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The DoubleHeader You've All Been Waiting For! Vern Reviews STARSHIP TROOPERS 3 And ROGUE!!
STARSHIP TROOPERS 3: MARAUDER
I've been sort of looking forward to this new STARSHIP TROOPERS, and if you got a problem with that too bad because I've gotten enough "are you gonna review Starship Troopers 3?" emails to know that we can take you. Ed Neumeier takes over as director this time, which means the satirical tone remains since this is the guy who wrote all three STARSHIP TROOPERS as well as ROBOCOP. And, uh, ANACONDAS: THE HUNT FOR THE BLOOD ORCHID. I didn't know that, I just found that out on IMDB. Hmmm. I had not considered watching that one. This changes everything. This could be the big one.
If you saw STARSHIP TROOPERS 2: HERO OF THE FEDERATION you may or may not remember that it was pretty different from the first one. They scaled it down for DTV, making it into mostly a one-location siege kind of story and incorporating smaller bugs that implant themselves in people's brains or something. The good part is it was directed by the effects legend Phil Tippett so it ended up having the best effects I've seen in a DTV movie.
For part 3 they got somebody else doing the effects (pretty crappy) but the story is much more in line with the first one. It expands on the mythology and themes of the STARSHIP TROOPERS universe in a somewhat charmingly cheap-ass DTV sort of way. A lightly grizzled Casper Van Dien returns as Johnny Rico "the hero of Planet P," now a colonel and still following orders to bravely kill the shit out of swarms of giant alien bugs who threaten freedom and liberty and all that. The war goes on and has escalated a little bit because there is a new piece of bug technology, a sort of bug grenade that's like a huge pill bug that gets tossed into your trench, opens up and shoots out electricity. I like that. Not that much of a threat to the humans though, at least compared to their new Q-Bomb, which can crack a planet in half.
Rico reunites with an old girlfriend named Lola (Jolene Blalock - Johnny likes lady pilots with giant lips) and her new boyfriend, General Dix Hauser (Boris Kodjoe). Lola likes Dix alot, she really really likes Dix. She just can't get enough Dix. Rico I think also likes Dix but you know Dix, obviously I don't need to tell you about Dix. So there's always a chance Rico will decide he has had enough of Dix. But remember, this is Colonel Johnny Rico we're talking about, he can handle Dix if he needs to. He can take it.
(I think Neumeier is smart enough to know that by naming a character Dix Hauser he has made the movie into an interactive game. You will not be able to restrain yourself from talking to the movie about Dix.)
I can't decide if this is good or bad, but Rico has grown slightly as a character. He's still completely loyal to the Federation and its genocidal/pesticidal goals, but he's a little more aware of the grey areas than Dix is. For example when they go to a bar and get hassled by some yahoo farmers Rico tries to make peace with them and acknowledges that their way of life has been ruined by the war and it makes sense for them to be resentful. Most soldiers are not this enlightened, so they all applaud the televised hangings of war protesters on the TV and it causes tensions. I guess sports bars are pretty different in the future.
Rico ends up thinking for himself a little too much and almost gets executed, which sort of betrays the straightfaced sarcasm of Verhoeven but does make him a slightly more sympathetic hero. Don't worry, he doesn't turn against the Federation. He ends up leading the charge to clean up a complicated mess involving betrayal, religion, secret conspiracies, a crash landing, and of course a bug that looks suspiciously vaginal. And in fact (SPOILER) one character enters bodily into the giant vagina. Sadly, it's not Dix that enters into the vagina bug. The bug doesn't get any Dix. For what it's worth though there is a little more casual co-ed nudity, and at the very end Johnny does get to wear a robot suit like you guys have been whining about since 1997.
I am also prepared to say that I think Casper Van Dien does a pretty good job. It's good to see him back, I think he's kind of cool in it. In my opinion he is not Marlon Brando or Laurence Olivier however he does know how to play a gung ho character like this who when asked by his executioner for his last words asks "Will you get on with it?"
I think part of what makes the original STARSHIP TROOPERS so fun is that it's hard to believe they actually got to make that movie. It's so epic and obviously expensive and glamourizes these intentionally vapid characters blindly following a war-hungry government. DTV sequels obviously lose that because they don't seem as subversive and of course they don't have as many toys to play with. But if you can get past that and you enjoy this world then there is goofy fun to be had. There's alot more of the Federal Network propaganda, the highlight being the character of Sky Marshall Anoke (Stephen Hogan), a high ranking military official, psychic and pop star beloved for his patriotic anthem "A Good Day To Die." It's a good song, so perfectly clueless and insidious it should get some kind of DTV Oscar. You get to hear it again on the end credits (too bad they didn't redo it as a radio version with Bebe and Cece Winans or somebody).
There were a few bits where I thought the satire got obvious by being too specific - characters use real lines from the Bush years such as "People need to watch what they say." On the other hand there are times when it's a little unclear what exactly they're trying to say, like there's a whole thread about religion being outlawed and frowned upon, but there are hardcore Christians within the ranks and then there's a conflict between Christian God and Bug God... I'm not sure what they're getting at but I guess I kind of like that. I'm sure it leaves me with more to mull over than the recent DTV sequels to LOST BOYS or WARGAMES would.
Would you like to know more?
The DTV includes a making of, commentary, exte--
Wait, you said no? You don't want to know more? Ah fuck.
Okay, well there's another movie coming to DVD this week called ROGUE. It was midnight meat trained onto a mere 10 screens in the US so to us it might as well be DTV. The cover just shows a giant bloody crocodile mouth along with two other "don't even consider watching this crap" signs: the Dimension Extreme logo and a giant "UNRATED" stamped under the title WITH BLOOD DRIPPING! I mean, can you even imagine how NOT rated this fucker is, there is BLOOD DRIPPING OFF OF THE DESCRIPTION OF THE RATING! WHICH IN THIS CASE IS NOT A RATING AT ALL BUT IN FACT THE LACK OF A RATING! WITH BLOOD! HOLY FUCK!
What you have here is one of those covers designed to ward off the people who would enjoy the movie and attract the people who would not. This could definitely be R-rated, it's hardly a gorefest at all, it's not "extreme," and it's too bad the Weinsteins didn't let someone with taste and competence of some kind buy it. If those pricks had taken a 90 minute break from ruining everything they would've seen that it's not some shitty CGI bloodfest, it's actually a very well-made Australian suspense thriller from Greg Mclean, director of WOLF CREEK. Definitely not something they would be interested in.
I know WOLF CREEK is a divisive movie. To me it's one of the better horror movies of recent years despite the anticlimactic ending, to most critics it's the most shocking and amoral filth that has ever been put on film, to some of my buddies it's just not very good. But even zero-stars Roger Ebert admitted it was well directed so hey, how 'bout if this guy does a movie about a big crocodile instead of a murderer? Will that appease you guys? Or do you think it will give crocodiles ideas?
I don't know about you but when I think "giant crocodile movie" I think crappy photography of some ugly swamp location, some bad actors, and way too many shots of a really bad CGI croc. This is the opposite. Believe it or not I think some people would enjoy it just for the photography and scenery. This has got to be the best use of HD in a horror movie to date because it looks like Attenborough's PLANET EARTH series. The story follows a tour boat down a river in the northern territory of Australia, and they work in all this amazing footage of animals, insects and incredible natural landscapes.
Instead of trying to make everything fast and noisy like so many youths do, McClean has an old school cinematic feel. I was hooked before anything even happened, just from the dialogue-free opening minutes of star Michael Vartan (21st century Luke Perry) getting out of a bus in the middle of nowhere, smoking a cigarette and walking into a little tavern with gory croc attack newspaper clippings on the wall. This guy is a travel writer, but not an adventurer. A professional tourist. This has some of the same themes as WOLF CREEK: tension between locals and tourists, and the natural beauty and spookiness of Australia.
Vartan goes on this tour boat, and just as they're about to turn back and head home somebody spots a flare. They go further down the river than they should to check it out and get attacked and stranded by this giant crocodile. Actually I should say large crocodile, because this one is 7 meters long and Mclean informs us on the extras that there is a real one somewhere that's 7.5 meters. They use the metric system in Australia, by the way, I don't know how many feet that is but it's alot in my opinion.
The croc is kind of like JAWS, he is mostly a menacing unseen presence. Usually when he eats somebody (which is surprisingly often) it happens so quick you barely see it. Later you do get a good look at him and there's enough animatronics and restrained enough animation that it looks pretty real. They make him move like a real animal, this is not like those speed fiend CGI gators in ERASER.
You know, this could've easily been retooled into DISNEY'S THE JUNGLE CRUISE. It looks like the same boat and everything. But then they would've had to have Eddie Murphy or somebody as the captain instead of the lovely Radha Mitchell.
Mclean gets some great suspense out of the different escape plans they come up with. There were times that the sudden devouring of characters off camera without much mourning started to stretch the realism, and James Cameron's homie Sam Worthington's instant flip from asshole to hero seemed a little drastic. But every time I thought it might be losing its steam suddenly something would happen that would make me say "Oh shit!" It's a very tense movie.
And you know it's not just that it's an effective thriller, it also has these little touches here and there that you just don't expect in a large to giant crocodile picture. Like there's this character Russell, played by an unrecognizable John Jarrat (the killer from WOLF CREEK, now meek and wearing a fake belly). When he gets on the boat he has two tickets, but he's by himself. He doesn't really explain it and you wonder what that's all about. He's very quiet. Later, when they're all enjoying the beauty of nature and shit and he thinks nobody's looking he takes out a small urn and pours some ashes over the side. Clearly his loss is an important part of where he's coming from as a character, but they never have him talk about it directly, and the little girl on the boat is the only one who even finds out about it.
What I'm trying to say is this is pretty different from a BOA VS. PYTHON type of movie, in my opinion.
Mclean is 2 for 2 if you ask me. I hope he makes another one soon, but unfortunately his brilliant cinematographer Wil Gibson died last year. That might be what's delaying him.
Anyway, good week for DTV. If you have to pick one I definitely vote for ROGUE, which is legitimately good as opposed to STARSHIP TROOPERS 3's enjoyable goofiness. But you know what man? Don't be a Dix about it. Just rent both of them.
--Vern
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...excited for Starship Troopers 3.
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At the movie theater. I was struck by how it almost looked like a parody of the first movie, which is quite a feat. Vern, I probably got more entertainment out of your reviews than either of these movies, so thanks for that, I guess...I'll be skipping ST3 and maybe catch the other one on Cinemax2 or something.
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I'll admit, I knew of it. I'm just asking what others will inevitably ask.
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is one of the worst fucking pieces of shit I've ever seen in my life. If this movie was a person, your dog's asshole would be bleeding when it left your home. That's how bad it is.
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...a bit I saw on HowItShouldHaveEnded.com where they parodied the original film briefly in a mention that the best way to fight giant alien bugs is with an army of "soap opera stars." Sums it up nicely, dontchathink. However, that said, I'm with you...I think the original film was eager, earnest, doofy fun - an almost subsersively obvious parody of the old mid-20th-Century propaganda movies and war films. Of course, they had better effects and were overall more believable, but the dialogue certainly hadn't improved any. Still, it worked for what it was. Sequels? Not looking forward to them. I never saw the second film, but the third's trailer was everywhere when I went to see Dark Knight. Casper Van Dien has sort of become like McG - thy very name is a punchline. Deserved or undeserved, the only movie I ever saw him turn in a decent performance in was Sleepy Hollow. Otherwise, he's just pretty, blond, and tall, and he can remember dialogue. That's...about it. Probably a nice guy otherwise, but I'm not going to pay money to see a film just because he's in it. (Though, as I said, the first Troopers movie was okay.) I probably shouldn't bash on Van Dien so much, because he's probably an okay sort, but...like McG...it's so easy to do. Of course, I relented on McG after his Terminator plea, so maybe I should lighten up on Casper. He seems like such a friendly soap opera star, after all.
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Thanks Vern. I'll check them out as soon as I can. Great reviews.
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and I had no problem with part two. A bad sequel beats the best reimagining any day.
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...is there a shower scene and does Miss Blalock show da goods?
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It was fairly obvious it would never get a good sequel. I actually enjoyed the forst one. It was cheesy, guilty fun that made fun of it's audience. The CG show was a lot closer to the Heinlein novel, though.
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Aug 04, 2008 5:30:11 PM CDT
I dont get why Starship 1 has to be a "GUILTY PLEASURE"
by dannyglovers_dickblood
What a way to pussy foot around a bad ass action film. The CG and action destroy nearly any action film of today. Its got a bad ass rousing original score, and smokin' hot chicks blasting giant fucking bugs. Grow some fuckin' balls and hold that classic up high and proud. Fuck.
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Too bad. Pass.
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I don't get why the first flick is a guilty pleasure, either. It's satire, baby! Plus it's got some awesome action, to boot, some T & A (like all Verhoeven) and, you're right, a kick-ass score.
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This is crying out for prequel treatment.
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...is sheer genius. You get kick-ass carnage, titties, space battles, gore and not least of all, razor-sharp satire. How often can you say you've seen a movie that can combine all those things to the point where you actually are having your cake and eating it too?
No guilt there at all. I fucking LOVE Starship Troopers and for every single one of the reasons I just mentioned. -
Aug 04, 2008 5:39:15 PM CDT
Mattyboy122 and DocPazuzu = REAL MEN WITH GIANT PACKAGES
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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i liked the movie about the same as you did, but i thought the shot at the end mimicking junior was near brilliance. anyway. for people who really liked the satire of the first one, Marauder is worth a look. at the very least, it's nowhere near as bad as part 2.
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Know what I'm saying?
Love,
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...about ST is that it seems that the actors themselves don't realize that they're being the butt of the joke. If you've watched the extras on the DVD and seen how wooden Van Dien and Richards are, and remember how earnest and serious Van Dien was during the promotion of the film, it's even funnier. These days he pretends that he knew all along what was going on, but I don't believe him for an instant. If there were any actors in on the joke, it was Clancy Brown and Michael Ironside.
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Only the appearance of Jolene's twins could have made this 'must see'...
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"Starship Troopers 4: Dix Rising" would be better.
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(Regarding Casper Van Dien) "In my opinion he is not Marlon Brando or Laurence Olivier". You f'n sure their, buddy? I mean between acting ability, body of work, popularity, how can you truly tell the difference? Heh. Man, that cracked me up. Starship Trooper 3 could be a 6-panel cartoon on the back of a damn Coca Puffs box. This review was probably longer than the plot outline. Too funny.
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It's true..you can't look like that girl and have a career as an A-list actress..even if she had the acting chops. Plus by her own admission she's a bit of a scifi geek...ok..I must go masturbate now.
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There's some dialog about Starship Troopers between Rob Corddry's character and Neil Patrick Harris's "Neil Patrick Harris" in the latest Harold & Kumar which is worth a chuckle. Apparently the DTV ST's can only afford one original cast member at a time.
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I think the main failure was the lack of Jolene Blalock nudity (and the blonde religious chick who was with her). A bit like the first Starship Troopers where we should have had some Denise Richards nudity.
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nuff said
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Christian God wins! Bug god loses! Ha take that bug god.oh yeah 21 feet
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and the only thing, I mean the only thing, I remember about it is that the chick from Nip/Tuck was naked in it. A lot. The 'A Lot' is both accurate and a postmodern shout out to Vern.
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ST is a "guilty pleasure" cause its a joke, Doogie Hauser in SS getup and soap opera actors in war propaganda mode. As far as action is concerned Verhoeven had just came off Total Recall and Robocop, troopers is definitely more Showgirls era Verhoeven. In fact, the switch from pratical effects with digital backing it up to the mostly digital crap on display here is probably the best indication of why great action movies died.
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I spell funny.
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Guilty pleasure because by all rights and examination it's a really silly movie that isn't particularly profound or well-done.
Don't act like an elitist because you think you "get it" more than someone else.
Yes, I get it. The joke is on the audience. We're cheering for Nazis. I "got it" when it was made obvious ten minutes into the film. I got it more when I read the book. 10 years before the movie came out.
Doesn't change the fact that I wouldn't bring this movie up during a thoughtful film discussion. It's kitsch. It's low-level satire. It's also fun. -
Diary of the Dead, Teeth, Inside, Black Sheep, etc. Hey I said "good", not "great".
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You sound oddly resentful.
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fail.
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...bad.
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If anyone is sounding like an elitist twat, it is you. By all rights and examinations it is an extremely well made action film. There is a deeper meaning there, sure-- but I am stating my love for this film for what it is on the surface-- FUN. I'm sorry you wouldn't dare bring this up during a thoughtful film discussion. And I am very sorry you sound like Memories of Murder's gay brother.
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I'm always baffled how certain people go the D-list, Sci-Fi MOW route while other actors go on to get regular work of big budget flicks despite being terrible. In no way is Shia LeBouf any better or more talented an actor than Casper Van Dien--and Casper Van Dien sucks ass! I don't get it.
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I concede - that is an even better title.
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still haven't seen rogue. wanna. I think there should be a movie about dingos. Yeah. A seventh day adventists church group goes for a holiday on frasier island then suddenly the babies start to go missing. Well, that's it. Hell for me.
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was thwarted by that Orlando Jones Crocodile movie .( title escapes me ) Primeval? It seems like Dimension lost it's balls when the first one came out and did shite bidness so they put it out to pasture until dvd time ..
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This cements a rental. Do wish they'd do a proper StarShip Troopers using stuff left out from the book. True on the bounce battle suits and Skinnies.
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it was based on a real life event. For us Australians who were hammered by the media with this story for months, it was a lot more scary as it wasn't as fictional to us. Many of us have been in the outback and know how empty it is so for something like that to happen if one of the scariest things.
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I remember reading the book and thought it was surprisingly un-ironic. It read like a right-wing sci-fi epic (not that there's anything inherently wrong with that) but I always thought the movie was more a (good) parody of the book than an adaptation per se. Maybe I was too young to get the more subtle satire on written form, IDK... But even the "dedicated to" at the beginning smelled gung ho if memory serves.
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not really, i can't back that up at all
yeah, the thing about wolf creek (which i'm huge on but it was ok) is that in oz there really are these little communities, many of them dieing and they are like traveling into a different world. Most of them are really great salt of the earth types but it is a bit like texas chainsaw massacre or whatever, you get off the main road and you could be anywhere. The difference is that the desolate parts of oz are seriously big. Oz is the size of the us, but has like 5 cities, all around the edge of it. Imagine driving from the east coast to the west coast and hardly seeing a single person the whole time. australia is like that -
You have to admit,the dude will just go there won't he? Got a movie that needs a lead and Dolph Lundgren is avoiding it like herpes? Then call the Van Dein. Come to think of it,he needs to play Dolphs son in a movie, he looks like the guy alot. We need a kick ass sci fi version of Inglorius Bastards starring Micheal Pare,Casper Van Dein,Brad Johnson, Sean Micheal Flaherty....who am i leaving out?
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DICKBLOOD:
Lick me. Lick me raw.
Doc:
I am "oddly resentful" because Verhoven butchered my favorite book of all time. What could have been an amazing sci-fi drama turned into an epic-budget B-movie.
I'm still holding out hope that we'll see a miniseries of the book done right. Which will never happen, unfortunately.
Yeah, Verhoven: "Kill 'Em All". "We'll Keep Fighting"... and all that bullshit. Blahblahblah.
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You're just wrong. It's not even my opinion. Just so wrong, about everything.
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Hey guys not hearing to much on this..
http://tinyurl.com/55zl54
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if you liked it, why do you have to feel guilty about it? who cares if you're one of a few or possibly literally the only person who likes the movie or show or music or artist or whatever...if you like it then you do. there's nothing to feel guilty about.
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So um.. Can we let this series rest in piece now? I loved the first movie and I wish I could erase my memories of the second one.
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I'm ready to die.
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It figures that this movie barely got released. It's too good for most ignorant cocksuckers.
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I went with my mates to see ST at the flicks and I laughed my head off while they sat silent. They really didn't get it. Bizarre. The thing that made me laugh was the gung ho idiots got their butts kicked twice during the movie, and right at the end they say they're going to kick butt. And then the movie stops. And I couldn't help thinking they got their butts handed to them again. Anyway, caught Rogue too, and it was a very well done movie. It took you by surprise, and the
Character flip Vern mentions worked for me, as the guy was a jerk when there was no danger, but sobered up when there was, making him a lot more human than you're normal horror jerk . -
very strange person
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Wish I could unwatch ST2 tho'.Thank god I will never be in a "thoughtful film discussion" with Playkins. What a joy-draining twat.
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At least they do to me. Why is that?
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Granted, the CG isn't as good as the first two. Just sayin.
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Were they Denise's?
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all the way to Earth. Was that scientifically explained in the book?
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Nothing.
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Was the Battle armour and the individual drop craft. Other then that ST 1 was a fun movie.
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hahaha funniest quote of the day!!
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Hey there!
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Hello
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I saw it in the theatre and I bought every version on dvd. I even bought the second one on dvd though I could only bring myself to watch it twice. I have seen the 3 one online even though it was not as good as the first one I will still buy it on bluray.
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didnt you know kill switch came out? or did you review that sometime ago? anyway ruslan is our last hope for the ponytailed one's theatrical revival.
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A more faithful version put on film. Reboot the series and do a Batman Begins/Dark Knight on the material. Loved Heinlein's original story... It was WAY ahead of it's time.
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that coed shower scene was hot and the only thing I really remember about that movie.
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No, they weren't. They were Dina Meyer's, I believe. Oh and some ass in the co ed shower. The fact that they weren't Denisse's suck big Dix.
Oh and Australian guy, I thought the "based on real events" thing in Wolf Creek was kind of cheating, wasn't it? I mean, the killer wasn't caught or anything, it was just "People have gone missing in Australia" = "Based on a true story". Yes? No? Anyway, I remember Vern bitching about this. -
Aug 04, 2008 11:51:34 PM CDT
"Midnight Meat Trained" is now officially part of the film indus
by bob of the shire
And I'll rent Rogue on your reccomendation.
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Probably half the people praising Starship Troopers as a masterpiece were too young to see it the first time around. I READ Starship Troopers when I was 12- probably about the age most of you were when the movie came out. Jeezus, it was 11 years ago, wasn't it. Damn, I'm an old fucker. No wonder people are accusing me of being pompous.
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Good lord, READ MORE.You pretentious douche.
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No better guilty pleasures on this plant then those 2 flicks.
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The movie stole different things from several events.. there has been many killers from the outback, something about the isolation sends alot of people nuts, and there was The Hitchhiker killer Ivan Milat ( Who use to do head on a stick btw)
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Verhoeven decided to satirize Heinlein. Needed an actor who was tired of waiting tables on Robinson Street: Van Dien. Satirizing Troopers as Nazi fare was too easy, so Verhoeven went ahead and did it.
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Give 3 a shot, man. Maybe you'll enjoy Dix.
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I'm pretty sure Voight and J-Lo did not?
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...for Christ's sake! I can think of four off the top of my head, all bombs! (PS- Props to whoever can think of a fifth w/out Googling it!)
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So the term "guilty pleasure" should never be used in this context; its faggoty. The distinction is this is a fun movie that is campy and delivers the goods in a few places and is being called a Great Action Movie, and that is bullshit. If you can honestly say to me with a straight face that Starship Troopers is in league with Total Recall or Robocop, then you are Satan/a moron. Fuck its not even in the same galaxy as Point Break, which I just heard it lumped in with. Aside from a couple of pieces of awesome delivered by Richter and career sergeant Zim, the soap opera action sets are Showgirls in space. I'll concede the nuclear slam dunk and the brain bug as being pretty cool, but still a film geek with taste wouldn't have this in his top 50 / 100, or even in the top 5 Verhoeven movies.
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Jolene has always reminded me of Angelina- same facial structure, same lips; check IMDB and they were born in 1975. I agree with the poster who wrote how some actors are stuck doing DVD and those Saturday afternoon Sci-Fi channel flicks while others-with similar or less appeal-go on to the A-List...different paths chosen and Jolene would be on the cover of People Magazine with Brad & babies and Angelina reuniting with Elias Koteas in CYBORG 3! I've always thought Jolene was underrated and was the best thing in that piece of shit SLOW BURN. If Nolan makes Batman 3 with Catwoman and can't get Angelina to do it-like LA Times suggested- I think Jolene would be great- check out the mask scene in SLOW BURN.
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i didn't google so the names i'm not great with, there is that old aussie one in the doco 'not quite hollywood' lake placid, rogue, blackwater, there is james bond movie where he runs across the crocs, and tobe hoopers follow up to massacre with the gators (of course in comedy there is three croc dundee movies and steve irwin's movie.
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And exactly what's pretentious about having a favorite book? Did you somehow interpret that as the only book I've read? You "fucking love" Starship Troopers. Does that mean you haven't seen any other movies?
I guess the fact that my favorite book isn't "Harry Potter" or "Da Vinci Code" offended your high-brow taste.
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You must be tired from running that Dix joke around the track eight times. Great review as always.
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Aug 05, 2008 1:00:11 AM CDT
If you say that Total Recall is in the same category as Robocop
by the eskimo
...Satan/A moron or whatever. TR was a clever, face paced action movie with good plot twists and an overall great story. Unfortunately, like many great 80s/90s movies, it is dated and doesn't hold up. Robocop on the other hand, (if all of you poeple so obsessed with this shit movie)would go back and watch it again, is nothing more than an R rated flick marketed to the 80's tweener crowd who got off on grotiouitesque (sp?) violence and hearing the F-bomp dropped a few hundred times. It was a shit movie with shit acting and even shittier direction. This is why the RC sequel will bomb and the TR sequel will never be made (cause they can't!) Oh, and just take the title for example: "ROBO" Cop...I mean, it's lame. Do they even really make robots anymore. I thought Brent Spiner raised the bar on the whole robot-hero idea with STNG.
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Everyone is commanding respect for a film that they're calling a "fun action movie that delivers the goods". This sucker was almost universally slammed when it came out, ESPECIALLY on AICN. You guys are glorifying an overbudget, underperforming chocolate-covered turd. Don't pretend "Starship Troopers" is some kind of masterpiece.
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My god is Judd Apatow in love with you. He brought you up on CONAN tonight!!! Between that and the comic con thing, fuck, I think he might have some man love for ya!!!
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Doesn't hold up to what? the crappy cg action shitfests they make now? are you smoking crack? Total Recall will always be one of the greatest action movies of all time. If I can't convince you of that than the human race has failed you.
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Fess up Judd...
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...let me clarify: TR is one of my fav sci-fi flicks. When I say it doesn't "hold up", I only mean that it isn't as polished as say "I, Robot" or even the god-awful "Star Wars" prequels. Not to say that makes it less of a movie...just that it is obviously dated (In fact, it is the "grittines" a la Blade Runner and original Terminator that makes it a classic). But you have to admit there are some cringe-worth Ah-nold one-liners in TR.
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...is shit.
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If you've seen it, did any of you notice Lola's magic hat during the cafe scene, before and during the farmer confrontation?
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Man! I didn't even recognize her! I could've sworn her character was Black in this new SST film...Now I'm gonna have to watch it over again and appreciate her sexiness on a whole 'nother level. I didn't even know what she looked like without her Vulcan makeup on.
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Rogue rocked...great pic and youre right...its a much better film then what you would think....Troopers 3 is pretty much what I expected.
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Aug 05, 2008 2:15:08 AM CDT
...I guess they don’t have much to live up to so maybe this’ll b
by the eskimo
Croc
Crocodile
Crocodile 2Lake Placid
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The Big Alligator River
Blood Surf
Eaten Alive
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...sorry all, but I had to get to the bottom of this
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All hail Paul Verhoeven and the late, great Basil Poledouris!
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I was 30 when ST came out and had by then read Heinlein's book maybe three times.
In my experience, the people most often offended by Verhoeven's treatment of the book are the ones who didn't get Heinlein's much more sly critique of society and had taken the book to be an endorsement of their own far-right political thoughts. The second group understood Heinlein's critique and felt that Verhoeven's take was much more ham-fisted. The third and largest group are the asshats who didn't even understand Verhoeven's satire. My favorite group, however, is the bunch who started out as members of group 3 and, like Van Dien, are pretending that the joke wasn't on them after the fact. -
The SST 3 presentation was in Ballroom 20 I think, but I missed it, was in Hall H at the Underworld presentation. SST 3 had a booth and I thought Jolene would be there signing autographs, nope only Casper- he reminds me of Tom Brady. Too bad I missed Jolene, guys who were there said she looks fantastic.
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You were mentioned by Judd Apatow on Conan tonight! Just wanted to let you know!
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...that I fit into any of your "groups", you're dead wrong. Believe it or not, there are other people than you that understood it. As a matter of fact, when I read it at 12, I knew humans were the bad guys. See, I was smart enough to realize the Skinnies and the Arachnids WEREN'T THE AGGRESSORS.
I get the satire. I GOT IT THEN. I GET IT NOW.
Let me set the record STRAIGHT. I LIKED THE MOVIE. I thought it was dumb fun that barely resembled my favorite novel. They changed SO MUCH from the book that the story was barely recognizable. The CG series was closer to the book, except it lacked the fascist undertones.
Here's a FOURTH group for you: People that act like they're the only ones that got the joke, and are snide to everyone else.
Oh, WAIT!! I got another!! In "Stranger In a Strange Land", Mike is... wait for it... A CHRIST-FIGURE!!!! :::GASP!!::: But, WAIT!!! There's MORE!!! It's also a story about the POWER OF INSTITUTIONS AND THE CORRUPTION INHERENT IN THE SYSTEM!!!! No WAY!!! Did I just ANALIZE SOMETHING?!? Do I REALLY, TRULY GET IT?!?
No, must just be you, huh?
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If anyone is categorizing people here, it's you. "Snide" is when you imply that the most people who like the film were children when it came out -- in other words, there's you and then there's everyone else.
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And I'm turning it around because of the assholes that seem to think they're the only ones who seem to get it. Read the thread. I don't get nasty until someone insults me.
My first post (that spawned the "you don't get it" crap):
"It was fairly obvious it would never get a good sequel. I actually enjoyed the forst[sic] one. It was cheesy, guilty fun that made fun of it's audience. The CG show was a lot closer to the Heinlein novel, though."
So fuck of if you don't like it, me, or what I have to say. Why don't you look back at your 03:15:44 post and think about whether or not it comes off a little backhanded. -
I clearly stated "in my experience" and said the people "most often" offended, etc.
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Humourless fucking cunts. What the fuck is wrong with you?
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Up 'til now I thought Troopers 1, Recall and Robo 1 were completely and universally considered mandatory viewing... Classics to a man, equal to Tolstoy books n' shit (though too entertaining to enter them into the education system, obviously). But, now, I'm hearing people here give them all the 'Emperors' New Clothes' brush off... What next, people, Terminator 1? Aliens? Little Nicky? Where does it all end??
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Just thought I'd throw that out there.
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For that concise yet eviscerating post. Kudos sir.
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Is that Rico does pretty much fuck all for most of this movie. The robot suit for which the movie gets it's title is literally the last five minutes of screen time. This film is really following Jolene around. And that's no bad thing. But yes, it is a crap movie.
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What's not to love about the first. Never saw the second. Saw the trailer for the third. I'll catch it on a slow night of tv.
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Don't even fucking start.
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It's actually better than the second one, wich was a stinkin' pile. The middle bit of part 3 is actually pretty good. But wait until the end for the religion part. ST3 derails, and frankly it becomes downright embarassing. I was going to give it a 7, until the end. That's when it went to a 4. Jolene performed ok, but was horrible at the end.
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It was the site trying to spare us the usual pretentious, rambling, incoherent load of horseshit that spills off your semen encrusted keyboard. Once again, way to miss the point in what DocPazuzu and Playkins were arguing about. And stop lying. You don;t have mates. You either have people that barely tolerate you, or orderlies paid to look after you on day release from the "Special" home.
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asshole? If you're going to insult me, then at least try to do it in a recognisable language. Now fuck off and fetch my dry cleaning. Bitch.
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kevin pietersen = captain of england
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and I'm not happy about it. Watch his form take a fucking nosedive.
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Seems like a really nice bloke (not necessarily what you'd expect from the guy behind Wolf Creek). Forgot to ask him if he had anything in the pipeline though.
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Loved Wolf Crek so had this pre-ordered.
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The best "killer croc" film to date is Black Water. Rogue is no way even close to its greatness.
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It's nice to see that you can change your name but not your nature. When you were known as BladeRunnerUnit you had a bug up your ass about Heinlein and I remember your long, boring and inaccurate posts where you called him a "fascist".
You know, even BSB finally admitted to being brokebackcowboy so why this insistance and claiming you're not BRU? Come clean, you'll feel much better about yourelf if you do. There is no shame in having been banned. -
Aug 05, 2008 9:23:27 AM CDT
FUCK JUDD APATOW!! GET YOUR OWN PUNCH-LINES FUCKER!!
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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Don't know why folk are so down on the effects in this. Considering the budget and production time they're pretty good. There are loads of them, the Skotaks mixed in miniatures with CGI which looks much better than the wall to wall cheap CGI most DTV fare gets. Some of it is quite ingenious - the nightvision camera shots of the bugs outside the compound, the in-camera-effect of the shadows of bugs at the beginning of the trench battle. All the effects shots are well composed, such as the scorpion bug sequence or the stuff with the powersuits. Sure it has some of the worst acting ever (the French soldier girls is completely incomprehensible) and the film is way too long but it attempts to appeal to fans of both book and film, isn't short of action and does have some good ideas stuck in there.
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I mean, look at a movie like SCREAMERS. That movie was relatively cheaply made at the time, and would probably be even cheaper to make now. Why can't DTV movies have effects that are that good? Hell, there were really good horror/scifi/adventure films made decades before most of the expensive effects technologies even existed. It had to be dirt cheap to make the first ON THE BEACH. So why can't DTV scifi be that good? // Also, did someone seriously just claim that the first ROBOCOP was badly written and directed? You're kidding, right? The drawn-out reveal sequence of Murphy post-transformation ALONE puts the direction in that film high above most other action movies. The writing is pretty much the best satire of the 80's ever done that wasn't directed by Oliver Stone. And you're bitching about the acting? Weller does a great job, as anyone who saw ROBOCOP 3 without him can attest. And there are six or seven villain characters / minor characters who are better written and acted than 99% of action movie characters of any decade.
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At least, there's no announcement of a death on a Google news search.
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...just lame shit that borrows the names and places, gets most of the points of the book wrong, and yes...LEFT OUT THE FUCKING MI SUITS AND DROP CAPSULES.
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Well, back in the late '90s STARSHIP TROOPERS was not as popular as it is now, especially on the internet. Alot of nerds and/or readers hated that it didn't have the robot suits that are apparently in the book, and couldn't get over that. But more than that people were offended by the anti-militarism themes of the movie. Jeez, I gotta read that book, because this is the first time I've ever heard anybody claim that it in fact was a satire like the movie is. I remember years ago watching endless online blathering about how the movie insults the book's powerful message of duty to one's country and what not.
In fact, there were endless arguments about whether the movie even was a satire... I think it is fair to say someone had to be pretty thick to not understand that aspect of the movie, but believe it or not you could find many people online who were convinced Verhoeven and fans of the movie had made it up after the fact that it was in fact funny and in line with Verhoeven's previous movies and not some kind of weird futuristic recruiting film. AND there was at least one major critic who declared the movie "fascist" and pointed out the Riefenstahl references as if nobody else would pick up on them and as if the movie was meant to be taken at face value. And very racist against bugs.
In short, STARSHIP TROOPERS was a widely misunderstood film for years, but I think most people have caught up with it by now. The "ROBOCOP sucks" thing is new though and I think specific to the one blatantly wrong talkbacker trying to pass that line along.
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Alejandro Jodorowsky loves STARSHIP TROOPERS
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There, I said it. Let the flaming begin; now, fuck off.
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I'll absolutely agree that Total Recall was a better movie than Starship Troopers. It really pulls a similar joke on the audience: the idea of, "Wait, what are we cheering for?" Total Recall can be endlessly dated. Did we watch a dream sequence or not? IMHO, it was done 1000% better, and much less explicitly.
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Yeah, you gotta read the book. It's more relevant today than ever.
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I meant "Total Recall can be endlessly DEBATED." Sorry.
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I don't think so. Heinlein was a devoted Military man (he was in the Navy, and rose to the rank of lieutenant). Now, the book is not quite the fascist doctrine that its made out to be (and the movie satirizes) but there's nothing in the book or in his life which would lead one to believe his intent was to disparage militarism. Verhoven, on the other hand, loves to take concepts and push them to ridiculous extremes just to find out where it takes us... and so his take on Heinlein's fairly pro-military material is... Neil Patrick Harris as the head of the Gestapo getting his guys to rape a Vagina-headed-bug's face. Which is arguably at least as good. Heinlein was a huge figure in shaping Science fiction though (as Vern is no doubt aware, being an author himself) and well worth a look, though for my money "Starship Troopers" has suffered from so many cheap knockoffs over the years.
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You rule.
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The first SST is, in fact, one of my favorite scifi movies - I loved it ever since I first saw it in the theater. Someone commented that it's mostly CGI; it's not, if you watch the second disk of the 3-disk DVD you'll see that there's a lot of pracical effects (lots of the bug stuff, the Rodger Young breaking up, etc.) As for the suits and drop capsules, Verhoeven and Davison explain they really tried to get them into the movie but they didn't have the budget for it. I'm really, really looking forward to SST3. BTW, I thought Neimeier and Van Dien commented that the religion stuff that's supposed to be in there is satirical as well?
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Used to watch saturday mornings as a youngun. It had a cool ongoing story. The second movie was a horrible shitstain though. I was pissed that i wasted time watching it.
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It was a comment of Militarism and the individual sacrifice for society. In Heinlein's world, you are not allowed a voice in government without personally doing service. It's the antithesis of Marxism and Communism, which is why it draws comparisons to Nazism.
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less of everything else.
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...reading Wikipedia articles on STARSHIP TROOPERS et al.
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...underestimates Americans' capacity for not only intelligent but for critical thought. Heinlein did indeed endorse the idea of service to one's country, but Starship Troopers is his warning of what could happen if this idea is taken too far. If anything, Heinlein was a Libertarian, an idea which for many Europeans, such as the Portuguese M-O-M, is virtually indistinguishable from traditional American Conservatism. M-O-M calling Heinlein a right-wing extremist is, if anything, a demonstration of how shallow M-O-M's perception of American politics is.
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You, Sir, are a complete and utter moron.
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Both Harrison's and Haldeman's novels are great and I've read them all several times, but to dismiss Starship Troopers as some sort of fascist sidenote to which they're responding is to demonstrate a shockingly ignorant understanding of the debate going on within the American SF community at the time and of the American intelligentsia in general.
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There was a Starship Troopers 2?
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Aug 05, 2008 5:21:27 PM CDT
M-O-M "STARSHIP TROOPERS silly simplistic irresponsible juvenile
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Errr, you DO mean the film, NOT the novel, right? Because the novel didn't really outwardly satire the military machine. You kind of had to examine that one and ask yourself exactly what kind of world Heinlein was describing, and whether he was praising it or coyly criticizing it.
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This is M-O-M's problem -- he feels that he, and he alone, can decide whether an American is capable of socio-cultural critique or not. What's painfully obvious is that Heinlein is too subtle for him, although his haughtiness will prevent him from admitting as much.
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He's one of the kinds of authors of which you really don't have to agree with the message to enjoy the subject. He kind of infers his opinion here and there without asking that his reader accepts his views.
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As an ex-pat American in Europe I have had to defend Heinlein so many times that it becomes tiresome.
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It's okay if you didn't understand the satire in the book, but please -- please don't bunch everyone else together with yourself. A lot of people (yes even Americans) understood the satire in Heinlein's book, even if you, a Portuguese dilettante, do not.
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please ban the fucker above me
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Do you mean defending him because of militaristic ideals, or defending him because his work is often misinterpreted?
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Now, why would you think my comment was about you, hmmm?
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I mean that espousing the idea of service to one's community, whether military or otherwise, is NOT inherently fascist, which, hideously, is not an obvious virtue for many Europeans, as exemplified by M-O-M.
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After all, they've dealt with about every kind of fascism/socialism/communism/monarchy, and the like within the last 200 years.
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the movie and the book were good. I was 16 when the movie came out and really loved it. I was unaware that it was so divisive, most people i knew liked it. I went off and read the book and was pleasantly surprised at it's depth. Much had been left out for the movie and i thought there was the possibility of good sequels from what was left of the source material. unfortunately instead we got bad sequels. such is life.
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Aug 06, 2008 1:36:34 AM CDT
Just came across this pretty cool Casper Van Dien interview
by thehumanbeingandfish
http://www.ifmagazine.com/feature.asp?article=2922.
Note the following:
iF: "Do you find it ironic that STARSHIP TROOPERS is embraced by the left wing and right wing for two totally different reasons?"
VAN DIEN: "This movie gets it from all sides. They get pro-War fans and anti-War fans. To the left and right. We get extremists who like it. I was on a plane and Karl Rove came up to me and told me how much he loved it. So I get that. And then, we also get the other side. The Green pacifist party had a screening of STARSHIP TROOPERS in Santa Monica and said “we really missed this the first time around, look at how great this movie is, it’s an anti-War movie.” So Ed and I were asked to speak after this rally. It was unreal. So it’s across the board. The military guys always come to me. It’s something to me, that has such a wide base. It gets missed by many from one side, but it gets embraced by the same people whole-heartedly. I don’t know how to explain it. Every director I met across the board loved it. Quentin Tarantino argued with us, even though we weren’t arguing, for three and half hours of why it’s one of the greatest movies ever made."
Add Carl Rove and Quentin Tarantino to Darren Aronofsky, ladies and gentlemen.
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but I think I'm about to massively pwn that jumped up little iberian turd.
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"One of my favorite novels is voltaire's CANDICE, a book whihc is, in fact, a philosophical treatise in the form of a narrative. And STARSHIP TROOPERS is Heinlein's own Candice" That would be Voltaire's CANDIDE. Just as well you know the name of one of your "favourites". I suspect you actually read the York notes on it when you were studying French. Could you be any more of a pretentious, yet crushingly stupid, dick?
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I don't really have an opinion on whether or not the man was a fascist. However, I can think of plenty of other lauded writers (in Sci-fi and otherwise) that were deplorable human beings- Even Aldous Huxley had some pretty fucking dubious beliefs.
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don't give me this bollocks about Europeans having lived through the worst of all regimes in the last 200 years as an excuse for you being a hyper sensitive dick. What you, an Iberian cocksmoker living in the early 21st, have in Common with a Kulak being purged and sent to the fucking gulag can be put on the back of a stamp. I know I'm British, so do not consider myself to be European (we don't), but there is nothing in your makeup that suggests that you are in the least bit "savvy"- and we (much more than you) have produced almost every great dystopian novel so can not only see it coming a fucking mile away but comment on it.
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You cannot satirise a book. You can parody one, but by any classical definition of satire you cannot satirise one: "a mode of writing that exposes the failings of individuals, institutions, or societies to ridicule and scorn." Oxford English Dictionary.
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THE NUDE AKIMBO?
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indeed asshole. 1)Find one instance of me saying Lennon is a hack. One. 2)Don't fucking tell me what we consider ourselves to be. The vast majority of us do not consider ourselves European. In fact we make the distinction as to "continental" or "mainland" should give this away. Geographically we are European, but not culturally. So give that up. How on earth do you "know" what it was like to experience fascism? You fucking didn't. Do you write for The Oporto Guardian? because it's only in the British version of that paper that I've ever seen such laughable hand wringing.
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and furthermore, Irony= Being a presumptious little Portuguese cock-end and having the fucking gall to lecture others for his failings.
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when precisely have you lived under an oppressive regime? My guess unless you are 50 is NEVER. Therefore, you know as much and have actually less understanding of fascism than I do. (I only say less, because of the ludicrously fascist policies that have been enacted in Britain.) You can still smoke in the pub in Portugal. We can't- and before you tell me that isn't fascist, the first country to try to Ban smoking was Nazi Germany.
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one example, just one. AICN is full of my quotes, so it shouldn't take you long,
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asshole. The point I am making, that you are missing, is that in the UK it is banned outright REGARDLESS OF AIRCON. This is an important distinction as it helps illustrate my point that the current government puts more extreme policies in place than anywhere else in Europe. But good try.
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you've misinterpreted my post calling the film The Assasination of John Lennon boring pretentious dreck. I was referring to the film not the man. Idiot. If you had any class you would admit you were wrong, but you don't so you won't.
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....some work to do to get this up to the top spot.
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Aug 06, 2008 9:55:48 AM CDT
awwwwww I forget how nice fast TB loading can be.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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Explain the difference between culturally European or not....
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Gotta get settled in and make my ass groove in the cushion.
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Just post away and not read! We should give it a good send off and 4500 is a nice round number
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Aug 06, 2008 10:03:31 AM CDT
I'll toss a few posts here and there in the old thead
by hawaiian organ donor
Probably from home when I have completely random thoughts.
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The first Starship Troopers did kick ass. I loved seeing that movie int he theater. The spot that always kills me is when they sort of have the censor on the cow getting chopped up by the bug.
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by stomping on bugs.
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That show up to a party and things just blow up.
I mean blow up in a good way though.
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We're extremely Anti-EU, they're not. And that's just scratching the surface. We also tend to be monolingual and uninterested in anything in a "foriegn" language. We've got a very, very strong nationalist fervour and (to be honest) a fuck sight more history as one nation than them. Don't forget, America is older than Italy, Germany and France and Spain in their current forms. We're the only nation that has basically been unchanged since the early 17th century. We've got different democracies, a different head of state and a different legal system. We really do not have a lot in common with Europe.
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He really should fuck off, as he doesn't have a clue what he's talking about.
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Just so he could go fight the bugs.
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a Christmas card this year Danny.Think you'll manage?
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Goodbye Outlander. I hope Mori's got some new news on you soon.
And before we get settled here, let me make an alternate suggestion.
I think this should be our new home. It's a week old, but it's for a great old movie that needs to be on dvd, and for the remake of it. Take a look. But I think we should go HERE. I at least want opinions from everyone.
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Interesting......that is very interesting. You guys do kinda seem all alone over there on your island. It seems like a place like Hungary or some other random country is basically the same to British or American....very foreign ya know?
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went from the Greatness of ST to the dreck of Saw. Mind you, Poor old Cary Elwes.
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Hhhhmmmmm.....the only thing is thats Merrick's thread. I fucking hate that cunt and I dont really want to contribute to his numbers. What you dont realize is Harry gauges the success of a writer on the traffic of their TB.
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He was on one of the Law and Orders the other night (syndication).
He has blown up like you wouldn't believe.
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Now that you mention it, that's why I didnt spend much time in it last week.
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Aug 06, 2008 10:10:54 AM CDT
and if we're gonna get this TB to the top....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
I think we should let Outlander die. It will take away too many posts if some of you are switching back and forth.....focus on one plan of attack. Casper Van Dien SHALL RISE AGAIN!!
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Showing how much of a loon she is on her stupid reality show.No one cares hon, just get nekkid please.
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really don't understand us, and to be honest we don't do ourselves any favours, as all we export to them is: Football violence, Drunk Chavs ruining the Beleariacs, Ex-pat cunts that refuse to learn the language and bad attitude. If you took a vote in the UK tomorrow on whether we should stay in the EU, then I honestly think that it would be at best close but more likely a resounding NO.
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*throws hat onto rack*
until we get a Bermuda Depths remake TB.
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That's obvious.
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Was this a DTV movie or a sci-fi movie?
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He isn't a good actor, and it's sort of his own fault he is where he is. I think we can still support Outlander from right here, since it is a B-movie, possibly DTV, and in the mean time set up some viewings of ST3 and Rogue for all of us.
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in all it's parts. It involves sea devils, giant turtles, mysterious beauties, mad scientists, and Burl Ives. And of course Carl Weathers. Check it out. It's from the 70s and one of those "did I dream this?" films from my childhood.
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Maybe I'm thinking of myself as a bit too important here........but some twat on another TB just said AICN was shamed with the mention of my moniker on national tv because anyone googling the name would find aint it cool, and they would gauge the website with my opinions. Anyway.......I wonder if that has to do with why my post history was deleted that very day the comic con footage came out with the first mention. What do you think? Was AICN concerned about people judging them based off me? What the fuck? I cant imagine why...............what do you think?
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Casper really should have existed in the 1950's sci-fi era. Can you imagine him against giant ants? Shoot the antenna Casper!
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Me? I loves me some Europe.Seriously though, I see exactly what Jarv is saying. There are a lot of similarities between England and Canada, what with the commonwealth and all. And Nova Scotia is perhaps the most "fascist" of all the provinces as they have initiated the same anti-smoking bans that exist in England. Not only are all bars and pubs smoke-free, but merchants can no longer display smokes in the open. So if you go in to buy a pack of cigs, the cashier has to go to the backroom to get it. And that meant that merchants had to retrofit their establishments to hold the smokes that previously were kept up front.Imagine walking into a humidor and finding the shelves empty.
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Or he would have been good as the main Captain guy in Plan 9 From outer Space. He has the strong jaw-line for that shit.
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That's like a sin-binning. You must have pissed someone off. And frankly, AICN has more to be ashamed of than your moniker.
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Could very well be. Shit, this was our opportunity to spread the word of 2for2true to the world. The broadcast would have sent a shiver down the spine of shitheels everywhere.
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...and I'm kidding dude. I don't really love him. I just love that he is washed up. I stand behind any washed up has beens....
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It is on youtube.
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But Fred and i are pushing our old TB. we are up to 4400 - Come on guys just 100 mor posts!
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I love Spain for example, and I'm making an effort to learn another language. I just don't like that little bastard.
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...have you Jarv? Just the history being deleted....but the name still works fine.
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It sounds...PRICELESS...
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I would, but it takes me over 2 minutes to reload between posts now and it's driving me mad.
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It happened to that intergalactic arsehole Memories once. That's why I think it's a warning.
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Very unusual, but I think it's happened to BSB. I can't remember the thread, if it was the Die Flaccid one or not.Or I could be completely wrong.
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Who claimed it was a "break" from AICN.
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Funnily enough, I haven't been to England yet.Fucking pussy-ass-muthafucker dollar. Rub some dirt on it!
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Aug 06, 2008 10:23:25 AM CDT
how the hell did this TB jump from 68 to over 100 already?
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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I like giving Vern numbers. That makes me happy.
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He would indeed have made a great 50's B-movie actor.Danny, your tin foil hypothesis is intriguing. Especially if it's true Kevin Smith mentioned you also on a separate occasion.No one is interested in sending a box of #2 pencils to the office of Judd Apatow? Christ, I'm on a mailing spree right now, why stop?
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Toadkillerdog and Fred are doing our part! We can get to 4500! Go team!
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I dont wanna sound like that one poor bastard that cried about getting kicked off of CHUD for a week......anyone read that when he questioned that Devin cunt-lip, and he banned his IP!! -
I just wanted to sit him down and say "Dude, you got banned. Life goes on." Even though he was right and Devin is a dick.
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his banning should be a fucking IP ban. Yech.
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Its raining and stormy outside and there is a knock at my door at 2am....I open it and its Danny Glover with his face busted up and covered in blood. He looks like he is about to fall over. Broken glass on the floor around his feet. He leans forward and growls, "I GOT 'CHOO....."
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Yes Fred, but once you hit your goal......this is your new home friend.
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Yes, AnimalBrane should be IP banned.
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All this talk of smoking has me craving a Cohiba. Of course I would a scorned like a wretched piece of filth if I came back to my cube selling like Castro.
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He was pretty sad about losing his CHUD identity. Fred think some people get too wrapped up in their online personas. It get personal to them
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Fucking health fascists. Living in london is the equivalent of smoking 3 fags every time you get the tube, so why do I have to stand in the fecking rain when I'm having a beer if I want a smoke?
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We have a ways to go to get to 400, but we should be able to put a hurt on them soon
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fatuos waffle. It wasn't a fucking historical accident that we don't get extreme governements. It goes completely against our nature. I'll move on from this now.
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Obviously, the old thread will die a death now, as will the political one and the religious one. That Lucas Shia one will hang about, but if we put a steady couple of hundred here it will climb back to the top. Are there any new releases coming that may distract?
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I smoke them when I am in the British Virgin Islands, or in Canada. But I prefer the Dominican brands. The Romeo y Julietta, or Dominican Cohiba are better and smoother in my opinion. The Arturos are great with port.
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Aug 06, 2008 10:45:26 AM CDT
maybe the Pineapple Express TB.......fuck that
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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I forget what they are actually called, but he says they are the cigars his father used to smoke. He distributes them through his company......those things are fucking amazing. A friend of mine buys them. I believe he said a box of 25 was around 70.
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Don't even get me started on the Cuban embargo.Frankly, I could care less if it's a Cuban cigar or not, as a tasty cigar from Honduras is as good as a tasty cigar from Cuba, but maintaining a 40 some year old embargo that was nothing but a grudge gone wrong in the first place is one of the worst foreign polices the US has ever had the shame to be associated with.And yes, the Dominican Cohibas are better IMO and a Macanudo or Feunte go great with a glass of Sandeman.
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9 times of out 10 I'll grab an Arturo Fuente. The 10th time is usually a Macanudo or a Punch.There's one thing I don't miss about Canada. The so-called Sin Tax on booze and tobacco. A 5 dollar cigar here will cost you 15 up north. And you're hard pressed to find a six-pack of ANY beer under $10.Got the same inflated taxes of those items in England, Jarv?
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Aug 06, 2008 10:55:48 AM CDT
Everyone....one last topic on Outlander to send it off
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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Is an insult to even people with the stupidest movie ideas.Does anyone else think Roth is a talentless hack whose only association with Hollywood should be cleaning Paul Rueben's and Andy Dick's splooge off a porn theater floor?
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Or back to the Outlander TB to top it off?
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Had some work to do. Done now.
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There appeared to be some older threads where your postings got deleted, hence we thought you have gotten the ban hammer at one point.
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I've tried reasoning with you, and I've tried being pleasant. I've also tried asking you flat out if you don't understand why you come across as a dick. This time, however, you fail massively on every level- You don't know the name of your favourite book. (Priceless, and it wasn't a typo as you did it twice), You purposefully misinterpreted a post of mine to lie- and when presented with a challange are now taking your ball home- as I said, if you had any class you would apologise, you have been called out for gross stupidity and blazing hypocrisy, which you are continuing with by having the fucking brass neck to call someone else uneducated when you fell flat on your ass over Voltaire and obviously understand neither irony nor satire. Fuck off, grow some fucking humility and then come back when you have something to contribute to this topic. Because at the moment all you are doing is polluting a B-movie thread with ill-informed, offensive, presumptious rants.
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I know a fuck of a lot more than you on this subject and I would not even begin to have the arrogance to lecture a native on the subject. Oh wait, who am I talking to? Never mind.
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If he was running for a third term, I'm sure he'd get elected again.
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Trying to top off Outlander. 50 to go!! And Eli Roth can suck my fucking cock and gag on it....talentless arrogant twat!! And politics in here?!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
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Aug 06, 2008 11:17:19 AM CDT
I'll tell you one depressing thing we do share with Europe
by lost jarv
we fucking sneer at Americans. Especially over Bush. The amount of times Mrs Jarv has had to defend herself in pubs over this is ridiculous.
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Again. If the little bawbag (not a typo) had any balls he'd return with a quote and reference where I'd called Lennon pretentious, or at least attempt to counter any one of the points I raised. But he can't> He'll go soon.
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The Dominicans are better. But the Cubans have the cache -so people are willing to pay through the nose. Yes, a Macanudo, or Arturo Fuente and a glass of Ruby port! After 25 ounce porterhouse, or the insane 48 ounce porterhouse at Mortons.
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How people like Hostel is a mystery to me. I've just seen someone compare Roth to Miike. Sheesh.
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We here in California did not vote for Bush. I've only met a few people who have....the rest of us say what the fuck? Who is voting for these cunts? Not us.....the rest of the country fucked us over this and we had to suffer like everyone else. Fuck.
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harder to look in the mirror.
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Aug 06, 2008 11:23:23 AM CDT
And the only semi-political talk I wanna see in here....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
...is trashing China.
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I think it's unfair to be honest. America is in dire need of some good PR, frankly. I've travelled to lots of places in America and always had a great time and found the people to be about as fat and smart as us. It's Elitist horseshit and totally untrue. Fuck's sake- Mrs. Jarv is from California.
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The bastard that just made the sneering comment is from Fucking Portugal- the asshole of Europe and a borderline fucking Banana Republic. Off home, see you all tomorrow.
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High tail it back to Outlander TB - we want you to have honor of 4500 post!
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She shouldn't have to defend herself. There are a lot of s**theel Americans and as a country we've left a very unsavory footprint on all 4 corners of the globe. But the good guys, the ones with half a brain who realize our foreign policy needs work, have trouble sleeping at night because millions of Iraqis have been displaced, are bothered to know that 40 million of us are un/underinsured and cringe whenever Bubba T. Wifebeater gets a spot of the evening news talking about "them fags is an affront to Jesus Christ", those good guys are here as well. If it's one thing you all on these TBs have taught me, I'm not as outnumbered as I once thought.Lotta good apples mixed in with the bad ones here. I'd be discouraged to know the world only sees the bad ones.I gave up my Canadian citizenship to be part of this fruit stand. I have to be proud of it. And so should Mrs Jarv.
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Bush's approval numbers just went up again. He's at 31% right now. To put that into perspective, that means you take 3 people off the street, polling odds are that one of them thinks he's doing a bang up job.I don't work with anyone who is doing better now than they were 8 years ago. So what gives?
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...THE POWER OF BAY COMPELS HIM!!!And if he's going to take pot-shots at my country or call members of the CoC (or any other rider of the wastelands) "a heard composed of dumb idiots", then fuck him. If he wants to continue playing the self-righteous know-it-all film/political snob, then he better prepare himself for some blowback. It's that easy really...no matter how many times we tell him.*sigh*
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See, I tell ya, if he ran for a third term there would be enough knucklheads to vote him back in.And BTW, I hate our choices for November as well.
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is to unleash a worldwide pencil jihad...we will make the world see the light.What's that? Portugal as the starting point? So be it.
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I'm sure he'd have killer speeches.
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I completely agree....Bush would dominate in November if he could. And the fact that Obama is unable to get a decent lead with McCain is testament to that.
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I think I gotta put in something for the wife.
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"I SAY WE KILL 'EM ALL!!!!!" Crowd goes crazy with applause!!
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Fuck, he's lucky to be alive.
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For the longest time I tried to figure out where everyone was from. Near as I can tell we don't have any regular posters from places like Japan or Hong Kong, which is a shame because insider information about their movies would be nice.
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A politician will always stink like a fucking politician. Assholes...all of them.
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I did Daisy last night (I sort of wish, she was cute).
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my wife's movies: Heartbreak Kid. Or my other option would be: Be Kind, Rewind.
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Aug 06, 2008 11:59:54 AM CDT
you had the last post Jonah.....you are a legend the likes of...
by dannyglovers_dickblood
John Holmes' penis...
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Fuck me there is no choice there. Michel Gondry or Ben Stiller.....uhhh...I'd take the artist.
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None of us over here appear to live in the same state. Although I don't know where Gaius, Abom and TKD reside yet. Speaking of which, there are some CoCers who have been AWOL. I don't think Abom posted once in the Outlander thread.
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Though if the wife works late...I'll throw in something else. But all I'm doing is delaying the inevitable.
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And I think "Let's do it then" was a fitting end.
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Abom is in Cleveland, and he hasn't been posting as much lately.
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Aug 06, 2008 12:03:09 PM CDT
Eternal Sunshine and Science of Sleep are fucking brilliant...
by dannyglovers_dickblood
Be Kind, Rewind looks more simple....but I'm sure its still good. I have yet to see it.
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at least in the mind of Judd Apatow.
Look for Danny the Dickblood coming soon to a theater near you. -
Though I think BSB, Yackbacker, Rickey Henderson, and Orcus are all in NY.
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But the Heartbreak Kid was amusing. I think I chuckled mostly because of my wife who roared the whole time and she has the cutest laugh, but it was much better than I expected. Cliche as hell, but funny.
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I wouldn't doubt it....not like that fucker has any original concepts. FUCK YOU JUDD!!!
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That would be my initial preference over my two choices.
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Taking the #1 spot from ourselves...........Outlander will be hard to boot with 481 posts...
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The Stiller movie is actually pretty damn funny. Not so much for Be Kind Rewind. Stillers movie is mean and rude and Mecia is actually funny, because he was calm and trying to be the next Cheech, which he has the potential to be. But when he's loud and stupid like his show he's fucking terrible. Be Kind was just way to nice, both are vary easy to sit through though.
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This is really strange, but I really disliked SOS. And I usually hail stuff like that as visonary. I watch ESOSM yearly. I even enjoyed Human Nature, and I'll watch any wierd dreamy thing you put in front of me.SOS was on my must-see list all year. All my friends said that looks like a "Jonah" movie. And yet, my wife and I disliked it.
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I'm just looking for them to be passable...bearable movies. Not the gouge my eyes out stuff like Fool's Gold or Monster in-law. *shudder*
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whew...
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Have been lashing it out with others in those political and religious TBs so I know they're around. We need to get them over here.I haven't seen Rickey and Orcus since forever.
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It's hard cheering on the NY Mess...
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Orcus won't post in these "hi-jacked" threads...plus he's been dealing with an infidel in the past: KevinWillis.
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My first viewing of it was luke warm. I was expecting something to Eternal Sunshine level of brilliance and heart-break.....but it just felt cold. I've seen it 3 times since, and oddly every time it gets better. I like the characters better with each viewing and noting little nuance and rich details I hadn't before. It is a hard film to crack......its a very strange pace and some things feel like they just dead-end and don't go anywhere. But I love it now. Not to the extent that I love Eternal.....but I doubt I ever will love a weird/romantic film that much.
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If we are taking their talkback, then I think we should all agree to try and watch these. I'm actually excited for Rogue, though I didnt see Wolf Creek.
Last year I went with free tickets to see Primeval, thinking it was Rogue, and coming out MUCHO disappointed. Primeval was about on the level of a sci-fi channel original, but without the fun that comes with that. -
But Fool's Gold was unwatchable dreck. Who thought that was a good premise? Heartbreak Kid is Citizen Kane Part Deux by comparison.
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the main character. He really, really irritated me. And Charlotte Gainsbourg doesn't hold much interest for me. I thought the little stuffed horse was the best character. I enjoyed the dreaminess of the film, but I wanted better dreamers, I guess.
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Sounds much more promising than ST2, which I haven't seen.
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Rogue? Ehhhhh, do I have too?
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but I want to. Tomorrow night is X-Files, I think. I've been trying for weeks to see it.
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Yes!
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so many other things to view first.
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Aug 06, 2008 12:16:00 PM CDT
Who else could go for a burger and a beer right now?
by hawaiian organ donor
Of course mine would be made of soy, but hey, even when I ate Big Macs all I could taste were the onions and the sauce.Get me a Sam Adams, stat!
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..at least its got the Romancing The Stone/ Adventure shit. I haven't seen either though....but I would never sit through a Ben Stiller movie post 2001, when he became a worthless herpe on a dead hooker's cunt.
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I would really love to see Orcus, Rickey and Fred all in same talk back!
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Do you have the restaurant, THE HABIT near you? A healthier burger type place?
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I was just craving that for lunch.I'm running out of beer at home too.
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When you say Orcus is batlling in the past - does that he has perfected his time travelling and is now able to post against his nemesis kevinwillis on old TB's long since abandoned?
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Yup, of which I was a part of a few weeks ago. Kevin was trying to post in every single old thread.
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and my burger would be 100% beef, probably wash it down with a Guiness.
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has shipped.Double pony-tail adventure and Ong Bak on its way!
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Damn. I was going to ask why, but then again, he was the one who always tried to be first in every TB.
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Now he was trying to post "Last!"He didn't realize the CoC monitors the past as well...
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Got lots of Bojangles and Biscuitvilles and Golden Corrals and Lard Palaces though.God bless the deep fried south.I make my own soy burgers though so that's what I'll be doing tonight. Although one of you guys needs to remind me to take a few beer out of the garage and put them in the fridge when I get home.
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No beer though - not on the job. But I could almost taste a Molson. HOD,in honor of you bring up the cigars, I will light an Arturo up tonight while I am walking my dog. That is always a good stroll with a fine cigar.
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Take out a few beers and put them in the fridge when you get home.I realize it's a bit early, but it's the best I can do.
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Oh....I was just gonna say they have a bad ass fucking veggie patty there.
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I have alwasys wondered how some CoC members seem to know what is going on in multiple threads. I assume it is a state of awareness reserved for "The Four", or those enlightened enough to obtain such awareness. Orcus is a known time traveller, so perhaps he gained it his own way.
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Real quick, again, it was an easy happy little movie. Kind of a just an easy feel good movie. You can tell they are having more fun then what was made in the end. What pissed me off though was that Gondry made a Swinwhatever they called it version of the movies trailer and they didn't put it on the bonus features. They should've had all the mini movies as bonus features, its pretty bare bones.
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Look at the talkback you are in..Starship Troopers 3 and Rogue is the croc thirller just released to DTV.
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in the freezer this morning. Beer in a frozen glass is the best. I scored a nice one from a Munich hotel too.
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It must be guarded though. Orcus gets very upset.
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Let's go giant bugs for now.
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I feel so dirty now.
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those were classic giant bugs and only a few months prior to Starship Troopers.
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The Monster that Challenged the World (snail related bug..close, right?)
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And Monster isn't a classic, but it's a fun little 50s b picture.
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with rather large(but not monstrously big) bugs that would catch people on fire. Anyone remember this little flick?
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Yeeesh! As a former Canuck I'm proud to say we have better beers than that! Good Lord, man, drink a Killians, a Magic Hat, anything but a Molson.Kudos on the Arturo though. You know about their curly heads, right? One of the most affordable cigars on the market and a damn fine smoke to boot. And it'll burn in the perfect amount of time it takes to walk a dog.
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is always a fun time with the big bugs.
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You actually gave me that enlightenment before. I still want to see Orcus, Rickey and Fred together. I have seen Orcus and Rickey, Rickey and Fred, but never the three. Orcus is the Mystic. Rickey is the Soldier. Fred is everyones Friend.
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story called Blue Gender that involves giant insects vs. mechs. It's enjoyable but a bit too droll, like most anime.
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that was a fun little bit from Donofrio
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A long forgotten Keanu 'classic'. I actually forgot I owned the darn thing.
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which isn't a real movie, but rather the movie within a movie in Matinee. Anyone here remember Matinee?? Anyone??
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Aug 06, 2008 12:42:45 PM CDT
Did I already mention that a new batch of movies...
by hawaiian organ donor
...will go out when everyone is done with the current batch? The new stuff will be more recent films though.New topic? What was wrong with beer? Seems that's a topic we can all get behind.Bugs? Not a bug per se but I will always dig on the Tarantula. Slowest moving creature of all time.
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Aug 06, 2008 12:44:09 PM CDT
Killians is good, but I like the clean taste of a Molson or Laba
by toadkillerdog
Ok, HOD. favorite beers - common that is.
1) Stella Artois 2) Fat Tire 3) Corona (w lime) 4) Arrogant Bastard Ale 5) Blue Moon 6) Molson 7) Coors - original 8) Sapporo 9) Killians 10)Labatts -
Switch the Sapporo for Presidente. Switch Labatts for Carib.
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Who remembers Black Scorpion?
or Eight Legged Freaks?
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Thought I was a little disappointed it wasnt more campy. That first trailer was awesome, with the dripping bloody EIGHT LEGGED FREAKS!! Title-card on the scene when he is climbing up the hatch or whatever that is and screams, "Get away from me you eight legged freaks!!!" They should have gone more camp. And period 1950s would have been great.
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Telepathic dolphins, Ice-T, Henry fucking Rollins, and Dolph Lundgren as that crazy Preacher that walks around dragging a huge cross. Fucking awesome.
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1) Newcastle2) Sleeman Dark (Canadian)3) UFO Raspberry Wheat4) Corona (yes, with lime)5) Guinness6) Sleeman Honey Brown7) Dogfish 90-minute IPA8) Blue Moon heffeweisen9) Boddington'sSierra Nevada
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I really need to get some work done.
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IS AWESOME!!! Hey HOD, did you go Beerfest in Raligh? It was fucking awesome! There is another one in October. Judas is my all time favorite beer.
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If your still here. My mom is here visiting and I made her watch the thing about Conan last night and had to tell her what the BEEP meant. My lady friend said that its a reference to a boner, I said it was blood like some movie reference I missed. Can you explain?
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I keep checking back.The TB is weak? I'm doing everything in my power to keep it on the up and up.***sniff***There's a Beerfest in Raleigh? I had no idea. I'll be there in October though. Let me know if you plan on going. Or will you be out in the midwest by then?
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It's going to take a bit to get this thing going. We need some wide topics so people feel invited, and it's not that "those guys again" feel.
Lets get a big ol' B-movie discussion started.
In honor of the Klandathuians, lets do:
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Let's get the most hideous and loathsome out of the way first: yes, you guessed it, those gross little beanpole aliens from Mac and Me.
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Aug 06, 2008 1:29:06 PM CDT
awwww shit....RELIGIOSITY has taken first place.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
Is that the movie where Denzel is fighting a virtual reality Jesus played by Jim Caviezel?
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I see where you both mentioned Blue Moon
In the fall try the Harvest Moon. It has a hint of pumpkin.
I love the pumpkin beers.
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stuff like cool factor, scientific accuracy(you know, I mean an attempt to make them plausible), ferocity, inspiration, etc. Let's do this right and pick races and then discuss them. Is it a nerdy thing to do. Yes, that's why we are doing it.
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Its actually representative of entering a female when it is too close to her uhhhh.......cycle.....and the pesky topping you get on the corn dog which you didnt order by the way. Its a problem Mr. Glover must constantly face as he always seems to want it. And when Mr. Glover wants it....Mr. Glover GETS IT!! No matter the time of month.... -
For a pumpkin ale, it's quite tasty. I had a few of those last halloween, sittingon the porch waiting for trick or treaters. Some kid in a pair of yellow pants with a felt tail tacked on told me he was a pikachu, despite his being clearly 15, and attempted to take one of the Harvest Moons. It didnt work out for him.
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Aug 06, 2008 1:32:50 PM CDT
Jonah...I gotta think on this one....hhhmmm....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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Aug 06, 2008 1:32:57 PM CDT
I knew eventually, Danny was oing to have that conversation..
by jonah echo
I could have waited til I was a little older for that one.
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from recent sci-fi films. Those little insects in Red Planet. Seriously, that was a cool and thoughtful approach to alien life. It's what makes Red Planet far and away a better picture than the crappy Mission to Mars which had an alien that looked straight out of Fantasia.
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What about the aliens in Enemy Mine? Are there even females in their race? The men reach a certain level of maturity and just become pregnant.....and then they die while delivering. Interesting, and tragic....I liked it. A strange story about that is I used to think that they actually had sex when I was a kid....Quaid and Lou Gossett. There is a cut in the film that you can sorta interpret like that. I dont remember why....
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Yes they made the air.....I love that film. Very cool soundtrack too.
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1) Giger's Alien2)The Predator3) E.T.4) Bugs in Starship Troopers5) The villain from Galaxy Quest
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They were Draks. And I always remember the scene where Davidtch goes back to the home planet and has his name sung in the line of Jareeba or something like that. It was a fine film, if not very subtle. I thought Lou Gossett gave a really good performance there, but the movie was almost universally overlooked til it started playing on t.v.
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I'm sure there are cooler aliens I'm forgetting.
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Sort of like locusts. Going from planet to planet and using up the resources.
Also made the effort to say they picked our planet because they used the same things to stay alive (air, water, etc.).
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Off of our success from outlander? Or, are we just hungover?
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Aug 06, 2008 1:42:36 PM CDT
If our friend kungfuhustler shows up, please tell him
by hawaiian organ donor
To contact me via e-mail. I'm trying to get his package out but unsure about the mailing address.
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The creepy factor was much higher when you just caught glimpses of them.
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or how about the Blob? Was that from outer space? Wasn't there a catchy tune that went with that movie...it creeps?
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was the alien in Galaxy Quest. Stan Winston(God bless him) made him, and he looked cool, but the thing that struck me about him, because he had such little screentime, was his cruelty for a PG movie. He truly hated, despised and tortured the alien race that had seperated from his. He was a truly sadistic sort of creature, and in some ways the movie glossed over that. He was several shades darker than the movie required, and I think that, more than the jokes or anything else, are what stuck in my mind. When he relishes watching their hope dies when Allen is forced to explain the truth of Galaxy Quest.
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It is a great film....which is why it was on my top 20. Yeah...I remember asking my mom when I was young how they could have a baby. Hahaha. I should of been asking how anyone could get it on with that hideous beast.
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I will give it a try come Halloween.
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ID4 (without biosuits), E.T., The Arrival, War of the Worlds (both versions), Close Encounters....Have more advanced species no shame!
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I'm just chuckling thinking about them...
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I love those things. I love how they are transparent and they look so sweet, gentle, and inviting. I really would not be scared if I saw them.
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Aug 06, 2008 1:45:51 PM CDT
Will anyone shed a tear as our old TB slowly descends ou of top
by toadkillerdog
A'la When Kirk Blew up the Enterprise?
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Sort of like deadly insects in how they infest an area and can adapt to nearly any situation.
Also show just enough intelligence and not over the top genius ability.
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alien races...let's do it...1.2.3.
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That was hideous.
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Huzzah! *lifts imaginary Harvest Moon*
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Aug 06, 2008 1:47:46 PM CDT
E.T. aliens are strange if you think about them.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
They are fat, short, and clumsy. They seem very vulnerable without suits. I always wondered what their everyday life was like. What did the E.T.'s do on their planet? Are they all scouts like the ones that come to collect plants in the film....or do other ones have different jobs on their home planet? What does their planet look like? -
You can millions of miles to kick our ass and you can't even put on a freakin' loincloth?Bastiches!
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Like Ed Harris would be standing there smiling and all of the sudden they whip out claws and fangs and spring to attack.
They rip his arm off so he can't let anyone know on the surface.
Maybe that was just years of unfreindly alien experiences.
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It's biology and how it did what it did always seemed to puzzle me a bit. However, I think it's utter alieness is part of it's charm. It's a mystery, and how it does what it does is far less important to those guys in that situation than the fact that it can do what it does.
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Aug 06, 2008 1:49:44 PM CDT
an alien wearing Heston's loin cloth from Planet?!
by dannyglovers_dickblood
haha....thats a fucking hilarious visual.
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Go, Michael Rennie, Go!
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Wasn't it a small ball of light?
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those pesky, blue furred, spine flinging, easter bunny crotch eating, bounty hunter evading, Don Opper hating Crites.
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Aug 06, 2008 1:52:20 PM CDT
Well, it is only humans on this planet that wear clothes
by toadkillerdog
Humans wore clothes for protection from elements - once we left sub tropical climes. It was only later that clothing was deemed necessary for mores. Even today, tribes with little outside contact, rarely wear articles of clothing for any sake of modesty.
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"Yeah, about that. Put on a pair of pants first. Your shriveled dingus is freaking me out."
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I just love that movie. An underrated Carpenter film. I bought it a few years ago in the 5 dollar bin at Walmart. Karen Allen was great in that, as was Bridges. That needs a viewing soon.
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Aug 06, 2008 1:53:56 PM CDT
In the 70's books on Human /Alien sex were all the rage
by toadkillerdog
So, which alien/human hook-up would y'all like to have seen?
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was the suit and underneath it looked like a naked midget supermodel.
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If you and I were in the same naked tribe, you'd be wishing ol' Hawaiian had a little more modesty.
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not to mate with, but wasn't he a great creature? Fighting that elephant at the end in the Colliseum.
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Aint no shame in my game. Think about waking up and not worry about what to wear or if you had the latest style.
If clothes were born out of protection from the elements, why is there a law against public nudity?
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Me, Seven of Nine, make it happen.
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Transformers..one of the most implausible alien species ever. But still, I thought they were cool.
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Public nudity in the south would render you blind in under ten minutes.
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Could it be Natasha from Species?
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And I am in the minority as far as people that go the gym everyday.
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I was in the grocery store and I saw a lady with a slab of ribs.
Her kids ask if they are having ribs.
Honest to God, she says I got you guys some hot dogs, I having ribs!
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Loved their weakness to light, hence their living on a planet covered in darkness for long periods of time.
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You KNOW Bruce hit that!
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When that kid's legs bent backwards I was honestly dumbstruck at the way he started scooting away.
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I used to hit the gym, but now I work out at home. Too many distractions at the gym!
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Hardly any young folk at all.
Mostly older people as it based at the hospital.
Now go over to the huge fitness center at the college and...
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got u famous. how cool do u feel that now u got all that attention from a director who u hated? i bet now u get laid alot, u can use it as a pick up line like this "hey baby u know who i am, thats right im Dickblood"
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We are about to overthrow that fucker Shia. Yes....yes.....
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i was just reading up on the last TB. So this is our new home for awhile then? I'm really busy today but should be on later. Happy writing!
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My former gym doubled as a singles club. So you had to work out BEFORE you got to the gym, in order to look good!
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Exactly. It has already scored me a ton of cod. Thats why I dont post as much as I was last week....I'm too busy cleaning up all the time.
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That wil be hard to ovetatke today with only a few hours of work left. We are not at full strength here eiher.
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Yes...this is the hot spot. Glad you found us.
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I agree.
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Eagle Eye will SURELY FAIL THANKS TO THIS!!
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things like that dont happen too often so u better make it count. i cant believe that ridiculous name got u famous, maybe one day i will name my future son after you, hes name would be Dickblood. hes gonna get all tons of chicks with that name.
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Check your e-mail, I'm trying to get your package out today.
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Aug 06, 2008 2:51:20 PM CDT
Danny you weren't driving the car that him right
by chittychittygangbang
Just want to make sure, as I thought of you as soon as they said a car plowed into Shia's truck (what does he need a truck for anyway?)
I can see you waiting down a side street, shaking with anticipation as you see him get closer through the binoculars.
All of the sudden you reach through the driver's window of the 1988 Oldsmobile Delta 88 and place the sawed off broom handle to the gas pedal and the seat, instantly sending the 305-cubic-inch V8 to a sustained redline.
As Shia approaches your hand slams down the column mounted shifter to drive and pull out in barely enough time to avoid the car's b-pillar flying by.
The Olds back tires scrabble for traction like individual pit bulls.
As the four-wheeled missle from Detroit bears down on its still unaware target Danny smiles.
The explosion of glass and metal-to-metal thud is the final climax of years of frustrated movie watching.
As Danny turns to head home and celebrate he hears a noise.
A slight moan floats across the wind towards Danny, somehow drowning out the sounds of sirens and screams.
Shia is alive...
So Danny turns not towards home, but towards a different used car lot.
The target is still alive. -
I answered you back. Let me know if you need anything else.
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Yeah....and somehow I confused him with Morgan Freeman, and hit the wrong fucking target in my second attempt!! FUCK!
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Bad Danny! Bad!
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...for some strange reason he was in Morgan's hometown that very same day when he heard I was hot on his tracks. So he hired makeup wizard Rick Baker to put him in prosthetic black face. The application took 10 grueling hours to get the painstaking detail of all 57 of Morgan's skin tags. And the dental application took weeks to prepare. Nobody could believe an actor with Mr. Freeman's vast fortune could have such a dark yellow shade of teeth. "Surely this is yellow enough," Baker was heard grumbling. Shia held up a picture for comparison -- a still frame from Driving Miss Daisy, and said sternly "No....we must go more yellow still, my friend." -
who tipped that fucker off?
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Maybe Shia can be in the remake of that classic 80's comedy?
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I have some time before I''m off to the comic shop. Comic book day y-know.
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Hah! 4 to 1
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4 to 1! Plus a Fat Tire and a Dominican cigar! Life is good.
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What are the good comics these days?
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That was actually probably be funny. See....its corny shit like that I wouldnt even mind Shia in. I think thats what he was born to play.....Even Stevens shit for the rest of his life. I have no fucking clue where studio heads got the idea that he was leading man material and he had the weight to carry a film. Give me a fucking break. This guy needs to either remake Soul Man or Teen Wolf. That should be the limit of his career. -
I know Danny might be gunning for him for Indy 4, but he helped Transformers, and I quite liked Holes and Disturbia. In fact, I think Eagle Eye looks pretty good too.
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the mercy kill to our own TB soon. It's going to be hard putting ol' Yeller down.
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Danny has a 'hard-on' for Shia, so just get out of his way. I could care less about Shia though. He and his backstory are a bit annoying. But he aint that bad.
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I cant think of another lead actor at the moment whose face, voice, and hair irritates me more. It has nothing to do with Indy IV for me....I've despised him for years. Indy was the cherry on top.
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This would be a good death.
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and he was talking about changing his hair because a talkbacker kept going on about it. He was getting his keys to head out to the barber, when he noticed the guy's TB name was DANNYGLOVER'S DICKBLOOD and he just laughed and laughed.
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what with all the crossovers and all, but Captain America is usually the best comic on the stands every month. My favorite though would have to be the Immortal Iron Fist. I just fucking love that comic and everything about it. There's one book called Infinite Horizon that I particularly enjoy. It's an adaptation of the Odyssey, but it's set now, and it's about a man trying to return home from the war in the Middle East. The issue with the Cyclops just came out a few weeks ago and the writer handled it in a very cool way. The last Thunderbolts arc was incredible but I hear the new one ain't so hot. All Star Superman continues to leave me in awe. It really is one of the best comics in years in my opinion. I actually haven't been to the local shop in weeks because i have been visiting family in Kansas, and I didn't really have time when I finally came back to Oregon last week. So I have a lot of catching up to do. I will just have to see what's in my box when I get there.
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Batman? Wasn't that what the old Indian dude in Legends of the Fall said in voice over at the end when he spoke of Pitt being killed by that big ass bear?
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Anything good happening with The Punisher these days? Is Garth Ennis still in control of that?
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and it's getting better
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Thats not funny. That would be a sad day for me, as I would have to change my beloved name. I could not be associated with that scum. I just couldnt do it.
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I don't usually read that comic, but I hear good things. I actually think Ennis may have just finished his run actually
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Whats a comic I could pick up right now and not have to know shit about whats going on in the story? I've been wanting to read some good books.....but I dont wanna be lost. I haven't read shit in like 10 years. I like something with ridiculous amounts of violence
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Must really be going at it.May my death either involve a sea of boobies or fiery wreckage. Not both. That's just weird.
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Do you remember the guy in Big Trouble in Little China that just swelled up and popped?
That is how mad I am right now for not realizing that.
In fact I thought of it way earlier but forgot about it.
I could eat sawdust and shit two-by-fours!!!
I have to get three straight just tie it up?
I shall drink an extra Summer Ale just to calm me fraying nerves... -
I sent you like five emails because I kept making typos and shit but it should all be in order now. I'll be gone now for most of the day but I can get back to you tonights if anything is wrong. Thanks again for this incredible gift dude!
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I will check in at the comic shop and get back to. Like I said, I haven't been in a few weeks.
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I just like to bring it up to see Danny's reaction.
I swear seeing Danny go off on someone is the funniest thing on the internet since Joe Mathlete started explaining Marmaduke.
I honestly have never seen anyone tell another to eat aids and die.
Good Stuff!
If I could just get Danny to give the quote from Ahnuld to Satan in End of Days... -
As the Red Leader guy said in Star Wars who a short time later died in fiery wreckage, "IT'S AWAY!"If Fred is around, your package is off too.
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Aug 06, 2008 3:54:38 PM CDT
Do we need a list of things that every TB must contain?
by hawaiian organ donor
Like neighs and choir boys?
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Aug 06, 2008 3:55:07 PM CDT
just for Mr. Gang Bang (imagine the line with the accent)
by dannyglovers_dickblood
"You want to fuck with me? Oh, you think you're bad, huh? You're a fucking choir boy compared to me! A CHOIR BOY!!!!"
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Sometimes you get the bear, and sometimes the bear get's you!
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That was Frank Millers dark Knight in which Batman said - thi would be a good death
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You two can defend Shia all you want, but I wont lose my cool with either of you.......I........won't.......I uhhhhh.......I just....wont .......(hand and left eye twitching)
Images of Shia's face flutter through my conscious......my eyes start to bug out of my head like the Arnold puppet in Total Recall. I must learn......SELF CONTROL. Awwwwwww.....thats better. -
The Religious TB is very civil. There are high powered arguments on both sides, but no name calling. Trolls must be scared of eternal damnation - or Libwar!
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I had nightmares of horse-fucking for days after reading that cursed TB. In that Danny Glover dream where he shows up at my door in the middle of the night, he may very well have been fucking a horse, I don't recall.
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Just when my boss walked by too.
Oh well who gives a shit, because I read that quote everyday and laugh my ass off.
Maybe it's the thought of only Arnold (and maybe 2for2true) being able to say that to Satan...
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Aug 06, 2008 4:03:01 PM CDT
I am thinking of Fred's immortal line " My package is in a jar"
by toadkillerdog
That was too damn funny.
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My bad Fred. I know you do not use I.
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just for suggesting that we have neigh zings and arnold quotes to Satan everday in ever talkback we go to.
Geez I'm tilting a glass tonight in honor of Toad's commanding 4-1 lead in horsee zings and HOD's suggestion of daily talkback staples. In other words, buckle up! -
We will not get the Religion one today, but by tomorow morning, we should be back at number one! I hope the British contingent knows where to go,
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You would have to give up Shia bashing, embrace Indy IV, swear eternal love for Batman Begins, give birth to Judd Apatows bastard, and kiss M-O-M, for Chitty and I to stop the Neighs. Besides, he is down 4 to 1, do you think Chitty will just give up?
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Aug 06, 2008 4:18:10 PM CDT
FOR OUTLANDER!!! AND.....FOR HORSE FUCKERS!!!!!!
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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Anyway, does anyone know what egg salad said this time to get himslef banned? I swear he must be trying to set a record.
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He started posting Jew hating shit on multiple TB's.....like 10 posts in a row. Hahahaha.
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I'm feeling a little horse. He doesn't seem to mind, though.
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Dear lord, I sound like bootleg subtitles.
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He is starving for attention. I know the insults fly around here about people being Motarded or brain damaged, but people like egg, lead me to believ that some of the accusations are true. Some people are seriously disturbed.
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Lowers the rifle at Outlander TB..
"YOU'RE MY BOY, BLUE!!!!
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Yeah I know. Thats why I was trying to squeeze it out of him what makes what he does fun. It would be fun for about 10 minutes....not for days and days of the same shit. Weird.
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Aug 06, 2008 4:33:38 PM CDT
errrr...just tied....okay POW!! Now he is really gone. Fucker.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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so Im sure he is delighted we are talking about him.
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That cracked me up!
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Because even though he isn't being ridden, he can always be found just hanging out.
I prefer his life being set out to stud.
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Yes he is still here, or will be back. But never, ever engage a troll like that. It is pointless. I just totally ignore him, and I know he will be banned and his posts removed in a day or two. That is the good thing about banning, all of the offensive crap is washed away.
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Just you wait.
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And with that, I bid you all adieu.
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did you catch my question if Munich was considered sci-fi for our list yesterday?
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Aug 06, 2008 4:44:08 PM CDT
Cock Tease -- where's your Top 20 Sci Fi list?
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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it sounds like an actual good movie. I'm looking forward to it. Thoughts?
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And sort of gave me a feel of Razorback, with the Australian outback scenery serving almost like another character in the film.
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I love Razorback. I wish it were on dvd. Yea, Rogue and ST3 definitely demand a DTV night. Im half tempted to watch Lost Boys 2. Anyone here seen it?
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But I usually check those things out anyway.
I just need to get signed up for Netflix, I keep puttin it off and I am missing out big time.
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When the guy is looking through the scope and sees the smaller pigs.
All of the sudden he goes past something too big to even notice. That's when he stops the scope and pans back to see it.
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Rogue and Starship 3 next week, looks like they are in high demand on the flicks of the net. OK time for work 2. Really wanna see Rogue, looks pretty BA.
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Aug 06, 2008 5:14:46 PM CDT
Put beer in the fridge before I did anything else
by hawaiian organ donor
Now to figure out what's for dinner. Soyburgers will have to wait another night.We did greatest entrances, but how about greatest exits?
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movies out there. I think I'm gonna do some net scouring and see what's on the horizon, creature feature wise.
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around?
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Aug 06, 2008 5:19:14 PM CDT
Hahahah....Jonah you totally set him up for that!
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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that last shot of him was great.
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shot of John Wayne in Searchers. Both mentioned as great entrances too.
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because it perfectly book-ends the opening. He comes alone, he leaves alone. Sad sad ending.
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Aug 06, 2008 5:30:08 PM CDT
fucking cock tease....you murder this TB!! FUCK YOU!!
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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I thought I had a Cohiba stashed away but it appears I only have a few Don Diegos so those will have to do.It looks like this is the dead period when people are either asleep or heading home from work.I'd keep posting tonight but who really wants, or needs, to hear my blather.
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That Hellboy one has grown tiresome.
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We're #1.Cheers!***raises beer to monitor***Makes you realize how much it's gotta suck to be a nightwatchman.
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Just for his 4-1 lead in the Neigh means Neigh zingfest.
Now I'm opening yours for suggesting a Neigh everday and an Arnold quote everyday, you know the staples of a good talkback.
By the way, I went with the Sam Adams Summer Ale,despite the fact that they had a sixpack of ShipYard pumpkin ale.
It just wasn't cold enough for that yet, but it may be by Friday. -
From 68 posts to the Number One spot in one day?!! GOD DAMN!!
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Amazing ho we can power a talkback to numero uno.
This beer is going down very good.
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Aug 06, 2008 7:26:21 PM CDT
the reward is a weekend in the Bahamas with Harry
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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Aug 06, 2008 7:27:07 PM CDT
hahaha.....the ban hammer came down on Cock Tease
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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Damn that guy at the little film premeire in the first skit was about to actually cry.
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This shit is hilarious! Please tell me someone is watching this.
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I went to the comic shop and got some shit. one series I forgot to mention is called Criminal, and a new issue beginning a whole new arc is starting today. Eash ar consists of mainly stand alone stories that are really only connected by recurring characters. It's an excellent homage to the entire noir film genre (which is my favorite genre after the samurai film) and is really well written. If you like gore I would suggest the incredible Walking Dead series by Robert Kirkman. The 100th issue just came out and the author is letting it be known that they are now taking it into a new direction. It's really one of the best books on the stands. I would also suggest trying to catch up with the story by gradually getting some of the trades. It's a great story worth every penny.
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I'm feeling like the series "Twelve" may be the new Watchmen. The story is really incredible. Check it out and try to get the back issues if you can. I am seriously excited that I am witnessing the rise of such a great story!
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and checked out the film Tears of the Black Tiger (seriously excited to see this again, what great campy delicious fun) as well as both volumes of Darwin Cooke's DC: The New Frontier. You know the story that's got the whole Justice League, but it's set in the transitional period between the 50s and the 60s during the Cold War? I have never read it, but I am really excited.
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is anybody here even a comic book reader or am I just spouting nonsense to myself? and where the hell is everybody? how do I always miss it?
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about how to put a Robin in Nolan's Batman universe. Maybe something to discuss? Check it out.http://comics.ign.com/articles/896/896638p1.html
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let me know what you think of that article. It really convinced me it could work. Personally, I love Robin and think it could really work.
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is absolutely incredible. Only downside is I don't have time to make myself a sandwich in between load times any more.
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tweak my nipple
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I've been getting back into comic books recently. Just doing a bunch of miniseries and gonna read Watchman, I was tired of all these "comic" movies I had never read, and book movies where getting to long.
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You reading the tweleve as well? I just picked up issue 7. I have all but issue 2, fucking a-hole e-bay I won turned out they didn't have it, but they gave Spawn #1 for a good price instead. But I really want to read the other issues but i want to read them in order. If you've read issue #0 you can tell they are banking on a movie deal, the fucking descriptions of the characters has what actor would most likely play them.
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The Walking Dead is fucking amazing! Seriously, I hate M. Knight Shazam, but I think he would be the perfect director to make the comic into a HBO series, you can't make it into just a one off movie without it being too Night/28 Days/Dawn Remake/any other Zombie movie.
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As excited as I am for the upcoming season of Prison Break as I am? By far the best god damn show on the tele. Now with the addition of Micheal Rapport (which can only mean this will probably be the last season), will only make it that more awesomerer. Fucking Heroes/Lost/24/Terminator/Dancing with the stars/Dealing Deals/Show Me the Money/Cavement/2 1/2 Men, Prison Break is the best show.... save for maybe Dexter and Rescue Me.
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Just so you know you weren't the only one watching scare tactics.I was flipping to dodgeball too so thats kind of odd.
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I don't know if they are really baking on a movie because half the actors they recommended have been dead for ages (Cagney?).
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Let me begin by saying I am not a TV fan and I hardly ever watch it, so I really have no say. I am hoping to eventually watch all of Heroes and the Wire on DVD at some point though. All I've been hearing is that The Wire is the best show ever or whatever, so of course I'm intrigued. Have you seen it?
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is the only guy I would ever want to imagine handling a Walking Dead television show. We'll just pretend Diary of the Dead never happened. That should help.
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If you're gonna read Watchmen make sure you read Dark Knight Returns too. Both are classics. You could argue that either one is the greatest comic book ever and I would probably agree with either, though I personally hold Watchmen higher by a hair.
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Because I've never had the HBO, and they started showing it on the BET and I caught the first episode and it was all edited and I am not sure if it was the first Wire episode and I didn't really get into it. As for Heroes, the second season was so terrible because it starts at the same place season 1 started, and its pretty much the same season over again! Prison Break is just awesome fun, it comes on Monday nights when my brain is kind of fried and its easy to follow, then its followed by Terminator which I am always to out of it to fully know whats going on. Plus Prison Break is doesn't kill off the best actors after like 3 appearances like Heroes did to Malcom Macdowell who was mad he was off'ed. Prison Break kicks ass just because it doesn't try to over think shit, it just goes with it and anything goes. Speaking of PBreak what I said about the Twelve becoming a movie I mainly remembered them mentioning Dominic Purcell being the underground guy, he is in PBreak.
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Reading The Dark Knight and The Killing Joke.
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Wanted and that was awesome. I've been reading the Deadpool Cable series. Deadpool is my favorite Marvel character, Spawn is my all around fav, thought I've fallen so far behind on Spawn I've missed a bunch. Deadpool is just starting to get really popular so I haven't missed much.
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do i have to post a hundred times on my own tonight? don't make me do it! I swear I will! don't make me! oh I will! you don't believe me? we'll see about that
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I put this on the Outland thread and I think KungFu was the only one that watched it. I saw that you all discussed The Thing with out me (anyone else play that game? I bought it for like $5 and never played it) but if you love the thing you need to watch this video clip. http://www.joblo.com/video/job lo/player.php?video=gijoe-thing or here http://tinyurl.com/593hl3
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Aren't you in Oregon? Most of us are on the East Coast I think? I am and its fucking late and I need to go to bed, because like vaudeville I'm dead.
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It's one o'clock here and I'm not even tired. Miss Hustler and I just finished watching Oldboy. It was her first time watching it. Fun to see her gradually realize the big surprise. Has any of the C of C even talked about that movie yet? I remember really liking it the first time but upon a second viewing I am just in awe. The movie is just really incredible work.
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it was good. i liked it
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Hello everyone (I hope you're here chips my Antipodean mate). Greatest last shot ever- The Godfather. It's just perfect. Other absolute crackers: Trainspotting and the British end of The Descent. If we're going to have great last shots, what about great last lines- Alien/Alien3 (same dialogue- different inflection and I think I prefer Alien 3), Casablanca. THis is a good topic.
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It is great, but not actually my favourite of the Vengeance trilogy. I prefer Sympathy for Mr Vengeance. I just wish he'd been able to do what he wanted and fade to black and white as the moral sides got more and more blurred. I also like Lady Vengeance, but really feel the end ruined it.
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I'm lucky because I have a metabolism that burns like napalm so never get fat. I used to play Tennis regularly in the summer before I did my Achilles tendon, but not now. I really should take up some exercise as I smoke, but prefer sport to "working out" (which bores me).
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last night. I actually really went off Unbreakable. It's a fucking shame because I was really enjoying it, and to a great extent it would be a perfect origin movie. But then that ending makes me want to hurt endangered species it's so shit. And it barely qualifies as a twist because if you couldn't see that coming you should be ashamed of yourself. I do really like Bruce in it- a great understated performance, and also SLJ puts in one of his better efforts. But that bloody end. M. Night really is a dick.
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I was listening to the radio a bit ago and Mark Kermode (one of our better critics) was telling a story about how he went to interview the guy that made the ET puppet. The interview was going well and the guy said "Do you want to meet ET". Kermode was excited, so the guy took him out to a shed and in the corner under a load of rusty garden shit was ET. Kermode said it was heartbreaking, because the puppet had actually gone mouldy and was just fucked.
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I may go and stalk memories to administer another beating. Just for shits and giggles.
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and cannot believe it came from Ratner. The second series (once Abruzzi died) was so shit I stopped watching. I also wanted to slap that Latin drip for being such a fucking girl.
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i like those on your list. my fav there would the godfather. I'm having a think myself. I like fight club - that pixies song is awesome, miller's crossing, again, great music. hmmmm....and when are you guys gonna quit getting yarpies to captain your cricket team. honestly. it's becoming a habit
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I'm not joking- I can name, easily, 10 Yarpies/ Indians and an Italian that have captained England. It's all a cunning plan to evoke the spirit of 1981. What will happen is that England will be getting thrashed by Australia next Summer. The Kipper's form will be in the toilet and it will be looking like a whitewash on home turf. Horrified the ECB will send out the call to the one man that can beat Australia- and the great MPV will return to lead us to a 2-1 series victory. You heard it here first. Or maybe I'm just being blindingly optimistic.
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i'm trying avoid shocking endings and go with good shots. hmmmm
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What a good call. That's great. I'd also add Psycho to the list as well. I seem to have a thing for Hitchcock at the moment.
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Nasser Hussein, Douglas Jardine, Allan Lamb, Tony Grieg, Ted Dexter, Pietersen, Colin Cowdry, Gubby Allan (well, he was an Aussie- but what the hell),Andrew Strauss, And that's before I even get on to Welsh/ Scots/ Irish players. Which is slightly different because playing for England is like playing for Britain- Scotland/Ireland etc= First Class sides.
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that is a good shot at the end. they are watching him on tv in his cell. they congratulate him, he is at the height of his popularity. then they leave the cell and the shot tracks out. he is alone
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although I don't think this is of any interest to the American CoCer's, this is the morning shift and it's an Englishman and an Aussie. We'll stop when they get backSir Pelham Francis Warner (born Port of Spain, Trinidad)
Frederick Luther Fane (born County Kildare, Ireland
Douglas Robert Jardine (born Bombay, India)
Sir George Oswald Browning "Gubby" Allen, CBE (born, Australia)
Frederick ("Freddie") Richard Brown MBE (born in Lima, Peru)
Donald Bryce Carr (born Wiesbaden, Germany)
Michael Colin Cowdrey, Baron Cowdrey of Tonbridge CBE (born Ootacamund, India)
Edward Ralph "Ted" Dexter (born Milan, Italy)
Anthony Robert (Tony) Lewis CBE (born Swansea, Wales)
Michael Henry Denness (born North Lanarkshire, Scotland)
Anthony "Tony" William Greig (Born Cape Province, South Africa)
Allan Joseph Lamb (born Cape Province, South Africa)
Nasser Hussain OBE (born Madras, India)
Andrew John Strauss MBE, (born Johannesburg, South Africa)
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also another great shot is the End of the Birds, and the end of Terminator.
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to listen to tony greig talking about his days as england captain. the accent makes it gold
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dr strangelove - weeeellll meet aaaggaaiinnn, don't know wheeerreee don't know wheeeen...
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we used to have an excuse for robbing them because of Apartheid, and Australia weren't exactly blame free. Nowadays we've no such excuse- although, ironically, Pietersen is more English than Strauss who was the other candidate this time.
It should still be Vaughan and the fucking coach should get his marching orders instead. I'd gut this fucking side- keep only Vaughan (I don't care if he's out of form- form is temporary, Class is permanent and he's worth 50 runs as captain), KP, Fred, Cook, and Broad and sack the rest.
I don't give a fuck about Bell-end's 199, he's got less spine than an amoeba, Collingwood is clearly past it, Ambrose (an Aussie) can't bat and it should be Read or Foster if your picking a keeper that can’t bat anyway, Anderson doesn't look where he's fucking bowling, Sidebottom is knackered, Strauss was never that good to begin with and is in even worse form than Vaughan. I’d pick Shah and Key, make Vaughan open (his best place), play Fred at 6 Broad at 7 and bring back Jones and Grievous.
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I don't understand one minute of that goofy sport but goddam it, I watch it whenever its on ESPN. Its like a narcotic, I can stop. Plus the vernacular of that particular activity cracks me up.MOM is a cunt rag, BTW. An over used on at that.
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Done with cricket now. The humiliation starts again in 10 minutes unless this rain keeps up. Which may be our only fucking hope for a draw. These Boks are going to worry you lot in December. They are fucking good.
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citizen cane. can't go past godfather though. this one time, this one time i'll let you ask me about my affairs.
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It's the last match of the international season starting today. England, who have been FUCKING HORRIBLE for about 2 years are going to complete their summer of misery by being thrashed AGAIN at home. I'm so fucking cross and disappointed. I feel like pillows when talking about the mets.
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But I seem to remember the last shot of Burton's Batman being great. But my memory could be playing tricks on me.
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with the troops marching and singing- nothing's changed despite all that has gone before. Kubrick was a genius.
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cracking finale, that one. And I don't mean Jackson' sbloated abortion of a movie. I do not want to see Kong Ice Skating, thanks Mr. Jackson. You twat.
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Frankly, My dear, I don't give a damn.
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Yeah but with Pillow, the Mets ahve been a disappointment since 87, so two years is nothing. Look, Chicago Cubs fans have been hurting for nearly 100 years.So which team is favored this season?
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Have you ever read the book Full Metal Jacket? If you have, the ending with the sqaud singing, takes on a whole different meaning. Verrrrrrrry different.
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and the comparison to the Mets is a good one, because aside from 2 years 2003-2005 when we were probably the best in the world England have been a serious fucking disappointment since 1986
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recently claimed that the uk's medal tally would be bigger than that of oz. the aussie sports minister is planning to reply in the typical aussie manner. by suggesting a wager.
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Australia are aging, have lost some of the greatest players to ever play the game and just aren't as good as they used to be. SA are young, mean and have a bowling attack that can all swing the fucking ball round corners at 90mph+ We'll find out in December, but I wouldn't be surprised to see the Boks do the Aussies in Australia.
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He must be on fucking crack. Swimming alone Australia will top every country outside of the US. Stupid bastard. And from the Guardian- this sums up exactly how I feel about them: "The overwhelming emotion is not anger or even frustration so much as a bittersweet sadness, like when you look in someone's eyes and recognise that you no longer love each other, and never well. And a showy, sexy frock imported from South Africa won't change that. Can't fight fate. Yet it's not even three years since September 12 2005, the day we swapped hearts for eternity. How did it come to this?"
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the thread itself bored me to tears, but the Irish Aussie one was funny
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we've been play o/s a lot and it hasn't made it onto australian tv. the ashes will be awsome when they come around
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For a book around 100 or so pages it packs a hell of a gut punch. Kubrick changed a lot of the story. It's more proof Kubrick is a genius, he was able to tell his own story and it was as good as the book, just different.The book is good if you ever come across it, pick it up.Anways, I'm off. We're moving! and its been suprisingly easy. Thank Xenu, but still a lot of work and the Navy chopper pilots are being snotty, in that particularly cunty Navy way. They must be related to MOM.One other thing, when Pillow comes on line you can congradualte him because his beloved NY Jets just got a new, unheard of quarterback, named Brett Farve or maybe Far-Ver-Ra, not sure. Pillow should be a happy fellow today, more then usual with this news.
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enjoy the cricket
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And the Ashes will be terrible unless we dramatically improve. Well, terrible for us- fucking good for you lot.
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Good old Grievious has already hurt the South African Captain. Pinned him in the bollocks at 90mph. I feel a bit more confident that we won't get gubbed if Grievious is in this kind of mood. He's a stroppy bastard.
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Fucking useless cunts dropped a catch off him.
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I've never read it and am going to Spain next week so I'll read it there. Hmm, all by myself again.
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as I'm on my own. Is it true that Marvel did something strange like SPidey selling his soul to the devil so Aunt MAy doesn't die of cancer and he's now divorced? A mate told me and this sounds like the dumbest thing I've ever heard. 2)Hawaiin, Mrs Jarv was NFR last election so unable to vote (even postally), but she would rather fellate the rotting corpse of Reagan (I'm pretty certain he's been dead for 20 years) than vote for the current monkey.
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I'm on a one man mission to keep this top, it's hard.
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hmph. And it's raining.
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Scrappy Doo found to be a cunt. A spokesman said "He can't help it, and everyone should have sympathy with what is obviously a debilitating personality disorder." World responds with massive indifference.
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who was talking about MOM quoting the wrong book name?
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It is pertinant because he was being highly pretentious- and it wasn't a typo. It was a blunder. Most other people I'd have let it slide.
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SA now 55 for none. This is going to be a very long fucking day.
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if so he did the same thing last night. he went into great detail about a book he clearly hadn't read as the passages he was talking about were in an entirely different book. This did not stop him talking about how well written it was though. Overall he was quite civil though so i don't really have a problem with him. i was just pointing it out.
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I'm actually shocked at the news...I wasn't sure if they would get him or not. Do you remember the last time the Jets had a QB that could actually throw the ball down the field? I don't.
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good morning. I saw your Unbreakable rant. I hear where you are coming from, but it was hard to ruin the movie for me after that awesome scene where he is hanging off the guy's back in the rain slicker, trying to subdue him and the children helping him out of the pool
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As long as your comparison of shitty disappointing teams is relegated to the past twenty years, the Mets are your team to compare to. They've been good some years, but most often than not...meh.The NY Jets on the other hand...the gang green just suck really, really bad most of the time.
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I can't let him get away with such bollocks. If he was an innocent noob, he could be corrected politely and would possibly reform his cunty ways, but he's a well established asshole so needs beating. You just wait till he tells you that all aussies are uneducated vermin only interested in sport and tossing shrimps on the barbie (chocolate sweetie for the first person that gets that reference). He's a terrible, patronising, pompous, pretentious shitbag.
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I love where he shows his kid the newspaper clipping at the breakfast table.
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in fact, and I know this is a bit sacriligeous, I think it is better than Pan's Labrynth. How unusual that the 2 best films on the Oscar list that year were both in Foriegn films?
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as I do still like most of it, but that ending really let the steam out of it's tires. It's comfortably the best thing Night has ever done.
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We watched National Treasure 2. Nic makes me laugh.And then I was watching Eight Below...I really like that movie (being a dog person and all).
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56 for 1. Getting better. I do apologise for this and promise to stop soon.
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I can't wait to see Lives of Others now.
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Easily the most re-watchable.
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This is really funny and I thought I'd share it with you: "It has always struck me as strange why all the best looking cartoon girls are red-heads? The delectable Daphne for one, April from the Turtles, Ariel the little mermaid, Jessica Rabbit… the list goes on. Any suggestions?" That's from the Cricket commentary in The Guardian. How funny is that?
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but so is TLOL. 2 very, very good films. And this makes it even more laughable that Crash (not as bad as made out to be) won. I get that they aren't allowed in Best Film, but really- they were the best films. Same as City Of God in it's year.
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Took their time mailing out my next selections. I better receive Flash Point for this weekend, that's all I'm saying. No warning will be issued to Netflix if I don't receive it on time. The Pencil blitzkrieg will be upon them so fast they won't even be able to read the No. 2 on the pencils has they rain upon them.
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I think Pan's and Lives of Others are both classics, and both have characters fighting an oppressive regime and it's members who choose blind fealty over conscience.
Jarv, did you know that the main actor,Ulrich Muhe, who played the Stazi policeman, actually learned that his wife had been an informant who was spying on him during that time period? So, I guess it was rather personal film for him.
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does not stand up to repeat viewings?
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to see TLOO win, and passed away in July of 2007. Last summer.
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that makes it even better. Wow.
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I tend to lose interest pretty quickly with it.
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Did he know he had the cancer before filming or was it all of a sudden?
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look like a bastion of hope in a sea of shite compared to Lovefilm. At least they send you what you want and don't pick things that they think you want. And they have Army of Darkness.
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cause in australia it's dark. it took me a while to pick him up on it cause i was drunk and i went to be but it is the 'lapsed catholic' one. he was talking about josephus's references to jesus, which he was saying were in 'jewish war'. actually josephus wrote several books and the reference he is talking about was not in jewish war but in 'antiquities of the jews' anyway good night.and final shots: fargo. that's two for the coens.
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If it can keep this up for the next Four Days then England may escape with a draw.
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yesterday. She watched the whole thing yelling "Daddy...toys!"I forgot how much I really like that movie. I tell ya, I laughed out loud numerous times watching it. Like when Mr. Potato Head takes off his lips and holds them up to his ass...sigh...funny stuff.
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I'm not going to bother beating him up for that. I don't want to give that thread the numbers.
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I mean, fuck, I'd be so pissed.
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The fucker puts me to sleep every time.
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Sequels as good as, or better than, the Original. I'm going to get rid of all the easy ones now: Empire Strikes Back, Godfather Part 2, French Connection 2. And now controversially: Toy Story 2. Deeper meaning, better film.
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I had to chuckle out loud.
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The way they talk fucks me off. I know it is a superficial thing to get annoyed about, but it just seemed to me to be quirky for the sake of it.
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While I prefer Empire, it built off of what was established in the first one. I can't rip anyone who says the first is the best.See, for me, Aliens is better than Alien for me.
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I'm not sure if he did or not. I think it was after, but don't know. Anyway, he left behind a terrific movie.
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See, for me, Aliens is better than Alien. I don't need the fucking "for me" again. Fuck. Time for coffee.
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I'm just looking at Ford's Jack Ryan, but I like Clear and Present Danger better than Patriot Games.
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Seriously, how does it get better than mummified old-west grandpa, Aztec priestess hottie, giant caterpillar with the head of a Pug dog, baby pterodactyl, skeletal horse, John Ratzenberger as an electrician who keeps his sword in his toolbox, dinosaurs, and Bill Maher? HOW?
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it's an obvious one. TDK as well, I suppose.
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is better than the original.
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continuing the superhero theme.
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*cue evil laughter*
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Some cheeky cunt is using my handle on the Guardian's sports blog. Bastard.
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hehehehe Only joking. Although I don't hate Jason X and it has Cronenburg in it, which is something to recommend.
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Yes, but arguably Hunt For The Red October was the original and I reckon it's still easily the best.
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are both better than Leprechaun. Sad but true. I think Lep in Da Hood is the best of the series.
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for what it's worth.
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is better than attack of the clones though. Seriously.
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hmmm, not sure. Maybe. Depends on my mood.
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The Mecha at the end of Troopers 3 was like better new ones than Matrix 2 ones. I hope to see more. It even had a decent story.
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Sith is the only one I'll watch again.
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and I ordered the damn thing: Road Warrior.
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KKKKKHHHHHAAAAAAANNNNN!!!!
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Austin Powers 2.
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better than the first: Blade 2...Supes 2. Oh, and Hellboy 2.
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Austin Powers 2- No way.
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and Hellboy 3 isn't out yet. Which is annoying.
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WTF? obviously it isn't out yet, seeing as it doesn't exist. I meant Hellboy 2.
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considering the direction they are going..
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Always preferred the sequel to Experiment, Donlevy's a force of nature in it. Then Quatermass & The Pit came along and trumped them both. Could be in the minority with that one, though.
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The first two Blades and Austin Powers. To be frank, it really depends upon my mood. Since I recently just watched the second Blade, that's ingrained in my brain right now. And I'm one of the few who isn't crazy about the original Superman. I'm sorry, but Superman needs super villains. And Kidder is fucking scary looking.
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I actually maintain that not only is Wrath of Khan the best Star Trek movie, but it's also the only good one.
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and I don't know if he has been meditating on some mountain somewhere, but he seems to have lost his rage. Which is a shame. I don't want to read profound comments from him, I want undiluted psychosis. I just popped in to bitchslap memories again. It is my duty.
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Star Trek is tough. I really loved the original show, but only #'s 2 and 6 movie-wise. And #2 is the only one that stands out.I also used to watch TNG, and again, their only good movie is First Contact, numero dos. But of course that pails in comparison to Khan.
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Let me post to him and try and shake him out of his doldrum.
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unavailable at the moment. One can only hope his anger will be focused upon his return.
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For shame people, for shame.
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Sensibly, as he knows the wrath of 2true would fall on his head if he didn't.
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I'm not going back, as I suspect what I've just done may be called trolling.
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Jesus, that's a lot of good stuff going on up above. I swear, these TBs get more weight to them everyday.I can't believe there's someone else that actually prefers Mr. Vengeance to Oldboy (and I effing love Oldboy).Sixth Sense isn't as good the second time around, but I have a feeling it would hold up slightly better if you only watched it once every 7 or 8 years. You guys know me, I'm one of those spazatroids that gives M.Night no end of grief because I think he's incredibly gifted but wastes his talents on his poor scripts and inflated ego. And Unbreakable mostly had me up until the third act.I can't believe Favre went to the Jets. This news is almost as shocking to me as Beckham signing with the Galaxy (I wonder if that came as no surprise to the Brits who understand Becks a lot more than we do).Full Metal Jacket. Wasn't the novella it was based on called something like The Short Timers? Here's a little known fact. Michael Herr who was a war correspondent in Vietnam wrote a book based on his experiences called Dispatches. Parts of Apocalypse Now and FMJ have been lifted from Dispatches, namely his one-time meetings with the odd grunt that was beyond surreal (the GI in ApocNow with the grenade launcher who hits the VC over the wall taunting him and the helicopter gunner in FMJ who is shooting farmers in the rice paddies).The movie endings above? Nice. The Godfather is the fanboy cliche choice but that's because it truly is the best choice. Not only best ending ever but one of the best movie shots ever. A close second would be, yes, Dr. Strangelove with Peter Sellers jumping out of the wheelchair before the Doomsday device goes off.Prison Break? Looks like Jarv and I are in agreement again (3 for 3 this morning) as the first season was great. But season two lost me, especially the hillbilly's character and the inability of the other escapees to just kill him and his odd ability to be able to kill people with only one good hand.I don't think any sequels that were better than the original were missed above.
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No-one here wanted him for the money he wanted, his talentless dog of a wife wants to break into Hollywood. They'll be Scientologists before his contract with Galaxy expires. I'll bet 1 million internets on it.
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Whichever one I recently watched is my favorite.I suppose it's sacrilegious to Changian beliefs to announce your affinity for Star Trek 4. "Do you guys like Italian?" scene cracks me up everytime.It's my daughter's third birthday today and she jumped out of bed at the crack of dawn and bolted to her DVD shelf and grabbed Monsters, Inc. and said "Daddy, I won't be scared of the monsters this time." What an awesome way to start a day.
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is nearly so bad it's good- there's lots of quotable stuff in it, and it's gloriously po faced. The whole premise of having to get a humback whale to save the planet is hysterical in itself.
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2 in an over. They're now down to 103 for 3. Maybe this won't be such a disaster. I do promise to stop this soon.
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Starship Troopers (the original) was prophetic as hell. I can't believe all the paralles between the war against the Bugs and the current war in Iraq. It's pretty scary!
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There is no contest. Added with Harry's review, its unbeatable. The only thing Blade 1 did better was have a slightly better techno song, though the Cystal Methods song was pretty damn good. But the whole rap/techno mix soundtrack not so much.
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I have a topic - Bad Nic cage movies! - Er, too easy let me change that. Name the few GOOD Nic Cage movies. 1) Raising Arizona
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we all completely missed it. In other news: Standing in the Rain makes you wet.
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It's good. I swear. Wicker Man Remake has awfulness value. Leaving Las Vegas?
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Fast Times at Ridgemont high. yep, he was in that.
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1)"Some Motherfuckers are always trying to ice skate uphill" 2)Final Fight with Frost 3)Soundtrack
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So not that. Bollocks, I'm going to IMDB to check. There must be something.
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Wild at Heart, The Rock, Red Rock West, Adaptation, Raising Arizona, Con Air, 8MM, Bringing out the dead. It's just when he's in a bad film it's reaaaaaally bad. An alternative question might be films in which Nicholas Cage has not sucked. That's a shorter list.
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and yes I'm not citing this as some epiphany, weren't the bugs and troopers presented more along the lines of cowboys and indians or brit colonials and tribesman. The siege on the base is very like Zulu, and towards the end of ST, Van Dien does an almost John Waynian drawl as he says "Must be some kind'a big smart bug.
In any case, it was a force encroaching upon a presumably primitive and inferior race, and then proclaiming their enemy evil after retaliation.
The cowboys and indians thing worked well enough for me. The terrorists reading isn't as good, and kind of contemporary knee-jerk.
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"Double dumb ass on you!"The story itself is goofy to the point of being distracting but the banter makes it worth watching again and again.Is there anyone who finds Victoria Beckham attractive? I thought she was a scag since day one.
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NEIGH MEANS NEIGH!!!
Booooyahhh!!!
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I find it a gentle and entertaining film, with lots of humor and a lighter touch, but not completely vapid. I think there is alot there, and it's all handled well. It falls into my top four of Star Trek films. It is dated to a very specific time, but it's a lovely little time capsule.
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But have to agree on Raising Arizona as my favorite.
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Cotton Club - I loved that movie. But it was Gere's really.
Moonstruck. He was good and Cher was tolerable.
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Back in 1997 no one knew that. A lot of people wrote Starship Troopers off as some special effects laden B-movie. But now audiences have gone back to re-evaluate it due to these unstable times.
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Worst accent ever in the history of cinema?
Even the fake southern accents by the kids on little Forrest Gump's bus were that bad.
"Can't sit here...seat's taken."
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and several at the time, they all make the references- I think Harry might even have shared my cowboys and indians view. I'm not someone who finds Starship Troopers terribly precient, or even terribly witty, but it was basically a smarter than it needed to be creature flick.
I don't really find it anymore culturally relevant in this turbulent time than in the perceptually less turbulent climate of 1997.
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of signing on to garbage projects.I actually think he was better in Raising Arizona than Leaving Las Vegas. And Danny is probably the only one here who will back me up on his turn in The Family Guy.Face/Off didn't age well at all for me.
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"bad" Nick Cage movie, in my opinion. Face/Off, on the other hand, was a frickin' masterpiece. And BTW, to all those who loved that new movie Rogue, go rent Black Water instead. It blows Rogue out of the water, literally.
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I haven't seen the extras but I remember someone bringing it up. Anyway Verhoeven said that's what it is about. It wasn't subtle- "Arachni" Sounds an awful lot like "Iraqi" for example. This shit always comes up
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Worst Accents of all time: Kevin Costner in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves and Keanu Reeves in Dracula. And Sean Connery in anything that isn't Scottish (Russian Submarine commander? Spanish/ Japanese immortal) I know these have been parodied endlessly, but there is a reason.
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and it was mostly there to make the movie something of a spoof of the Heinlein novel. Heinlein's work was sincere. He was a saber rattler for sure. They would have done well to handle his story more straightforward, without the parallels. I think he would have had a far more relevant movie as a result.
Starship Troopers is a big budget B movie. Nothing more or nothing less, and it's not really something to be ashamed of. Robocop in concept is just a B movie, but what they did with it was so much more. -
I was going to propose a rule that neither one of us can launch a Neigh means Neigh as the first post - that you must at least post something else first. But, if you want to go by the Clouseau/Kato rules - all out Neigh means Neigh war, with no rules. Then, have at it!
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I quite like Snake Eyes, but I do think the big mistake they made with it is the same one as Ransom. As soon as you cast Gary Sinese there is no doubt as to who the villain is. It flattens things a bit, and he always gives the same performance
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and Rhada Mitchell's aussie accent. Oh wait...
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as a big budget B-movie with a bit of smarts. I think it's good. I'm not saying it was genius or prescience or anything, and subtle it was not (I nearly choked on my coke when Doogie Howser turned up dressed as Goering). I'm not knocking it.
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Aug 07, 2008 8:56:28 AM CDT
Jarv, Bringing out the Dead - was the only movie I almost walked
by toadkillerdog
It was that awful. Just a pitiful excuse of a movie
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I made the assumption that it was quiet good because it was Scorcese. Silly of me.
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on Starship Troopers wasn't Heinlein, or Iraq or 60s westerns. I think it was Archie and Jughead comics. And yea, that's been mentioned before. Verhoeven's work isn't about subtle homage. It's like grabbing a bunch of choice ingredients, leaving them in big hunks and then stirring them into a swirling broth of his own making.
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Sorry Toad, but I did. It's a strange one for sure, and something of a fever dream, but I really liked it.
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I don't remember him even trying to use an English accent in Robbin Hood. He also had a real shitty Boston accent in the movie Thirteen Days.
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they're 5 down now. Pity we've already lost the series. Can someone answer me this- in Baseball, say, when you have best of 7 series, if there is a result by Game 4 do they just not play the other 3 games?
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but lost it after about 10 minutes. It was embarrasing.
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Here's a topic: Good Kevin Costner Films: I'm having Sizzle Beach USA. JFK is passable,
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We have different tastes on some things! Good, keeps the TB's active.
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If it is 4 zip in baseball, the series is over. They do not play the last 3 ganes.
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For example: Best Robin Hood was Adventures of Robin Hood with Errol Flynn. The worst is probably the Patrick Bergin/Uma Thurman one. Even the Costner crap-heap had Rickman and Freeman doing thier usual high-end work. Rickman was having a grand time.
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is strangely, and I almost wince saying this, Chris Lambert in Greystoke. Worst: c'mon baby, while some might say Miles O'Keefe we know it's everyone's favorite trooper Casper Van Dien.
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Costner and Connery have the worst accents. BUt I swear, when Connery unexpectedly showed up as the King at the end of the movie, the entire theatre I was in screamed Sean! It was awesome. That is the type of spontaneous movie going experience that you just can not get at home watching it on big screen.
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I've always wondered about that. Do they just refund the people that have paid in advance?
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You know, I can't remember. Saw it just the one time. I do vaguely recollect a neat long shot at the beginning but that's it.I don't care that Costner's accent in Thirteen Days was horrible. That movie was fantastic. Bruce Greenwood and Dylan Baker need more work.Speaking of Gary Sinese and Forest Gump, the other day we were listing effects shots that knocked us on our ass the first time we saw them. Regardless if you hate the movie, everyone here must admit seeing Sinese without his legs was the ultimate "how did they do that?" moment.
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was a Career killer. He was just wrong on every level. Dracula- the best has to be the one and only Christopher Lee and the Worst is probably that dick in Van Helsing. Or Gerard Butler. Looking into that I've just discovered a Spanish film called Killer Barbys v Dracula that I have to see. How awful!
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What a horrible thing to wake up to. Again, I have no idea how people can not love this movie. Costner's accent? Awwwww fuck me. That film is about as tough as Robin Hood will ever get. I'll watch anything directed by Kevin Reynolds....speaking of which, what the fuck is he doing?
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over at deep discount they have several movies we have discussed here, being sold, 3 for 15. Blind Fury, Once Upon a Time in China 1-3, The Tingler, 976 Evil, etc.
http://www.deepdiscount.com/DVD---Sony-3-DVDs-for--15-8-4_stcVVcatId519270VVviewcat.htm?promoCode=B3CH0808 -
Aug 07, 2008 9:15:48 AM CDT
the worst accent has not been mentioned yet....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
It was totally Keanu in Devil's Advocate.
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Revolting shit. If it had been made by the Nazis everyone would be screaming PROPAGANDA... And why give the only character that dares to not conform AIDS? It's the most revolting "message" film ever. And don't get me started on the latent misogynism, Tom Hanks' shitty (and inexplicably Oscar Winning) performance, the sheer fucking boredom of lots of it. Yuck. How it beat Pulp Fiction is one of life's mysteries.
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Aug 07, 2008 9:16:20 AM CDT
Open Range and Dances as good Costner films?!!
by dannyglovers_dickblood
No love? FUCK!!
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As far as I know, they only sell tickets up to the fourth game. If the series is going to extend beyond that they sell the tickets on a game by game basis. I've never had the pleasure of attending a playoff series in any sport so I can't say for sure.
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note to future Directors: If the Words "William Shakespeare" appear anywhere in your treatment/ script DO NOT under any circumstances cast Keanu Reeves.
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and alot of bad ones. I'd agree though, Roxborough's channeling of K.D.Lang and Bono was waaay not right.
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and that's Costner.
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will always be the owners of the role though. I give them great credit for what they did.
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I enjoyed it. No one here said they hated it. But the topic was bad accents. And his was the worst.
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and Dances with Wolves is a great movie, if overrated. A Perfect World was also a decent Costner flick. And though it doesn't have many fans, I always enjoyed The War.
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there have been lots of great ones. I still stand by Roxborough as the worst.I think Dracula is the most performed role in Cinema. I'd have to check though.
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The sets are fucking terrifying. The music is incredible, the creatures are great, wolfman fucking-- awesome, Gary Oldman as Jim Morrison Dracula-- fucking awesome, blood pouring from a cross-- fucking awesome, heavy use of obvious miniatures-- fucking awesome. I love that entire film. And it still scares the piss out of me.
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Yes, you can get a refund on the tickets if you bought them in advance from reputable dealer. But if you scalped them, then you are SOL. Some people hold on to them, just for the sake of saying they had tickets.
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but it's sort of a good bad movie for me. It's got some good stuff bout it for sure. Costner is one of them though.
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I was going to nominate Cushing as best Van Helsing and Wolverine as the worst, and combined 2 posts. I'd also like to nominate Deniro as worst EVER Frankenstein's monster.
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Best: Rathbone. Worst: hmm, purposefully so, wouldn't that be Michael Caine in Without a Clue.
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Oldman WAS a great Dracula; he really gave that role his all. But I'm biased toward Bela Lugosi's iconic portrayal of the count. I've heard good things about Jack Palance's Dracula, but I've never seen that version. Is it even available on DVD? I hear Richard "I Am Legend" Matheson penned the script.
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And reasons Dracula is not a great movie: Keanu Reeves,Sadie FrostKeanu Reeves (So bad I had to mention him twice), Overlong and dull Keanu Reeves.
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still has to go to Van Helsing. The monster looked mentally handicapped. Wierd version that sort of worked: Randy Quaid as the monster. Best: c'mon, no discussion. KARLOFF.
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I always liked Jeremy Brett. And I'm afraid this is another one for Mr Roxborough. The dude is feckin' awful.
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some love for his take in Monster Squad. "Bogus!"
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Some sell ticket packages for first four games and then your also first in line for the rest of the series.
I have seen total packages for the entire series, at least not on a major sport lever.
I know when I went to the Final Four, we got tickets for the entire event. So if your team lost, you had to watch the other teams.
Or *cough* you could sell them to rabid Kentucky fans *cough*
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I love Open Range and Dances With Wolves and will put them on a top 20 best western list any day.Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves is one of those movies that has a lot of bad but also a lot of good going for it. Rickman and Freeman overcome Costner's accent and a less than stellar performance by Slater. Plus, the summer it came out was one of those awesome summers you endlessly reminisce about and makes everything associated with it that much better: starting out in college, mad in love with your girlfriend at the time, discovering the Nintendo with your buds and drinking beer around a campfire on the beach. Summer of '91. Good times.
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no arguments there.
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Best: I don't know, but I'll always loved the version on Star Trek: Next Generation. Worst: Mr. Roxborough stand up for a THIRD time.
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A whiny bitch of a monster. Crying? Frankenstein crying -and not tears of joy like Karloff could pull off, but crying like a two year old? And he was, uh, how shall I put it, a tad bit effeminate as well. Just a putrid Frankenstein. Ruined whole movie for me, and it was not a great movie to begin with either.
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because although England can't win the series now, they are playing this dead rubber. But it's a revenue raising thing for the Ground- so I wondered if it was the same in the US.
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Has he not sucked in anything?
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I really didn't like seeing a "sympathetic" count. I'd rather see the cold-blooded, mass-murdering, plague-inducing badass he was in the original novel. I don't want to be left feeling sorry for Dracula after Van Helsing impales him. That sort of mitigated the enjoyment of the Coppola Dracula film for me.
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It is the best adaptation of the book by far. And I think Bobby D. played the character well. He is not an innocent character. He is fixed on revenge from the time he is created.
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Did not enjoy it at all.
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Van Helsing, LXG, MI2, Moulin Rouge (I know some people liked it but he was shit), The man's name is a byword for crap.
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Wait...who do you speak of being involved in all those?
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and I missed off Stealth.
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Thats interesting about Dracula. Thats exactly what I loved about that film...the fact that he became a real person with real emotions, not just a mindless killing machine.
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If a team is down 4-0 and they keep playing and win the next three, then it goes into the history books as a 4-3 series loss, which at least looks better.
Team can also redeem themselves by at least making it close.
But on the other hand, they can also get skunked 7-0 in the series and reaaallly feel bad about themselves.
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Oh....I think he's good in all those except Van Helsing. Definitely Moulin....he tears it up in that shit.
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We know about Lives of Others, Unbreakable and Dodgeball, anyone else?
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Aug 07, 2008 9:37:23 AM CDT
I can't fucking believe we will top 1,000 today...
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Maybe because I always pictured and saw him as a mindless killing machine.
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Had a nice little discussion of her late father's work. I ran into her in Red Boiling Springs, Tennessee of all the random places. Boris fucking Karloff's daughter. Nevertheless, it was still cool hearing all her anecdotal stories about the Man himself.
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Aug 07, 2008 9:38:43 AM CDT
and what the fuck is up with that Bond theme song?
by dannyglovers_dickblood
I got all excited when I saw the heading. It was one of the few topics in about a week, that interested me enough to read more. And its some fucking joke song?!! CUNTS!! ALL OF YOU!! CUNTS!!
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really, really dire. Didn't look like he could fight, I was never convinced he was a genius. Yuck. MI2 to be fair, I thought he wasn't bad, and The Duke in Moulin Rouge is a bad part, but the man's CV is awful.
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A guy thought he was about to die in a room filling with gas.
He tried to kick through a wall to get out and spouted this gem into the walkie-talkie "There's a malfunction bro!!"
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I think thats probably why I always felt Dracula was the weakest of the classic Universal monster films. There is really no story there for me......he is a vampire. Okay...he's creepy and sucks your blood. I just felt there should be more about him, where he came from, why he is what he is-- all that.
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Aug 07, 2008 9:44:32 AM CDT
The League is another film I adore that everyone hates....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
It makes me feel like a giddy child every time I watch it. Its just unapologetic ally fun. And Connery kicks ten times more ass than Harrison in Indy IV.
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Well, the same could be said about Michael Myers and the more recent incarnation of the Joker. We don't know anything about them, where they came from (aside from a brief backstory about Michael), and that makes them more terrifying. It's the fear of the unknown. I know when Michael was given a more in-depth origin in the Rob Zombie remake, it was critically panned. Anyway, that's just my opinion. Maybe I should re-watch the '92 Dracula. Some movies get better with age.
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Some Characters do better without a backstory (Myers leaping to mind), but with some it helps flesh them out. Especially Dracula- seeing as the novel gives really quite a lot of info and the 92 Dracula followed it faithfully.
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of the fence. Good on you for sticking to your guns.My problem, other than being an idiot, is that I only see a lot of movies once. I saw Moulin Rogue in the theater, remember really enjoying it, but now I can't tell you anything about it. Hell, I don't even remember what character Roxborough played.
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or at least his pinky is...maybe. Michael Bay is trying to find a way to write in the potentially missing digit into Transformers 2.
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I'm sorry Danny, but it really was. Shoehorning in Tom Sawyer was so obviously a marketing decision. Sean did kick some ass in it, but Mr Hyde was dismal (probably the worst ever on screen), Sean and Tom Sawyer bonding made me squirm, Nemo was also embarrasing. No, really not a good film at all.
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Yeah...but those are totally different. Michael Myers is just that-- a mindless killer. And I dont really give a shit about learning anything more about him. And the Joker is meant to represent mindless violence just for the sake of fucking shit up, so he needs no back-story and the lack of an origin makes him more intimidating because he just pops up out of nowhere and you have no idea what his motives are. Dracula is a romantic character. We should feel for him. He is not a monster, he is a cursed individual that hates himself for what he has become.
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in the Stoker novel. As a matter of fact, the Dracula character was hardly in it, if I recall.
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my problem with it, is that if you're going to tell me in the first seconds of a movie that one of the lead characters dies then I'd better give a shit about him/ her. And I really didn't care if Kidman lived or died.
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but there was lots of him- especially with Mina.
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Really? You didn't like Hyde. I understand the hate on Sawyer.....but Hyde? Man, I thought that was the most fantastic combination of practical suit/CG for a humanoid type character. I wish they did something similar for the Hulk. Use an actor in a large suit for close-ups and CG just for the wides. I thought he worked great. And I like the guy that played him. And its the first time Nemo is ever shown in his intended nationality I believe. And Dorian Gray was awesome too. Stuart Townsend was perfect in the role. The only one I didnt really like was Mina....just because I thought she could have been a lot hotter.
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It's probably a dreadful movie and many of the effects are inexcusably bad, but it's Connery's last role and I still love the suit they created for Mr. Hyde.There's a new topic. What mainstream movie do you keep blinders on for even though you know deep down the movie is grade A crap but there's something about it worth redeeming to you?
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and an intelligent use of the character. It wasn't so much Nemo's nationality that was insulting, just the performance- it was the Indian equivalent of Nicholas Cage's Gotta lotta pasta accent in Captain Corelli. With Hyde- first time was good, and the mix of suit/ CGI was a good idea, but they nobbed it completely with the Uberhyde at the end and the design with the hunchback was just horrible. I like Jason Flemyng and have done ever since Lock Stock, but the "good show Edward" nonsense in it was him phoning in a performance.
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was Stewart Granger, though Connery was awesome(in a bad movie). Worst: I'll assume it's the guy in that new Indy ripoff sci-fi channel thing, but as far as ones Ive seen, Patrick Swayze.
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and much of it makes me giggle. But I'm always laughing at it, not with it. Best Poirot- Easy: David Suchet. I don't know if you get them, but British TV does Poirot a lot and he is now pretty much definitive. He's better than Ustinov.
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Yeah but.....Naseeruddin Shah, the dude that played Nemo is a superstar in India. Its not like that was a fake, put on accent.
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You have a very good memory.
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At the time it came out, that movie I kept blinders on for was Starship Troopers.
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Species. I know it's crap, and I know the alien/ monster is Geiger lazily copying his own design, and I know that Forrest Whittaker only exists in that film to state the obvious, Ben Kingsley was crap and Madsen channelled Mr. Blonde (again), but.... I don't care. Natasha Henstridge gets naked, shags Alfred Molina and although the monster is a rip off it's still cool. I am very, very sad.
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I despised all things Vin until Riddick. Then I went back and watched Pitch Black for the first time......then I gave everything else he has done a shot. Except Fast and the Furious....fuck that. -
despite the fact everyone says it's crap, and I can see it's flaws, but I just don't care very much.
Same is true for The Relic. I love The Relic.
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I read somewhere that he hammed up his natural accent for it. If that isn't true then I stand corrected. Also, nerdily, there's no reason why Nemo had to be native Indian. With his resources etc at the time he would more likely be a white English colonial asshat. But that's just pedantry.
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But there are some that people apologise for endlessly and I don't see how they can. I've used one of mine further up- Con Air. Again, I know it's a bad film, but dammit...
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I often get slammed for.
The Man in the Iron Mask, the 98 version.
Thirteenth Floor.
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It ain't perfect, but I like it. I do.
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Aug 07, 2008 10:09:38 AM CDT
Ghost and the Darkness is an awesome film....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
No blinders needed, HOD agrees with that.
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Aug 07, 2008 10:09:53 AM CDT
Blinders were on for The Lost World and Godzilla
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Yeah it wasn't Speilberg's best, but it had DINOSAURS IN IT!
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Wow. I have alot of these. I still see it as a clever homage, but most people tell me it's just moronic.
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because she's riding him like a pony and has tentacles growing out of her back that he can't see. She then says she's pregnant and he waffles on with the most laughable social-antropology bollocks. Then she kills him. It's funny stuff. Species 2 on the other hand= Rubbish, Apparently there's a species 3.
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I just watched it a few months back when I had friends over for a Heath Ledger Tribute Marathon.
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Goofy fun movie, that very few liked, but I do not care!
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pah. Anaconda has John Voight leering at J-Lo's jubblies. Which is funny. Lost World is inexcusable. If it wasn't for hook then it would be Spielberg's worst.
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I thought that was a good film. I watch everytime it is on.
That scene where his wife gets attacked shocked the hell out of me the first time I saw it.
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and yet somehow fails to be good.
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for me is Jackson's Kong. I know most don't actually hate it, but I just cannot understand not LOVING it. I wouldnt make it shorter. I loved the extended cut. I didnt have any issues with it. None. It's a great, great movie to me. I watch it often.
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Oh you dirty bastard....
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no argument there. It's just good.
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...compared to the Transmorphers.
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I just thought it was really boring, I mean I've always thought the two leads were boring actors to begin with as well. Love me some Anaconda, that movie rules.
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I haven't seen Hook in about 12 years. I seem to remember Julia Roberts sucking like a dyson, Dustin Hoffman and Bob Hoskins being hammier than a herd of pigs, RObin Williams sucking and Children so sickly-sweet they could induce diabetes. I am prepared to be wrong on it, though.
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it should be gold, but it isn't.
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I hear it get ripped often by "film elitists". But, I had a vhs of that flick I just about wore out, I saw it at the theater twice, and bought it on dvd last summer.
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Yes but you forgot to mention Dustin is a fucking GOD as Hook.
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it isn't Spielberg's worst. It is one of his worst, though.
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It's pantomime Dame stuff. If he'd just toned it down a notch or 2. And he wasn't helped by Hoskins gurning like a chimp next to him.
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it was on telly the other night. Loved it.
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Because its not the real world. Its a make believe world that exists in the minds of children. It should be theatrical and over the top. On the flip side of that, I thought Jason Isaacs was far too flat and ordinary to be Hook. He was the same fucking character in Potter, just with a different colored whig!
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good for you. I think Weller is Robocop-level good in that movie. A story about a sad, disenfranchised man fighting against being obsolete. And it has killer robot saws in it.
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Love that crazy fucking movie. Brando, Kilmer, Thewlis.....they all bring the goods in this one. And Perlman as that "Sayer of the Law," guy. Fucking great.
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I really liked the new Kong as well. Like its probably one of my favorite movies ever. Shit you could list all of Jacksons movies outside of LOTR and I could say those are my favorite movies.
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but you just leveled the guns against Isaacs. Isaacs Hook was the best to date, because he actually played to the children. Hoffman's Hook was a prancing queen, who picked the most obvious, high-pitched note for Hook he could. Isaacs actually seemed like the kind of villain a child could hate-one that was equal parts jealous rival, and potential parental unit.
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it's been a long time since I saw it, so it probably warrants a rewatching, I'm really referring to impressions left with me and memories. I can't give specifics on Hook and wouldn't try.
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I actually enjoyed it. How can you hate a film with a Snake orgy scene in it?
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I enjoyed this film. Its fun family fare. And no matter what anyone says, they created the effect Matrix took credit for, lining up hundreds of cameras in a circle around an actor to capture a single frame down the line so the actor is seemingly suspended in mid-air as we sweep around him/her. Lost In Space gets no fucking credit for this.
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Bad Taste. If you haven't seen it I thoroughly recommend it. It's insane.
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which always raises a smile, and Oldman was good in it. At least I think it was oldman. That was a bad year for Blockbusters.
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Something Jarv said above, "But I'm always laughing at it, not with it."Does everyone here re-watch movies they found bad to begin with even if it gives them a few chuckles?
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How can a film with this line in it not be great. Not to mention "Did you drink the chuck, OZ?"
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are both movies people call bad, but I also don't see. Ok, I can see how you would call 13th not very good, but it's entertaining, and with a few cuts here or there, and giving us a non-slow motion battle, it could have even been a GREAT film.
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Godzilla and Die Hard 4. I am a hude Godzilla'98 fan, thats what introduced me to this site back when I first started hearing about it. I remember living in Bahrain staying up till like 3-4 in the AM just to see some live web video of premiere red carpet. Finally ended up seeing the film by myself in England while on a 3 day visit, and it did not disapoint.
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this may not be a surprise.
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Jonah, what's new in the extended version of Kong?
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I thought it was pretty good.
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It may be that my expectation level with it was in the toilet, but I came out having quite enjoyed it.
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Hah hah! Jonah threw down the gauntlet!
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I don't think all of you have watched this http://tinyurl.com/593hl3
Its the thing done with G.I.Joes, you need to watch it, you have to watch it. This is the last time I'm doing this. -
I don't know which was worse, Isaacs' boring ass flat performance, that homo Pan's annoying lisp, or Tinkerbell. All three were equally terrible. And the flying was lame as hell. It looks way too jerky greenscreeny with that artificial motion blur. I hate that crap. The only element of Isaacs I did like was the perverse moments with Wendy when he is almost hitting on her but not quite. That movie is completely dull and forgettable, and its quite sad because a studio won't give that story a shot for a long long time because of it. Hook is not really Pan.....its a sequel to the Pan story-- I wanted to see a proper Pan story that would be remembered for generations to come, and they totally blew their chance. The girl who played Wendy was great though. I will say that.
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in the history of cinema?
It seems like every few movies I watch, ecspecially comedies, have a version of that shot.
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I sort of like. But for 2 things. 1)Shia- I couldn't believe it when I heard this little offensive, annoying prick was being cast in Indy 4 2)Product placement- "Nice Shoes", "Oh, DO fuck off".
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Aug 07, 2008 10:33:32 AM CDT
a triceratops attack, a few new scenes in the early going,
by jonah echo
a battle with some scorpion-lobster like creatures on the raft, and then they disperse and the gang fights a giant river beast. Also, a Moa bird or some-such thing sequence. A few more parts involving New York, etc. A scene where either J.K.Simmons or someone impersonating J.K.Simmons plays a blowhard military type for 30 seconds who wants to kill Kong.
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Almost every film you mention is just plain good.......not "Blinders Good."
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You like Hook which has the most annoying, grating Tinkerbell in fucking history in it. Not that I like that version, but being nice, both are heavily flawed.
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Ecspecially that machine that could tear up a house. Nice.
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you think I am. Let's all agree that the Hook from the Mary Martin version is the worst and gayest. That's something we can get behind, right? Or avoid being in front of, or whatever.
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I understand why Asimov nerds hate it, but the thing is- Law 0 is actually an Asimov idea. It's just not from the Robot Stories, it's from Foundation and Earth. And before anyone asks, I am ashamed of that piece of knowledge.
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I dont see why Julia Roberts is annoying in it. It is the only role of hers I dont hate. She is totally normal....that should be the complaint-- she is not very ferry-like, just a normal woman basically in tiny form. That obnoxious little twat in the new one got on my nerves in the opening scene. Its like they were trying to emulate the Disney version of Tink, and made her 10 times as arrogant.
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only here are these movies loved and respected. Seriously, that's why it's great. Everywhere else, people are like, why is this in your collection?
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Damn I will have to check that out. I watch King Kong everytime it is TNT (which is often) and have to say as a creature feature, Jackson knocked it out of the park.
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I am the big Godzilla fan as well. Gojira being in my top ten of all movies. I love everything about the big rubber-suited guy -well just about everything. There were one or two movies in the early 70's that even a case of beer could not fix. That being said, I enjoyed Emmerichs Godzilla. I think because i never saw it as a true Godzilla flick. It is just a giant tuna-eating Iguana. It is a fun movie.
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Yeah, I tried to watch it like 3 times, feel asleep every time. I wanted to like it, couldn't. Dragonheart as much as I thought I liked it as a kid, caught part of it the other day and turned it off because it was bad. Maybe because I was watching it on basic cable which makes everything seem bad for reason?
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but every time she opened her mouth my fists Itched. Addmittedly I can't stand Julia Roberts and thought it was outrageous she was even considered for, let alone won, and oscar for swearing in Erin cockovich (one of the most overrated movies around)/
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Even though I fucking loathe Big Willy. What the fuck was up with his wardrobe in that shit? Trying to be all gangsta' in the future and shit. Everything else in that movie was better than him, except for that cancerous growth Shia leading a mob with a fucking pipe. What the fuck?!! HEY HOLLYWOOD....WHY THE FUCK DO YOU CONTINUE TO TRY AND SHOVE IT DOWN OUR THROAT THAT SHIA IS A BAD ASS?!! FUCK HIM!! AND FUCK YOU HOLLYWOOD!!
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Any other Willow fans? Madmartigan, Elora Dannan, yes?
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Then you hang out with the wrong people. Everyone I know loves 13th Warrior, Dragonheart, and Ghost and the Darkness. I think almost everyone of my friends own all three.
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I found VHS copy of The White Buffalo. Weren't we talking about that in the supernatural western section?
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In Pan, do you like the kid that plays Pan?
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I nearly walked out when he said "Converse, Late 20th Century Vintage, cool". I fucking hate them trying to sell me something in something I'm already paying for. If he'd just been wearing it, I'd have been fine. On this topic, I hope everyone that works for Pearl and Dean burns in the 7th circle of hell. Why do Cinema owners not understand that if we're paying over $20 a fucking ticket to see something it is not acceptable to show 30 minutes of FUCKING ADVERTISEMENTS first. That's my pet hate. It's now got to the stage where me and Mrs. Jarv turn up, buy the ticket, fuck off to the pub for an hour and come back just in time for the start of the movie. You may miss the trailers, but I'm an AICN geek so it doesn't bother me.
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I remember them talking about the special effects in that movie and siad they would be the future of those types of movies.
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Who the fucks idea was that? Lets hire the guy that directed My Best Friend's Wedding....cause he probably has a great visual eye for fantasy.
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Cypher. It's good- honestly. Even if it does have Lucy Liu in it.
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I watched part of that. It looks very good. I will watch the rest later
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You risk not getting a good seat. I suppose it's worth the risk though, of avoiding all those commercials.
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Willow was the first film to use the morph effect, invented by ILM.
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Makes me want to kill puppies- unless Rupert Everett is on Screen. Not quite as much as that horrible dreck he did with Madonna, where she tricked him into thinking he was her horrid offspring's father. That one was retina scarringly awful.
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I kid....I kid...
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I am with you on the blatant product placement in movies. I mean, it has been going for over 60 years, The Tobacco companies got into the act back in the forties, but the really bold product placement started in the late 70's. I think the absolute worst, was the McDonalds movie - which I still refuse to see. Mac and me.
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If I wanted to watch commercials I would have stayed at home and watched the t.v.
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the local odeon we go to is NEVER cleaned. So it's worth minimising the time that we have to sit in a fucking bin. And if you complain to one of the knuckle dragging troglodytes that allegedly works there (not that I've seen one of them ever do anything apart from eat Pick N Mix), then they look at you like you've just raped a baby and are requesting that they help you dispose of the body. We actually stopped going to it, and go to the more expensive cinema that's a bit further away. And it's time and money well spent.
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Anyone else think the little persons union is pissed off about the Weta technology used to make the hobbits appear small in LOTR? I mean, without that technology they would have had to cast little people, like in Willow...
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On THe Parkway- NW1. Just in case any of their marketing whores are skiving off work reading it. YOU HEAR ME BASTARDS, ME- A GEEK THAT CAN BE RELIED ON TO USE YOUR PLACE FREQUENTLY- WILL NEVER SPEND ANOTHER FUCKING PENNY IN YOUR GRIMY, OVERPRICED, WHORING SHITHOLE OF AN ESTABLISHMENT. That should do it.
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You made me laugh hard. I can't count the number of DVDs I have where people pull it out and ask, "Why do you have this?"The Big Hit, Hudson Hawk and Judge Dredd immediately come to mind.
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I wouldn't mind an intermission if it was properly placed. You could get up, have a piss or a smoke, get a drink and come back to your seat missing all the ads. If it was put in the wrong place I would be forced to kill, but the theory is fine- it's worked in theatre for ever.
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out of bed for eating crisps?
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Whenever someone brings up a list of fantasy movies, it almost never gets mentioned.
Sort of like Dragonslayer.
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But it can be a sign that the film isn't great when you see her name on it. And I know lots of people that don't fancy her. At all, which I find a bit strange.
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I think it upsets the mainstream for some reason. I don't know why. I like it.
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Clash of the Titans kicked ass, too. And it sounds like some troglodytes at Jarv's Odeon need to be pencil-stabbed
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Aug 07, 2008 11:02:59 AM CDT
is anyone asked me, "Why do you have this movie?"
by dannyglovers_dickblood
I would jump kick them in the throat and say, "GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY PLACE!!" It happened once with my Grandma. She pulled out my dvd of RENT and asked, "Is this a musical? Why do you have--" POW!! Jump kick to the throat, granny goes down like a pile of bricks and I have to recruit a neighbor to dispose of the hag's body in a local swamp.
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This independent theater here thats a Draft house as well. They show like short films before the movie, there was this one that was like an epic war movie with just food it was fucking amazing! Its probably on that tube of yours somewhere.
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I loved that flick. It is top ten fantasy of all time
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Draft house thing- You get a sofa for another £10 (not a lot in context) for me and the missus, beer, and it's clean, the staff are friendly and helpful and worth every penny.
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And not much else. She needs to show more skin.What's not to love about Willow? It has Warwick Davis, Billy Barty, the guy who played Burglecut, Val and the smokin' hot redhead who was briefly married to Val. Nuff said.
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Check this out its amazing! Food fighting like a real war. http://tinyurl.com/5rqfxt
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Going to watch the end of Today's cricket. I promise not to fill the thread with Score updates tomorrow. Ciao.
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I know I've told people Ron Howard supposedly directed it and they fucking gasped as if I just told their cunt stinks like a garbage disposal. That shocks people for some reason.....and then I explain, yeah but really Lucas had his hands all over that shit. And then they kinda calm down....
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Nice of you to drop in. Your sage like wisdom has been missed.
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Rise its terrible, I couldn't make it past the first 10 minutes, but you don't really have to. Payback, is a fucking awesome film to. The only thing the directors cut had that was cooler was Mel hitting his wife in the head, that should've been left in. Otherwise the Mel version is better.
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Which do you prefer?
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I used to watch that all the time after it came out. C'mon, Warwick and Val sliding down the hill into the house? Great stuff.
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The world continues the need to be educated on the teachings of the CoC.Clearly that was evident based upon the religious thread.
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That's all I remember about Lucy in Payback.
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Did with the theatrical cut of Payback. Like I know the director wanted it to feel like 70 noir film, like the conversation or french connection, his version just felt flat and not exciting. The theatrical cut was more cartoony and exciting. Kind of like Kiss Kiss Bang Bang another great movie.
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Yeah I thought losing the blue/cold tone might hurt the film. I haven't seen the DC, but I've seen clips-- and it looked a little too ordinary. I heard the blue tone was all Mel, when he took the film over. It was the first I ever heard of an unorthodox color correction-- but of course fucking Traffic gets all the credit for that. What the fuck is up with the wrong films getting credit for shit?! FUCK!! Its all cause of that little fucker SHIA!! -
I like Val in that one, and Downey is great of course.
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Peeing on the corpse scene, I haven't laughed harder in years.
It makes Ben Stiller/ Will Ferrell shit all the more pathetic to me, that the funniest movies are almost always comedy/crime type films. They can do the comedic thing with a ton of cool action type shit in between and come out far more enjoyable. Val is funny as hell in Kiss Kiss. I can't think of another performance that year that was better as far as comedy goes. -
Great movie. The murder of the girl while RDJ is under the bed was a tonal shift fro mthe rest of the movie but it was a fantastic scene none the less.
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I'm saying that a guy like Shane Black and a guy like Val Kilmer who can do a ton of other cool shit can come along and make one of the funniest films in years, and comedy is not even their thing. They are capable of so much more as well. Guys like Ferrel/Stiller/Rogen/Apatow/Sandler.....all those buffoons-- comedy is their bag. Thats basically all they are capable of, and they still manage to fuck that up almost every time and come away with films that are generally not funny nor entertaining. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang shames anyone who considers themselves a comedic filmmaker/actor in the last few years. -
Aug 07, 2008 11:45:18 AM CDT
Vern, whoever edited KILL SWITCH should be burned at the stake
by stuntcock mike
What a mess.
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Yeah that direcor kind of sucks compare to Mel, and Mel gave him every chance to make the movie better and he didn't want to. I'd listin to Mel.
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The Order is a crazy fucking dark film that doesn't get enough love.
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But I do admit, Mel is the stronger director between them.
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Lethal Weapon 5
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The Rules of Attraction. It basically got written off because it had James Vanderbeek in it, but it's a fucking great movie.
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But I do not like Knight's Tale. Not one bit.
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Bad idea. That franchise is done.
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Val and I were doing what we normally do, stroke each other off while watching our favorite TV show. (J.A.G. if you must ask!)Anyhoo, Val's got this thing about having his cat watch him ejaculate, really gets him off. God, knows why, but boy oh boy does he CUM HARD when I force Mr. Whiskers to watch. So I'm sitting there, cat in one hand, my hard cock in the other, waiting for the ice Man to shoot his goo. Stroke stroke stroke...Nothing. "Fuck it" I say to myself and start ass fucking Mr. Whiskers. You can safely say Mr. W wasn't too pleased with this. It was frantically trying to bite me as made him my bitch. Finally, I couldn't take it anymore and in a moment of passion I snapped the fuckers neck! Val had his head cocked back over the couch,eyes shut, still trying to finish so he didn't notice. I continued to fuck the recently deceased feline so he wouldn't think anything was wrong. Before I could finish though, he tore the cat off and began to blow me. He was sucking the feces of his beloved dead cat off my schlong!!! Strange enough, he never asked about the cat though after we broke up, I heard though the grapevine that he was fucking one of Danny Dickbloods dogs. XOXOXOX!
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How many times do I have to tell you? It was your lobotomized grandma chained up in my basement. Not a dog. I can see why you would be confused, as she barks for food much like a dog would.
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and kill both of them like he should have done in part four.
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Aug 07, 2008 12:03:57 PM CDT
maybe Just Pillo wtalk will lose his viginity this year
by smeg shmalad
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Aug 07, 2008 12:04:03 PM CDT
maybe Just Pillow talk will lose his viginity this year
by smeg shmalad
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and its a great flick. Some of the acting from the leads isn't that good, but the special effects are amazing, better than some recents flicks. (I'm looking at you IJ:KOTCS) Also some great lines, like the recruiter saying the marines made him the man he is today. Also, both those chicks are smoking hot!
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'Date-rape chemicals' may be banned
3 hours ago
Ministers are planning to ban two chemicals which can be used as date rape drugs, it has been announced.
The substances are legally available but when absorbed by the body they rapidly convert to the drug GHB, which was banned five years ago after being implicated in sexual assaults.
Scientific advisors have warned that the drugs may be contributing to the "significant problem" of drug-aided rape.
The Home Office said it now intends to control the two chemicals, known as Gamma-butyrolactone (GBL) and 1,4 butanediol (1,4-BD) as Class C drugs after a consultation period.
A Home Office spokesman said: "The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs found they were increasingly being used as a legal substitute for GHB, particularly as a 'club drug', and can lead to dependence if used regularly, unconsciousness and even death by intoxication."
The chemical industry will be asked for its views on controlling GBL and 1,4-BD, which are widely available as cleaning fluids and industrial solvents.
Earlier this year a seven-year-old girl from south London nearly died after eating toy beads coated with 1,4-BD, which caused her to suffer breathing problems and lose consciousness.
The Home Office also revealed plans to control 26 anabolic steroids and growth promoting drugs, in addition to nearly 60 which are already illegal.
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Wowzers! Fred could not contribute last night, but it was not needed. Fred think we could takeover any TB and make it number 1 as long as we want.
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IS THERE A SENSE OF SHALLOW ACCOMPLISHMENT THAT GOES ALONG WITH THAT? "WE CAN MAKE THIS # 1!" DID YOU RIDE THE SHORT BUS FUCK HEAD? HERE'S A REAL ACCOMPLIMENT, MAKE EVERYONE IN YOUR LIFE HAPPY AND i'll whisper this...go slit your retarded little whists and stop putting your poor parents though this pain. do you think they like having to make excuses to all their friends why you didn't turn out right. please fred, just consider it ok.
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Fred is happy to see you back. Get banned is not good for our post count.
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"Get banned is not good for our post count." Is there a prize involved with accomplishing this...? Does Harry get closer to getting a hard again by having the highest post count. Does his chared rotting dead mother return from the grave if you hit 4000? Do you get that much closer of making your fantasies a reality-- giving Mortarty a handjob? Giving Vern a blumpkin?
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Fred can not speak for anyone else, but the joy of the accomplishment is not in the number, but in the way it was accomplished. We have a small sub-community within the larger TB's, and we talk about things that make us happy. Sometimes all day and all night. Fred has even gotten into trouble at work because of that - not too much trouble though! But we enjoy our community, and it is a pleasant surprise that we can accomplish staying at number one just talking about the things we like, when there are so many thousands of other posters out there. It may not be a great accomplishment, but it is good enough. Why don't you try and be a part of it, instead of attacking it?
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Just curious...is food your best friend?
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Can not deny that!
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. I really really liked. I didn't feel disappointed at all, and I try to nod gravely and furrow my brow when people talk about the giant POS it was, but I didn't think that. Flaws and all, I think it's a pretty darn good Indy film.
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You know, despite the fact you disappear along with your posts every three hours, you too have become a part of this little group. You know our names, you spend more time thinking up and posting stuff then we do. Let's face, it. YOU are part of this community too.
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Ok, just wanted to know....makes sense. Have you ever slid your fingers along a woman's waist, fingertips right underneath the elastic to her soft panties. You have your mouth against her neck, and she smells so good, so fresh-- you start to brush your palm against her pubes as you enter her with your fingers. She starts to shiver and moan as you enter her deeper and deeper. She starts messing with your fly, desperately wanting to reciprocate the favor... this doesn't sound like an accomplishment huh? Yeah, Fred stick to your Krispy Cremes, Anime, and winner TBs. Make mommy proud, kid.
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What's up cunt muffin! How's the wife?
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Yes there is a sense of accomplishment in talking with people you enjoy about films you love and destroying all other TB's in posts. They are quick little "Gotcha" stories that rise and fall fast. Little snippets of information of the latest big budget bullshit that will most likely end up a disappointment. Here-- we talk about the films of yesterday that everyone seems to forget. The films that have already earned major replay value. Its fun....and entertaining, and it helps me keep my sanity throughout my work day. Now lets talk about you friend. What is your excuse? And explain to me the sense of accomplishment you get from random semi incoherent posts with sex jokes that aren't funny most of the time. I can post random shit about cum, cunts, cocks, and assfucking too. It doesnt make it funny. There is no context to your humor. It is too hit and run in style. I think I'm the only person that reads your shit, so if you are doing this simply to entertain me then I do appreciate that. Let me tell you-- it would be a lot more enjoyable if you joined the conversation. You have opinions of your own and you have proven that a few times. Why not join in? As lame as it is for us to get a sense of accomplishment from the number one spot, it is far more pathetic for you to get a sense of accomplishment from posting random shit no on reads.
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Jonah, I didn't hate Indy 4, I was just kind of okay with it. It didn't strike me one way or another.
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That was surprisingly well written. You could write that geeky ass fan fiction sex shit where they have Mulder pounding Scully from behind aboard a UFO.
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These sex starved kittens read it, read every fucking bit of it. No I'd rather piss on jerkoffs like Jonah than entertain the idea of talking about Starship Troopers. Semi incoherent posts...? Nigga please. Oh you are such a witty cunt. Have ever told you the time I fingerfucked Alexa Vega?
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Let me see.....uhhhh......okay she is 20 now, WOW!! Yeah....then I can agree. She is fucking hot.
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...you must have been a Spy Kids fan.
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Fred think DannyGlovers is correct, you could write for fan fiction. Fred's girlfriend is a Trekkie and she posts on the Enterprise boards. Some of the fiction that those women write about Trip and the Vulcan whatshername - are whoo boy!
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"Does his chared rotting dead mother return from the grave if you hit 4000" Ha ha I love me.
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Fred is happy to see you around here. Fred has to be Ninja Fred sometimes in order to post during the work day!
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Haha......do they get sexually explicit? Like porn mag stories?
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It is very, very raunchy. Fred think some of those women have 'issues'. But some are entertaining.
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It wasn't meant for accolades, it was meant as a wake up call, friend. Your girlfriend pretty fat too? Acne scarred?
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That is very odd. People love character enough to fantasize about them like that. Very odd indeed.
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rub your cock on her face, is it like stroking off with a cheese grater? Does she stink?
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your own topic to the TB. Are you proud?
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Fred not fat. Fred like to eat though! Fred's GF is just fine the way she is.
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Sorry you have to sneak in a post or two.
I have been moved to my own office, so I don't have to look over my shoulder as much.
Makes life much easier.
Can I hire Ninja Fred to carry out missions?
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Aug 07, 2008 1:07:27 PM CDT
it would be really crazy if Smeg Shmalad was....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
...an ordinary family man in his 40s with two kids and a wife, and he just comes on here to let off some steam. Little does his family know he talks about nailing Alexa Vega and rubbing his cock on cheese graters. Ouch.
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You should check it out. It is like an entire underground movement. Trip love. Fred does not get it. He not that good looking. But, the Enterprise fans love him. Fred hear he does well at the conventions - if you know what Fred means?
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Where do I find this crazy shit?
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Hello ChittyChittyGangBang. Ninja Fred is ready for missions around the world on less than 24 hours notice. Have No. 2 pencil, will travel.
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And let me beat you to it-- yes I wanna read Trekkie fan fucking fiction because I am incapable of fucking real women and the truth of the matter is I can't even be in the same room as a pussy. Its pathetic really. I blow a load in my shorts when I smell perfume.
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I loved Indy IV.
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to bust a nut. Does she like a little hand action first? Do you mind if I ask how many fingers she can take?
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Shit I got tickled when I read that post.
Well played sir...well played.
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he comes back with "Fred's GF is just fine the way she is." In otherwords she looks like a centaur.
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Fred not have link. Get it soon
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Aug 07, 2008 1:20:28 PM CDT
Egg Salad---Centaurs can still be kinda cute...
by dannyglovers_dickblood
They are slender and graceful. To insult him you should have said Fred's girlfriend looks like a Minotaur you dumb fuck.
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Aug 07, 2008 1:22:47 PM CDT
I always say, "Damn-- look at the ass on that fawn."
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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is fat. He can hardly fit into his Aqua Hunger t-shirt. People talk behind his back, because he always has this shity breath due to acid reflux from all the fatty foods he eats. He's gott these beatty little black eyes like a fucking rat and his skin is putrid, a walking Pro Active "before" picture.
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Aug 07, 2008 1:23:41 PM CDT
Egg Salad!! THANK YOU!! We have toppled 1,000 posts!!
by dannyglovers_dickblood
Everyone thank our new friend.
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Toad or myself should have thought of that immediatly...
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A fucking centaur has hooves and a fucking tail.
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The whole bottom half is a horse. If you choose mythological putdowns(a bit odd, but to each his own) keep it at least accurate. Seriously, obviously Medusa is the one you should have used.
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its a misconception fatty foods cause acid reflux. Its mainly cause by "Acidic" foods. Stay away from tomatoes, chili peppers, lemons, pineapple, and grapefruit-- none of which would be considered "fatty foods" really. If someone is having a reflux problem from shit like buffalo wings or steak-- its generally from the spices in the sauce. Now that you know....your joke is not funny.So fuck off.
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Aug 07, 2008 1:28:05 PM CDT
Hee hee - Smeg Shmalad can not insult Fred
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
He has never met Fred. This anonymous TB's! Maybe if he talked about Fred's pet Amoeba - Dirk, then Fred might get upset. Fred has raised Dirk, since he was a mere cytoplasm.
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I hear cum also causes it as well...need a Pepcid big guy?
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Aug 07, 2008 1:29:05 PM CDT
uh oh.....I called Egg Salad a friend, and he got a little nervo
by dannyglovers_dickblood
...from contributing to our TB. So now the baby has gone ape-shit to get banned. Don't worry, he'll be back. Our old friend always comes back cause he misses us.
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Jonah no make fun of Dirk. Sure Dirk has big heart inside of small package.
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Here is the one she used - http://triptpolers.houseoftucker.com/fiction/ The site stopped accepting new fiction, but has an extensive archive.
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Is it one of the writers or maybe a seperate job for someone?
Karl Winslow? -
We won't tell. I'm sitting here anxiously with a hard on waiting to hear how many? Is she shaved?
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After all it's not the size of the amoeba in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the amoeba.
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He never runs away from home. Does not leave any mess, and is genuinely happy to meet new people.
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Thanks Fred, now I won't feel so lonely this Thanksgiving.
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It's been a pleasure. Don't choke on each others bean bags now...behave!
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It's been a pleasure. Don't choke on each others bean bags now...behave!
Love,
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It's been a pleasure. Don't choke on each others bean bags now...behave!
Love,
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It's been a pleasure. Don't choke on each others bean bags now...behave!
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Go to the Genre section, then to Romance. It blow your mind what some of those women wrote. Some are labled NC-17, others just sneak up on ya.
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Fuck you. You'll be back.
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He must be in pain. Maybe we can help him.
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Villains that turned into heroes, or at least less villainous.
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Always loved that stop-motion event every Christmas.
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I know he put the star on the tree, but I can't remember if he was truly evil at first.
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Was the T-Rex in Jurassic Park.
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I'll come back later when America's F minus minus student is finished posting
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That is a GREAT one! Yes, after Yukon Cornelius went over cliff with him, and the dentist removed his Teeth.
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Hmm, well he only ate - bad guys after his run in with Clarice. Of course in the book, she ate bad guys too!
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I bet they watched Rudolph and it just clicked for them.
You can learn so much from that stop-motion gem.
Tolerance, friendship, cooperation, trust etc.
I still watch it every year.
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by film three, Gabriel had been forced to live among the humans and actually liked them. "I even got my driver's lisence."
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She ate people too?
Was she tricked into it or something?
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though one could say at his most villainous, he was just another pirate, and at his most heroic, he was just another pirate.
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He turned from bad to helping save a few people in Pitch Black.
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First good, then bad, then good.
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yea, I know it was two different machines, but the effect they were going for was same.
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He went from plundering pirate to guy who actually cared about others.
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She not tricked. She left FBI, and joined Lector in Argentina. They have Romance, she keeps him on short leash. Fred might be wrong about here eating people too though. Fred has to re-read that part, but in movie they cut out her romance with Lector.
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Went from bad guy to tossing a few long ones to his son Buzz.
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You're so damn courteous it's heartwarming. No wonder everyone here calls you their friend. And the package was left at your door so you're good to go.I got caught up in that damned religious TB. The posts are very good for the most part but there are a few nuts on either side that rattled me.I threw my 2 cents in but it'll be my only post over there. And Toad, well done. You were beyond civil.Jarv and Danny had me laughing.
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You are blowing Chitty's head gasket.
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Aug 07, 2008 2:19:53 PM CDT
ChittyChittyGangBang - she did not eat, but she went with him
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
The book's controversial ending has Lecter presenting Starling with the exhumed bones of her father, which he "brings to life" by hypnotizing Starling, allowing her to say goodbye. This forges an odd alliance between Starling and Lecter, culminating in their becoming lovers and escaping to Argentina. At the end of the novel, Barney (the hospital orderly) sighted Clarice and Hannibal at the Teatro Colon of Buenos Aires
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"Thank the pig."
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even though it's only the beginning he exists as the villain.
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Thank you for the package - Fred will skip the joke this time! And thank you the kind words. Fred just trying to get along.
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Puppetmaster vs. Demonic Toys with Corey Feldman!
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There are more than Fred remembers. Zerg and the pitbull from Babe.
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I had to force myself to finish the book when Clarice got romantic with Lecter. That was taking a dump on her character.
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Beautiful photography.
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Actually, he's mostly the best part of every movie he has ever been in I guess.
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Aug 07, 2008 2:35:54 PM CDT
I actually really liked Giancarlo Giannini in it....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
...he is my favorite wop by far.
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Ithas been a while since Fred read the book or watched the movie. Fred think other than the Romance, it was simply minor characters such as Vergers sister the weight lifting Lesbian.
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The Big G. Godzilla himself.
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In both movie and book it suffered from moments of stupidity. I'm really reaching here because it's been several years and I forget but the Italian cop, he cornered Lecter at the museum (???) and didn't have ANY backup and ends up getting disemboweled.Frankly, I'm tired of that cliche. The killer appears unconscious? He ain't. Pick up the gun (don't leave it lying next to him) and put one in his head. You're about to arrest the world's most dangerous diabolical killer? Have the place swarming with so many cops he'll either need a Star Trek teleporter to escape or Rambo at his side.I read the book before I saw the movie but that chapter just blew it for me and the movie filmed it identically.The movie got it right by removing the romance at the end but at that point I really couldn't give a crap.
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I went on a big rant earlier about all the cool shit I want in a Lethal Weapon 5 film. Amongst other things, my list included Shane Black writing and directing, strippers, and shit loads of coke. Except I was so excited I accidentally typed SHITLOADS OF COCK......one guy ran with it and his handle is now SHITLOADS_OF_COCK. Glad I could inspire.
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on a talkshow soon.
So, Mr. Lucas what do you think of your critics?
"They say Im out of touch, arrogant and a sell-out, but who gets to namecall when they go by S***loads of C***." -
The reason he didn't kill Lecter was b/c he'd get a bunch more money for him alive. He was a well-trained detective with a little too much confidence. What about Colin Ferrell in Minority Report, he was a great foil for "hero" Cruise who realizes the truth and gets whacked by the true killer.
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Could have been great except for the last 30 minutes, total Speilberg-sentimental cop-out. Related topic best/worst Philip K Dick inspired movie
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Aug 07, 2008 3:05:47 PM CDT
How is the end of Minority Report sentimental?
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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The only difference is, he was dealing with HANNIBAL "EFFING" LECTER, the greatest criminal mind in that fictional world. Surely nobody would be stupid enough to take him on by themselves.Sorry, the book.movie lost me at that point.And these guys will tell you, I'm the King of Letting S**t Slide.
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The psychics retire to a quiet life by the seaside, conflicted, drug-addeled cop is happy with his wife, the bad guy dies and the evil of the whole system is exposed, for some reason I doubt Dick would have wrapped everything up with such a pretty bow.
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Money is a huge motivator and the Giancarlo could not tell anyone else on the force b/c he was basically playing the role of the bounty hunter, that is why Lecter punishes him in such a public way. Starling tries to warn him, but she tries to warn everyone, no?
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But the shit with Cruise going to prison and his wife having to break him out with the fucking eyes in the bag, and Von Sydow blowing himself away in front of Anderton? That entire movie is hardcore. That is some bad ass fucking Spielberg.....I would never call that film sentimental and soft in anyway. I heard from someone that the only real difference from book to film is that precogs were retarded and deformed in the book and in the film they are just crack babies basically. Can anyone confirm?
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anyone here ever seen it? fucking superb movie in my opinion
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Don't know about the pre-cogs in the book, and I agree with you whole-heartedly about the first 2 hours of the movie. Some of Speilberg's best and most hard-ass work but I just didn't love the ending. Felt too clean and tidy.
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As a guy who "gets" you, can you do me a favor and grab a brew or a smoke or whatever will calm you down today? I'm worried you're going to pop a blood vessel in your noggin, dude. Between this and the LW5 TB, you're exploding.We can't have our most recognizable member dropping dead. So breathe in. And out.
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not so much like the movie. I love the movie. It's classic Spielberg. And it wasnt that sentimental, thogh I heard originally Spielberg had a final title card that appeared over the scene of the cabin, saying that Precrime was retired, and then...gave the number of murders committed the following year in the District of Columbia. They totally should have left that.
If you wanted a downbeat ending, do what some do with A.I. Stop watching when Anderton goes to prison and Tim Blake Nelson puts him away, talking to him about dreams. Cut to a dream of his son, and end it there.
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Who's in it? Directed it? Netflix worthy? I just watched that French Film, Man Bites Dog, that shit was messed up, like a happy-go-lucky Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
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I think made in Thailand, with all the goofiness and campiness of the classic western, with a healthy dose of violence thrown in. A must see in my opinion.
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Maybe I am a miserable bastard but I think a movie can have a happy, sad, or ambiguous ending as long as it stays true to the spirit of the film, Aliens, one of my favorite movies ever, has a perfect happy ending, Terminator 1 has a happy ending but the final photo echos to inevitability of the future a brings a bittersweet tone that speaks to the intensity of what we saw before, Seven has an intensely painful ending that works for it's painful story. I just feel that sometimes Speilberg wants all his films to end on the same happy note, regardless of what we've been exposed to previously. I think AI was a sick joke played on Speilberg by Kubrick. He knew SS would bring to it flawless direction but a complete inability to deal with the darkness of the ending. He gift-wrapped an incredible story with a poisoned center. That is why it is a fascinating, infuriating movie, that I hope will be recognized as the flawed masterwork I think it is, but that's just me, I could be way off.
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austin powers 2. (that is going to make me unpoppular) - good, someone else said it. yeah aliens and the obvious ones. we are counting 3s? cause good the bad is the third. therefore last crusade. bangkok dangerous looks seriously awful. parody awful. i think he usually picks good movies though. ghost rider: awful. lord of war. fantastic.
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is good bad and ugly a true sequel? it is more a thematic continuation. I always thought it was a prequal. here is my reasoning. 1)a lot of actors show up after they have died in other movies but you could maybe pay that they survived. van cleef does not play the same character but you could at a stretch think maybe he does. big one 1) in the shoot out in the grave yard at the end of fistful, if you freeze frame it there are grave stones marked in the 1870s. the third movie was set during the civil war 2)1860s. the problem with this is that at the start of fistful no name is broke. at the end of ugly he is rich. but with a bit of imagination you can make it fit. that said i recently read lenoie in an interview where he was unequivical that it was not following the same character (clints)
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I'm not....I just typing really fast for some reason, so I write more run-ons. Maybe that makes my town sound more pent up. Sorry to scare you HOD....its okay man. Its okay.
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Is God, literally, your stupid jokes about his death is not funny, and I'm glad you got sent to your room for a timeout. Show some fuggin respect.
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The thing is.....there is no too soon when a person dies. The death jokes start up a day or two later and they are generally funny in morbid sort of way. If someone is in an accident and does not die, it is not funny to joke around about them dying. If Morgan Freeman died I would cry for weeks. Don't even kid about that shit.
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Fred took a look in the LW5 TB. Wow, that is a nasty place over there. It makes appreciate all the more our little home here. And the Religious TB.
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russel crow as an aussie. bloody kiwi. they can keep him
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nosferatu?
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in the book you feel sorry for him at the end. when they stake him his reaction is described as maybe being relief.
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The German silent film by FW Murneau or the semi-remake by Werner Herzog?
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'you know it is a preditor because it's eyes are at the front of it's head'what, like humans? maybe it was a herbivore and the eyes at the front things comes from mixing dna with us. did you think about that huh witiker? did ya? huh? thought not
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anything with gabriel byrne - such valor!. thirteenth floor. yeah ok
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nah, i think law 0 actually is in the robot series, not foundation (or at least it didn't start in foundation.) i think it does come from his robot series
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yeah, creepy shit. i rented it out and also the same day rented shadow of the vampire. great to watch back to back. and cypher is good.
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Yeah, liked that flick a bit, I watched a couple of his other films, Vincenzo Natali, Cube and Nothing. I'm really looking forward to his new one Splice, hopefully he'll get a reasonable budget to work with.
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Morgan Freeman's Wife's friend was in the car at the time of the accident (my thought are they partaking in certain oral activities) and now His wife has filed for a divorce, they have seperated for close to a year but I'm guessing this mid-night jaunt has sped up the filing process.
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Douche-bag - translation, I don't give a shit.
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Would it really be likely that she was blowing him when they got in the accident, or is it more likely that a heated argument was partially the cause of the crash. Either way I don't care about his personal life or the carrion that get pleasure in distributing this information.
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of anyone death or misfortune.
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Overreacted a bit there, I'm just done with this Freeman thing, I don't want Ratner dead either, just force him to direct Danity Kane videos for the rest of his life.
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Its true. I'm a total hypocrite. If you told me Shia just died in a horrible tractor accident I would be partying like its my fucking Bar Mitzvah!!
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I hate it when that happens!! Ouch....talk about lock-jaw!
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Gotta entertain the family, will be back.
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I take my lesson from Miyagi-san you do not kill you enemy, you allow him to live long enough to attone for his misdeeds, that includes Shia, Ratner, Egg Salad, and Platinum Dunes
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Aug 07, 2008 4:57:16 PM CDT
what is up with the racist shit on the Lethal TB?
by dannyglovers_dickblood
Fuck. That would fucking suck to be a black dude on AICN. Every time a TB involves a black person...the shit turns to racist jokes. Like that Spike Lee TB awhile back, when everyone was saying SPIKE LEE IS A NNNNN.......... in the header and in the subject: .........NNNNNNNICE PERSON. How the fuck is that shit funny? Thats racist humor I heard in 5th grade. What the fuck? That cunt steak Egg Salad's shit is more clever than that bullshit.
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If Shia was hanging from a cliff by two fingers I would tell him, "I won't kill you....but I don't have to save you," and then walk away giggling...
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There is a certain safety in posting under an assumed name and racist humor is the most socially taboo. Being able to indulge that darkside is a huge temptation. Plus it's the easiest way to push a button, which seems to be the %90 of Talkbackers.
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As Afro American it is hard reading alot of the openly racist post or racially insensitive post.
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Theres a Scorpion King 2!!! WWE style! Man DTV is having the Best week ever!
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ITS DIRECTED BY Russell Mulcahy!! The creator of ridiculousness over over budget!
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If there is one thing I shall not indulge, it is the racist shit. Unless Shiaites became a nationality-- then I would have to create a vicious slur to bash them.
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I thought you meant the Shiites as in the Ethnic Majority in Iraq which I thought was not cool, but instead you meant those worshipping Shia which is not cool either cause I kinda got a thing for 15-year old girls.
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What a smug dick. Sure, there are lots of dumbasses that frequent AICN who will believe every little thing that gets posted, but there's evidence on this talkback alone that there are plenty of smart noggins in the bunch too. What a pointless article.
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Good call on Red Planet. If I'm stuck for something to watch, can't make up my mind, I often turn to Red Planet. Sounds like a back-handed compliment to the movie but I don't mean it like that. The editing seems all off in the first third, like Terence Stamp's performance has been hacked around. And the scene when Kilmer and Moss almost get close - using that as a flashback was a mistake, should've used that at the start, real-time.Very cool soundrack, agree completely. The bit near the end when he's on Mars and she's in orbit, all hope gone and he says "I should've kissed you." A pause and she replies, "Yeah, you should've kissed me..." The comm signal dies and the music cue comes up - absolute gold dust.
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The design of the ship and the suits are fucking awesome as well.
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i just watch it and watch it. the perfect movie. great with a glass of scotch. i know the whole thing backward, but i never stop marveling at it.
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was good in that as well. And of course Sizemore. Great cast all the way around......Val played it with the perfect balance of weirdo and charm.
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I'm right there with you. The scene where O'Bannon escapes from the assassination attempt and takes them all out with the tommy gun may be my favorite scene in any film.
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Again, with the editing - Sizemore doesn't say a line for ages at the beginning! They must've cut some of his stuff out there. He makes up for it after though."I do that!"Like his line delivery there.
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You're right....I always felt that way too. It feels very chopped up in the opening especially. Moves at a strange pace. If I remember correctly, there were a shit load of deleted scenes on the DVD. Most of them are just dialogue exposition scenes on the ship. I like that scene when Stamp talks about how the frogs were the first to go on Earth....sad.
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definitely needs a Special Edition release. Got to be more extra footage lying around, not just the deleted scenes.
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Sizmore hammed up Red Planet too much.
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Fred got Fed-Ex (Fred-Ex)! Thank you!
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Hmm, Fred just read subject line Hello there Wolf! Hee hee.
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Over Red Planet. I liked all the little touches in the beginning like the square beer and stuff.
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Slow night
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it was piss mixed with shit i rather watch two girls one cup
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It was Don Chedles best performence by a mile (haven't seen Talk To Me, but its obvious Chwitel Edwjador (i can't spell it and you can't either) is the star).
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New topic! I'm thinking either favorite fight scene or favorite movie with a non-human character in a leading role.
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for me, definitely the one between Liam Neelson and Tim Roth in Rob Roy. It's one of those classic sword fights that actually helps to further character development and transcend the flashy moves and twirling blades (I love the Errol Flynn Robin Hood, but that's a good example of what I am talking about in terms of style over substance).
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Looks like its me and you on the late shift again. Rob Roy Damn fine sword fight.
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You seen Hellboy 2: Die Harder yet? There's a bad ass sword fight in there. Good thing Tolkin shit is set in the times of swords because GDT makes a mean sword fight, Blade 2: Die Harder had a couple of bad ass sword scenes. Have you seen Cashern? Its got some intense sword fighting scenes. I may be wrong but there is a good sword fight in Army of Darkness. I'm trying to think of a good sword fight where someone has a sword and someone else has like leg of lamb or light, like some good Tom and Jerry episode.
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Luke Goss is a fucking mad man in thst movie. Probably the best action scenes I have seen in an American produced film after the Matrix films.Have not seen Cashern yet but I keep hearing shit about it. I need to find it soon I guess.Army of Darkness is campy fun, but I really doubt it's gonna win any awars for its fight choreography. Nothing special there.Another great stylish sword fight for me with a bit of vapid style thrown in is the clash between Achilles and Hector in Troy. that's just some creative stuff, and i loved Pitt's aggressive movement throughout the scene, like when he's pacing around Bana like a hungry lion looking for the strike. Really good stuff.
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don't seem to be catching fire. What about life changing movie experiences (for those of us not old enough to see Star Wars in theaters....HOD). For me here is a short list. Independence Day (trocadero theater in downtown London) Jurassic Park (potomac mills mall theater, VA) Toy Story (Warner Village theater in Watford England) Matrix (Dana Mall Cinema in Bahrain) Die Hard with a Vengeance (West Ruislip navy base theater England, shitty ass theater) Nightmare Before Christmas (potomac mills mall theater, VA) and Forrest Gump (West Ruislip navy base theater England, shitty ass theater). I am sure about those. Here are some I need to let sit a few years: Speed Racer (Mall Drive Reagal, SC) Kong (tyson corners mall theater, VA) and Wall-E (Mall Drive Reagal, SC). Now note, you had to have seen these movies inside the walls of a movie theater, VHS/DVD/BETA/LASER DISK doesn't count. These have to be the movies where after you saw them and you talked to someone else who said "Well I'll wait" you thought to yourself how stupid that person was.
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Aug 07, 2008 11:51:58 PM CDT
I don't think anything is gonna catch fire right now Series7
by kungfuhustler84
nobody is here. Sorry but I need to hit the hay too. Got work tomorrow, unlike the last couple of days. Good luck!
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I totally forgot everything about that movie, probably that James Horner trumpet diddy fucking erased my mind. Anyways best fucking sword fight ever Ricochet, Lithgow and Ventura prison sword fight with phone books duct taped to their chest. Bad Ass! Seriously, would any of you buy a "John Lithgow is a bad ass" t-shirt with a shot of that fight scene on the back? Or a shot of his crazy face.
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As well man. SSDD.
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yeah rob roy. come on, crouching tiger anyone? empire strikes back, return of the jedi. monty python quest for the holy grail (it's only a flesh wound)
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batman is the only movie i got to see at the cinema growing up. that is why I started out as a huge fan of melodramas like indy and star wars and movie like res dogs, pulp fiction, mallrats that gain little from the big screen. Prob the matrix would be one.
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seeing The first Lord of the Rings movie with my dad and both of us being in awe of the film's scope and epicness. Just think back and first seeing that movie and how surreal it was to witness such great characters being brought to life and portrayed in such exciting ways. My dad and I both were blown away.
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will someone please put strychnine in Egg Salad's morning chocolate milk. He's too annoying for words.
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Princess Bride: "You are very good" "Thank you, I should be after 20 years" "Why are you smiling" "Because I know something you don't" "What's that" "I'm not left handed"
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Batman 89- I was at the UK premiere. Scream- Ok stop laughing, yes you at the back, I can see you, anyway, most involved cinema I've ever been in. The Exorcist- obviously this is very specific to Britain, but when it finally came off the Video Nasty list it received a proper cinema run and I sat there in fucking awe. Reservoir Dogs, again- this is Britain Specific, but when it got banned I was 13, it got a special release in Cinemas for one day only. I pursuaded my mother to take me as I couldn't buy the ticket (18 means 18 in the UK- no exceptions) and sneak me in with her. Awesome. Pulp Fiction- I would have been 14 and we heard there was a cinema out of town that was lax on selling tickets to under 18's. Which was true. sigh, fond memories.
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I'm as reconstructed as the next guy, but maybe it's because I put a lot of myself on these boards but I can not abide that shit. I don't even think about doing it in "real life" so I'm damned if I'll do it here.
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What a shithole. I feel sorry for you series.
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Pondscum in one of the IB threads: "However, it also says that he won't look cool but will instead look like a big chinned, balding, foot fetishy, freak-o-tard with a speech impediment, concluding that his performance will have all of the charisma of week old Alabama road kill and the acting skills of an autistic table leg. " I'm struggling to type because of laughter.
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princess bride. that is a good one. hello, my name is inigo montoya. you killed my father. prepare to die
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when they told him he was contributing to the conversation he clearly got pissed and tried to get his comments removed. they did the right thing by not removing them, it must have pissed him off more.
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The cricket was splendid yesterday. Grievious was in a filthy mood and looked fucking dangerous, but then again the bowling isn't the problem. England probably have 8 or 9 test class bowlers. And 4 dickheads that can't hold a bat.
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is probably in The Phantom Menace. The film may suck harder than a $3 hooker that's been promised a tip but that fight is good.
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I don't get it. How is it funny to post 99 times that Harry is a sad cripple? It's just sad.
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The "Home Office" reference is something that is very British. I sincerley apologise on behalf of my pissy little island in the North Atlantic for foisting such a drooling cretin on the world.
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I'm going to definitively put this one to bed. In Thomas Harris' dreadful novel Clarice is taken by Lecter from Mason's pig farm. She is kept under sedation and hypnosis and brainwashed into being Mrs. Lecter. Her and the Dr. Chomp Paul Krendler's brain. In the film, she is taken by Lecter hypnotised etc but does not chomp humans.
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Since MOM is AWOL at the moment, perhaps you would like to take a stoll over to the Valkyrie TB and take a gander at a fellow named Ganymeade3000 and his fine film critisism.
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on my way *sharpens knife*
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I don't think The Salad tosser is British, so need to apologize. At first I thought he was Glovedone because of his working the two name thing as Cock Tease and egg salad, but I don't think so any more. In fact I'm fairly sure its none other then the late and unlamented Skywalker Family A.K.A. Gotham Knight. Look at his Jew Hunter handle, which popped up immediately after he signed off as Smegma head. That two sentence format is awfully familiar. Also the Jew Hunter handle showed up almost immediately after the egg one got nuked.
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after yesterday's great day it looks like England are back on form. That useless fucking cockstain Ian Bell failed AGAIN. Why they keep picking him is a fucking mystery. I'm fuming. Wanker.
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and don't think he's British anymore. He spells "faeces" like an American. I think he's been cutting and pasting from the BBC website.
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every four years australia get to forget we are a tiny country on the edge of the world and get to believe we are a superpower.
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i have never been to australia because i have never been on my way to antartica
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Got my coffee...ready to go.
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Not funny.
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Out-fucking-rageous.
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for a couple free movies. I've checked my credit and they haven't billed me twice for it, but they sent me the same movies twice, in two different shipments. I had erroneously thought I was getting all 3 Mission Impossibles (yup, I like the first and third), but the blockhead that I am, didn't realize it was only the first two. So I was going to send it back (came with a few other movies) when lo and behold I get a second package. This time it's just MI set by itself. So I returned that puppy to the store. Looks like two free dvd's (so far....).
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Must drink coffee faster...
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Are we talking about in movies or ones actually witnessed?Pillow, sorry to be this guy but I think Farve isn't going to do much for the Jets. Too much to learn with terminology, recievers plus being in NYC and all that goes with it.
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Movies my friend, movies.
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Here's my humble opinion on the matter...Farve will win some games that Chad wouldn't have been able to win...and Farve will lose some games that Chad wouldn't have due to him being so damn mistake prone.I do not think the terminology will be a problem, it'll be because there is a lot better overall teams in the AFC vs. NFC. Pats...Chargers...Colts...Steelers...Browns.All these teams are better than the Jets until proven otherwise.
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Even with the power of 2for2true in my heart and mind...the beast cannot be stopped.
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Aug 08, 2008 6:45:06 AM CDT
so you think your D-backs can hold off the Dodger blue?
by just pillow talk
Me thinks they can.
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does that count?actually i did it two times. i was surprised how well it worked the first time.
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Did you yell "Spooooon!" like the Tick?
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And I want to stab the racist posters. I'm really annoyed and they've ruined my morning AICN reading. The cricket's got better though.
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Mostly because the Dodgers are evil and they deserve to fail, but really, because outside of Manny they don't hit and their pitching is suspect, both starting and bull pen.The D backs seem to coming around bat wise and the pitching seems to still be solid, at least from my research. I'm on a helicopter assault ship for the next few days so I've been using their vastly superior information center to catch up on sports info. I've been reading the Az Republic sports page for the last few weeks.Christ I'm glad I missed all the Farve hoopala. It would have made me mental to listen to both sides of that mess. I just read some things here and there but now that I've had time, yeesh! that was a mess.
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I wish I hadn't just posted that. fucking kiss of death. I'm still hoping it rains
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England should be getting over 400 here but are going to fuck it up. If they're all out for less than 200 I'm going to be pissed off. And it looks likely as the last specialist batsman (and he's shit) has just come in.
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I'm going to hunt down Ian Bell and hurt his pets for the fucking disappointment he puts me through. Cunt isn't fit to wear the shirt.
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please? we really need it to rain here.
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so not all lost yet. I bet the silly cunt gets himself out. I'm fuming and not bothered that no-one apart from me cares.
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no fucking chance of this useless bunch of cunts beating you lot- even if you are old now.
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The bullshit that he spewed out is fucking ridiculous.
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The D-backs, for what its worth, are the best in their lackluster division.
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On the plus side, it was nice to catch a bit of football last night.
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At all. There's a lot of them at the moment.
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I feel I at least owe that. If it were baseball- England have a very good pitching line up that can be pretty much guaranteed to limit the opposition to a few hits, but unfortunately cannot even get a few hits themselves. Now this wouldn't be especially upsetting by itself, but the management seem to think the problem is with the pitching so keep fucking around with it while the useless cunts that don't look like they know which end of the bat to hold get given chance after chance after chance. I'm livid.
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have yet to cement a proper bowling attack. I think the thing is we have been very spoiled. we are arguably the best team in the world at the moment. but not by much. five years ago we had the best team in history. some of those matches were increadable. I remember beating the windies, we got double their two innings total in one innings. which was nisce after the drubbing we got in the
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And on a sidenote: The NY Mess better fucking take at least 2 of 3 from the Marlins.
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Just how long is the season? From what I doped out from watching it on ESPN its like 8 months long right? or did I get that wrong? I'll just assume i got that wrong like usual. I find Cricket interesting as hell even though I don't understand it. It is way more interesting then Euro football. Before anybody jumps down my throat about footie, I've been playing it a lot for the last 2 months. Its still boring, Cricket is interesting.
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they were being tipped over here to win the World Series before the season started, but seem to have been poo.
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That's how his baseball team, the Diamondbacks, were for the most part.
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They suck too.
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played in both hemispheres. it goes all year.
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and the Australia side of 2002 was probably the best in history. Certainly the best I've ever seen. Xi- there's really 2 seasons as Cricket spans hemispheres. There is ours Inda/Pakistan and Sri Lanka's which tends to run from May to September and then Australia/SA/West Indies which runs from November-February. The Major nations will play each other in these 2 windows in all 3 forms of the game so at the moment it's England being thrashed by South Africa and Sri Lanka v India (which is much tighter). Cricket is endlessly fascinating as there's so many different variables (pitch, air, type of bowling, field settings) and it's a series of dramas in a big event. For a more hit and run version 20/20 is good fun with some beers, but is really diluted. I prefer the full 5 day stuff meself.
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I would say its somewhat closer to the evil evil evil evil evil LA Dodgers. Did I mention that the Dodgers are evil?Jarv: the Lions are Detroits American football team. The Tigers are the baseball team and they got off to a horrendous start, like bad.
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I meant Tigers. Slip of the keyboard/brain. Haven't they spent an obscene amount of money to be shit?
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YAWN. A fat bloated corporate embarrassment with the winner decided by who can take the most drugs. And the fact my taxes have gone up to pay for the next one makes me fucknig fume. Not one person in London wants them.
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it is one of the great psychological test of will games. it goes for days. I love the twists and turns. that is why the last ashes series in england was so beautiful. all five games were (for the most part) anybodies, right up to the end. I've never seen anything else like it.
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Thanks for the info. Aren't the Indians the ones that take Cricket so seriously that they strangled out their coach a few years ago for losing?
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the opening ceremony. it is full awesome. this moving type thing is full on.
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who have paid a bajillion dollars to each be in third place in their respective divisions at the moment.AAAAARRRRGGGHHHHH!!!!!
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Hopefully Mrs. Pillow does not want to watch them at any point.Hopefully.
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that was pakistan, and it was a media beat up
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whenever pakistan plays india there is usually about a half a dozen suicides from the losing country, and they have nearly gone to war over the result.
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See, over here in the states, if a college team wins say a football championship, they destroy their own city. (I'm looking at you OSU)
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step down from nuclear war though. in oz we just drink until no remembers the game.
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WOW you broke a record by 1/100 of a second? Big deal? I'm so sick and tired of all sports, nothings real anymore. We either need new sports, are fucking sports players need to be taken down like a million notches.
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When did Stillwater ever destroy their precious tiny town where the only thing over one story is the football stadium? Also when did OSU ever win anything? I know your talking about the giant O campus in Columbus, still, I was accepted to both and went to one of them.
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I was, er, trying to make light of the fact that countries would go insane over a little game.
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And I think the "restart" button needs to be hit for all American sports and get rid of all the cry baby millionaires. Strike down the prices of tix so, ya know, it's affordable, and away we go.
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I know all about the dust ups between India and Pakistan. I had the unfortunate experience of spending time in Pakistan. Never has a month felt longer.Chipps, your, Australian right? Do you or any of your friends surf? I'm planning a trip to Australia, some day, to surf and I'm trying to learn of some good places from locals. Any suggestions?About the olympics, since the USSR has gone the way of the Dodo bird, my interest in the Olympics has waned. There was nothing better then beating the commies, that was good times.
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DTV shall make it so!
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May I come in?Good morning/afternoon, fellas.JPT, I apologize that Heartbreak Kid was a complete failure at entertaining you. Hopefully the wife got something out of it in which case you did your job as a husband taking one for the team.That racist crap is inexcusable. Those cumstains over on the LW5 TB succeeded at ruining everyone's day. Best swordfights? Along with what was mentioned above, The Duelists needs a mention. Also, didn't the Mask of Zorro have some cool stuff? Wasn't there an over the top scene in a James Bond movie with Robert Carlyle maybe (?) slicing the bejeezus out of a posh men's club? Toshiro Mifune had his fair share of awesome fights.Jarv unfortunately reminded me another reason I hated Hannibal. The whole pig farm scene. I know Mason wanted Lecter to suffer but did he learn nothing from Goldfinger? Don't setup an elaborate method with which to kill your archenemy. Just put one in the chamber and then one in his skull. Theatrics will only get you killed.
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Sorry you didn't enjoy Heartbreak Kid. I was a little drunk whilst watching it, just I always feel that Stiller does the best frustrated guy blowing up at the wrong moment. And while Meet the Parents was more of a Horror movie for me, I just thought Stiller was spot on in Heartbreak. Like the driving scene, the meeting the mother scene, the marachi band scene, the penis in the hand convo with Mencia, the ending and the after sex scene. I don't know maybe it sucks totally sober. Either way it was the funniest thing Stiller has done since Zoolander or Dogeball. Also anyone seen Stiller doing these charity commercials, or have you seen all the fake websites they made for Tropic Thunder.
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guess you can't hear tone of voice from someone who is typing. they are seriously crazy sometimes.i'm not a big surfer (but in oz we all live on the coast and we all surf) in queensland, where i live i think the best places are coolum and rainbow beach. australia is pretty big and there are good spots all up the coast. depending on which state you go to there are diff places. we have good tourist booth like, everywhere so you can figure it out. not everywhere has shark nets, in fact some of the best places have people get taken every once in a while. so you take your chances. short answer is, there are stacks of places in every state, and there is good access to info for tourists.
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Nope, the wife didn't like it either. The wedding in the beginning had some funny moments, but after that, they were so sporadic. And they didn't make the blonde chick nearly crazy enough. I think that's where they went wrong.
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i don't think you know much about cricket. i'll tell ian chappel you were making fun of him. night all. cause in australia it's dark.
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I did enjoy when Aragorn went off on the Orc at the end of Fellowship, but I guess that doesn't really qualify as a sword fight, more of a brawl.
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Oh, go and eat a dick you pathetic piece of human flotsam. "I'm packing over 3" and have healthy teeth"= funny, in fact hysterical. For a starte eggyweggy, all available evidence suggestst that if someone were able to withstand the stench and lift the colossal amount of blubber up to examine that completely useless appendage you laughably call a penis, they would see that you are, in fact packing 3mm when fully erect. And bad teeth? Wow, you funny origanl, unique little snowflake. I think you must be the first American on AICN to make that crack. Now fuck off and lick the "chutney" from your mother's arsehole like a good little ferret. It's your only source of "protein" after all.
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and watch him pick up his teeth. Close was the mentalist that thought he could take Mohammed Ali.
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that incredibly mean spirited remake about a real asshole who for no particular reason decides to dump his new wife?
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I thought the premise was extremely weak.
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Thanks for contributing to our post count Egg.
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anyway, I was sitting on the Bus the other day, and a few seats in front of me there's this morbidly obese kid. Me and the other passengers can't believe it when he drops his pants and starts fisting his own asshole. He's really going at it, pounding away, and rubbing his crotch with his other hand in a pathetic attempt to raise what masquerades as an erection. But what's really shocking is he's crying- and I mean floods of tears pouring down his cheeks. The Conductor is a bit worried and asks him if everything is alright, but the fatass just starts nuzzling on the guy's crotch. We were going to call the police, but one of the passengers said "It's only Egg Salad, if you ignore him he'll go away"
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Really? I fail to see how that gets back at these "Brits".
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And I mean what state was your test tube bought to term?
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we give a shit about Princess Di? Despite what you saw on the news we didn't give a fuck about that adulterous hoor at the time and certainly don't give a fuck 10 years later. But if you want to abuse a corpse, don't let me stop you.
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And it'll be complete horseshit whatever he says he's from anyway.
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sigh.
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The queen mother is dead as well. At least I think so, but it's hard to tell.
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But his character is still very unsympathetic.It amounts to nothing more than a fart, gross-out comedy. I won't make excuses by blaming it on the booze as I was stone cold sober, but I laughed frequently. What can I say.Am I a Jew? Comedy gold I tells ya. That schitck never gets old.
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you put up before as "Jew Hunter" Egg? If you want to be a prick posting shit about talkbackers, fine, but no racist postings. For that, your IP should be banned.
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I should know better. But the posts do help keep numbers up.
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it don't matter how many more you add to that count.
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and turn out a quick para of poorly written filth that really isn't funny. It's just whether or not I can be bothered to.
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And for a gross-out comedy, I don't think it worked. I did laugh when she kept asking him to drill her, corkscrew style I believe.
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so I was walking through a graveyaard the other night and I saw this retard cornholing... Do you know what? I just can't be arsed with this. I'm amazed he can.
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Anytime.
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my handle before too.Very well...It's a quote from Army of Darkness.
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is from a quote by Bruce Motherfucking Campbell in Army of Darkness so certainly is not the Gayest Name Ever. Just FYI, but on a geek site you should really know that.
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soon enough.At the moment, Doomsday is available.I'm sure this is Netflix just fucking me with again, and all of a sudden I'll get the "Short wait" appearing again.
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and the Cricket has got better again. Just thought I'd share that with you, eggy.
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tonight after the Brewhouse. Thanks for the suggestion Egg.
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Me Myself and Irene, Stuck on You, Fever Pitch remake, Duplex, Night at the Museum, Madagascar, and Along Came Polly it was funny as hell. I actually saw it with a double feature with Hot Rod, and I found that funny as well. The only funny movie I had seen in like a year was Superbad, which kind of made up for how bad Knocked Up was but I was tired of the Apatow improv schtick and wanted stupid dumb comedy.
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but really THE FUCKING VERVE? Do you know what that makes you? a pretentious designer misery wannabe art student mock indy kid slumming it whilst whining that he hates his parents (even though they support his useless unemployable ass) who never washes and subsists on a diet of Student Union happy hour Carling and pot noodles. Or to put it briefly: A complete cunt begging for a kicking.
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Wish they could crank out something more along the lines of Kingpin, There's Somrthing About Mary or Dumb and Dumber.
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it just didn't tickle our fancy Series. And I prefer Me Myself and Irene over Heartbreak Kid. Everything else you mentioned though, I really dislike. I love Superbad though.
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I can't stress the awesomeness of this movies sword fight scene enough, the prison fight scene straight out of highlander (directed by the same crazy MF Russel Muchany. With sparks flying for no reason and yellow pages body armor, can't beat it. The movie is awesome all around, terrible cover shot though, makes it look like some dumb cop drama like the new Samuel Jackson movie.
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with that Egg.And clearly you are delusional and just plain not right in the head if you think Army of Darkness is not great.
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I vaguely remember the sword fight scene.
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Aug 08, 2008 8:45:50 AM CDT
Braffed, I thought you weren't going to post this shit
by just pillow talk
anymore?
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I liked the Verve. In 1997 when I was a student. I have to say I'm extremely impressed with your knowledge of dreadful British boy bands. Did you cry when that guy from Pondlife married that fat bird from Atomic Kitten, because, dammit, it could have been you standing opposite him at the altar wearing a white dress?
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Carling= cheap filthy lager drunk by cretins. Student's Union= Cheap grotty bar only open to Students that sells discounted booze. Pot Noodle= Cheap grotty food beloved of students with the nutritional value of cardboard.
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is make you a geek as well?
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Is that another one of your fav Brit bands as well?
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I don't own a DVD copy of Ricochet. That and Last Boy Scout make a superb double feature.The Farelly Bros. will never make anything as funny as Kingpin again. Go ahead and laugh but I enjoyed Shallow Hal as well.
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Definately, Maybe= Great. Everything else= shit. They should retire. True story, a few years ago me and mrs Jarv made the mistake of being in the pub that they regularly go to. Mrs Jarv gets up to go to the toilet. She comes back about 5 seconds later and goes "We're leaving". So I downed my pint and left with her. I asked her what was up and this is the story: "I walked into the ladies toilet to find that asshole Liam Gallagher in there doing lines of charlie with some fat groupies. He turned around and said "It's alright, you're quite fit, you can stay". In the fucking ladies. Prick".
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you fucking love Busted, McFly and all the rest of that shit. In fact you're grateful that our talent show winner, Leona Lewis, got a chance to release her anodyne RnB light in America. It's OK eggy, you'll be fine. American Idol starts again soon.
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packaged with Passenger 57, Point of No Return and Eraser for $15. Not too shabby.
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I'm currently listening to Leftfield, Massive Attack and Goldfrapp.
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Though I guess I'm not surprised.
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Something about a time machine and being hot for teacher?All this talk of eggs has me craving an omelet.How you doing this A.M., Chitty?
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Definatly Maybe by Oasis.
But I also like couple more songs as well (Don't go away and Acquiesce) and album What's the Story (morning glory).
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You see all the "Primrose Hill Set" in the pubs quite often. And they're all fucknuts of the highest order. BTW Sadie Frost looks fucking terrible- she is one coke bedraggled skank. She honestly looks like death on toast. Better than Amy Crackhouse though, who is currently struggling with "Pneumonia",
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But the others are worth the $15. Eraser is such a fun movie."John, I can't believe you got me with this mail order sh*t."
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You doing OK? I'm maybe heading up to great city of Asheville to hang out in a week or two.
Love that area.
By the way I opened the Biltmore Estate red wine the other night.
Verdict is nice and dry with a good hit of flavor at the end.
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is not a complete loss, it's Stand By Me onwards that is just dreadful.
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It's bad. Real bad.
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play in newport Rhode Island to about 4 people and a dog and said they were great. That must have been a shock to come from a sellout European tour to that.
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Actually look forward to it on TBS or TNT or whatever channel.
Like the shot of when he is stuck in the parachute and the camera is looking over his shoulder with the long shot of the plane turning around.
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Frankie goes to Hollywood, and even Neil Marshall knows it, Two Tribes in Doomsday fucking great. Best track ever, Welcome to the Pleasure Dome. They may be gayer then a Egg Salad, but most good musicians are.
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Ah, it's good to come back and find you all still here, yammering away about the same old crap as always. Man, I love this place...By the way, the current best British band is clearly Muse. Maybe Radiohead, but I prefer Muse. Of all time? The mighty, mighty Led Zeppelin, but I assume you all know that already.
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It was American Pie, and it was not nearly as good as I remembered it being. A couple of funny moments - Jim's dad is funny and I liked the part with Jim and Shannon Elizabeth with the webcam - but otherwise I was kind of disappointed. I'm sure I liked that one a lot when it came out. What happened, American Pie?
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dunno, probably Muse. Best ever? Massive Attack.
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this is much better,
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You can't beat that Shane Black dialogue ("We're getting beat up by the inventor of Scrabble!"), and nobody plays a down on his luck action hero like the man Bruce Willis. I'm going to have to see that one again, I reckon.
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Is the best Brit Band right now, they should do the new Bond song not crappy Alicia Keys and Jack White. I remember when I first heard about Muse with their first album and thought they were SOOOO fucking terrible. Now they are one of my favorite bands. Knights Of Cydonia is one of the best songs ever, its kind of like an modern Bohemian Rhapsody of sorts. The video is awesome to boot.
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First he makes me crave eggs, then he makes me want to listen to Word Gets Around. Bastard!Those Westboro Baptist Church loons are trying to enter Canada so that they can protest at the funeral of the kid who was butchered on the Greyhound bus last week.The daughter of the church's founder said she and several other members will go to Winnipeg on Saturday to demonstrate against what she described as McLean's "filthy way of life." Shirley Phelps-Roper said his life was emblematic of Canada's moral decay. She said his murder was a sign from God.Jarv, I'm doing my best to restrain my "wood chipper" tendencies on this one. Every ounce of my vengeful side wants to slowly dip these pricks in feet first, but my whole wheat side is keeping that in check.
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which is not something you can say about most of them.
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They are great, no doubt about it, and it blows my mind how influential their music has been over the last fifteen years or so, but the one thing they are sorely lacking is colossal guitar riffs. Colossal guitar riffs make all music better, much like cheese makes all food better.
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American Pie has my favorite funny line ever! The part right after the pie fuck scene when Jim and his dad are sitting in the kitchen with the mangled pie on the table just starring at it and the dad says, "We'll just tell your mother that... we ate it all. " FUCKING CLASSIC!
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was he gay or something? Those fucking pricks are a disgrace to the species- protesting at a funeral. I mean, really, fuck.... *Jarv trails off into incoherent rage*
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it's a bit of a cliche, but realy that track is a fucking masterpiece. I also love their cover of Man Next Door, and Teardrop, Angel, Karmacoma, RisingSon, Fuck- they're great.
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Some of his stuff is even better than Massive Attack, I think, especially Maxinquaye, which is pretty much a perfect album. Who else could cover Public Enemy and actually get away with it?
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For best British band ever. There's never been anything close to being like them, nor a band so that was able to varry so much and not suck. Plus is there a band with as many classic hits that everyone loves? I wish I could've seen queen live.
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I fucking love Maxinquaye and PMT. I think he's a bit too dark for most tastes though.
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Eugene Levy was definitely the highlight of the film for me this time. I also loved when when he was showing Jim a selection of porno mags. It's hilarious, it's awkward, but it's also sort of sweet. My dad never gave me any porn.
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I bought a Goldie CD thinking it would be good. Wrong. Any of you heard the band Peeping Tom, Mike Patton with Massic Attack?
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Under Pressure. Love that song, although the rest all tie for second place.
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I think this depends upon age. And they're not to be forgiven for inspiring the hackitude of The Darkness.
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I think I prefer the second one upon repeated viewings, but I haven't see either in a while.
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if you don't like Drum and Bass/ Jungle then avoid like the plague. I also love Leftfield, Aphex Twin (which will be my next username), Goldfrapp, Morcheeba (don't laugh) I'm quite omnivorous in my music tastes.
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has anybody actually talked about anything today yet?And I prefer Radiohead to Muse, though I love both. Knights of Cydonia? Fuck yes! Oh and btw...Get 'em LibWarrior!
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and I think Tricky was in the 5th Element. GOldie is a bit of a nob, frankly, and I think Tricky has gone mad in his old age.
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"What's my name bitch?"
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Which they won't Eugene Levy has to play Randy Marsh, it would be Oscar winning in his attempt to play the white trash version of Jim's Dad (i love how he doesn't have a name also). Also Michael Emerson for Stewey Griffin, there was this scene in like the one of the last episodes of Lost this season where he's playing the piano and someone comes in and its like "They're attacking" and he stops playing and stands up and pulls a gun out of no where and said something crazy.
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which as one critic said, is the sound of 4 men vanishing up their own arse. The best album of a few years ago was Demon Days by Gorillaz which was just superb. For a one-joke piece of satire, they're quite good.
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All those smokin' hot arts students running around. Good to hear that Biltmore can produce something other than swill now. The wine sample I had back when they started was like someone had pissed in a glass of Windex.American Pie? Yup, not one to age well.Last Boy Scout? All I gotta say is: "Oh, you're real cool for somebody who's about to take a bullet.""After fucking your wife I'll take two."
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The Guess Who.
Love those guys, ecspecially No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature from that greatest hits album.
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best. line. ever. So funny and so skin-crawlingly awful. They were proper dickheads in that- am I the only person that really wanted to beat Kev up?
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A friend was getting rid of a bunch of old VHS tapes, so I had to nick Deep Blue Sea off him. Deep Blue Sea! It may be a crappy old tape, but I love that film.Fight those super-intelligent sharks, LL! Show them who's the GOAT!
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memories festering keyboard: "The Problem with Shane Black". What a twat. Anything following that sentence is automatically untrue and redundant
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A complete waste.
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Really quite funny.
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It is now the most visited winery in the States.
It definatly was not bad.
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of Stiffler's mom...that's all that runs through my head when we have our MILF discussions here.
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I think I blame Motley Crue for them and Poison. There is a part in a thing called love where the singer goes GUITAR! Just like he was Vince mother fucking Neil.
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Justin hawkins said his biggest influence was Queen.
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The vineyards in upstate New York (the Finger Lakes) have some nice ones. The best is "Deck the Halls" event they have where you pay a flat fee and go to all the vineyards (about 30 or so) and taste test for a weekend.You sort of feel invincible after that.
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Yes, Justin, you've made your funny joke, now piss off and leave us all alone.
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"Hooooly Shit!"
"See, even Shitbreak knows it's a good idea."
I still watch it every now and then and it holds up pretty well for me.
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After The Bends. I don't mind that experimental stuff but The Bends was one of my favorite albums of the 90s. Then OK Computer comes out and I found it a tad incoherent.Kungfu, we're talking all kinds of stuff, brother. Fave Brit bands, Last Boy Scout, the many monikers of Egg Salad. BTW, your package is at the FedEx sort facility in Portland.
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"You guys gonna fuck?" over and over again...something like that, right?
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have a good weekend chaps, I'm in on monday and then in Spain for a few weeks. See you Monday.
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Hey I asked this on the other thread, but have you heard of the Beerfest in Raligh? I went in March its fucking amazing, theres one in October, I'd go again but I am moving to OK.
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I find that movie hysterical. Now that's a good movie to drink to (of course).
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It's a good line, but everything that Chris Klein says just makes me cringe. That guy has to be one of the worst actors ever allowed to appear in films. The only film he was ever any good in was Election, and that's only because he was SUPPOSED to be a simpering idiot.Also, he had painted on stubble in Rollerball, a look that hasn't been popular since Dolph Lundgren had painted on stubble in The Punisher.
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Have a good time, Jarv.
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I should head out to the West Coast...never been further than Vegas.
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Yikes. I'm afraid I'd have to put Sloan, The Tragically Hip and Matthew Good ahead of Burton Cummings & Co. All three bands have been f'ed out of fame on the world stage. How no one outside of Canada knows of these groups causes me to lapse into fits of rage.
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I heard them talking about their song Creep the other day and how much they hate it and hate how people relate it to them. The lead singer was like I heard it the other day and didn't even recognize it, and he compared it to Beck with Loser. I was like what a dick. And Beck's eleveated himself past Loser, plus I bet Beck doesn't hate the song that made him important. Speaking of Beck, Odelay is the best cd of all time, maybe because it was the first I ever bought? But I still listin to it today, even bought the aniversary version, I thought my original had gotten alll scratched up, but its fine for some reason?
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Dolph can do anything cause he's Dolph.
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I've never heard of them.
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Thanks for the heads up. I figured you'd be in OK by then.
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I sort of understand where he's coming from, but dude, you had a hit. So what if that song is associated with you. Crank out good shit and stop the pissing and moaning.
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Demon Days was a brilliant album.Sorry HOD, I was just in a bad mood after just reading the LW5 TB. That a piece of crap.Okay I'm wondering why nobody has mentioned them, and it's stereotypical I know, but the Beatles?
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Yeah man, its 4 hours only $40. You walk in and you get this small ass glass and your first thought is, thats not big enough. But then there are like 200 beer vendors and they just fill you up no questions nothing. A half hour into it I looked at my buddy as was like WHOLLY SHIT we got 3 and 1/2 more hours of this! Needless to say I did not pace myself well, but it was awesome.
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He jumps out of the closet and says "You guys are gonna fuck aren't you? Fuckers, fuckers fuckers!"
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Three best things musically Canada has ever produced and they are virtual unknowns. But who gets the attention? Celine Dion and Nickleback.*hangs head in shame*I can only continue to apologize.
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the west coast is great if you know where to go. Do you smoke man?
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I had a great time there a couple of years back. Very beautiful place.Man, I should be recommending films, not holiday hotspots. Ummm... I highly recommend you not watch Walk Hard, which was not funny at all. I had just seen Superbad and was all high on how great that one was, so I signed up for another Apatow-related comedy and it barely made me laugh at all. What a let down. I liked that he ripped sinks off the wall whenever he was upset, but that was about it.
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In fact, I'm listening to Born Losers right now.
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As much as I love their music, the best they've ever done was appear in the greatest South Park episode of all time, Scott Tenorman Must Die. Jesus, that is a funny, funny episode.
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Know of Matthew Good? That's wild. You listening to the whole album, Chitty or just the one song?Everyone in America needs to be introduced to his album "Avalanche" from a few years back. Best thing he's ever done.Bryan Adams has thankfully gone away. I did a whole lot of apologizing during the days of Robin Hood.
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Fred watched Chocolate last night! Wow! She kicked butt! Fred loved the final fight on the side of the building. Fred also loved the blooper reel showing all the fighting accidents. Fred has not seen too many martial arts movies with women, only Enter The Dragon - Bruce Lee's 'sister' and Crouching Tiger - which had two great women, but it was also wire-fu.
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It's cool to evolve as a musician and change your sound a bit, be it naturally, instinctively, or deliberately to be more "with the times." I'm not that familiar with Radiohead, so I can't comment on their "change." But I will say that it's cool when a musician / band acknowledges the hit(s) that put them on the map and won them an audience. Even if you're sick of playing that material, give fans at least SOME of what they want (especially in concert). Just the other night I saw Extreme in concert. They had a big hit back in '91 with "More Than Words," then slowly slipped off radar. During their show, they reached the acoustic portion of the set, and Gary and Nuno joked, "It's time to pay the bills!" Then they delivered their big hit to the crowd, having fun with it, and encouraging them to sing along. Love 'em or hate 'em, it's cool when a band can accept who they are and acknowledge their past while moving forward.
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But have yet to get In a Coma.
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I thought you meant that version with Depp about love and all that stuff.
I thought Damn, what version did they pick up?
Thought maybe it was one of those director's cuts that is WAY different that the theater version.
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Now you're talking.The problem with Three Sides to Every Story is that the first third is "meh", the second third has some good stuff (Stop the World) but some stank residue left over from the first third. But then those last three songs kick in and they are supreme in their ass kickitude. I can listen to Rise 'N Shine ALL. DAY. LONG.I still think Waiting For the Punchline is their best album.These TBs are like a magical place> I thought I was the only guy on the planet who liked B-movies and listened to movie soundtracks and Extreme and it turns out that just ain't the case.
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is the bloopers at the end. Love it when they do that.
I think they should do that after EVERY movie.
Can you imagine DeNiro cracking up during a scene and everyone wondering if he is just 'adding' to the performance.
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Apparently you need to watch Machine Girl or Daisy next.Chitty, do you need an Asian movie package too?
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It's Friday and after work I'm buying ShipYard pumpkin ale and going home to listen to Extreme, Matthew Good, The Guess Who and Crosy, Stills, Nash and Young (Four Way Street Live album. Classic).
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How do I get in touch? Maybe I can finally add to the conversation when you guys talk about it.
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may be a trip back up the coast of Maine. I could probably do eight domestic trips to one European trip. Fuck you Euro!I'm not bitter though...not at all.
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Mr. Socrates is after that, then Machine Girl.
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Send me an e-mail with your mailing address. This is a spam account so the amount of e-mails about penis enlargement and African villagers offering me deposed dictator's money is staggering. Put something uber specific in the subject line so I know it's you.And I'll ask one last time. Any other takers? Last call for alcohol.grumpy_is_good@yahoo.com
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And drink the Sierra Nevada's I have in the fridge. And watch Starship Troopers 3.Oh, I watched Nim's Island last night. Avoid! Avoid! Avoid! Watching a spider build a web is more exciting.
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Jew Hunter is over on the LW5 thread and he's tossing that racial hatred around again. WTF? I understand you can't moderate every forum every second of the day, but this jerkwad has been posting offensive trash over mulitple threads since yesterday. Ban him already guys!
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I will send it when I go home for lunch. Trust me, you will know it came from me.
I can't believe I will get asian kick ass movies in the mail.
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That dude is a fucking asshole.
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Beavers were once the size of Bears.
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I haven't really seen Jonah or Danny this morning.
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And I believe Danny has been busy at work this week. (plus the West Coast thing)Not sure where Jonah is. Maybe he doesn't post until later?
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I'm burned out right now from my summer classes and being busy at work the past two weeks.
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Aug 08, 2008 11:32:20 AM CDT
Yeah, I just got a shitload of work dumped on me
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I may be out for awhile too. That's what I get for wondering why others haven't posted.
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I liked III because I'm a fan of prog-rock, so that entire second half of the record appealed to me. I loved Pornograffitti, saw Nuno solo in concert in 96-97, and followed Gary for a bit because I'm a Van Halen fan. I work nights at the venue where they played in town last week, so it was cool checking out the show. The dudes are very cool with fans. I saw Nuno signing and taking pictures with fans who approached him randomly in the back lot after soundcheck. That guy has a wicked sardonic sense of humor, and if you aren't aware of it at first he comes across like a little asshole, but he's not, it's just his wit. Tonight I get to work a concert for RATT. Yes, that RATT!
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Aug 08, 2008 11:35:04 AM CDT
It's decided then, no one will do any work today
by hawaiian organ donor
Danny is probably just crawling out of bed now.But Jonah must be swamped because he usually pops in to say hello at the very least.I wonder if anyone would miss me.Beavers are our friends. They build dams so we don't have to.
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what are you studyin?
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Of course you would be missed Hawaiian. Our eyes and hears of Asian cinema would be lost!
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Took the double whammy of Stats and Governmental accounting. If that don't get one's panties in an uproar, ya just ain't living. Yeeesh.
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Though it's suddenly got a wee bit darker. Hope it doesn't rain again.
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Let us know how Steven Pearcy has aged.I always got a kick out of Milton Berle in the Round and Round video.
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I started my night job (the aforementioned concert venue-thing) a couple months ago. It's the first time I've done work / school stuff at night in a couple years. Although it can be fun, the hours are kicking my ass, working a 9-5 job and then doing the night gig from 5 or 6 until midnight, one or two in the morning. It's been five years since grad school, so I have to get used to living the double-life again, plus being a dad. But I adhere to my Changian faith and remain ever the warciple
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Here's a plunger. See if you can't finally get our Jew Hunter friend to flush.
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Is Jew Hunter really braffed in disguise or something?
H-O-D I don't know what's up with Pearcy. He was supposed to play a solo gig in town last year and he was a no-show. It was strange. He just failed to show up. I hope the band has their act together now. Incidentally, in addition to Kings X, the band that opened for Extreme was a "rock fantasy camp" group of all stars featuring dudes from The Cars, Slaughter, Megadeth, Deep Purple, GnR and a couple others.
Pillow--math was always my weak area, and I woulda had a 4.0 in the MPA program but not for Stats. Damn cosigns and standard deviations and modes. The prof was lucky to not get a pencil in his carotid -
Because of the Mexican in me. Picked tomatoes all morning and now I'm taking a siesta for the rest of the day. And the Dutch side of me will probably have me shooting up heroin.
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How would you know whether someone's cock is filthy--unless they just pulled it out of your ass?
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then you should listen to "Gallo del Cielo" by Tom Russell. It's practically your life story and would explain why you're so sad. You lost everything on cock-fighting
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And my half-breed daughter. And I just might pleasure myself with gay porn produced by the Jews.
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Wow, you lucky sod. That's quite the show. King's X have never gotten the love they deserve. One of the great American bands. Their new album is their best in years.
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WTF?!?
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Jew Hunter on the boards for over 24 hours? That's inexcusable.Ban this racist prick.
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I managed a B in Stats, which is all I hoped for. The Gov't accounting class though...kicked my ass. Never had so much work to do for one class.
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is a tall guy in person. He looked like a tree, very tall and long limbs around that bass. Yeah, they were good. I knighted them into the Church of Chang. They may even modify their name to Chang's X
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Ban his IP.
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I just read your "the Mexican in me".It's funny, we now have one of our employees from Mexico working in our corporate office now, and we always say we can't call right now: siesta time for 2 - 3 hours. Call after 3.
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Those Dutch genes muscled them out of town as I look about as European as they get. My brother on the other hand took no end of crap when he was younger because the exact opposite happened with him. And yet people say we still look like twins. WTF?Only one Mexican in your office?
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Is excellent as well. Ty and Jerry have had some decent side/solo projects as well.I saw King's X several years ago when Moke opened up for them. One of the best concerts I've ever been to. Doug just pounds that bass.
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He plans on moving his family to America in a year or so. He had us over his place last week, and man, his wife knows how to cook!I always enjoyed going down to our Monterrey office for those nice big lunches. Monterrey itself isn't nice, but the hotel we stayed at is.
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Aug 08, 2008 12:30:25 PM CDT
There's not much better than authentic Mexican food
by hawaiian organ donor
I learned enough from my grandmother before she passed that I can whip up a tasty spread of the real deal.
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We're down to a skeleton crew.That Flash Gordon thread has me thinking about all the classic dialogue the movie has. I suppose that can be our next topic when the full crew in on: most quotable movies.
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The Brazilians salt the hell out of their beef. (I realize that doesn't sound good)
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Good, bad, I'm the guy with the gun.First you want to kill me, then you want to kiss me. Blow.Goodie little two shoes..goodie little two shoes.That's just what we call pillow talk baby.This is my BOOMSTICK.Definitely an 'N' word.ooohhh...I'll get back to you!
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Little Bruce's chime in after he step on the nail: "My fair lady"
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What'd you grow up in a barn?
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and jack left town.
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Aug 08, 2008 12:52:36 PM CDT
JPT, I guess I'll have to watch Army of Darkness
by hawaiian organ donor
This weekend because those lines (many of which I had forgotten) have me rolling.Brazilian women are drop dead. I see them every time I go to Atlanta and it's like candy for the eyes.
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enjoy your time while it lasts. you are about to receive TOTAL FUCKING DESTRUCTION.
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It quickly became a college fave of mine. He also calls them primitive screwheads or something like that.
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That boy -jew hunter, is not in your class and he knows it. He can not throw any insults, because he does not have the firepower or ability to do so. But I am enjoying your one sided fight, you are cracking me up! So keep ripping him a new one or twelve!
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In on of these talkbacks.
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Looks like this TB is going to remain messy until the ban hammer comes down. We had some pretty decent discussions up above this morning. Feel free to throw out your opinion on Brit music, sword fighting and beer.
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I haven't seen Jonah or Danny today?
Fred has been in here and there.
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Purge this TB of it's rancid infestation.
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jew hunter has no firepower. He is just a pathetic bomb thrower - when no one is around. Soon as Libwar shows up, he reverts to hs 'ok, yep, yawn'. But not once did he try to match flames with LibWar. To see a really good battle you should look up the old Jimmy Carter man from plains TB. BTW I see it is now 4-3. Ok.
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What up dude? I had unexpected meetings all day today. Just breaking free now.
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I'm really anxious to hear others' thoughts on this movie.
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I took a sword fighting class a few years ago. I learned the five basic movements/postions. The funny thing is, once you learn the parry/thrust movements, it becomes easier to critique fighting. The Duellists, is hands down the best modern fighting. Flynn and Rathbone are also excellent.
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Did someone mention beer?Sword fighting - just makes me think of Jason And The Argonauts battling skeletons.
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I've refused to do work all week so I spend all my time here. Counting down the hours until I can go home, pick up Flash Gordon (I have DocP to thank for that!) and a Papa John's pizza and relax with the family and a few beers.
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Someone mentioned it in an earlier post. I've never heard a word about any potential film adaptation. Anyone know if a script was ever developed, or if there's even a remote chance of a film version actually coming to fruition? I think it's a great novel begging to be translated to screen.
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Ever been to Papa John's stadium in Louiville Hawaiian? Cheapest beer I've ever had at a college game.
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I'll put that in tonight after the family goes to bed.And I gotta squeeze in Army of Darkness (thanks JPT!), the Road Warrior (thanks Jonah!) and Flash Gordon (I'm looking at you, DocP) over the weekend.
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I wish Jonah was around, he could clear up a question of whether to class Flash as science fiction or Fantasy. I loved that movie. I also have the 30's serials.
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I love that screen name. That one and the juggfuckler are my favorites
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if ever I heard of one Hawaiian.I'm hoping Road Warrior comes in the mail soon, as I haven't watched that gem in ages.
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A great movie. What beer would you have watching that?
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Good question. Heinlein is one of those writers that never caught on with Hollywood. I always though "Job: A Comedy of Justice" would make a great, if controversial movie.Never been to Louisville although I've been told I should and it can't be more than a 10 hour drive.
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Didn't they make Heinlin trim down the book?
I have a feeling it may have been a sexual encounter between Mike and a water brother that happened to be male.
I hope that is not the case, as science fiction writing literally knows no bounds and should be published as is.
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Ooooh... Toughie. Think I'd go for a Staropramen - it's a beer from Prague.
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Aug 08, 2008 2:02:51 PM CDT
I haven't watched Road Warrior in at least 15 years
by hawaiian organ donor
Been about the same for Flash Gordon. And maybe 10 since Army of Darkness.TFD and Juggy do have some of the best names.To me Flash Gordon is both sci-fi and fantasy. Are the serials on DVD?I'm guessing I don't own nearly enough stuff on DVD. I have too much stuff coming in on Netflix that I should have bought when I had disposable income.
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Quit taunting us.I don't know how many of you were under the drinking age as the time but as early as 15 years ago you were hard pressed to find microbrews in the grocery stores here (and in Canada for that matter). Some truly wretched choices back then for true beer connoisseurs. But then came the golden age of the late 90s and thanks to the pioneering efforts of Sam Adams, palates changed and 'Mericans asked more from their beer. Nowadays the microbrews take up more shelf space than Bud and Miller.
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Saw one in the T4 thread (which turned into the TDK thread) - Chewbaccalypse Now. Brilliant!
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There's a wine merchant here in the UK called Oddbins and they used to import a beer called Wicked Pete but I haven't seen it for years. Is that one popular in the US?
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Errol Flynn in The Adventures Of Robin Hood. I seem to recall Errol mixing it up with a smart bit of fencing and general derring-do.
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Yup, I've partaken in that beverage before. Isn't Pete's Wicked Ale, or is that something different?
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of his works that was made into a movie?
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Because they were one the microbrew trailblazers, along with Sam Adams. But they fizzled as more and more competition arrived. They're still around but my store doesn't carry them anymore.
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We still can't get Fat Tire though.
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that's the one. There were different flavours but I can't remember what they were. Good stuff, I thought.
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The brewery is called Lazy Magnolia and their best is Southern Pecan.
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And Harry Harrison should've had more stuff adapted for the screen too."Soylent Green is people!"
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I'm at full attention!
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for Stranger in a Strange Land, this is the one.
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Is in development hell?
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Also try Abita Brewing company, as they have Pecan Ale.
I like the flavor of the Lazy Magnolia just a tiny bit better, although you can't go wrong with either.
I may get a little today to go along with the pumpkin ale.
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Yes, the Flash Gordon serials are on DVD. Have been for some time. I just love them. You can see the evolution of storyline and budget. The first series, is total shoestring, but it just kicks ass. The second series, has the highest budget, better effects - though still a bit crappy, and the storyline is quite good, but I still prefer the first one. The third series, well they were getting bored, and just trying to squeeze last bit of life out of it.
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I agree with HOD stop taunting us with beers we never heard of or are unlikely to ever taste! Ok, just kidding. Has anyone here had Arrogant Bastard Ale?
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I'm getting Pecans and Pumpkins and Fat Tires lobbed at me here, there's drool over my keyboard. Now you wing in with Arrogant Bastard Ale!
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A great book. I read the first two ender books before I realized that Card was slowly interjecting his Mormonism into it. Once it became apparent, and once he started churning out books just to keep the cash flowing, I dropped the series. I did read the first Bean book though. I enjoyed it.
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I do miss going up to Boston and visiting Boston BeerWorks. (completely unrelated to Pecan beer, but nonetheless my train of thought somehow led me to think of Boston BeerWorks and their Blueberry Beer, Hercules...)
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That's one beer I have seen on shelves here, but it's the Purple Haze.*shakes uncontrollably*I do loves me some raspberry beer but I want, nay, I NEED to find this Pecan beer you speak of.
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Aug 08, 2008 3:05:40 PM CDT
Never, I repeat, never visit a beer site at work
by hawaiian organ donor
Unless you're wearing a bib.Abita has a slew of dandy sounding beers, in particular their TurboDog. "Abita Turbodog is a dark brown ale brewed with Willamette hops and a combination of British pale, crystal and chocolate malts."
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Both versions I have consumed (Abita and Lazy Magnolia) are pretty much spot on.
By that I mean there is just enough flavor of pecan that it doesn't overpower you.
I can't really drink alot of really flavorful beer, so I usually get a good tasting beer then a little bud light to finish.
Not with this stuff though. I can get blasted on it. I have even had the party ball version, which sits on its side and fits nicely in a fridge.
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That AB Ale is almost 10% alcohol! Damn, I bet that stuff is kickin' with a cigar.
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of CoC heaven.
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There is an impressive liquor store across the street from my office.
The beer side has a pretty good variety. I will take one (or six) for the team if they have Turbodog and let you guys know.
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Here's a little story that will make you happy regarding those scumbags. I've told it before but it needs repeatingI've been to two funerals where those shitbirds showed up. One, for a friend from my current employer and one from my old Army days. The second one, the Army one, some other folks from my old unit and some friends/family of the deceased had some "words" with the the fuck nuts from Kansas in the parking lot.The best part, the cops and the reporters on scene some how "missed" the entire incident while the guys where rampaging among the so called relgious folk. I wish I could have helped but I was in uniform and the Marine Corps has flat out told us that they will hang high anybody caught fighting with those asshats, the Army is the same way. The boys did a good job though and I have to commend the on site reporters for having camera and pen malfuntions about the incident. The cops simply walked away for about three minutes, it was beautiful.
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Aug 08, 2008 3:14:39 PM CDT
Lazy Magnolia is brewed in Brett Farve's hometown
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So maybe they will send a little pecan to the Big Apple.
Can you ship beer to different places via ups or fed ex?
If not I can get my Kenworth and somebody to block in the Trans Am and I'll be on the way to the East Coast. -
Have a few drafts of that puppy, tore up city here you come!
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As are the boys you just mentioned Xi.
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Synopsis of from their website:The Party Pig is a self-pressurized amber colored plastic
bottle designed to provide kegged beer freshness to retailers
and consumers who do not wish to invest in keg tapping
equipment. The Party Pig can be placed on a shelf in a
refrigerator and kept for up to 60 days, as the contents are
never exposed to air. The mechanism includes a
self-cleaning spout that is activated by pressing the valve.
The Party Pigs represent an economical way for introducing
the public and hesitant retailers to the quality and freshness
of Lazy Magnolia Products. Empty party pigs are disposable,
but they may be returned to the brewery. We can re-use
some parts of the package.
A Party Pig takes up about as much room as 2 gallons of milk
(not that you should stop drinking milk). They slide into the
top shelf of most fridges and, being self-pressurized, you
don't have to worry about the beer going stale (no air is
pumped in to get the beer out). The result is a package that
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Now, all we need is Fred - that was the name of the basset hound in the movie.
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It makes me spit blood when I see those fuckers. It really does. I am positive that what you decsribed has happened on more than one occasion. And they deserved every ass-whuppin they got.
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Boulavard Wheat from Kansas.
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I don't get it. How do those hate mongers manage to flourish with "accidents" befalling their members? Those scumbags almost anger me more than terrorists because they take morbid happiness in the suffering of their fellow citizens. WTF? And protesting at a soldier's funeral...that's just as low as it gets. They're subhuman.I proclaim I'll be posting tonight in drunken, typo-filled gibberish. I'm going to Total Wine on the way home to find a Fat Tire or pecan beer or some damn thing I've never had before.
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I'll give you guys a hint if you decide to pen up a pig in your fridge.
We took the cardboard shell off of it and it took up even less space.
My brother-in-law brought one up from the coast before we could get them here (we can now).
Needless to say that that little piggy squealed all night, as we always watch the SEC football games and stay up for the West Coast games too.
I jumped up behind it like it was Ned Beatty!!!Yeeehaw! Squeal little piggy! Squeal!!!
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On that note I'm outta here. Everyone have a great beer drinking weekend for those who can (sorry Xi).
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You guys are still on the booze. Impressive, most impressive.The Czechs have got one called Budvar which is there version of Budweiser. Nice. And there's one from Belgium - Leffe which is just loopy juice.There's also a Monty Python's Holy Grail Ale - or at least was - don't know if it's still available. Never had any though. Shame.
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That would be sweet.......
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Christ knows we want no end of accidents to happen to those pricks. Anvils, pianos, ACME TNT, giant magnets, brass knuckles, the butt of a rifle.....Lose one troll, pick up another.
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Fat Tire is the way to go. I will be quaffing a few myself tonight -after my bike ride. I will take the Harley out for a tour of some fine brewing establishments. I seriously doubt I will be able to post though!
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So I can get at least a Peterbilt, as he sold his Kenworths.
Between the fuel costs and the housing market, he almost had to shut the doors.
Man he was hurting this summer.
I did have fun when I drove them for a summer.
Poeple RESPECT you when you barrel down the road.
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Sorry to go back and cover topics from hours ago it is what it is. Also, I don't drink so I can't participate in the beer talk.If you want to go out west here's some suggestions. Go to Phoenix in March and catch spring training games. The ticket prices are cheap, the parks are really nice and the scenery in the stands is top notch.If you go out to Cali, I personally would avoid LA, but that's me. San Diego is great, beaches and a cool down town, plus Chargers and Padres. Northern Cali is nice with the wine country, 49ers, Raiders, Athletics, Giants.Both Washington and Oregon are lovely but really soggy. If you have questions about the west or west coast shoot me an email. I've wandered all over it.
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People would rip out the insides and install a tap spout on the outside of the fridge.
There were many of these at the Neshoba County Fair.
Look that up online. It is the world's largest houseparty, as there are hundreds of cabins on the grounds and nobody drives anywhere.
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All beer, all the time.Wolf, I'll go another 2,000 posts discussing nothing but beer. I take the elixir of the gods that seriously.They sell the Holy Grail stuff here but I've never tried it. It's damned expensive. And you can never go wrong with Belgian beers. Maredsous? Oh yeah.JPT has left the building. And I'm not far behind.
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that Errol flynn didn't really know what the fuck he was doing in the sword fights and was just twirling around and doing what he does best (looking badass) but Basil Rathbone had actual skills and just had to be careful not to hurt Flynn. That sounds believabe to me. Basil Rathbone is the man!By the way, Lib Warrior ripping JH's ass to shreds, while he feebly tried to act uninterested(i.e. was too chicken shit stupid to think up anything to actually retaliate with), all while JPT was posting all kinds of classic Army of Darkness quotes may be one of the funniest things I have ever seen on AICN. That's going in the hall of fame for me.
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That is a good little drink.
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I GOT THE MOVIES! Thanks again pal. Really damn cool of you. I am fucking stoked to immerse myself in that stuff this weekend. I think I figured out the order too so we can discuss them maybe Monday?
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I also need to squeeze in John Adams and the last few episodes of BSG. I'm trying to decide if I should bother with season 2 of Heroes as I heard nothing good. And I'm debating whether to finish season 3 of Prison Break.
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kungfuhustler84 - i couldn't agree more on what LibWar did to that jackass. Another classic line "drippy dicked shoe fukker" I still do not know what that means, but it is funny as hell.
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I know of at least three other times that the scumbags from Kansas got beat down, unfortunatly it plays into their plans. A majority of that clan, that's what they are an extended family hiding as a church it's about 100 members and most of them are related, are lawyers. They start suing everbody in sight. At least the courts, so far, have realized that they are attention seeking scumbags and bounce the law suits. It was a glorius day watching those pieces of shit get fed their teeth.
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No way. No way is there a telly channel dedicated to beer.Another good Belgian is Hoegaarden (as far as I'm concerned pronounced 'whore garden'). Well, that's what I ask for anyway... (sniggers behind hand)
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I guess Chocolate should be first so maybe just watch that this weekend if it's all you have time for. And you're welcome. It's nice to be able to discuss these movies with people for a change instead of debating their greatness with myself.Egg Sald, I got my old lady from Korea. She was part of a two for one deal, but unfortunately the other one didn't survive the journey as some chucklehead forgot to drill holes in the box.
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I have not seen the channel, but I have seen shows in HD about beer. Some lucky bastards travel the world in search of the best beers and best places to drink. Funny how they always wind up in the islands, or in the best parts of Europe.
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Good lord, that took way too much effort. But I did it! And hey, the best part is I get an omelet as an added bonus.
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The Holy Grail Ale is still availble, they got it at total Wine HOD buy a bottle. Its pretty good, they were at Beerfest to. You should try a beer called Lion, that shit is like so think you can eat it with a spoon. Golden Monkey and Dragons Milk are both awesome beers. Best Belgium and beer overall is a beer called Judas, impossible to find in america.
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Now that sounds like proper work!
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HOD enjoy the Fat Tire or whatever it is you wind up getting.
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Heading home. Beer and pizza countdown begins now. Have a great weekend and enjoy them movies and beer.
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Damn this place cleared out quick.
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Not everbody headed home, some of us aren't even at home. Although I was fixing to head off to bed.
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The mess hall on this boat makes something they called pizza but it's shitty. It's pretty much bread and tomato paste, like that crappy "pizza" they made in school as a kid.
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This talkback can be running 24 hours a day.
We keep it running awhile here in the states and people across the pond keep going while we are offline.
Nice.
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They went with a different food supplier.
They had the best damn food you have ever seen.
Pizza was the small rectangle kind, but was deep dish and tasty.
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I think you did.
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when i was in boarding school it was announced one night that we would get pizza. woohoo we thought, finally an edible meal. then out came the pizza. the base wasn't cook properly and was soggy. worst of all they decided to put rosemary on it. a shit load of rosemary. it was just a soggy base with this thick black sludge on it a couple of bits of sausage and some cheese. that day went into legand.
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It is a great film. Although I have to admit I have a hard time telling Asians apart.
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that scene at the end where the blood was just gushing out of the guy was completely unexpected. The rest of the movies just seemed really tame compared to that scene. I guess it just shows how dangerous Sanjuro really was, even though he was slicing up guys almost the whole time. That ending was really perfect though. I'm pretty sure Toshiro Mifune is the most badass actor who ever lived. Hands down. No contest.
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is my girlfriend. believ it or not. I'm sorry.
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Keep living the fantasy.
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but hasn't been able to figure out the whole posting thing until now. That's why she posted right before me. Watching me type. i think she's really bored. I should go entertain her I guess.
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a 34 year old African American gentleman, weighing in at about 250. I have no hair on the top of my head. But I would like some more of the Mrs. corn bread.
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who here actually believes mofrees? If I have to I will describe her to everyone. She is sitting right beside me, typing away.
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Errol Flynn was actually a pretty tough guy. He kicked some extras ass for laughing at him when he had come touch-up makeup put on while in between scenes. But you are right about Rathbone, he was the shit with a blade. I saw a documentary where he was relishing the fact that he could have killed "Robin Hood" anytime he'd wanted.
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I'm smelling me some corn bread
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I guess I'd laugh at him too if he'd put jizz on his 'stach.
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Well, it's yours, John.
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You in the navy?
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"What's this crap supposed to be?""Cornbread, I think.""It's good for you, boy, eat it."
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We were talking about Morgan Freeman the other day after his accident (she loves him, hence her new screen name) and that led to the guy in TDK that throws the detonator out of the ferry. I joked that she must just love every big black character in a movie ever. So now everytime she mentions Morgan Freeman I always say, "I sure do like dat cornbread yo mrs. made." Her favorite movie is Shawshank redemption and she got all excited when I told her the same guy who directed that also made the Green Mile. John Coffey is big in the Hustler house.
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seconds between one another. Coincidence?
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do the DVDs have subtitles? I turned on Chocolate and I got nothing. granted, I'm sure the movie's plot isn't very important to the film, but I'm sure for some of the others I should know what's going on.
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USMC
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Heard Understood And Acknowledged there young warrior.
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Everything is subtitled but you'll had to enable the subs with your remote.
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Idiot. Have to.I get two beers in me and I turn into a dumbass.
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If you have a tough time telling Asians apart, then the 8 movies you're about to be subjected are going to be an almighty bitch.
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I don't have a DVD player right now since I just moved in with Mrs. Mofrees McSexy and everything is getting shipped to me later. so I have been watching everything on my laptop the last two weeks
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Describe me. Describe my bulging muscles and my silky, warm, brown skin.
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she is gonna deny everything up and down but I'm watching her type everything, the sly little minx
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What application are you using to watch the movies?
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liked your westbro story. nice
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It's a free application and the best thing to use for watching video on a PC. You can enable the subtitles under the "video" tab on the menu.
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right now afganistan is at the top. because of the alphabet you see.
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For VLC media player, though I have been able to find things that player can't play.
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Can this thing play multi-region DVD's on a home computer?
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Thanks man. Got it all figrued out thanks to you. I'll let you know what me and Ms. Mofrees thought of the movie.
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I don't think that's so much dependent on the player as it is the PC/DVD drive, but I'm sure most drives are capable of playing DVDs from any region.I never watch movies on my computer so I only use VLC player to make sure the AVI and sub files are proper before I burn that baby to DVD, but you might be able to install add-ons to VLC so that it will play everything, Series.
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I laughed for a bit when I read that and now my daughter thinks I'm nuts.
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You can always use DVDFab Decrypter to rip a DVD to remove the region coding and then burn it to a DVD that will play on anything. There's a freeware version of DVDFab available and it doesn't have any spyware.
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My PC/DVD drive is a Cyberlink PowerDVD, it will play any region - but it's only gonna do that 5 times. Whatever region I play on the 5th go, the player will stick with it ever after. Stupid.I don't watch movies on my PC either but sometimes I just like to give certain scenes a spin.
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DVDs on my computer all the time when I lived in a dorm. But now my computer is older then my TV, and I really want a much better computer but my wallet doesn't want me to have one. But HOD you DVD's work on my shitty as like $20 DVD player on my upstairs TV. I want to watch one of them, but my mom wants to watch the Ron Clark story, which really isn't all that bad. I think in fact its the first time I've ever seen Matthew Perry act.
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Thanks for the props on the Westboro story, but I didn't do anything. Me and everbody in uniform just stood aroud, watched and clapped for the Men that beat those fucking cock heads down. It wasn't just men who threw out beatings, some of the female mourners took down some female protesting cunts.There's one in particular I vividly remember, my friends tiny little cousin. She was maybe five foot nothing and went about 100 pounds, tops. She knocked down, with one mighty punch, a big bertha type that must have outweighed her by at least 40 pounds and was at about six inches taller. Then she becan to kick the living hell out of bertha and another skag that tried to help Bertha. It was amazing to watch her tiny feet and fists whaling on two pigsThe party afterwards was epic. We even invited the cops from the cemetary and they showed. It was a good time, for what the situation was. I think my friend was happy with the send off.
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I couldn't imagine trying to give a patriot a proper sendoff only to have those motherfuckers show up. I'd put the 21 gun salute right up their fat asses.
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Watching something with your mom.My mom's chemo hasn't had any effect on her tumors so I spend every moment I can with her as I don't expect her to be with us a year from now.
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nice.
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i saw a video online of them, they had this little bus outside the church. there were some bikers at the funneral and the cops said. you guys better get the fuck outta here cause there are too many bikers. they had some camera equipment and one girl was like: we forgot the equipment. this other dude was like: leave it we gotta get outta here. then the windows on the bus got smashed as they were surrounded while driving out. there are no words to describe these people.
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I'm sorry to hear about your Mum.My sister had cancer. She made it through in the end. I know what you're feeling because I know how I felt when there didn't seem to be any hope left.If hope is all there is, that's all you can hang on to. But I know soft words are a hard comfort during this period.
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Sorry to hear your Mother is ill. I hope see has a complete and speedy recovery.
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What's up hoss?
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good luck
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Early morning here. Have a good evening, guys - all of you, wherever you are.Hate being sober on a Friday... it's just wrong.
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My mom is going to start her second chemo treatment soon so all we can do is hope that this time is the charm. Unfortunately she was stage 4 when they diagnosed her so it's been an uphill battle all year.And for some unknown reason I stopped at two beers. I guess all those slices of pizza put unwanted guilt on me.Oh well, that's a fridge full of beer for me to enjoy tomorrow. Best of luck out there today Xi. Stay safe.Picked up Flash Gordon on the way home so I'll find out tomorrow if that was a grievous mistake or not. Still wavering on putting in Starship Troopers 3 or Army of Darkness now. That decision would be so much easier if I had kept drinking.
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Not a peep out of anyone for a couple hours.So I ended up going with Army of Darkness. Nice to revisit an old friend.And I couldn't help but crack open some wine. Can't watch this thing completely sober. C'mon, what am I, back in high school?
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He spazzes out and that somehow makes him better able to kick somebody in the face? I didn't really get how that worked. And I kind of laughed out loud when she was getting the upper hand by imitating him. I just couldn't make the connection between twitching and beating somebody up.
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Sorry bout your mum HOD. Just got back from Journey of the Center of the Earth 3-D! And I really don't know what Harry was bitching about. It was a lot of fun, my mom almost threw her soda all over me during one of the fish scenes. I don't think Harry got the point that the movie was just a safe bet to get people to realize this new advancement in 3-D technology. I remember Harry bitching about them using tired 3-D gags like he'd been watching 3-D movies 5 times a week. When people here about 3-D no one gives a shit, but thats what this movie was meant to do. It was a good fun movie and the scene with the floating rocks was pretty awesome, I really couldn't imagine the movie in non 3-D.
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I didn't send that shit cross country for you to rag on twitchy guy, bruver.Glad you enjoyed the movie Series. Sometimes I think I tell people I didn't like a certain movie just so they won't look at me like a retard, but you know what, fuck that, I'm a forgiving mofo and if it was good then I'll be there with bells on. I'm tired of making apologies to crap movies I enjoyed. I shouldn't have to blame alcohol for chuckling at stuff like the Heartbreak Kid. Granted, I'll never watch it again but it gave a me happy night with the wife. As Bushie says, "Mission accomplished."
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But I'd like to know what you though of that final fight on the side of the building.Damn, this wine is going to my head.
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Little Britain abroad and its funny as shit. I don't know why brits like Lost Jarv hate it so much. Saw the Hoax last night, it was ok, kind of boring. I was hoping it would be funnier.
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To Bud Light Lime tonight? Had to buy something my mom would drink. But I'm usually either cheap when it comes to drinking or buying fancy beer. So usually that means drinking Steel Reserve Black Label tall boys.
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It'll be interesting to see if Brett Fah ver A can do anything to counterbalance the unholy force of Shady Brady and the Hoody at the top of the AfC East. If you live in New England, Maine if I remember correctly, how in the hell did you become a Broncos fan? I though it was a rule that New Englanders had to root for New England teams only.
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the movie was fucking incredible dude. It amazes me that the film industry in other countries is willing to work so hard and sacrifice so much for the sake of our entertainment. Those stunt men were crazy in the best way possible.The fight on the side of the building is the most creative action scene I have ever witnessed, no question. Thank you so much for sharing such rare and thrilling cinema. I really wish the movie industry here could crank out such heartfelt work, but I am grateful for guys like you who are so willing to share it with others who can appreciate it. I'll watch more of them tomorrow.Sorry to hear about you Mom man. She is in my thoughts and prayers. Guys like you deserve all the happiness.
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Because I'm the only one here. Look a tumble weed!
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No? nobody home?
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That is if I actually knew anything about Cricket.
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I'm currently working my way through Rescue Me. Just starting season three its good stuff.
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nope guess not
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but I'm also watching DVDs
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she had never seen it. It's the second time I have seen it but I was only twelve or thirteen when I first watched it. Wow that film is a masterpiece. Its insight into current society and analysis of how people cope with a world lacking in purity is surprisingly honest and moving. I actually cried at the end. Am I overreacting?
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I haven't watched Seven in years so I can't speak as to how moving it is. I will point out that purpose of art is to move a person, either good or bad, so if you cried misssion accomplished on the part of the film makers.Or maybe your premenstral. It could be either thing.j/K
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movies like that one are rare if you ask me. Damn I'm talking a lot in hyperbole tonight.
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Yes I agree goods movies are a rarity in this new fangled modern age of ours.
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good on you bloody yanks
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Its true.
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as of this olympics, phelps will become the greatest Olympian of all time
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bloody not an insult
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Did you live anywhere near Bangor during the 80s? A friend and I were talking about Eddie Driscoll last week and what a great entertainer he was on the local NBC station.And Seven is a masterpiece. I don't think it gets any more heart breaking than Freeman's line, "I'll be around" at the end.So how's Phelps doing?
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I'm in the 'Seven is a masterpiece' camp.That close-up of the gun being pushed into Brad Pitt's face, it's almost a replica of the alien sticking its nose into Ripley's face in Alien 3. Wonder if that shot was intended as a homage.
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From "complications due to pneumonia."
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Seriously, nobody should die that young.
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He was a great comedian. Made me laugh more times than I can remember. At times, his show was incredibly funny.
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I actually enjoyed Mr. 3000 and his show gave me many a chuckle.
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A really really funny man. His presence alone could make a bad film watchable.
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He was very funny
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Aug 09, 2008 11:04:15 AM CDT
Fred think That TB might devolve into a very nasty place
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
There are a lot of predjudiced folks on these boards.
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Aug 09, 2008 11:06:06 AM CDT
Fred watching Olympic badminton and fencing in glorious HD
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
It still not make it interesting.
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Fred is very sorry to hear about your mom. Fred talks about Fred's mom quite a bit. She is the one who introduced Fred to all the bad movies from seventies and eighties that we talk about on these baords. Fred knows how important Mom's are, and Fred hopes you spend as much time laughing and remembering the good times with her, that you can.
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Sucks he was one the few black comedians that was really funny who's entire act wasn't black people do this and white people do this. Plus I always thought his show was pretty damn funny. Though I won't be upset if they never make anymore Oceans's movies.
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Give up on the Olympics, dude. As much as I want to cheer for the U.S. and Canada to bring home some medals, the corruption and steroids undercurrent washes away the joy in those victories.Go enjoy some Asian asskickery instead.
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Really care about the Olympics? I thought this was the farewell circuit? Also weren't like half of the US team kicked off for being 10 years old?
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TPTB should just avoid doing them because they almost alway devolve into a mess. Obit TB shows the problems of internet anonymity. Mostly I'm okay with the liberating power of a fake internet name but those obit TB sometimes make me reevaluate my position.I don't even open obit TB anymore because I know how they will end up.
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I loved the homage to the first fight in an ice factory, just like Lee's first movie fight was outside of one, and she's doing all the war whoops.
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is on TV here right now and man, what a fucking piece of shit it is. i mean, there's sucky cheap effects and there's the shit on display here. did anyone reading this actually PAY to watch it? come on, confess if you spunked up REAL MONEY TO WATCH LAKE PLACID 2. what the fuck is up with you all arguing over Starship Troopers v The Dark Knight? i watched both recently, rewatched in the case of the former. they were both decent enough slices of entertainment. ST had some ace tits in it which, if you have it on DVD, you can pause and have a jolly good wank over. i had fuck all idea that there was an ST2 until i read this post about ST3. i will have a gander at this ST2 first then, especially as it sounds like there's some tits on display in it. Lost Jarv, nice cricket comments mate, sorry most of today was rained out. this Smeg Shmalad seems to be a bit of a cunt, doesn't he? why don't we all post "Smeg Shmalad is a cunt" ten times each, see what happens? i appreciate that this is probably what he wants us to do, but it's mutually beneficial as i think we would all enjoy it. i think i pretty much enjoyed all the films listed here, sorry if you all didn't like, but there you go. right, i am fucking off now.
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So far so good. Effects could be better but for DTV, it's entertaining and Casper is not terrible.The Bernie Mac obit looks civil so far but as soon as Egg Salad and Jew Hunter show up it'll turn it a revolting mess.
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I'd like to thank everyone for the TBs this week. Makes 8 hours on the job bearable.And if Danny and Jonah are out there, you were missed yesterday.
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I'd love to hold down the fort but I need to head out to Total Wine to look for all that fancy beer and maybe pick up a few cigars.Final analysis: ST3 wasn't necessary but it was a great way to spend a Saturday afternoon.I loved the way we see the shadow of the suits before we actually see the suits.
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Salad Tosser and Jew Hunter are the same goat rimmer.
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Aug 09, 2008 4:30:10 PM CDT
Fred like sports. Fred not ashamed to like Olympics
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
Lots of goofy sports never to be seen again - or at least for next four years. Also, Fred love track and gynmastics and basketball at the Olympics.
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Fred looked at obit TB. It very respectful. Perhaps weekend posters are a more mature variety?
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now do we?
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We have proven that we can take a TB at the very bottom and push to the top. Monday, when at full strength, we will rise again!
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one of the best Justice League stories I have ever read.
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It was great. One of best animated superhero stories ever.
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Did you read Kingdom Come graphic novel, and the novelization? Both were fantastic. The novel is very well written, and explores some aspects the graphic novel only alludes too.
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How's it shakin, baby!Saw your post way too late. Danny got me thinking about Red Planet and I put the disc in to watch the deleted scenes - within 2 minutes I was asleep. And before anyone quips, no it wasn't due to the movie.So, anyway, your post. Saw what you did there, Fred. You rascal, you.
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but thanks for reminding me! I have been meaning to get to that fucking book for ages. Hey I got a question for everybody. Favorite DC hero? Mine is probably Flash. I love how he just has one power (super speed) but he uses it in so many creative and unique ways, like moving his molecules so fast he can just phase through walls.
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That's the way obits start out. Then the cock heads show up and have to act like they are so much cooler then everybody. Its the brittle, cynical nature of those douchebags that is particularly grating, and I'm a cynical motherfucker saying that. I agree about watching the Olympics/sports. This here tub I'm sailing on is pulling live feeds from China and since we are almost the same time with China I've been watching it live. I caught the womens's saber and gold metal ceremony and part of the womens soccer game with Japan and I don't even like soccer.On the other hand, who watches cycling? That's one I don't get. who wants to watch a bunch of guys pedaling a bike up a hill.My favorite, I'm all about womens Volleyball. That one is probably the best for visually oriented creatures like the male of the species or the ladies that prefer to play with the same equipment.
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after being bitten by vampire bats.
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Hee hee. Good to see you again.
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Rabid bats in Brazil, apparently.
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Fred could not get into the sabre competition, but the volleyball is fun. Handball was strange but fast paced. Fred wonders if badminton and olympic style handball are really popular around the world.
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at the cnn web page
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I named my fish 'Fred.' It's the only survivor of a catastrophic pump failure last weekend. Hope Fred not mind.
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Fred is honored.
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Not a big DC fan, at least not a fan of the regular titles. The DC adult brand, Vertigo, on the other hand has some good stuff. Preacher, Y: the Last man, Transmetropolitan, 100 bullets etc.I just finished reading Y: The Last Man trade paperbacks, It was solid but I didn't like it as much as others folks around here seemed to. Preacher on the other hand, is friggin fantastic.
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But favorite DC hero would have to be Superman. Fred know how lame that is.
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It in top three of Fred's favorite graphic novels - The Dark Knight and Watchmen being 1 and 2. Fred also really loved the novelization of Kingdom Come, in some ways even better than the graphic novel. It is best to read the GN and the Novel back to back
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thank god we don't have it. over here if a dog bites you, you punch it and get a tetanus shot. Or just never take her back to that restaurant. it's the crocs and sharks and snakes you worry about.i'll be watching the cycling and women's volleyball. we have good chances in both. and i used to do fencing, which was sweet.
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and I'm not even a real fan myself, but reading New Frontier really put me in the mood for some golden and silver age stuff with all the goofy patriotic old heroes.
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Don't know much about DC comics either. I just remember a comic in the UK, Warlord it was, this'll be the 1970's and they had this strip called Union Jack Jackson about a British soldier fighting alongside the US Marines. He was my comic hero as a kid.
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I can understand how most people don't get into the fencing sports. I've messed around with it off and on a little for years, so I like it.I missed the handball and badmitton. Quick story, I was sort of shocked years ago when I found out that Badmitton was a fairly popular sport around the world. Europe, Asia and parts of South America really dig it, who knew?
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Fred not read much goldn age - aceept in anthology format. They are a different era, no doubt. Fref watched a Batman serial from the 1940's, and it is very interesting how they dealt with teh Japanese internment - they thought a 'wise government' correctly imprisoned the 'slanty-eyed Japs'. It was a different world back then. Fred read more silver age books with Marvel than anything else. Just loved the old Stan the Man stuff, and Fred always cracks up at Stan's editorials and goofy asides in the comics.
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Did it get locked?
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Very weird. I tried posting earlier, but nothing happened.
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A giant mess of a movie. But it had some moments.
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I thought I was fucking banned!! FUCK!
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Phew.Some weird shit going down. Maybe it's all down to that Hadron Collider gizmo they were switching on in Geneva, opened up a black hole or something.Carnage over on the Scriptgirl TB.
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Did that Super Collider come online already?
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Aug 10, 2008 12:59:54 PM CDT
I never read the scriptgirl TB what happened over there?
by toadkillerdog
Hola Danny. Strange for both of us to be on, on a Sunday afternoon.
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AICN is pissed we have absolute control of the traffic on this site. The Man is trying to get us!! Stay united!! BLACK FUCKING POWER!!!
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Don't think it's being switched on proper till September but you can never tell with these crafty scientist types.But they were supposed to be 'initiating a particle insertion' yesterday or today.We're all going to die.
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I'm packing up shit to move. Still trying to clear out my insanely cluttered office at home. It is weird my office has more shit in it than any other room in our place...
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Bannings, bannings, bannings.Pondscum gone. Chocolatereign gone.And somebody called NukeMyFridge is calling for dear old Danny to be booted!
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Enjoy the move experince too. See you monday
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That last line we're all gonna die, cracked me up!
Probably true too!
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I noticed Pondscum got the boot and was plenty pissed and says he'll never return although we know how strong the AICN TB siren song is. He made a note to thank a lot of you guys.Tried posting all night and morning but nothing stuck.Good luck with the move, Danny.Looked for Fat Tire, Arrogant Bastard and pecan beer yesterday and came up empty.Going to sit down and try to watch Flash Gordon now with some Sierra Nevadas.Cheers chaps!
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Aug 10, 2008 1:12:47 PM CDT
Hey HOD!! 2 full days?!! Its been too long....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
See you guys in the morning. I'm really leaving now...
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I'm getting shit ready to move to! Moving in a POD this time, not fucking around with a U-Haul. Traveling 14 hours in the biggest U-Haul you can rent (wow weird I just hit some buttons and the source code for this came up?) towing by car, fucking worst experience of my life. I've never driven anything bigger then a four door sadan in my life and just jumped right into that. Driving through Alabama fucking terrible, those little speed bumps to remind you that you are going off road are over the white lines and on the road in AL and the U-Haul barley fits within the white lines to begin with.
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Really funny!
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I'm out of here as well. But I wanted to wish your Mom and you the best of luck.
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And anyone else into comics. You all know anything about Final Crisis? I've heard thats the biggest comic right now? I've taken a look, not that into DC though. I got the first four of seven of the Secert Invasion comics, I thought like it was just some miniseries, or the start of a new thing like Civil War, but it seems that there are all ready bunches of Secert invasion spin offs? I can't follow all that, how like some spin offs matter and some don't, its kind of irritating and how the Marvel Website is really bad about searching for stuff (I guess I can't complain when compared to here). But I don't get how there are like 4 or 5 series of certain comics like Wolverine/Hulk/Ironman/Captain America/X-men/Fan Four all going on at once. Too much to keep up, I'm just gonna stick to miniseries stuff like 1985 and The twelve.
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I'm gone too!
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I guess I'll post here and there throughout the day just to keep us in the top TBs list. Off to watch some ultimate 80s cheese.
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Why they turned this thread off for a day? Anyone think big brother will respond?
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Not to sound like a pussy that Danny would be embarrassed to be associated with, but without going off on AICN and having my license revoked, it sounds like some shit is going down due to the Script Girl TB. A whole lotta pissed off folks over there for the multiple ban hammers coming down.Considering Jew Hunter was able to post the most foul racist shit for almost 2 days straight, I don't think it's fair some hardcore regulars get banned due to a few booby posts over on a TB that is kind of a joke to begin with.Time for another beer and the attack of the Hawkmen.
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It sure wasn't this morning.
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Been a long weekend, but here I am again. Wow,lots of stuff here on the thread for commenting...look's like our little group is slightly bigger than before, and the numbers are pretty high for a weekend.
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And yea, I know that tagline sounds like egg salad's work, but HOD, you know what I mean. Sorry to hear about your mother. I think I may have picked up from this or another TB that you are an aetheist(and if I'm wrong I apologize), so I hope you are not offended, but both my wife and I will be praying for your mother. I'll even say a prayer for her recovery. Either, way take care man. And as much as is possible, enjoy the time you have with her.
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of TBers on here. Mofreesfreckles?? Is it time to help my wife get her own TB handle?
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nice job there.
Also, I noticed that people were responding to SIR EGGSALAD as if he were the real deal. I think you will agree that the following three things prove he is an imposter:
He is still here and hasnt been banned.
He doesnt appear to be troubled and has gone more than five posts without posting something faux terribly offensive.
The slander is secondary to his comments on pop culture and he actually contribues to conversations.
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Pneumonia? Didn't it take another artist before their time? Jim Henson? Or do I have my facts wrong?
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Of the three I have seen, I like it the best. Good stuff, I love the asian dvd club we got going here. I probably never would have seen that movie without your effort. You are a TB treasure!
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What an odd choice for a theatrical movie. It was as if it wasn't supposed to be energizing, but tired, unsure, soldiering along. Everything one would expect from a much older series, like Indy.
I missed the b-movie sense of fun, but I still really liked the movie. It was trying to say something a little deeper than the show usually did, and for the most part, it exceeded. It's definitely more of a small-screen or dvd affair. I was satisfied with what I got, and I loved the credit sequence. -
I didn't help her. She figured it out all by herself. I'm actually really excited for her because we have been watching a lot of movies together lately and I have been sharing a lot of films with her she probably wouldn't watch otherwise. Like when I told her Morgan Freeman got in that accident she got all scared he was going to die, so I reserved a bunch of his movies at the library and we have been watching them all week. Like she had never seen Se7en (criminal, I know). Anyway, her screen name is a reference to the freckles on Morgan Freeman's face.
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I think since we have such a strong following of foreign film love and HOD has been sharing all the DVD love (can't fucking wait to see the Warlords btw, I had no idea you were going to send that) that we should maybe move to the Twitch International film post. those things never get the attention they deserve and you guys all seem like the ones who could REALLY appreciate that stuff.
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your explanation makes it sound as if you are dating a 7-year-old. And who is to say you aren't?
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what the fuck is up with this talkback shutting down? A response from one of the big guy's would be appreciated. Was that just a technical problem or was that meant to happen?
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explanation kung-fu but I figured out the screenname about five secs after I saw it. Kung-fu, did you ever buy six string samurai?
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Mofrees and I watched Brick the night after. I completely forgot about the similar plot devices.
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I think this one has enough exposure, but I'll wait til a few more of the regs show up and we will take a consensus. Dear lord, it sounds like we are a freaking club. Dear lord, maybe we are.
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That is how close we are sitting. Bicker, bicker. Gees, I think I will just stick to facebook.
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After we are finished here, lets go get some food, and the two of you can share a booth, and I'll sit in the one behind and talk loud enough you can hear me.
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she's just bored Jonah. I must tend to her. Be back in a bit. Let's move to the Twitch TB people!
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Finally, got the Dark City Director's Cut, and theres a story to go with. So, after waiting until one of the six bestbuys near me got the movie(last week) I ordered it from bestbuy for store pick-up.
The bestbuys here in Maryland, and specifically Baltimore are some of the most incompetent I have ever seen. I've walked in there looking for movies and had people actually say "It's in stock,but do you really want me to go all the way into the back to look?" Last week, I went directly to an employee, asked for Dark City, he walked over picked up a dvd, and handed it to me. My heart soared. It was sooo easy. Then I saw he had given me Gotham Knight. No kidding.
So, if you do store pickup, the guarantee on the website said if once you have recieved a notice that your order is ready, it has to be handed to you for pickup a minute after you walk into the store to get it, or ten dollars off.
So, I walked in, and five minutes later they still couldnt find it. it turned out it was sitting in the next bin over, five inches from the counter the whole time. So, guess who got Dark City bluray for 8.99.
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should we get matching hats and blazers then?
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I got my point across. No more mofrees.
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are Mofrees and I the first ever TB couple? Man that's nerdy.
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Aug 10, 2008 5:03:11 PM CDT
Damn....the Script Girl TB makes me really believe....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
....we are the only good thing about AICN anymore. Lets face it, the stories and updates are fucking pathetic as of late. The only reason the site survives is because of the TB'ers that don't get enough credit for contributing to the income of others. Our rag tag group in particular are the best thing going for AICN right now. I don't even read the updates anymore. And its sad to see more and more old familiar faces disappearing. Awwww fuck...thats my ramble for this lovely Sunday afternoon.
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fuck it, who wants that title anyway?
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I call conspiracy. I'm looking at you illuminati
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but that's no reason to not keep up the discussions. They're always fun and I usually learn about some new movie I have to go find the next day.
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I saw X-Files 2. I quite liked it. Connolly was good, and I thought his character was interesting. However, I think he needed far more interaction with the villain. And his last scene was way too lowkey to be his last scene.
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Yeah it is a strange tone film. I enjoyed it and thought it was very well done but I sensed most would have a lot of problems with it. That scene with the bad guy in the swimming pool watching the girl and the him knocking her off the road and busting her window....that whole sequence was so odd to me for some reason. Again, very well done but just kinda off feeling.
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Those tools, jew hunter and banzai skibango, run riot unmolested for a couple of days, showing AICN sleeping at the wheel, and then the ban hammer comes down on much more innocuous talkbackers.
What gives? Sounds to me like lashing out just to prove something. That it happened in the ScriptGirl talkback stinks even more, much like the aborted "Gone" series stunk to high heaven.
I haven't seen an AICN ban hammer this blunt since the great fettastic riots a few years ago.
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For all the blunt jabs at the recent quality of the site.
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yes, that scene was odd, and sort of creepy because of how mundane it was. I was like, what no even hint at supernatural story? this is it? It was like it was purposefully going for this sort of vibe. Not an accident like some films, but that the movie they made was exactly the one they wanted. And Im not sure why. Again, Im not complaining. Im one that will pick it up on bluray when it comes out. I would like to see some sort of sendoff more apropo for X-Files but I have doubts we will see that now.
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It's all your fault. Maybe that's what NukeMyFridge was driving at. Ever since the infamous and commonly referred to 'Atapow Incident' strange things have been happening around here.You have shaken the very foundations of AICN to the core!
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of Scully in the hospital...and then suddenly during the credits you had the whole tropical scene. Odd.
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is the head of the illuminati
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You should make her watch Inside! Thats probably THE BEST innocent pregnant women gets brutally killed movie I've ever seen! And trust me I've seen a bunch.
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Damn. I don't think I can watch that South Park episode anymore without thinking what dicks Matt and Trey are sometimes.....all the time.
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I hope its not true. If it is....I would be happy to leave.
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This stuff comes and goes, but it comes down that people get banned for going over the line. And honestly, if I have a party and some dude shows up and starts slagging on myself, my family or my friends, I will kindly show him the door. People like egg salad go in the other direction. Something is wrong with them that banning won't cure. They want the attention.
A while back, I mentioned a guy that came to the theater with a group of us in college to see Spidey 1, and instead of going in he waited in line next to us, mocked us, called us stupid sheep, and went to see The Scorpion King.
If you paid attention to this guy he just got worse. In the first few weeks we knew him, he brought jalapeno chocolate chip cookies to a CHURCH PICNIC. Now, this guy was a jerk, not a joker. He put tons of jalapeno in it, and a few people got seriously ill. Over the line. He brought a bucket of sidewalk chalk to the college and wrote some poor girl in his classes name all over the walls and sidewalks, announcing his undying love for her. She complained, and I then went on and wrote larger, more horrible things about her in front of the college. When the college intervened, he started throwing away property of the college. Long story short: thrown out of college. Restraining order from girl. Story over. Harry and gang don't have that power, so after awhile you acknoweldge these people are damaged, move on and drop the ban hammer once in a while to remind others that because they are sane, they are held to different standards than Egg Salad. -
With the whole nuke the fridge saying? I remember after indy people said it and other people were really upset.
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you should have given him a beat down. rookie mistake
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oh you guys! what a bunch of losers! nerds! yeah sure go watch spider man, you no mates nerds. screw that, i'm off to watch the scorpion king. by myself.
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Whats the deal with Apatow? Like this time last year this site was riddled with Worst movie ever (Knocked Up) and Superbad reviews and stories and shit and like non of the big wigs have said shit about Pineapple Express?
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Been trying to finish the dying Gaul for like 2 weeks now. And I've come to the conclusion that Peter Sarsgaard is the gayest straight actor ever. He always plays gay dudes and he is pretty much married to a dude as well.
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I'm just looking for patterns in the chaos.Don't you be going anywhere.
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I agree, only it bugs me when really offensive talkbackers get free reign for far too long and then good, upstanding talkbackers like Xiphos get shitcanned for no discernible reason whatsoever.
A while back there was a talkbacker called Silverfinger who was sullying a talkback with true, unabashed neo-nazi propaganda. This guy was one of those net agents those movements have, a "nazi plant" if you will, whose only purpose is to cruise the net and spread their poison. This guy was allowed to post for far too long before he was banned -- or so we thought. All that happened was that his posts were deleted. Silverfinger kept on posting his filth under the same name and as far as I know he was NEVER banned. This, to me, is unfathomable. -
Sorry, I did see your post about comics - but too late. Honestly, I know rock all about comics! Fred'll probably help you out though.
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i missed your post the first time through. that would be bulshit. I like pretty much every aptow movie i have seen. you don't. so fucking what. is that what this site is all about?
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Thank you
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Thats cool. Comic fans are worst then movie fans sometimes in trying to explain or get information about stuff.
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Fred watched machine Girl earlier - hee hee. When she kicked the pipe through that dudes head, Fred thought 'Hey this is not a Pg-13 movie!' Fred covered Dirk the Amoeba's psuedopod, lest he see some disturbing scenes.
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I've never whinned about being banned, not once, mostly because I've been banned a lot and I'm an old hand at it.
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Aug 10, 2008 7:01:16 PM CDT
The last 48 hours on AICN have been completely...
by hawaiian organ donor
Fucked up. I mean the ban hammer coming down on regulars who say things about Script Girl but honest to god racists were running amok all week long and either not banned or banned much later than was acceptable.Bernie Mac and Isaac Hayes die and their two obits may be the first TBs in history that stay civil.And posting here was down for half a day.Very strange indeed.
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what should I watch next?
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or do you wanna move to the Twitch taklback?
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Anyone else see something this weekend? I knocked 4 movies out. I haven't done that since before my daughter was born.Jonah, spread the word about Daisy. It deserves more love.
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Wow, I still can't get over what a messed up AICN weekend this has been.
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Fred very surprised about the obits. Very happy they have stayed civil.
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And Warlords will blow ALL your minds. You'll wonder how Hong Kong made something so epic and awesome.
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it has to be back at the library tomorrow and i can't renew it. I'm dying to get to those other movies you sent though damnit!
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It goofy fun.
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Not really understand all that went on in there, but saw that DannyGlovers and LiberalWarrior had some words. Hope they patch it up. Still, Fred has popcorn ready! just in case! Hee hee.
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havn't seen it yet - don't tell me. having a beer and watching endgame: blueprint for global enslavement, at bsb's suggestion. I'm actually taking notes, so it is taking a while to watch it. I am an amature historian/ theologian and have degrees in commerce and economics, so i'm finding that almost every second sentence has something wrong with it.
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but can somebody explain how twitchy guy worked? and what was up with the montage of her just jumping up and down while alternative grunge rock played in the background?
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zeitgeist is more believable nonsense. if you wanna believe in this stuff, there are better presented documentaries.
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Fred think that the whole 'twitchy' guy thing was because he had a style she had not seen before. Remember, she learned her moves from watching Tony Jaa. Twitchy was unorthodox, so it took her a few moments before she could counter him - by immitating his moves and doing it better. Of course it is silly, but then again, an autistic girl learning how to fight by watching TV is not exactly the height of believability either! Fred loved the movie.
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this is a massivly unplayed market. at least can we get a sequal to look who's talking now, or all dogs go to heaven. i blame this overlooked area on the illuminatti.
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is I wish there was more on on one fighting. Like in Ong Bak where he takes those guys at the Fight club, or even better, in protector when he fights those guys in the burning temple. that one fight with the capoeira guy looked like a blue print on how to do a live action Tekken movie right.
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Stay away from the ScriptGirl garbage and that ironic Free Speech TB. If I'm not back tonight, I'll be on in the morning when I resume my day shift.
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Should know who Nathan Jones is, the big Scandinavian guy with a shaved head in the Protector. Don't you think he should be Thor or the new Conan?
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he's a cool big guy but I have not seen anything yet to make me think he has the charisma or athletic ability to fulfill either of those roles. Now I know Ahnuld didn't have too much in that first Conan movie but all Jones has done so far is stand around looking big and hulking in the movies he has been in. One role I DO think he is perfect for though is Marduk from the Tekken games. The two of them are twins.Thor casting is hard for me since I don't know many big hulking actors that well. What about that Titan dde from American gladiator? He could work if they kept it campy and had Thor act totally different form most normal people, really caught up in the whole Ashardian warrior type thing. It could be really funny.
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TheRealMoriarty
by chipps Aug 10th, 2008
08:59:55 PM
since you are listening and considering what is happening here, why were we unable to post for like, half a day on the; double header thread;. i'm calling technical problems, but it would be nice to know given the outrageous conspiracy theories.
Chipps...
by TheRealMoriarty Aug 10th, 2008
09:11:13 PM
... no idea. Maybe a glitch. I don't think the talkback was turned off, though. If so, it wouldn't have been turned back on, I don't think.TheRealMoriarity
by chipps Aug 10th, 2008
09:28:51 PM
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on all the cover's of the books, with the long dark hair and the more lean body. I can't think of any particular actors who would work (i'm sure most everbody else can think of somebody that fits that image) but having him be more athletic and swift, with a little less focus on the whole power and strength thing would be pretty cool in my opinion.
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About Titan. But man Nathan Jones pretty much has the same career as Arnold did before Conan. I think Nathan can do it. He was the best part of Fearless, he was in Troy and has been in a few other things as well. I just don't want to see them take a small actor and make them meh kind of big. More like just a cut actor, Conan and Thor need to be big MF's.
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was the brutal sword fight with the bearded guy in the abandoned restaurant. holy shit what a great fight.
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Clone wars review is gone. I got a chance to read it, anyone else?
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Because I watched it a week after I watched the Protector, and I was like.....um get this weak shit off my track.
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Nathan Jones + Thai + Popeye = Som Tam
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Series7, Fearless is actually really great. The story is a bit formulaic, but it has the weak plot of the Protector totally beat. Jet Li's best acting, and some of his best action since Fist of Legend
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THAT LOOKS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!! Though it looks kind of cheesy, it looks awesome. See he can be the next Thor.
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Heinlein in the Starship Troopers novel did not romanticize militarism, he merely made the case that it was necessary. I could say more, but I think I am too late to be posting lengthy literary analysis here.
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getting the right guy to play Thor is gonna be quite a challenge. I'd rather they get someone with real hair than put a wig on a bald guy, especially if he's gonna have that winged helmet from the comics. It has to look real to pull off something like Thor. And I think Jones is actually too tall for Thor. Not sure who else they could get for the part, everybody keeps saying Triple H, he looks the part but I dont think he has the acting chops for it as Blade Trinity clealy showed, except for the hammer swinging he does on WWE.
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Anything to do with Thor, they'll make Titan Thor, I can actually see that working. Ok see ya'll in the morning, thats if AICN hasn't blown up.
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It is a really good movie, and that one fight is pretty brutal. But none of the fighting can compare to Tony Jaa. However, Fearless has a good story, unlike Tony's movies. But who really wants a story with Tony? I just want the bad guys to still something for him and make him really, really angry.
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It was okay. I've learned that Donnie does NOT condone little kids being thrown around. It puts him in a pissy mood. One that could get you beaten to death.
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So, M-O-M, did you ever actually READ any of the REH stories you own? If you had, you would see that the Milius Conan is NOTHING like the original stories. I love the Milius film, but it is NOT Howard's Conan.
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So the dust is finally settling after a wild weekend on AICN. I think Harry's review of Clone Wars being pulled really summed up the whole "free speech" debate perfectly.Fearless is a kung fu classic. And if you haven't watched the director's cut you're missing out on another awesome fight. I guess I need to send that one out as well?Pillow, I warned you about Flash Point. I still say the final fight made it worth seeing, if just barely.
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I saw a trailer for Clone Wars again, and I just can't get excited for it.
never saw director's cut of Fearless. Also, how is it that Ronny Yu made the cool Bride with White Hair, and then made a goodly chunk of american crap, and then released the quite awesome Fearless. I saw that one with my dad, and I was amazed at how much I truly enjoyed it and how touching it was at certain points, and how much the fights rocked.I might own the director's cut, but I lent my version of the movie out months ago and haven't gotten it back. It's time to remedy that. -
It wasn't a bad movie, just rather boring up until that point. The final fight was pretty great.I've never seen the DC of Fearless...so where does the other fight come into play?
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An okay movie, but I laughed my ass off when they redid the Lion King.
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HOD, have you seen this one? Has anyone? My wife and I watched it last night, and it's a great B-movie. It's a Takashi Miike movie, but one of his more mainstream, almost family friendly films.
It's got all the great elements.
An alien invasion by giant green gummy drops with eyes who can possess human beings.
A scene where gradeschool japanese children commander a school bus and drive to an eggplant stand where they start beating people with bats and eating melons like feral dogs.
A hero who is a beleagured teacher and family man who takes comfort in wearing a homemade costume of a hero he saw on tv when he was younger. Zebraman, who aired in the 70s for a very brief time. Eventually he realizes that when he dons the suit to fight the aliens, he actually posesses the power of a zebra. A cowlick on his head stands straight up when danger is near, ala his "zebra sense". He has the powerful zebra backkick and suckeroo punch.
The movie is a perfect combo of farce and superhero story, and actually is sort of touching as the teacher tries to balance the burgeoning relationship he has with a student and his mother with the shipwreck that is his family situation. It is also cool just to see a movie where a man wears a giant crab mask and attacks people.
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are you sullying DocP's favourite material there, memories?
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giving me no end of shit to load.
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Let's go over to the Twitch TB as Kungfuhustler suggested. Everyone in on the move? It's the newest Twitch foreign film review page.
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seriously, I fucking hate the amount of wank shilling that has been going on here lately (GONE leaping to mind), but writers seem to be melting down, racist trolls seem to be pouring out of the woodwork and people are getting the Ban Hammer left, right and centre.
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My internet was pretty much down all weekend, but looks like I missed some drama.
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Jarv is right, the load times are starting to get up there.Jonah, Harry's review was pulled down because WB threatened legal action. His review was scathing and to say he hated it is putting it lightly.And yes, this site is swirling the drain lately. The GONE and ScriptGirl stuff reveals either a hidden agenda or money/favors being exchanged.I haven't watched Zebraman but i'll hunt it down.The additional fight in Fearless occurs at the village he recuperates at. A group of thugs show up and promptly get their asses kicked. I'll include that in the next batch.
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Aug 11, 2008 8:43:46 AM CDT
CARNAGE! CARNAGE!! THE EARTH IS SPINNING OUT OF CONTROL!
by toadkillerdog
Wow. Some of the TB's this weekend went bugg nuts.
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thats where Jarv and I are now. Let's go.
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We can now be found on this TB:http://www.aintitcool.com/talkback_display/37869
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Which is probably just as well. Anyway, I would just like to say you can realise Starship Troopers is a satire and still think it's a bit crap. Sure, some of it is funny, but not funny enough to carry the film. And "ironically" doing soap opera/tv-movie style schlock doesn't make it more entertaining to watch. The same is true of the awful acting. You may find Denise Richard's stupid grin funny the first five times she uses it to respond to any given situation, but an entire movie of that kind of crap is too much. And the battle scenes are repetitive and boring. At a lean 90 minutes it might have been a funny film, but at over two lethargic hours it wears out it's welcome pretty quick.
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Be entertained by a movie whose politics I disagree with than bored by a movie whose sentiments I agree with. Maybe that's just me.
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I think the only reason assholes use the term "guilty pleasure" is to act like elitist snob pricks who have to seem "above" movies that normal people enjoy. Go watch some Merchant/Ivory snoozefest you superior acting fucks! I don't feel a damn bit guilty for liking Starship Troopers.
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Those bastards are not above your law.
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