too tall
    2. His accent wasn't country-bumpkinish enough
    3. He looks like a brown haired Marge Simpson
    4. He can't act in any film that doesn't have dolphins or other aquatic life in it
    5. He has a stupid name and now a load of stupid parents are giving their kids that name
    6. His height changes multiple times throughout the films
    7. He looks creepy
    8. He never actually read the entire book before making the film
    9. He was hired by Peter Jackson, the most evil man in the world
    10. I heard he sells heroin to underpriviledged orphans


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 760 ✭✭✭TheAlmightyArse


    You're a rather bitter little terrapin, aren't you?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,738 ✭✭✭Barry Aldwell


    Originally posted by Green Hand Guy
    10. I heard he sells heroin to underpriviledged orphans
    I heard that you preferred to spend a day in school (4th year) rather than support the Irish Heart Foundation collection thing.

    (True story tbh)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,590 ✭✭✭lordsippa


    Did he stay in to sell heroin perchance?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 337 ✭✭Green Hand Guy


    You're a rather bitter little terrapin, aren't you?

    No, I just HATE the entire cast and production team of the LOTR movies. (Except for Gimli. Who could stay angry at such a hideously hairy little creature) Hehehe. I said hairy little creature.
    I heard that you preferred to spend a day in school (4th year) rather than support the Irish Heart Foundation collection thing.

    Remind me Barry. Did you do the collection? Did you even do the heart foundation first aid course that was required to do the collection? Are you aware that I didn't find Daffy on time to sign up? I rest my case.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 760 ✭✭✭TheAlmightyArse


    Originally posted by Green Hand Guy
    No, I just HATE the entire cast and production team of the LOTR movies. (Except for Gimli. Who could stay angry at such a hideously hairy little creature) Hehehe. I said hairy little creature.

    Why? What on earth could all those people have done to justify hatred? (Upper case hatred, at that)

    Oh, and that's not his real hair. And he's rather huge as well.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 337 ✭✭Green Hand Guy


    They paticipated in the making of a film that's not only horrifically acted, but deviates so far from the book that it's an almost completely different story. Why, oh why did they cut out Glorfindel? Having Aragorn saved by Arwen just makes him look like a pussy.

    Most of you won't agree with this but I'm a bit of an insane Tolkien purist and I'm outraged that Peter Jackson is changing the end of the third film because appareantly it's too anticlimactic.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,590 ✭✭✭lordsippa


    Shut up you sad little man. So what if it deviates somewhat from the books? The only way he'd get funding to make the movies is if it was a sure bet that they'd sell. So he changes a little? Better than no movies at all.

    And if you're such a purist then why not go remake it when you're older? It's an ambition eh? As it stands he did a damned good job imo and although perhaps it's not the DEFINITIVE version but it's the best to date.

    And before you call me some sort of stupid fanboy, I've only seen Two Towers once. And I think I only got round to seeing Fellowship in the cinema once too.

    So cease your prattle. Or at least be less whiney and irksome in the manner you prattle.

    <guess who's a bitchy lil leaving certer>


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 389 ✭✭Aliminator


    go back to speaking elvish u.....(ponders)....frikn rectum ranger. ur just jealous they didn't choose u, even tho u know all hte words songs and symbols off by heart. oh look at me, look at me. sad sad, useless FREAK!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 389 ✭✭Aliminator


    forgot some things:
    1) was directed at greenhandguy
    2) when u say: he, he, he, what u really mean is why not me, me me!!
    3) go back to your hole
    4) why do'nt u just go and marry ur esteemed Warick Davis


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,327 ✭✭✭NeoSlicerZ


    I feel that this is appropriate 0_o

    flamingmuppet.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,880 ✭✭✭nosmo


    Originally posted by NeoSlicers
    I feel that this is appropriate 0_o

    flamingmuppet.jpg

    But everyone's over 50 posts :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,327 ✭✭✭NeoSlicerZ


    other than that , i think it's appropriate


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 760 ✭✭✭TheAlmightyArse


    And I'm damned if I'm not a regular! Fair enough, perhaps not here, no, not here, per se, perhpas nowhere on boards.ie... but somewhere! Ooooooh yes, somehwere, and somewhere where you least expect it!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,648 ✭✭✭smiles


    Kids. muppets = all.

    locked.

    << Fio >>


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