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15th November 2007, 08:54
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Re: Movies - what you seen and was it any good?
I watched it. It was OK. The first half was kind of like CSI: Riyadh and the second half was a gunfight. All wrapped up with the mind-blowingly original message that, in the clash between the West and the Middle East, both sides are to blame.
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18th November 2007, 00:33
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Just watched "Walk The Line" and...I get the feeling I don't know as much about Johnny Cash as some other posters, but I was pretty amazed at Joaquin's performance as well as Reese's!! Well pronounced characters! I cried a bit in the end when he "broke bread" with his Dad.....but then I am a softie at heart.
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18th November 2007, 07:26
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Re: Movies - what you seen and was it any good?
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"Walk The Line"
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Great movie! 
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18th November 2007, 07:56
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Re: Movies - what you seen and was it any good?
I watched The Wiz for the first time a few days ago.
It's a bit dated and a bit lame at times but I enjoyed the music.
I found it to be riddled with symbolism and iconographic characters illustrating the rising plight of black America. I made a break down using the plot synopsis from wikipedia below. I have no judgments in this just my impressions and observations.
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A Thanksgiving dinner brings a host of friends and family together in a Harlem home, where a twenty-four-year-old schoolteacher named Dorothy Gale (Diana Ross) lives with her Aunt Em (Theresa Merritt) and her Uncle Henry (Stanley Greene). Extremely introverted, Dorothy has, as her aunt teases her, "never been south of 125th Street", and refuses to move out and move on with her life.
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Dorothy symbolizes all struggling black people of her time. As a schoolteacher she embodies the respectable nature required by the white world which qualifies her to be a spokesperson for the black world. 125th street
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Upon her entrance into Oz, Dorothy smashes through an electric "Oz" sign, which falls upon and kills Evamean, the Wicked Witch of the East. As a result, Dorothy frees the Munchkins who populate the park into which Dorothy lands; the Munchkins had been transformed by Evamene into graffiti for "tagging" the park walls.
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She defeats the slums and helps to free her fellow man from repression.
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Miss One the Good Witch of the North (Thelma Carpenter), a magical "numbers runner" who gives Dorothy Evamean's powerful silver slippers (it should be noted that in the original book, the slippers were silver to begin with).
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She gets enough cash to make her move out of the slums and up in the world.
Along the way on her journey to The Emareld City she Collects the Scarecrow (her mind), the Tin Man (her heart) and the Cowardly Lion (her courage).
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Before the five adventurers reach the Emerald City, they must face obstacles such as a crazy Subway Peddler (a homeless man) with evil monsters in his control, and "Poppy" Girls (a reference to the poppy field from the original story) who attempt to put Dorothy, Toto, and the Lion to sleep with magic dusting powders.
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She defeats the threats of poverty and drugs with the help of her friends.
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Finally reaching the Emerald City (an analogue of the real-life World Trade Center plaza), the quintet gain passage into the city because of Dorothy's ownership of the silver shoes, and marvel at the spectacle of the city and its dancers.
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The Emerald City represents high town, success, acceptance and respectability in the gentile society of the rich and powerful.
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The Wiz will only grant the travelers' wishes if they kill Evillene (King) the horrible Wicked Witch of the West, who runs a sweatshop in the sewers of New York.
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Dorrothy defeats the economic slavery of the sweatshops and frees her fellow people from bondage.
The Wicked Witch of the West synbolises the power of the underworld and the gangs they control like the Flying Monkeys.
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Upon arriving back in Emerald City, the quintet take a back door into the Wiz's quarters, and discover that the Wiz is a "phony". The "great and powerful Oz" is actually Herman Smith, a failed politician from Atlantic City, New Jersey who was transported to Oz when a balloon he was flying to promote his campaign to become the city dogcatcher was lost in a storm.
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The Wiz is a failed and impotent politician, unable to bring about any of the meaningful changes that Dorothy has done by her spirit and collabaration and organisation of others. To afraid to risk himself he risks others to protect himself.
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Everybody be glad
Because the sun is shining just for us
Everybody wake up
Into the morning into happiness
Hello world
It's like a different way of living now
And thank you world
We always knew that we'd be free somehow
In harmony
And show the world that we've got liberty
It's such a change
For us to live so independently
Freedom, you see, has got our hearts singing so joyfully
Just look about
You owe it to yourself to check it out
Can't you feel a brand new day?
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Believe in yourself, right from the start
You'll have brains
You'll have a heart
You'll have courage
To last your whole life through
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Ease on down, ease on down the road
Come on, ease on down
Ease on down the road
Dont you carry nothing
That might be a load
Come on, ease on down
Ease on down the road
cause there maybe times
When you think you lost your mind
And the steps youre takin
Leave you three, four steps behind
But the road youre walking
Might be long sometimes
You just keep on steppin
And youll just be fine, yeah
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18th November 2007, 20:39
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Re: Movies - what you seen and was it any good?
Just watched a little of some dodgy horror flick called "The Hive" on UBC. Contained a tense "war counsel" scene, delivering a chillingly earnest line which will undoubtedly become a cinema classic...
"No! We are NOT going to negotiate with ants!"
Not sure what the guy's name was, but talk about acting. Sent shivers up my spine and really made me hate those ants...
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18th November 2007, 22:09
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Re: Movies - what you seen and was it any good?
Man on the Moon - Jim Carrey as Andy Kaufman.
LOVE that Tony Cliffton character!! 
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18th November 2007, 22:09
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Saw 2 movies this weekend.
Michael Clayton, with George Clooney. Good story, well done, intelligent, doesn't irritatingly spell out what's happening for you like most Hollywood films.
3 and 1/2 out of 5.
Lions to Lambs (or whatever it's called). Robert Redford's liberal, hand-wringing guilt. Contrived and flat.
Barely 2 out of 5. A lot better than Howling V and Big Momma's House II however.
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18th November 2007, 23:02
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Re: Movies - what you seen and was it any good?
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LOVE that Tony Cliffton character!!
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Speaking, reeking, freaking, seeking.
Don't toy with my noodle toy poodle!
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The free man thinks about nothing so little as death; his mind is focused upon life, not upon death. I always feel a bit sad when I see someone who thinks that the purpose of life is something other than living.
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19th November 2007, 04:49
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^ "I'm HUGE in Vegas!,...I need this gig like I need a shotgun blast to the face!"
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23rd November 2007, 00:03
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American Gangster is ex CEE lent!!
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23rd November 2007, 11:09
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Superbad was fun.
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23rd November 2007, 13:32
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Downloaded "The Third Man" recently. After having listened for 3 years to my recording of the BBC radio dramatisation, I thought it time to watch the film.
Superb stuff. The 1948 film is just gripping to me.
Next I must read Graham Greene's novella. I've read The Comedians and Our Man In Havana but this one's now top of my list of the "Must Read" books.
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Arthur Dent watches as the clouds scud away in the lorry's wake. The rain ceases, allowing Arthur to dry off.
All Rob McKenna knows is that he can't remember his last sunny holiday. All the clouds know is that they love him, they want to be near him, to cherish him, to nurture him and to WATER him. For Rob McKenna is, in fact, a Rain God.
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23rd November 2007, 19:22
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Re: Movies - what you seen and was it any good?
American Gangster
The Kingdom
My type of films
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23rd November 2007, 20:54
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Re: Movies - what you seen and was it any good?
Took the kids to GamePlan
They loved it
I loved the first class seats in Central Ladprao
500 baht each worth every baht...
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23rd November 2007, 23:54
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Re: Movies - what you seen and was it any good?
Went to see Beowolf, loved it
Went to see Gameplan, hated it. I left before it finished because I was more interested in picking up some laundry lol.
They were this weeks movies 
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