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Post by KyleEl on Jan 6, 2012 15:31:03 GMT -5
I watch movies on broadcast TV most weekends and tape some to watch later since they sometimes air at the same time as something else I'm watching or just at a bad time.
I saw "The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising". A 14-year-old boy finds out he is the chosen one who will rid the world of the Darkness. Instead of 10 years of hour-long episodes, it took him 2 hours to learn how to defeat the Darkness.
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Post by KyleEl on Jan 9, 2012 15:54:01 GMT -5
I watched "Tuck Everlasting". A teenage girl falls for a boy who it turns out wil never age. She must decide whether to drink from the Fountain of Youth as everyone in the boy's family did. Sadly, the boy's brother lost his wife and children who did not.
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Post by KyleEl on Jan 9, 2012 16:52:31 GMT -5
I watch movies on broadcast TV most weekends and tape some to watch later since they sometimes air at the same time as something else I'm watching or just at a bad time. I saw "The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising". A 14-year-old boy finds out he is the chosen one who will rid the world of the Darkness. Instead of 10 years of hour-long episodes, it took him 2 hours to learn how to defeat the Darkness. Oh, and when I went online to see how the movie was regarded, it seems a lot of people complained it wasn't close enough to the book. |
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Post by KyleEl on Jan 11, 2012 15:57:46 GMT -5
Brandon Routh starred in "Table for Three". He was going through a breakup and had to find a new person to share his two-bedroom apartment with. He ended up with a quirky couple. By the end of the movie he wanted to strangle them, though they did help him fiund where his new girlfriend had disappeared to.
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Post by avp60685 on Jan 12, 2012 14:04:12 GMT -5
certain parts of Star Wars reminds me of Superman
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Post by KyleEl on Jan 23, 2012 15:47:25 GMT -5
I saw "The Punisher". I don't like seeing John Travolta as a villain, unless he's cool like in "Broken Arrow". That wasn't the case here.
The Punisher had no super powers but knew how to use weapons and fight. It was clear at the start this was a comic book.
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Post by avp60685 on Jan 23, 2012 16:00:57 GMT -5
James Bond and Indiana Jones remind me a little bit of Clark Kent but James Bond reminds me more of Lex Luthor than Clark
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Post by KyleEl on Jan 30, 2012 17:10:29 GMT -5
"Heist" starred Gene Hackman (Lex).
I have a further comment on the "Once Upon a Time" thread.
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Post by KyleEl on Feb 3, 2012 16:09:43 GMT -5
I have a joke from the "Heist" movie. It wasn't exactly like this, but close. Hackman wasn't in the scene but his partner said he was in Vietnam.
A man carried a Bible wherever he went. The others in his unit made fun of him for being so religious. Then one day he got shot and the Bible stopped the bullet from reaching his heart.
Now if he had a Bible in front of his face, he might still be alive today.
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Post by avp60685 on Feb 3, 2012 16:49:24 GMT -5
The Power of One was a movie that reminded me of Clark Kent because he was an orphan and he was mistreated by his peers and he became a boxer and a born leader in speaking out against injustice and he lost a lot of the ones he was close to like his fiance' and his mentor.
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Post by KyleEl on Feb 17, 2012 17:01:48 GMT -5
One of the X-Men movies airs this Sunday on the CW station. Or maybe it's Saturday. One of the two.
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Post by avp60685 on Feb 17, 2012 17:42:29 GMT -5
Hercules reminds of me Superman as well because he was a hero sent to Earth by his father and he longed to be with those he loved but he was bound to Earth to face and overcome many trials until Zeus called for him to be with him forever
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Post by KyleEl on Feb 20, 2012 14:52:28 GMT -5
"X-Men: The Last Stand" was the third in the series.
I didn't really like it. Too much superhero stuff.
Shawn Ashmore (Eric Summers, brother to Jimmy) was in it, but I didn't recognize him.
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Post by avp60685 on Feb 20, 2012 15:03:52 GMT -5
The Captain America: The First Avenger reminded me of the Superman story in some ways
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Post by KyleEl on Mar 5, 2012 16:30:17 GMT -5
Shawn Ashmore was in another movie I saw--"Underclassman", where Nick Cannon went undercover as a high school student to solve a murder. Shawn's character was a popular kid, stealing cars because his headmaster was blackmailing him. I didn't know him.
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Post by avp60685 on Mar 6, 2012 9:42:36 GMT -5
Wow I never knew that kyle! thanks for the information!
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Post by KyleEl on Mar 19, 2012 14:42:42 GMT -5
"Daredevil" was on my CW station yesterday. Pretty good.
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Post by avp60685 on Mar 21, 2012 15:48:40 GMT -5
I think I have that movie but i am not 100% sure
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Post by KyleEl on Mar 27, 2012 15:32:07 GMT -5
I saw "Blade II" but didn't care for it. It is apparently a Marvel character.
Kris Kristofferson was in it. And Ron Perlman was funny.
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Post by KyleEl on Apr 2, 2012 14:46:34 GMT -5
"Meet Dave" starred Eddie Murphy in two roles. He was a spacecraft the size of a normal-sized human, dressed like Mr. Roarke and Tattoo, as well as the captain of the tiny aliens who made it appear to be human.
At the beginning they were planning to steal the Earth's oceans to save their planet, but they found out what good people Earthlings are.
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Post by KyleEl on Apr 18, 2012 13:45:44 GMT -5
"Superman Returns" was on cable but I don't have cable. I can receive the channel, but I'd rather not watch where it looks like distant channels did in the days of analog TV. Only the broadcast channels, some shopping channels, government channels, a news channel, TV Guide Channel and WGN America come in as perfectly as I want. Any more would cost way more than I want to spend.
What's amazing is that this movie gets three and a half stars. I heard mostly negative reviews on the CW board.
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Post by avp60685 on Apr 18, 2012 15:07:19 GMT -5
I watched it only once and I have to admit that the story is a bit off and it doesn't fit well with the Superman story, I just bought a book on Saturday called the Life and Death of Superman which is based on the comics, I'll let you know how it is
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Post by spoonieluv247 on Apr 23, 2012 2:47:31 GMT -5
SUPERMAN RETURNS is horrible!!
no one wants a sequel to a movie from the 70's.... and would Superman REALLY leave Earth for years to sit and sulk about a dead Krypton?
not to mention Lois being pregnant and having a brat after he left. how trampy is that?!
sure it was Clark's brat, but still...
let's hope the NEXT reboot is better....
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Post by avp60685 on Apr 23, 2012 11:16:34 GMT -5
Yeah, if they can make the reboot better i will be impressed
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Post by KyleEl on Apr 23, 2012 16:15:38 GMT -5
I saw the Fantastic Four sequel yesterday. In some ways it reminded me of the "Smallville" finale.
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Post by avp60685 on Apr 24, 2012 19:22:42 GMT -5
David Copperfield the book reminds me a bit of Superman and how he faces a lot of hardships before he is happy with his life
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Post by spoonieluv247 on Apr 27, 2012 17:07:13 GMT -5
the stories of Hercules, Jesus and Nickel Pete are ALL like Superman!!
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Post by Mistermoonlight on Apr 27, 2012 18:34:38 GMT -5
You left out Moses, and the 'found baby.
While Superman Returns wasn't all I wanted it to be, after 19 years of waiting for a new Superman movie it paid off in spades with some of the most astounding action scenes ever--the airplane rescue at the beginning of the movie had everything in it that any Superman fan would ever want to see. Likewise numerous others, such as Superman flying and wiping out the falling glass with his heat vision, the bullet bouncing off his eye, and that magnificent shot where he flew above the clouds into the sun.
Where it didn't hang together was the actual story. No one wants to see an emo Superman. And Bryan Singer, although his motives were in the right place, spent way too much time honoring Richard Donner instead of creating something new that was his own.
I'm a HUGE fan of Kevin Spacey, but his role as Lex Luthor was based too much on Gene Hackman's performance, and that's not all his fault, as that's the way the part was written. However, he's responsible for suggesting that Kate Bosworth play Lois Lane, and both she and the part were way out of character.
I went to see the movie twice in the theater and own it on DVD, however I don't watch it all the way through when I view it now, the movie just doesn't hang together well enough for that. I watch certain scenes that were extraordinarly well done and leave the rest.
Singer was wise in ignoring the continuity from Superman III and IV, but essentially what we got was a movie not as good as Superman I or II, but better than III and IV.
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Post by spoonieluv247 on Apr 27, 2012 22:25:38 GMT -5
horrible movie!
1. Superman wouldn't abandon Earth for a decade!
2. Superman wouldn't have a brat out of wedlock...
the movie just didn't feel very truthy to the character.
why people are so loyal to movies that are basically cigarette commercials is anyone's guess...
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Post by avp60685 on May 3, 2012 12:35:10 GMT -5
I only bought it to keep for my personal records to keep with the other Superman stuff I own but I rarely watch it!
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