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Harry really wants to play with DOMINO all night long!!!
Wow, time flies… This is the week DOMINO hits, meant to get to this review before FANTASTIC FEST got here, and now that has come and went. Sorry about the tardiness here.
DOMINO is one hell of a film. I first started talking about this film in February of 2003 when I reviewed Richard Kelly’s script for DOMINO. It was his script and as such a towering work of genius as usual. It read as a satiric riff on TRUE ROMANCE and Richard had told me that Tony Scott was set to direct it. Whoa! I actually couldn’t imagine what that film would be like. With Kelly’s script – you had a chaotic mildly Kaufman-esque riff on Tarantino-ism with a macha chick in the center. This was one hell of a ride, but what would Tony do with it. Would he water it down and make a watered down version – or would Tony leap off the bridge for the visceral thrill of the material?
Well, he leapt off the bridge, but he rigged it to blow-up behind him. As you can see from the trailers – DOMINO falls into the realm of stylized filmmaking with the saturated dripping trippy colors and the hyper sharp focus and a degree of being perfectly over-exposed. In fact – everything in the trailers is very near a tripped up image or movement. It wasn’t at all the look I thought I’d see with this movie.
But then, I’m not Tony Scott. He took the draft of DOMINO that I read and began to just bring all those elements of satire and craziness and he just went shook it up into something that doesn’t fit into the typical cookie-cutter cinema we see today.
The frenetic fever dreamed look and feel of the film is actually integral to the story we’re being told. The most lucid and calmly shot sequences of the film focus upon Keira’s DOMINO while being interrogated by Lucy Liu’s Fed character. It is in this interrogation that we flashback upon the mescaline laced memory of the heavily dosed title character’s adventures and life.
We’re taken into the memory of a sexy confused girl of privilege that bored with the thrills for sale decides to become a bounty hunter, because that’s just so cool. SO – from that stand point, realize that this movie is being told from the mind of a drugged thrill seeker, who deep down wants to be a bad girl treated right. In Tony’s hands Keira is, as always, the luminous beauty that we’ve come to pant after… but she also seems believable in everything she does. When you see her doing her Bruce Lee thing, and playing with knives and a shotgun – and a pair of machineguns… she just looks like one of those girls from the old letter page of FILM THREAT magazine that had punky girls with guns. She’s awesome.
She’s also trying to find a new family, a place that she belongs and feels natural in, and wouldn’t we all like to call Mickey Rourke “Daddy” – I mean, who else would you like to have teach you to kick ass and that would watch your back when you break down the door of a gangbanger’s crib? That reminds me. Mickey Rourke. Isn’t it just heaven to have him finding his center again as a bad ass on screen? When Edgar Ramirez comes back stung by Domino – to talk with Mickey’s character – who’s laying in his hotel room watching Porn… What follows is just perfect Mickey Rourke. Know what I’m saying? He’s given dialogue that pops. And with that gravelly voice, he adds all the right sizzles. Right now, I think Mickey has found that perfect place in his career. He’s found his pace, his rhythm now. When he swaggers on to the screen he has so much just strength of character that I find myself absolutely captivated by his every word and gesture.
He’s partnered up with a strapping young badass called Choco played by Edgar Ramirez. This is his first part in an American made film, and he is absolutely awesome. His physicality is fantastic, the way he seems to just throw himself into action and into scenes. He’s an amazing performer. His character is just a slow burn – a destructive violent man that has, thanks to Mickey’s Ed, found a way to use that penchant for violence in a productive way… as a bounty hunter. He’s very very cool. His method of Arm Amputation is perhaps one of the most wonderful scenes of mayhem onscreen. In fact, anytime that Choco is onscreen – you’re always a half shake from Edgar doing something very extreme. He always takes the most direct, brutal and cruel fashion to “do the right thing!” This may be our first look at an actor that we’ll be admiring for sometime to come.
The charisma between Edgar Ramirez and Keira Knightley is very much palpable onscreen. Keira smolders in this film, and in their, ahem, scene together – you fanboys that own THE JACKET just for those great wonderful love scenes… well we get more of that here. And what can I say, Keira is absolutely lovely. I know she’s our sexiest tomboy beanpole, but that comment is almost nearly in this film and ya know… this is definitely the most tomboy she’s been, so why is it that she’s shedding that tomboy awkwardness in favor of alluring sensuality. It is nice to see that continuing to develop.
If this film’s helter skelter visual ferocity was all this film was about, it would be empty. However, you know at the heart of this film is Richard Kelly’s script and the style and the visual explosion… well it’s all there serving the script and vice versa. Richard’s writing married with Tony’s visual skill made for a fantastic match. I haven’t seen Tony this energized with material in quite some time, and the resulting film is a blast. You see, look at the cast for this… beyond those I’ve already spoken about there’s just an amazing ensemble cast.
Take Christopher Walken’s TV producer Mark Heiss… He’s fun as hell here. Lucy Liu, she’s kinda creepy cool. Jacqueline Bisset – she’s got almost zero screentime, but I ached for more and more. Then there’s Macy Gray and Mo’Nique who are absolutely hilarious in the film – but also very heartfelt. Then there’s Delroy Lindo who can be cool in Austin in August. And perhaps the coolest acting in the whole bleeding film is done by Brian Austin Green and Ian Ziering. I know that saying a couple of 90210ers were the coolest acting in the film, doesn’t bode well for many of you, but in playing themselves – they were free to laugh at the image that’s hung on both these two since landing on that show. Their moment in the elevator near the end is one of the funniest honest moments on film in a really damn long time.
Then there are, the surprise people that show up through the film. The dialogue from Mars that just absolutely makes everyone in the theater’s jaw drop and at one level be offended… and at another level you’re laughing because you can’t believe you just heard what you just heard. Or saw what you had just seen.
Whether you’re going shooting shotguns afterwards or not, this film is fun. At its heart, the film is essentially a Keira Knightley exploitation film. It features her doing a lap dance, doing the naked wild thing in the desert, shooting shotguns, blowing shit up, talking tough and taking names! Now, it doesn’t go absolutely wacko like those awesome through the roof rough films of Pam Grier… this is more polished, bigger budgeted, better cast exploitation. This is an old fashioned NEW LINE film, like the ones that made the company, only with a 21st Century polish and I really really dig that. Hopefully you will too!
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I completely thought this film would crash and burn, then sink without a trace to a watery grave. But it actually looks like an interesting movie to me now, a lot more interesting than just 90 mins of Bean Pole gawpage anyway...
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So the Kelly script is a satire on Tarantino's stomping grounds, which was already a land blanketed with quotation marks to make using old gangster and kung-fu movies seem "ironic?" How about instead of riffing upon riffs, you just......write a script. Sincerity isn't a bad thing, nor is making films with legitimate human emotions and motivations. Making patchwork movies of the bad junk released from yesteryear is simply dumping more money into making louder, bigger versions of the low rent stuff that was worthless to begin with. Utter silliness.....
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for Keira's lapdance scene.
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Seems like this picture is all that I hoped it would be. Now please, Tony, make them Warriors come out and play.
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I liked the trailer with the exception of the part where she is shooting the gun with her mouth open. I think I know what they were doing but it came off really stupid. Along with Keira's voice over. "Domino Harvey, I'm a bounty hunta". ooooooooh. Thought it was stupid.
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Ridley Scott and Tony Scott need to team up and direct a movie together under the name THE SCOTT BROTHERS. My god why can't talent collaborate like this all the time? Look what Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard did together for the Batman Begins score!
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In the ads everything's in all these weird washed out colors, it's rather distracting. Like True Romance but worse.
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If not, she has no business being filmed giving a lap-dance unless you like the small stuff.
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...that does it. The English language has officially been destroyed. I'm gonna start speaking fucking French.
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First lesson: Je suis d'accord.
Translation: I agree.
Second lesson: Je suis Zino, putain(s)!
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Oct 11, 2005 8:26:55 AM CDT
When Does "Stylized" Cross Over Into The Realm of "Irritatingly
by zombiesolutions
i want to see DOMINO, of course -- Keira Knightly is gorgeous, and i love the whole girl-bounty hunter bit -- but this overly stylized ADD approach to film has got to go. it's not hip or edgy or cool, it's irritating.
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The story seems interesting and who doesn't love a pretty gun toting cutie but I just can't get past the migraine-inducing look. It's a cliche that movies lie these are compared to Mtv videos but we're getting to the point where music videos are looking minimalistic and reserved by comparison. And knowthyself is right too, the marketing drone who was hired to sell this thing missed whatever mark he was aiming for.
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quit being such a whiny bitch. "doing her Bruce Lee thing" means hand-to-hand combat. no need to take things all literally and cry about it
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Woops, wrong catch-phrase. :p Tony Scott's BMW short "Ride with the Devil" was entertaining, but ultra kinetic to the point of inducing seizures. I'm hoping that this film is just slightly more relaxed. *friendswithbenefits.com*
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Is it the frenetic "I shot so many good images that I want ALL of them onscreen" crap he's been doing of late, or is he acting like a big boy and cutting less?
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Oct 11, 2005 9:45:36 AM CDT
keira knightley is the sexiest tomboy beanpole on the planet.
by dr.bulber
i already am sold on the dvd for its visual style alone.
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If there is anything weird about the U.S. it must be the obsession for S.U.V.-s and Bounty Hunters. Ok, the cars, we have them here in Europe. But what we don't have is Bounty Hunters. What the hell!!!??? Bounty Hunters??? What is this romantic idea of chasing bad-guys and get money for them? We have COPS in Europe to do that for us...
Anyone?
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Merci, Pacino. Actually fuck it, I'm bored with French.
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Oct 11, 2005 10:57:39 AM CDT
What Tony Scott will do to "The Warriors". Courtesy of Comingsoo
by kid ab
Domino director Tony Scott tells MyMovies.net that his remake of Walter Hill's 1979 action film, The Warriors, will take place on the West coast.
The original, which was set in New York City, centered on the Warriors gang being wrongly accused of assassinating a rival gang leader during a truce and being forced to make their way home through hostile territory.
"I see it as 'Kingdom Of Heaven' meets 'The Warriors' because with these gangs, instead of having twenty or thirty guys, I'm going to have three thousand, five thousand guys in the LA river beds and it's going to look like LA during the riots," Scott told the site. He added, "I love the original movie, that's why I'm in doing this but I'm not going to copy the original".
Scott expects to start working on the Paramount and MTV Films project in 2006.
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but, ummm...where's that awesome Oct. DVD piece?!?!?!?
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Oct 11, 2005 11:10:23 AM CDT
The US and Bounty Hunters / Cowboys / Assassins / Gangsters / Fa
by zombiesolutions
most people in the US live inside a movie; they live within a self-created fever dream of myth and fantasy which has slim to no relationship to life in the real world. this is why the Bush Administration was able to sell this riduclous notion that the Endless War is a war between good and evil where the US are the "good guys" promoting "democracy" (or whatever) while everyone else are the "bad guys." being a "bounty hunter" fits into this 5 year olds notion of cops and robbers that americans love so much -- most people around the world grow out of the cops and robbers thing, but americans actually GROW INTO IT -- rather than emerge from the fever dream of mediated fantasy, most americans become entangled in the nightmare as they get older. (for an example, watch any US news channel and be amazed at the childlike insanity of it all). furthermore, many people in the US (especially in the red states -- cue dueling banjoes here) don't realize that the western expansion and the civil war ended well over one hundred years ago. in addition, most Americans atill believe that WWII started in 1942 and that we "saved the world" from facism -- even though the truth of the matter is that we jumped in after the tide had already turned (thank you Russia! thank you Stalingrad!) and basically took advantage of the situation. aside from these mass pscyhosises, and perhaps because of them, America loves action heros and simplisitc symbol systems of good vs. evil because we have, at the bottom of our hearts, a deep inferiority and guilt complex. we invaded a land, comitted genocide, and set up shop. we're like children who did something very bad and need to be forgiven. we are not heroic, we are not the "good guys" and we are not "special" (accept, perhaps, in the PC sense -- we are retarded). so, we create these rootin' tootin' myth-realities to sustain us and distract us from the truth that we basically suck and are rapidly approaching total collapse... in a nutshell...
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Oct 11, 2005 11:19:35 AM CDT
Richard Kelly, Eli Roth and Harry must have orgies together...
by chickychow
Are there two more undeserving guys of all harry's asskissing? Not that a kiss on the ass from harry is anything special. Loos at Sin City and the Prequels...
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Last night on Leno she said that the only kind of bounty hunter she knew was the one Jabba the Hutt sent after Han Solo. That's a chick you guys could love.
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I saw it last week. Some funny stuff, a bit of action and some good T&A, but it just runs on forever. The ending seems like an obese version of the end of "True Romance." Yeah it,s bigger, but it is slower, uglier and way too padded. Also, there are some strange anachronisms for a movie that is about the recent past.
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...this looks like it's going to be a great big messy trainwreck of a movie. I can't wait.
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Oct 11, 2005 12:28:14 PM CDT
"I wouldn't support to film if Keira Knightly gave me a blow
by docpazuzu
There you go again, NewYorkKid. This is at least the third or fourth TalkBack in which you've loudly declared how you basically wouldn't touch some of the most attractive women in the world with a ten-foot pole. Could you be more obvious about your virginity? Jesus...
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This is a good movie? Man, I just can't get psyched about it. I agree with most of what the nerds stated above; that washed out look, frenetic cuts, "tarantino" gangster humor just looks so unappealing to me. I'll give it try, but...richard kelley writing this sounds somewhat interesting even though I think he is highly overrated.
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Oct 11, 2005 12:41:07 PM CDT
Keira Knightly shooting shotgus and handguns, knife fighting and
by lezbo milk
Because you really can't have that happen and not laugh your ass off right? I mean any movie that took itself seriously while having Knightly do that kind of stuff would be pretty fucking rediculous, don't you think?
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I saw Domino last week. First of all, Scott's directing -- which gives the movie a kinetic edge early on -- completely kills anything of significance in the third act. Beyond that, it's the longest two hours I've ever spent in a theater; I've never wanted a movie to be 80 minutes more than this one.
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I mean, come on, I believe in free speech, criticism, and taking an objective look, but what you posted was ridiculous. Yeah, we really got a lot out of WWII. We didn't do a damn thing but slow the Russians down. Hell, if I had my way they would have won the Cold War so we could all work in Siberia in one of those fun sounding camps!
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Oct 11, 2005 1:01:55 PM CDT
"Sure you'll have to pay but sometimes the booty is worth it
by docpazuzu
And once you're old enough to get in, NewYorkKid, I'm sure it will be.
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Mickey Rourke makes me sad. He wasted a lot of his prime years in the boxing ring, and straight-to-video hell, etc etc/blah blah. Actually that's not what upsets me most. What pisses me off more than anything is that he never made a sequel to Diner, in which he got to play out a scene where Boogie beats the absloute and complete shit out of Daniel Stern with his own organized record collection, for being such a moron in the first movie and just not banging Ellen Barkin all the time. Cataloging is for fags. BTW my online DVD collection is here... http://www.intervocative.com/dvdcollection.aspx/EmbryPotZebra
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TOM CRUISE IS STRAIGHT GOD DAMNIT!.....*whispering in background*...mmm?....say what?... *more whispering*....what!? Ahem. Apologies ladies and gentlemen I seem to have posted on the wrong thread. If Tom Cruise where here, I'm sure he'd wish you all a nice hetrosexual day. But He isn't. So...em....bye then.
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I yearn for the day when Harry objectively reviews a movie with involvement by Kelly, Eli Roth, Del Tore, Rodriguez, etc...future filmmakers of the world, just be nice to the fat man and he will have your back regardless of the quality of your work.
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you all are being glib. really really glib. (in horribly stereotypical black woman voice)dont make me hafta walk over this sofa to slap the shout outcha!
editorial note: Sorry to any for beating them to the punch with the glib/sofa reference. I'm sure your's woulda been better. But now the freshness of an unglibbed message board will only make your glib mark, no matter how good, not perform as well. Sorry again. -
You're being glib brotha! Ooooo I was wrong. They can still work.
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...on a slightly more serious note... Zombie mate, that was one of the most interesting things I've seen from you here. And the fact that you're American too, well what can I say? I owe you another beer. I might add though, that this life is a movie thing, is not just located within the states, I think it's pretty much inclusive to most of wester culture now, espically the cities, and its normal life now for self aware youth. It's all part of what happens to culture when you take away striving just to get through the day alive, not being eaten by animals, or freeze to death... Culture folds in on itself , and you have situations where peoples priorities are what's on TV, what is their favourite band/celebrity/object of lust doing in this weeks issue of Shoes n Makeup Monthly or Famous Peoples Skin Contitionds Magazine. When a human beings life becomes to removed from the enviroment that produced it in the first place, rationaily and sense of reason seem to be among the casualties...
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in the latest King Arthur flick, and I certainly don't believe she could even hold a shotgun.
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first, you are a gentleman (and a scholar)! i suppose it's good to know that the entire western world is fucked all to hell and it's not just us retards over here in the US. some cold comfort there... ___________ and i agree, on closer examination, Tom Cruise is not gay. his boyfriend er lawyer called me and said i should stop or else the Scientology Ninja Goon Squad was gonna come and do some bullet ballet on my face. (or was that bullet bukkake? whatever. he's so not gay at all. HE LIKES GIRLS! HE REALLY REALLY DOES!!! WOO!!!)
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Well you've at least got one person on your side, smart words bud! And thanks for pointing out the permanently stilted growth of the average U.S. citizen, there is something child-like that endears the rest of the world to America in a motherly sort of way, but on the same beat America should also be condemned for being over-petted, over-loved and over-fed. Err, hence the need to watch Domino.
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they're probably like Robo-girls (it's science right) or something who can do the Cleopatra hold bro, like mo' skilled than any other dude. *Valley-guy speak... off. Seriously, you ever heard of the Cleopatra hold? It's when the robo-g-, I mean the girl doesn't want to let you, and your man-hood, go... and traps you, it's not painful, it's just a strange sensation. Anyway again, that's just my two cents on Tony Scott's Domino.
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I'd just like to say I've never been happier with being happy than I ever have before in my life. This 40 year old man I'm with is the most fantastic, most heroic, most stupendous... (metal gears CLANGING, SPARKS begining to fly from Katie's neck and eyes) ... Tom is wonderful, Tom is won-won-won-wonderufl. Scientology is the best religion eve- Tom... won-won-derful. (Katie's head explodes, throwing electronic chips, and robot pieces everywhere. We'll never know how happy Robot Katie could have made Tom for the rest of his life... perhaps one day he'll untie the real Katie he has locked in his basement, and try good ole brainwashing on her one more time.)
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hehheh, it's true, thanx! i love my country, don't get me wrong, but i also think we need to grow-up and change ALOT if we are going to survive in unity with the rest of the world, instead of as the enemy of basically everyone. we're like the big dumb spoiled kid with waaay too much power. you know that whiny kid at the mall whose mom buys him everything to make him shut up? that's America. it's kinda bizarre. i know after living in Japan for a year and coming back home to the US it was like having a brick smashed in my face -- everyone was so loud and angry and petulant and arrogant; basically, like a rebelious adolescent. a child. we are a nation of children. methinks the wakeup call is a coming soon however... we're gonna have to admit our mistakes and join the rest of the world with humbleness and appreciation instead of like the smug teenage bully with a personality disorder... reality can only be held at arms length for so long... (which is why i am going to see DOMINO this weekend, of course! cause i'm a big kid too! yippee! but you know, with a serious / world weary side...)
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that was great! IMPAMPILASH! Katie is so happy because Tom doesn't want to have sex with her like all of those naughty boys at camp used to! he'd much rather talk about fashion, watch musicals, and play dress-up while listening to Madonna. he's such a special man!
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You two fucks, shut the fuck up! Over at CNN.com, on the Crossfire message board, Wolf Blitzer and Gretta Van Slutbucket are talking about this very thing right now. WHY DONT YOU GO JOIN THEM AND STOP BEING BOOOOORING
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Since you did just say something nice I take it all back. I take it all back I says! All back... Yeah, Americans/Me are assholes.
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Oct 11, 2005 2:38:32 PM CDT
Tom Cruise & Hulk Hogan respond/bicker about the announcment tha
by embrypotzebra721
Tom - This couch is uncomfortable. Hulk - Maybe you should stomp on it Broth-- hold on Brotha! Hold on! My computer just said Layer Cake's gonna be the new Bond! Tom - Have you not been saying your prayers and taking too many vitimans, Hulk? Hulk - No brotha!... Well, yes brother, but still, it's on the internet Mean-T, it's gots to be true! Tom - ....................................................... You're being glib.
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Isn't the new Bond supposed to be younger this time around? Also, isn't ANY BOND supposed to not be ugly. Even Timothy Fucking Dalton didn't look as leathery and weathered as Daniel Craig. Pierce Bronsan looks younger. Fuck, so does Sean I Like To Beat My Wife To Stay So Young Connery. This is a bad bad choice. A good actor. But a bad choice. Hopefully Matthew Vaughn will get a chance to do one of the films. But that's the only plus for this kind of news.
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Shame on you, Harry...Folks, for anybody interested, as somebody working in the industry out here in La La Land, I have seen DOMINO out here, and let me tell you: It is bad. We are talking Holy Shit, Tony Scott is going to Movie Hell for this one. Kiera Knightly is hot. Mickey Rourke is bones-to-balls BADASS. But that's it. There is no reason to go see a 2 1/2 hour dizzying fest of blah like this. This movie plays like an ode to Natural Born Killers and True Romance, minus the humor, wit and originality. They have two kids from Beverly Hills, 90210, as major characters, PLAYING THEMSELVES! Jerry Springer has almost as much screentime as Christopher Walken! This film is garbage, and I rarely say that about a movie. Add to that the fact that Scott's new "style" of visual filmmaking and visceral editing has absolutely NO FUCKING MOTIVATION AT ALL! This film is crap. I can't believe Harry's endorsing it (probably because you get to see Kiera's tits--shit, I just sold most of you on the movie).
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tiny as they may be in real life, of course we would all like to see them / touch them and give them smoochies. regardless, it is a body double doing the nude scenes, unfortunately. they did this same trick with Princess Alba's boobers in The Sleeping Dictionary (or whatever it was called). sucks.
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Can we really start talking about the guy like that when its, you know, only his second script.
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She was just on Leno last night talking about the whole ordeal of picking out a body double stuff for those scenes.
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Oct 11, 2005 3:40:48 PM CDT
i just saw on letterman that at the cinema you're not seeing
by mrgreentheplant
personally i dont care that there's a body double as long as they maintain the illusion with editing. ah the magic of cinema
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it had dead, raped deer. Cmon, this was a missed opportunity.
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yeah, the film was just really cool, ya know and like um it was just so awesome and really cool. keira is hot and like mickey rourke is just so cool...
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I do not know how to react to this news. Obviously, they are not intent on staying true to Fleming's concept of the man.
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I saw it this morning and it was a big waste of 127 minutes. Yeah, Rourke and Walken and Lindo can be vaguely amusing no matter what, but Keira has the body of a ten year old boy and the charisma of a teapot. And Richard Kelly or not, this is one of the most incoherent, dumb and pointless mess of a movie I've seen in a long time.
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Yep, it's old now but I think it has potential to be a good choice. Would Clive Owen be better? I think so. A lot better choice that Hugh Jackman or I heard..gasp...Orlando Bloom! Also, it seems everyone posting here hates the shit out of Domino.
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Oct 11, 2005 4:25:58 PM CDT
I sent Harry this link, http://tinyurl.com/c88p9 , at 10:28 am t
by l.h.puttgrass
Maybe I should have just put it in a bottle and tossed it in the gulf. Oh well, yes, there is a new Bond.
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Oct 11, 2005 5:52:54 PM CDT
GoatZinger is like a reference to someone remembering someone ta
by seppukudkurosawa
...Seriously bud, go take some more acid and trip-out to the kaleidoscopic Jayne Seymour fantasies running through your head. Because when you take those fantasies out of your head and place them on aintitcool, something gets lost in translation. You'll probably respond by calling me Sepookoo (you get what he did he added the word poo in the middle of the name. Comedic genius if ever there were one!), which is fine by me, and I'm not planning to stoop to said level and call you GoatFucker either. That would be pointless.
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Good call on the Zinger. Hopelessly unfunny and decidedly unclever. The absolute nadir of the ShtickBackers.
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Oct 11, 2005 6:37:00 PM CDT
Who To Trust: Harry or Rotten Tomatoes OR... I Wonder How Hard
by jollydwarf
On both counts, I really wonder.
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Thats just one of the encouraging quotes from Rotten Tomatoes. Another: "Abusively moronic enough to inspire something like pity." As long as its not as bad as Man on Fire...
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If this is anything like Man On Fire, which the trailer indicates might be the case, I will be very wary. I mean, there were aspects of that movie I liked - pretty much all of Denzel's flipped out murder rampage - but it really did seem to be all style no substance. And if you are going to use that kind of style, you should at least have a REASON for doing it, other than it makes a dull film move more. Still I don't think Man on Fire was as bad as people say - Denzel did a pretty good job of going Punisher on a bunch of bad guys, the kid was creepily good as always and it had Radha Mitchell in it. I have never NOT enjoyed a Tony Scott film but he really seems to be regressing into the laziest habits he has always had. Just like his brother.
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That lap dance clip just seems more indicative of all sorts of terrible than anything else. And though its neither here nor there, I liked Man on Fire, quite a bit actually.
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It's got a 5 minute Jerry Springer scene in it! It's full of nice racist stereotypes including a crazy afghan bomber! And a motorhome doing like 12 summersaults!
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Just based on the script and it's writer alone. Add in the actors, director, and the lapdance and you have yourself one hell of a fine film.
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Oct 11, 2005 11:07:10 PM CDT
"realize that this movie is being told from the mind of a drugge
by genro
and winner for "BEST-BULLSHIT-SPINNING-APOLOGIST-WHO'S-TRYING-TO-SELL-HIS-FRIENDS-AWFUL-FUCKING-MOVIE..." goes to the guy who can write the above subject and still convince himself he's honest and objective...give me a break Knowles, this review has 1998 Godzilla/Armageddon knob-gobbler stamped all over it...to surmise - "WHEN YOU HAVE TO TELL PEOPLE *HOW* TO REALIZE A NARRATIVE - IT FAILED IN REALIZING ITS NARRATIVE"...even McWeeeny understands that.
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Well if she is a ten year old boy then Im a gay pedophile wannabe. Seriously. WTF. Oh, well. I'll ignore your comment b/c if you don't like her then thats one less person in this cold cruel world that I have to go through to get to her. (commences evil laugh) Whahaha (ends laugh after 5 minutes followed by a series of large gasps). Anyway, yeah this movie looks bad. And not the goog kind of bad either.
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Since you like to write paragraph after paragraph talking about how much America sucks and is the worst country in the world, but yet, go on to say that you still love your country. And then go on to rattle on about world harmony and everything and everyone getting along, do you think you can elaborate on seeing how Islam is the fastest growing religon on the planet, and how they have sworn to turn the planet into one world under Islam ; do you think you can ponder a solution on how exactly we are going to talk these lunatics into joining this worldwide harmony of yours. And don't even start with its just a few bad apples that are giving that culture a bad name, because for the past three decades all I have seen is film footage after film footage showing tens of thousands of screaming maniacs in the streets chanting "you love life!!!we love death!!!!" and other cute little warm fuzzy muslim mantras, abusing the hell out of their women, and sending their teenage kids to be suicide bombers. Or is your solution simply that if we just leave them alone then they will leave us alone. LOL!!!! Now that truly would be a naive and zombie solution.
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That has to be your age, right?
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Arnold is reported to have agreed on doing T4 and True Lies 2 with James Cameron! http://us.imdb.com/news/wenn/2005-10-12/#3
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You're the rarest of talkbackers, GoatZinger. The kind who's so afraid of confrontation that you hide (term used loosely) any opinions you may have of the subject at hand in wads of name-dropping situational humor (another term used loosely) which is - contrary to your apparent belief - not in the slightest bit funny, witty, obscure or even mildly thought-provoking. However, it does serve the purpose you set out for it to do: it makes you so uninteresting that your opinions neither warrant comment nor stimulate any type of discussion. 99% of the time I'll wager people just read your posts and shake their heads in embarrassment. The ephemeral nature of AICN talkbacks has nothing to do with it. You obviously have opinions, but you are allergic to debate or criticism - as your recent deranged outbursts have shown when any type of attention has been drawn to you. As for GingerTwit, I generally leave him alone as long as he's not spouting any of his paranoid and/or racist political horseshit. Whenever he does, I do give him a hard time. So what? That you consider his outrageous politics and conspiracy theories less offensive than my attacks on him says just about all I need to know about you, GoatZinger.
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You do realise that the real Domino Harvey was a solid square-bodied unfeminine dyke-looking pug ugly boot?
The kinda woman that looks like she could happily break bones with her bare hands
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...nobody here believes for a second that you "toss off" anything other than what the phrase normally implies. My current job is such that I can pop in to AICN almost as often as I want. Sad? Possibly. But not as sad as the perverted effort you put into carefully constructing your odious and staggeringly unfunny nodes of TalkBack wisdom. I can't even imagine the truly mindboggling waste of time it must be to somehow include Zod, Giant Robot, Breakdancing Wizards, Petey Jax, A*P*E and all the other forced GoatZingerisms into virtually every single one of your posts.
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Quit flaming, nitwits. This is a film talkback, not a pressure valve for your frustrations. I'm sure you all have dicks the size of a peanut.
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Now the next 299.999.000. Yeah, there must be 1000 Americans out there who agree.
For you who don't understand... Go back up the talkback!
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Everyone seems to like to throw that word around. Makes me wonder how many know it doesn
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He still struggles with his "music video" style of filmmaking and it bothers me. He is like Renny Harlin and Michael Bay. Their movies look like Mtv clips from a video. Ridley Scott WAS a great filmmaker at one time. Watch Alien or Blade Runner and compare his style THEN with his style NOW (Blackhawk Down or Gladiator) and you will see that he has actualy regressed in the talent department. Usually as a director matures, they slow down their technique to make the movies more coherent and watchable. The Scotts actually manage to get crazier as they get older! Do you think Dominoe or Man On Fire will be remembered like The Godfather or Jaws or A Clockwork Orange? Oh fuck it. Who cares. Go see Domino, it is a great movie to kill 2 hours with (or you could start a garden or give your spouse a tongue bath and fuck like like crazy or take a nap or go to Target or play X-Box or watch Night Of The Lepus or play with Legos or learn orgami or clean out a closet, etc...)
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She was British and she WAS a former model, so Kiera may fit the role thus far-----http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domino_Harvey
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Oct 12, 2005 12:30:01 PM CDT
"The frenetic fever dreamed look and feel of the film is actuall
by www.valiens.com
Good to hear! I'm already tiring of the films that look like this for no reason other than "it's cool." I think it's the new cliche.
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Cause I think she is attractive. Not attractive enough to see this movie though.
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Oct 13, 2005 2:20:20 AM CDT
You can tell when Harry is writing from his heart...and when he&
by heywood jablomie
Or of the Alamo Drafthouse. Or Austin Film Society. Or whatever. I want to see more rip-their-dicks-off reviews from Harry. Let us believe you're not what Entourage says you are!
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Oct 13, 2005 3:56:14 AM CDT
Knightly and her stupid pouting lips looks like a cross between
by alexmaui2
The film is meant to suck balls so why is Harry drooling over it?
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Reviews in the UK have slated Domino as an empty movie with a miscast Keira.
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Hard to take the review seriously with the AD banner for the film flashing over it.
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Damn I love that handle of yours. Anyways, I usually agree with you on most things but I think you're being a little overly simplistic with your depiction of US citizens. I understand your point though and I must admit I'm one of those morons that thinks bounty hunters are pretty freakin' cool (maybe because of a Mr. Boba Fett...) Oh...one thing you must remember about Russia and WWII is that the US gave them quite of bit of supplies and weapons in order to fight the Germans (Lend-Lease Act I believe) that without that aid Russia would've had a much more difficult time against the Germans. Furthermore, the most celebrated tank of the WWII, the Russian T-34, was actually designed by an American. So yes any American who says that we won the war by ourselves is a fool, but don't discount our importance either. I wouldn't put too much faith in Europe for "saving" the world either considering that those countries have become so liberal that they've let immigration get out of control. Hence, Londonistan and predictions that Western Europe (if their immigration policies aren't changed) will have majority Islamic populations by the beginning of the 22nd century. I'm liberal myself but I do have pride in Western civilization and it pains me to see Westerners bashing their own culture so much. Once a people lose faith in their own culture, it's destined to be doomed. Anyways, as for Domino, it looks interesting but Tony Scott's style is overdone. As Orson Welles once said (paraphrased), "Directors who can hold a medium long shot is what separates the men from the boys." The machine gun editing of Scott's suggests to me that he doesn't have enough confidence in his shots to allow them to last more than 3 seconds.
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seriously, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, you are fucking retarded. This isn't one of those "borderline" kind of hot chicks, she is just one smoldering little minx. I can get it if you say "I like my chicks fat, with big tits", but you have to admit this girl is very, very attractive. And for anyone who thinks she looks "like a 12 year old boy", then lock me up, because I want to fuck the hell out of a 12 year old boy.
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Given that Kiera is as thin as an X-Ray, and probably thinks a three course meal is a tablet of Xanax, Tylenol and Prozac ... did she ever looking capable of lugging any of that artillery around? I mean - honestly.
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Oct 13, 2005 5:49:16 PM CDT
This movie looks like ass, and I'm not normally into bony ch
by minderbinder
But DAMN is Kiera hot.
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Oct 13, 2005 7:37:28 PM CDT
I hope its not edited like Man on Fire..that movie was just anno
by jon e cin
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With a score like that..I can't really see it being good..
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Oct 13, 2005 7:43:58 PM CDT
"DOMINO falls into the realm of stylized filmmaking with the sat
by jon e cin
Replace stylized with "crappy" and "perfectly" with annoyingly and you got yourself a review.
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Oct 13, 2005 9:30:03 PM CDT
Harry, do we really need a million banner ads for the SAME PRODU
by iamjack'suserid
Not complaining, because I love playing 'synchronize the 8 banner gifs on this one page' game. : /
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For a second I wondered what the difference between Keira & a 12 year old boy... and assumed that the 12 year old boy probbably has bigger breasts... I then flogged myself in shame with one of my Grandfather's golf clubs. But Im willing to bet Keira is better in bed then a 12 year old boy... I'm just not sure I can get into that whole 'boney knees, elbows, and hips jabbing into you' thing. I mean... when her spine starts to crackle and pop, I bet it sounds like the 12 year old boy jumping into a pile of freshly raked fall leaves! What ya gonna DO BROTHER?!?!?
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The problem wasn't the story or the editing... they HEAVILY altered the movie after testings in USofA upset advance screening viewers. Originally, the Girl dies MESSILY in the beginning of the film, and after a barely recognisable and dismembered corpse is recovered, Denzel goes on his rampage. But as the carnage progresses, he starts finding clues that the body they had found may have actually been a 2nd missing girl, and not the one he was supposed to protect. He gets hope, and doubles his efforts (as well as the carnage)... and finally finds... the second missing girl, confirming the mess they found early on in the film WAS his girl. He frees her, leads her out of the building to safety, and after she runs off, he falls to his knees and loads the bullet that missfired earlier in the film. He jams the barrel in his mouth and pulls the trigger, and this time it fires.. The End. Audiances hated it.. so the Studio had em reshoot and butcher it.
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Oct 13, 2005 11:07:27 PM CDT
And the award for overly graphic description of their closet ped
by seppukudkurosawa
LargoJr. Brilliant show, sir!
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that I'm busy trying to get the blood out of my clown suit? Damn Elementary School Fairs...
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Actually, the T-34 was designed by the Soviets. It did have a heavily modified version of the American Christie suspension system, but that was it. American tanks at the time had no armor which could even be compared to the Soviet counterparts, so it doesn't make much sense for the U.S. to have designed monster tanks like the T-34 for foreign powers while at the same time cranking out inferior versions back home. The U.S. actually shipped loads of Shermans to the Soviet Union but the Russians thought they sucked on the battlefield.
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Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
I see Moriarty doesn't agree:
http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=21551
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As Humphrey Bogart said in Casablanca, "I was misinformed." In any event, my point remains the same that US supplies played an important role in the Russian war machine. I don't know if the T-34 is quite the "monster" you describe it as, but it was certainly a well armored tank. The German Tiger was truly a monster tank in every aspect.
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My dad grew up in the same neighborhood as a guy who was a sailor on a U.S. ship that ran goods and weapons to the Soviets during the war. Apparently he had some harrowing tales about convoys being under constant attack. As for the T-34, its massive and angled deflecting armor along with its superior guns won the day at the battle of Kursk. It was only after that battle that the Germans began improving both their armor and guns on the Tigers as well as the subsequent Leopard tanks, turning them into even more monstrous combat vehicles than the T-34s. The simpler design of the T-34 meant that they could be churned out in massive numbers as well, so the Soviets were still able to keep up with and finally crush the Nazi armor on the eastern front.
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Oct 14, 2005 1:08:04 PM CDT
"It was his script and as such a towering work of genius as usua
by jigzaw
Harry!!! As usual??? He's only made one other movie. And that was, like, years ago.
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That's an interesting tale about your Dad's neighbor. I saw a T-34 at a museum recently and while it dwarfed the puny Sherman next to it, I didn't think it was quite the monster that it's described as. But that may have been an earlier model...anyways...I don't know if you've ever played Close Combat III but it can be quite addictive especially when you have a lot of tanks under your command. I think it may be out of print now but it's worth playing if you like WWII real time strategy games. When you have a group of Tigers or a Leopard under your command as the Germans...it's pretty amazing with that 88mm gun. From what I recall the Germans just couldn't produce enough of their monster Tigers and Leopards for them to make a significant impact on the field, but I'm probably mistaken and I'm sure you'll correct me. ;-)
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Harry, Domino might be one of the most awful films in recent memory. Are you kidding me posting that piece of crap fluff piece. Tony Scott has taken his frantic bleached out style to an all time low. Tarantino must be laughing his ass off at this rip off. Domino makes Man on Fire look like a masterpiece. But hey, your buddy wrote the script, so who really cares. Thanks god you have Moriarty, who consistently brings some sort of balanced and intelligent opinion to this site.
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Exactly how is this movie superior to Serenity? Almost everyone I have spoken to loved Serenity, and you are the only person I can find who liked this particular piece of dung.
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Sure took you long enough to respond, GZ. It's been fun watching you ping-pong back and forth in the TalkBacks this week. First, someone actually responds to your sad associative performance art, sending you into a ludicrous, frothing rage. Then you proceed to get ass-reamed by several other talkbackers in other TBs, resulting in you toning down your intolerable noodlings for a day or so and actually posting opinions that made some sort of sense and almost seemed like part of a debate. However, it seems that you didn't remain chastened for long and have since returned in full Bombadilic assholery. Now, with you once more flying into a rage we begin another cycle. What's most hilarious is your yelling in caps for me to "scroll by" posts I don't like rather than read them and respond to them. One might wonder why you don't do the same when it comes to "Sir Petey" TBs since he seems to make your miniscule dick itch so much. Also, I believe it was you who started this cycle by commenting on something I posted - instead of listening to your own sage advice, apparently.... "Damnation I think my 5 year old has more grasp on this then you do"....... I sincerely hope you're referring to your inner five-year-old, because the thought of a poor child living in the emotional prison of being the son of GoatZinger is too ghastly to contemplate.
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Kiera having the ass of a 12 year old boy, and when she turned sideways all you can see is IT and her nose ( eyelashes? Or was it about how Domino was a slightly attractive Tomboy with delusions of adequacy, and died of a overdose a month ago? Or was it about how this film with be another name-slapping crapfest? Was it about how Domino was a Lesbian who actually hated the film and was trying to sue to have it changed before she died? Damn.. I need to go find that thread then... not sure how I ended up in the middle of a verbal vomitfest.
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What fucking movie did you watch, Harry?
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...needlessly drag Serenity into all this. Then again, since the topic of the day is lousy crapfest movies, I suppose then, it's fittingly appropriate. But you're right Heffaloo; Harry must be retarded to think that this was any better that Serenity. I think Moriarty was the one who's so far hit the nail on the head by finding both movies to be the crapola buffets that they really are.
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Ha! I knew it would suck!
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dude, i have been visiting this site for quite some time, since before it was famous, and i have to say, lately, seriously, i think harry's finally allowed himself to be bought off
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