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Jesse Skeen
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From: Sacramento, CA
Registered: Aug 2000

posted 07-26-2002 01:42 PM

Well I hate this movie even more now if the X's stand for EXtreme!! I saw Fast and the Furious about a month before it opened and hated that too, and I hated it even more when it actually did good business!
I do wanna check out that movie "Extreme Days" though cause it looks good for a laugh.

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Ian Price
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posted 07-26-2002 06:03 PM

Well, I went and saw this movie, this morning.

It's silly, ridiculous, poorly written, the acting is terrible and the stunts were there simply to be stunts and did not serve the story in any way.

In short, it was great fun.

If you think the following are spoilers, go and have your head examined.
You’ve seen all this in the trailer.

Most unconvincing stunt: Vin Diesel kissing a girl.
(and no Ky, he shouldn’t be kissing a boy either.)

Most ridiculous stunt: Vin Diesel throwing a bomb behind him so he could snowboard in front of an avalanche thus taking out the bad guys communications. I would have thrown the bomb from the airplane at the beginning of the scene. (But then you would have missed the jumping, the parachuting and the snowboarding.)

Most absurd concoction: A solar powered submarine, on hydrofoils no less.
(Solar powered & Submarine. Get it?)

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Mike Blakesley
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From: Forsyth, Montana
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posted 07-26-2002 06:10 PM

quote:
It's silly, ridiculous, poorly written, the acting is terrible and the stunts were there simply to be stunts and did not serve the story in any way.

In short, a perfect summer movie!

The acting couldn't be as bad as in Episode II, could it? THAT would be bad!

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Ian Price
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posted 07-26-2002 06:22 PM

No, to be fair, Vin Diesel has more personality than Hayden Christianson. He would have been great fun in Star Wars, as long as he didn't have to kiss any girls.

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Mike Heenan
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posted 07-26-2002 06:38 PM

I think the title is actually taken from a spy movie from the early 60s called Triple Cross, starring Christopher Plummer. In the trailer three X's are shown and then it says Triple Cross, The true story of....

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Mike Blakesley
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posted 07-27-2002 12:48 PM

Are most theatres putting "XXX" on their marquee, or would "TRIPLE X" be better?

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Dave Williams
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From: Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Registered: Jan 2000

posted 07-28-2002 07:43 AM

Well sorry whomever didn't like Fast and Furious. I loved the movie, and saw it at least 50 times so far.

I also loved Lawrence of Arabia. So Idiot, not am I.

Sometimes, you have to just let go of reality, quit hating everything around you, and just have some damn fun!!!

I mean really! How hard is it to have a guilty pleasure? personally I think you love it so much you just can't admit it.

My guilty pleasure is dumb films that make no sense whatsoever.

For example.. some of my favorites are....

Tank Girl
Fast and the Furious..

and... oh wait... if I am going to keep kicking ass in the film qoute game, I had better stop now..

dave

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Kyle Caudill
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posted 07-28-2002 11:56 AM

Fast and the Furious was aweseome. How can you not like it? You have hot girls for guys and buff guys for girls. You have action and somewhat of a plot. The movie entertained me, I can not ask for anything more in a movie. If I am entertained when watching a movie, its good in my opinion.

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Mike Schindler
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posted 07-28-2002 01:05 PM

Why should you feel guilty about loving "dumb" movies? I hear this all the time, and it makes no sense. It's almost as if people are afraid to admit that they like certain films just because other people will judge them in a certain way because of it. That's kinda goofy. I like THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS. I'll probably never watch it again, but it was better than that piece of shit which won the Oscar for Best Picture last year. And nobody's made fun of for liking that movie (although they probably should be).

I'm starting to ramble, but my point is this: If you like something, just say so. Don't apologize for it. Don't diminish it by saying it was "bad" or "stupid." Here. I'll start.

I think that CROSSROADS is one of the best films of year so far. It wasn't bad. It wasn't stupid.

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Darren Crimmins
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From: Dallas, TX, USA
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posted 07-28-2002 07:36 PM

Manny said,

'Grab some napkins and enjoy your symptom...er...movie'

UHHHHHHHH.... I don't know what you are going to be doing during this movie, but I figure it should be done during a screening by yourself! (LOL)

As for the Crossroads remark, I'll let someone else field that. Two hits in one post would be too easy!

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Mike Schindler
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posted 07-28-2002 09:55 PM

See? That's exactly why people think that liking "dumb" movies is a guilty pleasure. As if the stupidity of saying that CROSSROADS is a good movie is so blatantly obvious that anyone could put me in my place. The fact that most people will chuckle at my last post and shake their head and go, "Poor dumb old Mike," doesn't bother me. I don't feel "guilty" for saying that. I don't see why I should. I think that my love for CROSSROADS is justified. I just dug up a review of it that I wrote mere hours after I first saw it. I'll post it in the movie reviews section. What I would feel guilty about is going along with popular opinion by saying that I thought a movie was good or bad even when I didn't.

Look at it this way: If everyone would acknowledge their true feelings on any given film, we wouldn't have to listen to people talk about how great GONE WITH THE WIND is anymore.

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Dave Williams
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From: Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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posted 07-29-2002 01:00 AM

a GUILTY PLEASURE is not something that you feel guilty about actually. It is something that you love and people TELL YOU that you should feel guilty about enjoying it, but you don't and you are proud of it. That is what a GUILTY PLEASURE is.

Dave

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Brad Miller
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posted 07-29-2002 03:20 AM

I have started a thread in Yak for "guilty pleasures".

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Charles Everett
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posted 08-06-2002 03:45 PM

The actual title provided by Revolution Studios is xXx.

All theaters using Fandango -- Century, Cinemark, Cineplex Odeon (US), Loews, Regal and (eventually) UA -- are going by this xXx spelling.

Besides, xXx looks cool -- like what you see on a bottle of ale.

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Darryl Spicer
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posted 08-06-2002 10:17 PM

Running time that was given to us for this movie was 124mins.

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