gosh…I watched silly comedy movies at first. Then I got into Sci-FI ( I still love it) and went through action to Exploitation. So I had a looong ride behind me :
Don’t kick my ass for that I just take it slowly ;D
I’m going to the first day, first showing, by myself. I’m taking the day off and going to all the showings that day. After the first weekend, I will be willing to watch it with friends.
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I’m going to the first day, first showing, by myself. I’m taking the day off and going to all the showings that day. After the first weekend, I will be willing to watch it with friends.
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I salute you! ;D
cant we have this discussion outside the IB section? moderators! 
[color=red]Ok, I split the topic. Please keep on subject here guys. Use the other thread for illegal downloading topic:
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The ideal first viewing experience would be to pack up a car with some close close personal like minded friends and head across state lines to the biggest theater around and watch it with them. Stay at a little motel and then hang out in town a few days after and catch it again. Cool.
You’re lucky if you have a car-load of “like-minded” friends that live near you. The only “like-minded” friends I have are strung about for hundreds/thousands of miles. People in my immediate area are completely ignorant fucking douche bags when it comes to movies… or anything really… I need to move.
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You’re lucky if you have a car-load of “like-minded” friends that live near you. The only “like-minded” friends I have are strung about for hundreds/thousands of miles. People in my immediate area are completely ignorant fucking douche bags when it comes to movies… or anything really… I need to move.
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that’s a shame. And when I say like minded friends maybe one is in it for the movie like I am, the rest are just as jazzed for the trip. Just cause they aren’t gay about it like me doesn’t mean they aren’t fun to watch movies with.
“Gay about it”?
I think I’m pretty lucky, I’ve got a ton of friends who are very “like-minded”, mostly pretentious, bohemians, who enjoy auteur filmmakers and scoff at big budget shit, thought they can go overboard with their derision of mainstream films sometimes. Haven’t seen The Dark Knight because it was so popular, stuff like that.
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I think I’m pretty lucky, I’ve got a ton of friends who are very “like-minded”, mostly pretentious, bohemians, who enjoy auteur filmmakers and scoff at big budget shit, thought they can go overboard with their derision of mainstream films sometimes. Haven’t seen The Dark Knight because it was so popular, stuff like that.
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That sounds exactly like some of my friends! I have a few female friends that surprisingly love Tarantino movies, but otherwise watch only the absolute worst chick flicks. I’m always surprised when they get excited about Tarantino, because I kind of forget that they like him so much.
Gay about it. Maybe a little strange but that’s how I’ve always referred to myself when it comes to movies. Love ‘em. But yeah, that whole big budget bad, auteur film good is kinda narrow minded. A good fuckin’ flick is a good fuckin’ flick I don’t care if it cost the farm or a couple of bucks.
I’m gonna stop referring to myself as gay about movies though. Maybe it’s time to break the habit. Thanks for that.
lol good man, but I agree with them most of the time. Big Budget films for me anyway, tend to be cold and detached, not to mention cookie cutter.
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lol good man, but I agree with them most of the time. Big Budget films for me anyway, tend to be cold and detached, not to mention cookie cutter.
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behind you one hundred percent, they do tend to be rather bland.
But the other day i got around to watching the Under the Influence interview with tarantino where he’s talking about why he likes exploitation movies so much and he talks about how when an audience can stop instantly putting themselves above a movie they can really get sucked into the character and story and have a fun viewing experience. so I’ve been trying that with some movies that I’d normally be ripping on from frame one and I actually found with some of them, not all mind you, but a select few actually puled me in long enough that I enjoyed the son of a bitch.
Every once in a while it’s cool to try it but life’s too short to sit through bad movies when there’s a world of really damn good ones out there.
I’ll see it with Thousand Eyes if he’s up for it. One of many times.
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Haha, yea… I’m always sketchy about renting Canadian films because you really have no idea what you’re going to get. Like, I’ve always had my eye on “The Fast Runner”, but I’ve never rented. Something about an evil spirit in an Inuit community and being intensely erotic. I just don’t know how I feel about that. 
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Last Canadian film I saw was Away From Her. I loved it. Sarah Polley is a great director. I watched it with my mum. She didn’t know if she liked it at first, but then the next day she came to me and told me she couldn’t get it out of her head. Film has resonance.
Plus Canada has Cronenberg, Egoyan, Guy Maddin, Arcand. Heaps of greats.
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High School Musical 3 is a kick ass movie. If I was a kid today I’d be watching it 24/7, they’re so cool at dancing.
I guess my point is silly movies can be awesome, but I’m not sure
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The Sight and Sound reviewer made of point of saying that HSM3 had serious homosexual subtext. Made me laugh. My friend went and watched all three films out of curiosity. He said when you look for it, it is so obvious.
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Last Canadian film I saw was Away From Her. I loved it. Sarah Polley is a great director. I watched it with my mum. She didn’t know if she liked it at first, but then the next day she came to me and told me she couldn’t get it out of her head. Film has resonance.
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I LOVE that movie. Gordon Pinsent looks like an older, heavier version of my father, it makes the movie even sadder for me to watch. It’s a great film!
I do rip out Cronenberg when my friends claim that Canadians can’t make movies. It’s a funny thing Canadians say about themselves, but in the same breath Canadians rarely make an effort to see Canadian films. It’s sad.
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I do rip out Cronenberg when my friends claim that Canadians can’t make movies. It’s a funny thing Canadians say about themselves, but in the same breath Canadians rarely make an effort to see Canadian films. It’s sad.
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I actually just borrowed Jesus of Montreal from uni, going to watch it tonight.
I just found out that in Greece the film will be released on August 27, one day before my birthday. So I’ll try to wait one more day and watch it on my birthday, alone, first row without even breathing as a gift for myself. And once more after that with my friends. I won’t risk going with others the very first time, because I know that if they don’t like it, they will talk and making jokes all the time.
Ok I´m from Germany and i hope the film will come uncut to us…
because i already bought a baseball bat and my best friends all scratched their names in with a knife…
i`m going to dress a bit like the bear jew and i almost got the same haircut:)
first i watch it alone and the next day with friends and the whole weekend will be basterd filled
hope i get in the cinema with bat:)
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Ok I´m from Germany and i hope the film will come uncut to us…
because i already bought a baseball bat and my best friends all scratched their names in with a knife…
i`m going to dress a bit like the bear jew and i almost got the same haircut:)
first i watch it alone and the next day with friends and the whole weekend will be basterd filled
hope i get in the cinema with bat:)
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No sure you’re gonna make it to the cinema…You definitely gonna enter the police station with that bat though