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Postby Pyro Ellvelin » Thu Jun 15, 2006 10:35 am

Hey guys
I was wondering if anyone has seen this film yet, i was planning to go watch this with a couple of mates, and if your really bored you can even write a review for it :D
Thanks
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Postby greedoniz » Thu Jun 15, 2006 10:55 am

Dont do it!

Get the original out on DVD instead save yourself some money and watch the better version
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Postby Stephen Ward » Thu Jun 15, 2006 11:51 am

Nooooo! :shock: Get the box set of the original films. You will often see these in the sales.
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Postby Farlsborough » Thu Jun 15, 2006 2:59 pm

greedoniz wrote:Dont do it!

Get the original out on DVD instead save yourself some money and watch the better version


Agreed - listen to the Kermode review for this on the bbc five live website (infact, while you're at it, subscribe to his podcasts). "Ho, and indeed hum" :twisted:

The actors aren't big enough for the roles (I don't mean famous, I just mean they don't "fill" the roles), it adds absolutely nothing, it's quite laugable in places - a few jumps. no real scares. We went to see if after an exam because we wanted some brainless bumf to chill out to and it just about satisfied.
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Postby mrfye » Thu Jun 15, 2006 8:02 pm

i lliked it vry much and though it did the other films justice but also felt the ending was poor but prehaps it is made clearer in the second :?:
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Postby rabbit » Thu Jun 15, 2006 9:31 pm

I haven't seen it but it didn't really look that great to me... I LOVE LOVE LOVE scary and suspenseful movies, but I've seen SOO many of them (just about all of the movies listed on the top scariest movies of all time... and many others) that it's pretty much impossible to scare me... so now I look for more intellectual depth to movies than just a "good scare" ... I've found movies that are easy to believe tend to be the most frightening, because there is no surrealism to what you watch, and in the back of your mind you know that what you see has and could happen to anyone (even yourself) ... these types of movies tend to "bother" your comfort rather than scare you *while* you watch them, but after it's over, you often feel frightened and sometimes disturbed by what you've seen... this is probably an "acquired taste" though :wink: A good movie like that which I've just described was "Dancer in the Dark" ... although it was a musical and at times seemed like a happy sort of movie, there was an underlying thread of morose and slightly macabre realism that was rather disturbing.
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Postby Stephen Ward » Thu Jun 15, 2006 10:15 pm

Here is my review:

It is total pants :lol:
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Postby rabbit » Thu Jun 15, 2006 11:27 pm

stephenmagic wrote:Here is my review:

It is total pants :lol:


man, sorry but I don't understand alot of the things everybody is saying because most of you are from the UK and I'm from the US, whether you were just being a geek, or "pants" actualy means something I'm not sure... but if it does mean something- do explain :lol:
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Postby Stephen Ward » Thu Jun 15, 2006 11:28 pm

Sorry! forgot we are international. Pants means very bad, awful, terrible.

Just a slang expression.
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Postby rabbit » Thu Jun 15, 2006 11:39 pm

stephenmagic wrote:Sorry! forgot we are international. Pants means very bad, awful, terrible.

Just a slang expression.


wow, I never would have guessed that! :shock: lol, you (or somebody) should make a list of UK slang translations, and US slang translations :lol: that would be very helpful :D
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Postby Stephen Ward » Thu Jun 15, 2006 11:43 pm

Usa : UK

Pants (as in clothes) are underwear in the UK
Jelly is Jam

Fag is a cigarette :shock: (better not make that joke :lol:)
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Postby Mandrake » Fri Jun 16, 2006 10:33 am

Winston Churchill got it right when he referred to two nations divided by a common language!

I was mad about my flat in UK would mean 'very pleased about my apartment' but in US would mean 'very annoyed about my punctured tire'.
We buy from several US firms and have had some real laughs about different meanings of common words and phrases. In the UK, when preparing to serve a meal, it would be very innocent to refer to 'laying the table' but in the US would be rather worrying to say the least (be careful of the knives and forks!). And as for asking to borrow someone's rubber to correct pencil errors.... :oops: .
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Postby IAIN » Fri Jun 16, 2006 10:48 am

..me and a mate were talking to a couple of american women in a bar last night during the footie, (my mate is from Telford, im from Essex), both of us have completely different accents, yet both ladies thought we were Austalian?!

we were dressed as Aboriginies at the time, but even so...
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Postby Stephen Ward » Fri Jun 16, 2006 12:30 pm

Also

If i was to say 'someone nicked my credit card' it means someone stole it.
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Postby IAIN » Fri Jun 16, 2006 12:48 pm

knock it on the head = to stop doing something/give up on it
pony = rubbish (politely) or £25
monkey = £500
lady godiva = fiver/£5
score = £20
'arris = @rse/butt (Aristotle - bottle, bottle and glass = @rse/butt)
mullered = wasted
boozer = a public house as well as someone who drinks alcohol a fair bit..
pulled = to successfully engage in conversation with a woman and charm her into giving you her number...or something...apparently...as in "i cant believe you managed to pull her..."

just in case you ever visit and wander into a public house and wish to enjoy yourself...
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