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Old 03-25-2007, 07:34 PM   #41
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Note to self. Never watch Plague Dogs then.

I think Watership Down was one of the most traumatizing films I ever saw as a kid. All those poor bunny rabbits. I'm still afraid to watch it again to this day. Was this movie even supposed to be aimed at kids? The books seems like it was written for teens or adults. How true is the book to the film for those of you that like it?
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Old 03-25-2007, 07:46 PM   #42
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TV shows

Bleach
Dr. Who
Rurouni Kenshin
2K3 TMNT
Highlander
Ninja Warrior
Nash Bridges
Farscape
Star Trek Voyager
Croc Hunter
Scrubs

Movies: ones I never get tired of watching over and over again

TMNT
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles the Movie
LotR trilogy
The Seven Samurai
Dreams
All of Akira Kurosawa's other films
The Black Stallion
The Hunted
Spirited Away
Willow
Twister

too many others to list...
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Old 03-25-2007, 07:53 PM   #43
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I noticed someone mentioned the Plague Dogs earlier. What a brilliant film. God, if you think Watership Down is hard to watch, don't watch the Plague Dogs ;_;

1. Ferngully
2. Watership Down
3. All Dogs go to Heaven
4. The Land Before Time
5. Robin Hood
6. An American Tail
7. The Last Unicorn
8. Road to Eldorado
9. TMNT
10. Ice Age: the Meltdown


I know TMNT seems far down on my list, but it's replaced greats like the Lion King, Monsters Inc, the Nightmare Before Christmas, Peter Pan and The Hunchback of Notredame... I could go on ^^;
That was me. I have to commemorate it after having to put my angel of a dog to sleep Friday afternoon (bone tumor). I never cried so hard for an animated film...I'm starting to remember listening to a tape of the book "Where the Red Fern Grows" somewhere between fourth and sixth grade. When the dogs died at least half the class was crying, I probably was too.

I saw Watership Down in middle school. Can't remember much of it though.
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Old 03-25-2007, 08:01 PM   #44
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So sorry about your dog. My cat had to be put to sleep a few years ago.
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Old 03-25-2007, 08:38 PM   #45
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Time Mistress, just got back from Youtube. They have the whole Watership Down and The Plague Dogs films up, including clips of the most disturbing moments. I nearly cussed my throat out during the disturbing clip of the Plague Dogs and there's this montage of the bloody and violent parts of Watership Down accompanied by a Marilyn Manson song (very disturbing and bloody even when it's mute). Can you believe Watership Down was rated PG back then (this was near the '80s).
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Old 04-08-2007, 04:07 PM   #46
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Top Ten TV Shows:

Heroes
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Everybody Loves Raymond
Fullmetal Alchemist
Law and Order
Discovery Channel
Elfen Lied
CSI: Miami
Invader Zim
Alias


Top Ten Live Action Movies (no particular order):

Star Wars (1-6)
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Jurassic Park (1-3)
X-Men (1-3)
Batman Begins
Batman Returns
The Day After Tomorrow
Ghost Rider
Pirates of the Caribbean (1-2)
Underworld (1-2)

Top Ten Animated Movies (no particular order):

Finding Nemo
Happy Feet
All Dogs Go to Heaven
The Nightmare Before Christmas
TMNT
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
Ice Age
Shrek 2
The Lion King
The Little Mermaid
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Old 04-08-2007, 04:29 PM   #47
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In no particular order

Scrubs
TMNT (Shows and movie, I'm buying the first 3 movie DVDs soon though)
CSI (Miami, vegas and NY)
Law and Order : Spesh victims unit
The Simpsons
Family Guy
American Dad
Shaun Of the Dead (I have a signed copy! I have a pic of Simon and Nick when I got it signed)
Silent Hill

(I only get a few TV channels, and can only watch Scrubs, family guy and American Dad via DVD)
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Old 04-08-2007, 05:57 PM   #48
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Top Ten TV Shows:

Heroes
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Everybody Loves Raymond
Fullmetal Alchemist
Law and Order
Discovery Channel
Elfen Lied
CSI: Miami
Invader Zim
Alias


Top Ten Live Action Movies (no particular order):

Star Wars (1-6)
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Jurassic Park (1-3)
X-Men (1-3)
Batman Begins
Batman Returns
The Day After Tomorrow
Ghost Rider
Pirates of the Caribbean (1-2)
Underworld (1-2)

Top Ten Animated Movies (no particular order):

Finding Nemo
Happy Feet
All Dogs Go to Heaven
The Nightmare Before Christmas
TMNT
Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children
Ice Age
Shrek 2
The Lion King
The Little Mermaid
I have to say you have a great tv show and animated movie selection. I love all your choices. Just curious though as to why your live action movies are almost entirely from the last 10 years? I do think they are good movies and I'm Not hatin on you, I just though that was interesting.
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Old 04-08-2007, 11:54 PM   #49
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Well, I just couldn't decide what I would be my top ten in live action, because I have many favorite live action movies, old and recent, that it was rather difficuit, but thanks for the comment. To be honest, I acutally have like over 70 favorite movies I believe, and the maturity of them are live action, and like seventeen to nineteen among them are animated. You also have quite a good taste in movies and shows yourself.
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Old 04-09-2007, 12:00 AM   #50
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TV Shows

1. Veronica Mars. Yes I put this at number one...those who have seen this show understand why. Those that haven't, do yourself a favor, buy the DVDs!
2. Heroes
3. Firefly
4. The Shield
5. Lost
6. Angel
7. Smallville
8. Freaks and Geeks
9. 24
10. Buffy

I don't count TMNT on this list because it's kinda in a category all it's own for me anyway.
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Old 04-17-2007, 06:42 PM   #51
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1.) Lost
2.) Seinfeld
3.) The Simpsons
4.) 24
5.) Prison break
6.) Scrubs
7.) Roswell
8.) Entourage
9.) Oz
10.) The Sopranos

Movies

1.) The Shawshank redemption
2.) LOTR trilogy
3.) The godfather (Parts 1 & 2)
4.) Little miss sunshine
5.) Clerks (1 & 2)
6.) Rocky/Rocky Balboa
7.) Pirates of the caribbean (1 & 2)
8.) Garden State
9.) Donnie Darko
10.) V for vendetta
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Old 04-25-2007, 10:02 PM   #52
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I haven't been watching too much TV lately, but the two shows I never miss are The Sopranos and CSI: Miami. On the topic of movies I would really have to sit down and put some thought into that...and that is not something I plan to accomplish tonight.
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Old 04-29-2007, 12:49 PM   #53
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Now that the new TMNT movie is out I realized I hadn't revised my list of favorite animated films. So here it is.

1. Transformers the Movie
2. The Last Unicorn
3. Robin Hood (1973)
4. Beauty and the Beast
5. TMNT (2007)
6. Anastasia
7. The Iron Giant (forgot this one last time too)
8. Peter Pan
9. Treasure Planet
10. Titan A.E.
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Old 04-30-2007, 11:36 PM   #54
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I know how you feel kerfootw

Animated
1. Transformers - G1
2. Tranformers - Beast Wars
3. TMNT 2K3
4. X-Men (Saban)
5. X-Men Evolution
6. G.I. Joe
7. Darkwing Duck
8. Tale Spin
9. Ducktales
10. Rurouni Kenshin

Live Action Sci-fi/Fantasy
1. Doctor Who
2. ST: DS9
3. ST: TNG
4. Highlander (including Raven)
5. Alias
6. Stargate SG-1
7. Stargate Atlantis
8. Blake's 7
9. Tracker
10. Babylon 5 (including Crusade)

Other
1. Zorro (Disney)
2. Zorro (Family Channel)
3. Fraggle Rock
4. I Love Lucy
5. Queen of Swords
6. Robin Hood (2007 on BBCAmerica)
7. Due South
8. Mr. Bean
9. Mr. Ed
10. The Patty Duke Show

Movies
1. Transformers the Movie (1986)
2. TMNT 1
3. The Last Unicorn
4. Robin Hood (Disney animated 1973)
5. the Mask of Zorro
6. The Wizard of Oz
7. Beauty and the Beast (Disney, 1991)
8. Highlander: Endgame
9,10,11. X-Men Trilogy
I see that you are a Transformers fan. You going to see the live action motion picture when it comes out in July, or are you gonna steer far away from it as possible?
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Old 05-01-2007, 12:08 AM   #55
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tv shows
the oblongs
mythbusters
CSI
forensic files
roseanne
that 70's show
futurama
tmnt
whose line is it anyway
courage the cowardly dog
...also ER, rocko's modern life, x-files, ren & stimpy, jamie kennedy experiment + others but those i can't find anymore.

movies
munich
the punisher
the others
tmnt (1990, 2007)
hero
cellular
fearless
imaginary heroes
the game
internal affairs
...insert anything ghibli. particularly grave of the fireflies.
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Old 05-01-2007, 12:09 AM   #56
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There's limited order to my favorites as I like them all but here are 10 movies and TV programs I enjoy quite a bit

TV Series

Cartoon
Nina Turtles 2K3
Ninja Turtles '87
Batman: TAS
Batman Beyond
The Tick
Spawn
Cowboy Bebop
Live Action
Millennium
Reno 911

Movies

Fight Club
Aliens
The Descent
American Psycho
Children Of Men
Predator
Spider-man 2
The Thing
Terminator 2 Judgment Day
Total Recall

Honestly this is only the tip of movies I like. I love tons of more artsy films as well but I figured I wouldn't mention them, like my music few people seem to know about them.
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Old 05-05-2007, 07:16 PM   #57
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I see that you are a Transformers fan. You going to see the live action motion picture when it comes out in July, or are you gonna steer far away from it as possible?
I'm definately going to see it, if only for Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime again. I have very mixed feelings on the stuff I've heard so far and I could complain to death about certain nitpicky issues. But the bottom line is they are doing a Transformers movie for the first time in 21 years. I really only ask for 2 basic things from the movie:

1. Keep the personalities and the voice quality of the characters I know and love in tact. And when I say voice quality I mean someone who sounds like the original characters, not necessarily the original voice actors, though that would rock whenever possible. Do that and I'll forgive them some weird character designs.

2. Remember that this movie is called The Transformers and not The Humans (who just happen to run into some Transformers). The reason I'm coming to the theater to see giant robots pound the slag out of each other...and Peter Cullen. Did I mention Peter Cullen?
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I'm definately going to see it, if only for Peter Cullen as Optimus Prime again. I have very mixed feelings on the stuff I've heard so far and I could complain to death about certain nitpicky issues. But the bottom line is they are doing a Transformers movie for the first time in 21 years. I really only ask for 2 basic things from the movie:

1. Keep the personalities and the voice quality of the characters I know and love in tact. And when I say voice quality I mean someone who sounds like the original characters, not necessarily the original voice actors, though that would rock whenever possible. Do that and I'll forgive them some weird character designs.

2. Remember that this movie is called The Transformers and not The Humans (who just happen to run into some Transformers). The reason I'm coming to the theater to see giant robots pound the slag out of each other...and Peter Cullen. Did I mention Peter Cullen?
Those are reasons enough. I guess if the Turtles became extremely out of character, I might b!tch about it (but it's rare, I kind of like seeing the Turtles out of character once in a while)

Megatron is supposed to be voiced by Hugo Weaving. What do you think about that? Think he can pull it off?

Also, I am having a distinct feeling that the humans will play first to the Transformers. I mean, that we will be looking at this movie from a human's point of view, not a Transformer.

Oh, I never was a Transformer fan before. Dont remember the cartoons at all, and never saw the movie of 1986, but because of this movie's thrilling trailer, I may become a fan now!

And I want a yellow Camaro now!
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Hugo will do fine, but it seems wrong to get Cullen but not Welker.

Just saw the new TV spot so I am pretty hyped at the moment, I'll admit. The CGI is looking awesome in that at least, so as long as it's got a decent story to go along with some good action I'll come away happy I think.

As for Camero, I love Bumblebee, he's my fave. Though I personally prefer him as a VW.
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Note to self. Never watch Plague Dogs then.

I think Watership Down was one of the most traumatizing films I ever saw as a kid. All those poor bunny rabbits. I'm still afraid to watch it again to this day. Was this movie even supposed to be aimed at kids? The books seems like it was written for teens or adults. How true is the book to the film for those of you that like it?
I have never watched the Plague Dogs movie, probably because I disliked the book so much.
However I am a big fan of Watership Down. (hense my screen name)
I loved the animated film, and it does stick very close to the book, but the book is so much better. A book can give so much more insite on characters, than a film can (in most cases) It is one of my favorites and I re-read it every year.
Richard Adams has wriitten several novels and I disliked every one of them, except Watership Down.

I don't think Watership Down was ever meant to be for kids. It deals with adult themes, in particalur the cold war. (Which the kids of today do not know a lot about) It fell into the kiddie trap, because it used cute little bunnies to tell the tale. Things are not always as they seem.

Read the book!!! It is a great story.
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