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Post by homer on Jul 25, 2012 3:36:32 GMT 2
Beowulf and Grendel
In this 2005 adaptation of the story, Beowulf arrives with his mighty men to slay the Troll beast Grendel, who is actually played by just a huge *cruisering* dude. This guys forearms are the size of my legs. He runs around grunting murdering Danish soldiers who hunted and killed his father. He gains vengeance by ransacking the mead hall every night and caving a few skulls. Beowulf shows up, uncovers why Grendel is a jerk, tried to Kill Grendel anyways, Grendel finds himself trapped and in an effort to escape saws off his own arm with the blade of a spear. He then lopes into the ocean where he bleeds out. Random part of the movie is Grendel's mother who is some sort of amphibious sea cunt, she finds his dead body, secures the corpse, and then runs into the Mead Hall, where much celebratory drunkenness is occurring as result of her sons death. She fucks up everyone, kills people. Side note Grendel has sex with a regular human woman one night, who births a half man half troll child. Beowulf hunts down Grendel's mother who has elephantiasis in her legs. Beowulf sails off with his men, and Grendel's son sits on the shoreline, will he grow up seeking vengeance? Ripe for a sequel. LOL.
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Post by switch on Jul 25, 2012 5:49:15 GMT 2
Beowulf and Grendel was a great independent movie staring Gerard Butler before he became the 300 superstar. Sort of a "literal" interpretation of the Beowulf saga. Much better than the Robert Zemeckis Beowulf movie from 2007.
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Post by homer on Jul 25, 2012 5:51:29 GMT 2
I guess it's literal, but then the mother comes in and she's like aquatic...or something.
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Post by switch on Jul 25, 2012 5:52:11 GMT 2
Only so much you can do with Grendel's mother in a "literal" telling. Beowulf also doesn't fight the Dragon  |
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Post by homer on Jul 25, 2012 5:54:47 GMT 2
Dragons are real.
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Post by ghengis on Jul 28, 2012 20:27:53 GMT 2
butterfly effect-
pretty good movie about the effects of changing one event in your life. Ashton kutcher continues to *cruiser* up his already fucked up life.
7/10
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Post by guest on Jul 28, 2012 23:05:08 GMT 2
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Post by liger on Jul 28, 2012 23:42:59 GMT 2
upon homer's review i saw the understated cinematic masterpiece written and produced by jay baruchel dubbed Goon. This interesting storytelling follows the adult life of the kindhearted, docile yet playfully brutish hero played by sean william scott whose youtube fight sensation (who does this remind you of?) lands him a career playing semi-professional hockey.
the movie's theme does not carry the lame toilet humor sean william scott usually plays rather has been heavily doused with some indie mustard as it illuminates sws's range playing the converse role of what he had been typecast to prior.
jay baruchel's characters and plot come fully to life embodying rich canadian comedy and championing the country's philosophy and spirit as well in only the way gallant cavemen, rejected from society and their coach, dancing and smashing on ice can provide.
well worth seeing.
and remember, "i've been playing hockey my whole life and have never had to sign anyone's dick"
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Post by ghengis on Jul 29, 2012 0:17:18 GMT 2
which ending is this review referring to. Theres one where Kutcher travels back to when he was a baby in his mother's womb and strangles himself. Theres also one where he gets everything to work out by never meeting the female in the first place.
WHICH ONE
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Post by guest on Jul 29, 2012 0:24:32 GMT 2
It is referring to the latter ending.
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Post by homer on Jul 29, 2012 2:25:26 GMT 2
Cu - I remember a post from 6 years ago about the butterfly effect, and even have the link to it.
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Post by enculator on Jul 29, 2012 14:22:01 GMT 2
homer, it's ~ not -
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Post by switch on Aug 5, 2012 6:00:56 GMT 2
Watched Richard Linklater's romcom series, "Before Sunrise" and "Before Sunset"
These were some excellent, soulful movies, that expertly grasp the characters, time and place they seek to represent. The first movie covers the chance encounter of Ethan Hawke (Jessie) and Julie Delpy (Celine), the former a twenty something American tourist visiting Vienna after a breakup, and the latter a twenty-something French women visiting family in Europe. Both are desperately pathetic and lonely and middle-class yet their romance is very fragile and cute and so this movie works pretty well.
The movie is all about dialogue and the character interactions.
The second film, Before Sunset, takes place ten years later and covers a single afternoon where Jessie (still Hawke) and Celine (still Delpy) meet again following the publication of Jessie's book (based on his experience in the first movie).
This movie is superior. It suggests the distance and commitments that have arisen over ten years, yet manages to maintain the light-hearted Bohemian atmosphere of the first movie (except this time set in Paris). Jessie's marriage to some loser has ruined his life, but he loves his kids, and Celine's relationships with European losers has also ruined her life. The two find themselves still very much in love, although even more jaded, regretful, and both are crushed by the realization that their chance encounter the decade before actually shaped their entire lives, not at all for the better.
The movie ends ambiguously, Jessie either catches a plane or the two end up screwing everything up at Celine's apartment: you decide.
Anyway, both movies are classic linklater films, very beautiful and cute romcoms, and well paced. Recommended. Linklater is working on a third instalment, presumably to take place ten years after the last film, and twenty years after the first. Both characters re-appear, according to IMDB
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Post by liger on Aug 7, 2012 1:41:45 GMT 2
mysteries of pittsburgh is easily the best movie ever
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Post by homer on Aug 7, 2012 4:05:43 GMT 2
whats that about
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