Duck and Cover

Yeah, when you were banned.

I lost touch with world of FF some time ago and now it turns out that Advent Children is already out It got stunning 9,2/10 at Imdb, and even considering the stupid fanbois, that's pretty good.
Damn, I'd like to see it, but my eMule has enough to chew on for now. Why? Well, there's the CG, which looks pretty amazing, and to tell you the truth, I'm eager to find out it sucks so I can bash around some FF fans. This never gets old

Eh, it's out? I'm eager to know what happens with Cloud, Red and Sephiroth

Is it out in America too?

I totally bought Taxi Driver on DVD today.



Anyway, Cloud dies in the new Final Fantasy movie.

Nicolai wrote:I totally bought Taxi Driver on DVD today.



Anyway, Cloud dies in the new Final Fantasy movie.

Why not partially buy it? Leave some coins on the counter, and run off with the DVD.

I watched "One flew over the cuckoo's nest" on Saturday. Best movie ever.

Holy shit, I watched it (for the first time) yesterday (monday evening).

Doom the movie features top actor 'the rock'. hooray.

Kashluk wrote:Holy shit, I watched it (for the first time) yesterday (monday evening).

And your thoughts are?

It fucking rocked

At the beginning I thought "bah, this is lame, this movie tries so hard to be shocking and violent, but it's kinda tame considered to the stuff you see these days (ichi the killer )" but then, towards the end, tensions begin to build up and the movie gets a whole lot better. The ending was pure gold and well the whole Chief stuff was brilliant in my opinion. Nicholson did a great job and so did the other lunatics. The nurse could've been even more sadistic and shit, I never really got mad at her character and I must admit I felt a hint of pity when Jackie-boy tried to strangle her.

Oh yeah and spoiler warning

Gah, I hated the nurse. She wasn't sadistic, but human in a realistic kind of way. It very well depicted the lust for power of humans. Once you tasted it you can't get enough of it. Controlling and hurting Billy made her smile.

I really like Nicholson's acting, and the script rocked. I really like the part when he asks the doctors if they want him to take a shit on the floor

It's not as visually shoking and violent as today's stuff, but very few movie are as psychologically powerful, I believe.

Kashluk wrote: The nurse could've been even more sadistic and shit, I never really got mad at her character and I must admit I felt a hint of pity when Jackie-boy tried to strangle her.

The director took the story in a different direction. Wherein the novel McMurphy's sanity and Nurse Ratched's sadism are both readily apparent, the distinctions are supposed to be more muddled in the movie; you get the feeling that perhaps, McMurphy IS insane.

If you're a swell guy, that is. McMurphy gave that bitch what she had coming.

Well, in the first few minutes that you see McMurphy, you might think he's insane, but it's quickly pretty clear that he isn't, from his sayings and his looks.

No spoilers, assholes! I haven't watched the movie or even read the book yet!

I think there were two high-points in the movie (at least dialogue wise): when McMurphy/Nicholson tells the other patients that they "aren't any crazier than your average fuck walking down the street" and when that huge indian Chief whatever suffocates McMurpy with that pillow and says something like: "I'm not leaving without you (...) Let's go, Mac. Let's go."

The first one just made you think that you see even dumber and crazier people in your every day life and no one's locked them in an asylum. Some people can just get categorized as "not normal" and thrown into a vicious circle of "treatment" and denying your mental ilness -> every time you deny it you're "treated" with strong medication and electroshocks and the longer you are there the more unstable and insecure of your sanity you'll become until you believe in your insanity yourself. It *makes* you crazy.

The second one was just for the bitter tear. Brilliant, bloody brilliant. The whole Native American spiritism shit and stuff

Kashluk wrote:Oh yeah and spoiler warning

I agree. You should add the part when he's talking with he 3-4 professors though, when they're wondering if they shall keep him or not. It goes hand in hand with the part where he tells the crazies that they aren't crazier than anyone.

The movie's a bit dated though, we don't have this kind of treatments anymore, at least not here

Kash wrote:At the beginning I thought "bah, this is lame, this movie tries so hard to be shocking and violent, but it's kinda tame considered to the stuff you see these days

Huh? The whole movie is talking, interrupted by the occasional yelly outburst and fistfight. It's not really violent, nor is it supposed to be.

I'm sure Kashluk will take note.

Waitaminute...

Isn't Chief a Magic Redman?
honey chile you best mind your spirit guides
walk with the wolf, the ghost dance calls to you


cultural patronization

Subhuman wrote:

Kash wrote:At the beginning I thought "bah, this is lame, this movie tries so hard to be shocking and violent, but it's kinda tame considered to the stuff you see these days

Huh? The whole movie is talking, interrupted by the occasional yelly outburst and fistfight. It's not really violent, nor is it supposed to be.

*sigh*

I've never seen this movie before nor has anyone ever bothered to explain me what the movie is about. So at first I *THOUGHT* that it was all about shocking the audience of the 70's or shit. It was *LATER* when I understood the whole point of the film.