Favorite movies books bands etc
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Topic: Favorite movies books bands etc
Posted By: Skaka
Subject: Favorite movies books bands etc
Date Posted: 05 December 2007 at 5:04pm
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In the interest of getting to know you folks better I decided to start this thread where we could post our fav movies/books/bands and whatever. I'll go 1st :P Movies: Lion King Full Metal Jacket Aliens (all) The Chronicles of Riddick & Pitch Black The Forgoten Books: Anything except the Da Vinci code. I hate that book with a passion. Tolkien is cool. Bands: Zeromancer, Rammstein, E Nomine, Tenacious D, AC/DC, Metallica, and allmost all trance ^^ & Bloodhound Gang ------------- Ars longa, vita brevis. |
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Posted By: leel
Date Posted: 05 December 2007 at 5:31pm
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why do you not like the Da Vinci Code? I found it to be quite a page-turner.
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Posted By: Skaka
Date Posted: 05 December 2007 at 5:38pm
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Well exactly that to be honest. It's a book that rides on keeping the reader in the dark in order for them to be interested. But then the plot just didn't grab me becuase it gets to a point where it becomes kind of obvious what the author is doing. And also the characters for a large part are 2-dimensional and everyone in the entire book 'grins' every 10 seconds. </rant> ------------- Ars longa, vita brevis. |
Posted By: skamocore
Date Posted: 05 December 2007 at 5:42pm
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Ya...I agree with Leel...I liked it ... http://www.last.fm/user/skamocore/charts/?charttype=overall&subtype=artist - Bands |
Posted By: Skaka
Date Posted: 05 December 2007 at 5:44pm
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Idk just becuase everyone else made such a huge deal out of nothing, other, better authors get pushed into obscurity. But this thread isn't for that post yer fav bands and movies etc! ------------- Ars longa, vita brevis. |
Posted By: leel
Date Posted: 05 December 2007 at 5:50pm
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It was too movie thriller-y with a cliffhanger in every chapter, a bit cheesy at times, but it was still an exciting story line though. At least in my opinion. ------------- |
Posted By: Monkey 'o Doom
Date Posted: 05 December 2007 at 7:27pm
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Movies: Star Wars, especially Episodes IV-VI and I, The Princess Bride Books: I'm a serious SF fan; the classic authors like Asimov, Wells, and Heinlen were brilliant writers (Stranger From a Strange Land was crazy good), and there are a lot of good things coming out these days too. I tend to dislike historical fiction, though I'm not yet sure specifically why. I find short stories very appealing, and SF anthologies are some of my favorite books. And The Gods Laughed may be my favorite collection to date; it's either that or Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Treasury. Oh, cruds. I almost forgot The Stars My Destination. The protagonist in that book is awesome, the premise is sweet, and I love it to death. Why don't I have my own copy? D:
Music: I can't identify with rap, and country has a few gems but a lot of trash. Rock is my main genre, but some pop songs are great, and classical is always nice. Elevator music is good too, when you're too high-strung and need to relax. Most new music is trash, too; Queen and the Beatles are some of my favorite bands, and I love quite a few of the songs from the Katamari Damacy series soundtracks. Parodies and original songs by Weird Al are usually good, as well. ------------- http://pixelmonkey.ensellitis.com"> 
RPG is numberwang. |
Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 05 December 2007 at 8:08pm
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Movies: Silent Ones Books: Hand Written Ones Music: Barbershop Quartets ------------- |
Posted By: Pixel_Outlaw
Date Posted: 05 December 2007 at 8:44pm
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Movies: Tron, Hackers, Yellow Submarine, The Importance of Being Earnest
Books: OpenGL Programming Guide-The Official Guide to Learning
Music: The Beatles, Clapton, Led Zepplin, The Who, REO Speedwagon, Jefferson Starship, The Eagles, The Byrds, The Mommas and the Pappas, Boston, Pink Floyd, Bad Company, Bee Gees, ABBA, BTO, CCR, Cheap Trick, Blondie, The Police, Crosby Stills and Nash, Dave Clark Five, Deep Purple, Steppinwolf, Enio Morricone, Gordon Lightfoot, The Kinks, Buffalo Springfield, Rush, Strawberry Alarm Clock, The Doors, Van Morrison, Foreigner, Yes! That is all I can think of for now. I love me the hippie musics and 70's rock and disco.
Music from my generation is pathetic. Mmm disco goes down smooth, I should post some youtube vids of me cutting a mean rug.
 I read programming books like novels. I really enjoy them. The only "classic" I ever liked was Moby Dick. I think killing a whale with a harpoon makes for a manly man. ------------- http://www.shmup-dev.com/forum/"> 
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Posted By: spartan_117
Date Posted: 05 December 2007 at 9:23pm
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Movies: Nightmare before christmas, The Net, Mothman prophecies, Leon (a few more). Music: Rammstein, Eminem (some), Halo OST  Books: Art of War- Sun Tzu , Most Edgar Allen Poe poems and short stories. ------------- |
Posted By: pixelblink
Date Posted: 05 December 2007 at 9:33pm
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Movies: Brazil, Time Bandits, Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Swingers, Magnolia, The Thing, Shower, ... really the list goes on - I love movies and own quite a bit. Some classics and some cheesy as hell. Music: alot of breakbeats, dirty house, some rock here and there. Lately: Meat Katie, Krafty Kuts, Plump DJs, Radiohead, Linkin Park, Van Morrison. Books: Gotta say I did like The DaVinci Code.. but I enjoyed Angels and Demons alot more. Others include The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho and Otherland by Tad Williams. I've also been reintroduced into graphic novels lately. Promethea by Alan Moore was a dense metaphysical journey I quite liked. Also check out Preacher, DMZ, Ex Machina, and Alan Moore's Swamp Thing. |
Posted By: Hatch
Date Posted: 05 December 2007 at 10:00pm
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Hehe, someone sure likes Terry Gilliam! Brazil is one of my favorite movies as well, but The Seven Samurai comes first.
Books: I enjoy pretty much any non-fiction. The geek in me especially loves anything about theoretical physics. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid is real desert island material. Music: Recently I've been listening to Hank Williams (the first), Coldcut, Grand Buffet, Toecutter, Neil Young and Nina Simone. It changes a lot from day to day. ------------- |
Posted By: Pixel_Outlaw
Date Posted: 05 December 2007 at 10:02pm
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Originally posted by Hatch
Books: I enjoy pretty much any non-fiction. The geek in me especially loves anything about theoretical physics. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal . Have you read any of Michio Kaku's work? I've been meaning to read them. ------------- http://www.shmup-dev.com/forum/">
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Posted By: pixelblink
Date Posted: 05 December 2007 at 10:11pm
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Originally posted by Hatch Hehe, someone sure likes Terry Gilliam! Brazil is one of my favorite movies as well, but The Seven Samurai comes first. I like some of his later work too but it's alot of hit and miss. He regained my faith in him with Tideland (even though it didn't get much rave). Seven Samurai is definitely in my fave list too, just not at the top. Akira Kurosawa was a master of his craft for sure. Also got to mention I love most if not all James Stewart movies, especially when combined with the talents of Alfred Hitchcock. |
Posted By: sputnik
Date Posted: 06 December 2007 at 12:42am
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Quickpicks...
Movie The Bourne Trilogy Books The Moscow Vector Band Frenzal Rhomb ------------- 
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Posted By: Metaru
Date Posted: 06 December 2007 at 1:21am
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Movies: I'm truly fond of all Sci-Fi and Action movies. specially when they are combined. Alien, Blade Runner, Terminator, Star Wars, Starship Troopers, Ronin, The Professional, Atlantis(I quite like the artwork of that movie)(?), SteamBoy, and others as well. Books: I do not read anything that I do not have to(by this i mean all these texts that i have to read for my language lessons). lame, but true. but it doesn't mean that I've enjoyed some readings in the past like 100 years of solitude and some short stories by Julio Cortazar. Bands: Minibosses maybe... but nah. I do not listen anything genre in special, rather i pick a bot of everything ------------- I ate leel's babies |
Posted By: Skaka
Date Posted: 06 December 2007 at 2:47am
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With you on the sci-fi action Metaru especially Starship Troopers (I hear the book was better but I don't know.). Saw allot of people mention the SW movies...I dunno I liked them as a kid but ep 2 and 3 especially were kak. I like one the becuase Darth Maul is teh pwnz. ------------- Ars longa, vita brevis. |
Posted By: Elwin
Date Posted: 06 December 2007 at 4:53am
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Movies: Scary movie 3 and Pirates of the caribean 1. The funniest movies EVER! Books: Harry Potter, The lord of the rings, the hobbit, silmarillion, narnia, the da vinci code. Bands: Breaking Benjamin. |
Posted By: Metaru
Date Posted: 06 December 2007 at 5:10am
on what parallel unviverse can Scary Movie 3 be considered as "funny"?  @Skaka: I've read that there was a CG TV Show that was quite popular and good... about the book, I'm not interested. oh yes, Has someone read a book Called Snowcrash? I think dogmeat did... ------------- I ate leel's babies |
Posted By: Elwin
Date Posted: 06 December 2007 at 5:24am
| xD What do you mean? I think it's fun ^^ |
Posted By: greenraven
Date Posted: 06 December 2007 at 6:10am
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Originally posted by Monkey 'o Doom The Princess Bride I am Indigo Montoya, you have killed my father, prepare to die! ZOMG that never gets old.  Books: Dune, Shadowrun, Tekwars, Flash Gordon Movies: Dune, Blade Runner, Adventures in the Forbidden Zone, Evil Dead, Flash Gordon, The Never Ending Story, Braveheart, The Last Samurai Music: Metallica, Smashing Pumpkins, Eiffel 65, Daft Punk I'm sure there's more, but that's all I could think of this early in the morning. -------------  "pwnage comes with patience, practice and planning." ~ Jalonso 
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Posted By: Skaka
Date Posted: 06 December 2007 at 8:53am
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Anybody like Hitch hiker's guide to the galaxy? I thought it was awesome. I was also really into Asterix and Obelix a few years back...
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Posted By: thesalus
Date Posted: 06 December 2007 at 11:14am
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Inigo Montoya. :p Best fantasy series: the Malazan Book of the Fallen |
Posted By: soda
Date Posted: 06 December 2007 at 2:26pm
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Movies: Children of Men, Gangs of New York, Green Street Hooligans, 300 (of course). Lots.
Books: Cell, The Giver, Rumble Fish. Ugh, to many. Music: Frou Frou (Imogen Heap), Dead Kennedys, Ugh, to many. ------------- 
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Posted By: Metaru
Date Posted: 06 December 2007 at 4:26pm
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Originally posted by greenraven Evil Dead f**k, how I could forget that one  ------------- I ate leel's babies |
Posted By: Skaka
Date Posted: 06 December 2007 at 4:29pm
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Ditto. That boomstick scene is the best. ------------- Ars longa, vita brevis. |
Posted By: tuaarita
Date Posted: 07 December 2007 at 8:20am
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Movies: Kung Fu Hustle (vucking kills me)
Bands: Lamb Of God & Matisyahu (total opposites) Books: I dont do books ::) ------------- I'm running in the desert, running in to the sun, running out of blood and I'm going numb. |
Posted By: leel
Date Posted: 07 December 2007 at 2:52pm
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Originally posted by Skaka Anybody like Hitch hiker's guide to the galaxy? mmm i just finished reading the complete collection a month or so ago. 1st book was fantastic, 2nd was pretty funny, 3rd was completely pointless, 4th was pretty good, 5th was like 'wtf' but in a good way.. by the end I decided to forgive the poinlessness of the third book, because the end tied it together pretty well and I was satisfied. ------------- |
Posted By: Skaka
Date Posted: 07 December 2007 at 3:42pm
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Wait what? There's more than one?
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Posted By: leel
Date Posted: 07 December 2007 at 4:38pm
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6 actually. I got http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9780517226957&itm=1 - this as a graduation present. It's pretty hilarious :D ------------- |
Posted By: Skaka
Date Posted: 07 December 2007 at 5:41pm
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Nice I'm gonna have to get that, no where did I hide my secret money stash? Hmm... On a different note who like Shaolin Soccer? Made by the same dudes as Kung Fu hustle it's awesome ;] Ps. Bruce Lee is the most awesome martial artist to ever be in film. God I love kung fu flicks. ------------- Ars longa, vita brevis. |
Posted By: greenraven
Date Posted: 07 December 2007 at 5:49pm
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Then I'm sure you've seen Kung Fu? After all, everybody likes kung fu fighting... their firsts were fast as lightning...
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Posted By: Skaka
Date Posted: 07 December 2007 at 6:55pm
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Ah yes. I remember all these awesome Kung Fu flicks but not the names which sucks nuts :/
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Posted By: 5L1V3R
Date Posted: 01 January 2008 at 10:44am
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Movies:
Star Wars (all except Episode I)
the Bourne Identity series
Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Pirates of the Carribean (The original one)
Dodgeball
Cable Guy
Books:
Dr. Suess
Bands:
Nirvana Rise Against
Sunny Day Real Estate
Foo Fighters
Thursday
thats about it
to be continued
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Posted By: volcom
Date Posted: 04 January 2008 at 5:38pm
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I don't know...I love the Pendragon book series, i know they are 4rth grade lvl but they are awesome! For bands lots...i used to like Fall Out Boy lots...but not so much anymore. Movie would have to be Blades of Glory, it rocks (the most halarious thing i've seen). ------------- <WHERE AN OBAMANATION> |
Posted By: Monkey 'o Doom
Date Posted: 04 January 2008 at 6:14pm
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Sliver, why do you like SW episodes II and III but not I? ------------- http://pixelmonkey.ensellitis.com">
RPG is numberwang. |
Posted By: Metaru
Date Posted: 05 January 2008 at 8:38pm
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because no one likes Episode I. or at least, no one admits it.
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Posted By: MyOvenisEvil
Date Posted: 06 February 2008 at 6:09am
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Movies:
The lord of the rings
The Jason Bourne series
Super Bad
Nacho Libre
Sånger från andra våningen (Swedish movie)
Books:
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
The discworld series by Terry Pratchett
Bands:
Kent Dead Poetic
Underoath
Portishead
36Crazyfists
Architects
Blindside
Death Cab for Cutie
Copeland
Venetian Snarez
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Posted By: Mille
Date Posted: 10 February 2008 at 3:15pm
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Movies: im not that much into movies. I liked a lot Pulp Fiction, Fight Club and things like that. Books: i just dont read books, only books I read were Lord of the rings and H2G2. My favorite comics are Donjon (by Sfar/Trondheim), the latest works of Enki Bilal, Calvin and Hobbes is just great too. Bands: I mostly listen to the Stooges, the Sex pistols, Nina Hagen, L7, Klaus Nomi, Bikini Kill, David Bowie, Syd Barrett (a little bit of the Pink Floyds without Barrett too, but theyre a so freakin less good without him), Lou Reed, Bérurier Noir, the Who, Nino Rota, Jimi Hendrix, Franck Zappa, Ennio Morricone, Bob Marley. |