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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: THX on March 13, 2007, 07:15:09 AM
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This movie rocked. I wanted to do crunches right there in the theater, talk about testosterone overload. :fighting:
I recommend this one, will get you in the mood for GOW II :D
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I like to call it "600 Nipples"
I\'ll see it tonight. Wanted to avoid the teenagers on opening weekend.
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Not since gay porn have their been so many bulging biceps and ripped abdominals on the big screen at one time. Read that in a review of the movie.
I don\'t know what the critics are slamming this movie for, they are making it sound like it was supposed to be something more than mindless action. A lot of them seem like they were going into this thing expecting a historically accurate epic movie. It has a giant rhino and monsters in the trailers for god sakes!!!
I haven\'t seen it yet, i\'ll see it sometime before friday, and if I have to use my brain even once in this movie....well I will be pissed. More swords! more blood! more hunky dudes!
EDIT: Thats what i\'m talking about! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lW9gw5TwxE
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Yea, it\'s a great action movie but I want at least a little substance.
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agreed, although I\'d see it again in theaters (something I don\'t do often) it would have been nice if 1/5th of the movie focused on Leonaitus (sp?) turning from a boy into a soldier/man in the first person rather than a quick 5min synopsis in the 3rd. I think we would have had a better appreciation for the Spartan way of life and been more concerned with the outcome.
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Leonidas
Spartans prefer the company of sausages, but clams? Not so much.
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Going to see it at IMAX for my birthday.
Can\'t wait.
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It was O-K.
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i haven\'t seen this yet....but when i first saw the previews i thought this could have easily been a "god of war" movie, the themes and monsters & beasts within the previews that i\'ve seen looked great and going by the previews alone, i thought that this would be a good flick. i\'ll probably wait for dvd for this one tho.
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Gooooood movie.
Now I have to quote Leonidas whenever my wife asks what we\'re up to Friday night.
[SIZE="7"]Tonight.....we dine......[COLOR="Red"]AT HOME![/COLOR][/SIZE]
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i haven\'t seen this yet....but when i first saw the previews i thought this could have easily been a "god of war" movie, the themes and monsters & beasts within the previews that i\'ve seen looked great and going by the previews alone, i thought that this would be a good flick. i\'ll probably wait for dvd for this one tho.
LOL! Weren\'t you the one who loves "God of War" so much? So what does it take to get your ass to a movie theater?
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http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1598886,00.html?cnn=yes
this may be hard to believe, but Iranians are pissed off about this movie!
:eek:
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Aw, Iran is so cute.
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Iran is full of homos then. Their fearless leader looked like Ru Paul. :D
However...."Ayatollah" is a bad ass name. ;)
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WE ARE SPARTA!!!!!
IMO people underestimate the historical accuracy of this movie......sure the rhinos / monsters and the way the spartans fought was a little.......different, the events were basically right. At birth Spartan children were examined and if they had any defects they were tossed at that spot shown in the movie, they grew up training and at 7 entered the military. The scene where Leonidas went to the oracle (historically it was the oracle ar Delphi, dont know if this was the same as the movie) but got a little different messege but it was in the same area. As the movie said, it was 300 spartans with 7000ish other greeks. The group held off the persians and killed around 20,000 of them before, just as the movie had shown, the Persians were able to get behind them. One of my favorite scenes from the movie was when they launched the arrows at the Spartans, this actually happened and the arrows were ineffective because of the Spartan\'s armor.
One of my favorite movies in a while :)
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People "underestimated" the historical accuracy of the movie because it was...historically inaccurate. Sure the basics were there but the majority of the movie was pure fiction, which I have no problem with. I didn\'t expect it to be accurate.
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Ru Paul thought he was gonna get some Spartan ass for a minute there.....until Leo walked away. And when Ru Paul asked him to kneel before him...that was pure gold.
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IMO people underestimate the historical accuracy of this movie......sure the rhinos / monsters and the way the spartans fought was a little.......different, the events were basically right.
Whatever we understand about what ACTUALLY happened at Thermopylae comes from ancient greek historians like Herotodus. It is well understood that the earliest historians did not observe the same standards of objectivity and factuality that we do today. To make a point about how realistic this film is would therefore be ill advised. We will never know what actually happened. The movie can still be enjoyed strictly as an entertainment product.
If you are intrigued by the epigram recited as a voiceover near the end of 300, you might want to seek out a relatively unknown film that draws a parallel between this battle and the Vietnam war. It\'s entitled "Go Tell The Spartans" and it features Burt Landcaster and Craig Wasson. It\'s pretty good actually. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077617/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077617/)
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LOL! Weren\'t you the one who loves "God of War" so much? So what does it take to get your ass to a movie theater?
heh...tru no doubt..i plan on getting god of war 2 very soon....as far as getting me to the movies, the only movies i really go to the movies for are horror joints, even then they have to be kinda good, or look really interesting in the previews....as good as this movie looks i\'ll probably just wait and enjoy it in my living room, when it comes out on dvd....
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waiting on the Blu-Ray version
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^^^heh leave it to mm to keep me updated on the latest and greatest...now let me rephrase..."as good as this movie looks, i\'ll probably wait and enjoy it in my living room when it comes out on Blu-Ray!"...;)....hopefully i\'ll have a ps3 by then...:(
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The only thing that can get clips to the cinema is interracial porn. :p
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:)
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:laughing:
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That might of been the funniest thing I ever read...regardless of truthiness.
I\'m in a computer lab at school quietly laughing my ass off.
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LMAO
Coredweller are you serious you didnt do that
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Fred, I think he got it from another site ;)
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Yeah, someone else wrote that. Did that sound like me? LOL
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Yeah, someone else wrote that. Did that sound like me? LOL
Well you do love lesbians...
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Haha, that\'s part awesome and part disturbing. Mostly awesome. :D
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i thought the movie was about bowlers
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I saw it.
I thought it was a cool movie, a definite popcorn flick.
You know the executioner dude? With 2 blades on his hands?
Why didn\'t they send him out, he looked rugged.
And by rugged, I mean kind of sexy at the same time...
;)
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I watched this yesterday. Parts of the movie were particularly bad ass. Pretty cool. I probably would\'ve liked it better with less fantasy, but it was good.
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haha
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i liked the movie a lot
but one random thought for those that watched it (hopefully the spoiler tag works)
***SPOILER****
[spoiler=Click Here!]i think the mystical stuff like the rhinos was just exagerations from the dude telling the story. Might be stating something that everyone knows, if so, my bad. But my friend didnt think of it that way. One thing that personally got old was the slow motion fighting, but thatd be nitpicking[/spoiler]
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LMAO
Coredweller Doesnt matter i was laughing my ass off, i saw the movie friday. There were only 10 other people there but i thought the movie was spectacular.
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Indeed, it was a thrilling experience. Loved every minute of it (insert gay jokes here).
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Check them out, before they get taken down.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTXwXKmjtkg - First fight scene
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1S4Q34BlMk - Second fight scene. Spartans vs Immortals.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABB9uWTr-Z4 - Third fight scene. Blood drunk.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vACFJ30N9E - Final fight scene.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qK_rYxmPLJI - 300 ending. 10,000 Spartans.
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Just finished watching the PAL DVD(yes a leaked dvd is out) and overall it was entertaining.
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The ending scene was pretty wild. I really thought this was one of the better films i have seen in a long time.
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I think i might go see it at the cinema before it leaves a second time
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I was gonna go today and see it again, but i was to tired. So i will go thursday
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i saw it twice already, would even see it again which would tie w/ dumb & dumber for most # of times i saw a movie in a theater. :p
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I almost watched it a second time in Imax. I\'ve never watched a movie there before. But it was sold out up to the midnight showing on the day that I went.
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I saw the origal star wars 17 times. caught things i missed every time.
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To bad they took down all the clips here
I wanted to save them before they dissapeared
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Yeah :( they were up for longer than I expected tho
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I ve seen the movie a few weeks ago.
Loved the art direction but in terms of history it was a disgrace.
Too many historical mistakes and too many exaggerations.
I also disliked how the Persians were presented as barbarians, corrupted savages and monstrosities when in reality they had one of the oldest and most glorious ancient civilizations
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I ve seen the movie a few weeks ago.
Loved the art direction but in terms of history it was a disgrace.
Too many historical mistakes and too many exaggerations.
I also disliked how the Persians were presented as barbarians, corrupted savages and monstrosities when in reality they had one of the oldest and most glorious ancient civilizations
Historical accuracy was the last thing this movie was going for. I don\'t get why people don\'t understand that Frank Miller was simply inspired by the battle of thermopalye and everything else came from his imagination.
Thats why it had rhinos 10 times their normal size, a troll / cyclopse thing, a dude with swords for arms, Electric guitar rock rift playing during the fight scenes and nine inch nails playing in the trailers.
Its a comic book movie.
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It\'s historically accurate. Rhinos were bigger then.
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it\'s probably a coincidence that whenever those exaggerated animals/characters came on screen, the guy re-telling the story to the people was talking while it was going on......
interesting...
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It\'s historically accurate. Rhinos were bigger then.
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Historical accuracy was the last thing this movie was going for. I don\'t get why people don\'t understand that Frank Miller was simply inspired by the battle of thermopalye and everything else came from his imagination.
Thats why it had rhinos 10 times their normal size, a troll / cyclopse thing, a dude with swords for arms, Electric guitar rock rift playing during the fight scenes and nine inch nails playing in the trailers.
Its a comic book movie.
I know it was based on a comic book and personally I believe it should have remeained a comic book.
I dont care if Frank Miller was inspired by it and made a fantasy comic based on it. I take such creations seriously.
He could have given credit to both civilizations, show their real character and at the same time use his imagination.
The exaggerations isnt necessarilly the imagination. But how he used that imagination. He alienated the civilizations completely. He could have kept the rhinos, he could have kept Ephialtis\'s appearance since ephialtis in English is translated to Nightmare and to show his corrupted, disgusting mind and treachery, as well as other imaginary elements without completely destroying their character.
But his "imagination" went out of proportion, presenting a false impression of each civilization and such alterations in history are a "sacrilege" to human history. There was almost nothing "Greek" or "Persian" in either sides
Most importantly he failed to depict the glory of each civilization, he failed to transmit their virtues and even some important events were completely taken out or misused. It looked like another attempt to commercialize culture and hisory in order to sell and shows no respect to the historical event.
Historical inaccuracy wasnt refering to the "imaginative" part either. But the events themselves. For example the fight inside the thermopyles was what made that particular event so much known in books. Yet Leonidas\' strategy wasnt succesfully shown and neither did the fight occure inside the thermopyles other than a few moments in the beginning. Also what annoyied me was that there was no use of his words "Molon Lave\' ". It was translated to "come and get us", which completely loses the power of the ancient saying which is important. The translation makes it sound like a commonly used line in thousands of cliche\' movies.
What the hell happened to Xerxis?
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That movie reminded me sometimes of the Xena and the Hercules series.
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Look how cool my new avatar is.
Fucking right.
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Uni you do know that exaggerations in the story were explained by the in-movie narrator exaggerating the tale to impress the others, right?
Also, by your logic he could have taken the opportunity to create a historical reenactment of the U.S. Civil War. He could\'ve done anything. But he made a fantasy movie.
You\'re weird with what you get stubborn about.
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Uni you do know that exaggerations in the story were explained by the in-movie narrator exaggerating the tale to impress the others, right?
Also, by your logic he could have taken the opportunity to create a historical reenactment of the U.S. Civil War. He could\'ve done anything. But he made a fantasy movie.
You\'re weird with what you get stubborn about.
This is truth.
Now I don\'t have 4 paragraphs written up to debate you Uni so i\'ll just say this.
Its a comic book movie. I have no idea what you were expecting. If you watched a single trailer about the movie then you would know what you were going into.
The history channel did a nice documentary called "The Last Stand of the 300". Perhaps that would of been something more tuned to your enjoyment.
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I really don\'t know about the historical significance, i just enjoyed the movie
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Well that\'s why it was made... it\'s not a documentary and by no means is it supposed to be. It\'s just a cool, violent, homo erotic extravaganza.
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Uni you do know that exaggerations in the story were explained by the in-movie narrator exaggerating the tale to impress the others, right?
i only said that shit twice lol
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Yeas i hear you but still enjoyed it non the less
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Yeah Fred, that was the cool part. :)
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damn..uni, whatever happened to enjoying the movie for what it is?...strickly entertainment...
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Wow Uni...that is one awesome bash. At least you know what you\'re talking about. I still enjoyed the movie, though. But I know when you\'re a fan of something and it isn\'t what you expected, it can be pretty friggin\' annoying. And yeah..Xerxis was pretty flaming. TITan could\'ve played that part equally well. ;)
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Uni dood, i think you\'re looking way to deep into this movie. It\'s a fictional movie based on non-fiction events. It was never meant to be a documentary on Sparta. Take it for what i is, a action movie.
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Uni, when the Persians demanded they drop their weapons, Leonidas replied
"Come Get it."
He didn\'t say "Come get us".
I didn\'t enjoy "Alexander" but I sure as hell enjoyed 300. Despite it\'s inaccuracies. There were some truths: the Spartan elders didn\'t want all of their armies to fight since it was so close to some Spartan holy week or some sort.
Xerxes may have been a great leader to the Persians and was responsible for releasing the enslaved Israelites....but he was still the one who invaded Greece. So the hell with his great civilization. Sparta was Sparta. What else did you want to see? The ass fucking of the queen was good enough. :D
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This is truth.
Now I don\'t have 4 paragraphs written up to debate you Uni so i\'ll just say this.
Its a comic book movie. I have no idea what you were expecting. If you watched a single trailer about the movie then you would know what you were going into.
The history channel did a nice documentary called "The Last Stand of the 300". Perhaps that would of been something more tuned to your enjoyment.
I agree with you about the comic book movie thing and I was kind of expecting it. I must say that I was even excited about the trailer too. The thing is also expected other things as well apart from what I ve sen, as a respect to both civilizations and the historical event.
But after I saw the movie I thought that it apart from the inclusion of imaginination(which is fine by me) everything else wasnt done right. The implementation of his imagination and the depiction of the story atleast for me should have been different and better.
Since I take such historical events seriously I am easier annoyied when they are being used in some ways only to sell.
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Seriously, I wasn\'t kidding. If you can find the History channel show "The Last Stand of the 300" I know you would enjoy it.
They focused on all aspects of that war. Not just thermopylae but Themistocles and how he was in charge of the greek navy that day and how his success was essential to the success at thermopylae.
Also the greek culture that you spoke of, Sparta\'s in particular. They also go into depths about why Xerces was attacking in the first place.
Was good stuff, I really enjoyed it.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-sfqRIaFm4
:rofl: :rofl:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi2t58CRmbU
:rofl:
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Lol very funny movies
Seriously, I wasn\'t kidding. If you can find the History channel show "The Last Stand of the 300" I know you would enjoy it.
They focused on all aspects of that war. Not just thermopylae but Themistocles and how he was in charge of the greek navy that day and how his success was essential to the success at thermopylae.
Also the greek culture that you spoke of, Sparta\'s in particular. They also go into depths about why Xerces was attacking in the first place.
Was good stuff, I really enjoyed it.
I dont get History Channel unfortunately :(
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Wanted to see it again today, unfortunately they moved it to the 7pm showing. Meaning it doesnt have much longer to go in the cinema, ended up seeing. The pathfinder, legend of the ghost warrior that was a pretty good movie.
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i dont mind it getting dropped from the cinema soon. want the damn movie on dvd now.
I think its going to take a little while though. But iv noticed that dvd\'s come out super fast now..the departed and children of men were on dvd in no time. I remember having to wait forever for dvd\'s to come out..so long that id forget the movie existed and that i wanted it on dvd.
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get a ps3 you can get it on bluray ;)
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One of the best trailers yet:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-u9SzVdVGI
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Viper check out
dvdverdict.com has a pretty good list of upcoming movies. Plus cover art
Ghost rider is coming out june 12th
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Sammy your friggin insane
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haha. The cannon ball part was hilarious.
dumb question, and i hope clowd doesnt see this, but will 300 only be on blu-ray or will it on hd-dvd too? 300 would almost convince me to get the hd-dvd 360 addon..if not, looks like ill get it when all the good games for ps3 come out and end up getting one
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Ghost rider is coming out june 12th
You\'d have to pay me to take that DVD.
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haha. The cannon ball part was hilarious.
dumb question, and i hope clowd doesnt see this, but will 300 only be on blu-ray or will it on hd-dvd too? 300 would almost convince me to get the hd-dvd 360 addon..if not, looks like ill get it when all the good games for ps3 come out and end up getting one
Since it\'s warner nerds on AVS are speculating it will be Total HD, meaning both blu-ray and HD-DVD on the same disc. Space is lost and quality suffers, so we hate it by default.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Hi_Def
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My department hates the home video department. Bunch of useless idiots. I had to end up doing some of their work because they lost track of things.
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That\'s fascinating, Phil. Tell us more..
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Viper im sure it will be on blu ray disc
Oh well phil, i personally enjoyed the movie