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| lady wakasa |
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| chillywilly |
| Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 11:52 am |
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I know there's several Futurama fans out here.
One of the gifts I got last week was Futurama: Bender's Big Score, which is the first of 4 new movies being created as the return of Futurama for 2008.
In this full-length released to DVD movie, everyone is back (with a funny sendup to Fox as the "Box Network"). The main story line revolves around the crew of Planet Express getting spammed and Bender gets infected with a virus that allows alien spammers to control him.
A time code has been planted on Fry's ass that allow the spammers to send Bender into the past to steal all of the world's treasures.
The last third of the movie has a lot of time travel back and forth, involving the original Futurama story with Fry and his frozen state for 1,000 years. There's some good plot twists that I won't spoil for anyone, but everything gets explained in the end.
This was pretty well done and it keeps a good majority of the type of humor Futurama episodes have provided in the past. Even Al Gore makes an appearance that's pretty funny.
I'm anxious to see the other 3 direct-to-DVDs this next year and a return of the series to Comedy Central. Cartoon Network has been running all of the original 72 episodes on it's late night show, Adult Swim as their contract to run the show expires today. |
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| bart |
| Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 12:23 pm |
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| Thanks for the heads up, Chilly. I was fond of Futurama a couple years ago, then sort of lost track. Adding Bender's Big Score to my queue. |
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| jeremy |
| Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 6:29 pm |
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| Rod |
| Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 9:20 am |
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Just watched Black Book. Great great great great great great great great motherfucking great film.
Did I mention it was great? |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 10:03 am |
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Rod wrote: Just watched Black Book. Great great great great great great great great motherfucking great film.
Did I mention it was great?
I thought it was a really really good film (a little too campy IMO to be great), but with a near-great performance by Carice van Houten. |
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| Rod |
| Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 10:13 am |
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| The camp was the icing on the cake, man! |
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| lshap |
| Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 10:28 am |
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| Geez - I totally forgot about Black Book, which is the unfair downside of seeing a dramatic film in early summer. I also thought it was pretty great, by the way. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 11:03 am |
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| The first 3/4's of Black Book was very good and the last 1/4 was just a mess. Kitschy, hokey, contrived, overdone crap. Sunk everything that went before. Verhoeven seems to have difficulty containing his bad film making side. I was loving the movie till it took that ridiculous melodramatic turn. |
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| Trish |
| Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 9:33 pm |
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billyweeds wrote: Rod wrote: Just watched Black Book. Great great great great great great great great motherfucking great film.
Did I mention it was great?
I thought it was a really really good film (a little too campy IMO to be great), but with a near-great performance by Carice van Houten.
Just read she's in the New DiCaprio/Crowe film Body of Lies - very cool
I also loved Black Book |
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| Trish |
| Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 9:36 pm |
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marantzo wrote: I was loving the movie till it took that ridiculous melodramatic turn.
??? which part was melodramatic? the coffin bit at the end? |
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| Ghulam |
| Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 12:41 am |
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| The Belgian film Ma Vie En Rose (My Life in Pink) is about a seven year old boy, who wants to be a girl, who wants to wear dresses, causing a lot of embarrassment and annoyance to his parents, ostracism of the family by the neighbors, and the boy's expulsion from school. It is a very touching story, sensitively directed and very well acted. Won 11 international awards, including the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Movie in 1998. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 2:51 am |
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Bad movie night:
Snakes on a Train: A young Mexican woman has been stricken by a curse that makes her spit up green jello (or, for variety dark chocolate) and small snakes which grow rapidly and are generally venomous. Some of the snakes can burrow under people's skins and reproduce there, making the people spit up green jello (or, for variety dark chocolate) and small snakes which grow rapidly and are generally venomous.
The curse is because she decided to marry a young shaman of whom the family doesn't approve. The shaman wishes to take her to his uncle in hopes of curing her. He has some magic smoke to protect himself or disable other people. (Second-hand smoke is a bitch, isn't it?) At first the snakes are content to attack evil characters, but eventually they are content to attack those who are merely annoying, which is most of the cast.
Naturally, they decide to hide out in a storage car on a train. The shaman has been catching the snakes and putting them in jars where the magic smoke can keep them from growing. Naturally they escape and start attacking passengers. These include (1) a young family (2) an Arabic looking man (3) an annoying Texan (4) Surfer Dudes (5) a childhood friend of the snake-vomiting woman (6) two busty young blondes (7) a professor and Mary Ann. Naturally the train becomes a runaway.
Actually, this is a bad B film, but not truly horrible like the next film. It takes a lot of little twists and turns, and the climax is worth seeing. The train has some interesting features such as each car having its own color scheme. Those in the red car should have paid attention to their Edgar Allan Poe and gone to the blue one. I look forward to Snakes on a Boat, Snakes in a Submarine, The Towering Snakeferno, etc.
Curse of the Queerwolf is an example of what you can do with about $100,000 and why you shouldn't. Larry Smallbut is bitten by a queerwolf and when the moon is full, he turns into a transvestite homosexual. (The writers think the words "transvestite" and "homosexual" are synonymous.) Production values are low and most of the humor is on the order of Larry's name or worse, although there are a few laughs. I rather liked the girl who played the original queerwolf and the one who played Larry's girlfriend. Kent Butler, who plays Larry's best friend, is really wretched and fortunately only made one movie after this. He'd made three before. |
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| Rod |
| Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 10:46 am |
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| The Bourne Ultimatum: Lean mean techno-noir machine. |
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| Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 10:58 am |
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