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    Watch Gerard Butler and Christian Bale Reenacting Star Wars

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    Image of aubreyf aubreyf
    11/19/09

    In reply to Watch Gerard Butler and Christian Bale Reenacting Star Wars
    I <3 this movie. Guilty pleasure? No. I feel no guilt in my pleasure.
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    Image of Jack_Burton Jack_Burton
    11/19/09

    @aubreyf: I agree - I think it's underrated in a number of ways. Sure, there are some holes here and there, but you can practically taste the soot, and fear the sky, and the pathos that comes from being there when it all began - unparalleled.
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    Image of J_Frank_Parnell J_Frank_Parnell
    11/19/09

    In reply to Watch Gerard Butler and Christian Bale Reenacting Star Wars
    I like this movie well enough. It's good B-grade fun. My wife likes it more, for all the sweaty, hawt man-meat her eyes may feast upon.
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    Image of geesejuggler geesejuggler
    11/19/09

    In reply to Watch Gerard Butler and Christian Bale Reenacting Star Wars
    I kinda liked this movie. What's not to like?
    Dragons, check.
    Bale, check.
    McConaughey (with a southern accent even though they or in the UK), check.
    Star Wars shout out, check! Who needs a plot is you have all of that?!
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    Image of burlybax burlybax
    11/19/09

    @geesejuggler: He says in the movie that he's from Kentucky..
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    Image of geesejuggler geesejuggler
    11/19/09

    @burlybax: Oops, I forgot about that. One more good thing about it: the explained accent, lol.
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    Image of AngriestGeek AngriestGeek
    11/19/09

    In reply to Watch Gerard Butler and Christian Bale Reenacting Star Wars
    I think we all wanted to like this movie but were stunned by gigantic holes in it, like a dragon's hide being impenetrable to bullets and nuclear weapons, but a steel arrow kills 'em just fine. As if that wouldn't have been noticed by the militaries of the world in the first five minutes. Dragon Wars was a better execution of a similar idea of dragons attacking a modern world
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    Image of vinylrake vinylrake
    11/19/09

    @AngriestGeek: Seriously? Just how would the militaries of the world notice in the first five minutes that steel arrows kill the giant dragons? Oh right, because after the jet fighters and nuclear weapons don't work of course! The next thing they do is bring in their platoons of crack archers to have a go at killing the dragons. riiiiiight. And if the archers didn't work they would have had to bring in their squads of teenagers with rocks and slings, and if even THAT didn't work they would have been forced to deploy their ulitmate super secret weapon - they would have sent the world's heavyweight boxing champion to fight the dragon fist to claw.
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    AngriestGeek promoted this comment vinylrake was starred vinylrake was unstarred
    Image of AngriestGeek AngriestGeek
    11/19/09

    @vinylrake: Wow. That you wrote all that is just...sad.

    #tips
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    Image of vinylrake vinylrake
    11/20/09

    @AngriestGeek: Actually, I type fast so it'sonly a little sad.
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    Image of Ed Grabianowski Ed Grabianowski
    11/19/09

    In reply to Watch Gerard Butler and Christian Bale Reenacting Star Wars
    Such a great concept for a movie ruined by poor execution.
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    Image of joetato joetato
    11/19/09

    In reply to Watch Gerard Butler and Christian Bale Reenacting Star Wars
    That would be a tough call. A world without Star Wars, or a world without coffee. Hmmmmm. I'd be really irritable either way. No dark side to compel me on. Ick.
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    Image of Sunshineyness Sunshineyness
    11/19/09

    In reply to Watch Gerard Butler and Christian Bale Reenacting Star Wars
    Ah, between the Gerard Butler and the Christian Bale the point of this movie was not dragons but just how much sexy post-apocalyptic manliness can we cram into one film? I salute this movie.

    I particularly find this whole sequence absolutely adorable.
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    Edited by Sunshineyness at 11/19/09 12:18 AM Sunshineyness was starred Sunshineyness was unstarred
    Image of Post-Nuked Post-Nuked
    11/19/09

    In reply to Watch Gerard Butler and Christian Bale Reenacting Star Wars
    I saw this movie in the theater when it came out because I thought that there was no way anything could be better than the post apocalypse combined with dragons. At the time, I was pretty disappointed, but I think I'm gonna re watch it.
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    Image of dancingspring dancingspring
    11/19/09

    @Post-Nuked: I saw this movie in the theater when it came out for the same reason, and I was not disappointed at all.

    It has Christian Bale with dead parents and shirtless fighting. This means it is basically Batman with dragons.
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    Image of Post-Nuked Post-Nuked
    11/19/09

    @dancingspring:
    I'm gonna re-watch it. I actually downloaded it last night.
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    Image of Evdor Evdor
    11/18/09

    In reply to Watch Gerard Butler and Christian Bale Reenacting Star Wars
    I actually couldn't watch this, but not for the reasons you might think.

    I couldn't watch this because whenever they put a dragon on the screen, my wife would not stop bitching that holes in the dragon's wings would prevent flight and how stupid it looked. I tried to argue the fallacy of logic entering a place where Matthew Mc-however-you-spell-his-name jumps from a tower with a handmade axe at a Dragon or people parachute from helicopters in an attempt to net them (which would require herculean timing and a freaking mathmatical model to figure out), but no. Every time one comes on. Giggle, annoyed sigh.

    Granted, we couldn't watch Snakes on a Plane without giggling as we named each of the (often non-deadly) snake that was harrassing the hapless passengers. (OH NO A CORN SNAKE! BE CAREFUL!)

    She also made me watch D-Wars, and I still haven't forgiven her for that.
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    Image of BullfightsOnAcid BullfightsOnAcid
    11/19/09


    @Evdor: What's your wife's opinion of this guy?
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    Image of Smeagol92055 Smeagol92055
    11/18/09

    In reply to Watch Gerard Butler and Christian Bale Reenacting Star Wars
    God, this movie is one of my guilty pleasures. I mean, it's great on so many levels, but it's also terrible. It's so terrible that it loops back around and becomes great.

    The only complaint that I have about the entire film, from the first time I saw it, to this day, is McConaughey's suicide play at the end. Yes, we knew he was going to die once he jumped... but he didn't go out in a badass blaze of glory; he went out with a wet crunch. That's the one thing that still irks me to this day.
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    Image of The_Sporean_Bob The_Sporean_Bob
    11/18/09

    @Smeagol92055: Yeah, but he wasn't planning on doing anything epic, his entire plan was to give the dragon constipation/anal bleeding from the axe. If Bale hadn't gone and killed it so soon afterwards, it might have worked!
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    Image of jajbowler jajbowler
    11/18/09

    In reply to Watch Gerard Butler and Christian Bale Reenacting Star Wars
    This is one of those movies I will always watch if I come across it on TV. While I very much enjoy it for its "so bad it's good"-ness, the first time I saw it I couldn't stop laughing every time McConaughey was on screen because he just fucking grunts the entire movie, and then dies one of the most ridiculous deaths I can remember in an action film (my favorite being Ray Stevenson blasting a Parkour dude out of mid-air with an RPG). Now that I think about it, if I ever find this in a bargain bin I need to pick it up.
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    Image of The_Sporean_Bob The_Sporean_Bob
    11/18/09

    @jajbowler: Where can I see this scene with the RPG?
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    Image of Jassen Jassen
    11/19/09

    @The_Sporean_Bob: Punisher: Warzone
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    Image of jajbowler jajbowler
    11/19/09

    @Jassen: @The_Sporean_Bob: Yup, Punisher: Warzone. I don't think I've seen a moment in a movie bring an entire theater together like that one. It was truly spectacular.
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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    11/18/09

    In reply to Watch Gerard Butler and Christian Bale Reenacting Star Wars
    How did we fall into post apocalyptic what-not from dragons? They're dragons. Just get some Ice Type Pokemon and that'll be the end of it.
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    Image of PVIII PVIII
    11/18/09

    In reply to Watch Gerard Butler and Christian Bale Reenacting Star Wars
    And directed by Rob Bowman, master X-files director...who also did Electra. goddammit.
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    Image of MargaretMoony MargaretMoony
    11/18/09

    In reply to Watch Gerard Butler and Christian Bale Reenacting Star Wars
    Dear God, I barely remember this movie! I was 15 and we got in for free cause the usher wanted to bang my friend. Good times.
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    MargaretMoony was starred MargaretMoony was unstarred
    Image of Dr.Quatermass: I have to say Dr. You are once again spot on with that oberservation and anything I am about to say that contradicts this statement is strictly for humor sake. Dr.Quatermass: I have to say Dr. You are once again spot on with that oberservation and anything I am about to say that contradicts this statement is strictly for humor sake.
    11/18/09

    @MargaretMoony: This comment intrigues me way more than the article. Can't figure out why...
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    Dr.Quatermass: I have to say Dr. You are once again spot on with that oberservation and anything I am about to say that contradicts this statement is strictly for humor sake. was starred Dr.Quatermass: I have to say Dr. You are once again spot on with that oberservation and anything I am about to say that contradicts this statement is strictly for humor sake. was unstarred
    Image of Bassem B. Bassem B.
    11/19/09

    @MargaretMoony: There's a story in here that I'm oddly interested in hearing.
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    Image of Atomictao Atomictao
    11/18/09

    In reply to Watch Gerard Butler and Christian Bale Reenacting Star Wars
    Reign of Fire was a schlocky mess, but it does fulfill one of my six or so criteria for fine cinema:

    3.) Matthew McConaughey gets eaten by a dragon.
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    Edited by Atomictao at 11/18/09 5:41 PM Atomictao was starred Atomictao was unstarred
    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    11/18/09

    @Atomictao: I have a friend that has 3 requirements for a good movie.
    1) Aliens
    2) Will Smith
    3) Jeff Goldblum

    Its a fairly accurate system.
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    Image of Atomictao Atomictao
    11/18/09

    @OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear: My full list is:

    1) Tom Jones singing to animals.
    2) Giant cephalopods are involved.
    3) Matthew McConaughey gets eaten by a dragon.
    4)Bill Paxton's character dies.
    5) John Travolta's character dies TWICE.
    6) Ian McKellan.

    Now, this is not a list of things I expect in every movie. It's just that the more of these elements that are in a movie, the more I like it. My perfect movie would have all six, of course. It hasn't happened yet, but to strive for perfection is its own reward.
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    Edited by Atomictao at 11/18/09 7:35 PM Atomictao was starred Atomictao was unstarred
    Image of Smeagol92055 Smeagol92055
    11/18/09

    @Atomictao: I have no idea who you are, but you've just earned yourself a heart, good sir.
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