I thought it was terrible. So much worse than the first two. And I love Leslie Neilson, so I was extremely dissappointed.

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I watched American Splendor tonight.

It's a great arthouse movie if you like those. The cast got it so right, you about can't tell the difference between the real guy and his friends, and the actors.

For those that never heard of it, American Splendor was a "cult classic" comic book by a guy in Cleveland. It was just about his every day life, and apparantley had a cult following.

The movie is funny, but it's more touching about the humanity of him and his friends, and seeing them as human beings, not just their stereotypes.

Overall I've give it 4/5 stars.

R rated for language. It had about 4 F words, and the rest of the cussing was pretty mild. As R rated films go, it was pretty mild.

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I bought The Triplets of Belleville without having seen it yet. It was pretty good, I love little quirky messed up movies. The frog-catching thing was AMAZING. the thirty dollars was worth it just for that.

**** out of *****

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I thought the first two were much better. I missed the crude and raunchy humor from them. Although, part 3 wasn't bad, I just missed the naughty stuff.

Are you sure you weren't using a DVD filter???

Ohhhh, THE FILTER STRIKES AGAIN!!!

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I'm not even responding to that ^^

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Ok, the last movie i have seen now is "The Day After Tomorrow" It is an ok movie. Some of the parts sucked like the wolves in the ship. I think that threw off the movie.

You're right about the wolves throwing off the movie. If it wasn't for that scene, I think we could've been looking for a Best Picture nomination from the Academy Awards.

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Speaking of the Day after tomorrow, I saw the majority of 28 Days Later. It wasn't too bad, though I would have liked to see how it started. The camera handling was very rough, but not nearly as bad as Blair Witch.

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Some people have said that about 28 Days Later. They have also said that they thought the filming was weird because in some of the early scenes, the main charactor would be off centered with him on the far left or right of the screen. Usually the charactor is focused on with him or her being in the center of the screen. With this movie, they intentionally had him on one side or another early on to make you feel how alone he was and to show how deserted the city truly was.

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I thought the grainy digital photography worked well with the movie to give it a good atmosphere, although on the whole I didn't really like the movie that much. It went downhill after they arrived at the base.

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0353774/

I was up in St. Augustine yesterday at the World Golf Village and popped into their IMAX theater to see this movie. It wasn't in 3-D, but I thought it was really good. It's a nice documentary on the history of NASCAR, how it started, and what they do. It was narrated by Kiefer Sutherland. If you're into racing, you might like this.

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"If you'd have a mind at peace, a heart that cannot harden, go find a door that opens wide, upon a beautiful garden. Welcome to Cypress Gardens!"

I saw Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban this afternoon.

Very good movie, if you like the HP movies.

From what I can remember of the book they pretty much followed it closely, but not as close as the first two films did.

**spoilers**

Most of the differences are minor though. Like Trellawney's class is accessed by a ladder in the book, but in the movie they do like a spiral staircase. I know it's picky, but there are several changes like that.

Also, they changed Hagrids house totally from the way it looked in the first two films. I thought it was weird how it was down this hill in this movie, but in the first two it was just outside the castle.

I also thought it was weird that they had the ghosts from the Headless hunt riding throught the castle, but never bother to explain it to the audience.

I also missed seeing John Cleese as nearly headless Nick.

Anyway off those picky little things... The cast was great, and I think this could be the best film of three.

4.5 out of 5 stars I'd give it 5 stars if they had explained things a little better. They kind of assume you've read the book, which I have. But if you haven't, you might not catch some of the minor things.

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I am very pleased to report that I was able to attend "Super Size Me" at my local arthouse theatre. It was just as good as everyone has been saying. This movie should be seen by everyone, especially those who eat fast food often. It gets the message across while still managing to be consistently entertaining and hilarious (I don't think i've ever heard an audience laugh that loud before). A great documentary that in my opinion is superior to Bowling for Columbine, which was also really good.
****1/2 out of *****

P.S. In case anybody doesn't know by now, this movie is a documentary by a guy named Morgan Spurlock about the obesity problem in America and its connection to the fast food industry. The tying thread of the movie is an experiment that Morgan pulls where he eats at and only at McDonald's three times a day for a month. The effects on his health are insane.

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I had a thread about the movie Super Size Me, but sadly it was closed...for no reason I might add. :sad:

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I just saw Spellbound, a documentary about the National Spelling Bee, and it was very interested. It gives a really good picture of how diverse the people competing are and how hard the kids have to work to win. Plus, some of the families are absolutely insane so that adds a lot of comedy.

***1/2 out of *****

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I saw that. I would have given it a 3.5 out of 5. The content was very good, but as a movie it wasn't very good. "Bowling for Columbine" was a much better movie and the content was equaly as intresting as "Super Size Me". The only thing that really bothered me about "Super Size" Me was when Morgan Spurlock was trying to get an interview with the Mcdonalds woman. He never got the interview and he never really said too much about that.

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I find Moore a bit too extreme with his attempts at manipulation and sneaky editing. I found Super Size Me a lot funnier and more interesting than Bowling for Columbine, and it seemed like Spurlock was a lot more honest with his facts. Not to play down Bowling for Columbine which is undoubtedly a great and very important documentary, but on the whole I was entertained more by Super Size Me.

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Moore turned me off from ever seeing the film by his stupidity at the Oscars last year.

I can respect that people have different views than I do, just don't act like an idiot and act like a big (rear end).

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Moore is perhaps a bit extreme, but I found Bowling For Columbine a very powerful, but humerous and enlightening, documentary. Super Size Me, on the other hand, just looks like it would make me nauseous.

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I couldn't agree with you more. I wasn't a fan of his before that incident, but after that, I would refuse to buy, rent or in anyway contribute to giving him one dollar of my money. I have a friend who wants me to watch it and I told him that the only way I would watch it is if it was a bootleg copy or on illegal cable. Even then I would probably be disgusted by a movie that is basically propaganda instead of a true documentary.

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You've got to be kidding. A documentary should present facts objectively without editorializing or inserting fictional matter. Bowling for Columbine can be best categorized as Fiction. The fact that Moore tried to pass this off as a 'documentary' is just typical of 'them'.

If you'd like to see something about Bowling for Columbine that truly is powerful, "humerous" and enlightening, then read the information contained in this link...

http://www.hardylaw.net/Truth_About_Bowling.html

I knew a lot of stuff was falseified in that "documentary", but I didn't know truly how much. Thanks for the information. It seems to me that if Michael Moore is so interested in documentarys, he should view Super Size Me because he could stand to lose about 100-150 lbs.

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Whether or not his facts are straight isn't the point. The point is how good of a film he made. While he took some liberties, it doesn't change the fact that the movie is consistently entertaining and has some moments of real power. You shouldn't refuse to watch his movies just becuase you disagree with his viewpoints. If Sam Raimi made a self-righteous political speech would that stop you from seeing Spiderman 2?

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Wrong. When a film is passed off as a "documentary" (read my previous post for definition), then the facts are all that matter.

Some liberties??? lol. Did you even bother to read through the link I provided in my last post?

A documentary does not require ANY entertainment value. A documentary doesn't have to be funny, it just has to be factually correct.

I won't watch the "mockumentary", because it's a farce.

I feel sorry for the poor suckers who were duped into believing this "documentary" was real.

A documentary should be made in fairness, not edited together as someone sees to make their point, it then strays from being a documentary and into just being propaganda and nothing more. A movie has to be edited of course for time, but not in a way that changes how the events occured. It is misleading to show the story in the way they want to. It may be entertaining to some, but the point of a documentary is in part to teach people about whatever subject the film is focusing on. How is it a true documentary if things aren't true in the movie?


No, but that's because his movies are focused on his charactors and the story not on his beliefs and opinions, whatever they may be. Many in Hollywood have very liberal viewpoints that I strongly disagree with, but that doesn't stop me from seeing their films because the movie they're in isn't revolving around opinions in real life, it's just entertainment. The problem with Bowling For Columbine is that it was passed round as a documentary. Why should I watch someone's film if it's not something I agree with, especially considering he falseified material in the film? I have no problem with someones opinion, that's why I will still watch movies made by people who I don't agree with. But I won't watch a movie just filled with lies and misinformation.

Oh, one more thing that does bug me which I forgot to mention was I have actually seen a few minutes of this movie and was disgusted by what I saw. It was a segment on Whites being the reason their are so many guns and we're the sole reason behind all the violence in the country. I can't stand when people try to act like things are the fault of White people....it disgusts me even more when it's a White person saying it. When did it become OK to be ashamed of being White in this country??? The Academy should be the ones feeling ashamed for awarding him an Oscar for Best Documentary

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Magnum Robert responded pretty well to this, but I'll take a shot at it too. Are you serious here? Straight facts are the only thing that matters. When you watch a documentary on the History Channel about the Battle of Iwo Jima or on the Discovery Channel about bees, you think they are trying to entertain you? No. They are trying to inform you. If you are interested in the subject matter, then you will be entertained. I watch the History Channel frequently and my sister comes in and asks how I can watch that stuff. It's not about entertainment. That's why documentaries like that are superior to crap like Bowling For Columbine. They present facts and give fair testimonials from both sides. No distortion of truths. I'll agree that Bowling For Columbine is entertaining, but that does not make it a good movie. Muppet Babies can be entertaining, too, but nobody thinks the Muppet Babies movies are great. As a work of fiction, Bowling For Columbine is great, but with Moore trying to pass it off as truth, that's when credibility goes down and it starts losing its appeal.

In case you people missed it.. not once did I refer to the film as a documentary, becuase it is obviously not a true documentary. I referred to it as a movie. It's kind of a hybrid between a mockumentary (ie Spinal Tap) and a documentary, with a lean towards mockumentary. I do agree that Moore should not be marketing this as a documentary, becuase that is false advertising. I did not view the movie as a documentary, and therefore was not concerned with the validity of some of the facts, since I already knew that they were mostly doctrined anyway.

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Really? If that is true, then please explain post #108...

^ You forgot this:


(Talking about some other documentary)

I won't get on your case, Ryan, about the fact you called it a documentary (I'm sure you had enough of that ), I'll let that slide. My problem is with ANYONE who can call it a great movie. Michael Moore's purpose was to make a documentary. The end result was just filled with lies and huge strecthing of the truth. It ended up not being a documentary at all and that is the problem. If a movie is marketed as a comedy and meant to be a comedy and I go to see it and there isn't anything that make me laugh but ends up being a good action, horror, or drama, then the director failed. I've seen movies that tried to be a serious drama but ended up being so bad that the movie ended up being funny. But could I call that a good movie? No, I couldn't. That's the case with Bowling for Columbine, the movie intended to be a documentary and Moore was about as sucessful as doing that as he was with his last diet.

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