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#1 tarunramesh
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3 IDIOTS http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1187043/

Let me start my saying i hate foreign language movies, absoutely despise them.

The other day my mum said she wanted to see this movie ( we are indian) so she dragged me along. I was so sure this was goona be a 3 hour long flim full of junk which i wont understand ( there were subs). 30 min into the movie i was thinking "how on earth could such an amazing movie possibly go on for 3 hours!"

This is auctally my favourite movie of all time. Im not normally a fan of comedy movies but Ive never laughed so hard in a flim. This is also a movie with much to learn from i came out feeling a little bit smarter ( compared to alvin and the chipmunks where i felt stupider).

I urge everyone go watch this movie, dont be discourgaged that it isnt it english and you will not regret it. Cause THIS IS MY FAV MOVIE. Avatar was great but not as great as this.

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#2 BiancaDK
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You've seen alvin and the chipmunks? explain yourself
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#3 Chiddaling
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Um..no.
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[QUOTE="BiancaDK"]You've seen alvin and the chipmunks? explain yourself

I know I saw it because the girl I was on a date with wanted to see it. Girls > 2 hours of dumb movie.
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#5 BiancaDK
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[QUOTE="Mousetaches"][QUOTE="BiancaDK"]You've seen alvin and the chipmunks? explain yourself

I know I saw it because the girl I was on a date with wanted to see it. Girls > 2 hours of dumb movie.

why not watch a good movie for two hours with your date, so you can have something to talk about and really take interest in afterwards?
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#6 StripTheSoul
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Let me start my saying i hate foreign language movies, absoutely despise them.

tarunramesh

I'm curious, why?

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#7 mrbojangles25
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[QUOTE="Mousetaches"][QUOTE="BiancaDK"]You've seen alvin and the chipmunks? explain yourselfBiancaDK
I know I saw it because the girl I was on a date with wanted to see it. Girls > 2 hours of dumb movie.

why not watch a good movie for two hours with your date, so you can have something to talk about and really take interest in afterwards?

maybe because he both likes this girl enough and respects her tastes in movies enough to sacrifice 2 hours for her?

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#8 mrbojangles25
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[QUOTE="tarunramesh"]

Let me start my saying i hate foreign language movies, absoutely despise them.

StripTheSoul

I'm curious, why?

subtitles, I bet.

people need to read more, dubbing sucks, and its nice hearing languages other than your own. Its called culture, folks, appreciate it

damn I am being a cynical guy tonight, sorry :(

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My parents watched that movie and told me it was superb. I plan on watching it sooner or later.

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#10 BiancaDK
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maybe because he both likes this girl enough and respects her tastes in movies enough to sacrifice 2 hours for her?

mrbojangles25

This has nothing to do with respect at all o_0 It would, if the only alternative would be something that could be perceived as disrespectful, but alas that is not the case.

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#11 StripTheSoul
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[QUOTE="StripTheSoul"]

[QUOTE="tarunramesh"]

Let me start my saying i hate foreign language movies, absoutely despise them.

mrbojangles25

I'm curious, why?

subtitles, I bet.

people need to read more, dubbing sucks, and its nice hearing languages other than your own. Its called culture, folks, appreciate it

damn I am being a cynical guy tonight, sorry :(

No no I agree. Subs usually annoy people because A: Reading and B: They "cant pay attention to what is happening on screen".

Personally I ended up so many shows and movies with subs that I learnt to use peripheral vision to see what is happening while reading them, but not consciously. **** is awesome.

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#12 mrbojangles25
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[QUOTE="mrbojangles25"]

maybe because he both likes this girl enough and respects her tastes in movies enough to sacrifice 2 hours for her?

BiancaDK

This has nothing to do with respect at all o_0 It would, if the only alternative would be something that could be perceived as disrespectful, but alas that is not the case.

the alternative would be the guy saying "No, thats a stupid movie, and youre a stupid immature girl for wanting to see it"

thats disrespectful

going to a movie you dont really want to see because others want to see it, well, I see that as a sign of respect. Respect for friendship, respect for one's tastes in stupid movies, whatever

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#13 mrbojangles25
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[QUOTE="mrbojangles25"]

[QUOTE="StripTheSoul"]

I'm curious, why?

StripTheSoul

subtitles, I bet.

people need to read more, dubbing sucks, and its nice hearing languages other than your own. Its called culture, folks, appreciate it

damn I am being a cynical guy tonight, sorry :(

No no I agree. Subs usually annoy people because A: Reading and B: They "cant pay attention to what is happening on screen".

Personally I ended up so many shows and movies with subs that I learnt to use peripheral vision to see what is happening while reading them, but not consciously. **** is awesome.

Yea, I grew up watching Kurosawa films so I had time to adapt to subtitles. I dont really notice them anymore, its just another visual thing to look at with the film.

I can see why it might annoy others but honestly, if you cannot read that fast and youre 14 years or older, the school system/your parents have failed you

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#14 BiancaDK
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mrbojangles25
i guess we just have different perceptions on respect, then. Not to say yours is by any means wrong, i totally get where you're coming from, but i would probably have gone about it differently, instead of watering down the time spent together with a movie i'd find dull. (:
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I probably won't watch that.. but thanks for the recommendation.
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#16 mrbojangles25
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[QUOTE="mrbojangles25"]BiancaDK
i guess we just have different perceptions on respect, then. Not to say yours is by any means wrong, i totally get where you're coming from, but i would probably have gone about it differently, instead of watering down the time spent together with a movie i'd find dull. (:

fair enough :)

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#17 howlrunner13
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But I didn't think Avatar was great.... so.... what does that say about your movie?

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#18 St_JimmyX
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So how does a comedy have any relevence to an action flick?

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#19 tarunramesh
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[QUOTE="tarunramesh"]

I'm curious, why?

StripTheSoul
Its not the subs or anything but more than often their are quite stupid. Like most indian flims a guy gets kicked and flies 100m ( you see not that movies cant make that happen but in a regular world movie non fantasy sci fi thingy, its just not that possible lol. Like with matrix they made the movie so that in that world such things were possbile and in that context its fine)

But I didn't think Avatar was great.... so.... what does that say about your movie?

howlrunner13
Look everyone seems to avatar was an awesome movie and i agree, im just trying to compare it to something generelly everyone thinks is awesome, just cause u didint like it doesnt mean i cant use avatar as a good comparison.

So how does a comedy have any relevence to an action flick?

St_JimmyX
It doesnt but everyone says avatar is an awesome movie, im just trying to compare it to something i thought was more awesome
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I thought I Love You, Man was better than Avatar.

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#21 tylergamereview
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[QUOTE="MetroidPrimePwn"]

I thought I Love You, Man was better than Avatar.

... That's a first. No offense of course. Just never thought I would hear that in my life time...
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I thought I Love You, Man was better than Avatar.

MetroidPrimePwn

Now that was a fun movie.

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[QUOTE="MetroidPrimePwn"]

I thought I Love You, Man was better than Avatar.

Mr_Manikin52

Now that was a fun movie.

Truly a mansterpiece of bromantic comedy.

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#24 Film-Guy
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[QUOTE="Mr_Manikin52"]

[QUOTE="MetroidPrimePwn"]

I thought I Love You, Man was better than Avatar.

MetroidPrimePwn

Now that was a fun movie.

Truly a mansterpiece of bromantic comedy.

I agree. I cant explain why but for some reason I think Paul Rudd is awesome. Avatar is good too, but there are tons of better films in 2009 like Fish Tank, and A Serious Man.

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3 IDIOTS

Let me start my saying i hate foreign language movies, absoutely despise them.

The other day my mum said she wanted to see this movie ( we are indian) so she dragged me along. I was so sure this was goona be a 3 hour long flim full of junk which i wont understand ( there were subs). 30 min into the movie i was thinking "how on earth could such an amazing movie possibly go on for 3 hours!"

This is auctally my favourite movie of all time. Im not normally a fan of comedy movies but Ive never laughed so hard in a flim. This is also a movie with much to learn from i came out feeling a little bit smarter ( compared to alvin and the chipmunks where i felt stupider).

I urge everyone go watch this movie, dont be discourgaged that it isnt it english and you will not regret it. Cause THIS IS MY FAV MOVIE. Avatar was great but not as great as this.

tarunramesh

That sounds okay, i guess, But my favorite movie is The Fly. SOOOO many ****c scenes.

1) The scene where Brundle just spent hours having sex with his girlfriend, and then runs out because she can't handle the flesh.

2) The scene where Brundle kicks his girlfriend out forever after she saved a hooker from going through the telepods. Just that scene where she sort of lingers outside of his door for a moment and then walks away in tears...****c.

3) Brundle losing his voice, and then his teeth falling out. The expression on his face was just AWESOME.

4) One of the best scenes in the movie. The "insect politics" scene. Where horribly deformed Brundle, with love and fear in his eyes, tells his girlfriend to leave and never come back. Because the man that he used to be is but a dream, the Fly has taken over, and that he'll hurt her if she stays. This scene is AWESOME. This followed up with Veronica's desperate pleas to her ex-boyfriend to get the monster out of her body makes the whole thing just AMAZING.

5) Fully transformed Brundlefly-Telepod hybrid emerging as a pitiable and pathetic weak shell of a man. The scene where this grotesque and dying monstrosity crawls towards his girlfriend, grabs the barrel end of the shotgun she's holding, and aims it straight at his own head. Even though Brundle literally just tried to kill her, she backs away, tears flowing down her face, saying, "no, I can't!"

6) She blows his ****ing head off, and the end credits start rolling with a fade-out from her in utter agony after having just blown her boyfriend's head off with a shotgun.

This is SUCH an awsome movie. Disgusting as hell, and extremely powerful on such an emotional level. This is seriously the greatest "horror" movie I've ever seen in my life, even if the premise is ridiculous and the gore effects don't quite hold up to modern standards. This was a powerful and devastating love story, with implications for anyone who might ever watch it. And the end result was just an INCREDIBLE movie.

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That sounds okay, i guess, But my favorite movie is The Fly. MrGeezer
The insect politics scene, I love it! The really haunting musical cue that comes in right after he says "I'm saying, i'll hurt you if you stay" really strikes a chord. I used to constantly watch this film when I was younger, but I was mainly afraid of it, but I revisited it recently and it is very tragic. To see a man find happiness in love and life and then have that taken away in the most horrific, uncompromising way possible is really very sad.

Another scene I love is when Seth is asking the computer what happened to the fly, especially the look on his face just before he asks if he absorbed it. You could tell by his expressions that, even before he asked that question, that he knew he didn't simply absorb it yet hoped that the computer did not say "negative, fusion at a molecular-genetic level." The tension, and again the music, are really great in this scene.

Few horror films actually make you care and genuinely be concerned for the characters' well-being, and The Fly is definitely one of them. I feel it's vastly under-appreciated. I read somewhere that David Cronenberg was going to remake The Fly. Don't think it needs to be remade personally since I think it has aged well; the transformation effects still hold up to this day. I also remember watching The Fly II, don't remember much from it other than some dog which was left deformed after having been tested with the telepods, and then seeing it whimper and pathetically crawl to feed in its cage. I remember being ****ing traumatized by that scene.

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3 IDIOTS http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1187043/

Let me start my saying i hate foreign language movies, absoutely despise them.

The other day my mum said she wanted to see this movie ( we are indian) so she dragged me along. I was so sure this was goona be a 3 hour long flim full of junk which i wont understand ( there were subs). 30 min into the movie i was thinking "how on earth could such an amazing movie possibly go on for 3 hours!"

This is auctally my favourite movie of all time. Im not normally a fan of comedy movies but Ive never laughed so hard in a flim. This is also a movie with much to learn from i came out feeling a little bit smarter ( compared to alvin and the chipmunks where i felt stupider).

I urge everyone go watch this movie, dont be discourgaged that it isnt it english and you will not regret it. Cause THIS IS MY FAV MOVIE. Avatar was great but not as great as this.

tarunramesh

I would love to be a Na'vi!

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[QUOTE="mrbojangles25"]

[QUOTE="StripTheSoul"]

I'm curious, why?

StripTheSoul

subtitles, I bet.

people need to read more, dubbing sucks, and its nice hearing languages other than your own. Its called culture, folks, appreciate it

damn I am being a cynical guy tonight, sorry :(

No no I agree. Subs usually annoy people because A: Reading and B: They "cant pay attention to what is happening on screen".

Personally I ended up so many shows and movies with subs that I learnt to use peripheral vision to see what is happening while reading them, but not consciously. **** is awesome.

I completely agree with you guys. A couple of my all-time favorite films are by Akira Kurosawa, which are "Dreams", "Magnificent Seven", and "Ikiru", as well as being a huge anime fan who only watches them in subtitles. I'm also a huge fan of German fans, but not limited to these two country's films. It's easy to pick up quite a bit of knowledge of a country's culture and history just by watching their films and trying to understand what's happening and why. If you can't understand, then do a little research and find some answers. It makes a person a little more cultured and less close-minded for sure, as well as opens a person to a different perspective.

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Scarface is Teh Best Movie EVER!!!

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#31 thequietguy
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Ahah I don't ever think comedies are funny. It was a good movie though.
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You don't like Foreign Films because they are stupid to you? Maybe you're watching the wrong ones. What have you seen in particular? Notable ones... And uh I duno if I could spend 3 hrs with that uh "masterpiece".