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JohnT
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Capitalist
Mar 1999
time: 00:33
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Saw Hidalgo last night. A nice-enough film, with an irritating digression from the main storyline about halfway into it, a digression that eats up a good 20 minutes of the film. The ending is a bit hokey... akin to my thoughts during POTC, I was thinking "there's no way you can endure all that and still run flat out like this"... but, in real life, Hopkins did win the race and we all know that Hollywood likes to take liberties with the truth for dramatic purposes. (In the movie it was a mad sprint to the finish line, in real life Hopkins beat the #2 horse by 33 hours).
I went into it blind, not knowing what to expect (I was thinking it was a Western set in Mexico for some reason), and that was probably best. I recommend it highly for anybody who likes Westerns, horses, or good-looking films shot in the desert (the cinematography was easily the best thing about this film, especially when they got to Arabia. It looked amazing.)
However, it did highlight one frustration I have about a lot of films. 90% into the movie I'm thinking "I bet Sophie would love this film." It had little (or no) swearing, lots of horses and exotic people doing exotic things, a rousing soundtrack, the sort of thing that would make a good introduction to the Western. But then the horse gets injured in a particularly nasty way, and then the hero had to perform a bit of emergency surgery on the animal, a scene way too intense for a two year old. I complained about this to Laura, saying that they probably put that scene in there to avoid the dreaded G rating, and she suggested that all we had to do was fast-forward through the scene. To which I replied "All 27 times that she'll see it over the next few weeks?" Anyway, the frustration is that it's a bit difficult to find intelligent films nowadays that are completely suitable for young children but also appeal to adults. Shrek is one such movie, and there are some others, but they are few and far between.
Oh, well...
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Imran Siddiqui
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The Potterverse
Jan 1970
time: 00:33
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The Princess Bride is an overrated piece of dreck. |
You, sir, are an idiot  . Coincidentally I agree with Boris that you have bad taste in movies  .
Btw, you should have seen Big Fish first. That is an utterly amazing movie! Hidalgo was 'meh'.
Oh, the questions:
1. No, I don't own a VHS player and I wouldn't rent a VHS even if I had one. DVD all the way, baby.
2. If I rent a DVD, I'll only get widescreen. Hell, I'm paying for this crap, I want the best. I don't mind if movies on HBO are pan-n-scan because, well it's a movie channel and I'm paying like $10 for like thousands of movies (with 5 HBO channels).
3. I use Netflix. I like it. The Blockbuster thing is interesting and you get the video store atmosphere, but it is easier to just drop it in the mail and get your next DVD in your queue a few days later. And you can have 3 out at a time while Blockbuster is 2 out at a time and costs a little bit more.
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03-08-2004 22:04
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had to buy it.
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