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Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I quite liked DISTURBIA and am looking forward to Shia LaBeouf and DJ Caruso's follow-up to that flick: EAGLE EYE.
Especially now that Michael Chiklis is attached. He'll play the Secretary of Defense, of all people.
If you don't know, the flick is about an unlikely pair (a single mother and a young slacker) who are both framed as terrorists and are forced to clear their names by joining a terrorist cell that are planning a political assassination. Billy Bob Thornton and Rosario Dawson are also part of the flick.
I've heard the script is really strong. I might have access to a copy, so I'll give it a read soon. What do you folks think?
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Damn too soon.
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I'm glad he's doing something better now. Looks like a good cast. The same can't be said for GI-JOE currently.
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give it some gravitas please
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Quint for GLA.
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Season 7(The Shield) is scheduled to premiere April 1st. And what kind of name is Shia? Sounds like the name of some suishi bar or whatever the fuck..
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The script had better be strong because that premise sounds ridiculous as hell. But if Chiklis is in it I'll probably go see it.
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Because that was a giant national disaster.
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Like a big flaming turd. I shit upon anything TheBeef does.
This movie sounds like something direct to FX or the USA channel. -
Should star as Green Lantern in the upcoming George "I Cornhole Gerbils" Miller JLA movie. Harry can be Darkseid, except his Omega Beams come from his belly button, and Moriarty can be Moriarty, the lamest villain since "Crazy Quilt" (http://tinyurl.com/yq358o)!
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You see? It all just runs together. And I am sure that this ham-fisted movie will portray the United States as the evil tyrant that most in Hollywood have masturbatory day-dreams about. I can picture it now...the evil Michael Chiklis/Donald Rumsfeld character is personally listening in to (illegal) NSA wire taps when he overhears (illegally) what just happens to be a completely innocent conversation (ohh…feel the love and compassion that only liberals can give) between said single mother (big shocker on that one!) and hero/slacker. “Terrorists!!!” (Rumsfeld/Chiklis exclaims in a voice and manner similar to the old lady on the plane in the new Harold and Kumar trailer.) Listen, it is old and played out. The government isn’t the bad guy here. The FUCKING TERRORISTS are. Who does Hollywood really think runs the show here? The Pentaverate? Yeah! It’s the Queen, the Vatican, the Getty’s, the Rothschild’s and Col. Sanders, before he went tets up! Those beedy little eyes, and the chemicals he put in his chicken…
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fight a GIANT FUCKING SPIDER in the third act!
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I'll bet Billy Bob is the framer and Rosario flashes her titties.
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but I think it's just the political climate of the times that you think the government is unfairly demonized. I for one believe our government is vastly populated by well-intentioned and good individuals, BUT controlled by the most vile, corrupt and greedy politicians. I don't know if you've seen it, but you may find Robert Greenwald's War Profiteers of Iraq a very interesting doc. Despite the title, it's a calmly reasoned investigation of the contractors who have reaped billions in profits to the detriment of the military and civilian workers alike. I'm not being radically activist here, you can judge for yourself. It features tons of interviews with military, governmental, civilian and contractor personnel from CACI, Halliburton, Titan, Blackwater and others.
As for this movie, political intrigue has been the bedrock of thrillers since the birth of cinema. It's no different now than when North By Northwest and Marathon Man came out. I'm no Shia fan but the movie sounds intriguing. Disturbia was, IMO, extremely lame but had some potential. This could be an improvement. -
I also want to say that you're right in that we need to keep the eye on the ball - that is, to combat terrorists. But my opinion is that our government is utterly unprepared to do just that. If you watch that doc you'll understand that their primary goal, above all, is profit. Not the safeguarding of America.
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Is this thing on?
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Well I'm barging in again :)
I can't put my faith in documentary's anymore. Especially with political ones. There's always some hidden impetus trying to sway you to one side. If you want my opinion, and nobody ever wants my opinion, the secret to combating terrorism lies in cutting off the supply. A strategical strike on their weapons and various resources. Let them dry out, so to speak. That won't happen of course because there's money in war and oil in Iraq. I'm not american, and I'm not politically minded but I think the middle-eastern people are narrow-minded and barbaric. Their religion treats women like shit.
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First time it's worked for a while. Anyway, this sounds boring as fuck, but who am I to judge? More to the point, how does someone prove they're not a terrorist by joining a terrorist cell? Just saying, is all...
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Wait a second....He's right!
How the hell does that work?
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Striking weapons and resources is a deterent, but hardly a cure. Military strikes just infuriate the indigenous people and lead to an inbred hatred that lasts through generations. On documentaries, it's kind of hard to find one that's totally objective these days. I actually saw "Sicko" being vaunted as "Michael Moore's funniest documentary yet", as though the modus operandi of the thing was to humour the masses. Unbelievable.
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His best movie was A GUIDE TO RECOGNIZING YOUR SAINTS. Hands down.
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We are framed for being terrorists, lets go join a cell trying to assasinate someone to clear our names!
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I ain't talking about airstrikes. Just cutting them off from the world. Matt Damon said it best in Syriana "A hundred years ago, you were cutting each others heads off in the desert and you'll be doing it again in another hundred"
Michael Moore? He's too self-righteous and ready to take jabs at people. He's the negative of Bush but that doesn't make it good.I'd like to see how many Iraqi civilians have been killed then weigh it up against "terorists". -
direct-to-DVD with each mention...BSB, add Three Days Of The Condor to mid-seventies paranoid politcal thrillers...
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they used the "Family Guy" manitee script generator!
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It can't be as bad as Wanted. Haven't seen it, but they're just shitting all over the graphic novel and setting it on fire. I can't see it being good. Really can't.
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I read strikes as air-strikes. It has to be remembered, though, that it was Christian missionaries who introduced the idea beheading to the Middle-East. It's just unfortunate that they really took to it.
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Jan 08, 2008 10:38:17 AM CST
They're accused of being terrorists, so they become terrorists?
by iammrmonkey!
Huh?
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...do they mean that there are so many pages you can prop up broken tables with it?
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This guy is like the Ted McGinley of movies, when he's involved it's almost automatic crap. Mutt Williams....good luck Eagle Eye producers. You better have a shitload of cool special effects to save this movie.
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Come on. Really?
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chick-less.
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He's already the Jar Jar of the real world.
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They need special effects to cover up Shita's presence. Maybe CGI John Wayne or a Stallone over him in every scene.
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to the Middle East?
Actually the hard core Islamists do it to pay tribute to Mohammand, who would behead some of the people he conquered who would not convert to make a point.
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Surely I don't have the definitive nor comprehensive solution to fighting all terrorists, but what I do know is that any military strategy must be an adjunct to a primary diplomatic and political strategy. All military experts agree on that, only the wingnuts and Fox and the war profiteers don't.
As for the Middle Easterners - you need only look at the moderates in the region - moderate countries and moderate people within the more Islamist countries - to see that not all people fit your perceptions about them. And I think that understanding is important to combating terrorists. Terrorists use propaganda and brainwashing to recruit. They paint Westerners with a broad stroke just like the NeoCons do Middle Easterners. That kind of wall and antagonism between cultures, in a globally-connected world, can only fuel more extremism, and more terrorism. I implore you to be more open-minded about them as I would implore them to be about us. -
I agree that I've not seen a documentary in recent times that doesn't portray a definite point-of-view, especially when they involve social and political issues (as opposed to docs on nature). The docs I most respect are from Frontline. But if you haven't seen Robert Greenwald's Profiteers of the Iraq War, and if you even have a cursory interest, you should give it a try. As I wrote above, Greenwald examines a number of companies who have made billions of tax-dollar sourced profits and their links to Senators and Reps. If you think the old $100 hammer at Nasa story was an example of ridiculous government waste, try $300 for a case of Coca-Cola. Drivers paid 6 times more than a soldier doing the same task. But that's relatively negligible compared to the cost of human lives caused by a shifting of funding and responsibilities from the military to the private contractors. The doc cites facts, and interviews with former military and contractor personnel. It's important information everyone should be aware of.
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There was a time when I would've agreed with you. In Ireland people are quick to slam foreign nationals for coming over for work. I like to ask them where we were a hundred years ago and then I tell them we were going stateside by the boat load and putting up skyscrapers. As for the middle-eastern issue. I don't care if they blew up a bus or not and I don't care if it's their culture. It's inhu-fucking-mane to make women wear a black veil in the fucking desert. It robs the people of any dignity and respect I might have otherwise had for them. It's the 21st century and people are more concerned with being pc than tackling a nation and a culture raised amidst hatred and violence.
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you see the media is a tricky business. There's a lot of money in it and the people in it want to assure a steady flow of money (which seems fair enough). However when you're dealing with the likes of Documentaries or News programs the truth needs to be stretched and warped in order to sit right with the masses. I don't need to talk about ABC news and how they scare the shit out of people. Sadly the truth is something we can never face in it's entirity. There's always another side to the story. Nothing is ever black or white but a different shade of gray. But alas gray doesn't bring in the dollars/clams/spondooley...etc
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Does anyone suppose he's got another Sly multi-day QA thing lined up for next week? I would cream my jeans. As for Shia, I could pretend to be a hater, but I can't say I am. He was okay in TINO. As the voice of Cody in Surf's UP, he was great. I've had plenty of chances to assess and reassess that one, given that my kids have it on heavy rotation. Beau Bridges (or was it Jeff?) is also great as Big Z.
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I've seen his name thrown around but I honestly don't have a clue.
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In the case of Greenwald's doc I recommended, it's worth noting that profit is not his motive. I say that with confidence because he encourages people to copy his work and share it with everybody. He's done a number of docs but this is one I was most impressed by, at least upon recent re-viewing.
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Jan 08, 2008 2:15:00 PM CST
McG is a movie director - he did the Charlie's Angels
by bringingsexyback
movies. Total hack, and acts like a douche in "real life".
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I have quite a few Muslim friends and acquaintances, and I assure you they don't wear burkas nor do they force it upon their women. Muslims come from a variety of cultures. Some are Arab, some are Persian, Indonesian, and many from Eastern Europe - making them native Euros/Caucasians. To many women, burkas are a traditional garb, not a symbol of repression. I'm no expert on Islam, but I can tell you the range of opinions, beliefs and customs are as wide as they are in the Christian world, where you have everything from Catholics to Presbyterians and everything in between. Not all Muslims are terrorists, just as not all Irish Catholics were IRA. There's extremism in every culture.
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Cheers mate. I feel like a retard but I'm glad I know. Alright, fair enough, I'll check out this Greenwald guy. If it's like you say it is, I'll dig it! I know this is straying a bit but did you see that doc on Joe Strummer? He had a really hard time post-Clash, which I had no idea of. Pretty insightful.
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as reciprocation. I'm Netflixing it now. Thanks EG1.
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Ok, well I can't argue with that. I don't know any Muslim people so my judgement is flawed at best. I retract the previous statements.
Ah the IRA....Let me count the ways!
I work in a piece of shit cinema house in Dublin. the older staff told me back in the 70's, they used to have to double check every seat in the cinema if a person from the North went in to watch a film. One of the usherettes found a brown paper bag in the ladies room and freaked out! Pretty funny but also quite prejudiced...
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and the Middle East, but imagine it being exponentially greater. Ireland's conflict was about soverignty, religion and land. Take that, and add in control over the world's most valuable and richest resources (oil, gas, diamonds, minerals, etc.), then you have the basis for the greatest conflict man has yet to see. I'm talking the MidEast and Africa here. And in the future, we're going to see conflicts over more land and water due to global warming.
That's why I say we need to focus on solutions and not extending conflicts. We need to get over our cultural differences and realize we need a solution to sharing and distributing the world's resources, instead of killing to control them. -
Viable ones ... not an easy solution but our leaders (read: Bush and Cheney) don't even entertain the idea, being the fucking oil men they are.
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I'm not a big pessimist but I really don't hold out a of hope for mankind.
I'm not religious in any way, shape or form. Therefore, I don't think the human race is that important (and I'm not atheist either). the fact that any of us can go at any time tells me we're no more significant than our pets. Taking that into consideration, I ask myself if we as a race are worthy of survival. We haven't really earned the respect and admiration of mother nature. We can't even get along with each other. We are flawed and imperfect from the get-go. The world will probably sort itself out (that is if the sun doesn't go nova), but I doubt if we'll be around to see the good times roll. -
It might have a chance as a comedy, but I'm guessing that's not the case.
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I love life. It's great!
I'm just taking a step back and taking a long hard look at our situation. -
They churn out sequels fast these days.
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Jan 08, 2008 3:31:07 PM CST
EVILGEEK - SEE, I JUST LEARNED SOMETHING NEW FROM XIPHOS
by bringingsexyback
Despite the rampant vitriol in Talkbacks, occasionally we have educational discourse. Love it.
And you must be young. I say that because if I were in my late teens and early 20s today I'd be pretty depressed and feel hopeless too. But now I look towards the future and my place and the place of my future kids, in it. Like my parents, I want their world to be a better time for them than I had it. With all the technological advancements we have every month and year, I know we can have a bright future. If only we can solve the other problems. -
Gotta run out and check for CloverCrabManatee sightings.
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I'll watch "Chikky-baby" fuck anything that moves. Even LeBoeuf.
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Yeah whatever. Just remember. That much cheese is bad for the cholesterol. Keep reaching for that rainbow dude.
I'm going to play Call of Duty. All this talk of cultures, I wanna blow some eastern europeans away.
Slan leat -
THAT. IS. ALL.
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The Shield rules.
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he plays "Name Dropper #2"...but the twist is, he just drops a vaguery instead of a name. it's a Shyamalan twist!
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Jan 08, 2008 11:33:28 PM CST
ODDLY ENOUGH A GOOD FRIEND OF MINE IS IN THIS TOO ...
by bringingsexyback
She's a hair stylist and is responsible for relaxing Shia's jewfro. I'll find out from her how kinky his hair really is.
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Actually he just fucked one of the hair and makeup girls, but damn... small world, eh?
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No. Not really. But a girl can dream...
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Looks like the Legend monsters
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They churn out sequels fast these days.
. . . . . I don't get it, but I really want to. -
that movie was weak at best
Also I think eagle eye would be funnier (and a better movie) if the slacker son didn't care enough to help them get out of their predicament. And was too stupid because he had been slacking off all his life. -
But far more entertaining and brutal IMO. How can you beat a series that has Salvatorian grenade gangs,Cops on the downlow,Murdering your partner and best friend in fear of being ratted on,the rape of a police commisioner,The conspiracy behind Vic's austistic kids, Vic boning a IAD's wife out of revenge,and a sadistic Armenian Mob..uh, it just does'nt get any better. (0:As for the Joe Strummer doc, yeah there were some interesting revelations about the guy, is it as good as Filth and the Fury, hell naw but a great tribute to the Punk legend. I personally recommend End of the Century.
Johnny Ramone was one of the best Guitar players out there, but man was he a prick. -
that is complete and utter horseshit. It has absolutely nothing in common with the islamic problems of the moment. It doesn't even come near. Americans are so painfully ignorant about the "troubles", yet constantly in places like Boston proudly proclaim their fraudulent oirishness that it drives me mad. *grumbles to himself*
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I said ... if you take the N. Ireland problems (which did include terrorism, no?) and multiply them *exponentially*, that's basically the problem we have in the MidEast and Africa. Stop grumbling.
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Hollywood should give him MORE roles!
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Otherwise you're being boyhandled which just sounds wrong.
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I've waited 13 years for this sequel so it has to be good, right? Is Mr. Lou Gosset, Jr. still playin cranky ol' Chappy?
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notice in my original joke, I referenced your non-name name dropping...it was humorous to me. and I more or less agree with you about the IRA/islamic terrorist association. what the hell is the world coming to?
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Thank you. I haven't laughed that hard in a while... you rock.
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If I remember correctly he was one of the looped voices that I could sorta hear while the camera spun around and showed extreme closeups of cans getting recycled that could've been interpreted as robot fights or something.
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