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Right this way folks, see the daringest daredevil upon two-wheels- Right This Way to Johnny Blaze aka THE GHOST RIDER!
Hey folks, Harry here -- just recently laid my meaty paws upon the production draft of GHOST RIDER. Written By David Goyer with Revisions by Shane Salerno and the most recent revisions coming from Mark Steven Johnson. Personally - I absolutely love David Goyer's hard-R GHOST RIDER script, and when the orders from everywhere came down to making it PG-13 -- well I knew many things would be missing. Upon reading this script though - it has become far more fanciful. Set in Texas (albeit shot in Australia - aka the smaller less macho version of Texas - heh) the film begins in the old west with the cowboy Ghost Rider - then to the seventies and the oh so very young Johnny Blaze - and his story of how he got hooked up with ol horn head. Then it flashes to the modern day where Nick will be taking over the role... The Father of the X-Games... ugh. But there's something wonderful about the doesn't give two shits attitude where he overshoots his landing to crash, and doomed to always walk away. Originally - the Goyer version was many times more violent, graphic and sad. He turned a visual icon into something far more. I miss that script - here though - he's got more badguys from the books. Folks like BLACKHEART and ABIGOR and the rest of THE HIDDEN. THen there's the CARETAKER and of course there's ol' sctatch himself. As written it'll be a very fun GHOST RIDER - just not the one I wish was made from Goyer's script. It's like - FANTASTIC FOUR - for me, remembering that Michael France draft - which was pretty dead on perfect... and reading the one they have decided to make. It's tragic - but in this case - the script at least is very fun, just not as emotional or brutal or vengeful. Here ya go with the pic!
It seems that everybody's making such a big fuss over the new costume for "Superman Returns" that they seem
to be overlooking an even bigger atrocity. Now, I have to admit upfront, that I am in no way shape or form a leading authority on the character of "Ghost Rider" (or the comic books. . .) but this is just bad. Nicolas Cage just looks so completely wrong in the role of Johnny Blaze that it hurts. I admire the fact that the man is a huge comic geek and wants to use his star power to be in comic book movie, but surely there must have been a better superhero for him to play. I wish Mark Steven Johnson the best of luck, because he's gonna need it to make this thing work. . .
One other thing, I know it might seem unnecessarily mean. . .
But seriously, does Cage actually think he's fooling anybody with that roadkill on his head. The rug he wore in "National Treasure" was bad enough, but this is just taking things to a whole other level.
If you use this you can call me Cineasta.
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Er, I don't think so Harold.
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He just compared Australia to Texas - you're in for it now Knowles!
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Yeah I can't think of anything, but then I'm not American, let alone Texan. Er, cowboy hats?
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Jarv's comment, whilst leaning towards support of Aussies, is still a little unfair. Aussies have contributed a lot more than simply Neighbours. But don't forget even Neighbours once featured both Russell Crowe and Guy Pearce.
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Give that man a TARDIS!!
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Doesn't look like a wig to me but I hope this isn't how he always looks. Don't know the character but isn't he always in the skull mode?
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Also Naomi Watts. We Kiwi's used to claim Russell Crowe, but Oz can have him now. Oh yeah, and Kath & Kim.
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I am at work and couldnt think of anything straight away, but Nicole and Kylie ALONE are more than Texas in terms of contribution. haha. Cmon Harold, response?
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I guess Mark Steven Johnson had one left over from the filming of DAREDEVIL. That "Ryan Seacrest" haircut looks a bit off in that pic, like an old guy trying to look hip, but I guess we could get past that if they get his other look right. Bring on the flaming skull.
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SOMEONE will mention that Nicole was actually born in Hawaii, which, is true....but she gre up, trained and learned to screw in Oz. :)
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where he makes people laugh themselves to death at his outrageous toupee?
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That Cage's hairpiece was MADE in Australia, from a special mix of kangaroo fur and vegemite.
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But this film deserves a R-rating just because of this haircut!!!!
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That The Wig is actually the remains of Rove McManus, returned from the grave!
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Does anyone know?
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He wants his wookie back.
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WHAT THE?!?!?!
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But we live in hope.
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Harsh, but fair.
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I think. I also think that wig lives in a trash can on Sesame Street when its not acting.
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Honest to God, there was a science Fiction novel called "The Israeli Texan" War or something like that. I know nothing more about it than that. Probably that's for the best ...
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...but it should be fucking R...
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What, brown and growing out of his head? ------ Seriously, it does look a little off, and I couldn't wait to see the TB as soon as I read Harry's deliciously (and deliberately) inflammatory remark about Texas/Australia!
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my point is that no way is Texas more macho than Oz. Case in point, Mad Max, Croc Dundee, and er, Steve Irwin.
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Australia is even bigger than the Solar System!!
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Now, Steve Irwin may be a silly bastard, but he's damn tough. Have you seen what he can do? Oh, and Crowe is from New Zealand. And Guy pearce??? Gimme a break. That skinny fucker aint tough.
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Babe (pig in the city - awww), ACDC...
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I don't mean Nic Cage... I mean this contributor. It's one fucking picture of a guy on a bike. How can this possibly be a travesty? Sometimes I am ashamed to be a geek. I HATE ALL OF YOU! I LOVE ALL OF YOU.
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who's a sex machine to all the chicks. He's a bad mother (shut your mouth)!
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ZZ Top or AC/DC? I gotta give it to AC/DC.
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no wonder those lazy-asses lost the Alamo! ;-)
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Doesn't look bad to me. Cage is going to be awesome. I haven't read the new script, but the R one kicked all sorts of butt. I guess they want all Marvel movies to be similar to the Spidey franchise now. Franchise is becoming a four letter word that cripples creativity.
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To say nothing of how stupid this looks (it looks incredibly stupid) isn't anybody else bothered that Ghost Rider's supposed to be sort of a scrappy blonde alpha-stoner in his twenties? I never read the comic, but I thought I remembered his alter ego not being a middle aged Italian guy. Anyway, when's somebody gonna make ROM?!
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One of the scientists who helped develop penicillin (Dr Florey, I think) and we all know how important that turned out to be ... for a number of things ...
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Apr 22, 2005 8:00:13 AM CDT
Okay, I'll bite: Let me be the first to say, "TEXAS OWNS."
by christonomist
That's right, I'm with Harry. I'm in Dallas, and we win. I don't mean necessarily in sports or any other particular area, just in general. Texas wins. To the guy who said, "No wonder they lost the Alamo!" Umm, actually that's because it was 4,000 to 200, and they took out 1,000 of the enemy first. More importantly, despite world ignorance to the contrary, the Alamo was merely one battle in a larger war that culminated with San Jacinto IN WHICH WE WON OUR INDEPENDENCE. Yeah, just like the America thing, Texas BEAT A COUNTRY IN WAR. By itself (more or less). Then it became its own nation. Eventually it joined up with the US, but its originally independent status makes it the only state that can still legally secede from the union. Anybody else's state win a war? No? Back me up, fellow Lone Star Staters. To the rest, let the backlash begin. Your flame's can't hurt me!
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Beyonce over Kylie...Rene over Nicole...Sandra over Noemi...Football over Rugby...Howdy Y'all over G'day mate...University of Texas swimming over the whole australia swim team...
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The rest of you have to see the dregs we allow on television movies. We keep the best in the kitchen, where they belong (bite piss girl, please bite!). Every Austrailan man keeps the best for himself, because we learnt a valuble lesson in the forties. While we were in the jungle killing japs with boomerangs, you dirty yanks shagged all our women! A whole generation of young girls had to be tied to a stick in the middle of the outback, smeared with vegemite to attract the fireants. No australian bloke would touch a bird sullied by the sperm of a yank. Fuck Kylie. She's a pint sized drag queen compared to the girls getting around bondi in their hip-huggers. (I think daisy-dukes might be the only thing texas has ever contributed to humanity). Who cares that the texans won a war. You beat the fucking mexicans. What do you want a fucking medal? Australians kick arse in every war we've ever got to fight in. We don't get many because most wars end once they hear an aussie might get in for a scrap. Why do you think the Falklands only went for a week? Australians are kicking more ass in Iraq then a bunch of stupid yanks. Every Australian was pumped for getting invited to the war with Iran, but no, you all turned out to be pussys. But we're dead keen for Taiwan. All yanks are pussys. The only reason we don't invade other countries outselves is because no one else has women worth shagging (I've got my eye on North Korea, if those Southern girls are anything to go on though). So you can take your texas bullshit and shove it up your arse mate. ARSE. Yeah. That's how it's spelt ya dirty yanks.
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Apr 22, 2005 8:22:28 AM CDT
Hey Harry, here's a dare for ya. Say that about Australia to the
by big_bubbaloola
Trust me....in a no holds bar match between a texan cowboy and an Aussie sheepshearer....my moneys on the Fosters drinking, shelia loving, tough as nails, bloke from Oz.
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Woy Woy, Wee Waa, Woolloomooloo, Wollongong .... I'm currently doing a night shift in a hospital in Wagga Wagga. These are all real places in Australia but I'm not surprised people accuse us of making them up sometimes, especially when you say them all together like this ...
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The Hair?! He's on a cool bike looking hard and all people moan about is the hair!!! I think he looks the part. Cant Wait!!!
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Apr 22, 2005 8:32:41 AM CDT
'ARSE. Yeah. That's how it's spelt ya dirty yanks.' Funny guy...
by big_bubbaloola
That gave me the best chuckle of the day. I love it when you colonials and convicts argue between yourselves!!! Good sport what.
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I remember this little dude from high school that would talk so much shit. Always used to say that the reason noone would fight was that they were all scared. When it was really that noone wanted to get arrested for killing him.
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... like shouldn't we all be bashing the French instead?
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Worse than Daredevil I am telling you now
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Yeah great, Johnson is a big fan just as he was a big fan of DD and look what happened there. Maybe we need someone who just likes the material, but knows how to shape it into a great film.
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...If australia is so good - how come theres so fucking many of you over here??? (Its not such a bad thing as I did get to shag one of your birds up the mavis once!). I just can't wait for the porno adaptation!!!
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Apr 22, 2005 8:46:19 AM CDT
Holy Cow! full_time_killer has just DESTROYED christonomist!
by eraser_x
christonomist, your subject line ("Okay, I'll bite") was prophetic because you bit the dust, dude! And even the credit given to Texas for daisy-dukes has to be taken away because the Dukes are not Texans.
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I like Nick Cage, and about 24 percent of the time I like Goyer. I'd heard this was going to be a nasty, kickass superhero movie in the vein of "Batman Begins." But now, the PG-13 rating comes ghost riding in and kills any enthusiasm I might've had for it. Fuck the teenage demaographic.
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Apr 22, 2005 8:51:31 AM CDT
We had more than a few Aussies join us Texans during the MS150 c
by big bad clone
and those guys are pretty damn tough. They were a perfect fit for a Texas ride as we all enjoy doing something fairly stupid, eating an assload of food, and drinking enough beer to drown an Irish village.
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Cage looks the best he's looked since Con Air. Daredevil was a good flick, at the least the Director's Cut was.
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I like this look. But I want to see the Ghost Rider, not Johnny Blaze.
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AGIAN, NO OFFENCE (HONEST) - TO EVEN THINGS UP:- OVER HERE TEXAS IS: 1) A 1970'S STYLE D.I.Y STORE, AND 2) A SHITE SCOTTISH BAND - SO THAT EVENS STUFF UP ; )
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...even if it isn't his.
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Don't care much about what Blaze looks like, just flame head!!!
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that Houston is full of hot women and fat-assed men. And we know that Austin has AICN and its crew of writers who get "giddy". What's so "macho" about any of that? I think Texans must've given themselves their supposed macho image, much like Michael Jackson gave himself the title "King of Pop".
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That's all I got to say about that!
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Apr 22, 2005 9:08:06 AM CDT
Goyer -- Blade Trinity was SO BAD that Wesley Snipes is suing!
by kraven jones
Now that is hysterical!!!
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IS NOW THE KING OF POOP - THE NONCEY KIDDY-FIDDLING TWAT (SHAMONE MOTHERFUCKER)
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you're right man - but if i can make at least one person smile, then its worth it mate- (shamone!)
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Apr 22, 2005 9:19:00 AM CDT
I agree with Mafu: Fuck the teenage demographic. Films get dum
by barry egan
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The Australian experimental pathologist and teacher Howard Walter Florey, Baron Florey of Adelaide (1898-1968), helped isolate penicillin and develop it as a successful nontoxic antibacterial agent for use in medical treatment.
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Aussies rule. Fuck Texans.
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That's what I want to see!!!!
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I wouldn't deny for a second that I put "Florey" + "penicillin" + "nationality" into google to get that quote which I cut and pasted ...
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Apr 22, 2005 9:52:16 AM CDT
It's just a guy on a motorcycle and it STILL looks photoshopped
by hypeendshere
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"No australian bloke would touch a bird sullied by the sperm of a yank", damn killer, thats some harsh shit, still, I don't think I've laughed that hard for a while..........oh, and your all missing the point on Cage's wig. It's an implant, its extremely new and expensive and supposed to give worthless cocksucking cock jockey's like him the ability to turn in a decent performance in shitty kid flicks that should be R rated. Shove ya Mandolin up your ass cage, sorry, arse....
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But the people that talk shit about Cage can suck a big one.The man can act period ,thats all there is to it. If you don't think so then either you've never seen Face Off , Raising Arizona or Kiss of Death or your just a cock sucker who would rather talk shit about people your jealous of. Point is if this movie isn't any good it will be the studio's fault for wanting something that 12 year olds can watch on Saturday afternoon with there mommies.
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No, not Cage's toupee, not Harry's ridiculous assertion that a state full of inbred, line-dancing, oil smearing, cow-fucking hicks is better than a nation founded by insane, crocodile wrestling, kangaroo eating, boomerang throwing criminals, what's really funny is that anyone for even one second could possibly believe that Mark Steven Johnson would in any way have the capacity to make a movie that is anything other than a trainwreck full of flaming shit. Seriously people, just give up, it's destined to be teh suck. Cage actually doesn't look too bad in this pic, though. ggg'j
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Apr 22, 2005 10:10:22 AM CDT
Without the great Republic of Texas beating Mexico we wouldn't h
by big bad clone
California, Colorado and several other states. That may seem like nopthing unless you consider the sheer size of real estate we are talking here. Plus the gold rushes that sent people out west. Hollywood and several other cities were created from such rushes. Houston is the birthplace of breast implants. We killed Kennedy. Gave ya'll LBJ. Pee Wee wouldn't have his "Alamo doesn't have a basement". We got Davy Crockett killed. Galveston was home to pirates and then more millionaires per square inch than the rest of America until the Hurricane of 1900. The aftermath of which was filmed on one of the earliest films by Thomas Edison. We are the birthplace of several actors (Lou DiamondPhilips, Renee Zelwegger, etc.) beauty queens, and more than a few fat asses. Dallas (as much as I hate their asses) has had pretty good football teams. We also drilled the first oil well and no matter how eco friendly you are, you know how much of an impact that has had on history. Take that Yahoo Serious.
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Ya know, far be it from me to defend Texas, especially since the latest contribution, by way of Connecticut of course, is Dubya and I'm a Californian, but I was dismayed by some of what I heard about Australia. Now I've met some really cool Australians and for some reason I think Naomi Watts (born in England, but what the hell) is the hottest chick on earth for some reason, however I hear that Australia is, in many ways, like Texas, especially the rural areas etc. I always envisioned Australia as a very progressive type place (and perhaps compared to Texas it is), but with John Howard at the helm I gotta wonder what the hell is going in Australia these days? With that said, famous Texans include Jennifer Garner, Janis Joplin, Jamie Foxx, Steve Martin, Dennis Quaid, Dan Rather, Gene Roddenberry, Lance Armstrong, Michael Dell, and Rene Zellweger among others. Interestingly enough, the two entities have roughly the same population and economic status (Texas is a bit ahead on this one though in GNP terms). Screw this. California rules! Not that I'm biased.
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Apr 22, 2005 10:12:55 AM CDT
Yea Cage does look more like Dan than Johnny in that pic. Will h
by big bad clone
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Man, sounds like the old script would have been better. With that said, I would imagine that with the involvement of Cage, who is seen as a major actor, this flick is even getting made. It might be a cool flick though, but I got a bad Madolin feeling about this one as opposed to being Moonstruck.
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...for a job once. Then I visited. Austin has an interesting music scene and some very attractive women, but that's about it. And that's the cultural epicenter of Texas. As for being tough, Texans were just loud. And they tended to shut the fuck up when shown to know not what they spoke of. So that's something nice I can say about them. Still had no desire to live amongst them, though. I've known a number of Aussies and every one seemed to be a relatively soft-spoken, good humored, stand-up guy (or girl). The one I saw get into a fight at a bar wasted no time in exploding a guy's nose before helping him back to his feet and cheerfully offering to pay his cab to the hospital. So I'm going to give the "tough guy" award to the Aussies. And perhaps one of you Aussies can tell me... is that a dead wombat on Cage's head or what?
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As an admited liberal/progressive/leftist who still believes in a REAL free market economy as opposed to the monopoly/protectionism for the developed world economy represented by the neocons, I view the assassination of JFK as a tragedy for this country b/c it helped push the country towards the hard extreme right. Not that I have an unrealistic view of JFK and the sometimes evil machinations done via the Special Group headed by Bobby, but I'm just sayin' it beats having Nixon come to power and the left losing their balls and withering before a braindead bad actor in the 80s.
But what the hell Texas still contribued Steve Martin, Jen Garner's lips, and the old school Star Trek so I can try to forget the past. -
sure it's due to LBJ giving us the Spacecenter, but still...
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College town and like the other cities in Texas more liberal than the suburbs and rural areas. My parents just retired to Houston and I have said a silent prayer for them. I begged them to move to Florida like normal people, but nooo. Australia needs to get rid of Howard, but yeah most of the Aussies I've met in the states have been pretty cool.
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I kid cause I love. Anyone from Australia know of any good triathlons I can do down there?
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Apr 22, 2005 10:31:23 AM CDT
I was talking mostly about impact, not whether it was good or ba
by big bad clone
BTW- we are also home to the second largest port in the country (Port of Houston). But a state this size (one of our counties is bigger than Rhode Island), we were bound to have given the world many things.
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Hey come on, Steve Martin had a good run. And Gibson's a transplant. I mean we might as well claim Anthony Hopkins as a Californian since he emigrated. Given Australia's small population, smaller than Canada(!), they've accomplished quite a bit though I gotta give 'em that. I'm just killing time and messing around as I don't even see why the two have to be compared other than for bragging rights. I hear New Zealand's better in some ways, but that was a Kiwi who told me that so I have yet to verify. You guys have to get rid of Howard though as your political situation is almost as bad as Texas' at the moment. I agree on LBJ really screwing things up too, but Nixon helped with the coup de grace when he Kissinger went to Paris and convinced the South Vietnamese that peace was overrated and that they still had a chance. thousands of deaths later...
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I mean what's with building the huge airport in Dallas? It's not like they get the traffic say O'Hare does in Chicago. I sometimes see this oil parallel with Texas and Saudi Arabia where they also build big (the biggest airports as they decided to outdo Dallas for no credible reason) and it just ends up a huge display of bad taste and pointless waste. Armstrong's a class act from Texas though. I mean he even learned French, but given his propensity to dominate the Tour de France it was to be expected!
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Apr 22, 2005 10:40:27 AM CDT
Looks a litte like Clive Owen with that hair, but wasn't Blaze a
by monkey_king
Maybe Cage's new wife gave him something from China to help his head sprout new hair like in the 80's when he had all of it still.
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Elijah Wood...yeah ain't that so cool. If I here one more fucking dork tell me how amazingly creepy Wood was in that film I might actually consider seeing thi POS with Cage.
What happened to Cage anyway? He used to make cool movies. Love him in "Peggy Sue Got Married" and "Vampire's Kiss"...but the came "Con Air", "It Could Happen to You" and "National Treasure".
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seriously, people, i live in Texas and i can tell you this: Texans are a bunch of delusional lunatics. I can't speak on Australia, directly, but i can tell you what's pertinent about our great state: dopefiends and rednecks. I'm sure a similiar case is relevant in Australia, but Australians get the leg up based on one key fact: they live in Australia. Whereas if you live in Texas, you either live in a> Dallas - Squarejaw City, just south of OK, where the potholes eat children if the hobos dont get to them first (unless your north of the Trinity, in which case you are necessarily lame), b> Houston - 'Space City', where the iceheads have superhuman endurance thanks to breathing some mutant variant of oxygen, c> Austin - the Lesbian Capital of America, and this only sounds cool because the concept of lesbian in your mind is a far more excellent thing than the hairy reality (and where the traffic is so godawful you will have plenty of time to stare slackjawed in horror at the plentitude of hideous lesbians and drunken college geeks as you stew) or d> none of the above, in which case your just plumb out of luck. Add to this the fact that Texas is always hotter than the devil's balls, or as frigid and lightless as the heart of a giant haired matriach screaming at the cashier at the front of the line, execpt for three days in Spring, which you will spend indoors getting high out of habit, and Australia necessarily wins in the comparison. It's all about the environs, and in this, Texas loses. Note: there is a necessary exception for hardass Cowboys (REAL Cowboys, not real estate salesmen who wear cowboy hats) and Mexican Construction workers. These squarejaws are most likely on par, as far as hardassitude goes, with Australians. Any Texan who is not either one of these cannot and should not compete. and P.S. a big fuckerdoo to our great state for spawning Dubya and the redneck thief ethos that now seems to be perpetrating itself across the >mostly< great nation of America. Vote for Kinky. Im out.
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Great place I gotta say. Girls are a lot hotter than the stereotypes about bad teeth. Lots of cool people. Too much of a reverence for all things American and Blair really screwed up going along with Bush, but hey nobody's perfect. I like the progressive atmosphere, but Labour seems to have developed some problems. You voting Lib Dem or going with Labour? I'm guessing your on the left since most Brits are. Plus, it's a pleasure to not be living in a place where it feels like Evangelical Christians are slowly taking over everything from the courts to morality on tv and cable news (Faux and infotainment).
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Apr 22, 2005 10:48:41 AM CDT
We have Sigourney Weaver, they have Claudia Black...I'd take Cla
by monkey_king
Farscape's Aeryn Sun (Claudia Black) is one tough cookie and super hot to boot. This Aussie babe could run circles around Sigourney. Eyes up front Cameron!
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I've never been to Austrailia so I will not even attempt to make any comments pro or con on that subject. However I am a resident of this great Lone Star State and I gotta tell you it's awesome here. I moved here from Michigan, talk about a culture shock. Texans have a lot of pride in who they are and where they live. But as far as what Texas has produced compared to Austrailia? Let's look at the music! The only Aussie band other than AC/DC that I know of is INXS, not worth bragging about mate. Well, I suppose you could count Russell Crowe's little ensemble, but I believe South Park did a wonderful episode chronicling that ego-inflated douchebag.
Texas has given us a world of music: ZZ Top, Janis Joplin, Stevie Ray Vaughn, and Pantera just to name a few.
Someday I will visit Austrailia and see what it's all about, but I'm going to punch the first guy who says 'Crikey!' in front of me. I challenge any Aussie to come to Texas and not like it. I promise you'll regret you have to go back. -
Here's the link http://www.brandonrouth.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=994&fullsize=1
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Apr 22, 2005 10:52:20 AM CDT
George W. Bush was born in New Haven, Conn. and don't ever forge
by hypeendshere
It pains me that Lincoln, JFK, Malcolm, Martin, RFK, and John Lennon were all killed in my country. Where are the left-wing assassins? And I'm just as pissed at the phonies in Hollywood. Remember 9/11, Hollywood? Remember our still flagging economy? It's cheaper to make movies in Vancouver and Austrailia, you say? Well, until you put your money where your fake fucking patriotism is, fuck off.
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LOL at the bald guy.
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Sorry, right after I posted the link I saw that Harry had already posted it himself. Ooooooops!!!!
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Though I've never read the comics, having seen the the photos of the bike the other week, I'm dying to see GH himself. (He IS the guy with the flaming skull head...right ?)Until then, I shall sit here grumbling about Superman's cape, skivvies & boots being burgundy !
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An English friend of mine has said much the same and is voting Lib Dem just out of protest as he doesn't believe they have a ghost of a chance either. With that said, I voted for Nader in 2000 myself, but then I was in Cali as opposed to Florida where it mattered.
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The top tax rate in Australia is an eye watering 49 cents in the dollar. I believe in the US it is between 31 and 36. I know we get subsidised health care and all that but still ...
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i agree both parties are sell-outs, but its critical to keep in mind that the new, improved Bush 2.0 (Born Again Bush) was born again here in Texas, in some pissant town, i forget the exact locale. Bush 1.0 was, if you'll recall, a hard partying boozer frat boy dope fiend and most likely would be a 100% improvement on the current model. To the points on music: conceded, for the most part. Pantera did in fact rock, and rock hard, and rock died (for the umpteenth and FINAL time) with Dimebag, but didgereedoo's rock hard as well, so we'll have to call it even. But the Geto Boys are from Houston, and i dont know of any psychotic Australian dwarf rappers, so Texas gets a point. As for the tax rates: exactly what is the tax rate on investment capital in Australia? Cause here in the U.S. its damn near 0, which means money you EARN by WORKING is taxed all to hell, first by social security, then byt he income tax, and then by the sales tax (at least here in TX), whereas money ACCUMULATED through INVESTMENTS (that is, money you dont do shit to earn) is not taxed at all. So the higher tax rate there would be a chimera, because in actual dollar terms, the lower and middle classes are taxed to oblivion while anyone making more than 93k (the mythic social security payroll tax cutoff) is coastin. Fuckers.
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Apr 22, 2005 11:24:56 AM CDT
Penicillin, um that would be Alexander Fleming who discovered it
by studioplant69
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I'll take Linklater over any of the above mentioned.
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You're absolutely dead-on about the tax myth here in the states. If you haven't already, check out "Perfectly Legal : The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich--and CheatEverybody Else." It explains how, in fact, the tax system is rigged so that the middle class pay a substantial amount through something called the stealth tax and that the tax burden in actual percentages is the SAME for the upper 20% as it is for the bottom 20%! So much for the so-called progressive tax system. Now IF they actually do create a flat tax, they'll keep the exemptions and effectively crush the poor. Hell I love my country, but for cryin' out loud, the pricks running things are a bad combination of puritans and are actually ANTI-free trade. I'm a bit of a Neo-Keynesian myself, but what they want is far from free and fair trade as well. Well, back to work as I think I've killed enough time. Late folks.
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Big up Texas, Dallas killed Kennedy (what you got on that, sucka!), Denton is actually home to much weirdness, and Linklater does good work. Austin WAS badass, until it was overrun by every cool person in Texas trying to escape to the only cool city in Texas, so the population densities are whacked. So, in retrospect, at least we're not Ohio. Texas: the pinnacle of the Midwest. Word. I'm just envious of any coastline not covered in black goo. You lucky bastards.
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I'll try and answer what I can remember.---------------------
1) Neighbours - I apologise on behalf of the nation - I've only seen part of the first episode - In Sri Lanka no less.------------
2) Australia is fairly good even in the country with foreigners. The town I grew up in is a country town (but coastal) and currently where I'm working is country and inland but pretty good for the best part. Strangely enough, I've never met so many Africans as I have where I am now. A lot of them are on medical staff here. Of course there are always idiots who are bigots but with a lot of migrants surviving war and whatever else the world throws at them, they just generally find them pathetic----------------------
3) Tax in Australia is quite punitive, the lower brackets get hit quite hard. If you earn too much, you lose other benefits elsewhere so they've worked out that the effective tax rates for middle to lower income earners can be as much as 60 cents in the dollar or more. Of course, direct comparisons between US and Australian tax rates are not easy, there's all sorts of state taxes and other things in the US etc etc. -
and for the finale: the Dallas Morning NEWS did more to kill Kennedy than the actual Dallasite populace (save for the fringe lunatics who were beat into a frenzy concerning his arrival), and that's a fuckin bummer, Stevie Ray Vaughan is, in my opinion, a legitimate legend, Aphex Twin is a badass, but listening to his music gives me flashbacks, and uhhh on topic . . . what the hell? Nic Cage is doing Ghost Rider? So is his toupee going to bust into flames when he turns into Johnny Blaze? Cause that will be badass. P.S. Superman looks about as gay as Bryan Singer. Not that there's anything wrong with that (love ya, Oak Lawn Cru Represent, but not in that way)
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Apr 22, 2005 11:47:14 AM CDT
Texas and Oz Contributions . . . oh, and a rug comment!!
by unclebuck88
Texas Contributions: Jayne Mansfield, Carol Burnett, Sissy Spacek, Gene Roddenberry, Eva Longoria (HOT), Jamie Foxx, Steve Martin, Robert Rodriguez, Rene Zellweger, John Hillerman (no, he
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Developing usuable penicillin was a team effort, amongst others were Fleming, Florey (an Australian) and no Texans I believe.
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Did any body see Quigly Down under
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Fuck you and the roo you rode in on
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And the fact that she plays a former model is a joke.
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Apr 22, 2005 12:30:03 PM CDT
I hate idiot fat texan cunts as much as I despise the aussie fuc
by dog of mystery
But i'd say that in a fight I'd back the sheep-shaggers over the cow-fuckers.
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well, it's my first talkback anyway.... erm, what's this one about?!
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There called long horns dickhead o sorry your holy ness
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Im still trying to understand Call me redneck but what has Asstralia contributed to the world Penacilin o yhea thanks for giving birth to the pharmarapeyourass-cudical companys that america owns hmmm Ac/Dc they own so there cool some hot chicks ok granted they always come here to promote there fine asses then we make them stars
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I refuse to watch mature properties that get the PG13 rape. The only way this could have turned out watcable is if they left Goyers script alone. Chalk up one more ruined comic property for Hollywood.
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Fuck you, Jarv. XMen was SHIT. Both of them felt small and cheap did a grave misservice to the comics both in character, theme, and timeline. Spiderman 1 & 2 were pretty damn good, thank Sam Raimi for that - but Hulk was god-damn PERFECT. Sorry that you have ADHD and cant sit through a proper greek tragedy, but grow some fucking balls you douche. People like you are the reason The Punisher happens. You cry and whine about the good movies and 'accept' the shitty ones. Hence, Hollywood keeps pumping out fucked up PG13 comic themed trash. I'd say wait for them to give the PG13 rape treatment to The Punisher - but, hey, they already did that. Nothing is sacred any more. These studio guys are fucking creative terrorists.
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Theres only one decent texan i know of and he goes to school with me here in VA. Starting a country with the criminals as a foundation sounds pretty hardcore. Nice rug tho. Think it used to be my cat. I miss my cat...-sigh- fucking cage hasnt been in any decent movies since his whole face/off con-air run. oohhh yeah and maybe the rock. that movie was funny. LETS GO FIND SOME ROCKETS!!
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Yea so what if he's wearing a rug? It doesn't look that bad in all honesty. I do, however, think this movie is gonna be bad.
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no interest in seing this anymore
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Becuase ghostrider is the baddest comic book ever. Spawn ripped it off back int he day and now he's getting his due. Cage looks awesome.
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pg-13 is the kiss of death
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Apr 22, 2005 2:20:54 PM CDT
Whoops. I was gonna say since when does the rating matter wheth
by billy bob 2
There's an assload of R rated movies full of violence and gore that suck balls. All that matters is the story and that the Ghost Rider looks amazing.
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As a resident of Texas, I can tell you this state does indeed suck. Austin, however, kicks ass, and our school is one of the best in the country (certainly out of public schools).
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Can't imagine Cage crammed into that gay body stocking of Bryan Singer's.
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Apr 22, 2005 2:43:49 PM CDT
Texas also kills more prisoners than the rest of the states in t
by big bad clone
Has anyone seen "Ol' Sparky" in Hunstville? It's the scariest fucking chair on the planet even when it's not plugged in.
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I lived in Austin for three years. And while I've never been to Australia, I've traveled some, and everywhere I go, Australians are the most fun to hang out with. Best to drink with, best to fight with, all a little retarded, and way, way tougher than a Texan. And no one should brag about winning independence from Mexico. That's like saying you beat someone with multiple sclerosis at arm-wrestling.
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Moriarty is gonna be on "Attack of the Show" tonight. AOTS is on the G4 network. Starts at 7pm (4pm Pacific). Late!
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...of course he looks like a horsefaced goon! Who cares! He's a good actor and will be spending most of the film (I hope!) with a CGI 'd flaming skull in place of his ugly mug!
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... Texans & Aussies are BOTH pussies! The baddest-ass dudes are us Floridians, we're truly a wretched hive of scum and villainy here in the "Scumshine State"!
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You fucks couldnt even get the vote right Its bad enuff the film CSI miami there
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http://latinoreview.com/films_2006/wb/superman/bjr-superman.html
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Apr 22, 2005 3:17:17 PM CDT
Those wondering about the 11-year-old target audience of this fi
by salvatoregravano
Oh, and Walla Walla Wahroonga! http://www.downsmail.com.au/nswt_w.html
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For 6 years. Walla Walla's for real too? I'll have to go look that one up!
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obviously hasn't seen that banned commercial where Kylie humps the shit out of that mechanical bull. GODDAMN!!! She can do the locomotion to me any day of the week! (I don't know what that means)
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Apr 22, 2005 3:31:35 PM CDT
The Aussies have Texas beat hands down in silly town names. The
by big bad clone
That's no match for Great Kaliwallidanganmaroo or some such place
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...and you don't look like a steer to me!" Seriously, though. Can we give Texas back to Mexico? We don't want it. While we're at it, let's give Florida back to the Spanish. We get to keep Austin, because Austin isn't really Texas.
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I was kind of interested when they were going for the hard R. But NoooOOOoo we have to buttfuck the cash out of the tweenies don't we? Fuck this shit!
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Australia has everything the USA has except for their problems...So quit bagging Australia. Proportionally speaking, Aussies are better than USA in every possible way.
Anyway, Nic cage looks cool. So what if he is balding, it is not his fault...Why do people find it fashionable to question a wig for a movie which is required if the user is balding? It's lame. -
Stevie Ray Vaughn, Janis Joplin, and Z.Z.Top going up against Steve Erwin, Paul Hogan, and Young Einstien? Texas wins. But, at the last minute the Aussies pull out some Midnight Oil, and it ends in a tie.
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Yeah, you're country also supports the illegal war against a sovereign nation that never attacked it. Good one!
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Apr 22, 2005 3:52:23 PM CDT
Gus Van Rant: I have never heard of a cleveland steamer. Pleas
by barry egan
I'm sure it will be sexual in nature.
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John Travolta is very close second. I want to puke every time I see them on screen.
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Just lettin y'all know... http://www.wetaworkshop.co.nz/projects/filmography/galleries/neon_genesis
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Apr 22, 2005 4:13:15 PM CDT
Doesn't Australian have a huge problem with cute little bunny ra
by big bad clone
While Texas is home to two different "elusive" species, the jackalope (ha ha ha) and the Piney Woods creature (some sort of East Texas/Louisiana Bigfoot).
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man all that epoxy is gonna irritate that scalp
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...How about this Gene Kelly VW commercial? Tell me this isn't one of the coolest uses of CGI you've ever seen: http://msl1.mit.edu/furdlog/images/golfgti.mov
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So yeah, the guy is in shit like National Treasure and Con Air and etc. all the time. But when he's in a good movie he can be truly great. Examples include Face%Off, Raising/Arizona and Adap+tation. One thing though, isn't this one by the guy who did Daredevil? I think so, so this is the last I will ever think about the movie. Goodbye, movie by the guy who did Daredevil. It's been fun.
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Smoke those dune coons
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they are the ones who unleashed jacko on the world. I wonder whatever happened to him?
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Jacko currently tours Australia, doing standup with Chopper. I shit you not.
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...a fingernail clipper so he can neuter himself and reduce the future population of idiots on the planet by however many kids he was planning to have. Oh, wait... just calculated the odds of him reproducing sexually and Cage has a better chance of growing his own hair in time for the actual release of this film. Nevermind.
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So I'll just say Australia and Texas both SUCK!!! New Zealand OWWWNS and you all know it! Oh and Nic - Biggs Darklighter wants his moustache back.
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fuck the world gator boots for girls
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really, there's no defence against sparkling wit & sarcasm
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Oh please!
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The town names mentioned above come from the local aboriginal tribes, not the english settlers. Since they had no concept of counting, (you either had 'one' of something or 'more than one'), the way they denoted a plural in their language was to repeat the word. 'Wagga' is the local Wiradjuri tribe word for 'crow', 'Wagga Wagga' translates as 'more than one crow'. Now having lived here most of my life I just have to say: 'What bloody crows? Where?"
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id pay to see that jacko was a good footy player in his day
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Oh, and speaking of Ghost Rider, not the original Dick Ayers western hero from th fifties but the Marvel religious biker comic from the seventies with Johnny Blaze and drawn by Mike Ploog - it was a freaking code approved comic, why do you horny adolescents think it should be an R-rated movie?? Does the idea of a man in a leather jacket really get you that excited? Oh, and Con Air was hilarious.
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Jealous, Shan? We also made LOTR (I live not far from Hobbiton) while Australia got the Matrix sequels. Also, we're a bunch of tree-hugging, bleeding-heart, refugee-accepting peaceniks! And proud!
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Yes, it's true that nearly every Pub in Britain has an Aussie barman/barmaid working to earn afew quid while they travel/study. Likewise there are always plenty of Brits in Australia doing the same. The difference is the Australians get to home; the Brits always seem to be fucking murdered in the arse end of nowhere. That's just my observation.
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Apr 22, 2005 7:05:33 PM CDT
Dummies, that's a shot from the upcoming EASY RIDER remake direc
by hanfiredfirst
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Apr 22, 2005 7:05:40 PM CDT
I was also under the distinct impression that the oldest democra
by samfisher
Is Great Britain
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But we are the longest unbroken TRUE democracy, in that everyone got the vote, not just white rich males. We gave women the vote first. So there. Oh, and the last time I saw a wig like that, it transformed into a Gremlin after getting wet.
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Cage doesn't really look that bad if ya ask me. It's only because you know he's "follicly challenged" in real life that you find that toup funny. Cage makes a lot of good films great but he won't save this piece of shit. It's gonna be The Punisher all over again
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I mean, look how cool "The Punisher" turned out...
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Er...while it may be a monarchy there has been what we know as the house of commons since 1660 - if you are talking longest running democracy i think that honour actually goes to the swiss doesn't it? Wasn't there a military dictatorship in greece in the 60's? I think that certainly puts greece well off the chart when it comes to longest running democracy
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well.. actually nick looks a bit like the "i've had enough of this and want to quit" johnny blaze that was like early 80's or so...
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We've found Tinkerbell! BTW, New Zealand is NOT technically a republic I don't think. And the UK isn't a monarchy - the Royal Family doesn't 'rule'. Also, I say again, New Zealand was the first country to give ALL of its citizens the right to vote, that makes it the first TRUE democracy, right?
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Apr 22, 2005 10:33:13 PM CDT
Your right cash he did only act in Still Crazy. My bad.
by jon l. ander
Things being products of their time surely? Still kudos for NZ anyway. Oh and I've heard Britain described as, at various times, a democracy, a monarchy, a parlimentary monarchy and a parlimentary democracy. Take your pick.
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Apr 22, 2005 10:34:38 PM CDT
oh shit it copied in a subject line from my last post. Damn you
by jon l. ander
Everyone ignore it! Quick!
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did wonders for halle
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Ten things I am sick of seeing on AICN: 10-5
10)People who brag about being first. Who gives a fuck? Do you want a cookie?
9)People personally insulting the AICN staff. Harry's a fat fuck! Moriarty's a douche bag! Qiunts a fuckface! While all the above maybe true, what does that have to do with anything?
8)Harry's total unprofessionalism on this website. He thinks that by littering his stories with profanity and sexual comments he's a disconnected, hip, to cool for school motherfucker when he's anything but. It only shows his desperation for attention and acceptance. (Not to mention his lack of journalism skills)
7)Harry's blatant brown nosing of certain celebs. His nose is so far up QT's ass that he couls shit red hair balls for a week.
6)Wanna be hacks shelling for their websites or low budget projects on this website. Use your local penny rag, it cheaper and less annoying.
5)Lame motherfuckers making up "cute" little saying that everyone starts biting on and overusing. Example "teh suck". To the person who started this-FUCK OFF!!!
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Is a douche bag!
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The fact that Nic Cage is finally getting to play a superhero is good news. This isn't Thomas Jane or Ben Affleck. This is one of the best actors of our generation and he chose Ghost Rider! I'll be there!
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Nicholas Cage as Johnny Blaze is totally all wrong. If they were to do any justice to the story, they would have done Kurt Russell as Johnny Blaze. Fuck Nick Cage, Fuck him up his stupid hairpiece wearing ass...
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I don't give two shits about development...dickbrain!
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The Vic sucks. So does the Red Lion. Never would have thought our little old Wagga would make it to an AICN talkback!
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Apr 23, 2005 1:25:52 AM CDT
Yeah, yeah, Australia, Texas, blah blah blah... the real questio
by thewoodman
Lay yer bets, folks... it's living legend & 16-time World Champion Bill "The Shat" Shatner vs. Nick "I Used To Wish I Was Elvis, But Now I'm Cooler Than Elvis 'Cause I Fucked His Daughter" Cage... LET'S GET READY TO GLUE ON A CHEAP TOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUU-PEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! Ring the bell!
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I thought GR's flaming chopper was one of the most ridiculous pre-hype images ever released. Until I saw Nic Cage with what appears to be some sort of Appalachian entree glued to his melon. Cage is a great actor and I really enjoyed the DD Director's Cut. But I think Ghost Rider is a character that is best left to the funny books. I agree somewhat with the pro-R rating crowd, though. If made dark, scary, and violent enough people might be able to forget just how silly it is to see a guy with a flaming skull for a head riding a fiery motorcycle.
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Apr 23, 2005 2:31:59 AM CDT
How can everyone keep saying PG-13 is the kiss of death?
by harrisonsdad
Of the Top 40 films last year, only TWO were rated R. I would say R is the Kiss of death. X and NC-17 don't count, everyone knows they don't make the money.
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This should be made into a movie like Freddy Vs Jason but have a war where Australia and Texas are up against each other! Starring Harry Knowles as Leatherface and Russel Crowe as Nicole Kidman! LOL you people get so worked up over one comment by Harry. Truth of the matter is who gives a shit. The most likely scenario would be both probably too drunk to even remotely fight each other and would porbably just end up singing some Led Zeppelin tunes til dusk.
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You know, wild at heart, conair - nick cage
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From what I have heard, Oz is the shit. Everyone I know that has gone there, likes it. As far as Texas, there is no better place on Earth. I was born and raised here, and as the song goes, "If Heaven aint a lot like Texas, I don't wanna go." Aussies, come up to Texas and drink some brews with me and I'll show you how great this state is. Texas friendly y'all.
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Mel Gibson was born in Peekskill, New York, USA.
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His country of birth is irrelevant. He was brought up in australia. He was educated in Australia. He got his breakthroughs through Australia. Same with Russel Crowe. So stfu cornstalkwalker you know nothing.
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Mel was born in New York, thank you. He moved to Oz when he was 8 or 9 years old. Technically, he's NOT Australian.
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Cos' thats a big hairy fucking spider sitting on his head!
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I think Texas would be much better if the people stuck to the ideals of its founders, rather than getting dragged into doing the dirty work for rich people (ie Bush). Australia is unfortunately very similar in this way (ie Howard). Both lots of people are pretty laid back and like to do things differently to others. As for Australia's achievements, I had to add these:
* Barry Marshall identified the bacteria that cause stomach ulcers, which had been regarded as having a psychosomatic cause
* David Warren invented the black-box flight recorder
* Earl Owen pioneered microsurgery
* Graeme Clark developed the bionic ear
* Sir Howard Florey shared a Nobel Prize in 1945 as co-discoverer of the antibiotic penicillin
* James Harrison devised the sulphuric ether refrigerating system for a brewery in 1860
* Ralph Sarich engineered the orbital engine -
Oh my. I enjoy Mr. Cages's film so very much. He was so funny in "Gaurding Tess". I see he is going to be in this motorcycle movie, you people should not give him such a difficult time with his costume. He is an actor, and purhaps the role requires him to wear certain items that you might think look funny or strange, but are very important too his charature. How would you like people making fun of you? And how you dress? We are all special, and Mr. Cages's costume is special also, so let us remember the good manners we all learned in school.
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AUSTRAILIAN PLUSSES: Shrimp on the barbie, coral reefs, big surf, fishing, the Mad Max movies were made there & the ROM Spaceknight movie will probably be made there as well. TEXAN PLUSSES: USDA Beef on the barbeque, the blue waters of the Gulf of Mexico, fishing, the Alamo Drafthouse, Texas Hold
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Well, having been unconscious for the best part of 12 hours, I better come back and add something to this truly bizarre talkback.-----------------------
Wagga Wagga - I literally come here to work and the moment I finish, I flee back to the (qualifying statement) big city (Sydney) every second week. I don't go to any of the pubs because I don't drink (alcohol). However, after 10 days on an extended night shift here, I may well be willing to start. (Yesterday was the first day of 10). My job is to sit in the intensive care unit and literally watch machines that go ping. If anything goes wrong I have many years of university training to teach me to dial a phone and call someone who actually knows what they are doing-------------------
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... or off the main page, anyway ... Prevert ... as an Australian, it would be remiss of me to not attack New Zealand at every opportunity - and you as a New Zealander, if you're not reciprocating with the abuse ... well you're just not doing your job.-------------------------------About democracies, apparently some people in the US mistakenly refer to themselves as the oldest democracy when in fact I read they are the oldest continuous currently existing democracy. I can't confirm if that's correct though ...
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Apr 23, 2005 10:34:37 AM CDT
It's no good just discovering something if you don't do anything
by shan
and I never claimed an Australian discovered penicillin did I?
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I'm inlcined to get mad about bad costumes and comics story changes. I think the new Supes looks lousy. However I started reading Ghost Rider towards the end of the Johnny Blaze original run; GR was probably my favorite character until the Simonson Thor (right after Son of Satan). I read the Dan Ketch years in utter confusion as to why they would ditch Blaze, then turn him into a Gambit wannabe (with a Terminator faceplate no less)................Well, long story short: I was perfectly prepared to hate Nick Cage in this role. But before one look at the photo and I thought he looked great in the role. I've enjoyed some of Cage's work more than others, but when he's good he's great, irreplaceable. He looks great here; he looks right..................Ghost Rider, both Blaze and the demon Zartathos, make up the Ghost Rider character. Ghost Rider is like Fonzie, if Fonzie were actually cool to a 10+ year old. Fonzie if Fonzie contained within him a brimstone hurricane shot through with bolts of hellfire. Fonzie if Fonzie were an evil demon so cool that he couldn't help doing good deeds and saving the world just by virtue of being so cool. A demon who only has a taste for the wicked.................Who the hell would you rather have in this role? Some vacant pretty boy schmuck? That said, I could see some other choices. Matt McConnawhosit comes to mind, but he's too earnest, not playful enough, not quite cool. A young Fanco Nero (he's booked full through the seventies though). So I dunno who y'all think would be better, but I've got a hunch that reading down the talkback column I'll see more bad suggestions than good ones.
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Is Iceland.
They had ostensible allegiance to monarchs but the country has been democratically ruled by the Althing for many centuries. And the USA is not a democracy, never was, it's a republic. Although the Republicans, ironically, are in the process of turning it into more of a democracy. Time was, because of the failure of democratic revolutions in Europe, descending into backbiting bloodbaths, "democracy" was a dirty word and the founders of the USA shied away from it as well as the concept. President Wilson (Bush is touted as a "Wilsonian") introduced the word democracy in the sense it is used today, as something the USA has an interest in promoting. Oh sure it was sometimes used before in a positive light but not til then as a rallying banner. Of course what Wilson meant by "democracy" is "American Interests." It's just a code word and dictatorships, emirs, whatever, do just fine once the spreading-democracy-confetti is settled. -
To capture the brilliantly dark tone of the comics would require an R-rating... And we'd rather not do that, and instead just basically make a different property, defeating the purpose of using the comics as a basis. The ratings system is so screwed up. They rate for tone, not the actual violent content. Because they are a bunch of wingnut jerks. And so is Hollywood for catering to them...
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No one saw that one coming...
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I got nothing against Aussies dude - you're all okay in my book. Last wig joke of the talkback: Is that a toupee, or is Cage trying out for the part of Second Cactus in the new series of Deadwood?
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Oh and for TNT868 I heard that the French surrendered Paris because they heard that Germany advanced.... in the world cup. This debate, is much like fitting wheels to a tomato, time consuming but completely pointless.. we will NEVER see an answer to this point due largely to the fact that when Aussies/Texans argue points they site stronger pros, to lesser cons... ie. "Australia has Naomi Watts, Russel Crowe and Eric Bana etc..... Texas has Steve Martin and George Bush".. do you see what I mean... or "Texas has Stevie Ray Vaughn, ZZ Top and Rene Zelwegger... Australia has Steve Irwin and the Platypus"... This does not prove anyones case, nor does it make an intentional point other than how inward looking and culturally bised some 'folk' are. For the record, Australia is roughly the same land mass as the USA, has roughly the population of Los Angeles, 'the red centre' is very similar to Texan landscape (which is to say, pretty bare and boring to drive through).. I love Australia, I'm all for a country where an asshole like me can get ahead and still enjoy a teriffic family life, I also like Texas, I like america as a whole in fact, I don't nessesarily like alot of Americans, because you're all so high strung over there (most americans I met travelling over there were in the 'service industry', be it customer service, food service, or airline personnel.. and they all hate thier jobs so it's not fair for me to judge them really).. but the few I know that have left there are really great people. Hell my sister in law is born and raised in Columus Ohio.. I guess the only plus that I can see that Australia has, is the only illegal immigrant problem we here in Australia have is deciding which boat to sink.. Other than that, I have no beef with Texas, nor do I think we are any better or worse than they are (and vice versa).. I think we're just taking the vexatious comments of a biased man, who would have trouble leaving his own room let alone the country, too seriously. *bamf*
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Well ... the impression I got from this talkback was that we are trying to compare two fairly different things, so you'd never get a definitive answer as to who is "better". Therefore, I figured most of us from both Australia (a country) and Texas (former country) were just joking. Correct me if I'm wrong please ... P.S Prevert, you guessed that I too was just joking right ... (Curse this inability to convey humourous overtones with just a text medium !!!).
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Nixon (born in Cali) started vietnam and texas gave you bastards drugs, which passed through our borders, so you could get high and forget to wear your bras. Naomi is not hot. Nicole is too thin. Only Mel is the shit, but all were not born in that shithole- Australia- of a nation. More importantly all those bastards are criminals. Yes, let us not forget that Australia was used as a prison and that's the shit they were breed from. I don't like George W. (hey his father was born in the American east and moved the family to texas, so I gotta put some blame on those ny, n england people) but I am from Texas and I am a moderate-liberal, if there is such a thing. I hate that some of these fucks voted for him but just like those idiots in Cali voted for Arnold (I like him but he isn't a very good governor), we ended up getting Bush elected. If you really hate Bush hate Florida for the shit they've created. As for music, it is hands down Texas that rules. As for actors it is pretty close, cause I can't recall where all of old Hollywood was born. As for politics it is all Texas. Come to Texas and see if it don't get you killed too. Jfk, crocket, every race, every nationality, we got a number of guys killed here in this place. Go to mid texas and it is different than the eastern and southern parts. What might get you killed in one area won't in another. Shit men kill men in Texas. In Australia spiders and Kangaroos kill men. You all some pussies. We erradicated millions of species with our guns our hands and our pollution, what the hell did you guys do, screw your cousin. Yeah, cause your criminals your too stupid to evade the law.
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He is just painful to look at in ANYTHING, I am afraid.
Maybe the script will be dark and painful and his looks will only add to the torture of his character...
Really! Maybe he can make it work!
But thank God he never got into a Superman suit.
And maybe he will look really good with his Skull on fire.
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