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My sides hurt. Tears are actually coming out of my eyes I have laughed so much. I swear I no longer know who's crazier between you and Spikie.

ROTFLMAO!!!! Nice butt. Wrong colour tho. Bleach your skin much? If ain't blue I aint kissing it.
JS you anthrocentric thing. If there are aliens in the universe they will look nothing like us, talk less of borrowing American Indian culture. Their building blocks will be differently constituted from ours.
No idea what movie to see again.

Oh my. .See scaredy cats. Saw AVATAR again. I wish I wish I wish they hadn't gotten so carried away with the awesome technology and visuals and not brush up on the story. Never saw Dances With Wolves so can't compare, and I think the similarity to Pocahontas is superficial. I like that the aliens are 'bushmen' from Spikie's village instead of the usual technologically advanced beings. But I can't stand the fact that, for aliens, they're incredibly human and prosaic. Why is everything about them recognisably human; their culture, their religion and philosophy? Even their wildllife are thinly disgused earth derivatives. Why couldn't Cameron have sat and thought up half a different ways in which these people could have been truly alien from us, things about their culture you can find nowhere on planet earth? Even the alien girls are Dolce and Gabbana models. If he'd done this he would have made something truly incredible.

I get what he's saying. Sort of. But IB wasn't about Hugo or any of the basterds,as intriguing as they were. It simply wasn't their story. They were there for one single purpose and QT established that at the beginning. Landa, the villain, and the girl, is what it's about. The basterds want the ultimate Nazi kill; Landa is in the way. The girl wants her revenge; Landa will be at the party, and she'll have her revenge on not only him but on all of them. Because the two aren't connected, neither party is ever aware of the plan of each to murder all those Nazis. QT is not filming 'history' or mocking the holocaust. He was rewriting it, and he's sort of allowed. Last thing I need is another holocaust movie to guilt the world about how much the Jews suffered. They weren't WWII's only victims.Almost 30 million non-Jews died, 20 million of them Russians. He wanted to steer clear of the holocaust for his own reasons. And it makes the ending unpredictable; knowing what really happened, you can't predict whether the girl or the basterds will succeed. And well, there were one or two moments that made me snicker in that movie.

With the exception of Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, IB is the least violent of QT's movies. You have to praise his restraint here because this is a WAR movie where goriness is the norm. He made violence an art form in Kill Bill, which wasn't a war film. He calls IB a spagetti western with WWII iconography.I just love Mike Myers. His twinkling eyes and his moustache and that stupid uniform had me laughing. I LOOOOVED the bar scene where they all rubbed each other out, and the dialogue between that fearless German soldier and his match in the suave Briton. Loved Hugo Stilgiz (?) the German psycho and was sorry he died. When QT finished writing the script he said he knew the whole thing rested on the character of Colonel Landa; it was such a difficult character to pull off. DiCaprio was going to get it at first but thank God he didn't, because, tho he's an awesome actor, vestiges of heartrob still rest on him and there's no way he could pull off a chilling and charming bastid like Landa. Waltz was superb. I was hooked by him from the first conversation with the Frenchman on his farm. At Cannes QT thanked Waltz for 'giving me my movie back.'

Pitt's character I didn't find memorable and his accent was atrocious. Liked him and the lunatic gang though. It's hard evaluating a Tarantino movie, cos you're conscious it's a Tarantino movie and you might see qualities that aren't there and which it didn't earn, merely because of the director. Happens with a few other directors too. I consider District 9 superior to this movie; that it didn't win a Golden Globe is a travesty. But Inglorious Basterds was one of the best movies of 2009, with a great script, great cast, great cinematography, and great directing. I give it 80%

Could not agree more. Worst acting of either actor's career so far. JK, remove thine head from the bosom of Ms Fox and count ze votes.

Tpia, where did you vanish to na?
Do you guys think we should hold section awards for 2009 movies? Probably create a separate thread for it? (If yes, Award Categories will have to include Bollywood and Nollywood.)Who'll handle it? JS? Spiked to tha Cylinder? (oya no vex. But that moniker is too precious), Vesc? Any of the newbies? Watching UP. PIXAR isimply does not know how to make a dull movie.

Don't waste hours of your life you'll never get back with Law Abiding Citizen. It's the worst, most specious, most incredibly moronic, ineptly propagandist crap movie I saw last year. Sorry v3.
Inglorious for review.

I haven't seen Rock n Rolla. I will, since Ritchie made it and she's in it. I like her a lot, just adored her in CRASH. Her award-winning acting at the accident scene made my entire week. They just flashed her around in 2012, she didn't really get into it; the director used her as a stamp of quality.

justkunmi:
@jesoul.
I'm.done.with.Fox. We.got.into.an.arguement. .and. .

Yeah. right. All. she. has. to. do. is. flash. those. siliconized. things. . and. .
You like Thandie? Isn't she great? You saw her in CRASH right? Gorgeous and talented.
2012: I give it 35% because of the Indian family and the Russian. I adore Cusack but I hope he's done his worst. I've already vented my spleen on this movie. Did someone mention Steven Seagal?

Mebbe Denzel used a body double? I thot he didn't do nekkid. If you haven't seen AS GOOD AS IT GETS, you must make it the next movie you see. I've trumpeted how good it is, but it's EXACTLY your kind of movie; VERY witty, VERY funny. Nominated for 7 oscars, including best picture. Up in the Air will probably get almost as many nominations this year. In the restaurant scene where Nicholson's imcomparable Melvin embarrasses a couple, you'll recognize the duo from tv's HOUSE, only they're much younger there.

Good grief, what is the Olay Serum, gold? It's on Amazon for anything from $13 to $19, depending on the size you want. There's even free shipping sef. Eight thousand naira? Ah-hannn!

Bought LOVELY for WOMEN (perfume) by Sarah Jessica Parker. Bleeping thing has an airy, evanescent scent that seems to vanish in minutes. I'm bad at choosing perfumes. Does anyone know an excellent perfume that smells divine? I don't like synthetic scents. Floral is fine if it's not heavy. I'm not asking for much; just something that turns heads and will drive a particular man crazy. If it manages to make all my friends purple with envy at how heavenly I smell, that would be great too.

Oh. White Out. I got lost among the Whites. Thot it was White Noise. Um. Blonde and Blue-eyed does not an albino make. It does a handsome man make however. Shakespeare would say: Shineth thine eye well well.

GAMER:
Gerard Butler, Amber Valetta, Michael Hall, Kyra Segdwick, Ludacris.

A man is in prison for murder. The psycho made him do it.  Here's a varietion of the lunatic wants to take over the world theme, except he's a genius game developer with an innovation: instead of virtual characters, gamers play real people.  Real people die, and eat and dress and do pretty much anything you want them to. There's a rebel faction that extracts people and removes the brain-cell altering implants that makes it possible for them to be manipulated. Gerard escapes the game with the help of his gamer, and its payback time for wicked Hall, who stole his life and his family. 

The movie misses greatness by several miles. A few things are overdone, the repulsive slob controlling the lady, for instance. And the ending is an amateurish cop-out. You wonder what a good director would have done with this movie. But even though it's not the greatest movie you'll ever see, it somehow manages to not be boring, because of its eensy weensy inventiveness, and all that star power.

What's so special about those movies anyway? It's the character of Jack Sparrow that sells. If they filmed him for two hours sitting on a rock or running in circles, it will still be a smash. TDK is wonderful and the Joker amazing. But if Heath Ledger hadn't died in production, making TDK his last movie, it wouldn't have reached that billion dollar mark. Some of the Harry Potter movies are overrated and rely heavily on visual effects. OK, the LOTR trilogy is PERFECTION. It is a stunning feast for the senses, the mind, the eyes, the ears; it overwhelms you, it is FLAWLESS.

Each movie on that list connected with huge numbers of people in different places on this planet, for different reasons. That alone is a spectacular thing for a filmmaker to pull off. If Avatar resonates with millions, there's an excellent reason for it. You're right. Some of the movies on the list are Jaw-dropping. But you seem to expect them to drop jaws for the same reasons. Avatar is a technical and visual marvel, a stunning innovation in film-making, an expansion and stretching to the limits of a medium. The question isn't Should it be there. It already is there.

The second highest Grossing movie of all time, in a MONTH. Give it a little more time. It'll tip Titanic over.

hancock:
I was so upset after watching the movie that I went home and dipped myself in blue paint. I feel much better now.

Lol. Lunatic.

If it ends with television 'snow' then I've seen White Noise and it's not recent, but I can't recall a single scene in it. Watching Gamer.

Yes I was, and Damon suffers by comparison. Mattie has charisma. That great smile. He's no Craig, though. He knows it. Why fight it? Relax, people, and be Craigified. You'll love it.

Surrogates has an intriguing storyline. It's Sci Fi so I'm def checking it out. There aren't many Willis movies I was sorry I saw. Wait. There's Colour of Night with that p.o.r.n actress and a shameless Willis.  

oyb:
Many also use dittos to experience pleasure which could hurt a real person. Dittos come in many colors, which signify their quality and intended role. A cheap ditto suitable for housework is green, whereas a quality one for business is gray. Ebonies are highly specialized dittos that are good at intelligent data analysis; platinums are only used by the very rich, and closely resemble real people. Ivory dittos specialize in the reception of pleasure and sexual fulfillment. Other colors of ditto (such as purple, red, and yellow) exist, but are rarely mentioned.

The author should just come right out and say dil-do. One-track minded concept, thinly disguised. Reminds me of the Obedsanjo thing in District 9.

Totally. 
She was the psychiatrist in Departed, Damon and DiCaprio's love interest. I'm surprised at her age. Damon is older than she and DiCaprio her age, yet she looked far older than they.

In two years Mattie will be 40. JS , why aren't you calling him Old Man Damon? He'd better not carry his geriatric butt to another instalment of the Bourne series

You think sex is for the husband alone to enjoy? Part of your 'duty'? It's for you BOTH to enjoy. It would seem the guy isn't taking you into account and so it isn't 'good for you'. Talk to him. He's your husband. Tell him how you feel. When a man loves you he'll bend over backwards to make you happy. Make the plans to spice things up TOGETHER. You can add all sorts of things. You can pander to his sexual fantasies. Maybe he's always wanted to be seduced by a tough policewoman. Go to your dressmaker and sow police uniform na . Every man has these fantasies. Find out what his are and tell him yours. You can play games. You're stranded in a deserted town and you hold all the cards and he's your slave and has to do whatever you say. He's a fireman who saved your life and boy, are you grateful!

There's so much you can do together. You can write each thing you want him to do to you on tiny, separate slips of paper, fold them and put them in jars, different jars for each.He ruffles through your jar, picks and opens the slip and must do whatever he finds. You do the same, back and forth till the slips are finished. You'll it find it exciting not knowing what he's thought up and what you're going to do, and ditto for him. There's no limit to the stuff you can do, the different kinds of women you can be for him, the best being, of course, yourself.

Don't cheat yourself of the pleasure of this part of marriage. And it's okay to say No if you don't feel like sex.

"I appreciate everything your generation did for me". "It was our pleasure."
Great review. Up in the Air was nominated for Golden Globes, I think. I forget which category. What's special about Vera Farmiga? I didn't like her in The Departed. She was the movie's weak link and wasn't at all impressive.

JeSoul:
Lol at healthy, good looking lot of slaves.  Hot is a gross understatment. People of low to moderate self esteem should be banned from seeing it . . . talk about making one feel inadequate.

LOL. It's historically accurate too. Those 300 Spartan warriors against the conquering Persian army that was descending like a swarm of locusts consuming kingdoms in its path. The Battle of Thermopylae? Something like that, an event Spartans never forgot and revelled in for centuries. The Spartan army were stirred by those 300 glorious deaths, gnashed their teeth in agony that they weren't among and will thus be omitted from the legend, and wreaked merciless destruction on the Persian army.

BRUNO
Sacha Baron Cohen

You've seen Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. In Bruno, Cohen plays a gay Austrian fashion reporter who loses his tv programme after disrupting a fashion show in Milan. He tries his hand at another TV program, showing executives the pilot in which he begins with exotic dancing, chases it with stalking Harrison Ford and ends with a p.e.nis being swung around and frozen in a 'glory' shot. His lover departs and Bruno decides to head for America to become the 'greatest Austrian Superstar since Hitler.'

Now you know Cohen's brand of comedy in BORAT. He tricks the unwitting by imposing awful or embarrassing siuations upon them. No one knows they're in a movie, and when the movie comes out and they see themselves, lawsuits follow. So it was in Borat, so it is in Bruno. We follow his adventures from a TV show where he claims fatherhood of a black baby (O.J) to his gay wedding, his wanderings in the middle east, and a spot on WWF wrestling arena, where thousands watch in horror as he makes out with another man. The movie explores attitudes towards homosexuality in America.

It's far more offensive than BORAT, with overt, overdone gay sexual themes. Bruno's character is a little less believable than Borat's. You'll be horrified and amused in turns. But more horrified than amused perhaps.

Sacha Baron Cohen is a comic genius, however. His satire has revealed the hyprocrisy and ignorance in American and other cultures. He's appeared in movies like Sweeney Todd, among others. Sacha is the voice of King Julien in the Madagascar animated movies.

MRbrownJAY:
THANKS ALL
unfortunately Seun, for whatever reason, has decided to lock my movie thread so thats it for the movie links on NL.

Dang. That's a good thread. Maybe it's the spambot thing. It interprets multiple posting from same user as spam, and locks the topic. Tell the Mods so they can unlock it. They may not even know.

Josh who??
May the horn of a goat knock him from that pedestal he's squatting on.
Craig rules.

Lol JS. Thanks for the prayer jere. He-he. But you know the Craig thing is hopeless, right? Riiiiiight.
OMG see the pouting thing my eyes beheld as I entered this page. It is a new year O! What's she playing at, the Naughty Librarian? Bet they had to explain those odd-looking things are books and even then she didn't get it.

spikedcylinder:
Meagan has eaten it all. It all goes into her lips and b.rea.sts. Cosmetic surgery is expensive abeg.

You sure know how to make up your mind. Yul Bryner is just, he's impressive and exotic and regal and haughty and impossibly sexy. But so's the other two! Still can't decide, to this day. My. But those Jewish slaves are a healthy, good-looking lot in The Ten Commandments. Even the old woman caught under the stone had a perfect complexion. The only other film race to beat them were the Spartans in 300. Everyone in Sparta was hot.

spikedcylinder:
All these names you mentioned, the only one I find absolutely 'English' is Queen. The rest of them seem to be an anagram of their actual names or their names morphed into something else. A lot of well known designers go by their names or something afro centric. What's English about "Amanjide" or 'Maufechi'? Its neither here nor there abeg.
It may seem that the actual insecure person here is your friend who believes that unless she has an "english' name, she/he will not sell.
This is just crying foul over nothing.

These aren't all the designers in the country. You need to take a roll call of their names and you'll see what the poster meant. As if you don't know. The poster who calls it a mindset is so right. It's not just fashion; eateries and boutiques, businesses seem to think quality inheres in an European-sounding name. Take a look at the stage names of many Nigerian musicians. It's fashionable now to change K to q to give it some Frenchy flava.Their music sef are ridiculous imitations of foreign fare. It's a mindset, and it's not just the fashion industry.

Darthmaul seems to be continuing a conversation with, er, Kinky. Hm. He likes Grease.

I got chilllllz
They're multiplying
And I'm lo, sing control-olll
Coz the power You're supplyin'
It's electrifyin'!

Great song. Must have seen that bit gajillion times.

Darthmaul; you liked Ben Hur! Charlton's wonderful isn't he? He just stamps those epics with his wonderful diction and presence. Oh my. The part where he was a slave in The Ten Commandments and was half-nekkid in mud. *gasp* My parents bought the thing for our religious instruction but I was NOT thinking religious thoughts. I spent three hours wondering who was sexiest between Moses (Heston), Rameses (Bryner) and Joshua (Derek). I like your list, tho I rate Terminator abover T2.

JS, you are pure fabulousness.

@VeriLee
You can't make up your mind between three women. Your ideal woman is a composite of them all. You're also having a crisis of faith.
Ze voman issue first, ja?
Most married men know the woman they would marry a short interval after meeting her. They think, "I'm going to marry her," or "This is the one." They just know. Ask the married guys you know about this. I don't presume to know what;s in your heart but when a man can't decide between women he's likely not in love with any, though he might like and admire them greatly. Love has no religous colourations. A Christian man falls in love exactly the way a Moslem or Hindu or atheist does, and feels the same feeling. Don't imagine you have to feel some elevated kind of love, whatever that is, just because your pastor screeches 'agape!' from the pulpit every Sunday.

Shared spirituality/religious beliefs add incredible depth and extra dimensions to your relationship with your spouse. I'm tempted to say you love a person and not their religious beliefs so even if she suddenly decides to leave Christianity and worship a blue elephant she#s still the same person. But I'm not sure. What your partner believes matter. And there's that business about not being unequally yoked, which is excellent advice. On the other hand suppose she's as devout as you could wish and you get married, and years into your marrige she has a crisis of faith and begins to lose her religion; what happens then: divorce? You're having a crisis of faith now. Suppose you got married as a nice little religious indoctrinatee, and then this happens; should your wife stop loving you?

To your faith crisis. Perhaps you've been experiencing God vicariously (second-hand) through other people and can't point to a single spiritual encounter that reinforces your faith? Hence the doubts about how God guides his own? I notice you have no doubt as to His existence, which is interesting. It's great you're eschewing religious tradition and settling the question of your faith yourself. I can recommend few Christian books since most of them tell you you're the centre of God's universe and he's spellbound by every single thing you do. But I like HOW TO BE LED BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD by Kenneth Hagin Snr.

Seek God first and how you fit into his program, not how he fits into yours, and everything else will fall into place. He promised that, and if He lies, he's not worth bothering with, is he?

If all else fails, meditate on Daniel Craig. Chaaaant his beautiful name like a rose-guilded mantra. Helps. Totally.

Hobbit please? LMAO!
She and Carey made a great couple in that movie lol. I haven't been seeing her in movies lately though. I was taken with her in Bad Boys (the ONLY movie Martin Lawrence was funny in) and liked her ever since.

I can never forget Haley's performance in AI, when he's introduced to his new parents, and he smiles because he badly wants them to like him, taps the ground and says, "I like your floor." With that bright, fixed smile. Or the superb scene in Sixth Sense when Willis does some magic to try and cheer him up, and he says, with jaw-dropping sarcasm, "I didn't know you were funny."

One hopes Osment doesn't go the way of Culkin, but I don't see him in movies anymore, and he's so amazing.

Nice. I don't remember the plot all too well. Elija Wood has a love interest. Tea Leoni and someone else dies spectacularly by water. The president survives, I think. It has its shortcomings but I agree, 2012 is not in its league. Where has Tea gone anyways? She was the most successful actress in the world at one time. Wood has the best management you could ask for. He was a child star that successfully migrated into an adult star. Very very rare. Ask Maculkin and amazingly talented Haley Joel Osment.