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justkunmi:
@topic
fight club, very beautiful start and flow, but the end just spoilt everything. they had to bring in some stupid double personality stuff. that alone ruined the whole movie for me.

Fight Club is one of the greatest movies ever made, an absolute masterpiece. I am Jack's amazement it was snubbed at the oscars and got only one crummy nomination. The 'double personality stuff' isn't the 'ending' or some dimwit gimmick, it's THE WHOLE BLEEDING POINT.

The kisses were for the movie,Spiked.
Take ya own.  

Colin's really Irish,though, isn't he? I haven't seen him in that many movies. Home at the End of the World, Intermission, Minority Report, Phone Booth. Oh yeah, The Recruit. Ralph Fiennes I've always liked. The man is simply incapable of appearing in a boring movie.

@iice
I meant there are a lot of movies titled Dracula. I wanted to know which one your list meant. Gary Oldman was in that movie? As what? Is Curse of the Golden Flower about an Emperor or a general and his wife who was having an affair with someone in his household? I think I've sen it.

Vesc, sorry about your health,baby. Get better soon,ok?

Hmmm.Yum. I haven't seen;

-Old Boy
-Royal Tenebaums/Derjeeling Limited
-La Haine
-Double Indemnity
-Curse Of The Golden Flower
-Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance
-House of Sand & Fog
-Battle Royale

I'm going to start with Memento and House of Sand and Frog. Sounds cryptic and oriental. I love oriental films, when they get it SO right, like Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. Lawd, you and No Country for Old Men.

iice, didn't you just,like,LOVE, the way the king died in 13th Warrior,after battling the witch? On a makeshift throne with the wind in his hair, and so still and regal. Fantastic death.
Unforgiven's on your list. Wouldn't have figured you for a Westerny gal. No gore in the movie either. Which Dracula is on your list? So many, you know. Is it the one with Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder? Or the Christopher Lee one?

How on earth could you not have seen PAN's LABYRINTH? Spiked, you don't know what you're missing!

IN BRUGES


Thank You Spiked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@OMO IBO
What weird sect?

spikedcylinder:
When Madonna was asked how she keeps David in touch with his roots and family, she told the press she had a map of Africa in this bedroom with arrows pointing at Malawi! Arrows!

She was kidding, right?

I was laughing at 'Ghollywood' only to come in here and see 'Tollywood' again. It would be funny if it wasn't so

Dracula is ya romantic movie? You're so freakin weird.

QT sure gives you some great dialogue and memorable moments. Only movie of his I didn't finish was Dusk till Dawn. Or was that Rodriguez's? Did you catch his performance in Alias, where he was playing a baddie? I mean, seriously, with that face of his? And that episode he directed in CSI. I just knew it was him. His unique signature wackiness was all over it. Man, I got so much great dialogue in Kill Bill I was mesmerised and didn't blink while heads and legs and torsos were leaving theri owners and arteries were gushing blood. What a rush! And that cranky Master that trained her. And Hatori Hanzo and that baldie restaurant buddy/disciple of his. Yeah. QT makes memorable films.

The Usual suspects. Someone couldn't contain himself after seeing the movie and told me the story from beginning to end. By the time I saw the movie I wanted to kill him for ruining what should have been a stupendous surprise.

In Bruges was nominated at the Oscars for Best Oriiginal screenplay?
Fantastic.

@iice
Wow. What a list.
Yeah, I know.But after agonising, I know the final 20 will be awesome.
Man, you are bloodthirsty.
I haven't seen A Clockwork Orange,only read the book. Was John Malkovitch in Nosferatu?If not, I haven't seen it.  Definitely not seen Memento and the Watch trilogy.Who were in it? Can I ask why the following is on your list?They're surprising choices:

Pulp Fiction
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Didn't you just want to murder Nurse Fletcher?)

I haven't seen Lock,Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. Better than SNATCH?

So if there are no 'strange' stories about your birth you're not an authentic 'Man of God'? Stori stori.

You had me at midgets when you described it. It sounded so freakin weird and I love weird. Your list isn't up to twenty, you know. Most people agonise over choosing just twenty. How many's yours,all of ten?

* The Village
* Madam Dearest part 2. Extremely stupid ending where a good man suffers and loses everything for no reason while  his adulterous wife and little runt of a houseboy get it all. See the stupid film producer dancing and shaking his stupid rump at the end to show he has made a movie like no other. And the first part was so good.

spikedcylinder:
Lol. Easy, tiger.

Bite your tongue. In Bruges had better be good.

Man I have been reading all the posts and nodding like my head would fall off. Women seem to be the worst offenders here. I was at a bank I don't normally use to transact business and some slip of a girl was snapping at everyone and when I asked a question she gave me lip. I detest rudeness and ordinarily I'd pay her no mind except the little runt seemed to be getting off on her attitide,like she was drunk with power or something. I went with my brother and he was already expecting trouble the moment the girl snapped at me. So I let er rip and yelled blue murder on her head. Not the sort of thing I normally do, but she was so RUDE. That was when other bank staff came over and started 'Madam sorry, please take it easy'. I filed a formal complaint and copied their head office. If service providers are rude it's because people put up with it.Just point their behavior out to them politely and let them know you find it offensive. That almost always works.

Depends on what you mean by 'success'. It means different things to different people. Not everyone considers heaps of money as success. But Nigerians have a shameless culture of money worship, and determine people's worth by how much stuff they display. The same people vilifying some guy as a fraud will kowtow obsequiously when he arrives in his porsche and want to own a porsche too. Of course everyone's noticed the rich are treated different and everyone wants that cheap adulation and will go horrid routes to get it. I may be wrong, but I''m not sure you can be genuinely successful without some sort of education.

Couldn't have been this thread. I didn't see your warning. Darned thing started out fine and derailed to stupid.That's why people drop Top Twenty lists, so you know which movies to see, if you haven't already. I've been plowing through everybody's list. I got In Bruges from yours,though I haven't seen it yet. Karm,iice, drop your Top Twenty all-time favourite movie lists already.

@JeSoul
Missing you in the movies section.

@Bawolomo
Hi. How was church today?

bawomolo:
Liberalism is not a religious philosophy. Ted Kennedy is Catholic and one of the most respected Liberals. Obama is considered to be liberal.

Though I use words as I like, American political liberalism isn't the only context for 'liberal'. It's an adjective, I chose to use it as a noun. And by militants I meant atheists aggresively seeking to convert others to their gospel of (ir)religion, as opposed to those who aren't. I liked the word's military cadence. You're not going to sue me, are you?

And what is staying in the country 12-24 months prior to adoption meant to accomplish? It proves what? Does what,for whom? It's an inpractical,unneccesary rule. If I had a family of 8 kids and fell for an orphan in Malawi and wanted to love him or her half to death, I should pack my husband and my brood and live in Malawi for two years?What about my career,and other stuff I can't do from Malawi? Don't other countries have more reasonable ways of determining parental suitability?

I read Madonna being intervied about motherhood once, a long time ago, and was pleasantly surprised. I expected shallow, and saw a lot of depth and wisdom. You don't need to be a saint to parent. If she loves the child, she should have her. Unfortunately this one has family and she should have long let go. But her not staying two years in some godforsaken country doesn't mean she doesn't love the kid.

Sorry Madonna darling. Oluwa a she eleyi to da. Pele.

Maybe your father went to some village shaman or 'seer' and that one 'looked' into the 'future' and said your man isn't the one for you. So your father's putting his foot down. Parents here have too much power over their kids and many of them are tyrants. A friend of mine was getting married and her dad,who left the mother alone with six kids twenty years earlier and went to marry another woman,was informed that his child was getting married,and invited. The guy arrived a few days to the wedding and announced no wedding was taking place. The stupid drama queen then sat royally while people were begging him and my friend was half crazy with worry and panic. He was just feeling guilty about his desertion and compensating by manufacturing irresponsible 'tipatipa' importance.

You're in a ten-year relationship so you're not a kid. So why are you acting like one and getting distressed for no reason? There isn't a problem and yet you think you see one. Thank your father politely for not wanting you to suffer (whatever the hell that means. Old people and their bullshit mystery) and continue with your wedding plans. Don't indulge in cheap anger or react to any negative thing he says or does during the period. Keep cool and don't accept any negative pronouncements on your union.Just calmly proceed with your wedding and be happy.

@ced8
They're just teasing you. Of course you may like whomever you like and can totally post about them here.
@Brein
Sharukh Khan plays the same role over and over. You could lift him from one role and plant him in another movie and no one would notice the difference. Don was cool, though.

Madagascar 2- Nice
House Bunny- Fun
Robot Stories- Excellent
The Day the Earth Stood Still- Klaatu, dost thou fall so low? Thou totally disappointeth. But thine sidekick, he of the silicon-based life form and fiery cyclops gaze, he totally rock-eth!

@tboy1
You have to say why you love them.

@Vesc
Maybe I should. Though there are some actors you're really crazy about that aren't good at acting. Others are great actors and you don't give a damn about them.
Watching Madagascar 2 today, if I can manage it. One of your posts about Devito brought Ruthless People to mind and I got it. Damn,but that movie's funny. Did you ever see it?

@post
Great thread! And long overdue.
Does it mean Christians can ask for advice on faith issues here? And other christians can answer those as well, not just you?

vescucci:
Lucky I loved the beginning. I even started to think it was a comedic film. "Oh the kangaroos are so lovely, they're so beautiful" Kablam! "AAAHHH"

Bloody hilarious, that scene.
Isn't Gran Turino a Clint Eastwood movie? I saw the beginning and didn't much like it. Is it good?

rich_john:
I'm not supporting mazaje in anyway! but to call him blasphemer is wrong. If he's quoting something from the bible you and I CARRY ABOUT AND YOU CANT EXPLAIN IT THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG SOMEWHERE. I dont believe Jesus is a liar I believe men that wrote those things in the bible are! LET ALL MEN BE LIARS AND LET GOD BE TRUE. Truly we've been sabotaged and God will not hold them guiltless looking through the bible, the stories in it they are without doubt outrageous, blown out of proportion and some were written based on heresay. Please pray for mazaje dont criticize and tell someone he either repent or grin. even If he repents these questions will still be in his mind

Mazaje's a pretty interesting guy. He grins a lot though.
But is every Christian supposed to answer for and explain every single text in the Bible?As if the book itself isn't complicated enough, it has been revised and edited and rewritten an incredible number of times. God didn't come down himself to write it. Human beings wrote it. Anyone going through the book can tell it's been tampered with. Doctrines and ideas that are time capsules containing ancient philosophies, cultural attitudes and norms and mere opinion. These outmoded attitudes are perfectly preserved and go on to fabricate doctrinal disharmony, gender abuse and 'holy' war in the name of religion in age after age after age, and it's now in our age. Look at threads that ask if women can preach, if they can use make up,look how many different creeds there are in Christianity and all its strife and disharmony. But that doesn't subract from the Bible's core of truth. When you read the Bible parts of it deeply resonate within you. It's extraordinary,really.

Mazaje, the answers to some of your questions are pretty self-evident, you know. And a few people are trying to answer as best as they can. Maybe you should point those mocking questions at distinguished Bible scholars and theologians? I mean, people who really know and can explain so you get it?  You can compare their responses and arrive at your own conclusions.

@post
Not just my culture by naija culture in general:

*Parents raising and treating boys and girls differently because of gender
*The idea that if you don't have male children your entire ancestral line is doomed
*The nonsense rites they put widows through; some cultures are horrific here.
*The idea that a husband's family owns their son's property,including his wife and kids.If they don't turn them out of the man's house after his death, they may demand 'their children' from the widow before she may remarry.
*Taking stuff from the man's family before a lady can marry him, in essence,trade by barter.Like the girl is just being taken care of until her husband comes to take his property and settle them for all their trouble.      
*The way the 'elders' script societal roles and expect everyone to follow like dumb cows.


I love my culture's culture of respect for elders, good manners and a good character and name above all else. Other stuff too.

Yeah. I mean, I know a movie's gross has nothing to do with the actor's salary unless he's agreed to drop salary for a percentage of the profit. The Matrix movies had money trouble and Keanu Reeves agreed to forfeit a sure salary for a % of an uncertain profit so they could keep costs down. Guy made 300 million from the gross after their release.I know Hollywood isn't some cotton candy fairyland where everyone looks out for everyone else. It's a bloody,vicious cutthroat business. But one would expect producers to be decent enough to not use or shortchange kids. That boy must have been worked half to death,since he appears in most of the scenes of a two and a half hour movie. That's hundreds of takes and retakes. Gawd.

benedo:
I am also sure all the while she never knew it would come to this, maybe she needs to spend just a few months in kirikiri so she would know the gravity of the offence she has commited, i pray however that the victims family would just be strong enuff to pity and pardon her so she can be finally let of the hook.

Well said. You have to know what it feels like to lose a member of your family to get how unbelievable her lack of remorse is, and how deserving she is of punishment. Accidents happen and people die everyday, but what a meaningless,avoidable tragedy this one is; how is the poor guy's family supposed to make sense of it? She took a whole human being's life and she is not at his family's door making a nuisance of herself begging their forgiveness? She didn't give a crap. Now she boo-hoo-hoos cause she's going to jail. She can while away the time conducting beauty pageants there.

If she were remorseful I'm sure the guy's family would have pardoned her, you know, eventually. But how do you forgive someone who didn't ask your forgiveness and is only sorry she's going to jail? They should reduce the sentence but haul her ass to prison.

Australia. Good but not good enough from director Baz Luhrmann.

Ruthless People. I'd forgotten how much I loved this movie.

@poster

Atheism qualifies as a religion naw. It has rabid fundamentalists, it has militants, it has liberals. They have creeds/doctrines and have won converts;atheilluyah!

This is a Christian board, a different religion from Atheism. Like the Muslim board, the Christian faith in all its facets is what this board should be about. Not calculated,endless,relentlessly mischivous thread spamming to wash out meaningful Christian threads and render the board dull and enervating. Only one atheist is guilty of that and he somehow manages to be the most boring atheist on NL. The others are interesting at least and you know where they're coming from.

Atheist threads on the Christian section?YES! They're often illuminating.
Endless spamming?NO!

Stop spamming or create an Atheism child board where y'all can bump and jive.

Australia was good, but far too long, and couldn't seem able to make up its mind about genre. It tries to do too much,and has a lot of flaws. Kidman and Jackman can do no wrong in my eyes. I haven't seen a Jackman movie in a long time, and he rewards me with his beautiful naked water-drenched torso,glistening with golden campfire light. The boy (Nullah)is adorable. The scene where he faces stampeding cattle is just fantastic. He got a mere $120,000 for his role,though he was the central figure and the movie made millions. Directors exploiting kids again.

Who the hell's Megan Goode?

iice:
[color=#9900ff] I am not relinquishing any of them [/color]

Chai! The greed.

However late I haul butt home we're watching Australia today. Hugh Jackman's in it, and Kidman. Haven't seen a boring Jackman movie yet. And Baz Luhrmann directed it so, it should be good.