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Feb 18, 2012
Wick
322 posts
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Topic: Feed Comments / BrianSez's Comment on the Feed Letting Cage be Cage. Good to see the great “Bad Lt. NO”:http://www.viewguide.com/movie_reviews/2094 in there, his best performance of recent years. |
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Feb 17, 2012
BrianSez
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Feb 17, 2012
BrianSez
21 posts
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Topic: Feed Comments / BrianSez's Comment on the Feed A friend posted this on FB: 100 Greatest Nicolas Cage Quotes…. Who needs high priced script writers anyway? |
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Jan 21, 2012
Wick
322 posts
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Topic: Feed Comments / Wick's Comment on the Feed Up and Down WWII night tonight. Finished viewing “A Film Unfinished”:http://www.viewguide.com/movie_reviews/3429-a-…, a profoundly sad and essential Holocaust movie, then soared with “Red Tails”:http://www.viewguide.com/movies/380734-red-tails. “Take that Mr. Hitler!” (Make that Down and Up, except nobody says Down and Up.) |
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Dec 30, 2011
Wick
322 posts
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Topic: General Movie Discussions / 2011 SAFER Award Winners “Year-End awards along with Notable Edginess and Reality comments”:http://www.viewguide.com/page/2011-safer-awards |
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Dec 30, 2011
Wick
322 posts
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Topic: Feed Comments / Wick's Comment on the Feed 5 Perfects in the Weekly Top5 right now. Not always a good thing when everyone is pegging the meter, but this set feels right. Forrest Gump, Senna, Apollo 13, Young Adult, Donnie Darko. The first four I can vouch for and the fifth is on my Gotta ViewList. |
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Dec 29, 2011
BrianSez
21 posts
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Topic: Reality Factor / Tough to rate! Wow, you two are SERIOUS! lol |
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Dec 28, 2011
Randy
16 posts
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Topic: Reality Factor / Tough to rate! I want to go back and update that review a bit, including taking a closer look at the reality section. That’s a great point about his transition from cripple to all-star runner… I overlooked that! Very nice point, Wick. I’ll take a look later today and add some additional commentary. |
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Dec 28, 2011
Wick
322 posts
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Topic: Reality Factor / Tough to rate! In the case of “Forrest Gump”:http://www.viewguide.com/movies/89437-forrest-…, I just went back and upped the overall Reality factor I’d assigned to 2.3 – Surreal. Got there by judging the CircoReality as 3.0 (Surreal), based on Forrest appearing in all those historical events as you note. Judged the BioReality as 3.0 (Surreal) based on Forrest’s miraculous recovery from cripple to champion runner. I don’t recall any PhysioReality liberties, so left that at 1.0. The average of 3.0, 3.0 and 1.0 is 2.3 (Surreal), which comes in a bit below the overall 3.0 Surreal you assigned. |
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Dec 28, 2011
Randy
16 posts
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Topic: Reality Factor / Tough to rate! I think I’ll get this topic started. I have found that with many movies, the line between what can be considered realistic and not can become very fine… Two examples that I think best exemplify this are “Forrest Gump” and “Donnie Darko,” which both happen to be all-time favorites of mine… :) In the case of Forrest Gump, all the events that take place in the movie are actual historical events, with the character of Forrest Gump being written into those events, as if he had been there. The movie even has actual television and radio broadcasts from the 70s and 80s, with Forrest being transposed into them. Very clever, indeed! How then, however, would you rate such a film in terms of reality? Quite puzzling, if I do say so myself. With Donnie Darko, the story is fiction, in essence, in that the story is made up, and not based off of actual events. However, the entire concept of the movie is based off of scientific theory regarding alternate universes and time travel. Science suggests that, pending the correct conditions, that such a situation COULD occur… Once again, it seems as though the line between what’s realistic and what’s not becomes muddled. Thoughts? Any other examples anyone can think of? |
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Oct 29, 2011
Wick
322 posts
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Topic: Feed Comments / Wick's Comment on the Feed And the finalists in the “Moneyball review contest”:http://www.viewguide.com/page/moneyball-review-… are Snackula, MovieGod300 and BigDaddyDave. Winning order announced tomorrow. Stay tuned. |
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Sep 4, 2011
BigdaddyDave
1 posts
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Topic: Reviewers' Corner / Winners declared for RotPotA review contest I’d like to thank the Academy, my producer, director, and of course Wick for this great honor. |
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Sep 3, 2011
Wick
322 posts
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Topic: Reviewers' Corner / Winners declared for RotPotA review contest Congrats to BigDaddyDave, Izzio and BrianSez! “Details are here.”:http://www.viewguide.com/page/review-contest—-… |
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Aug 27, 2011
Wick
322 posts
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Topic: On Demand Viewing / On Demand Provider Comparison Just added “a comparison table”:http://www.viewguide.com/page/OnDemand focused on Netflix, iTunes, Amazon and YouTube. Interesting how they differ in terms of subscriptions vs. a la carte, downloading vs. streaming, and device accessibility. |
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Aug 25, 2011
Wick
322 posts
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Topic: On Demand Viewing / WSJ's Walt Mossberg on Streaming Video Players Mossberg reviews 3 Streaming Video Players: Roku, Apple TV, Boxee Box. Likes Apple TV and Roku best. “Wall Street Journal review”:http://on.wsj.com/on2jbg |
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