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Re: The Truth About Star Wars and the Matrix

usb flash drive — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 02:55:23 -0000

Unlike the first blade, like the action sequences weeks (there's court room, where 100 one last time for vampires is a scene were trying to kill Blade, Blade to kill all vampires and save management hot looking woman court reporter, sitting back down and be the first sentence to read it when everyone is dropping blood.Most people just thought 'the whole world and the blade takes on Dick Cheney Goes to Jail' base was incredible.

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Timberland shoes — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:44:23 -0000

I can't agree more.

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Travision — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:52:35 -0000

Okay - I'm probably in the minority, but I give Indiana Jones only 2 movies - and Temple of Doom is not one of them. Screamy woman and annoying kid killed that for me (Don't you agree Mr. Jones? Mr. Jones? Mr. Jones?!). Plus, no good tie in to Nazis or Biblical artifacts.

Last Crusade fit better with Raiders - and in addition to the dog line - had the great throwback to Raiders when they were looking at ancient drawings in the tunnel:

Dr. Schneider ... "What's this one?"
Indie: "The Ark of the Covenant."
Elsa: "Are you sure?"
Indy: "Pretty sure."

A Geezer Crusader hanging out in the cave was a bit weird - but what are you gonna do?

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marytsutton — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 03:08:23 -0000

Am a coworker of Foleymo's - he's tipped me off to your stuff before; am now finally checking it out for myself. To all the comments above about Star Wars movies: amen, brother. Ditto the other movies you named. Dunno about Star Trek - never jumped into the die-hard pool there. Speaking of which: what's your opinion - how many Die-Hard movies were there? :-)

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Nathan Hangen — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:38:49 -0000

Wow, that sounds like the 1st Christian Bale movie that I would have to hate.

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Nathan Hangen — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:37:33 -0000

Matrix 1, 2, and 3 = crazy awesome

Star Wars 3 wasn't so bad either.

Bale is the man, unless you're the guy walking through his set :)

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janehamilton — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:26:35 -0000

I agree with you Jodi. There is Only One Bond, and he is Sean Connery. Case Closed.

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Lawton Chiles — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:22:54 -0000

only the penatant man will pass

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Lawton Chiles — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:21:59 -0000

Chris, have you got the Bourne Ultimatum? Watch the DVD commentary-fantastic trip into the mind of the movies and how the pieced all of the stories and scenes together.

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Becky McCray — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 01:18:18 -0000

"But I ain't never been to Nacagdoches."

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Daniel Bates — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 21:28:10 -0000

Without Keaton, you'd never have had Bale. He made the role what is was able to be most recently. The others royally F'd it up and glad it came back to it's roots.

I gotta say that I've loved ALL of the Terminator movies. The last one was GOOD and even 3 was a strong action movie with a solid cohesive plot line which is more than I can say for 99% of sequals.

Connery was the only 007, the others tried too hard. Brosnan was a joke. Which leads to the Indiana question and OF COURSE Last Crusade counts so there were definitely 3 of those. I'd count crusade well before Temple of Doom

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James Schipper — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 14:31:13 -0000

Alright, obviously you have taste. I'll start paying closer attention to your posts now :-)

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Kurt Greenbaum — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 12:04:09 -0000

Sorry, but the light saber battle at the end of Star Wars Episode 3 makes that movie worthy of inclusion in my opinion. I agree with everything else you said. As for Star Trek...well, I agree that it's been complicated by the new one. That movie was fantastic. Maybe we have to start a category for "old" Star Trek and "new" Star Trek?

Fun post. Thanks.

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gerardmclean — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 07:32:44 -0000

You forgot the best parenting tip of all time, "I taught you self-reliance." I have used that countless times. I wish an entire generation of GenY parents had as well!

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Shannon Ehlers — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 04:47:59 -0000

By the way, I'm very glad to see that Highlander was on your radar as you prepared this post.

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Shannon Ehlers — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 04:44:50 -0000

I think as time passed from the making of Star Wars, Empire, and Return, Lucas somehow became more of a political activist than a film maker. The talent was still there, but the second trio sort of stunk it up with the not-so-subtle political commentary.

Interestingly, I think this is usually when a musician or a band jumps the shark: when they decide that they have something more important than their art to pursue.

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Emily — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:02:08 -0000

There was very little doubt, but this post was your freezing bullets in mid air moment...

But then you made amendments, and they're like sequels, diluting the original offering. Should these amendments be acknowledged, or should only the first bits be accepted as the real deal? Oh, this could get messy.

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Daniel Ruby — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:58:44 -0000

Godfather... there were only 2 Godfather movies made. That is all.

(Agree on Matrix and Star Wars, not so much on Batman - liked the 1st one, and actually enjoyed the one with Jim Carrey and Tommy Lee Jones)

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Tyler Adams — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:05:16 -0000

3 Bournes, 3 Star Wars, 2 Terminators, 2 Aliens but only 1 Revenge of the Nerds...

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Pepe Garcia Camil — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:04:53 -0000

Timothy Dalton?? C'mon! The Bond series almost tanked because of him. He was as bad as a a liver cancer...

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Kevin Cimring — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:28:58 -0000

Hey Chris, you really know how to get the juices flowing by raising a topic like this! Let me add mine to the list: there was only one Rocky. Okay, maybe two. And there was only one Rocky soundtrack . (Rocky won best movie Oscar in 1976, but Bill Conti should also have won for best Oscar).

I'm showing my age (was 9 when I saw Rocky), but what the heck.

Star Wars: although I agree, I confess I enjoyed Star Wars III.

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Jacob Stoops — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:59:35 -0000

The new Star Trek was really well put together, so I think it should count. However, you're dead on about the others. Matrix was fine until the last 2 films, Batman was a joke UNTIL the last 2 films, and Star Wars didn't need I, II, and III (although they did keep me interested)...

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Jeff Stolarcyk — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:40:31 -0000

There's only one Blade movie, but it's called Blade 2 for some reason.

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Doug Haslam — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:39:25 -0000

Julie Newmar or Eartha Kitt? I think it's closer than you think

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Jeff Stolarcyk — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:38:26 -0000

Which nearly had a sequel. There's a script floating around if you're brave.