are there any

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good movies in theatres right now

seriously i'm looking through everything that's playing and i don't want to see any of it. other than uhh, star trek anythin LIVE goin down?

Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 1:29 am

movies suck and are boring.

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would you say that movies suck more or less than old books?

Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 1:45 am

way way more

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And yet, oddly, old movies suck less than new movies.

Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 2:01 am

that is not necessarily true

Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 2:01 am

hi guys

i am quickly realizing that i am drew 2.0

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no you're not at all

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trainwreck wrote:

movies suck and are boring.

absolutely right

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also books, television shows, most music, and art.

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Life in general imho

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90% of everything is crap

Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 6:35 am

watch the boat that rocked

Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 7:44 am

Tall Count Orca wrote:

90% of everything is crap

Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 9:49 am

90% of everything is enjoyable if you don't have a giant stick up your ass.

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The stick is the only thing that makes me feel alive.

Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 11:07 am

It's a pretty flattering claim about the partners of everyone in this thread.

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what do you people who pretend to hate everything actually do with your stupid lives

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Boorishly P. Foundry wrote:

90% of everything is enjoyable if you don't have a giant stick up your ass.

It might be interesting to test this. Across the next fortnight I am going to sit down with my pay-tv movies package and watch ten films completely at random, and if I enjoy fewer than eight (I'm being charitable) then you owe me a retraction.

I will not cheat and leave it on one of the good channels like World Movies or TCM. I'm not sure if I should purposely avoid films that I know I'd enjoy, however, or if that would stack the votes. Similarly, I'm pretty sure paying a close attention to FX and Hallmark would invalidate your proposal pretty swiftly.

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Baron von Swede wrote:

what do you people who pretend to hate everything actually do with your stupid lives

get hugged in the butt/wish they were getting hugged in the butt

Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 12:12 pm

Anyway Star Trek is pretty good. Probably some more good things will be coming out soon.

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Baron von Swede wrote:

what do you people who pretend to hate everything actually do with your stupid lives

We love to hate! It's like a little perpetual motion machine whirring away by the coccyx.

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10% of everything is more than enough for me.

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hahaha man I was thinking "wtf tom meade you like tons of things"
but then I remembered when I made a thread that was like
WHY HAS NO ONE TOLD ME THAT THE JERK IS THE BEST MOVIE EVER???
and you were like "because it isn't."

"...it's only the 7th best movie ever."

and the 50 other times you've said things like that

"yeah this thing is better than 99.9999999% of everything... but there's something better"

Joined: 13 May 2009 Posts: 94

just see star trek it is like a milo and otis story but in SPACE
v. good job done by all in that movie imo

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IF YOU WILL CONSULT THE THREAD

then I think you will find that my response was perfectly reasonable in context.

I mean, The Jerk is pretty good and all, but I believe it suffers in comparison to more ambitious films such as The Hot Chick, Iron Eagle and of course In The Army Now.

Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 12:46 pm

pepper wrote:

just see star trek it is like a milo and otis story but in SPACE
v. good job done by all in that movie imo

Man now I wish that none of the actors were allowed to talk and instead Dudley Moore did little voices for them.

Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 12:56 pm

The movies the Hallmark Channel is showing this week are:

-- Prairie Fever, a western starring Kevin Sorbo as a good outlaw and Lance Henriksen as a bad outlaw.
-- A version of Journey to the Center of the Earth starring Rick Schroder and Peter Fonda.
-- The Inspectors, a movie about two postal inspectors who race against the clock to find a mail bomb.
-- Code 11-14, a movie about an FBI agent who is on a flight from Australia to the U.S. when he begins to suspect that the serial killer he is hunting is INSIDE THE PLANE.
-- Stone Cold, in which Tom Selleck hunts for TWO serial killers simultaneously in a small Massachusetts town.
-- The 1990's Disney of The Three Musketeers with Tim Curry, Charlie Sheen, Chris O'Donnell, et al.
-- The Rocketeer.
-- Final Approach, a movie starring Dean Cain, Ernie Hudson, Lea Thompson AND Anthony Michael Hall in which terrorists take over a plane and threaten to blow up a nuclear bomb unless they get a billion dollars.
-- A movie called 10.5 about which they have very little information except that it is about an earthquake.
-- A version of King Solomon's Mines that they don't have much information about either.
-- A version of The Poseidon Adventure that stars Steve Guttenberg, Adam Baldwin, Rutger Hauer, C. Thomas Howell, and Peter Weller.

So I guess what I'm saying is that I would be pretty comfortable with my 90% rule even if you watched ONLY the Hallmark Channel.

Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 12:58 pm

Oh man I would bet dollars to donuts that the version of King Solomon's Mines is the 2004 made-for-TV flick starring PATRICK FRIGGIN SWAYZE.

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Unfortunately, while our cultures share many similarities, there are also more than a few subtle differences. The movies showing on Hallmark Australia between now and next Tuesday are:

-- A Bear Named Winnie - a Canadian soldier adopts a bear cub which eventually winds-up in the London Zoo, inspiring A. A. Milne to write his series of children’s classics.
-- Daniel’s Daughter – A magazine executive’s perfect life is thrown into turmoil when a journey back to her roots makes her question her future.
-- While My Pretty One Sleeps – A mystery which “delves into the rivalries and emotional undercurrents of the world of High Fashion”.
-- The Locket – When a young man’s mother dies, he takes-up a job in a nursing home as therapy and is assigned a bitter, angry woman who gradually warms to him.
-- The Inspectors, which you’ve covered.
-- Menno’s Mind, a sci-fi thriller about a guy who is forced to help a presidential candidate use a virtual reality resort to win the election, while being attacked by terrorists.
-- Mystery Woman: At First Sight, in which some lady wanders around trying to connect to her roots or something and no-one is quite sure who she is.
-- Home Song – A happily-married high school teacher’s life is turned upside down when a woman he once knew moves to town and reveals that they have a son together. Eventually, acceptance blossoms.
-- Nightmare at the End of the Hall - A writer teaching at the school she attended encounters a student who seems to be the reincarnation of her dead classmate.
-- Nightscream – a young woman is compelled, in a trance, to drive to a town to which she has never before been, and in which, one year ago, her exact double had been murdered.
-- Heartless – Melanie Griffith plays an evil lawyer who uses her sex as a weapon (!)
-- Woman Undon – Mary MacDonnell, Sam Elliot and Randy Quaid come together in this taught thriller about a woman who has led her husband to a bloody death – but was it in self-defence?
-- Zooman – Louis Gossett Jr. must be the one man to stand up when a young girl in a poor neighbourhood is shot and no-one will come forward.
-- End of Summer – Jacqueline Bisset, Peter Weller and Julian Sands get together for a movie about a lady on holiday in a summer retreat who is reunited with a lover from her past.