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wrote in message Seen it? Yep. I assume the next question is Liked it? Yep. It had its moments, but I thought the whole thing with the albino dwarf actually being the guy's brother was a little far fetched. R I didn't see it yet, so I guess I'd better stop readin this thread  It was stupid, the ending was really stupid and it wasn't nearly as *violent* as I was hoping. Oh, too bad - that's one thing, advertisements don't really tell you much. I was disappointed, but thats not unusual for flix of late. I liked The Road to Perdition . A few others. Not too many - most science fistion is blatently UN-sceintific, more like bad fantasy; msot drama is IMO more like melodrama. I mostly am bored out of my skull by romantic comedies , and just can't stand straight romance. I like movies that present what's known of history. If a movie is bad or shallow, it at least has to have a lot of explosions. Recent ones stink becaus eit's all computer-generated, and I can pick that stuff out (and pick it apart) waaaay too easily because of being acquainted with 3D techniques. ANy movie that does use a lot of 3D, has to be very well-done, otherwise I can't be bothered wasting my time watching it - there is a lot of just plain crappy 3D work out there. Which is odd, becasue the number of instructional courses of study in 3D has exploded, and th esalarie have gone up, but the majority of the work- quality has IMO actually declined... I can't recommend it, but I'm glad I got it out of my system. Frankly, I prefer flix in the 40's that have substance to them. Thre have been some modern good ones (not that I can think of many off the top of my head, but i never did have a good memory fo rthat sort of thing), and a lot fo older movies that were crappy, but they made some fo good ones pre-Code. Ever see Rain with IIRC Joan Crawford (made in the early 30's IIRC)? I also have a quirky attraction, when in the right mood, to things (esp. SciFi/Horror) that are so utterly and dismally *awful* and/or *weird*, that they're entertaining I take back what I said about NCFOM, see it and make your own opinion, hope I didn't color it for you. Well, 've been very up-and-down about it. I see alot of claims taht it's great, but the adverts don't do much for me. It looks like some guy finds money that belongs to some psycho-killer, who then gets POed and kills a lot fo people while going after the dood who found the money . The main reason I was thinking of seeing it is that I like a fair number of films that Tommy Lee Jones has done. I lived most of my life not liking JOan Crawford but in the past year saw her in a couple 30's flix and I've changed my mind. I'm not a fan ro anything, but that particular fil struck me as having an interesting combination of quirkiness, interesting useage of B&W, and a twist of vicious irony ((Plus, she sort-of reminded me, in that film, of my Great Aunt, not in looks as much as mannerisms and, er, ah, colorful character - my Great Aunt was a real pip, also, from the few photos I'd seen, absolutely drop-dead gorgeous - so the film jsut struck a personal chord the first time I saw it )) Try this on for size, not that it has anything to do with the movies: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHzIG_iZRWY I had a hard time understanding the words. Not unusual, tho'. This is more my _style_: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvHscM1WayI In general, tho', it'd prob. be easier/shorter to list what I don't like at least occasionally ((You know what, I ought to go up there and smack you upside the head for revealing You Tube to me. The damn thing is addictive. Now I need to install a *timer* on my computer =:-o )) The main underlying theme, which the _title_ hints at, is not necessarily lots of violence, but more-so, the ease with which it is done. One old man just by the look of the evil guy, is terrified, and the evil guy can see it in him. At the flip of a coin, he decides the guy's fate. Some people don't last long enough to really make their place in the plot. It has its disappointments, but in and of itself, I get that it is part of the feeling they wanted to convey with the movie, a bit of disappointment in humanity. I hated the ending, but when thinking back, it fits with much of the rest of it in it's own way. I think I'll have to see it again on DVD. I saw it first in the theater. It does at least get interesting conversation going. I'll presume that from what the sheriff said the device Chagura used to blow open the locks was also used to penetrate steer skulls for slaughter. They never showed him actually blowing the lock up close so you could see the striker hitting it. I would expect the back pressure to be tremendous, of solid steel under high pressure hitting steel would make his arm jump backwards. One little point, close to the end when the sheriff went to the closed door of the motel room where Lewellyn was killed, he saw the deadbolt lock was blown and the door handle was unharmed. Then he pushed the door open without turning the door handle. I didn't notice that the first time around, only after I saw that part again. He would have had to turn the door handle to open the door whether the deadbolt lock was blown or not. We watched Easy Rider yesterday, I fell asleep when they bumped off Jack. I enjoyed the movie cuz wife and I travelled the same route those fella's did, we love US SW scenery. Wife didn't like ending. The movie reminded me of our Don, a free anarchist tripping down the hwy, on a thumper, in good sun. I watched another movie called Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961) . It was about global warming, and using nuclear power to fix the problem, I fell asleep bout 1/2 way threw, but I'm told it had a good ending. Speakin' of ends, a sexy girl wiggles her bum-bum. Ken Yeah, Easy Rider is an all time favorite. They aren't ever at one extreme or another (businessmen or hippies) just doing their own thing. I bummed out when Jack got bumped off. For some effin reason that portrays the south in a bad light, as does the ending. Is that a political statement about the 1969 bible belt? Ken NO, that shit happens everywhere all the time. Notice if you will the assholes off'd 2 passive, trashed hippies and not 2 isolationists bristling with weaponry.
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wrote in message Seen it? Yep. I assume the next question is Liked it? Yep. It had its moments, but I thought the whole thing with the albino dwarf actually being the guy's brother was a little far fetched. R I didn't see it yet, so I guess I'd better stop readin this thread It was stupid, the ending was really stupid and it wasn't nearly as *violent* as I was hoping. Oh, too bad - that's one thing, advertisements don't really tell you much. I was disappointed, but thats not unusual for flix of late. I liked The Road to Perdition . A few others. Not too many - most science fistion is blatently UN-sceintific, more like bad fantasy; msot drama is IMO more like melodrama. I mostly am bored out of my skull by romantic comedies , and just can't stand straight romance. I like movies that present what's known of history. If a movie is bad or shallow, it at least has to have a lot of explosions. Recent ones stink becaus eit's all computer-generated, and I can pick that stuff out (and pick it apart) waaaay too easily because of being acquainted with 3D techniques. ANy movie that does use a lot of 3D, has to be very well-done, otherwise I can't be bothered wasting my time watching it - there is a lot of just plain crappy 3D work out there. Which is odd, becasue the number of instructional courses of study in 3D has exploded, and th esalarie have gone up, but the majority of the work- quality has IMO actually declined... I can't recommend it, but I'm glad I got it out of my system. Frankly, I prefer flix in the 40's that have substance to them. Thre have been some modern good ones (not that I can think of many off the top of my head, but i never did have a good memory fo rthat sort of thing), and a lot fo older movies that were crappy, but they made some fo good ones pre-Code. Ever see Rain with IIRC Joan Crawford (made in the early 30's IIRC)? I also have a quirky attraction, when in the right mood, to things (esp. SciFi/Horror) that are so utterly and dismally *awful* and/or *weird*, that they're entertaining I take back what I said about NCFOM, see it and make your own opinion, hope I didn't color it for you. Well, 've been very up-and-down about it. I see alot of claims taht it's great, but the adverts don't do much for me. It looks like some guy finds money that belongs to some psycho-killer, who then gets POed and kills a lot fo people while going after the dood who found the money . The main reason I was thinking of seeing it is that I like a fair number of films that Tommy Lee Jones has done. I lived most of my life not liking JOan Crawford but in the past year saw her in a couple 30's flix and I've changed my mind. I'm not a fan ro anything, but that particular fil struck me as having an interesting combination of quirkiness, interesting useage of B&W, and a twist of vicious irony ((Plus, she sort-of reminded me, in that film, of my Great Aunt, not in looks as much as mannerisms and, er, ah, colorful character - my Great Aunt was a real pip, also, from the few photos I'd seen, absolutely drop-dead gorgeous - so the film jsut struck a personal chord the first time I saw it )) Try this on for size, not that it has anything to do with the movies: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHzIG_iZRWY I had a hard time understanding the words. Not unusual, tho'. This is more my _style_: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvHscM1WayI In general, tho', it'd prob. be easier/shorter to list what I don't like at least occasionally ((You know what, I ought to go up there and smack you upside the head for revealing You Tube to me. The damn thing is addictive. Now I need to install a *timer* on my computer =:-o )) The main underlying theme, which the _title_ hints at, is not necessarily lots of violence, but more-so, the ease with which it is done. One old man just by the look of the evil guy, is terrified, and the evil guy can see it in him. At the flip of a coin, he decides the guy's fate. Some people don't last long enough to really make their place in the plot. It has its disappointments, but in and of itself, I get that it is part of the feeling they wanted to convey with the movie, a bit of disappointment in humanity. I hated the ending, but when thinking back, it fits with much of the rest of it in it's own way. I think I'll have to see it again on DVD. I saw it first in the theater. It does at least get interesting conversation going. I'll presume that from what the sheriff said the device Chagura used to blow open the locks was also used to penetrate steer skulls for slaughter. They never showed him actually blowing the lock up close so you could see the striker hitting it. I would expect the back pressure to be tremendous, of solid steel under high pressure hitting steel would make his arm jump backwards. One little point, close to the end when the sheriff went to the closed door of the motel room where Lewellyn was killed, he saw the deadbolt lock was blown and the door handle was unharmed. Then he pushed the door open without turning the door handle. I didn't notice that the first time around, only after I saw that part again. He would have had to turn the door handle to open the door whether the deadbolt lock was blown or not. We watched Easy Rider yesterday, I fell asleep when they bumped off Jack. I enjoyed the movie cuz wife and I travelled the same route those fella's did, we love US SW scenery. Wife didn't like ending. The movie reminded me of our Don, a free anarchist tripping down the hwy, on a thumper, in good sun. I watched another movie called Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961) . It was about global warming, and using nuclear power to fix the problem, I fell asleep bout 1/2 way threw, but I'm told it had a good ending. Speakin' of ends, a sexy girl wiggles her bum-bum. Ken Yeah, Easy Rider is an all time favorite. They aren't ever at one extreme or another (businessmen or hippies) just doing their own thing. I bummed out when Jack got bumped off. For some effin reason that portrays the south in a bad light, as does the ending. Is that a political statement about the 1969 bible belt? Ken NO, that shit happens everywhere all the time. Notice if you will the assholes off'd 2 passive, trashed hippies and not 2 isolationists bristling with weaponry. Oh god here we go again.
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wrote in message Seen it? Yep. I assume the next question is Liked it? Yep. It had its moments, but I thought the whole thing with the albino dwarf actually being the guy's brother was a little far fetched. R I didn't see it yet, so I guess I'd better stop readin this thread It was stupid, the ending was really stupid and it wasn't nearly as *violent* as I was hoping. Oh, too bad - that's one thing, advertisements don't really tell you much. I was disappointed, but thats not unusual for flix of late. I liked The Road to Perdition . A few others. Not too many - most science fistion is blatently UN-sceintific, more like bad fantasy; msot drama is IMO more like melodrama. I mostly am bored out of my skull by romantic comedies , and just can't stand straight romance. I like movies that present what's known of history. If a movie is bad or shallow, it at least has to have a lot of explosions. Recent ones stink becaus eit's all computer-generated, and I can pick that stuff out (and pick it apart) waaaay too easily because of being acquainted with 3D techniques. ANy movie that does use a lot of 3D, has to be very well-done, otherwise I can't be bothered wasting my time watching it - there is a lot of just plain crappy 3D work out there. Which is odd, becasue the number of instructional courses of study in 3D has exploded, and th esalarie have gone up, but the majority of the work- quality has IMO actually declined... I can't recommend it, but I'm glad I got it out of my system. Frankly, I prefer flix in the 40's that have substance to them. Thre have been some modern good ones (not that I can think of many off the top of my head, but i never did have a good memory fo rthat sort of thing), and a lot fo older movies that were crappy, but they made some fo good ones pre-Code. Ever see Rain with IIRC Joan Crawford (made in the early 30's IIRC)? I also have a quirky attraction, when in the right mood, to things (esp. SciFi/Horror) that are so utterly and dismally *awful* and/or *weird*, that they're entertaining I take back what I said about NCFOM, see it and make your own opinion, hope I didn't color it for you. Well, 've been very up-and-down about it. I see alot of claims taht it's great, but the adverts don't do much for me. It looks like some guy finds money that belongs to some psycho-killer, who then gets POed and kills a lot fo people while going after the dood who found the money . The main reason I was thinking of seeing it is that I like a fair number of films that Tommy Lee Jones has done. I lived most of my life not liking JOan Crawford but in the past year saw her in a couple 30's flix and I've changed my mind. I'm not a fan ro anything, but that particular fil struck me as having an interesting combination of quirkiness, interesting useage of B&W, and a twist of vicious irony ((Plus, she sort-of reminded me, in that film, of my Great Aunt, not in looks as much as mannerisms and, er, ah, colorful character - my Great Aunt was a real pip, also, from the few photos I'd seen, absolutely drop-dead gorgeous - so the film jsut struck a personal chord the first time I saw it )) Try this on for size, not that it has anything to do with the movies: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHzIG_iZRWY I had a hard time understanding the words. Not unusual, tho'. This is more my _style_: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvHscM1WayI In general, tho', it'd prob. be easier/shorter to list what I don't like at least occasionally ((You know what, I ought to go up there and smack you upside the head for revealing You Tube to me. The damn thing is addictive. Now I need to install a *timer* on my computer =:-o )) The main underlying theme, which the _title_ hints at, is not necessarily lots of violence, but more-so, the ease with which it is done. One old man just by the look of the evil guy, is terrified, and the evil guy can see it in him. At the flip of a coin, he decides the guy's fate. Some people don't last long enough to really make their place in the plot. It has its disappointments, but in and of itself, I get that it is part of the feeling they wanted to convey with the movie, a bit of disappointment in humanity. I hated the ending, but when thinking back, it fits with much of the rest of it in it's own way. I think I'll have to see it again on DVD. I saw it first in the theater. It does at least get interesting conversation going. I'll presume that from what the sheriff said the device Chagura used to blow open the locks was also used to penetrate steer skulls for slaughter. They never showed him actually blowing the lock up close so you could see the striker hitting it. I would expect the back pressure to be tremendous, of solid steel under high pressure hitting steel would make his arm jump backwards. One little point, close to the end when the sheriff went to the closed door of the motel room where Lewellyn was killed, he saw the deadbolt lock was blown and the door handle was unharmed. Then he pushed the door open without turning the door handle. I didn't notice that the first time around, only after I saw that part again. He would have had to turn the door handle to open the door whether the deadbolt lock was blown or not. We watched Easy Rider yesterday, I fell asleep when they bumped off Jack. I enjoyed the movie cuz wife and I travelled the same route those fella's did, we love US SW scenery. Wife didn't like ending. The movie reminded me of our Don, a free anarchist tripping down the hwy, on a thumper, in good sun. I watched another movie called Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961) . It was about global warming, and using nuclear power to fix the problem, I fell asleep bout 1/2 way threw, but I'm told it had a good ending. Speakin' of ends, a sexy girl wiggles her bum-bum. Ken Yeah, Easy Rider is an all time favorite. They aren't ever at one extreme or another (businessmen or hippies) just doing their own thing. I bummed out when Jack got bumped off. For some effin reason that portrays the south in a bad light, as does the ending. Is ... wi?cej »
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wrote in message Seen it? Yep. I assume the next question is Liked it? Yep. It had its moments, but I thought the whole thing with the albino dwarf actually being the guy's brother was a little far fetched. R I didn't see it yet, so I guess I'd better stop readin this thread It was stupid, the ending was really stupid and it wasn't nearly as *violent* as I was hoping. Oh, too bad - that's one thing, advertisements don't really tell you much. I was disappointed, but thats not unusual for flix of late. I liked The Road to Perdition . A few others. Not too many - most science fistion is blatently UN-sceintific, more like bad fantasy; msot drama is IMO more like melodrama. I mostly am bored out of my skull by romantic comedies , and just can't stand straight romance. I like movies that present what's known of history. If a movie is bad or shallow, it at least has to have a lot of explosions. Recent ones stink becaus eit's all computer-generated, and I can pick that stuff out (and pick it apart) waaaay too easily because of being acquainted with 3D techniques. ANy movie that does use a lot of 3D, has to be very well-done, otherwise I can't be bothered wasting my time watching it - there is a lot of just plain crappy 3D work out there. Which is odd, becasue the number of instructional courses of study in 3D has exploded, and th esalarie have gone up, but the majority of the work- quality has IMO actually declined... I can't recommend it, but I'm glad I got it out of my system. Frankly, I prefer flix in the 40's that have substance to them. Thre have been some modern good ones (not that I can think of many off the top of my head, but i never did have a good memory fo rthat sort of thing), and a lot fo older movies that were crappy, but they made some fo good ones pre-Code. Ever see Rain with IIRC Joan Crawford (made in the early 30's IIRC)? I also have a quirky attraction, when in the right mood, to things (esp. SciFi/Horror) that are so utterly and dismally *awful* and/or *weird*, that they're entertaining I take back what I said about NCFOM, see it and make your own opinion, hope I didn't color it for you. Well, 've been very up-and-down about it. I see alot of claims taht it's great, but the adverts don't do much for me. It looks like some guy finds money that belongs to some psycho-killer, who then gets POed and kills a lot fo people while going after the dood who found the money . The main reason I was thinking of seeing it is that I like a fair number of films that Tommy Lee Jones has done. I lived most of my life not liking JOan Crawford but in the past year saw her in a couple 30's flix and I've changed my mind. I'm not a fan ro anything, but that particular fil struck me as having an interesting combination of quirkiness, interesting useage of B&W, and a twist of vicious irony ((Plus, she sort-of reminded me, in that film, of my Great Aunt, not in looks as much as mannerisms and, er, ah, colorful character - my Great Aunt was a real pip, also, from the few photos I'd seen, absolutely drop-dead gorgeous - so the film jsut struck a personal chord the first time I saw it )) Try this on for size, not that it has anything to do with the movies: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHzIG_iZRWY I had a hard time understanding the words. Not unusual, tho'. This is more my _style_: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvHscM1WayI In general, tho', it'd prob. be easier/shorter to list what I don't like at least occasionally ((You know what, I ought to go up there and smack you upside the head for revealing You Tube to me. The damn thing is addictive. Now I need to install a *timer* on my computer =:-o )) The main underlying theme, which the _title_ hints at, is not necessarily lots of violence, but more-so, the ease with which it is done. One old man just by the look of the evil guy, is terrified, and the evil guy can see it in him. At the flip of a coin, he decides the guy's fate. Some people don't last long enough to really make their place in the plot. It has its disappointments, but in and of itself, I get that it is part of the feeling they wanted to convey with the movie, a bit of disappointment in humanity. I hated the ending, but when thinking back, it fits with much of the rest of it in it's own way. I think I'll have to see it again on DVD. I saw it first in the theater. It does at least get interesting conversation going. I'll presume that from what the sheriff said the device Chagura used to blow open the locks was also used to penetrate steer skulls for slaughter. They never showed him actually blowing the lock up close so you could see the striker hitting it. I would expect the back pressure to be tremendous, of solid steel under high pressure hitting steel would make his arm jump backwards. One little point, close to the end when the sheriff went to the closed door of the motel room where Lewellyn was killed, he saw the deadbolt lock was blown and the door handle was unharmed. Then he pushed the door open without turning the door handle. I didn't notice that the first time around, only after I saw that part again. He would have had to turn the door handle to open the door whether the deadbolt lock was blown or not. We watched Easy Rider yesterday, I fell asleep when they bumped off Jack. I enjoyed the movie cuz wife and I travelled the same route those fella's did, we love US SW scenery. Wife didn't like ending. The movie ... wi?cej »
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wrote in message Seen it? Yep. I assume the next question is Liked it? Yep. It had its moments, but I thought the whole thing with the albino dwarf actually being the guy's brother was a little far fetched. R I didn't see it yet, so I guess I'd better stop readin this thread It was stupid, the ending was really stupid and it wasn't nearly as *violent* as I was hoping. Oh, too bad - that's one thing, advertisements don't really tell you much. I was disappointed, but thats not unusual for flix of late. I liked The Road to Perdition . A few others. Not too many - most science fistion is blatently UN-sceintific, more like bad fantasy; msot drama is IMO more like melodrama. I mostly am bored out of my skull by romantic comedies , and just can't stand straight romance. I like movies that present what's known of history. If a movie is bad or shallow, it at least has to have a lot of explosions. Recent ones stink becaus eit's all computer-generated, and I can pick that stuff out (and pick it apart) waaaay too easily because of being acquainted with 3D techniques. ANy movie that does use a lot of 3D, has to be very well-done, otherwise I can't be bothered wasting my time watching it - there is a lot of just plain crappy 3D work out there. Which is odd, becasue the number of instructional courses of study in 3D has exploded, and th esalarie have gone up, but the majority of the work- quality has IMO actually declined... I can't recommend it, but I'm glad I got it out of my system. Frankly, I prefer flix in the 40's that have substance to them. Thre have been some modern good ones (not that I can think of many off the top of my head, but i never did have a good memory fo rthat sort of thing), and a lot fo older movies that were crappy, but they made some fo good ones pre-Code. Ever see Rain with IIRC Joan Crawford (made in the early 30's IIRC)? I also have a quirky attraction, when in the right mood, to things (esp. SciFi/Horror) that are so utterly and dismally *awful* and/or *weird*, that they're entertaining I take back what I said about NCFOM, see it and make your own opinion, hope I didn't color it for you. Well, 've been very up-and-down about it. I see alot of claims taht it's great, but the adverts don't do much for me. It looks like some guy finds money that belongs to some psycho-killer, who then gets POed and kills a lot fo people while going after the dood who found the money . The main reason I was thinking of seeing it is that I like a fair number of films that Tommy Lee Jones has done. I lived most of my life not liking JOan Crawford but in the past year saw her in a couple 30's flix and I've changed my mind. I'm not a fan ro anything, but that particular fil struck me as having an interesting combination of quirkiness, interesting useage of B&W, and a twist of vicious irony ((Plus, she sort-of reminded me, in that film, of my Great Aunt, not in looks as much as mannerisms and, er, ah, colorful character - my Great Aunt was a real pip, also, from the few photos I'd seen, absolutely drop-dead gorgeous - so the film jsut struck a personal chord the first time I saw it )) Try this on for size, not that it has anything to do with the movies: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHzIG_iZRWY I had a hard time understanding the words. Not unusual, tho'. This is more my _style_: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvHscM1WayI In general, tho', it'd prob. be easier/shorter to list what I don't like at least occasionally ((You know what, I ought to go up there and smack you upside the head for revealing You Tube to me. The damn thing is addictive. Now I need to install a *timer* on my computer =:-o )) The main underlying theme, which the _title_ hints at, is not necessarily lots of violence, but more-so, the ease with which it is done. One old man just by the look of the evil guy, is terrified, and the evil guy can see it in him. At the flip of a coin, he decides the guy's fate. Some people don't last long enough to really make their place in the plot. It has its disappointments, but in and of itself, I get that it is part of the feeling they wanted to convey with the movie, a bit of disappointment in humanity. I hated the ending, but when thinking back, it fits with much of the rest of it in it's own way. I think I'll have to see it again on DVD. I saw it first in the theater. It does at least get interesting conversation going. I'll presume that from what the sheriff said the device Chagura used to blow open the locks was also used to penetrate steer skulls for slaughter. They never showed him actually blowing the lock up close so you could see the striker hitting it. I would expect the back pressure to be tremendous, of solid steel under high pressure hitting steel would make his arm jump backwards. One little point, close to the end when the sheriff went to the closed door of the motel room where Lewellyn was killed, he saw the deadbolt lock was blown and the door handle was unharmed. Then he pushed the door open without turning the door handle. I didn't notice that the first time around, only after I saw that part again. He would have had to turn the door handle to open the door whether the deadbolt lock was blown or not. We watched Easy Rider yesterday, I fell asleep when they bumped off Jack. I enjoyed the movie cuz wife and I travelled the same route those fella's did, we love US SW scenery. Wife didn't like ending. The movie reminded me of our Don, a free anarchist tripping down the hwy, on a thumper, in good sun. I watched another movie called Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961) . It was about global warming, and using nuclear power to fix the problem, I fell asleep bout 1/2 way threw, but I'm told it had a good ending. Speakin' of ends, a sexy girl wiggles her bum-bum. Ken Yeah, Easy Rider is an all time favorite. They aren't ever at one extreme or another (businessmen or hippies) just doing their own thing. I bummed out when Jack got bumped off. For some effin reason that portrays the south in a bad ... wi?cej »
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wrote in message Seen it? Yep. I assume the next question is Liked it? Yep. It had its moments, but I thought the whole thing with the albino dwarf actually being the guy's brother was a little far fetched. R I didn't see it yet, so I guess I'd better stop readin this thread It was stupid, the ending was really stupid and it wasn't nearly as *violent* as I was hoping. Oh, too bad - that's one thing, advertisements don't really tell you much. I was disappointed, but thats not unusual for flix of late. I liked The Road to Perdition . A few others. Not too many - most science fistion is blatently UN-sceintific, more like bad fantasy; msot drama is IMO more like melodrama. I mostly am bored out of my skull by romantic comedies , and just can't stand straight romance. I like movies that present what's known of history. If a movie is bad or shallow, it at least has to have a lot of explosions. Recent ones stink becaus eit's all computer-generated, and I can pick that stuff out (and pick it apart) waaaay too easily because of being acquainted with 3D techniques. ANy movie that does use a lot of 3D, has to be very well-done, otherwise I can't be bothered wasting my time watching it - there is a lot of just plain crappy 3D work out there. Which is odd, becasue the number of instructional courses of study in 3D has exploded, and th esalarie have gone up, but the majority of the work- quality has IMO actually declined... I can't recommend it, but I'm glad I got it out of my system. Frankly, I prefer flix in the 40's that have substance to them. Thre have been some modern good ones (not that I can think of many off the top of my head, but i never did have a good memory fo rthat sort of thing), and a lot fo older movies that were crappy, but they made some fo good ones pre-Code. Ever see Rain with IIRC Joan Crawford (made in the early 30's IIRC)? I also have a quirky attraction, when in the right mood, to things (esp. SciFi/Horror) that are so utterly and dismally *awful* and/or *weird*, that they're entertaining I take back what I said about NCFOM, see it and make your own opinion, hope I didn't color it for you. Well, 've been very up-and-down about it. I see alot of claims taht it's great, but the adverts don't do much for me. It looks like some guy finds money that belongs to some psycho-killer, who then gets POed and kills a lot fo people while going after the dood who found the money . The main reason I was thinking of seeing it is that I like a fair number of films that Tommy Lee Jones has done. I lived most of my life not liking JOan Crawford but in the past year saw her in a couple 30's flix and I've changed my mind. I'm not a fan ro anything, but that particular fil struck me as having an interesting combination of quirkiness, interesting useage of B&W, and a twist of vicious irony ((Plus, she sort-of reminded me, in that film, of my Great Aunt, not in looks as much as mannerisms and, er, ah, colorful character - my Great Aunt was a real pip, also, from the few photos I'd seen, absolutely drop-dead gorgeous - so the film jsut struck a personal chord the first time I saw it )) Try this on for size, not that it has anything to do with the movies: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHzIG_iZRWY I had a hard time understanding the words. Not unusual, tho'. This is more my _style_: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvHscM1WayI In general, tho', it'd prob. be easier/shorter to list what I don't like at least occasionally ((You know what, I ought to go up there and smack you upside the head for revealing You Tube to me. The damn thing is addictive. Now I need to install a *timer* on my computer =:-o )) The main underlying theme, which the _title_ hints at, is not necessarily lots of violence, but more-so, the ease with which it is done. One old man just by the look of the evil guy, is terrified, and the evil guy can see it in him. At the flip of a coin, he decides the guy's fate. Some people don't last long enough to really make their place in the plot. It has its disappointments, but in and of itself, I get that it is part of the feeling they wanted to convey with the movie, a bit of disappointment in humanity. I hated the ending, but when thinking back, it fits with much of the rest of it in it's own way. I think I'll have to see it again on DVD. I saw it first in the theater. It does at least get interesting conversation going. I'll presume that from what the sheriff said the device Chagura used to blow open the locks was also used to penetrate steer skulls for slaughter. They never showed him actually blowing the lock up close so you could see the striker hitting it. I would expect the back pressure to be tremendous, of solid steel under high pressure hitting steel would make his arm jump backwards. One little point, close to the end when the sheriff went to the closed door of the motel room where Lewellyn was killed, he saw the deadbolt lock was blown and the door handle was unharmed. Then he pushed the door open without turning the door handle. I didn't notice that the first time around, only after I saw that part again. He would have had to turn the door handle to open the door whether the deadbolt lock was blown or not. We watched Easy Rider yesterday, I fell asleep when they bumped off Jack. I enjoyed the movie cuz wife and I travelled the same route those fella's did, we love US SW scenery. Wife didn't like ending. The movie reminded me of our Don, a free anarchist tripping down the hwy, on a thumper, in good sun. I watched another movie called Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961) . It was about global warming, and using nuclear power to fix the problem, I fell asleep bout 1/2 way threw, but I'm told it had a good ending. Speakin' of ends, a sexy girl wiggles her bum-bum. Ken Yeah, Easy Rider is an all time favorite. They aren't ever at one extreme or another (businessmen or hippies) just doing their own thing. I bummed out when Jack got bumped off. For some effin reason that portrays the south in a bad light, as does the ... wi?cej »
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