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Old 03-14-11 | 06:13 AM
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I'm assuming you're talking about the one w/ the guy who kills mostly white kids over the one that's about Ice Cube?
Old 03-14-11 | 03:51 PM
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Old 03-14-11 | 05:07 PM
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I exfoliate, I highlight, I manscape, I'm content.
He's not a real man unless he ends with "and then I wash my hands".

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Old 03-14-11 | 06:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Solid Snake PAC
I'm assuming you're talking about the one w/ the guy who kills mostly white kids over the one that's about Ice Cube?
Huh?
Old 03-14-11 | 06:26 PM
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Friday the 13th or as in Friday...uhm The Friday movies....the comedy films.
Old 03-14-11 | 06:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Solid Snake PAC
Friday the 13th or as in Friday...uhm The Friday movies....the comedy films.
So you thought describing Friday the 13 as "the one w/ the guy who kills mostly white kids" was clearer than just writing the title?

Anyway, I was referring to Friday (The Comedy Film Series).
Old 03-14-11 | 07:09 PM
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it's hard to do that when the "F" button on your phone isn't working.
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So you thought describing Friday the 13 as "the one w/ the guy who kills mostly white kids" was clearer than just writing the title?
Yeah, I didn't get it either. Substitute "white kids" for "kids at camp" and it might have been easier to read.
Old 03-14-11 | 07:27 PM
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I'm shocked anyone is excited for this thing.

1.) The director's track record is sub-par at best.
2.) The lead actor is a void of charisma.
3.) The teaser looks like it's promoting the latest SyFy Saturday Night Original Feature
4.) Post-production 3D
Old 03-14-11 | 07:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Solid Snake PAC
it's hard to do that when the "F" button on your phone isn't working.
Ah, that should make for some interesting texts.
Old 03-14-11 | 08:15 PM
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I'm shocked anyone is excited for this thing.

1.) The director's track record is sub-par at best.
2.) The lead actor is a void of charisma.
3.) The teaser looks like it's promoting the latest SyFy Saturday Night Original Feature
4.) Post-production 3D
Having 3 writers usually isn't a good sign either. The only saving grace it has (for me) is Stephen Lang.
Old 03-14-11 | 09:12 PM
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Re: New Conan movie...a "darker approach"

Ah-nold is the only CONAN....enuff said
Old 03-14-11 | 09:35 PM
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Ah-nold is the only CONAN....enuff said
Eh, but the fans have a valid complaint as that wasn't really Robert E. Howard's Conan and the Conan they loved from the stories. He was still great, but not a great source material Conan.
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Having 3 writers usually isn't a good sign either. The only saving grace it has (for me) is Stephen Lang.
And when the writers' track record is all crap, it's an even worse sign.

The supporting cast is about the only thing holding my interest.

Lang as the villain, Bob Sapp as the main henchman, Rose McGowan as a witch, and Ron Perlman as Conan's dad.
Old 03-14-11 | 10:54 PM
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What happened to Red Sonja?
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Lang as the villain, Bob Sapp as the main henchman, Rose McGowan as a witch, and Ron Perlman as Conan's dad.
Except for Lang, I wouldn't call that a good supporting cast. I'm also not entirely sold on Lang as a good actor either. But he's fun to watch while playing a bad guy.
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Well just to compare for the sake of it cause you know it's coming....




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Theatrical Trailer

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I like him better when he doesn't speak English.
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Without Arnold and the original score... this just somehow looks and feels like another Scorpion King sequel.
Old 05-04-11 | 07:55 PM
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that was....well. Yeah.
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I haven't seen the Scorpion King movies (nor the Mummy, for that matter).

I'm more positively inclined to this after the trailer (which looks epic in scope compared to either of Arnold's films) than I was after the first photos or teaser.
I haven't read the Howard books, but I enjoyed the picking up the comic every month for a few years in the early 80's, and have been enjoying the collected reprints the last couple years. This movie looks very much in the vein of a lot of those stories.

But people have the long knives out for this, because of the participants resumes and because Arnold casts such a long shadow, so I don't expect it to get a fair shake anytime soon.
I'll wait to judge it on it's own merits.
Old 05-04-11 | 08:49 PM
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Wow...The Asylum doesn't even have any work to do. How do you rip off something that crappy?
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Looks like an Asylum film. Big bomb if they plan on a big release.

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