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Finally watched (500) Days Of Summer.

 

Where do I begin? All you guys who recommended it are right. It is a very good movie, especially if you have been through something like that. There were moments in the movie that felt incredibly realistic. This isn't a Julia Roberts chick-flick where boy-meets-girl and everything is fine and dandy. This is how real relationships can turn out if you set unrealistic expectations and try to play to along and see where things go. Like most have said, if anything, it can be labeled as a "dick flick". It's a romantic drama meant for guys (for a change). It's best to watch this movie alone (preferably late after a couple of drinks) and let them memories come flooding back. It's cathartic that way.

 

Props to Joseph Gordon-Lewitt and Zooey D(can't-spell-the-rest-of-her-name). They were very good in the roles. The background music also added a lot to the movie. Probably the only thing that didn't work so well was the somewhat upbeat ending. I didn't mind him running into

a pretty girl (like a Bollywood movie), but the fact that he actually even asked her out... made even worse by her name being Autumn. He should have just spoken with her and walked away. The chick was hot though...

 

 

 

 

 

PS: As good as this movie was, I can see the Spider-Man reboot in trouble. Expect another dance number.

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I personally found this far better than either Ishqiya or 3 Idiots - they are really good movies, but not something that you'll remember a long time.

 

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FAIL...Its nowhere near 3 idiots...its same old post 9/11 BS... That we have aleady seen it in New york nd Kurbaan lol

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'Lord of the Rings' fan uses life savings to make prequel movie; 'Born of Hope' becomes Web hit

 

A "Lord of the Rings" fanatic sunk her life savings into creating a prequel to Peter Jackson's epic trilogy – and it's already scored 500,000 views on the Web.

 

Amateur actress Kate Madison was so inspired by the blockbuster movies that she wrote, directed and produced an hour-long film based on material from the original J.R.R. Tolkien tomes.

 

"The battle scenes and the array of incredible characters really inspired me and I was desperate to have a go at making an epic myself," she tells the Daily Mail.

 

Madison, 31, from Cambridge, used her £25,000 life savings (about $39,000 in U.S. dollars) to make "Born of Hope," which follows the adventures of Arathorn and Gilrean, the parents of Aragorn, the ranger-turned-king played by Viggo Mortensen in Jackson's movies.

 

She also appealed to other fantasy fanatics around the world by posting a trailer on YouTube that asked for donations to finish the project. She was able to raise another £17,000 (about $26,500) that way.

 

Madison convinced her cast and crew of more than 400 people to work without pay, and played the role of Elgarain the forest ranger herself.

 

They began shooting in mid-2008 around England, including Epping Forest in Essex and West Stow, Suffolk.

 

"There were times when it was cold and wet, and we were up to our eyes in mud standing in the middle of a forest wondering if we could make this a success," Madison tells the Daily Mail.

 

"But now it's all done," she says, adding, "it's an amazing feeling."

 

Her costar Christopher Dane, who plays Arathorn, says the experience was "exhilarating."

 

"It was brilliant fun and we have produced an entire film for less than Peter Jackson spent on breakfast for his cast while he was filming the original in New Zealand," cracks the 45-year-old from North London.

 

Jackson reportedly spent $285 million filming his original trilogy in New Zealand over eight years.

 

The fan film went live online on Dec. 1, 2009 at BornofHope.com, and can also be found on YouTube. It's been translated and subtitled in an array of languages, including French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish and Danish, and the response everywhere has been effusive.

 

"Wow! I'm amazed! I've never seen anything like this before - huge thanks for all the hard work it took to make something like this. Well done!" one YouTube viewer commented under the handle ToLokyo.

 

Madison tells The Sun, "It's gone down really well with fans. We're very pleased with it."

 

Meanwhile, Jackson is collaborating on his own prequel with Mexican director Guillermo del Toro, a two-part adaptation of Tolkien's "The Hobbit," to be released in 2011 and 2012.

 

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Yup. Very, very good film. Dont bother with the other two in the Vengeance trilogy though, waste of time.

 

/Hides from keyo.

Dude. The first film is the best of the lot.

 

Time to die.. :|

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The best movie this year.....

 

Sharktopus!

sharktopuspainting.jpg

 

Syfy Channel has just greenlighted the long-awaited Sharktopus movie, to be directed by cult monster auteur Roger Corman. Will the sharktopus look like this concept design by Matt Leach? Sources inside Syfy say it will be way weirder.

 

Syfy's Karen O'Hara, who is the channel's director of original movies, tweeted Wednesday:

 

Just got off the phone with the legendary Roger Corman who's doing a new movie for us this year. Yes, it's the long-rumored SHARKTOPUS! . . . Spent half an hour discussing what a sharktopus should look like, how many mouths it should have and how it should kill.

 

Clearly Corman and O'Hara are designing an awesomely weird version of an already-weird monster. They're not just thinking toothy mouth, but multiple mouths. Speaking as a giant monster fan, that's what I like to hear.

 

Here is another artist's conception of a sharktopus, which is quite nice but only has one mouth. Serious drawback.

 

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i dunno but i did not enjoy the movie all that much. maybe i need more experience in the 'heartbreak' area but i found it highly average. loved the background music though.

 

Well it's not a movie everyone will be able to relate to. I can see someone who hasn't gone through that same ordeal finding the movie average or even boring.

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