I hope for the day when they distribute the comics here in India at an affordable price. And Marvel prints, none of that Gotham Comics reprint crap.
- Rahul Das
any movie with a twist ending is never as good the second time around - Saw, Sixth Sense, Seven, Fight Club - they're all still great movies, but nothing compares to that first time having your mind blown by a plot shift so significant...
- Nathan Chase
Independence day. I never liked any of the older Batman movies.
- Michael Fidler
The first time I saw The Matrix Reloaded it blew my mind. Only on a second and third viewing did I realize that it had no plot whatsoever!
- Rahul Das
"Is it not true that inconsiderate use of creation begins where God is marginalized or also where is existence is denied? If the human creature’s relationship with the Creator weakens, matter is reduced to egoistic possession, man becomes the “final authority,” and the objective of existence is reduced to a feverish race to possess the most possible."
- Alejandro
from Bookmarklet
Yeah, and who encourages people to "be fruitful and multiply and fill the Earth", which is the major reason for these problems, anyway? :)
- Jemm
"feverish race to possess the most possible". That's real precious coming from the chief proselytizer.
- Adi
A few centuries ago and they would have been blaming other religions. Nowadays they can only put the blame on atheists to be politically correct.
- Rahul Das
"Good Magazine have been quietly championing infographics and visual information in their ‘Transparency’ section for a few years now. Many of their images are America-centric. But a lot highlight global concerns."
- Rahul Das
from Bookmarklet
Hmmm... Access to computer unlikely soon. No matter. I got an English translation of the Quran, agraphic novel on the love between Eros and Psyche (of Roman myth), a book called FREEDOM FROM THE KNOWN by J.Krishnamurti, and Salman Rushdie's HAROON AND THE SEA OF STORIES.
- Vijayendra (V-Mo) Mohanty
from fftogo
The graphic novel sounds interesting. Do you have a title. I want to see if it's available here.
- Anika
"92 years ago today, Jack Kirby was born, and the worlds of sci-fi, fantasy and entertainment would never be the same. Here are just some of the characters he created, and reasons why he was called the King of Comics."
- Rahul Das
from Bookmarklet
"No one knows what causes these long, strange tube-shaped clouds? No one is sure. known as a Morning Glory cloud can stretch 1,000 kilometers long and occur at altitudes up to two kilometers high."
- Rahul Das
from Bookmarklet
"The t-shirt below (currently the logo on the Pirate Bay homepage) will be sent to the people responsible for the takedown attempt tomorrow morning, the Pirate Bay insider told TorrentFreak."
- Rahul Das
from Bookmarklet
that's why the Pirate Bay is inimitable!
- Rahul Das
1) Go to the random number generator http://www.random.org 2) Get a number between 1 and 100,000. 3) Paste the number into Google Images. What's the first image you get?
wouldn't use it they charged... the majority of you wouldn't have either... you say you would now.. but if they had asked, most of you would kick off....
- Rob Sellen :o)
BEX, I love how your profile bit says "I can kick your ass!" :) Not only do I believe that 100%, but I also think it might be enjoyable for some reason.
- Josh Haley
I'm sure that I could get a little whimper out of you ;)
- BEX
Yep, I was right. I'll be in my bunk.
- Josh Haley
I love how cats pose when initmidated with admirers- not this one though - and hey we are looking through lens of 2nd order paparazi (paparazi of paparazi !!!)
- Rahul Deodhar
نمي دونم حرفامو مي فهمي رفيق يا نه ولي خيلي جالبه
- ramezanifar
This is my most "liked" picture to date, I believe. Long live the LOLcat!
- Josh Haley
Ronin for sure, follwoed closely by the fight/chase scene in Matrix Revolution.
- Anika
Surprisingly, for someone who likes car chases, I don't recall them too well. The most recent ones that come to mind are the racing scenes in Fast & Furious and the freeway attack/kidnapping in The Kingdom
- LANjackal
I love the fact that the credits of The Blues Brothers lists 273 stunt drivers
- Glen Campbell, B.A.
I'd have to say "Bullet" & "Ronin" are tide in my mind for best chase scene.
- Bluesun 2600
Mustang vs.Charger, with Steve McQueen as Bullitt, is tops in my book!
- CJ Guest
Just watched Ronin on Youtube, Umm!! kinda lacks action when compared to Matrix Reloaded but never seen that kinda driving before!! Hard to choose between Ronin and Matrix Reloaded though, it's girl on bike v/s girl on the wheel. I say Trinity (in that shiny leather outfit) beats the blonde.
- mridul
for the record: Ronin is REAL bad ass skilled driving, Matrix Reloaded is mostly CG crap! record book closed :)
- Marco
Ronin followed by the original Italian Job (http://www.youtube.com/watch...) Something about mini coopers jumping from rooftop to rooftop that is just awesome :)
- Robert DeBord
Sorry, but you're all wrong :). This is the best car chase ever shot http://www.youtube.com/watch.... 9 minutes, one single take, no speeding up, no special effects, no blocked street, excessively dangerous and perfectly illegal. It's also an amazing tour of Paris. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... for more.
- Jérôme Flipo
every time this question comes up, i am the only person who mentions the jetcar/bike chase at the end of "THX-1138." :-)
- Karim
another vote for Ronin... either one of the 2 car chase scenes in that one edge out French Connection.
- Jim Hearts FF
If you didn't click my link, Jeremy Clarkson said C'était un Rendez-vous "makes Bullitt look like a cartoon". Now, go watch it and let me know your new opinion :) http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Jérôme Flipo
yeah Matrix Reloaded, Ronin, and Bourne series all have some excellent chases. I haven't seen Bullit or French Connection YET. Hear good things.
- Nathan Chase
While 'C'etait un Rendez vous' isn't strictly a movie chase scene, it's a great drive. My vote is for Ronin though. It's pretty much what you think of when you think of modern car chases.
- Will Higgins™
I hate to say this because the movie itself is absolutely terrible but.. The scene in Bad Boys where the cars are flipping over the Ferrari.. OMGWTFBBQ.. I think CGI is the way to go with car chases..
- Can Koklu
French Connection, Ronin, Bourne movie had a decent one.
- David J Lowe
The Bourne Identity had the best one IMHO, though the one in Bourne Supremacy came close to beating it. Ronin was fantastic too. Michael Bay puts together some entertaining ones, even if they are over the top - the chases in The Rock, Bad Boys, and Bad Boys 2 are definitely fun to watch.
- Eric P
The Dark Knight "prisoner transport" chase was pretty awesome.
- Steve Lynch
from twhirl
The chase scene from Bullit is great. The chase scene with the crane smashing through buildings from Terminator 3 is a fave as well.
- Jeremy Brooks
Great thread, gonna have to go back and watch a few movies. By the way, the horse chase in first Lord of the Rings was quite good :)
- jcunwired
Blues Brothers hands down. Winnebago in a lake, police car lands INSIDE a semi, 20+ police car pile-up, army helicopters, nazis, what else do you need?!
- Peter Ghosh
Blues Brothers & French Connection are tied in my mind for best, but I love the chase scene in "Day Watch" as well.
- Jennifer Dittrich
So which Ronin chase is better, the Audi / Citroen / Mercedes chase or the BMW / Peugeot one later in the movie?
- Andrew Leyden
The ladder fight in Once Upon a Time in China and Neo vs Agent Smith X100 in Matrix 2 are both great fights but Ong-Bak has the best fight scenes i have ever seen.
- Steve
I would have said the Matrix, but the scenes were just too CGI. I would say the Bourne Trilogy again for some intense action. Special mention to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Hero.
- Travis Koger
from iPhone
The Bourne movies. Amazing tension for two straight hours. You feel drained, and that music! To die for!
- Rick Cogley
maximum risk, jean claude van damme vs russian guy at sauna
- ramin
For me it's probably Ong Bak. Crows Zero has some great scenes too (not so far from that corridor scene from Old Boy).
- Brome
One of the best fight scenes was the ending scene from Jet Li's Kiss the Dragon.
- jamar78
Correction "Kiss OF the Dragon" ;) and yes, all the fight scenes in that movie are amazing. Li doesn't use a firearm in a single scene
- LANjackal
from IM
The ONCE UPON A TIME IN CHINA movies. Jet Li without the Hollywood speed bumps for four movies. Teh awesomesauce.
- Steven Perez
from Android
Jet Li's FIST OF LEGEND, Jackie Chan's POLICE STORY, Tony Jaa's ONG-BAK.
- Chris Munro
Drunken Master 2 (Jackie vs 5, Jackie & Lau Kar-Leung vs 100 in the restaurant). The Protector has an unbelievable 4 minute single shot where Tony Jaa runs up a large building, kicking tremendous ass along the way, and there's those three one-on-ones he has as well. SPL doesn't have a lot of fight scenes, but Donnie Yen vs Jing Wu is outstanding. The Cowboy Bebop movie has some...
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- Andrew C
If you're going to include the Matrix lobby scene, you might include a few other gunfight scenes - The Killer, Hard Boiled, Shoot 'Em Up.
- Andrew C
Michael Curtiz's Captain Blood (1935). He also directed the Adventures of Robin Hood and Casablanca.
- Zach Landes
IDK i think if we are going on raw fighting film talent Bruce Lee is pretty epic. Bourne really has a lot more to do with the filming of the sequences that enhance the feeling of the action.
- Geoff Schultz
The Matrix, Kill Bill, 300 and House of Flying Daggers (the bamboo fight sequence was brilliant)!
- Frank Da Silva
Jet Li's 'Kiss of the Dragon' is one of my modern favorites. I've heard that they actually had to slow down the footage, because Li was simply too fast.
- Will Higgins™
FIST OF LEGEND with Jet Li. Sorry, the others don't hold a candle to the final two sequences in this movie.
- Andrew Leyden
The Bourne Films for the striking realism and They Live for the sheer length of that scene. Honorable mention to Ong Bak
- Robert Davies
The greatest fight scene in movie history and it takes until this far into the comments for someone to identify it? Sheesh - The best scene ever is clearly the Sword Fighting scene in The Princess Bride. It's inconceivable that I'm the first one to mention it.
- Bill Rawlinson
i might be saying something i'm not supposed to say, in which case I'll come back here and exercise my FF "right" to delete it - but I saw a video a few months ago of a modern-day GG mounted within an SUV (probably USSS?) being fired at a testing range, and it was frighteningly awesome. i've seen the equipment in person before, but never in action. there's something about that.
- Anthony Citrano
No Blackberry thus far so, i have a Blackberry Bold
- Gordon Swaby
a new Samsung that came out this year which i got for free, and that's about what it's worth! the UI is obtuse and the sound is like those toy walkie-talkies you got as a kid in the 1970s! DON'T BUY SAMSUNG PHONES.
- Joe Silence is not dead
Motorola Q9h, but I'm close to 2 years on my contract.
- Eric @ CS Techcast
Wow - still have the same model since last time they asked this on FF. It's an old LG whose main advantage is working on almost every known network.
- howard shippin
I have a Sony Ericsson Z710i - nice phone, if old (march 2007?). Has weird occasional battery issues (and I see that they still haven't sorted that by the Z750i) and of course lacks smartphone features - but can make up for quite a bit through java and bluetooth. Planning to switch back to Nokia, possibly the E55 or E52 once they have come out and the price has gone down a bit, possibly end of year or January
- Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Samsung Jack on AT&T. Like it so far, just wish it could last longer than 2 days on a full charge. But I have it pulling 3 email accounts, so it's not like I don't know what to blame.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)