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[bannie]

So a guy walks into a talent agents office...

And so starts the beginning of the dirtiest joke of all time. I picked this movie up at Blockbusters the other day (which in retrospect, I should have even attempted. They usually dont carry unrated movies)

Where to begin?

This documentary breaks down the joke and tells as many different versions as there are people in the movie. They range from the tame (Hank Azaria's version) to the 'What the F%$K?' (Bob Saget's version)

They do history of it, they do what makes it funny, card tricks, magic tricks, why Eddie Izzard thinks it sucks, and in one segment that must have confused everyone passing by, Billy the Mime acts the joke out in public that is hilarious solely for peoples reactions

The highlights being that, Gilbert Gottfried's version at the friars, Pen and tellers version, a card trick version and a few others, the film lags in some spots to the point where you ask "Why am I still watching this?"

The only part that struck me as incredibly odd, was they were interviewing one comedian in hot tub with a lady friend without a top. She had her arm covering it most of the time except for one slip when the director blurred it out. Considering half of the stuff said in the first twenty minutes, you would think a little boob wouldn't offend anyone


Overall I give it a C+. Don't watch this with anyone who will get remotely offended (or do, just to see them squirm) and wait for the credits to see the "worlds oldest vaudevillian" do the joke.

What do you call it?



The Aristocrats!

[JuntaJoe]

Normally I would pass, but this seems to be the worst movie season in ages.

There's nothing at Blockbuster I want to see except the forthcoming Doom and there's nothing at all at the theaters.

I was pissed when my nephew said the Underworld Evolution was an unmitigated bomb given that the original was so good. :(



Where's Jerry Bruckheimer when you need him? :?



Ok, I've got a freebee coming to me at Blockbuster. I guess I'll check out your movie.

[Waray]

I heard it sucked :/

Only movie I'd want to see would be, eh, no one.

Guess I'll check out the Import section to see if there is some new cool Asian action movie or so.

Last decent movie I've seen was Munich, nothing soon of interest.
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[JuntaJoe]

I saw Munich, but I really don't recommend it for the younger crowd.

I took my 18 year old nephew and he enjoyed it as a spy thriller.


Me? I was a teenager during that period of time in history. I was shuddering as the events came rolling back at me. To an older person there is just enough details to give the true import of what happened then, but for the uninitiated it is a bit lean on the history.

The War on Terror was really started with that event. Beruit and Iran came later while I was shouldering a rifle. I kept saying that this stuff was far from over back then. We should have shot all the Middle East tinpot despots back then while we had a real chance to root them all out. Instead we gave Afghanis trainloads of Stingers to go after the Soviets and gave rise to the Mujahadein.

Never give a fanatic a rocket launcher and expect him to be your buddy afterwards. :roll:


My advice is to do some serious reading about Munich and then go see it. Just like Schindler's List would be uninformative without a good knowlege of the Holocaust, so goes this movie.


I did rent Doom this week. I give it a B minus. Acting was marginal, action was decent, fx were pretty good. The Rock simply can't play an "evolving" character in a movie. Give him a static stereotype and he'll be fine. It was kind of neat when they had a 10 minute sequence that mirrored the actual game viewpoint in FPS mode. I hate to say it, but this is yet another movie that had much more entertainment potential, but didn't quite get there.

[Waray]

Heh, a B minus?
I can't set myself to watch a "game-turned-movie" just as I usually don't buy "movie-turned-game" games. Besides, I think the Rock looks like an idiot, which would never really contribute to a movie, I'd say.

As for Munich, I found it pretty interesting to see that Spielberg put the moral in the middle, since if I'm not mistaken he's Jewish himself. What the movie portrayed for me was the "spiral-of-violence" which is basically the the core of the problem in Isra?l. Ofcourse it's legitimate to take action after such events, but where is the line in where you turn into the same kind of person that you are trying to fight?

Munich would get a 8.5 out of 10 from me, basically because although it had some great actions sequences, good dialogues and character depth, it somehow went on too long for it's own good. Ofcourse you can't speedthrough one of today's most complex situations in a few minutes, but it should have ended a bit sooner.
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[ExarKun]

I find there is very very few game based movies that I truly like, let alone do well in the theaters. As far as I know only game bassed movie to make over One Hundred Million dollars was the first Tomb Raider. With that said I find it funny they keep making these movies with there track record way bellow par.

Comic movies on the other hand seem to fair obvisoly a whole let better. With being a flop being the rareity.

[bannie]

I dont know how they managed to mess up the two main points of Doom

1. Demons
2. Mars


The main story in the second one was a blurb in the manuel, how do you mess a story up whens there are only two points to get right?


Btw, a gmae turned movie that looks promising is Silent Hill ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0384537/ )


Uwe Bolls fingerprints are nowhere near this and the villian carries a knife bigger than he is

[ExarKun]

Several game turned movies look promosing, but several turn out horribley. There are some though that do bad, but wern't horrible. But that Silent Hill does look intresting.