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Originally posted by choco man:
If you have Netflix, how often do you use it?

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I use it id say about 3 times a week, for a few hours. It's nice to be able to sit down and have, say, Archer running in the background while I crank out some coursework.

Granted, I also don't have cable, and if I did I'd probably be using the inevitable law and order marathon on USA or its affiliates for that void. But then, Netflix is waaaay cheaper than cable.

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Originally posted by speechjew:
Now I wanna know what it was!

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Jazaray:

If the young Joe finally realized that he pretty much caused the Rainmaker to be made.. shouldn't old Joe suddenly realize it too, and not shot the Mom anyway? Then they can all live happily ever after.

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yakusoku:

Throughout the movie, there is a continuity between people in the past that causes dramatic shifts to their counterparts in the future. I believe we're first introduced to this with the one Looper (Seth) who is tortured and dismembered. We see it in the young and old versions of Joe at the diner, but the kicker is that the older version of himself doesn't remember. There's a significant delay, to the point where older Joe, when he's fleeing from the city, notices the injury to his forearm that warns him - a callback to the other looper - and he knows he has to meet at the diner for Beatrix. He has a conversation with his younger self that explains that he can't remember these changes in the past immediately. When he tries to remember things in the past that have been changed by young Joe, his memory is hazy.

So, the moment that young Joe realizes that his actions caused the Rainmaker, his older self won't have that epiphany clear in his memories for awhile. Unfortunately, the delay, and the impulsive nature of both characters makes it so that old joe still is trying to shoot and young Joe realizes he can stop his older self from existing if he shoots himself.

Maybe the memory would have eventually rippled to his future self, but by that time, his older self would still have shot the mother.

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So, Tom and I went to go and see Red Dawn tonight (Thanks Atrium!). It was pretty good, I mean, some of the acting left something to be desired.

I just wish they'd stop ruining my childhood movies. :-\

Thanks,
Jazaray

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There was a nice lassie named Jaz
Many wished to have what she has,
A delicate face,
A soft warm embrace,
And a whole lot of bedroom pizzazz.

WeedIan: Jazaray is like MOTL's Mom.

Get your tissues ready tho :P

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Originally posted by Heresy19:
I saw The Odd Life Of Timothy Green this past weekend.... OMG Jaz you gotta watch that gem

Get your tissues ready tho :P

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How funny! I just got that yesterday, I was going to watch it today, but it was a busy day for me today. Definitely will watch it tomorrow!

Thanks,
Jazaray

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A Plastered Dragon Original Limerick:
There was a nice lassie named Jaz
Many wished to have what she has,
A delicate face,
A soft warm embrace,
And a whole lot of bedroom pizzazz.

WeedIan: Jazaray is like MOTL's Mom.

Also saw the newest Resident Evil, I miss when they are least tried to have a plot...now it's just whoever lived through last movie dies, and lots of weird zombies that make very little sense...

After doing some reading, apparently the villain is Gary Mitchell, who is this guy: http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Gary_Mitchell

I <3 Clark Kent

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I've never, ever, seen a movie that's first half was soooooo confusing in my life, and I've seen Memento!

All in all, it was.. ok. It lacked Jason Bourne.. the guy whom the entire series was about in the first place. I felt that, while Jeremy Renner is a fairly decent actor, he just didn't really bring a whole lot to the movie. The plot was iffy and just didn't make much sense, and they didn't bother explaining much of anything to you either.

Meh.

Waltz and DiCaprio are outstanding, as is Samuel L Jackson. Foxx? Eh, he's ok, but I saw too much of other characters in him.

Thanks,
Jazaray

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A Plastered Dragon Original Limerick:
There was a nice lassie named Jaz
Many wished to have what she has,
A delicate face,
A soft warm embrace,
And a whole lot of bedroom pizzazz.

WeedIan: Jazaray is like MOTL's Mom.

Essentially, the Engineers created humanity (using their own DNA, so humanity is a less evolved species of Engineer) and either created or harnessed a mass biological weapon (the black goo mutagen).
Then the Engineers decided to destroy humanity. In the director's words, "Who wouldn't want to kill their father?" I guess he means that once humans found that they were created, our first instinct would be to kill our creators in some weird Luke vs. Vader type thing. Dunno.

So, instead of using their super high tech space ships and lasers and all that sci-fi jazz against the human race (at a time where humanity had little comparable technology), they decide to bomb Earth with the black goo. Of which they stockpile in fragile containers and take little precaution in handling, effectively spreading the mutagen through their ranks.
I understand the bomb and forget thing, but you'd think a super advanced race would handle it better than they appeared to have in Prometheus.

Anyways, the events of the movie give birth to a predecessor to the aliens in Alien. Which takes place 30 years later I think, I think you're supposed to assume that the aliens' high rate of growth/evolution brought them from their appearance in Prometheus to their appearance in Aliens over the course of a few generations. But the two movies are not "directly connected."

Even the creator seems confused... But hey, that's my take on it. I researched a lot behind the movie in the weeks after the release because I was in the same boat as you.

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Originally posted by Kyosukee:
Has anyone seen Safety Not Gauranteed? It's a few months old, but the premise seemed interesting (ad wanted for time travelers, etc).

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Originally posted by Kyosukee:
Has anyone seen Safety Not Gauranteed? It's a few months old, but the premise seemed interesting (ad wanted for time travelers, etc).

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Best actor: DD Lewis. Duh
Best actress: Only saw 2 of these movies, but I'll pick a dark horse with Naomi Watts
Best supporting actor: I want Hoffman to win. The Master was brilliant. But it will probably be TL Jones
best supporting actress: Anne Hathaway. Her singing "I dreamed a dream" is all I needed to see.
Best Picture: I think it will be Argo. But given the history of The Academy, I would not be surprised if it was Lincoln.

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Originally posted by Bugger:
Bit late to the party, but having seen it twice, I rather enjoyed the hobbit. It's a film that felt like a storybook! It kept the sense of adventure from the book in the scenes that were from the source and not the silmarillion - parts which, by the way, I felt were by and large well-implemented and served well by Peter Jackson's film style (bombastic, sweeping fight scenes, huge soaring establishing shots that pan and push in to a microcosm of the whole, so on). The only part that really dragged for me was the sequence in rivendell, with saruman - when it was pure exposition for the fellowship.

The stone giants scene felt like the sort of scenes george Lucas was swinging for in the prequels with his huge combat scenes (above coruscant, on utapau, on geonosis) but more... fun.

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Originally posted by Bugger:
Went into Oscar viewing knowing rationally and consciously that the entire awards ceremony is a bunch of meaningless ****.

Didn't stop me from being infuriated that Skyfall lost cinematography to Life of Effing Pi. Really?! A Boy And His CGI Tiger had a frame that compared to anything Roger Deakin pulled off in Skyfall? I have never seen a better entrance for a villain to make than the unfocused long shot on Silva as he slowly walks towards Bond, let alone all the gorgeous stuff shot in shanghai and scotland.

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Originally posted by speechjew:
I thought the shanghai tower scene would win.

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Originally posted by Bugger:
I mean, the gorgeous stuff was outstanding, and all of that was just as delicious as you could ever ask for, but the consistent quality is what impressed me. Settings like a Shanghai skyscraper or a remote Scottish manor pretty much demand breathtaking shots, and it's impressive that Deakins rose to the occasion, but it's not like he even skimped on anything else either. Every scene got the shot it deserved and needed, and when the scene needed the camera to *not* be the focus (ie when unveiling the Big Bad) he still somehow found the perfect delivery... so we hear Silva's voice, and see his blurred figure, as we slowly learn what his mind is like and what he looks like. Both literally come into focus at the same time as he walks and talks.

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Originally posted by speechjew:
I thought the shanghai tower scene would win.

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and I thought it'd be the shot of the deserted Chinese island where Silva had his headquarters.

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Originally posted by speechjew:
The only thing drawing away from Skyfall was all the parallels to The Dark Knight trilogy. http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/11/skyfall-dark-knight/

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Frankly, the plot isn't why I love skyfall. The plot's alright, but I don't think it's what makes it a great film, and I wish people would understand that there's more to a film than just its plot.

A Good Day to Die Hard

Meh. 5/10

I only really liked the truck chase at the beginning of the film.