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Title: Decide my viewing for this evening!
Post by: Bloodwake on January 10, 2008, 03:36:55 PM: All are in standard def. I've never seen any of these films before.

CHOOSE.
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Post by: bud on January 10, 2008, 03:39:23 PM: i've only seen trainspotting, which i thought was great, so i'd go with that one. boyle actually manages to not fuck up the ending!
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Post by: Powerslave on January 10, 2008, 03:43:26 PM: Only seen Trainspotting here as well. I'm about to watch Fargo tonight.
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Post by: Eric P on January 10, 2008, 03:46:27 PM: wait, you've never seen dead ringers?

I vote that. See if you can find Ron Rosenbaum's "The Secret Parts of Fortune" collection of essays which includes the original article which is the basis for the film.
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Post by: Bloodwake on January 10, 2008, 04:43:28 PM: Quote from: Powerslave on January 10, 2008, 03:43:26 PM
Only seen Trainspotting here as well. I'm about to watch Fargo tonight.

FARGO IS AWESOME

That and No Country are tied for my Coen Brothers appreciation.
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Post by: HyperZoneWasAwesome on January 10, 2008, 05:00:01 PM: Either Dead Ringers or Trainspotting, wait on the really fun Shoot Em' Up until you get a proper chance to Hi-Def it.
Both of them rock pretty hard, you can't make a bad decision tonight.
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Post by: T234 on January 10, 2008, 05:00:43 PM: I can't believe you talked shit about The Big Lebowski.

FIGHTIN WORDS
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Post by: Phoenix Dark on January 10, 2008, 05:02:30 PM: Quote from: T234 on January 10, 2008, 05:00:43 PM
I can't believe you talked shit about The Big Lebowski.

Should be a bannable offense
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Post by: Bloodwake on January 10, 2008, 05:11:35 PM: It's good, just not spectacular.

I can name at least five or six comedies better than Lebowski. Hell, much more than that, but yeah.

Lebowski is some good stuff, just not as hilarious as other films I have seen.
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Post by: T234 on January 10, 2008, 05:13:34 PM: The next time I come down there, the only thing I'm bringin is stuff to make white russians.
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Post by: Tauntaun on January 10, 2008, 05:14:38 PM: Shoot 'Em Up, cause I haven't seen it yet and I want to. :gun
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Post by: TVC15 on January 10, 2008, 05:15:08 PM: Dead Ringers is easily the best on that list.

Quote from: Genghis Cohen on January 10, 2008, 03:40:22 PM
Watch Trainspotting. i would really like to hear someone's take on it that missed the gushing hype when it was released.

I didn't see it until after the hype had passed, and I liked it. I thought it was a pretty great, if light, contemporary movie. There's a lot to be said about having a nice style.
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Post by: TVC15 on January 10, 2008, 05:17:24 PM: Quote from: Eric P on January 10, 2008, 03:46:27 PM
wait, you've never seen dead ringers?

I vote that. See if you can find Ron Rosenbaum's "The Secret Parts of Fortune" collection of essays which includes the original article which is the basis for the film.

There's also the book called (I think) Twins from the 70s/early 80s or so. No idea if it is related to that article, but the book is clearly a primary source for the movie.

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The eerie decline of Drs. Stewart and Cyril Marcus, the twin gynecologists who died of barbiturate withdrawal in 1975
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, is the inspiration for David Cronenberg's ''Dead Ringers'' (though the film is nominally adapted from ''Twins'' by Bari Wood and Jack Geasland, a highly fictionalized 1977 version of the Marcus story).
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Post by: Joe Molotov on January 10, 2008, 05:21:12 PM: Shoot 'em up has people being stabbed to death by carrots and a baby being delivered during a gunfight. I don't know if that helps or not.
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Post by: Tauntaun on January 10, 2008, 05:25:21 PM: Quote from: Joe Molotov on January 10, 2008, 05:21:12 PM
Shoot 'em up has people being stabbed to death by carrots and a baby being delivered during a gunfight. I don't know if that helps or not.

:o I'm so watching this movie this week.
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Post by: Eric P on January 10, 2008, 05:29:01 PM: Quote from: TVC 15 on January 10, 2008, 05:17:24 PM
Quote from: Eric P on January 10, 2008, 03:46:27 PM
wait, you've never seen dead ringers?

I vote that. See if you can find Ron Rosenbaum's "The Secret Parts of Fortune" collection of essays which includes the original article which is the basis for the film.

There's also the book called (I think) Twins from the 70s/early 80s or so. No idea if it is related to that article, but the book is clearly a primary source for the movie.

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The eerie decline of Drs. Stewart and Cyril Marcus, the twin gynecologists who died of barbiturate withdrawal in 1975
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, is the inspiration for David Cronenberg's ''Dead Ringers'' (though the film is nominally adapted from ''Twins'' by Bari Wood and Jack Geasland, a highly fictionalized 1977 version of the Marcus story).

the gestation of the tale is article, novel (no direct relation, but the research for the novel is predominately the primary research of ron rosenbaum and his coauthor), movie. So if you want to know the "real story" hunt down secret parts of fortune. It's an excellent read in and of itself. Rosenbaum is one of my favorite modern journalists, but he's gotten a bit full of himself in recent years, sadly. as evidenced.

http://pajamasmedia.com/xpress/ronrosenbaum/2007/10/30/hollywood_hypocrisy_the_case_o.php
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Post by: TVC15 on January 10, 2008, 05:35:18 PM: I think he has a right to be pissed there, but he clearly does not know Cronenberg that well if he thinks he is a "Hollywood type." Cronenberg has made a grand total of 1 movie for Hollywood, and even that movie (A History of Violence) was filmed mainly with Canadian funding.

And if this pissed Rosenbaum off so much, why didn't he contact Cronenberg about it when it was relevant? That's what he's REALLY pissed off about, that Cronenberg spoke his mind, when he himself took it like a bitch.
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Post by: Eric P on January 10, 2008, 09:04:20 PM: sadly this is just the way he goes now

in a rebuttal to The Israel Lobby book he starts his first two paragraphs can be summed up with "I'm not going to call the authors anti-semetic, but it's clear they hate jews."
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Post by: Ichirou on January 10, 2008, 09:15:23 PM: Dead Ringers, fer chrissakes. Jeremy Irons' performance as the twins is downright eerie.