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Re: Update of Dune's Replacement (snicker!)
Ah ... one movie of which I already know I'm not going to watch it.
Re: Update of Dune's Replacement (snicker!)
I just wonder how you can base a whole movie on this:
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It's just countries randomly firing missiles into the ocean until the see a column of black smoke and then firing in that general direction.
Re: Update of Dune's Replacement (snicker!)
it's so simple you couldn't believe it's true
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Re: Update of Dune's Replacement (snicker!)
GO HOLLYWOOD!
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Re: Update of Dune's Replacement (snicker!)
What makes this movie truly amazing isn't that it's based on a board game with no plot involved whatsoever, it's that the director gave up DUNE to work on a movie based on a board game with no plot involved whatsoever!
I deleted some of your posts because they were derailing the topic and not focusing on the issues asked, and instead going after the authors or their material. That's why. ~ BM
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Um, gave up DUNE to do a movie being pushed by the studio in exchange for the promise of their support for a movie of his own he really wants to make. According to one story.
Doesn't change the fact that he's a dick and would have fucked up DUNE on the screen almost as bad as KJA has been doing.
Doesn't change the fact that he's a dick and would have fucked up DUNE on the screen almost as bad as KJA has been doing.
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well in a way it's good news, the very fact he went for that stupid movie disqualified him to do Dune...
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His comments about what he planned to do with DUNE already had that covered.
Life is a series of trade-offs; he was given the choice between fucking up a film or doing a fuck-up film with a film he wants to do guaranteed afterwards. And he chose wisely.
Life is a series of trade-offs; he was given the choice between fucking up a film or doing a fuck-up film with a film he wants to do guaranteed afterwards. And he chose wisely.
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Vaseline... or Vaseline with sand in it... hmmm...
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Live dangerously and choose Door #2, Monty!
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"Politics is never simple, like the sand chigger of Arrakis, one is rarely truly free of its bite."
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"Politics is never simple, like the sand chigger of Arrakis, one is rarely truly free of its bite."
Arrakeen is an unawakened ghola.
Re: Update of Dune's Replacement (snicker!)
reminds me of that time I was dating that crazy scots girl(I dunno why I just love the scots accent on women; probably because I don't understand what they say after a few drinks)
Anyway we went to the offie to get some booze and stuff...
I picked a bottle of vodka,crisps and some fags.
Her hands were a bit dry so she decided to get some hand cream, and guess what?
Yup she got a tube of vaseline
So here I am with this Indian bloke smirking at me buying booze and vaseline, and for some reason I felt like I had to explain that it was for her hands... which probably made it even worse in retrospect...
Anyway we went to the offie to get some booze and stuff...
I picked a bottle of vodka,crisps and some fags.
Her hands were a bit dry so she decided to get some hand cream, and guess what?
Yup she got a tube of vaseline
So here I am with this Indian bloke smirking at me buying booze and vaseline, and for some reason I felt like I had to explain that it was for her hands... which probably made it even worse in retrospect...
In short, the Jihad is over. It ended just as SandRider predicted it would, not with a bang or even a whimper, by simple attrition.
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I'm glad most of us know that fags mean cigarettes because there could be so many jokes there. (Sorry, my mind is dirty today.)lotek wrote:...
I picked a bottle of vodka,crisps and some fags.
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"Picking up fags" didn't suprise me, I was wondering what an "offie" was.
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I kinda left that on purpose I wasn't sure it meant cigarettes outside of the uk!Eyes High wrote:I'm glad most of us know that fags mean cigarettes because there could be so many jokes there. (Sorry, my mind is dirty today.)lotek wrote:...
I picked a bottle of vodka,crisps and some fags.
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And "offie" is short for "off-licence".
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I knew that one!
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lotek wrote:I kinda left that on purpose I wasn't sure it meant cigarettes outside of the uk!Eyes High wrote:I'm glad most of us know that fags mean cigarettes because there could be so many jokes there. (Sorry, my mind is dirty today.)lotek wrote:...
I picked a bottle of vodka,crisps and some fags.
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And "offie" is short for "off-licence".
I learned its meaning from a guy who lives near London. I miss talking to him. He taught me quiet a few Britsh words.
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Now if lotek had posted that my response would have been an immediate "Oh, if only!"Eyes High wrote:He taught me quiet
(Mais nous aimons notre petit ami franglais! [Quoi? C'est francais + anglais, non? ])
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SandChigger wrote:Now if lotek had posted that my response would have been an immediate "Oh, if only!"Eyes High wrote:He taught me quiet
(Mais nous aimons notre petit ami franglais! [Quoi? C'est francais + anglais, non? ])
Oui mon cher ami. .... Merci. Now if I could only remember how to speak it properly. Non?
Je t'aime mon amis. But sometimes it's hard enough speaking American English.
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So is this a US English word or what?Eyes High wrote:He taught me quiet a few Britsh words.
And offie, as well as being a shortened form of off-license, is also a shortened form of off-spinner - but then you have to know the game of cricket to know that one, and there's no way I'm going to explain that game to a board of Americans
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Nope that's just another fine example of either my failure to proofread or my ability to see letters where there are none.Sev wrote:So is this a US English word or what?Eyes High wrote:He taught me quiet a few Britsh words.
But Sevvy baby, we can learn. Honest we can Govn'r.Sev wrote:And offie, as well as being a shortened form of off-license, is also a shortened form of off-spinner - but then you have to know the game of cricket to know that one, and there's no way I'm going to explain that game to a board of Americans
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Oh thank GOD!Sev wrote:there's no way I'm going to explain that game to a board of Americans
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SandChigger wrote:Oh thank GOD!Sev wrote:there's no way I'm going to explain that game to a board of Americans
It ain't no game, it's fucking torture!
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Cricket is the one that can go for like six days, right? And the final scores are 227-188?
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Re: Update of Dune's Replacement (snicker!)
I can that someone would use something to justify making a movie with big naval battles in it, but I don't understand using the game "Battleship" as the justification for the battle scenes.
Peter Berg is going to end up with the stupidest body of work in the history of cinema.
Peter Berg is going to end up with the stupidest body of work in the history of cinema.
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Leyte Gulf comes to mind, Jutland maybe.
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Re: Update of Dune's Replacement (snicker!)
If you wanted to make a movie about naval warfare, why would you base it on one of the major naval battles? If you want to make a great war movie - you should adapt the board game "Risk." After seeing Inception, I would like to adapt "Jenga."
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Re: Update of Dune's Replacement (snicker!)
Seriously, Hasbro must have just laughed their asses off:
"You want to make a movie based on Battleship? And you'll give us a bunch of money? In a tough economy? Um ... okay!"
"You want to make a movie based on Battleship? And you'll give us a bunch of money? In a tough economy? Um ... okay!"
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I'm waiting for Battleship vs. Kerplunk
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Well, this one's gonna be "Battleship vs Aliens" so how about "Battleship vs Pride & Predators"?
(OK, maybe I skipped a step. )
With zombies!
(OK, maybe I skipped a step. )
With zombies!
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If you type "nazi" into google, "nazi zombies" is the #1 suggestion.
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I recently watched a Swedish movie where Nazi zombies attacked.Freakzilla wrote:If you type "nazi" into google, "nazi zombies" is the #1 suggestion.
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Seen this one?
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Yea! But until this very moment I had not remembered it. Thanks. Its now going onto my queue.
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