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Fwiw some of my fave movies are "light" fare. When people ask me what movie I've seen more than any other, my answer is easy: Fast Times at Ridgemont High. I saw it on a big screen when it came out, it rang true for me then, and whenever I'm channel surfing and stumble across it, it puts a smile on my face and I cannot pull my eyes away. A total guilty pleasure.<br />
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e.g. Mike Damone's 5-point Plan:<br />
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[quote]First of all Rat, you never let on how much you like a girl. "Oh, Debbie. Hi." Two, you always call the shots. "Kiss me. You won't regret it." Now three, act like wherever you are, that's the place to be. "Isn't this great?" Four, when ordering food, you find out what she wants, then order for the both of you. It's a classy move. "Now, the lady will have the linguini and white clam sauce, and a Coke with no ice." And five, [b]now this is the most important[/b], Rat. When it comes down to making out, whenever possible, put on side one of Led Zeppelin IV.[/quote] -
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Fwiw some of my fave movies are "light" fare. When people ask me what movie I've seen more than any other, my answer is easy: Fast Times at Ridgemont High. I saw it on a big screen when it came out, it rang true for me then, and whenever I'm channel surfing and stumble across it, it puts a smile on my face and I cannot pull my eyes away. [b]A total guilty pleasure.[/b]<br />
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e.g. Mike Damone's 5-point Plan:<br />
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Why the guilt? <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/rugby/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' /><br />
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Phoebe Cate's boobies.<br />
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In the last couple of days I have watched Jason And The Argonauts and The Fantastic Voyage . Two great old movies chocked full of the most wonderfully cheesy special effects and stop /go animation .
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I watched Goon last night.<br />
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An Ice Hockey film, possibly in the Waterboy vein, where Sean William Scott is a bouncer, and ends up getting asked to play Ice Hockey as their enforcer, while not as thick as the Waterboy character, he is still not the sharpest tool.<br />
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The same director made the mockumentary FUBAR, which is one of my favourite comedy movies.<br />
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I've heard it's pretty violent. I'm going to see it this week. I didn't know the Fubar director made it. I've seen that film many, many times, it's a classic. I haven't seen the sequel Fubar 2: Balls to the Wall (yet), friends tell me it's pretty good. (EDit:) I just checked that imdb link and discovered the same director made "It's All Gone Pete Tong" as well, and I quite enjoyed that movie.<br />
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While I'm thinking about Fubar, I wonder if anybody else has ever seen a ridiculously low-budget and overlong cheapo dirt-bag white-trash cock-fighting indie comedy from the U.S. called [url="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289980/reviews"]"Inbred Rednecks"[/url]...? Rented it for a boys beer night several years ago and we were pissing ourselves laughing. -
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I watched Goon last night.<br />
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Kinda related, and kinda sureal. Gotta love the polite protocol.<br />
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From today's New York Times:<br />
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[color=#000000]There were four fights in a recent game between the Saskatoon Contacts and the Beardyâ€
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[color=#000000]The second two were what are known as [b]appointment fights[/b].[/color][/size][/font]<br />
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[font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][size=4][b]The officials stood back and watched as the players dropped their gloves and approached each other. They bowed their heads, putting their foreheads together. [/b][color=#ff0000][b]They unfastened each otherâ€s chin straps — removing your own chin strap is prohibited— and took off each otherâ€s helmets[/b][/color][b]. They backed away and nodded.[/b] Then, in a flash, they were together again, raining bare-fisted blows on each other, just like the fighters in North Americaâ€s professional hockey leagues.[/size][/font]<br />
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[font=arial,helvetica,sans-serif][size=4][color=#000000]The officials did not intercede until the players, spent, had fallen to the ice.[/color][/size][/font]<br />
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This ("Snowtown Murders") looks...umm...interesting. Read a review of it at Salon today. I'd never heard of this case, but then I'd never heard of Mark "Chopper" Reid until I saw that movie, either. Bit in the dark about Aussie psychopaths, I'm afraid. I'm going to have to track this down. Anybody seen it?<br />
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watched Underworld Awakening; Kate Beckinsale in a tight latex suit, vampires, werewolves and Kate Beckinsale in a tight latex suit, simply awesome! It ended like there will certainly be another movie with Kate Beckinsale in a tight latex suit, sweeeeeet
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I have it but haven't watched it yet, as it just looks so grim. A couple of friends watched it and said it was good.<br />
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Speaking of grim, a good friend of mine recommends this:<br />
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watched Underworld Awakening; Kate Beckinsale in a tight latex suit, vampires, werewolves and Kate Beckinsale in a tight latex suit, simply awesome! It ended like there will certainly be another movie with Kate Beckinsale in a tight latex suit, sweeeeeet<br />
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Grey; Liam Neeson<br />
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Set in Alaska with Neeson as a specialist who kills wolves for an Oil Company to keep the employees safe. They have plane crash in the middle of nowhere in arctic conditions, and find they are being hunted by a pack of wolves, of which, the Alpha male takes on almost mythical proportions.<br />
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Had some good parts to it, but other parts were so annoyingly unreal (I mean Bear Grylls woulda died) it, well annoyed me.<br />
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I don't know how to do the spoiler button but TR, did you watch the WHOLE movie?
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I did...the spoiler is the 3rd from the left in the top row next to your avatar, drop down list.<br />
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Watched Machine Gun Preacher; Not one of those movies you say is great or anything due to the subject and harsh realities it portrays, but still a 'good' film. Based on the life of Sam Childers, a low life scum who found god and then went to North Uganda and then Southern Sudan on a Mission to help all the war affected children. -
Watched a movie called "Contagion" on the weekend. About a virus outbreak that goes worldwide and kills a lot of people (we are told). Stars Matt Damon, and every second actor in Hollywood. Billed as a thriller, but it's really not, its moves along pretty slowly (aside from the fact that people start dying inside the first 5 mins) and then ends. Focuses mostly on the Americans at the Centre for Disease Control trying to save the world (as usual), and the slow break down of society (ish). All in all not much happens really. It's ok, but far from a must-see.
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Watched a movie called "Contagion" on the weekend. About a virus outbreak that goes worldwide and kills a lot of people (we are told). Stars Matt Damon, and every second actor in Hollywood. Billed as a thriller, but it's really not, its moves along pretty slowly (aside from the fact that people start dying inside the first 5 mins) and then ends. Focuses mostly on the Americans at the Centre for Disease Control trying to save the world (as usual), and the slow break down of society (ish). All in all not much happens really. It's ok, but far from a must-see.<br />
[/quote]Just watched this yesterday - it was billed as a blockbuster wasn't it? I would definitely recommend not wasting your time. Highly disappointing and fucking boring, moved very slowly and absolutely nothing in it caught my attention. And I liked Vanilla Sky.
Fubar (2002) ⭐ 6.8 | Comedy, Music
