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"I always thought that Tobey Maguire was in October Sky"

same here

11/3/2005 8:38:59 AM

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0132477/

11/3/2005 8:45:59 AM

ann hathaway? the disney chick?

11/3/2005 8:49:08 AM

Do they play the song "Jesus Walks" constantly throughout the movie? If not, it might not be worth seeing...

[Edited on November 4, 2005 at 11:50 PM. Reason : 3]

11/4/2005 11:50:24 PM

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"i personally thought it was decent, it was touted as a modern day FMJ, but i dont think it lived up to that....but i would have to say it gave the best representation of military life by a movie i have ever seen "

didnt see this, so i copy and paste

11/4/2005 11:51:25 PM

No, you mean you were too dumb to search for it, made another thread about it, then when I call you out on it, you run here like nothing happened.

11/4/2005 11:55:04 PM

shut the fuck up dude, congrats, you win on the internet, too bad you lose at life

11/4/2005 11:58:29 PM

We are both on here posting on a Friday night. We both lose at life. Welcome to my world

[Edited on November 5, 2005 at 12:15 AM. Reason : .]

11/5/2005 12:14:58 AM

just got back from it. good film. an odd war movie for an odd war.

only gripe about it was the scene where Jamie Foxx and Gyllenhaal are sitting in the burning oil field. Was hoping that'd turn into something a little deeper since they hyped that line so much.

ah well.

11/5/2005 12:22:07 AM

holy
fucking
shit

bad
ass
movie

strongest
film
of
the
year

mendes
has
done
it
again

jake + peter = one of those forever teams, a great acting duo of all time

11/5/2005 1:51:16 AM

good movie, i will see it again

11/5/2005 1:52:48 AM

the movie builds up, and builds up and builds up and then it doesn't do anything. I was pretty disappointed. I'm a big FMJ fan and with this movie being compared to it I was expecting more. It wasn't a bad movie, just not what I was hoping for.

11/5/2005 1:53:15 AM

personally i thought it was worthless.

11/5/2005 2:05:54 AM

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"the movie builds up, and builds up and builds up and then it doesn't do anything."

you do realize that was intentional right

please tell me that didn't escape you

you at least picked up why sarsgaard wanted to take the fucking shot so badly don't you

11/5/2005 2:28:54 AM

^^^ahahaha moron

i thought the movie was very well done. it had a different perspective from your typical "war" movies, and that's what i liked about it.

11/5/2005 6:35:10 AM

i mean

its not like they were in the desert and ran out of filmstock




in unrelated news

did anybody else notice Jim from The Office in the movie?

11/5/2005 10:52:40 AM

i knew people who spent 10 months in iraq and never saw an iraqi unless it was a local contractor that fixed AC units.

they flew into the base on week 1, and flew out on the last week. never left the base ever.

so yes i can imagine an infantry platoon and sniper units during the week of ground war in desert storm not seeing much action.

11/5/2005 12:16:09 PM

GREAT MOVIE!

The guys I went with didn't enjoy it as much because they said it was "like a documentary." (They wanted to see more stuff get blown up.)

I think overall it was pretty realistic based on what I have heard from people who were in Iraq.

Anyways, I thought it was better than what I had expected.

11/5/2005 3:38:53 PM

^^^ he was on conan the other night talking about how he had a real small part.

11/5/2005 4:41:43 PM

^^^^don't be a douche bag just because I didn't think it was OMFG THE BEST MOVEE EVAR!!11

If I had gone in knowing there was going to be 0 action in the whole movie, I probably would have liked it better. But I had heard that the movie being compared to FMJ and thus expected the buildup to lead somewhere completely different. Thus I was dissapointed.

The movie was good for what it was, which I said, but not what I was hoping for.

not what i was expecting = dissapointed = not going to like as much

11/5/2005 5:10:30 PM

excellent movie, not what a lot of people were expecting who hadnt read anything about it tho

11/5/2005 5:15:11 PM

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"If I had gone in knowing there was going to be 0 action in the whole movie, I probably would have liked it better."

I expected there to be no "action" and it was better than I thought.

The guys I went with expected there to be action and were upset.

So it really comes down to that I think.

11/5/2005 5:50:55 PM

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"ann hathaway? the disney chick?"

Yes, but she's apparently working hard to break that stereotype.



At any rate, in that cowboy movie, he could have had this, but he chose to be gay instead.

11/5/2005 7:35:44 PM

i haven't read the whole thread...

yeah i noticed Jim from The Office

did anyone notice the Allstate insurance guy?



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11/5/2005 9:34:25 PM

haha i couldnt figure out wehre i had seen that guy. guy lookin out.

i liked it, seemed to drag at a few times, but i was tired so it could be me. i dont see this earning any movie of the year type awards, but im seeing a few acting nominations (very well done for fox and gyllenhall or however the fuck you spell it).

[Edited on November 5, 2005 at 10:05 PM. Reason : it was about on par with what i expected. i dont think ti looked like an action movie at all]

11/5/2005 10:03:58 PM

Great movie, would be fun to see again... Hoping to see some nominations come award season...

11/5/2005 11:30:38 PM

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"personally i thought it was worthless."

^^^Isnt that Pedro Cerrano from the Major League movies??? "You no help me now, I say fuck you Joboo"

11/6/2005 1:59:06 AM

You have no. . . you have no. . . MARBLES!

11/6/2005 2:30:22 AM

^^Yes he was in Major League, as well as playing President Palmer in 24. If you recognized him, it was most likely from one of those two.

He's a lot more that the Allstate insurance guy.

11/6/2005 7:42:35 AM

well i havent seen major league in years and dont watch 24, so...he is.

11/6/2005 9:28:54 AM

yeah i know he's an actor and that he's done more than just that commercial, but besides jarhead the allstate commercials are the most recent thing i've seen.

11/6/2005 9:52:24 AM

God, I still need to see this. Maybe Monday or Tuesday night...

and btw, Anne Hathaway is all sorts of naked in an upcoming film called Havok. I heard it from some, uh, other dude. Yeah.

11/6/2005 2:11:30 PM

based on my limited experiance, i'd say this movie is pretty accurate. I liked it

11/6/2005 4:28:41 PM

loved the movie

probably going to see it again in a day or two

11/6/2005 7:16:38 PM

i liked the movie a lot, but i definately dont think its something i'd want to watch again, at least not anytime soon

11/6/2005 7:48:34 PM

^exactly what my friend said

11/6/2005 8:09:36 PM

why? there wasnt any disturbing parts to it or anything

11/6/2005 8:23:16 PM

no, i quite enjoy disturbing parts.

it was quite long and uneventful, which all helped play into the point that the movie was trying to make, but does not make for rewatchability (is that a word?).

i'm not trying to say the movie was bad in any way, but i cant imagine why anyone would want to see it again very soon.

11/6/2005 8:28:14 PM

i guess everyone doesnt view the movie the same

i didnt notice it being overly long or drawn out at all, i'll let you know how it is the 2nd time i see it

11/6/2005 8:34:26 PM

as someone earlier said:

Quote :

"the movie builds up, and builds up and builds up and then it doesn't do anything."

but also as someone else said, that was exactly the point

11/6/2005 8:37:01 PM

yea these crazy movies based on books, force you to think and all...

11/6/2005 9:01:21 PM

dont get me wrong, i'm not complaining at all, i think it was a great movie, very well done, and completely served its purpose, but i simply think it wouldnt be that enjoyable to watch again while its still so fresh in the mind

11/6/2005 9:04:07 PM

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"don't be a douche bag just because I didn't think it was OMFG THE BEST MOVEE EVAR!!11"

Well you don't leave me much of choice when YOU COMPLAIN ABOUT ONE OF THE MAJOR PRINCIPLES OF THE FILM

why do you think they bothered to continually tell you they were increasing the numbers of troops EXPONENTIALLY even when we only saw 10-20 in almost any given scene

11/6/2005 9:26:21 PM

i would have taken the shot anyway

11/6/2005 9:30:21 PM

hahahahahahhahahahaha

11/6/2005 9:39:37 PM

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"Well you don't leave me much of choice when YOU COMPLAIN ABOUT ONE OF THE MAJOR PRINCIPLES OF THE FILM"

Because I went in there to see a different kind of movie. Not becuase I didn't understand the purpose of the movie. I don't know how many times I need to say that for you to understand what I'm saying. Here, I will start over from the beginning, maybe you'll get it this time.

I saw the movie and thought it was well done and good for what it was. I went in thinking the movie was going to take a different direction and so I didn't like as much as I thought I was going to. But it was still a good movie and served it's purpose well.

^^same here, all that training, all that time spent out there in the desert...

11/6/2005 9:55:17 PM

thats your fault for looking to reviews and hype

now apologize to the film

11/6/2005 10:01:46 PM

that movie sucked. i got the point but it still sucked

11/7/2005 12:25:25 AM

^^ actually I didn't read any reviews or really know anything about the film. I saw previews of stuff blowing up and oil fields on fire. From the previews I thought the movie was going into another direction.

11/7/2005 1:44:55 AM

11/7/2005 1:54:21 AM