Greatest Movie Ever!!!

I am not sure Napoleon was ever really himself after the Russian campaign. What he expected after his victory at Borodino and what really turned out was very different. Expecting the Russians to surrender only having them chase him all the way back to France may have put some doubt in his mind. Maybe that doubt is what affected his decisions at a place like Waterloo. I know in sports that if you loose your confidence it can be hard to get back. I imagine the same could be said about war generals. Just a thought. Enjoyed the post.

@Muuzza671:

hmm……ok maybe too long.  XD

To long, comrade.

Lewis is my favorite actor ( living), he can do no wrong in any movie. Lincoln gets my vote

If you listen to him in his natural voice, it’s almost impossible that he can be any of the characters he portrays.

@Gargantua:

“butter scraped over too much bread” scenario

I think you mean too much butter scraped over too little bread. :)

Well, yes, perhaps that is better. But Bilbo’s quote works just as well if we assume the original story is the butter and PJs movie the script/film.
Either way… you get it.

@Gargantua:

Regardless, it can’t be as bad as the cartoon/semi-real LOTR movies from the 80’s lol…

Tru dat.

I think i figured it would be gory or scary, but due to the utter contrived nonsense, it became something of a comedy. The problem is this was not the intention or was it?

I can suspend belief when watching the Three Stooges because they are trying to be funny. It is deliberate. This was like what they did in “Not another teen movie”

When a movie gets so ridiculously contrived that it becomes a self parody and that was never the intention and the actors are not cracking jokes and it turns into a Filipino vampire style movie that you might see on mystery science theater 3000, THEN it becomes either the biggest letdown or pure comedy. Something like Trilogy of Terror had a genuine quality of putting the viewer on edge because the plot did not try to emulate a Wile E. Coyote cartoon complete with uber mega-contrived roadrunner traps. To me it became a spoof like Plan 9 from outer space, except whoever made it figured they were actually scarring people, rather than make them laugh. It went way beyond any dignity that could be covered under “suspension of belief”

Probably why so many of those comedy spoofs use it as a plot device like scary movie. It became the joke of comedies like Freddy Krugger and sold more Pepsi.

What would have been great if they got somebody like Curly and they put him into one of these mutilation machines, and the saw just broke apart trying to saw off his head. That would have been a fitting scene in that movie. Or they could have redone the scene where they pull teeth and done this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcELyKkOAak&feature=related

or this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jocRd-aajW0&feature=related

A game mocumentary similar to the interfamous Fear of Girls, ABTWV6 chronicles one man’s attempts to get people to play the game he invented.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB9S1XuEwrU&feature=channel_page

they werent.  but the library of alexandria had a lot of monks, priests, and other laymen all over that place.  if they wanted to save some stuff they could have, and probably did, but let the rest burn.

so no-one has read ismael, my ishmeal, or the story of B?

Yeah, the all tanks go on land and all ships go on water come especially handy when you’re too drunk to play. :smile: