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celticpilgrim

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1,965 posts

274 months

Thursday 16th February 2006
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anybody seen this film - i borrowed it, thinlking it would be so-so at best...a really good film, if, slightly left of centre....

Kevin Spacey is brilliant..

Timmy30

9,325 posts

258 months

Thursday 16th February 2006
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So come on then, was K-PAX an alien or not?

eccles

14,408 posts

253 months

Thursday 16th February 2006
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nope, he was a ghost.

celticpilgrim

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1,965 posts

274 months

Thursday 16th February 2006
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nosw there's the rub....I don't think he was, just took the persona on after he 'disappeared'. After al, he never proved he was from another planet...a bloody good film though...

Timmy30

9,325 posts

258 months

Thursday 16th February 2006
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eccles said:
nope, he was a ghost.


No that was Sixth Sense

lord summerisle

8,174 posts

256 months

Thursday 16th February 2006
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one of the more enjoyable films of recent times...

_dan_

2,392 posts

310 months

Thursday 16th February 2006
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The jist I got was that he was some form of non-physical alien entity occuping Spaceys' charactors body.

gideon

320 posts

279 months

Thursday 16th February 2006
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Been a while since I seen it, but it is a bloody great film.

Alien or not, no idea, the unresolved ending is one of the reasons I love the film so much.

Timmy30

9,325 posts

258 months

Thursday 16th February 2006
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Spacey always seems to make/be in excellent films with a twist. My other favorite Spacey film is 'The Usual Suspects'

evil jack

1,649 posts

259 months

Friday 17th February 2006
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I loved this film...did the same as you: rented it and expected it to be mediocre at best.

No he wasn't an alien but it didn't matter in the end...

Timmy30 said:
My other favorite Spacey film is 'The Usual Suspects'

Not to mention 'American Beauty'...Amazing performance!


>> Edited by evil jack on Friday 17th February 00:03

Andy Mac

73,668 posts

286 months

Friday 17th February 2006
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K-Pax is a fantastic film. I loved it. Spacey is one of the best US actors for a long time, but why he isn't spoken of in the same breath as De Niro, Pacino, and so forth, I don't know. He is still big in theatre, which is fantastic for such a big name actor.

YarisSi

1,538 posts

275 months

Friday 17th February 2006
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For feck sack I've been keeping this film for the right time and you bloody tell me that.
Break urself, fool

gideon

320 posts

279 months

Friday 17th February 2006
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Timmy30 said:
My other favorite Spacey film is 'The Usual Suspects'


One of my fav films of all time and one I never tire of watching, excellently written with an amazing cast and first rate acting.

Andy Mac

73,668 posts

286 months

Friday 17th February 2006
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...and how could someone so 'affeminate' (sp)be so creepy in SE7EN... Also not included on the credits for that film.

mybrainhurts

90,809 posts

286 months

Friday 17th February 2006
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What's K-PAX..?

Sounds like the special forces wing of Tampax.....

Andy Mac

73,668 posts

286 months

Friday 17th February 2006
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mybrainhurts

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286 months

Friday 17th February 2006
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Thanks...there I go again, making assumptions.

pesty

42,655 posts

287 months

Friday 17th February 2006
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Its a long time since I watched it but I seem to remember that he just thought he was an alien after going mental seeing his wife and kids murdered or did he kill them can't remember.

shadytree

8,291 posts

280 months

Friday 17th February 2006
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Timmy30 said:
So come on then, was K-PAX an alien or not?


If he wasn't an alien, how do you explain the celestial cordinates he gave in the Planetarium?


maxf

8,444 posts

272 months

Friday 17th February 2006
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shadytree said:
Timmy30 said:
So come on then, was K-PAX an alien or not?


If he wasn't an alien, how do you explain the celestial cordinates he gave in the Planetarium?




Just what I was going to type! I think he was an alien... I loved the 'fastest gun in the west' bit in the Planetarium.