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Nobody faint, but Vern has a review of THE SCORPION KING 2 RISE OF A WARRIOR!
THE SCORPION KING 2 RISE OF A WARRIOR is the story of a warrior who rises. In movies we've seen many people and things rise, including The Machines, Carlito's Way, The Silver Surfer, Leslie Vernon, Taj, Cobra, the Lycans, Gator, Jack Johnson, and Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. But never before have we seen the RISE OF A WARRIOR.
In this movie there are actually a bunch of different warriors but in my opinion the specific warrior who is rising is the one who will later be called the Scorpion King, not in this movie but in the very end of a different, better movie called THE SCORPION KING. What I'm trying to say is that this is the prequel to the prequel to the sequel to THE MUMMY, a movie I thought sucked. So the fact that this one is above average for DTV is pretty impressive. If you met a guy whose great, great uncle by marriage was a Nazi or a serial killer, but the guy you met wasn't that big of a dick or anything, you would think "Good for him." Same goes for THE SCORPION KING 2 RISE OF A WARRIOR.
This movie is 100% Stephen Sommers free, in fact it's directed by Russell Mulcahy, who at least was a really good director at one time (RAZORBACK). And to be honest I don't hold its MUMMY lineage against it because I've been a really big fan of the original SCORPION KING ever since I first saw it, uh... 2 days ago.
In my opinion THE SCORPION KING is the type of fun b-movie THE MUMMY was trying to be, but it succeeded where that one failed. First of all it has a way more charismatic lead in The Rock than Brendan Fraser. And, let's be honest, an actor of at least equal technical skill. The action scenes are inventive and well staged instead of just frantic and obnoxious. There's not as much bad comic relief and the overall tone is light and goofy while deadpan about its melodramatics. THE SCORPION KING was like a dude who is naturally likable while THE MUMMY tries so hard to be your friend that you get uncomfortable and have to make up a lie about having to go to work or something so you don't have to hang out with it. THE SCORPION KING 2 RISE OF A WARRIOR is somewhere in the middle. I guess it is the not as cool younger brother of THE SCORPION KING.
It gets plenty of things right. The production values are very high for DTV. There are lots of cool ideas and goofy cheapass effects. There's swordfighting, a scary lookin UFC villain, magic spells, and corny dialogue. That stuff is way more fun in the first one because it's delivered by booming voices like Michael Clarke Duncan's ("Will you stand alone before the fury of his armies?") but still, hats off to a line like, "Everyone knows if you make sacrifices to the dark gods you get black magical powers."
At first the rising warrior Mathayus (Pierre Marais as Young Mathayus, Michael Copon as older-but-not-as-old-as-The-Rock Mathayus) trains to become a member of the elite Black Scorpion Army of the Kingdom of Akkad. The asshole king Sargon (UFC champ Randy Couture, also in REDBELT) murders his dad and tries to get him to execute his own brother. So he helps his brother escape and goes on a quest to find the Sword of Damocles so he can come back and defeat Sargon's black magical powers that everyone knows he got by making sacrifices to the dark gods. Along the way Mathayus makes new friends and a girlfriend, fights a goofy CGI minotaur, refuses to get on his knees for Astarte, Goddess of Love and War ("I prefer to stand. Thanks anyway.") and then fights Sargon, who turns into a CGI giant scorpion. An invisible one.
That part was pretty funny because I could only figure the effects on the scorpion looked so bad they decided to make him invisible. To be sure I checked with somebody I knew who had read the script - and said nice things about it, by the way - and he confirms that when he read it there was not an invisible scorpion. So this is a pretty groundbreaking idea and I hope it catches on with other movies. Just imagine how different a movie like GARFIELD would be if the special effects artists had had the honor to say "this fuckin cat is creepin me out, let's just make him turn invisible at the beginning."
For the most part though I think THE SCORPION KING 2 RISE OF A WARRIOR's cheesy effects are enjoyable. I enjoyed the minotaur which was part CGI and part animatronic mouth. I agree with their decision to keep him visible. There's also a CGI heatseeking arrow which I guess is sort of in the tradition of the CGI living sword Mulcahy had in THE SHADOW.
The problem with the movie is that it's lacking the two most important elements of THE SCORPION KING: charisma and energy. Copon (who apparently was a Power Ranger and was on ONE TREE HILL... I'm sure Herc could fill us in on the details) is okay as Mathayus. He has muscles and can scowl and swing a sword around. But like most of us he just doesn't have the charm of The Rock. He's much more your standard stiff warrior of Kevin Sorbonian fantasy worlds.
Meanwhile, the movie just moves too damn slow. Too much of the movie is the warriors slowly walking down hallways, through tunnels and spooky jungles scanning their surroundings for danger as a keyboard drones. Even when they're in the Underworld and their Greek poet guide warns that they only have one hour to complete their mission or they will all turn to stone nobody jumps to action, they just say "Oh" and then continue on their leisurely stroll of fantasy boredom. Mulcahy is clearly more capable than alot of the dudes making DTV movies today, but he's also not the Mulcahy of RICOCHET who shoots a playground basketball game like it's SAVING PRIVATE RYAN. As we get older we get tired easier I guess.
Luckily everything comes together pretty good in the end. You find out why Mathayus of THE SCORPION KING is no longer with these characters, how he got rid of his scorpion tattoo, you see him on a camel. It's a real good ending that works as either a setup for THE SCORPION KING or for more adventures set in between the two movies. Adventures where he would learn to use the bow and arrow that he used constantly in the first movie but not in this one.
The one continuity thing that confused me was that I'm pretty sure the brother he has who gets killed and avenged (SPOILER) is supposed to be the same brother he also had in THE SCORPION KING, who also was killed and avenged in that movie. Hopefully they'll keep making more and in each installment he will be shocked when his brother Jesup is killed and then he will get revenge.
I would watch another one. But I would hope they would make it a little quicker-paced and more over-the-top. Now that the warrior has risen he should be doing some of the more cartoonish fighting feats he does when he becomes The Rock. I want to see more swinging around on ropes and more victims being sent flying and more macho bonding through battle.
Of course, Mathayus was (from what I hear) a minor character in THE MUMMY RETURNS so for all we know this franchise could branch off in different directions. Maybe they're setting up THE MINOTAUR: RISE OF THE MAZE LORD. Find out the tragic love story that got that poor bastard stuck in a labyrinth.
Anyway, it's interesting how many of these prestige DTV sequels have been coming out lately, sequels like STARSHIP TROOPERS 3 and LOST BOYS 2 that have bigger budgets and are heavily advertised. I can't vouch for LOST BOYS but this and STARSHIP are at least semi-watchable. Hopefully we'll work our way toward one that's actually good, but this is a start - a prequel to DTV SEQUELS 2: RISE OF THE ONES THAT ARE ACTUALLY GOOD.
thanks,
Vern
http://www.geocities.com/outlawvern
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really? really?
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Might check it out.
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More people should see it. It was our first Rogue. Australia needs to make a Razorback vs Rogue. I know I suck, but I've never been first in all my years reading here... and I forgot to say it. Damn.
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One of the worst, piece of shit movies I've ever seen. Though Feldman is the best thing about it, that's pretty much the only positive thing within the film.
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basically it was a typical Hercules or Xena episode... only longer with worse acting. Poorly acted, poorly told, bad effects, and the 'arrow cam' was done better in 'Robin Hood: Men in Tights'. Avoid this shit like you would a fathers day gift with every kid in the houses name on it.
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...but was too busy vomiting. The movie was HORRIFYINGLY bad. A movie about bugs that has no bugs. Also, they recycle footage from scene to scene.. watch for it and you'll see what I'm talking about. But the constant replay of the Psychic Fucktard singing was too much and I wasted my nummy Subway Steak Sammich on flatbread :(. Not even a couple shots of bewbies was redemptive enough. I didn't even recognize Jolene Blalock at first without her babydoll pantsuit and fake ears... she looked positively freakish. Van Dean's wife must have cut him off, cause I can't see any reason why he would be involved in this utter shitfest, other then to fend off imminent starvation.
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who's to blame? His agent, or his own choices? What a fucking godawful career after a promising debut.
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yeah you know I thought everyone remembered not to mess with that stuff
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He rose too, equally as badly.
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A genius label I've been looking for for a long time.
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As a guy living with four female flatmates, I was subjected to that shit one evening. 'The Secret' (i.e. the DVD) had been passed on to them by a friend, and caused quite a stir among them, as if they'd just been given the Holy bloody Grail or something. 20 minutes in and I realised (as you pointed out) that they really were just saying the same shit over and over again, only replacing the nouns each time so you'd get The Secret can help you get money/cars/women/not cancer etc etc - I carried on watching out of morbid/train-wreck curiosity, only to find that after it had finished, my flatmates had actually taken this shit on board! What the fuck?! I quickly started pointing them towards Rocky and Shawshank, but nooooooo, The Secret was *it*, The Secret was how they were gonna fix their respective 'problems' in life. Made me sick.
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The man is an enigma. I love Highlander. Love it. And after that, it's not that he's making really bad films... he just makes odd choices at what to make. RE3, I had to watch twice, it was so crazy, and it's the only part of the film series I really enjoy. The Prophecy was good too. Why can't they give this guy a good project with a not ridicolous budget. (RE3 doesn't count as a good project, but he saved it anyway. Mila Jovovich Army. Holy shit!)
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Lost Boys 2 was a giant heap of human excrement!!!! Scorpion King 2 is another example of garbage film making. I rather see monkeys flinging feces at each other for two hours than watch these movies!!
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Will you be reviewing LOST BOYS 2? Pretty please?
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And Seagal is more badass than Stallone, right? Sorry, sir, but I respectfully disagree.
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We need some kid to play Daniel Plainview in a There Will Be Blood DTV prequel where we see Plainview's childhood trauma of getting molested by a priest and learning the ways of the samurai in the back of a bowling alley where he can only train with pins as weapons. It'll be like Bad Education meets The Big Lebowski.
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Have you ever thought of reviewing some of those knock-off "mockbusters" popping up lately. I know The Asylum makes a shitload of them. Movies like Transmorphers, I am Omega, AVH: Alien vs Hunter and 48 Weeks Later. Don't know if you have the time or patience for that kind of shit (I know I don't), but it would sure be funny.
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He followed Highlander with Highlander 2, one of the worst movies I spent money on in a theater. That has to be the worst sequal in movie history. And you all think Lost Boys 2 is bad?
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You forgot the scene where some bully kid actually drinks Daniel's milkshake... A moment as powerful and meaningful as Hannibal finding his mask in RISING and Leatherface finding a chainsaw in BEGGINING. Goddamnit, the worst thing is they are capable of pulling that shit. If they do, I'm blaming you, buddy.
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All you have to do is switch every instance of "The Scorpion King" with "The Mummy" in the above review, and I'd agree with it.
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Sorry!
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I nominate Rob Zombie to direct.
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Sorbonian fantasy worlds? Nice. Also, glad to see you mention Razorback. I think that might be my fave Mulcahy movie to date. I also remember Talos: The Mummy. With bandages that attack of their own accord? See that one, Vern?
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The movie rarely gets mentioned, but when it does, universal praise ensues.
I for one was always more scared of those two brothers than the powerful porcine.
It also had the blonde lady show her breasts.
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Scorpion King better than The Mummy? I don't agree there, but it's ok. Scorpion King wasn't a giant travesty or anything.
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It's time for Razorback 2: The Hog of War. Roger Corman Im waiting for my call.
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Aug 18, 2008 8:42:32 AM CDT
You could have Big Ernie McCraken teach Plainview
by chittychittygangbang
I can see him leading young Plainview up the stairs to a bowling alley for a little "fun" match.
"Father, please help me."
"Oh yeah, like I'm a priest."
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Yeah, I can have a scene where Plainview is a young man working in a soda shop and some local misfits get a very long straw and steal the milkshakes by siphoning them out through the window. Then the shop owner comes back and sees that the milkshakes have all been stolen and starts beating Plainview and screaming "It's called drainage you idiot!"
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Beast is able to breathe fire after consuming bag of red hot pork rinds and drinking vat of Fosters.
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precisely because it was so jaw droppingly insane and off from the original. Even funnier weas later that Renegade version. The planet Zeist needed to stay! It is unfortunate that none of the later movies could ever find their footing. But watching Connery use his life force to reverse a whirring fan to the strains of Amazing Grace on the bagpipes was schlock brilliance at it's height.
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Aug 18, 2008 8:51:24 AM CDT
I'm rather surprised they didn't/couldn't get The Rock...
by thedarklinglord
I mean, he made Doom. Either he got paid a LOT (like, 75% of the movie's entire budget) or he's pretty agreeable to making shit movies so long as they keep him working. Oh, and I agree that The Scorpion King was a lot more enjoyable than The Mummy movies, for all the reasons mentioned in this review.
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Ah classic scenes of Schlock...
Reminds me of Rawhead Rex peeing on the priest.
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Yeah Scorpion King had moments, The Mummy was goofy, good time at the theater.
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That looks like it is on the menu for Mulcahy next. Anyone know anything? Also, this guy has a wierd uneven career that seems to involve doing modest profile pictures(Resident Evil, The Shadow,etc) and then DTV passable stuff, and just dreadful tv movies. What gives?
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done on that Bigfoot the people in Georgia had in their freezer?
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Doesn't Mulcahy have some sort of contract that says the guy has to be in every fourth movie he directs or something?
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Does this mean, then, that it is not too late for Sommers to release the Special Edition of Mummy Returns wherein, the bottom-half of the Scorpion King, instead of being awful cgi, can just be invisible? Because that would be helpful.
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I gave you fair warning - Neigh coming up!
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hah!
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http://tinyurl.com/6zbbx8
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long enough, that a marathon is now possible. Starship Troopers 3, Lost Boys 2, and Scorpion King 2. Perhaps though, if I wait two more weeks I can get Warlock 4 or Solarbabies 2: Wait, there was a Solarbabies 1?
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I don't know what is more bizarre. the opossum DNA or the human DNA.
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I didn't even see that coming.
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Aug 18, 2008 9:05:56 AM CDT
Jonah...look at the pics of other creatures....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
...on that page...
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It wasn't very easy the first time, so I'm sure an invisible scorpion king is even harder.
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This is our new home?
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it wasn't real?? Im outraged.
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Hey Fred! Thanks for the compliment - but I am not worthy.
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Worst case of saving money and not showing creature. Sphere. A movie that already had a big budget and couldnt afford to show the best part of the whole book, the giant squid attack. So in a high profile movie, we have hoffman and jackson and stone looking at a small, squid shaped blip on the radar, and screaming as the station shakes. LAME!
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What?! I like cheap shit...but Scorpion King was so bad it was NOT fun. The location work was horrid....anyone who lives 30 miles north of Los Angeles can recognize every mountain they walk past. It is so obviously California terrain. And that cheap fucking rock music blasting every 30 seconds. I don't mind The Rock, but its easily the worst acting of his entire career. And that stupid side-kick was fucking annoying. He is the Arab Jar-Jar.
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but I agree. Scorpion King looked terribly cheap. Especially the sandstorm bit and the fire ants.
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Sounds good to Fred
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I think as long as a decent alternative exists, that is the way to go. Today the Scorpion King Vern TB showed up and it was a no brainer.
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but no Razorback dvd? WE NEED ANSWERS HERE!
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Kull The Conqueror was a much better film in all respects. Mummy 1 is fucking gold....I don't know how anyone cannot enjoy it. The set design alone destroys that piece of shit Scorpion King. That being said....the new Scorpion honestly looks better than the first.
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Aug 18, 2008 9:23:11 AM CDT
Chitty -- that dude is George Clooney's writing partner....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
...and he is okay in those other films. But his accent in Scorpion King?! Aye yay yay!!!
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Let's jack this TB up.Jonah, lots of questions to answer, my man. I haven't seen Zebraman yet but I'm working on it. And I have CJ7, but can't get around to finishing it as something keeps interrupting. It's a cursed movie for me.Pillow, sadly I probably only have about 700 DVDs and they aren't in a Vegas-esque underground vault. Most of them are in folders. I ran out of wall space (my ManLand area upstairs is limited what with the screen and seating) and decided to start taking movies out of their cases and putting them in folders. I store the empty cases in a closet.Jonah, I just thought of a few more titles you probably haven't seen: Going By The Book, The Restless, Righteous Ties and The Show Must Go On so I'll include those as well.As for everyone else, here's what you'll be receiving: Sinking of Japan, I'm A Cyborg But That's OK, Invisible Target, Protege, Shinobi, The Restless, Musa, Silmido and Yamato.Chitty, Wolfie and Mavra will be receiving the original 8 from the first kit as well.All in all, the next kit will probably have 12 movies for Jonah, and double that for everyone else. That's who you get for watching so many Asian movies, Mr. Echo! So I think its going to take me longer than expected to get them out.
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Classic!
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When he is hacking into that computer via remote modem..
"Yes, I have my hand up your skirt and I AM going for it!"
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Holy crap that was BAAAD! And not even remotely in a fun way. Tia Carerre as an ancient sorceress! I'd have found Rip Torn more believable as an ancient sorceress. And mentioning Rip, let's not forget Beastmaster! Now that was good sword and sorcery cheese.
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Damn funny. Anyone else see it? The funniest part of all - for me, was when Jack Black is tied to the tree. I will not give anything away, but that was coca cola spitting hilarious!
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I have seen The Restless. I know Im not in the position to make requests, since this generous venture of yours is totally free and out of the kindness of your very big heart, but could I also get a copy of "I'm A Cyborg'? I only saw it once, and it was a relatively poor copy, procured by a friend.
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I know Kull was crap. But I found it to be the sort of crap that knows perfectly well it is crap and has a fun time with it. Scorpion King on the other hand has a little too much confidence that it was some new bad ass Conan type film. I remember Rock in interviews pitching it like it was the most hardcore sword fighting movie we will ever experience.
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which I'd love to see again.
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..."As for everyone else, here's what you'll be receiving AMONG other things" as the shipment should clock in around 2 dozen movies.
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You're telling me I will probably have to continue seeing Ben Stiller tv spots for the rest of my life?!! Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck.
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all the generosity HOD shows us. Just havent thought of a way yet.
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seriously? did they really make this? lol
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What is that big budget disaster movie with great effects from a few years back that had that very serious trailer? Is that Japan Is Sinking?
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it's on my queue though.
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but I think Julian Sands ears just perked up when he heard it...I always think it was oneof the great travesties that Vidmark never released a Warlock vs. Leprechaun film. There is still time.
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Just do me a favor, my good man and send me an e-mail with those title requests. Plus, if you see anything I've mentioned for other folks you either haven't seen or did see but would like a copy of, let me know. And if there's anything I'm sending you that you already watched and DON'T want, let me know as well.Same goes for everyone.In fact, should I just throw out a list of movies and everyone chooses what they want?
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Japan is Sinking is great. I only saw it once, with some friends, but it was in my opinion better than most of the comparable crap we get over here. A certain large asteroid movie comes to mind.
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Personally, your selections have been impeccable. Daisy may indeed be my favorite so far, but The Warlords was really great, and Chocolate was just insanely fun.
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Curious to hear your thoughts...
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and not in a good way. The first Mummy was much better.
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It couldnt even make the most of it's INSANE premise. It should have been crazy, but instead it was like a late night Cinemax special. What a skin-crawling use of Enigma as well.
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I guarantee you'll love it.
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Aug 18, 2008 9:42:08 AM CDT
Jonah that hurt......Boxing Helena is my favorite film...
by dannyglovers_dickblood
...of all time.
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Japan Is Sinking is their version of a Emmerich disaster flick. It's actually very entertaining and has some wonderful effects.Jonah, I'll send you Shinobi so yank it from your queue. Use that spot for a Hollywood release.And I'm not doing this expecting anything in return. I enjoy your reactions to the movies as much as you enjoy the movies themselves. You know, like watching somebody open the present you gave them on Christmas morning. It's almost better for the one giving the gift than it is for the recipient.Although I will say this. If anyone here breaks into it the film industry big time, don't forget the Donor. Other than that, just enjoy the movies.
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have one or two I'd like to see, but the best part so far is just watching what you send. I agree with JPT thus far. Daisy is my fave, though I havent finished Warlords and Chocolate was more fun than should be had from that premise.
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It is now on my queue. Is that how you spell that? Q U E U E?
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Yes, the flaming leg kick was epic and I don't know how the stuntman received that kick without getting severe burns.
But the real treat was the elbow drops.
Jesus, I stopped counting after about 50 of them and the double elbow drop from above.
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Just going to take me a while to compile it.
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and other than nixing Restless, only change I'd make is if you could send copies of Japan is Sinking and Im a Cyborg...otherwise, I'm good. I really want to show my wife those 2.
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I thought Jerry and Anthony made a great team.
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As I sit here writing Small Wonder: Rise of V.I.C.K.I. and tailoring the Vicki part for ScarJo, I'm writing in a rather large part for a character called Hawaiian Organ Donor.
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Replace elbow drops with broken limps, multiply by 2.5, and you have the Protector. Add a heaping of thrown baby elephant and you have instant magic.
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Just to whet your appetite, a line of dialogue:
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Otherwise known as The Protector? I swear, I counted 14,756 broken left arms. 18m,732 broken right arms. 47,392 broken ribs. 2300 broken left legs. 1289 broken right legs. And three broken teeth.
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You are expending so much extra time as it is. Just the ones I mentioned are fine.
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If you ever get banned Danny boy, I say come back as that.
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Tom Yum Goong is simply amazing. Tony Jaa HATES rib cages and right arms.
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isnt that some kind of record?
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Aug 18, 2008 9:54:02 AM CDT
Jonah Echo -- did you say tailoring the Vicki part for ScarJo?
by dannyglovers_dickblood
Now I might be into this....tell me more.
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But if it amps up the kickass more than Ong Bak, then I will watch while wearing a football helmet.
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Aug 18, 2008 9:56:26 AM CDT
Jonah, let it go man. V.I.C.K.I. love will result in you going b
by toadkillerdog
Or being electrocuted.
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Don't ever mess with a man's little elephant.
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It greatest martial arts movie Fred has ever seen!
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I wasn't prepared for such perfection when I watched it.
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I do not have the love for KFH that you do. I thought it was ok, some of the extreme silliness turned me off though - and I like silly movies! It was not wire fu, but it was silly fu!
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Aug 18, 2008 10:04:11 AM CDT
The Protector is good because of the elephant....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
...it added so much more to the story. A guy sticking up for his pet/friend. Bad fucking ass.
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...but there were large chunks of that movie that really annoyed me.
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we did back in 2005. It was right in the middle, shown after Appleseed and before Battlefield Baseball. Obviously, the other 2 movies suffered in comparison. Kung-Fu Hustle has such a great grasp of physical comedy. I forgot to mention it in our great comedies talk the other day. Also, the fact that Chow finds an element of redemption for his villain when Kung-Fu Panda couldn't says much about Chow's brilliance.
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Well played, sir. That scene had me rofling. The worst thing is I was listening to TWBB's soundtrack when I read that, and I almost bust a gut. Now back to the guys chatting and making the rest of the talkback irrelavant.
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and making the rest of the talkback irrelavant."
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you either get wimpy no-fun powers or else powers so powerful it makes it look too easy.
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Jonah Echo, Fred totally agree that we need to do something nice for Hawaiian Organ Donor. Fred has no clue though.
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Holy shit...that is some fucking news!! Yeeeehah.
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Aug 18, 2008 10:18:17 AM CDT
Spinoff, is the any word more pleasing to the human soul?
by g-ride9000
Hi, I'm Troy Mcclure, you might remember me from such TV spinoffs as "Son of Sanford and Son", "After Mannix" and "The Other Jeffersons"
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Aug 18, 2008 10:20:24 AM CDT
Must not have been much of a political TB
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
It is dying out already.
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we will stay somewhat on TB topic for now. The work of Russell Mulcahy and his collaborators. Discuss.
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I wonder if that would work or would it be one of those laws that nobody remebers and I go to jail for 15-20 years?
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being Mulcahy's best, but I think that has to be The Shadow. I totally think that movie deserved to be bigger than it was. In my mind The Mask got the love that should have gone to The Shadow.
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about it a bit, and we can come to some consensus. I definitely want to do something.
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It has those cool Raimiesque zooms....really great photography. And Alec is perfect in the role.
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Aug 18, 2008 10:29:16 AM CDT
Best part of Razorback is that it had good story
by chittychittygangbang
You had the guy searching for his woman and the old man wanting redemption as well.
Also good work of when to show glimpses of Razorback.
Like when he is behind trough and flings it upwards.
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..every once in awhile I make the mistake of reading some of the posts on there. Fuck me....those people are truly fucking retards. Their posts aren't even stupid/funny like on here....they are just ignorant.
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that Mulcahy isn't more consistent with his work. I took a friend to see Resident Evil 3 at his birthday, because he digs zombie movies. I expected to sleep, but y'know, I had a decent time at the movie. It wasnt great, but it was a far sight better than the first two movies.
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Aug 18, 2008 10:35:44 AM CDT
Resident 3 was probably the best of the bunch....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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although I don't know I ever saw Blue Ice and barely remember The Real McCoy.
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who has less credits to his name than Mulcahy, but seems to have followed a similar road. He directed the first Scorpion King, started out with writing Dreamscape, directing Nightmare on Elm St.3 (possibly the best one) and then doing The Blob remake. When I mentioned The Mask getting the love Shadow deserved, well Chuck did that one. These guys seem competent, but they seem to mostly work as guns for hire, despite having the talent for better things. I mean the last 2 things chuck did were Scorpion King and Bless the Child???
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"If you met a guy whose great, great uncle by marriage was a Nazi or a serial killer, but the guy you met wasn't that big of a dick or anything, you would think "Good for him." Same goes for THE SCORPION KING 2 RISE OF A WARRIOR."
That was good. It made me laugh. I'll allow you to live, for now.
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If you haven't seen it, go ahead and add it. I don't think there's any crap on this list. This is simply to determine who doesn't want a particular title because they've already seen it. If you want everything, then just simply say "I WANT IT ALL!" and you're done.1) Sinking of Japan2) The Art of Fighting3) Arahan4) I'm A Cyborg But That's OK5) The Myth6) Save the Green Planet7) The Restless8) Shinobi9) Musa10) Tears of the Black Tiger11) Protege12) Open City13) Yamato14) Righteous Ties15) The Show Must Go On16) The Restless17) Silmido18) Rainbow Eyes
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Aug 18, 2008 10:52:46 AM CDT
There's a few 2008 titles that aren't coming to mind
by hawaiian organ donor
But I'll chuck those in as well as I'm sure no one has seen them. And if I can find The Assembly (I'm guessing my daughter hid it somewhere inaccessible) I'll include that.
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But you'll get those too Jonah.
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are only divx?
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...on their PC because their DVD player isn't capable of playing DIVX files, that's a few more movies for you as well, but let me know.
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I haven't checked to see what format it's in but I'll let you know tonight. That is actually the most important title of the bunch. Regardless, you're getting it Jonah.
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thats a fine list you compiled. Of the ones I have seen, I liked them all. You do have fine taste. Im almost tempted to just say SEND ME ALL, since there is nothing on that list I wouldnt watch a second time, or want to show my wife-like Save the Green Planet and Arahan. Will I set you back terribly, if I choose that option?
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and what was the first asian film you fell in love with?
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The Scorpion King was okay. I guess. I mean I like the Rock after all. But other than that. Why? Why did you see this? Why did you review it? Why is it on this site? Most importantly, what's wrong with you?
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Aug 18, 2008 11:11:25 AM CDT
if we are doing this, can we get reviews of co-ed confidential?
by cotton mcknight
They have some compelling storylines.
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I think the talkbackers above are correct, in that the man doesn't make bad movies, but they are lacking in some mysterious way. His movies look fantastic. Better than 95% of commercial action directors, past and present. He should be given a bigass production sometime soon.
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I've already got 7-8 copies of some of the above prepared over the weekend. Although I think I might be running out of DVDs soon. This is snowballing a little more than I expected and folks out of the blue are sending me e-mails asking if they can get a kit too. So I MIGHT have to break that list above into two shipments after all. One this week and another one next month. My wife is going to get suspicious why I burned through two 100 DVD spindles as it is.
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In the time of Sargon?
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http://io9.com/5038027/time-to-give-outlander-a-fiery-viking-funeral
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Aug 18, 2008 11:23:58 AM CDT
Jonah-- its funny how that French critic trashes it....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
....who the fuck would assume a French person would like this sort of film? It doesn't look like it has nearly enough scenes depicting aggressive sex.
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It also doen't have national treasure Gerard Depardieu.
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...Enter The Dragon on late night TBS close to 25 years ago. I can't say I really appreciated it at the time. I don't think I saw another one until I turned 19 (drinking age in Canada) and Shaw Brothers movies were a drinking game staple. Of course that was the start of the 90s and most mom and pop video stores didn't carry Asian titles so we watched the same 9-10 movies over and over.Then in 1993 I read a review about a little movie called Hard Boiled. And I searched high and low for it. In '94 it got an official North American release and it was everything I expected and more.I immediately watched The Killer and A Better Tomorrow after that. By then my Blockbuster had a decent foreign section so I went through all of Kurosawa's stuff in a week.The Asian movie scene outside of Hong Kong was dire during the 90s so I turned back to Hollywood for a while.Then I met my wife. Four years ago I went to Korea with her and we were on the subway and they have TV screens and were showing ads for Tae Guk Gi, Arahan and Ong Bak and I thought, wow, those look great. So I picked up a few titles on DVD, watched then when I got back and the real love affair began. I signed up to every online Asian DVD rental service and had a dozen or more movies coming in every week. I was watching 2-3 a night.Now all I want to do is spread my love of hidden classics, like Daisy, to guys like you.
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Aug 18, 2008 11:37:29 AM CDT
You are doing a great job Hawaiian Organ Donor
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
Fred really mean that. Thank you.
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"Maybe they're setting up THE MINOTAUR: RISE OF THE MAZE LORD. Find out the tragic love story that got that poor bastard stuck in a labyrinth."
I spilled my coffee reading that. You owe me a friggin dress shirt, Vern -
Martial arts, beer = good times.
Free Martial Arts movies, beer = Really good time.
I am checking into the beer via fed ex thing by the way.
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Aug 18, 2008 11:43:30 AM CDT
we're about to take #1....and we don't even have a topic...
by dannyglovers_dickblood
...really. Interesting. Its all....very interesting.
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Aug 18, 2008 11:48:03 AM CDT
holy fucking cunt lips!! Bob Hoskins is in Doomsday?!
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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The Mummy was much better than The Scorpion King. During the opening of The Scorpion King I thought it was a parody of action films it was so cheesy and over-the-top. Even taking it only half-seriously seemed a stretch.A prequel to a movie I didn't like that was a spinoff of a sequel that I thought was mildly entertaining? The Mummy 2 shows what Mathayus eventually becomes. The Scorpion King tries to show us that he really was a cool guy before absolute power corrupted him aboslutely. Maybe, instead of doing a prequel showing us events before the events that led to him becoming king, they could have done a sequel and show us how the king went from Tyrant-killing-hero to evil-must-rule-the-world-and-fix-it-so-I-return-from-the-dead-as-a-giant-scorpion-with-a-bad-cgi-face despot.Will Scorpion King 3 be a prequel to the prequel? "Scorpion King 3 - The Mathayus Chornicles" where a young Mathayus has to avenge his brother who is being picked on by the school bully.
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With Three Kingdoms and An Empress and Her Warriors you have two big budget adventure movies that come close to living up to their potential. You have Andy Lau and Sammo Hung kicking butt in one and Donnie Yen kicking butt in the other. Short of the movie verbally assaulting your mother and stealing a beer out of your fridge, it's hard to dislike a movie that delivers all that and then some.Massive armies, swords, arrows and kung fu, it's really hard to go wrong.
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Very good flick.
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But he does a great job.Exploding bunnies and cows are in it too.
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I'm talking movies and video games here. It's just so crap.
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A Shitty Movie a Day.
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Movies you've walked out on.
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If I pay the money then I stick it out.
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Spider-Man. Not because of the movie, but because it was a late night showing. I live in the south, and one of our fine southern cultural institutions among my (mostly) African-American bretheren teens is to talk, laugh, and make extremely loud noises throughout movies. When you first see Toby's amazing physique after the spider bit him, the guy behind me finally went too far. "Maaaan, sheeeeit, look at his poo butt ass, yo..." and I stood up, turned around, flipped the cap off his head by the brim and told him to shut the fuck up or I was going to make a bitch of him. Y'know, he shut up. So I didn't walk out of the movie.
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And checked out MI:3 for the second time instead. I think those are the only two. In all fairness I did give X Men 3 another shot at home and then realized yes....this is indeed one of the worst films of all time.
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Unfortunately nobody in my group joined me so I stood in the lobby like a loser for 90 minutes.How about movies you rented and couldn't finish?
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Aug 18, 2008 12:23:52 PM CDT
De-Lovely with Kevin Kline and Ashley Judd.....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
I tried to watch it 3 times....I just couldn't!! I've never had that reaction to a film before at home. Out of nowhere I start grabbing at magazines on the table or standing up and pacing around. I just couldn't sit and watch that terrible piece of trash. I dare anyone to attempt to sit through this film....ANYONE!!
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One was Species 2. The other was The Cell, and I even managed to get money back for that one because someone pulled the fire alarm and forced us all out for 15 minutes. The movie was a bit over halfway through, and I was on the verge of walking out before the alarm. When the fire alarm went off, I waited til it was over, and informed the theater manager that the interruption had thrown off our schedule, and we wanted free tickets, which we got.
I almost walked out of Timeline, because it was a free screening and terrible, but my friend wanted to stay so I did. -
Fred likes th old time cartoons best. Favorite of all is Foghorn Leghorn! "Pay attention boy, im cuttin, but you're not bleedin" "That boy's as strong as an ox, and just as smart too"
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Lookit here son, I say son, did ya see that hawk after those hens? He scared 'em! That Rhode Island Red turned white. Then blue. Rhode Island. Red, white, and blue. That's a joke, son. A flag waver. You're built too low. The fast ones go over your head. Ya got a hole in your glove. I keep pitchin' 'em and you keep missin' 'em. Ya gotta keep your eye on the ball. Eye. Ball. I almost had a gag, son. Joke, that is.
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for this unwarranted attack on my person?
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...Its not like I'm saying I'm all bad ass and left after 10 minutes. Naaawww......I was a dumb sucker....and I stuck around until that 30 minute sequence of Magneto moving the Golden Gate bridge to Alcatraz.....and then I said fuck this...I'd rather see Cruise and PSH go at it.
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Boy, you cover about as much as a flapper's skirt in a high wind
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shakes his head when he means yes, nods when he means no.
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Now cut that out boy, or I'll spank you where the feathers are thinnest
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"I always keep my feathers numbered for such an occassion."I quote Foghorn all the time and no one, I repeat no one understands it. Fred, if you and I worked in the same office we'd be laughing all day.
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Gal reminds me of the highway between Forth Worth and Dallas - no curves
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We are on the same page! - Fred loves Foggy!
Smart boy, got a mind like a steel trap - full of mice -
of the highway between Dallas and Ft. Worth -- no curves.
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The Piano Tuner of Earth Quakes...dear Lord this one was painful.
The Astronaut's Wife. This one was really painful for some reason. Tried to finish it twice, kept falling asleep.
13 Moons-just wasnt happening.
The Legend of Zorro. Never could finish that one.
A movie from the Cube director called Nothing.
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"I came to see a high divin' act and I'm-a gonna see a high divin' act."
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Aug 18, 2008 12:49:30 PM CDT
"Well, Paint me green and call me a pickle!!"
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
Just had to get that one in
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Fred's third favorite character!
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Was playing when that guy on the Greyhound went insane and sawed that poor dude's head off.
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As I have often said, my favorite movies are the very visual, and this one had a four star review from Rog Ebert and trippy trailers. I saw it with my girlfriend of the time It had an interesting opening, and a decent premise, but as soon as we were introduced to the killer, I was put off by the sick imagery and glossy polish, and utter randomness of it all. It seemed like it wanted to be profound, but ti was just irritating the complete crap out of me. With each new scene I found my eyes rolling more and more. I wasnt happy to hate it. I wanted to like it. I tried again on dvd, and it still lost me. But thankfully Tarsem's 8 year wait between movies paid off. The Fall is a masterpiece and everything that one wasn't.
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Aug 18, 2008 12:54:23 PM CDT
Hawaiian Organ Donor -- I don't know which report you heard....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
....I heard from a guy on the actual bus that it was certainly X3 that was playing. And it was specifically the scene when Rogue gets in line to be cured.
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He's one of the most underappreciated and underused directors with talent that's working today (same goes for Alex Proyas). It's a real shame to see him having to do stuff like Resident Evil 3 and this sort of DTV pre-pre-sequel crap.
If he made this I might actually rent it even though I hated the Mummy movies and didn't bother to see The Scorpion King.
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Aug 18, 2008 12:55:13 PM CDT
Fred watched Johnny Dangerously this weekend
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
Very funny movie The parrot was the funniest of all.
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What's the stupid bitch want? to be able to feel the touch of another person some time in her miserable life? What a stupid whore.
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As I mentioned in another thread, at a nearby theater here in Baltimore county, a guy shot someone to death in the theater during X3.
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You missed fuckface! Raww!
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Come on, "one of the worst films of all time"??? Seriously, it WASN'T one of the worst films of all times, it just didn't live up to your expectations that stemmed from the first two. I swear, I really don't get big sweeping statements like that. Some points are good in a movie and inevitably some aren't. But all in all it was a popcorn flick to escape in. I think most of our fellow 20 30 and 40 something geeks out there USED to just go to movies to escape, to let someone else take us on an adventure sometimes to familiar grounds and sometimes not, but that's what it was. Now all of a sudden if something's not absolutely perfect ot's panned as the worst godawful creation ever that raped our 9 bucks etc. Overreaction. For instance, my girlfriend and I are on vacation and we decided last night to catch Clone Wars despite the hatred on these boards (and I really liked Genndy's take on it so I was admidedly a little worried it would suck). Long story short, it wasn't amazing, it didn't change my world, it didn't "breath new life into Star Wars" for me or anything like that but despite the ridiculous Ziro the Hutt and the stiff line here and there (again, anyone who says "here or there?!?" needs to do some research and look up criticism of the OT, even the actors joked about it) its pascing was fun, resembling the movies, most of the music was good enough, and ultimately it was a couple hours of genre escape. We left the theater both saying yeah, that was fun, kinda cool. It boggles my mind that everyone shits their pants if something isn't Empire Strikes Back or the freaking Ilyiad.
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I figure I've paid and maybe, just maybe, everything will come together in the end and make it all worthwhile.One example, watched this movie with Tom Berenger & Daphne Zuniga at home. We started making fun of Zuniga's accent and the fact that she couldn't hold it - it seemed so poorly done. But later in the film we found out her character was the one faking the accent. So it made sense.Last summer I was home, bored, and flipping channels and a movie was just starting so I began to watch. Soon, I knew it was "Employee of the Month" but I continued to watch to see how much I could take. I got about an hour into it before I realized I had just spent an hour watching this movie. But then I decided I had come this far, might as well stick it out to the bitter end. Stupid, stupid, stupid movie with plot holes bigger than Dane Cook, Jessica Simpson and Andy Dick's lack of talent, combined. I got just enough out of it to not consider it a total waste of time.The same can not be said for "Date Movie". I think this film holds the (lack of) distinction of being the only movie I have ever watched that I thought was a complete, total, absolute waste of my time (and I've seen Gigli!). I had to watch it; I could not believe it was as bad as I had heard. It wasn't - it was worse. I thought I might find a few funny jokes here and there. I didn't. And to make things worse - the supposed jokes, that weren't funny after 3 seconds, were stretched into 3 minute bits. This movie had no purpose. There wasn't a single thing in there that was original. There was no reason for it to be made. I am proud to say I learned my lesson and have steered clear from Epic Movie and Meet the Spartans. I will make sure to go see The Dark Knight again, or maybe Tropic Thunder, when Disaster Movie comes out. Why? To give money to any movie that is not the one by those responsible for the anal abortion that was Date Movie.
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That was a funny bird.
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Relax!!! I'm standing here with my dork in my hand!
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One of the funniest movies ever made.
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But I've fallen asleep during a bunch of movies in theaters: MIB 2, Sahrah, Day After Tomorrow, xXx and Van Helsing to name a few. I usually finish movies I rent even if I fall asleep like 20 times but one movie I couldn't bother giving a second chance even though I really wanted to see it was Stranger Then Fiction, I just hated that movie couldn't give a shit that I slept through 20-30 minutes of it.
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Knock down that wall. Knock down that wall. And knock down that fargin wall!. KABOOM!
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Dane Cook has made a sequel to Good Luck Chuck, and it looks to be about just as bad! Why is it that when stand up comedians get popular they have to go out and make crap movies as many as possible?
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would like to direct this to the distinguished members of the panel: You lousy cork-soakers. You have violated my farging rights. Dis somanumbatching country was founded so that the liberties of common patriotic citizens like me could not be taken away by a bunch of fargin iceholes... like yourselves.
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Snow White: A Tale of Terror. Anyone else get a kick out of this one, with Sigourney Weaver as the dark queen?
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He made this just after he vacated the UFC HW title last year. It was a pretty big scandal for MMA fans. It's his first lead role too. Just wondering how he got on.
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why you are a cunt with a 5 O'clock shadow. I had no expectations going in. I can give a fuck about X Men. The first two were okay.....but as a whole the films are shit compared to the Fox cartoon. When I said it was one of the worst films of all time, I meant for the budget and caliber of people involved. I group films by budget really. I'm not going to be an ignorant cunt and compare Sci-Fi channels' Monster Ark to X Men 3. Those are two completely different classes of films. As far as a big budget film with know players involved....yes X Men 3 is one of the worst of those films ever made. Another would be Indy IV. There is nothing sweeping about that statement. Obviously Ed Wood, Sci-Fi channel directors, and a shitload of other hacks make films that are far worse than X3 or Indy IV, but considering the resources available.....are they really worse? My answer is no. And the fun factor is a big issue for me. X3 was like getting fuck teeth pulled. It was a nuisance of a chore to sit through. Cheap shit like Frankenfish (with a whopping budget of 3 million.....roughly 1/70th X3's budget can be far more interesting and a hell of a lot more fun.) If you are the sort of dull cow that will fork over $10 bucks to sit through shamefully horrid shit like X3 then thats your deal. Don't fucking tell me my expectations were too high, you know fuck about my expectations or my taste in film. Tonight, I suggest you go for a joy-ride while blasting Human League's "Don't You Want Me?" and plow your car head on into a brick wall. And don't bother with the seat-belt....the world is full of struggling AIDS patients, you won't be missed.
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Its funny you sit through a Dane Cook film just to see how much you can take. You are a true masochist my friend.
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Aug 18, 2008 1:21:57 PM CDT
DannyGlovers riled up. Fred getting out the popcorn!
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
Hee hee. Flame feeding Fred.
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Fred heard so much about how great it was. It was big disappointment to Fred.
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My sister kicked me in the balls once....ONCE.
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It shoots through schools.
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Really?
Man I thought MI:3 was great. I like how it is a pretty small intimate story if you think about it. PSH doesn't have 100 goons with machine guns....its really just a mind game between him and Ethan. And the whole elusive Rabbit's Foot thing-- I like that sort of shit where nobody has any idea what it really is. That whole film just felt much different than the standard Hollywood action film to me. It was a much different tone and approach, like the scene when Ethan goes into the heavily guarded building in China to get the Rabbit's Foot I believe-- and they go on and on about how crazy the security is and how many guys he will have to go through, and once he gets inside we don't see any of it. We cut to those two in the car having a personal conversation....and then Ethan says, "I got it...I'm comin' out!" or something like that and bursts through the window. Shit like that just felt fresh and different to me. -
Aug 18, 2008 1:34:18 PM CDT
I say that dog is lower than a snake full of buckshot
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
Can't get enough Foggy
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Chuck (or Charles) Russell with Russell Mulcahy, and funny enough the former directed THE ALREADY RISEN SCORPION KING. He (Chuck) also directed NIGHTMARE 3: DREAM WARRIORS and THE BLOB, which are good in my book, and ERASER and THE MASK, which are not.
The point is, Vern got me interested in looking for the killer pig movie and Ricochet... And seriously fellas, what's with this "let's talk anything among us three or four guys and just post anything non-stop" thing? Is it the new thing? I don't think it's cool, but hell, I'm not any of you three or four guys so what do I know, right? -
When he is working at the pet store and has the price guns marking kittens.
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Was the reason Fred fell asleep. He is a usually a very good actor, but he felt the need to add pork products to his performance. Fred heard so much about how he would be the greatest screen villain since Lector - Fred greatly disappointed.
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Aug 18, 2008 1:37:37 PM CDT
Films I slept through is a topic for the ages...
by hawaiian organ donor
...I nodded off during MIB2, Riddick, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and PotC2 to name a few.Fred, save me some popcorn. Danny is in fine form today.
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I know nothing about the show, so I'm going off of what i know from the movies. So the big event scenes of the first two were how Sir Thomas Cruise broke into the buildings, and so for the third one they totally edited out that scene and just have him jumping out of a window. The whole trebuchet thing was cool, but I wanted to see how Tom got into the buildinig.
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fammit.
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Has anyone seen the TV spots for this total geekgasm! Oh man this looks fucking awesome!
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There's actually close to a dozen of us but right now the others are MIA and we're just talking, dude. Most TBs flatline around the 130 post mark and that's when we swoop in and begin our chats. We're very respectful for the most part try to add something to AICN other that bickering about politics and religion.
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... to be pissing off the indigenous population of this TB.
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Instead of being a prick and insulting us...you could join in on the conversation and have some fun during the work day as well. This is not an exclusive club....the only requirement is you have abnormally large testicles. If it doesn't sound like this is for you then gladly....FUCK OFF.
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is that he comes on here posts about Chuck Russell and Russell Mulcahy, a topic I covered in the same way, with more detail, about 40 or more posts ago, and then gripes about us again. That's twice now you have mentioned it.
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off topic. If we didnt love b-movies, and at least root for DTV movies to be good, we wouldn't be here.
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Riddick is a great film. its an insane follow up to something as simple as Pitch Black. The design of the world is just fucking awesome. I remember thinking the desert planet with middle-eastern style structures reminded me a bit of Tatooine. And then I thought fuck....imagine if the prequels were more like Riddick-- the tone and the maturity of them I mean. That would have been fucking awesome.
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But I just couldn't find anything in the first 30 minutes to keep me awake. My friend elbowed me during the credits and I think I turned to him and said "That was the best sleep I ever paid money for."
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The cast looks MILF-a-riffic.
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the Riddick love. I like the scene where that guy walks out into the sun, holds up his arm as if to ward off the light and then just dissolves. Makes me think of Batty from Blade Runner for some reason.
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Outrunning the sun on Crematoria= silly, but awesome.
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it's major problem for me was the lame villains. Necromongers didnt really work for me.
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...is pure fucking magic. The way he just slouches into the throne all beat up and exhausted, and that massive crane pull back revealing his new kingdom. Amazing. I want a 3rd chapter in that story. Where the hell could it go? Perhaps another galaxy tries to invade and Riddick leads his people to war to defend themselves? What the hell would a war in that universe look like?
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but Urban and Thandie were bad ass.
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It sure sounds like it. It better be good or I'm going to crack one off in your next package after a meal of Indian food.
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I always assumed that it would involve Riddick trying to take Kira to the Necroverse to revive her, and bring her back. In the meantime, it would allow him to learn more on his Furyan past, and come face to face to whatever the real force behind the Necromongers was.
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Riddick is epic, has great action and characterization, and the ending in which Riddick takes over as leader is fucking great. I love his statue in the credits. "You keep what you kill."
There's so many greta moments though. Riddick killing the guy by driving the tea cup into his chest, and the nputting down a paper clip or whatever and everyone running away. Riddick killing the huge Necromonger i nthe beginning: "He was one my best men!" Riddick: "If you say so." -
www.garfieldminusgarfield.net
I thought it was actually quite clever and often works really well.
"Garfield Minus Garfield is a site dedicated to removing Garfield from the Garfield comic strips in order to reveal the existential angst of a certain young Mr. Jon Arbuckle. It is a journey deep into the mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against loneliness and depression in a quiet American suburb."
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to avoid having Red Cliff smell like digested chicken masala, I'll admit that I didn't think much of it the first time I saw it, and the second time I was only marginally more enthusiastic about it, but I DO think it had alot of cool stuff in it, and I would have watched a third. It was no Pitch Black, but it was a decent start to a bigger story.
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what statue? must have missed that. Think it's time to pick up the "Riddick trilogy".
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What you're doing for us is above and beyond the call of duty.Where do you buy your blank media, is it an online store? I'm in the UK but I don't see any reason why I wouldn't be able to log on to an online US store and send a load of blank media your way. I'd just need a delivery address.I just wanna thank you properly and I don't know how to.If there's one title I'd like to see it's Grave Of The Fireflies(?) Danny said it made him cry. If it made Danny cry that's a good enough recommendation for me.
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It was a great nod to Pitch Black. And the Necromonger design was shit but it was supposed to be. Riddick even makes fun of it when that one dude gives him a little tour of the palace. "Magnificent isn't it?" Riddick: "I might have gone a different way."
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thanks for that link. It is pretty funny, and witty when done that way. I never considered that angle, save for briefly contemplating the fact that Garfield merely seems to "think" things as opposed to saying them, and yet John responds perfectly to it.
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I do admit that the settings were top notch, but I like Pitch Black way better.
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As the credits role it pans back, maybe towards the end, and you see a bronze statue of Riddick posing in the throne chair like where the movie ended. It's sweet.
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Hee hee. Get's Fred every time Indy IV made DannyGlovers cry too - but for a different reason Fred thinks!
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Deflation of a Penis
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I'd want to know more about the Underverse. Is it real or are the Necromongers just falling for bullshit from the Lord Marshall who is the only person whose been there supposedly. He had some kind of power.
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The closest thing to insult you, DGDB, was stating my opinion of your activity here being "not cool". If that made you angry enough to actually insult me and call me a prick, well... That's your thing, I guess.
Sorry I didn't read your post Jonah Echo, but seriously, you guys flood the TB in a way that it's easy to get lost, with many references to previous conversations and out of the blue subject changes. (Sorry again Danny but that sure feels like an exclusive club).
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All's well in your world I trust. And do I detect a subtle liking for Foghorn Leghorn there.
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Riddick suffered from the 'bigger is better' premise (which it aint)and the same type of hubris that Matrix 2 and 3 had regarding the the characters and Religious meaning. Fred half expected to hear about Midichlorians. But, it had some impressive fights and sets, and action, that Fred can not dismiss. But it is still inferior to Pitch Black.
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yea, that's sort of because some conversations keep going, due to a relatively large group now(it's def more than 4 or 5 people) sharing info and what not. But at the same time, we don't really want to overrun the TB. I'd much prefer a more streamlined integration.
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often, we end up coming to a TB after it as more or less dried up-these DTV or Twitch articles often have a short shelf life, but we caught this one while it was still going, and didn't mean to inundate it. With so many people in tow, it's like rolling up in someone's place uninvited, shaving the dog, raiding the fridge and clogging the toilet.
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We are not an exclusive club. We are just movie loving geeks. We try an take a TB that is very low on the list - or off the list, and just chat about our favorite subjects. We are undermanned today, usually around 12 of us, but we always are looking to add new regulars. You would be more than welcome. This is a refuge of sorts on AICN. No flame wars - ok maybe a few, but they end very, very quickly and are always caused by disagreeable types who only come in to cause trouble. This is a geek love. Join in!
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Aug 18, 2008 2:18:41 PM CDT
Fred is unabashed in love of Foghorn Leghorn cartoons
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
Just great quotes. Fred loves Marx Brothers quotes too!
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I saw THE SAVAGES and thought it was a very touching and funny movie. But I will only speak of said movie when the topic dictated by the article allows it, otherwise it would just be an off-topic posting of-- I'm kidding, man. It's very good if you're into that kind of movies, cheers.
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over in the old TB. Ha!
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Aug 18, 2008 2:21:38 PM CDT
"Everyone knows if you make sacrifices to the dark gods you get
by darwyn
Jeez, guys, everyone knows that.
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I personally love the Marc Anthony and Pussyfoot ones.
And precisely, Jonah, that's how I felt when I started pissing you guys off. Maybe not the dog shaving part, I would laugh if you do that cuz my dog looks funny when shaved, I swear. -
Suprisingly decent film.
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and haven't brought myself to watch it. The bit with the father in need of care is a bit too reminiscent of a similar situation with my grandfather 10 years ago, and I think it might be hard to watch that. But with your recommendation, I may go ahead and give it a go, and if it's too much Ill turn it off. Thanks.
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"I'll thank you to keep a civil tongue in your head - and not in mine!"
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Gosh!
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it wasnt great, but it was a solid movie, and I'm personally tiring of heist movies so that it worked for me was def something.
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...last night the family was over for supper and my brother and mom were discussing The Savages. I haven't watched it yet so I couldn't chime in, but my bro said he didn't like because all the characters were scumbags. My mom on the other hand loved the acting and the story and enjoyed the movie as a result.
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I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.
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It added something slightly new to the genre. But I agree I don't need to see another heist film anytime soon.
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Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
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Such vitriole. Actually I'm listening to Man or Astroman?'s A Spectrum of Infinite Scale. I just read an Asimov story from Robot Visions and sooner or later will swim in the ocean with my lovely geek of a girlfriend. Ah how easily buttons are pushed, one simply quotes SNL and boom someone snarls through their keyboard. Honestly, I agree with you wholeheartedly regarding comparing apples to oranges. And I will say that some movies can be ruined with a poor production choice, a great example that comes to mind is Daredevil and the music that played throughout (lots of other shortcomings in that movie too, but the music in my case anyway made the difference from liking to disliking). Ruined is a serious word or state, though. But again, if you're not much of an x-men fan than tell me what it is that makes X3 so terrible compared to the other 2? The storyline may not be as good as X2 as an example, and maybe they didn't treat Phoenix nearly as wonderfully as Clairmont and Byrne did, but the overall tone and direction of the movie followed suit of the first 2. And Indy 4. It wasn't a trainwreck, it wasn't a disaster, it didn't suck. Could it be better? Sure, but it was much better than deserving the heaping load of virtual shit piled upon it online. It's so easy for people out there to be negative because something wasn't exactly how they envisioned it might be. I for one feel all of the Indy movies post Raiders fell short to exactly the same degree for one reason: they invloved Indy adventuring around with others as opposed to Raiders where he came in and out of contact with his companions but primarily was a solo adventurer (that is, he ended up with Marion and Saleh here and there but he initially set out alone, whereas he set out on adventures with others from the getgo in the the other 3 movies). I think his character is much more truly depicted as a lone adventurer, not worrying about others' safety, rather concerned with the prize or goal. But that didn't wreck the subsequent films for me. Nuked fridge a little far-fetched? Mutt a silly name? Yep, but Ford stood strong and it was a fun adventure flick. So why worry. I've gotta say one more thing here. The AIDS comment is in poor taste, man. Seriously, what if I actually had AIDS, or someone else reading here has it for that matter and it was claiming them, and they simply came here to enjoy a little outside of the personal holocaust of a disease like that? I'm not saying that overall you're a dick, and I will say that I enjoy reading your posts from time to time, but that was a seriously stupid and irresponsible thing to say and you should tone it down.
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You saw what Fred did over there? Hee hee. Fred could not let the thread die without getting to number one - even for a only a little while.
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It was sold as a comedy as much as a drama in my opinion. Nope. I'm pretty sure I didn't laugh at all during the film. Pretty sobering and depressing film actually. But quality.
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...was a great little film. Highly recommend it. It's a bit like a play or book; very literary, not just in the characters but in the tone. It's a smart, dark dramedy that's actually really touching and heartfelt.
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Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
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Aug 18, 2008 2:31:17 PM CDT
Sort of like when Equinas shows up to the stables
by chittychittygangbang
Chaos ensues when we arrive Gilk, but we are nice guys.
We are like the aliens in ID4, but with better people skills and computers that have better antivirus software protection.
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At first I felt the same as your brother, but the characters won me over. Specially PSH. The guy starts really unlikeable, but you start feeling kinda sorry for him after the most vulnerable parts of his show up. (Not literally though, for that watch BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU'RE DEAD) Laura Linney on the other hand, starts likeable and by the end had me completely in love with her... The last shot made me sob like a bitch.
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Also I'm with Dickblood X3 is an awful movie. One of the worst in a long time.
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That's interesting. Hence the title's play on words? I think the charcaters are real, and not an ideal of what we would like to be in a crisis situation, such as dealing with a sick or dying parent. They're imperfect beings as human are, not to mention siblings who have inevitably bitch at each other or disagree. They are forced to make some tough choices and not everyone is prepared for that.
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And they hadn't spoken to him in years. For two people who felt they probably didn't owe him much they went above and beyong the call. The family in the beginning that abandoned the man after his companion died and. THEY were scumbags.
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I laughed a lot during THE SAVAGES, specially the part where PSH hurts himself playing tennis. That was hilarious, man. Oh when the nurse said to the father "You be good now, Mister Savage". Somehow that made me laugh. I have no idea how they've marketed it, though.
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Great name for an actor
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In the movie You Can Count on Me.
Great film that presents real people with flaws.
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You're right about scumbags, Hobo. The biggest one was the guy in charge of the old lady though, who gave shit to mister Savage for not flushing the toilet. Was that the guy from DEXTER? Anyway, mister Savage gives him shit in return. He.
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Aug 18, 2008 2:40:01 PM CDT
The Bank Job was better the more I thought about it
by hawaiian organ donor
It needed to ferment in my mind a few days.ThereWolf, before you go out of your way ordering stuff for me, wait until you get the kit first to see if it's to your liking. Since I'm sending your movies across the pond, it's not something I want to have to do frequently so your kit will be huge and is going to take me about two weeks to complete. If the kit meets your expectations, then you can consider sending me a spindle.
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Glad you liked it.
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Fucking great movie man.
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So it sits on my DVD shelf. Whether I'll ever watch it again remains to be seen, but the magic 8 ball is telling me "Don't count on it."
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Understood. I just hope I can bring something to the Asian movie discussion and it doesn't all fly over my head.My DVD player does DIVX Ultra, if that's any help. Huge, eh? Good job I've got some time off coming up in 2 weeks...
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Sadly, I own it but haven't put it in yet despite countless people telling me to.
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I am googling their quotes now, and cracking up! You have good taste Fred.
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Seen it the once. I didn't dislike it. Not as good as X2, I thought but maybe edging X1. And there's a fine music cue in there, Jean's theme, I guess and it packs an emotional wallop.
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If I might make a suggestion to those who have or haven't seen it yet. Watch it dubbed in English. Yeah yeah I know. To me it's normally sacrilege as well. Here though I think it enhances the film for the English speaker by giving the viewer more of the character's subtlties. Much of the movie is seen through the chracters one functioning eye and hence much of the dialogue is internalized any way. Just a thought for you.
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If you can play DIVX files then I can get your package out this week. As far as the discussion goes, either you like a movie or you don't. Why you did or didn't is what we'll be endlessly discussing.
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"One morning I shot an elephant in my pyjamas. How he got into my pyjamas I'll never know!"
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You know what....you're right. The AIDS comment is in bad taste and I do regret it. AIDS shouldn't be used as just another piece of vulgar slang meant to insult others with differing opinions. I agree. I'll stop using it from here on in. I didn't really think about what that would feel like to say that to someone who actually had the horrible disease.
And as far as X3 and Indy IV.....frankly I'm tired of writing about both of them. I do not wish to discuss the many reasons why they both suck ass. But I will say Cyclops character was handled like shit, Professor X was handled like shit, Wolverine was suddenly a big pussy, Angel existed for no fucking reason, Vinnie Jones as Juggernaut, Rogue abandoning her only friends in the world, horribly written dialogue, terrible original score, shitty effects (greenscreen on golden gate bridge scene is unforgivable) sloppy pace. Yeah...there was not one good thing about it. The only good thing about that film was the decision to cast Kelsey Grammar as Beast. But of course....Ratner fucked that character up as well. -
I have seen movies of equal or greater budget (with Directors considered superior to Ratner) that are far worse. Superman Returns anyone? I truly enjoyed Xmen. A great intro flick. X-2 upped the ante - big time. Until TDK it was my undisputed favorite comic book movie. Now they are tied. X-3 though, it did not suck. But it felt rushed. It felt flat and like they were going through the motions at times. As bad as Superman Returns is, Singer is the better director. But X3 is the more enjoyable flick.
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Fred, you better put your popcorn away. Danny is sounding much more mature these days.
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Will you marry me? Did he leave you any money? Answer the second question first. (Talking about Margaret Dumont as Teasdale) Remember men, we're fighting for this woman's honor, which is probably more than she ever did!
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...because it was a rehash of all the same shit we have already seen in previous Superman movies. Even Luthor's stupid real estate schemes. It was just boring because it didn't bring anything new and fresh. But IMO it was still a very well made, beautifully shot film. Just dull.
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Aug 18, 2008 3:10:16 PM CDT
Fred, you Foghorn Leghorn quotes made me think...
by hawaiian organ donor
...of a farm, and that in turn of a farm joke.A farmer buys several pigs, hoping to breed them for ham, bacon, etc.... After several weeks, he notices that none of the pigs are getting pregnant and calls a vet for help.The vet tells the farmer that he should try artificial insemination. The farmer doesn't have the slightest idea what this means but, not wanting to display his ignorance, he only asks the vet how he will know when the pigs are pregnant. The vet tells him that they will stop standing around and will instead, lay down & wallow in the mud when they are pregnant. The farmer hangs up & gives this some thought. He comes to the conclusion that artificial insemination means that he has to impregnate the pigs.So, he loads the pigs into his truck, drives them out into the woods, has sex with them all, brings them back & goes to bed. Next morning, he wakes & looks out at the pigs. Seeing that they are all still standing around, he concludes that the first try didn't take, and loads them in the truck again. He drives them out to the woods, bangs each pig twice for good measure, brings them back and goes to bed. Next morning, he wakes to find the pigs still just standing around. One more try, he tells himself, and proceeds to load them up & drives them out to the woods. He spends all day shagging the pigs and, upon returning home, falls listlessly into bed.The next morning, he cannot even raise himself from the bed to look at the pigs. He asks his wife to look out and tell him if the pigs are laying in the mud.No, she says, they're all in the truck and one of them is honking the horn.
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DGBD, like I said, I've seen Gigli. I will watch just about anything. I can almost always find some redeeming feature to make a bad movie, if not worthwhile, at least not a total waste of time.Funny thing about Employee of the Month: it is basically the same movie as Grandma's Boy, another awful movie I had watched just a few days earlier.I really liked "Grave of the Fireflies". However, due to the way the story is structured, I found the emotional impact of the film to be lessened as a result.X3 to me was 90 minutes of missed opportunities. They had tremendous good-will thanks to X2 but instead of building on that, they pissed it away with a "let's throw everything at the screen and see what sticks" mish mash of a film. I've been a fan of the X-men and eager to see a movie for over 20 years. The first two, while not perfect, satisfied my X-movie lust. The third was a tease that left me with balls as blue as The Beast.
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I watched it.
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Aug 18, 2008 3:17:50 PM CDT
Hawaiian Organ Donor -- Mr. Equus loves you for that joke..
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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Creating an entire new continent and destroying a third of another one in the process is a real estate scheme? Gotchya.
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in some woman's bare chest for several hours at a party. Not an image you want to deposit in the spank bank.
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You think his horse sense is tingling and he's being drawn to this TB as we speak?Wow, this thing would hit 10,000 posts if he joined in.
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Seems like we are making a few new friends, and I'm now definitely seeing The Savages. And Danny, I think it was right of you to apologize for the aids comment. To see someone get called out and instantly respond apologetically, rarely happens, and it's cool that you did that.
I agree with your rule about comparable movies. Snakehead's Revenge and even something more high profile but in the somewhat same genre lke Doom are going to be held to slightly different standards.And certainly that will be true of something like X3. I also disliked it quite a bit, and thought it was a huge letdown. And I wasn't even really looking forward to it, except as an evening of entertainment.
Arch, I agree with your Indy IV comments, though Lucas has ceased to get any praise from me, I think Indy was a fun movie and good enough to earn a place in the series. I'm looking forward to the bluray release in October. -
It was a beautifully shot, boring film, with a dumb villain and an even dumber real estate scheme plot. Yes real estate scheme. Sink half the continent, and sell new real estate on a rocky, crystalline, cut your feet too ribbons, kryptonite laced (which surprisingly does not prevent supes from lifting the entire thing into ace even though a shard damn near kils him - but I digress), ugly, dark, green tinged, cave filled continent.
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of what?
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Koala is sitting in a tree smoking pot. Lizard spots him high up in the tree with a strange smile plastered on his face and climbs up to him, asking, "Hey Koala.....what's going on?" Koala tells him, "Awwww man...I'm just smokin' some pot. You want some of this shit?" He lets Lizard take a hit. Lizard likes it and sits up in the tree with Koala for the rest of the afternoon getting high as a kite. Eventually Lizard's mouth gets all fucked up and dry and he tells Koala, "Fuck man....I need a drink....save some of that shit for me." He stumbles off toward the river and falls in!! Luckily Crocodile scoops him up in his mouth and gently places him in the sand. He asks Lizard, "What the hell is wrong with you man you could have drown!!" Lizard explains he is crazy high right now after smoking that good shit with Koala. "A Koala smoking weed?!" Crocodile asks, "I gotta see this!!" Crocodile climbs up out of the river and over toward the tree where Koala is still sitting and giggling. Koala looks down at the Crocodile and screams, "Holy shit dude how much fucking water did you drink?!"
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...they do not show HOW he became the Scorpion King!!
How do these keep getting made? I laughed my ass off when the scorpion was invisible. Like they just ran out of money. And who's idea was it to have Randy Couture as a main character? Let him be a minor character but not one of the stars. Also, they seemed to forget that they were in ancient Egypt with all the modern day wisecracking. It was just BAD. It makes me really appreciate Starship Troopers 3. -
In the first movie it's sending California out into the ocean. In the second movie he wants to be given Australia and in Returns it's the creation of new "real estate." That's dire.
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that one has me laughing loudly. Well done. I think in my mind the Koala has the voice of Cheech Marin.
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Nudity goes a long way in saving a lot of movies, a looooong way. "Hair pie, thank you very much" and Juggs have made more then a few movies better then they should have been.
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A joke about being high thought of by someone who WAS high.
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Aug 18, 2008 3:33:51 PM CDT
Not only "prequel to the prequel to the sequel to THE MUMMY"....
by lenny nero
It's a prequel to the prequel to the sequel of a remake.
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I think it was a huge mistake to make it a partial sequel to part 2. I wanted to see more origin with some good development of Clark and Lois. Not just throw us right in and make us have to imagine that chemistry already existing.
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Good form. Now, I'm not trying to drag X3 out because frankly it doesn't rank high on my list and I still haven't bought it on DVD, though maybe seeing it on the ginormous screen at The Fabulous Fox Theater with the fake starfield ceiling and a girlfriend who actually likes all this shit as much as I do made it more fun, but I do like it for what it is: a fairly believable real life reenactment of comic books I'd been reading for 25 years plus. Doesn't touch what's come out this past year but again, comparing apples to oranges. Regarding effects problems like the Golden Gate Bridge sequence I understand how that can throw a viewing off. I guess it really all depends upon the rest of the movie, i.e. SW Empire and Return of the Jedi's space sequences. Until the DVD release of the OT you had to endure the lines around the cutouts of virtually all of the starships in any space scene. That always bugged me but I didn't cry havok, still loved the movies immmesely(and in the case of X3 didn't love but still enjoyed overall). 2 Real points of contension. First, you love Wolverine enough to get upset over his portrayal, all I can say is that his character has other more subtle sides than just the badass, so in that case I'm glad they could write him in a way other than just in a straight line. The upcoming film will hopefully make alot more sense out of him as a whole. Secondly, re: Cyclops's truncated death/death scene, it's obvious from the very end of the credits that the movie was meant to be continued, so maybe an explanation or continuation was in the cards. That's all conjecture, but it felt obviously left to be hanging as was the last scene with Xavier. Maybe a case of to be continued like the Burton Planet of the Apes which never happened, much like Apes, because of bad ratings/box office takes. So there's a bit of a letdown like God didn't come down and touch my frontal scifi lobe so I file it somewhere else, namely good popcorn flick fun. Really though, I wonder if there wasn't meant to be a continuation of the Cyclops death storyline. After all they do it comics EVERY TIME. Now, on to another topic, I just realized that adding blue cheese crumbles (specifically the Amish ones you can find at Sam's Club) to gumbo does indeed rock the house. It cuts the spicyness just enough so you can acutally taste the salt aspect of the dish, plus adds a little bit of that savory-sweet side of the blue if you're using aforementioned sheep's milk cheese. Discuss.
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Also it enables the word "retard." Discuss.
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...In which Breckin Meyer loses his mind.
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Elephant is walking along in the jungle and steps on a very sharp thorn.
Sure enough, the thord finds its way into a small crack in her foot.
She is standing in the path trying to pull it out, when an ant walks by and notices.
"Need any help?" The ant asks.
The elephant realizes the ant is small enough to get the thorn out of her foot and agrees.
The ant climbs under her foot and pulls out the thorn, much to the delight of the elephant.
"What can I do to repay you?" The elephant asks.
The ant thinks for a minute and asks "We'll I've always wanted to make love to an elephant."
The elephant thinks about it for a second and agrees, so the ant climbs up and starts going to town from behind.
About this time a coconut falls from a tree and hits the elephant on the head.
"Ouch!" she calls out.
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Aug 18, 2008 3:42:30 PM CDT
Arch Nemesis -- you truly are my arch-nemesis.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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Aug 18, 2008 3:43:46 PM CDT
ChittyChittyGangBang -- Hahaha......I love those innocent
by dannyglovers_dickblood
animal jokes. Those are the best.
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figment of John's imagination and not real? That would explain a lot.
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Stop Fred if you heard this before - it a tad risque.
Lone Ranger is captured by an Indian Tribe (Native Amurrican). They plan to execute him. But in honor of his past exploits, they grant him three wishes. For first wish, LR walks over to his horse Silver and whispers in his ear. Silver leaves, comes back a few hours later with a beautiful red-head. LR and red head go into tent. Fred think they play tiddly winks all night long, but Fred not know for sure. Next morning, LR whispers into Silvers ear again. Silver goes off and comes back with a beautiful Blond. They go into tent - more tiddly winks -Fred assumes, take place. Finally, the Chief says, 'Lone Ranger ' we have been impressed with your wishes, but you only get one last one, what will it be?' LR slowly walks up to Silver, grabs Silver by the ears and says. 'For the last time, I said Posse!' Hee hee Fred apologize if anyone was offended. -
I guess I'll give my two cents, not that anybody probably gives a shit.First, I'm a little in awe that there is so much love on here for Chronicles of Riddick, and so muh hate for Indy 4 and X3. I personally consider all of them to be in equal ranges of suck. Depending on your personal history with the material, it could be worse or better. For example, X3 was definitely just as stupid and hollow as the other two, but if you're a fan of the comic (like me) it gets a lot worse. Cyclops, who has really been the soul and backbone of the team since the comic's beginning, was handled in an absolutely atrocious manner. I personally believe he represents the greatest of the X-men, so the fact that he was killed so early in the film just makes me feel like the filmmakers did not understand the material. Which really pisses me off. Frankly, I'm sick of Hollywood trying to make these movies using people who really don't understand the story, and are just out for a paycheck. So as an X-fan, the movie is really just awful and disappointing from every angle, with the exception of Beast. He just needed a little more screen time and I would have been happy (my favorite x-man along with Nightcrawler). From a cinematic point however, I feel the film is less flawed, and really stands as an average summer movie, maybe a bit below average. Overall, the movie is really a mess and doesn't even deserve more discussion when there is so much more thought provoking cinema out there.Chronicles of Riddick is equally as stupid. Another example of style over substance and a sequel that fails before its predecessor. It had its moments, like the death by tin cup, but still ultimately failed for me. Somebody mentioned it would have been cool if the prequels had been more along the tone of the Riddick movie. I disagree completely. In fact, I think some of the problems plaguing the prequels in comparison to the original SW trilogy, can be addressed with the Riddick sequel. Made on a much higher budget, on a much grander scale, the Riddick movie lost much of the heart and soul of Pitch Black. Filmmakers no longer worried as much about creating mood or atmosphere with dialogue or subtle character studies. It was a lot easier to just have a giant CG ship flying through the shot and have everybody zipping around on wires around the sets. Which is exactly the problems the sequels had. Most of the original movies' spirit was buried underneath all these fancy effects and shiny objects.Indy has the same problem, but really isn't as bad as most people on here make it out to be. It is the weakest of the series, sure, but that's really not saying much, since all of them are fun and entertaining in their own way. Shia, who was a worry for me prior to seeing the movie, really ended up being one of my favorite parts, with the exception of the vine swinging and the cactus nut-bashing. But those moments weren't bad because of Shia. I really doubt those mometents were his idea. I blame the Beard and the Neck for the stupid stuff. The stupid stuff, something present in every Indy movie in my opinion, and something that also adds to their charm. They are all goofy adventure movies with heart and lots of fun moments. KOTCS is the worst because it just makes the same mistake the prequels did, abandoning character study and plot for scale and style. Instead of watching more little moments like Indy with his Dad, or Short Round, or a tense fistfight with an enormour Nazi mehcanic, Indy is falling over countless waterfalls and watching UFOs fly around. None of those things will draw the audience to sympathize with a character, and none of them really do much to further the quality of the films.This was a little ranting, and I know there probably a couple of parts that are hard to understand, or filled with run-on sentences but I felt like charing my thoughts with everybody.
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Aug 18, 2008 3:56:12 PM CDT
Riddick lost the heart and soul of Pitch Black?!!
by dannyglovers_dickblood
Say whaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?! What heart and soul of Pitch Black? I think it was cool and all, but to say it had a ton of heart and soul is crazy. There is nothing more heartfelt in those two films then the, "Are you with me Jack?" scene. Vin looks like he just watched his puppy get run over. Very very touching performance.
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Overall execution of the film was great, Brandon Routh imo was great, story kind of rehashed really but my hope is the intention was to set up (after such a long break) for something completely new and different in the next film. I don't know, I get the idea of leaving the first 2 as canon, they were just iconic (especially if you're of the agegroup that grew up with these films in the theater as a kid as the director is). But I find it hard that you can deny one of the absolute coolest moments in the entire film, when superkid throws the piano at the thug in the boat. Moment had chills shooting through my spine, Fucking A cool.
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I haven't heard those jokes in years and now I'm going to be giggling the entire drive home. Speaking of which, I'm done for the day. Time to sit in traffic.
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How anyone can say Indy IV is better than the prequels still shocks me. I say pick the worst 10 minutes of any of the 3 prequels, and that is still executed better than Indy IV as a whole.
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Large chunks of text are hard to read, so to make paragraph breaks, put the following where you want a break: remove the spaces on either side of the P.
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i'm a bit out of step. I couldn't get into salem's lot. I know it is a classic, and i did like the scene where the kid floats at the window. My favorite thing about the movie is that the house is situated on the cross roads. nice. i watched it as an adult though and most people who love it saw it as kids. also: if you look carefully james mason has a bunch of jars under the house, one of them has someone's testicles in it.Plainview Rising. nice. i like. also i used to NOT like slow zombie, i thought the idea was dumb. now i do like slow zombies. i get it now. I thought the 28 movies were good, really like the new dawn, and i went out and bought a copy of sean. I do like the fact that the people are usually more evil than the mosters, and romero's stuff is just brilliant. anyway i don't have the same dislike of fast zombies as you guys have
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Three friends go off into the jungle and get captured by cannibals. Cannibal King says to them "Go into jungle and each bring back ten pieces of fruit."Off they go and Billy comes back first with ten passion fruits. The King says "If you can insert all ten into your anus without laughing, I let you go free." Billy gives it a go, gets to 3 and starts to giggle helplessly. They chop his head off and throw him in the pot.Bobby comes back next with 10 red berries. The King says "If you can insert all ten berries into your anus, I set you free." So Bobby gives it a go. He gets to 9, but just as he starts pushing in number 10 he starts laughing. They chop his head off and throw him in the pot.Bobby gets to Heaven and Billy's waiting for him. "I don't believe it You had it done, man. Why'd you start laughing?"Bobby says "I just looked up and saw Johnny coming back with an armful of pineapples."
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When he decides to help the people instead of watching them get eaten is what I think people are meaning by heart and soul.
He sort of likes being looked up to by the little girl.
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Superman Returns needed MORE origin? I'm pretty sure you already knew Superman's past along with everybody else on the planet. What else did you want? Some Smallville type shit like from that show? I think the origin handled in the very first Superman movie was brilliantly done. Smallville and Krypton were both beautiful in unique ways and helped the viewers to understand how Superman became who he was.A lot of comic book movies are tedious because they spend so much time working on the origins of the hero. It's become sort of formulaic in my opinion. It's why so many comic book sequels are so great. They can jump right into the fun and just share more adventures with the character. There are lots of movies that just jump right into the action without even bothering with sharing how the protagonist got where they are. Origin stories aren't as neccessary as I believe everybody thinks they are, especially not for someone as universally known as Superman. Take Han Solo for example, one of the best heroes in movie history, and most people don't know Jack about his past unless they dig through a shitload of expanded universe stories.
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Pitch Black was all about Riddick's ruthless character and his methods of getting through a very sticky situation,which were usually far from the expected, and made the audience question him as a hero. That's the heart and soul of the movie. In COR, he is much more of the run of the mill hero, and it's a lot easier for the audience to simply root for him than consider any questions of morality.
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He was one of the two biggests plot holes/plot devices in Stuporman Returns. How can the kid have the powers of a Son of Krypton when his baby daddy was fully human when he knocked up Lois Lane? Remember, he went into the crystal chamber and gave up his kryptonianess to be a human.
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I'm not talking rehash of the same Superman origin we have seen.
I'm talking great little moments we haven't seen. Abrams had a lot of great stuff in his script. Moments with Clark and Lois together at a party in college and when they start dating.....romantic shit like that. I understand Returns is basically a sequel to 1 and 2. I get that thats the intention, I just can't follow it that way. I can't think of Bosworth as being Margot Kidder 2 years prior in the story. So I sorta just threw that other shit out and approached it as if this is a stand alone film. And from that perspective there is not nearly enough origin IMO. I'm not really speaking Superman (finding my powers) origin. I'm speaking more Lois and Clark origin. -
it had to have SOMETHING besides a bunch of CGI like the sequel did. Having less to make a film with forces the filmmakers to be more creative with their methods and to think out of the box. More money usually just means more big effects getting thrown up on the screen and less creative little things happening in the movie. Pitch Black did this by playing with light and dark to create mood, focusing more on the characters, and when it did use Cgi, which is rare up until around the end of the movie, it was done to create the biggest effect with the least flash. Like when that one guy blows alcohol through the fire, illuminating all the creatures for a second. I can't think of one aesthetic moment like that in the entirety of COR.
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Aug 18, 2008 4:10:41 PM CDT
and I always find origin to be the most entertaining...
by dannyglovers_dickblood
...part of a comic book film. Iron Man for example would have sucked balls had he become Iron Man in the first 20 minutes. By the end fight I was already bored with his character. But I could have watched him test his shit and fly around L.A. for another hour.
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Fred not much like Superman Returns. But Even though Supes was mortal, he was not human, after coming out of the crystal chamber. So, his son inherited his kryptonian side. Yes, it is lame excuse. Fred's heart not really into defending a movie Fred did not like.
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Not Care for the bank job nor Diving Bell. Anyone else watch the deleted scenes for the Bank Job? The Diving Bell was good, I guess it captured what it would've been like to deal with that. I just didn't find it that interesting or enjoyable.
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I get what you mean with Superman Returns. Still, I think what you are asking for then, is an entirely different movie.
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Xiphos_2: Thanks, good point. Maybe I'll even go so far as to be bold.
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the most fascinating part was seeing stark evolve and develop as a character. I think a sequel would benefit from following suit. Spending more time with his struggle with alcohol and self control.
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So much for html.
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it's not gonna help the material of the one you have problems with magically transform into what you want. Superman Returns is what it is. I guess we can always hope the next one will meet expectations.
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Yeah.....I didn't hate Returns-- it was just a so so movie. But it had a fucking wicked teaser and was incredibly shot, and I really like the casting (except for Space as Luthor...fuck him). It was just such a wasted opportunity.
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I think you and I are in total agreement in terms of comic book movies. I guess I'm just in a ranty mood and was questioning some of the logic.Criticizing a movie for failing to be another movie entirely instead of addressing the problems within the film itself usually is not a good way to judge a film. That being said, I do agree that Superman Returns was a miss. Are we ever gonna get a movie with Supes versus Bizarro? How much fucking fun would that be? I want a balls to the wall superfight complete with smashing buildings and creative airborne combat.
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I thought the point of Soops going into the chamber was to make him completly human down to the DNA level. Now I could be wrong and I probably am because I haven't watch Soops 2 in a long time. I remember that was reason Soops made the ultimate sacrifice, to compleatly human. I see how maybe It could have been metaphoric maybe.I still think the kid having powers is a suck hole of a plot point. I'll stand by that one.
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Yep, I thought so. I get what you're saying regarding plot holes, but then again Supes got his powers back in II so.... Anyway if you get the chance you should read the "final story" of superman which came out directly before John Byrne rebooted the entire DC series from scratch, I think it was in 1986 and I think (but could be totally wrong about this) that Alan Moore wrote the story. It has Superman lose his powers and take on a normal life married to Lois. They eventually have a kid and one of the final frames has the baby crushing a piece of coal into a diamond in his hands. The entire story is one of my favorite comic stories of all time, great wrap up with promise of a new spark. So as far as a Kryptonian having powers as an infant, superman writers have always flip-flopped on that: the original series had superboy where Byrne's version didn't give him powers until he was a teenager. Then there's the issue of Kara. Anyway you can also argue that Superman passed his super genes on to Lois, and whether or not his own powers had been neutralized this was still in his DNA.
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...simply because where do you go from there? Its one thing to throw it in as a neat little gag...but thinking long-term. Okay the sequel is a few years later, is the kid now flying around town saving people? Does he go to school? Isn't that real fucking dangerous? How is it for Lois to try and discipline a kid that can punch her head off? All that weird shit ya know?
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After we've already seen him so many fucking times between the movies to Smallville.....fuck!! Why the hell would Singer sit down with the entire world and virtually unlimited funds at his disposal and say, "Here's what we're gonna do....we're bringing back Lex Luthor!!" How the fuck can any studio exec say, "Holy shit!! Thats a great idea!!"
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GREAT idea. Can't wait until they reach the point of "Look out! It's a hologram--but it's invisible!" That would be the ultimate. Funny review, btw.
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read the origin stories. wish i hadn't.
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Giving Supes a kid is the stupidest thing they could have done because there simply is no real way to go from there. Superman movies should always be about Kal El and the thought of some smug little sidekick trailing along or something is enough to make me cringe. What I'm hoping is they just ingore that Singer even did that and go back to making some Superman morality tales. Responsibility vs. Recklessness. Superman vs. Bizarro. How can he eliminate this monster without endangering the people he has sworn to protect, when the monster keeps bringing the fight back to the city? make it happen cap'n.
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bicential man
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most heroes just don't need an explanation. They are who they are. Letting the audience formulate their own thoughts on their history is much more fun and gives the character that extra bit of cool. Take Sanjuro from Yojimbo and Sanjuro for example. He is so skilled, but his behavior and attitude is so different from most of the samurai of the time. it leads one to wonder why he is wandering from town to town and how he got to be such a master swordsman. It's really interesting stuff and it's fun to think about.
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Just an idea here, but if they went with a decent Doomsday plot, which might honestly be hard to do unless it was a planned movie with a sequel, Doomsday could ultimately kill Superman's kid. Thus the morality play, Superman must kill etc.
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How's the hangover?
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I can't seem to let this idea go and Fred is probably right, but if the Machine made him human down to the DNA how could his yam bag yogurt make a super kid? When he spackled Lois Lanes womb with the Krytonian joy juice the kid would have to be human.DGDB your post at 04:27:56 PM is what I was trying to get out but failed miserably in saying. Thanks for picking a Lame-O up.
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that the bit with the piano really is my favorite scene in the film, I have to agree that the entrance of superkid really complicates the future for any films to be superman-centric.
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particularly someone like han solo, who is somewhat mysterious. You know that a lot of shit went down in his past. until you learn about it all, it seems almost infinite. then read all of the stories and you are, oh, is that it?
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so now i am fine.
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You win the no-prize.
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This kid, for his 8th birthday get a tommohawk (axe) and he is so excited the first thing he does is he goes outside and chops down the thunderbox (old stlye outside toilet). now the thunderbox is situated at the top of a hill and after the kid chops off the supports, it fall over and rolls down the hill, tumbling over and over, and landing in the creek at the bottom, then floating away.hours later the boy has forgotten all about it when his father storms in. 'boy, did you chop down the thunderbox?' 'no" the kid says. 'let me tell you a story. when george washington was your age he got an axe for his birthday and the first thing that he did was chop down the old cherry tree outside. when his father asked him if he had done it, he said - father, i cannot tell a lie. and because he told the truth, he wasn't punished'.'now' the boys father says 'son, did you chop down the thunderbox?''father, i cannot tell a lie.' and with that the boy's father picks him up by the arm, and thrashes the shit out of him. in tears the boy says 'but george washington didn't get a thrashing' 'yes' the boys father says, 'but george washington's father wasn't in the cherry tree.'
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Aug 18, 2008 5:04:23 PM CDT
good....ArcadianDS is a Roman Polanski rape apologist....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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We may catch it this week too. I'd actually love to here a few bashings and hate etc, it may help me lighten up to it some more.
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blast
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"My whole thing is that that I saw 'The Dark Knight'. I feel like I'm dumb because I feel like I don't get how many things that are so smart. It's like a Ferrari engine of storytelling and script writing and I'm like, 'That's not my idea of what I want to see in a movie.' I loved 'The Prestige' but didn't understand 'The Dark Knight'. Didn't get it, still can't tell you what happened in the movie, what happened to the character and in the end they need him to be a bad guy. I'm like, 'I get it. This is so high brow and so fucking smart, I clearly need a college education to understand this movie.' You know what? Fuck DC comics. That's all I have to say and that's where I'm really coming from."
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I never realized before what James Mason had in the jars (and I've had to have seen that movie at least 20 times). Good eye, man! Speaking of testicles, scrolling through to see what I've missed today, I saw the requirements for membership here (as posted by DGDB). Good thing I have some hanging on the wall. Is it okay if they have dart holes in 'em?
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if they are hitler's testicles.
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I thought that Batman had to be the bad guy and break his own rules so that criminals would fear him again.Am I wrong again? I do tend to ride roughshod over subtext. I haven't been to college either.
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Mavra!
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These were old ones from my ex. He never used 'em anyway. OK....best to change that topic. Hmmmmm...."Movie Sequel of Your Choice" sucked. OK, now I'm in step with the group! Yes!
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how much he got paid to say that.
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the reason was that he was taking the rap for harvey, so that other people would have him as an inspiration to seek non vigelanti style justice in gotham. that if harvey had fallen, anyone could, and there would be no hope of a white knight rising without a mask. Thus batman takes on the blame for harvy's crimes so that harvey still exists to inspire a new generation of DAs or whatever
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...was Battlefield Earth. I was 16yrs old and thought it was a big piece of shit. Still don't know how it ends to this day.
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He was paid in Swedish Virgins. 12 of them to be exact.
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"... has only got one ball, the other is in the Albert Hall, Himmler has something similar, but poor old Goebbels has no balls at all!"Old WW2 song. Altogether now...
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Okay, finally someone I can agree with about a movie truly sucking. Ahh, and with the click of a keypad I join the higher eschelon of movie bashers' anonymous.
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Should have walked out of "A.I." I just sat there thinking it had to get better, but it never did.
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you're a brit arn't you. Britain is ahead of oz in the medal tally for the first time in 20 years, and we are unlikely to catch up. good shit
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I don't know that song. Can you post the rest of the words?
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of a movie. Came close to walking on Batman & Robin but gritted my teeth and hung in there.If I'd gone to see AVP:R at the cinema I wouldn't just have walked out, I would have tried to dismantle the projection booth on the way.
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Duped by the counter above. Speaking of above, anyone notice that a) the Indy statue is cross-eyed and b) that Clone Wars Target merch is being bannered on this site despite the supposed Star Wars embargo against AICN? I'm winding down here
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when the russians found hitler's burnt and unrecognizable body near the bunker, they identified it by checking how many ball he had. may be a myth.
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I am indeed. I've not been following the Olympics all that much but the cycling has been outstanding. We've dominated that. Result!
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I think that's all the words. Could be wrong, but that's all I know.To the tune of 'Colonel Bogey' I believe. Don't ask me to hum it.
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there are quite a few but i can't put my finger on one.
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I'll have to see if I can find it to listen to online. It would make a good addition to my MP3, right next to "Der Fuerher's Face".
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I'm pretty sure they played it during the climax of Blacks on Blondes #17.
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might have been in Catch 22. I love that film but I haven't watched it in a long time. Alan Arkin, I think.
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Thanks, but I may wait to see if chipps remembers it from another film first. :)
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not as good as blacks on blondes #16
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Great. I have that movie. Thank you!
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they whistle it in bridge on the river kwai!
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I didn't know the name.
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Thanks to chipps as well. I forgot to say that before.
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The music only - maybe - definitely not with the words sung along.'sung along'?? That doesn't sound right.
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Kwai. Why, oh, why didn't I remember that. I bet Catch 22 was something else entirely.
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I understood that, but it gives me a starting point to find it somwhere with the words. I probably would have remembered it from "Catch 22" if they had sung it. I like parody music and I've seen that movie several times.
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i wikied it. but i watch kwai about 6 months ago and i recently watched bridge too far and battle of britain and i knew it was in one of those older british movies.
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Has several sets of verses to it. Wicked!
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the aussie ones. rats of tobruk and desert rats.
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"Help him.""Help who?""The bombardier.""I'm the bombardier."Sorry, Mavra. I'm tired and I just panicked when I thought there were crossed-wires (looks sheepishly at his feet).
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Excellent. Didn't realise there were so many variations.Great. I can go to bed now knowing that Hitler's balls are in very good hands.Goodnight!
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No problem. We really got this topic off kilter! Major Major cracks me up. "He can only be seen when he isn't there to be seen. When he's there, you can't see him." Probably twisted that quote.
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It got pretty quiet around here. I'll be back later. See ya, chipps! And goodnight, ThereWolf.
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Aug 18, 2008 6:32:34 PM CDT
Fred decrys the lack of sensitivity around the testicle issue
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
Fred think people should walk a mile in Freds shoes before making testicles - or lack therof, a requirement
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one of the best horror films in recent years.
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Dude, thank you for sticking up for MI3. I mentioned it was pretty good in the Moriarty Clone Wars talkback and got ganged up on big time. Where were you? Where were you!?! (single tear).
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Did he really say that about TDK? Man, that's petty. I think Downey's clearly awesome but also clearly a narcissist. Do you think he's just a little bit honked off onaccounta Iron Man was the toast of the town--best box office, best reviews--and seemed completely untouchable, and then TDK comes and ups the ante? Man, talk about petty.
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Maybe typical hollywood narcissist wackjob behavior. He didn't have to say anything. He could have stopped at "I don't get it." He's way over the edge.
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Was pretty sweet. Hatchet was a good DTV horror as well, so was Spiral by that same director but they may have gotten some theater play. But does 10 theaters really count?
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All this talk of DTV and I am watching the middle man tv show. And Kevin Sarbo, star of another Dwayne The Rock Johnson created series that went to DTV, Walking Tall. Is looking kind of shapely. Kevin Sarbo's acting was made for DTV.
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i just wish it was about a teenage boy whose plane crash lands in the wilderness and he has to survive with nothing but a hatchet. i loved that book
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it's good for what ails you
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he should try scientology. it's fashionable and good for networking. plus it's not crazy at all. not even slightly.
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I think we should get downey on zyprexa before the end of the day
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I completely agree....#16 was definitely the better of the two. In #17 all the dudes have to finish themselves off. I fucking hate that shit.
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....its completely true. Just search for it-- its all over the place. But I have no idea what the context was. He could have been laughing and clearly joking when he said it...I dunno.
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and the lighting was all wrong. there were script problems from day one.
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And Star Wars sold more tickets. Meaning more people saw Star Wars back in the day.
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This is the coolest thing you'll see this week. Talk about a bunch of CGI nerds who love Star Wars with too much time on their hands.http://tinyurl.com/5rpxuv
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You guys are fucking retards, huh? Go tell your giggly animal jokes into each others' urethras.
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You have to admit those were some nifty effects. The Imperial Star Destroyer flying over Golden Gate Bridge was a better visual than anything in the prequels.
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it would effect the tides though. did you see the manson shit beside it. that guy is a bag full of crazy. i had to watch it a few times to even comprehend it it was so bizarre.
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Yeah I did, I was just being lazy and trying to sound smart.
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that was cool shit. It reminded me a little of Cloverfield. If only, they had made the movie about an Imperial invasion instead of a giant monster.
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That was better than anything TV coukd possibly have to offer me tonight. Thank you.
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You ever used Trigger Street before? The web site?
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check out the new icon in the upper right. Harry with a collar bone and a defined jaw line. Yeah right Chubs.
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I thought Harry's new icon was going to be The Big Shave, i guess it was a mix between that and TDK.
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you have started me on an odyssey. somehow i have gone from tie fighers to george carlin on politically incorrect (where interestingly bill maher says he belives in god)
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If you have time to watch and review this direct to DVD crap, clearly you dont have much else going on.
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how old are and or what part of australia are you from?
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30 from WA but live in Japan
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because i am from oz and i recently learnt an old friend has moved to japan, so i thought it was vaguly possible it was you, but since i am 26 from queensland it is not. thanks though
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congratulations on having my favorite name since Danny's. And damn you for thinking of it before me.
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the girls are incredible, whenever I visit Australia now Aussie girls look so fat. Have some American friends I work with from Ohio and they said don't complain about Aussie girls, their girls look like the Goodyear Blimp compared to Japanese girls.
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i knew a guy in school called Goodyer. fat guy. the blimp used fly over our school sometimes. we didn't pick on him, but he'd be telling the jokes himself.
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Love the show, one of my favourites of 2008
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it sucks
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Glad to have met somebody else who actually read the damn thing. Anybody else ever gone through that book? Fantastic stuff. And the trilogy of movies is just about as good. Toshiro Mifune will forever be the greatest actor ever in my eyes. The man can do no wrong.
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damn japanese coming here telling us to read their shit when we got perfectly good shit here.
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67% of idiots believe 9/11 was an inside job
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I really love pussy. Can't get enough of it. Gonna tell me how much you don't like that too?I agree, there are probably plenty of good books coming from "here" I am sure, wherever that may be (there are lots of Australians and British that frequent this site as well so I won't make any assumptions on that matter, unlike your gender), but don't let that be a reason to not explore literature from other cultures. There is some good shit out there. Trust me.
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Jephson st in Toowong. If you're not from Jephson st, i don't wanna read your book.
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democracy doesnt need weird books like that, and kungfu promotes violence which is precisely my point, troubled countries write books based on their experience which is mainly milking cows and raping their wives. so lets keep this weird japo stuff outta here,
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Read a book and when I found out that it was written by a non American I took it outside burnt and then took a dump on the ashes.
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i read this book by some foreigner called great expectations, and my penis fell off. FELL OFF!!!!
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Musashi is full of cow milking and wife raping. And uhhh... Communism.Thank you for making it all clear to me diox.
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then i found out the bible was written by FOREIGNERS!
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I read this book by Reinaldo Arenas, and all of a sudden I heard this clatter and a squealing sound outside of the room, like a marmot got stuck in a dishwasher. I went outside to find my cat was ON FIRE!!!!ON FIRE!!!!!
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i saw both of those movies and thought they were passable but average. I don't find christopher lambert to be a good actor. I loved highlander and thought he was awesome in it, but that is about it. the lost battalion was ok. I think they put too much effort into selling the characters as 'gangsters'. In general it was a good movie with a few good scenes.
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they try to measure up to ur books but they cant so they ramble on. these japos too know nothing all they want is sex androids and schoolgirls
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mark twain was a huge fan of Dumas, and went and visited the chateau diff. People would wait at the docks for the next chapter of Dickens to arrive. america has only been around for about 230 years. ALL books from before then are foreign. What about shakesphere or ceasar or suetonius or homer or virgil or or ...... ah whatever
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is gonna corrupt the youth and change our world into the shit that is theirs. read no more if u want to salvage the glory that was ours. they think they are better but all these books shows insecurity and depressed motherfuckers who are looking for some pedophilian thing to do in thailand
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Anyone seen Highlander the source? I've heard it was pretty bad. I remember I had a poster of a Highlander movie that never ended up being made that was only going to star Adrian Paul I wish I could find it. Like nothing happened for a while then that shit movie Endgame came out. How is it so hard to handle the Highlander series? You think those movies would be no brainers? Shit if they can make it to Land Before time 8, you think they could've done more with Highlander.
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one book i read from somewhere written by some foreign person, said this basically "life is what is here and no where. so it is better to run away with what you can carry before life takes you somewhere" - what is this shit, its trying to turn me into a shithead
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AMERICAN novelist William S. Burroughs was an opiate addict who would frequently write about his own drug escapades, pedophile activity (not his own, but frequently associated with his novels' protagonists), and many other taboo subjects. This doesn't stop him from being an influential and great author whose works will be remembered, even after his death. So my point is two fold.
1.) American authors are more than capable of the questionable statements you have claimed pertain only to "foreign" and "japo" authors.And 2.) No matter the subject, if the author is of a high caliber, he or she is more than capable of producing a compelling intelligent story.I'll try to resist wasting any more energy addressing your ungrounded and idiotic claims. Mainly because I'm pretty sure you're just writing that crap to get a rise out of people and don't really mean anything you are saying. Nobody can really be as ignorant and close minded as you are pretending to be. -
So far all I can see is the rantings of a sheltered, uneducated bumpkin who wants somebody to just address him. Well you got me waiting here. Really, I would LOVE to see you actually come up with a proper argument.
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that was a typo. dioxholster, not dioxhustler. Don't worry, I just noticed it myself.Still waiting for that intelligent retort.
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foreign books are lost in translation for a reason...because they suck and stink of failure. say all u want too but u know im right. plus these authors like to talk fascism all the time and pride themselves to be that way. there was this french author who was an s&m freak too and said america hates the world, well he is a freak and america hates u.
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Either way funny reading, and glad you are not at all ignorant.
Am sure your fellow Americans are proud to have you as one of their fellow countrymen.
And Generation Kill is American by the way, full of Americans, based on a book by an American.
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at least you didn't spell it "write."Why the hell are you still on this TB baby? Didn't my big words and logic scare you? Are you not frightened of my experience in foreign literature and culture? Haven't you realized I am much more prepared to provide an intelligent argument than you without even having to rely on phrases like "they suck and stink of failure."You have yet to site a single reliable piece of evidence for your claims. At least I have pointed out one American author who has the same qualities you sited as the faults of many foreign authors. But did you come back with an example to counter? Nope. With you it's always "this French guy" this or "that pedophile" that.I asked for a retort jackass. That's when you reply back to me, hopefully in a witty or biting manner. At least make me laugh. Instead, you came back at me with a confused question and offered more repetition of the same idiotic rantings. I want a clear example for your claims, and I would love it if you actually addressed the points I made against your claims. And while you're at it, make papa a sandwich.Move it along people. This bitch just got pwned.
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With a clear head this morning I don't think the 'balls' music is in Catch 22. Think it's another one that goes:"Be kind to your web-footed friends, for a duck maybe somebody's mother, she lives all alone in a swamp, where it's very cold and damp, well you may think that this is the end, well it is..."Also circa WW2. Don't recall the name of the tune but it's well known.
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Many apologies for the 'testicle' references. Be reassured that it was part of a historical song research project undertaken by myself, Mavra Chang and Chipps and was not meant in any way to be personally offensive.Sorry, Fred.
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catch 22 is an american film about americans and the song was british
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... where internet access is strictly verboten.Have a better one.
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Then it fades to black.
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No?Off to bed then. Toodles folks.
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WTF?
I thought it was a great heist flick. It also had one of the most satisfying beatdowns in ages when The Stath put teh pwn on the porn king and Craig Fairbrass.
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I'm good Jonah, and you?I posted a link up above for a nifty video that some Star Wars fans with too much time on their hands created. So I suggest you check it out to be amazed: http://tinyurl.com/5rpxuvHow goes it DocP? I watched the Bank Job late at night and I was fighting to keep my eyes open. So after replaying it in my head for a week it kept getting better. It is indeed a solid film.
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What a fine film. Again, I enjoyed the score. Thing I noticed was the way it reflected a more American hollywood epic score. There were definitely moments where I thought Hans Zimmer had waltzed in and taken over scoring duties. Li and Lau were awesome as always.
Between this and Mongol, the other big epic I saw this year, I think I slightly prefer Mongol but this was well worth the watch, and I'm looking forward to having a movie night at my house soon where we show it, perhaps back to back with Daisy.
Two more films on the roster. Between Running Wild and Bloody Tie, which do you recommend?
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there are several things in there that looked like they were beamed in from an alternate universe.
Wizard of Gore with Crispin Glover?
Don Quixote, began by one of the greatest directors and finished by one of the worst?
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Harry does mention a new Criterion film I very much recommend. It's called Twenty-four Eyes. It's a film about teaching, but it's a masterpiece.
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I don't expect this to generate much, but lets see what happens. Anything involving education.
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Anne Bancroft in The Miracle Worker. I was a teacher for awhile, working in special education, and I think it was seeing this as a kid that inspired to even consider teaching as a worthy endeavor.
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It's a depressing gangster film and probably the least solid movie in your batch. Running Wild on the other hand is a by the numbers cop movie that is a great action ride.You'll get everything in your batch, believe me.
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I thought it was good. pretty inacurate but it is one of those 'true theory' things ie, plots the main story while making up the stuff in the gaps. one thing, though it is made out as a love story, Temujin is one of the most promiscus people in history. it is estimated that .25% of the worlds population is directly descendant from him. I found the ending really weird but it makes sense now that i know it is the first part of a three part series, or trilogy if you will. sign me up for the next two. and now for bed (cause in australia it's dark) night all, and remember, don't read foreign books or your penis will fall off.
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hands down. and 'tom browns school days' which was very much like my own school
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The Proposition on Blu-ray is yet another reason for me to get a player.Favorite teaching movie? The Substitute, baby! I remember thinking Stand and Deliver was great, got many a laugh out of Summer School and bought into the schmaltzy nonsense of Mr. Holland's Opus.
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with Edward James Olmos. Goodbye Mr. Chipps of course.
O.K., Hod, I'll check out Bloody Tie. I'll probably play it on the computer tonight while Im writing.
Chipps,yea, the idea of showing Temujin as a doting and faithful husband is an odd choice, especially given the promiscuity thing you spoke of, but it's that relationship angle that actually elevates the movie above just another Conan take-off or faux historical battle epic.
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one of Kurosawa's last movies. It translates to "Not Yet" and tells the story of an aging professor. Great film, though more than just about teaching.
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A documentary, with one of the greatest teachers I have ever seen, George Lopez, not to be confused with the comedian.
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where Malcom McDowell played the teacher that actually brandished a pistol while he taught class due to the wildness of the students?
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I meant Roddy McDowell...it wouldnt seem wierd for Malcolm to have a gun in class, but Roddy!
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This is going to be a long day. I'm bloody exhausted.So is the summer movie release season officially over?
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It was a great summer for movies, but it ended a little mildly for my tastes-or is ending mildly. I dont think Ill be seeing Babylon A.D. or Death Race 2000. Tropic Thunder, Tell No One and my free tickets for Mummy 3 will probably finish up this summer movie season for me, and I'll probably check out Get Smart at the discount theater. On to the fall!
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what fall films are we looking forward to?
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...with Speed Racer and Iron Man. Needless to say I'm jazzed.For me it's been a great summer watching foreign films. It looks like 2008 is going to go down as one of the best years ever for film.
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You know what's coming next!
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Hah!
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And I still want to see Man on a Wire.
But guess what? I will have to wait for DVD, as we do not get small release movies, just the wide releases.
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many of us spent our summer watching foreign films. HOD, add Son of Rambow and The Fall to your "summer movie" roster. SOR opens next week, and The Fall the first or second week of September. They are both two of the best things released this past summer.
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Foiled again!
I was jumping back and forth to the article about Great White being anchored out to sea by Universal.
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There is a TB named Fred! Fred is happy.
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11-6 Chitty!
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Not like I'll see any of the fall stuff until next year, but I'm looking forward to:Burn After ReadingAppaloosaWhat Just HappenedMiracle at St. AnnaMax PayneBody of LiesRockNRollaThe Brothers BloomQuantum of SolaceNobel SonAnd then I think after that we're into the winter.
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and Appaloosa are right at the forefront of the fall, and near the top of my list. I'm loving this potential tradition of giving us some new westerns every fall. After last year providing 3:10 to Yuma and Jesse James, and now Appaloosa, I'm hoping they find a way to keep this going. Never enough westerns in my opinion. Also, am I the only one who feels like Ed Harris and Viggo are the same person, just one is younger and one is older.
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but Miracle at St. Anna looks like a must see.
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I was not impresses by the overly long trailer that showed half the movie.
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It looks a bit Matrix-y, but I've enjoyed most of what D.J.Caruso has done thus far, and this looks like a great fall action flick.
Also, lets not forget the bleak sci-fi Blindness. I'm up for that too.
And The Duchess, with Kiera Knightley, who I think is good enough, she could be relegated to period films forever and do great work there.
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I love those very visual, artificial environment films and I think Gil Kenan's Monster House was just awesome, so I'm looking forward to it. It helps that the book it is based off of is actually very good.
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist looks interesting. As does Passengers, which is the only movie currently on the fall roster that looks like a competent creepy film. Where are the horror movies?
And don't say Quarrantine or Saw V. I already saw Rec. and never made it past the first Saw.
Here is the mission for this TB. Find out what happened to Trick R' Treat. Anyone remember this? If you don't search the site, youtube the trailer, or pull out your 300 dvds and watch the previews. This looks like the perfect Halloween pic, and it was supposed to be released last Halloween. WHERE. IS. IT? -
...is fucking awesome. The hand-held match moves really sell it. Great job.
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I've seen Great White. It's wierd that it's been sort of exiled as it has, since it bears no real threat to anyone. It isnt great or amazing, but I guess it would be threatening to the Jaws franchise, since it's definitely better than parts 3 or 4. I always sort of enjoyed Jaws 2, so I think it's inferior to that, but otherwise it was fun. It isnt really worth hunting down though, and no one is missing anything amazing by having not seen it.
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Pretty much the only movie I'm lookign forward t othis fall.
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...but the design in that trailer looked really weak to me. Bill Murray looks totally wasted in that role (not drunk). I just thought it would look more fantastic to the eye....and it doesnt.
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When it was called Nick of Time.
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Max Payne, Bond, and RockNRolla...
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One of the forgotten Depp films. Walken kicked ass in that movie.
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both look very good. Also, I think there is a sailing doc, Morning Light coming soon? That has potential too.
There is Eastwood's The Changeling but I'm waiting to hear more.Same for Synechdoche, NY
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Aug 19, 2008 9:21:51 AM CDT
Ed Harris and Viggo play tortured soul very well
by hawaiian organ donor
I don't ever get tired of westerns. And I'm looking forward to watching the goofy Asian take with Tears of the Black Tiger, Western Sukiyaki Django and The Good, the Bad and the Weird.
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doesnt appear to bear any resemblance to Eagle Eye. I did like Nick of Time when I saw it.
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Aug 19, 2008 9:23:00 AM CDT
Synechdoche, NY -- this is the new Kaufman film right?
by dannyglovers_dickblood
Dude I'm all over anything Kaufman touches. And this is his first directing gig.....sounds interesting.
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Yeah the idea is intriguing but the trailer is so OVER THE TOP. Trying too hard me thinks. Might be good though.
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It just looks gimmicky and crappy.....but I don't see the Matrix-y. The only good thing Caruso has ever done is Salton Sea, and even that is just moderately good. Its not amazing. Did you see that sports betting movie he did Jonah?
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Except for the near identical plots you mean? Somebody pulling the strings on innocent civilians to carry out an assasination plot?
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After seeing that I'm convinced I could watch an 8 hour movie of Star Wars vehicles inserted into our city skylines.
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Ive seen django and tears but what is this one?
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Really? See I thought it wasn't over the top enough. I thought the photography looks really flat and stiff for that sort of film. The entire world felt like a brand new set. It didn't feel lived in at all from the trailer. And the lighting is just flat and Hollywood standard.
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shit yeah that looks good. I need to read that book.
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Yeah...there is something strange and hypnotizing about that. The image of the walkers coming at us from a distance is always great. You know what would be bad ass...if these guys had the time and resources, to make a five minute short of the walkers and ties just fucking pummeling an American city. Tons of explosions and crazy shit going down as the ties zoom by and drop bombs on buildings and blast everything in site. That would be crazy cool.
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As does Quantum of Solace.
Also in the Great White talkback someone mentioned rumblings of a Jaws remake?
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there are dozens and dozens of identical plots. Also, from what I understand is that Eagle Eye goes in a completely different direction. However, even if they utilized the EXACT same setup, the scope of Eagle Eye as opposed to the time frame experiment that was Nick would make each very different. Two different approaches. I mean, you could start throwing in Manchurian Candidate into this mix as well, based off the slim critera you provided. Not trying to argue, just pointing out, that in this case I think the differences will be more apparent when the film is released.
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I agree the whole think looks like a studio set and that is partially becasue of the shit photography. What I meant was the trailer is selling it like it's a summer blockbuster (what with it's chanting screaming choir music and, flash cuts, and swooping camera angles) when it probably is not nearly that ambitious.
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It probably won't be out for a few months yet as it just finished it's theatrical run.http://tinyurl.com/6s2qf9The site is also a great way to keep up with films that fly under the radar.
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if it's close to the book, we haven't seen all that much from the trailer, especially regarding the world.
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Now that would be badass.
Sort of like the tripods in War of the Worlds.
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Eagle Eye just lloks uninteresting to me. Looks like another generic Hollywood star vehicle to me. I might rent it just to make googly eyes at Michelle Monaghan. I hope she starts making more films where she actually acts though. She was amazing in Gone Baby Gone.
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I'd say Matrixy because of the getting the cell phone telling you the world is not what you think, climbing onto a ledge, having the billboards address you, and knowing that in the second half of the film some world-changing, reality(or perception) altering thing is supposed to be revealed. That's Matrix-y. Or at least the good parts, not the slo-mo fu.
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Aug 19, 2008 9:34:27 AM CDT
Jaws remake to be directed by Renny Harlin (confirmed)
by dannyglovers_dickblood
I keeed I keeed...
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I have seen two trailers for this film now and have yet to figure out what the movie is even about. They were shooting it here in DC for a long time though so my curiosity is peaked.
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Oh yeah...I forget about that billboard thing. You know what that reminded me of-- The Game. It looks like a child remake of The Game. And I know Shia is like 30....but he still looks 10 and he should be forced to make nothing but children's films for the rest of his career. May he rot in hell...
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I hope you arent, though. I'll probably wait and hear reviews to see exactly what kind of movie it is. I didnt see Disturbia because of it's obvious relation to Rear Window, but when I fnally saw it, I thought the film was a good entertaining pic. Not brilliant, but a fun homage of sorts to Hitchcock. And yes, homage or take is a better way to describe what it did than rip-off.
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Danny, you are awesome.
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Thanks for almost giving me a heart attack Danny.
I was about to dispatch Ninja Fred for mission to Hollywood.
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Man don't even joke about that.
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not 30. I agree he seems too young to play the character here.
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Surviving the Game was on last night.
I always enjoyed that movie for some reason.
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Aug 19, 2008 9:40:44 AM CDT
Jaws is one of the films I wouldn't mind a shitty remake of....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
I think it would be pretty fun to watch the same premise with the three of them on a boat, but with much more ridiculous shit going down, like a shark-human hybrid or some shit. It wouldnt affect my viewing experience of the original in the least. Its the same way I can enjoy 3 and 4 for the cheese they are.
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It was mildy entertaining and the girl in that movie was HOT. Nice couple of bikini shots. It was pretty much Rear Window: TNG but they billed it as such.
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His facial hair looks like the hair creeping up the side of my penis, and the hair on his head looks like the hair on my nuts. Two very different textures. Neither of them good, especially for close-ups.
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Have popcorn, will travel.
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http://www.notafishinglure.com/SinCity.html
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Aug 19, 2008 9:46:40 AM CDT
You could have Deep Blue Sea 2: Rise of the Sharks
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LL and Jane sew Burrows back together with fishing line and C4 putty and you have the three on a boat.
End of the movie is both men have enough of her condecending attitude and toss her into big sharks mouth.
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In fact I think Eagle Eye will prove whether or not people can accept him as even a proto-adult. I kind of think that part of the film won't work.
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Aug 19, 2008 9:47:30 AM CDT
what the hell happened to Burrows? Saffron right?
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Creature with Craig T. Nelson. Blargh!
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Aug 19, 2008 9:48:51 AM CDT
and the Monaghan chick is like his dish in Eagle Eye?
by dannyglovers_dickblood
Are they going to address the fact that she is over 10 years older than him...or are they both supposed to be like 17?
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Aug 19, 2008 9:51:09 AM CDT
Sandee Westgate.....film critic...have you guys seen her?
by dannyglovers_dickblood
Kinda sorta work safe....but just be cautious. http://tinyurl.com/6n4xz3
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Aug 19, 2008 9:52:10 AM CDT
I don't mean to get all political up in this beyotch
by hawaiian organ donor
But Danny, me thinks you'll love this article from CNN. That news organization is a rag but I always get a kick out of Cafferty.http://tinyurl.com/5pzv6yI haven't seen a smackdown like this since Tony Jaa ascended a staircase.
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Benchley at his best.
Turns out the hybrids were going to be used for war, but were thrown out.
Book was at least better than movie.
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Aug 19, 2008 9:54:00 AM CDT
McCain will pursue Obama "To the gates of hell....."
by dannyglovers_dickblood
Hhahahaahahaha....thanks for the laugh HOD!!!
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I thought Beast was a letdown, save for Larry Drake, who played a sea captain so grizzled, he held his pants together with a giant piece of sailing rope.
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Aug 19, 2008 9:55:04 AM CDT
sounds like Obama will pick Uncle Joe Biden....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
...me thinks.
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She's a film critic to boot?
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although he jus ta nnounced a budget shortfall in VA. might not look too good. Obama should pick Ted Strickland.
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Once when it first appeared and again on the Sci-Fi channel.
Enjoyed both times.
I kind of like the idea of gaint killer squid.
It was something different for a change.
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...but Bayh is young and inexperienced as well, and he looks just like John Edwards. He needs an old timer to level him off.
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My money is on Joe Biden. He's got the experience Obama doesn't.Talk about an interesting election. We have a two candidates at opposite ends of the age spectrum who will end up choosing running mates that are much younger/older to balance the ticket out.
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I liked the way in which The Beast sort of ended up being like Gorgo or Beowulf, with the mama showing up to wreak havoc.
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I don't understand why Jim Webb didn't want the job.
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Instead of the main dudes being oceanographers or scientists or knowing what they hunting.....they could just be an old fishing boat roughing it in the rough sees for the first hour until some crazy ass beast shows up and starts tearing up and raises hell. That would be scary if the entire thing were in one night in the pouring rain in a crazy storm. Scary fucking shit. -
thing seems like someone's jokey riff on Script Girl.
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...I've seen her for almost a year.
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Aug 19, 2008 10:07:04 AM CDT
best line of the TB:If I was baby creature in film I would be ne
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Danny and Chitty-the monster hiding in the storm. I wrote a story like that back in college. Won a writing contest with it. I'll see if I can't dig it up.
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I fucking love Orca because of that strong emotional moment of the dad watching the wife and kid be killed. Even though Jaws is obviously the better of the two films, I empathize and sympathize with both Richard Harris and the Orca, a lot more than I do any character in Jaws. Its just a stronger emotional film for me.
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Exactly Danny!
I would like to see how a grizzled bunch of fishermen would handle the beast.
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but funny that they botched it in Godzilla. When Big G looks down at one of it's thousands of babies laying there blown and dead, and then levels a howl of rage I burst into laughter.
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Of course I root for all creatures in the movies, except for Jaws, where I loved Quint, Brody and Hooper.
I have never rooted harder for a creature than the shark in Jaws 2 to eat that girl that just sat there and screamed (you know sparrow tits.)
I also rooted very hard for the monster in Cloverfield.
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Pet peeves in film. And no, I don't mean being duped out of hard earned money for a crap movie. More like things that frequently show up that are stupid, lazy or poorly done (i.e. not finishing the killer off when he's been knocked out or shot and leaving the gun at his side).I gotta go with recordings/flashbacks that use the exact same movie footage we saw earlier.Nothing is worse than security camera footage that shows us the scene we saw earlier not from a security camera viewpoint but from the actual camera.And then when a character is remembering a conversation they had earlier and we get the exact same footage except it's either black and white or washed out. unless you have a photographic memory you won't remember the conversation word for word or how the room looked or even what the person was wearing. For me it would be refreshing to see a memory sequence where things were a little off than what they actually were.
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my story involved some hard-up long shoremen who end up in a major storm, lose their bearings and are attacked by a "thing". They manage to catch it, sort of, and have it knocked unconscious dragging it behind their boat. And when they thought it safe, spectral, supernatural things started happening to them. More like a haunting on the boat. And the story continues from there.
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Aug 19, 2008 10:15:59 AM CDT
Fred read a funny line on American Carol TB
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
It was from liberal warrior. "The Warrior aint no damn librarian"
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Aug 19, 2008 10:17:38 AM CDT
yeah the Lost World baby T-Rex worked well...
by dannyglovers_dickblood
...I fucking love that shot when Julianne opens the trailer door holding the baby, to the giant fucking face of the T-Rex Momma. Fuck that was tense...
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He got no love at all though and he bought the farm.
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set to some either old 70s song, or some latest new crap pop song. And it's not the montage itself always, it's when a particularly poorly written romcom(or any movie) decides to use the montage as a substitute for the burgeoning relationship. Ever see a flick where the two obviously intended couple hate each other and then *BOOM* montage and after they are ready to go off and get hitched.
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Montages for the most part are lazy.I accept them in action movies where the hero has to build something and we see quick cuts but to show us character development without actually showing us the details is lazy writing.
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Dude that is so fucking weird you said the camera POV thing....that is one of my biggest complaints about films. And its in massive films like Spider-Man that have no excuse to not shoot just one more angle!! There is the scene when Peter gets bit by the radioactive spider and he asks Mary-Jane if he can take her pic for the school paper.....she says sure and then starts posing for the camera and it cuts to his camera POV which is the same fucking single on her!! And she is not looking into the camera posing like she was on the wide, she is looking off camera at Peter-- yet we are meant to believe this is his POV we're watching. BULLSHIT!!! Its in like almost every fucking film....and its retarded. -
Wait wait wait.....you have a problem with the montages where couples are suddenly madly in love-- yet you like Indy IV? The sudden family dynamic was the foundation of my hatred for that film. Out of nowhere "Indy...Mutt is your kid." Indy looks at Mutt-- then at Marion and figures, "Oh ok....so now you're my girl again right and we're just one happy family....right?" He just instantly hugs her and suddenly they are an item?! What the fuck? What if she was dating someone....he didnt even ask.
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double takes of action. seeing a car flip over and then seeing the same flip from a different camera angle immediately afterwards.
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Aug 19, 2008 10:35:02 AM CDT
not something I hate....but something thats funny....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
The map tap. Watch any scene where the characters are looking at a map. I love the close up of the index finger sliding across the route they will follow and when it gets to the destination, it usually does two taps. Its hilarious. There is a scene in LOTR Two Towers in the cave with Faromir....where they are plotting some course, and I swear there are like 4 back to back map taps. "We must travel here.....to here." Tap tap.
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as bad as you may have found it, there was writing there. And Indy and Marion aren't actually an item completely until towards the end. After the Mutt is your kid thing, there is still all that bickering on the truck, and the conversation about who they are with, the one that ends with "They weren't you". And then she smiles from ear to ear. I thought that all of that was fine. Besides, whether it was right or not, Marion and Indy have a history and they fell back on that. I'm talking trying to manufacture a difficult bridge between dislike and adoration with just a song and some scenes of daisy picking.
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Because all their movies involve double takes. A guy doing something as simple as ordering a coffee is shown from 5 different angles.
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the fact that some films to this day stil use the dreaded map superimposed over travel images as a red line tracks the progress.
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In horror or suspense films, you always have that supposedly shocking shot of someone peering into a window, suspiciously or menacingly. It has worked in the past, but you need to go back to films like The Innocent to find it done well. I did like having the monster in Pumpkinhead skulking back and forth outside the window, but he wasn't peering. Worst case of this was probably Wendigo, where after the love scene, you see a two minute take of this flannel wearing hick just staring in, bemused at it. It is never referenced again, it's just there.
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Nobody on the planet would behave like that. You don't see a chick for 20 years....suddenly she pops back up and this 20 year old kid leading you around turns out to be your son. No human being would think oh great...suddenly we're a unit and I can start lecturing on how important a college education is. People can say whatever they want about the fridge, the monkeys, whatever......the human relationships in Indy IV are by far the phoniest, most far-fetched element on screen. I think thats what apologists don't understand.....the basis of hatred toward the film isn't even so much the cartoony action....that cartoony shit would be okay if it had a solid human foundation. -
Not to whizz in anyone's cornflakes, but I thought Indy 4 was one of the worst written movies ever and I'm not going to argue about it anymore, but I. JUST. CAN'T. UNDERSTAND. WHY. PEOPLE. CAN'T. SEE. THAT. The novelization might be a hint better but the screenplay as shot is abysmal.And I love the map tap mention. No director is above using it.
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from mention. For one thing, I saw it once, and want to see it again before defending it against all comers. And I'd suggest a second viewing for those who think it's the worst movie. Obviously, you don't have to. Otherwise, I think we should just put it out of considered conv. No one here is going to budge, outside of actually re-watching the movie and seeing it differently.
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I started reading it awhile back but got side-tracked. I'm gonna start over....it has a really cool opening. And much much better little character moments. The scenes that are right out of the movie have slight variations in dialogue that make the conversations flow much nicer.
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And I have seen it 3 times. Once in theaters and twice at home on a very good quality pirate version.
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All of a sudden you see the SUV flying by and Goldblum says to hang on to something.
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Aug 19, 2008 10:51:57 AM CDT
I won't be able to discuss it for many years then...
by hawaiian organ donor
...as I don't plan on watching it again until my daughter is old enough to see the movies and only then if she demands to see the fourth one.I hereby proclaim I will not bring it up in a TB again.
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In many romantic comedies, and some buddy action films, you will have a sidekick who is there mostly to be humorous and in some cases do the crazy things we might wish the main character did, but we would hate him for. As the secondary character, the sidekick can do all kinds of ridiculous crap we would poo-poo the hero for. Somewhere though, before the end, the sidekick will have a poignant moment(in rom-com when the girl seems to have left, or in action when the case is horrible, and likely to be unsolved)where he reveals something about himself/herself that lets us understand them, or helps the hero unravel his problems. My favorite mock of this was in Shallow Hal when Jason Alexander's shallow womanizer reveals that he actually has a vestigial tail.
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Aug 19, 2008 10:52:24 AM CDT
Chitty-- I totally don't hate Lost World like others do.....
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was awesome and the only part where I truly felt the old Indy magic back. Everything else was fine, but not "THIS IS INDIANA FREAKIN' JONES". But that scene did the trick.
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They really butchered the book and that ending in San Diego was just unnecessary.But like all Spielberg movies that miss the mark, it has a scene or two for the time capsule and the T-Rex attack on the trailer was almost as good as the attack from the first one.
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in search of a non-bloated, adventurous and scary film. The trailer scene=great. Hatari jeep ride with dinos=great. Jurassic-zilla in N.Y.=great. The tall grass=great. Everything else=meh.
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my bad.
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I am a car nut and can spot many types of cars by just their shapes.
Never fails that the car in the chase is visibly different from the car rolling end over end in the crash.
Sure most people may not notice, but I do.
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How they have a random person's face from the premiere of the film as the main pic. Indy IV has a pic of Billy Zane smiling as he walks into the premiere. What the fuck? He probably came out of it saying it would have been better with The Phantom in it.
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just watched Terminator 2 in bluray the other day, and noted that in the scene with the tractor trailer falling off the bridge. We see it take abuse that would have rendered it obsolete, but then it's driving towards Furlong as if it just hit a pothole.
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When Freeman and Pitt are driving in the rain at the first of the movie, you can see they are going straight, but the steering wheel is turned off center.
But the very next cut back from Pitt and Freeman has the steering wheel straight again.
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....getting a colonoscopy and I'd still have a fun time with it. As long as Johnny Williams scored that shit.
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Anytime something is about to explode, it seems there is a little readout on it to help with the suspense or something. It's funny because even discreet terrorist bombs seem to come equipped with a timer that counts down. I was surprised that the bomb they use to fall the wall of Helm's Deep in Two Towers didnt have a digital readout on it.
My fave crappy readout was in Mission to Mars when Connie Neilson actually looks at her oxygen readout and it starts flashing the words "POINT OF NO RETURN." -
I have T2 on my ipod and watch or listen while I'm at work.
Also notice when he walks up to the bar and is flashing the stats of the vehicles he is looking at.
It says Chrysler for the car and it is clearly a Ford LTD.
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...so it could let me know when its ready to call it quits. I would love to look down and see a bright red POINT OF NO RETURN.....PULL OUT....PULL OUT....
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Something like that could have been a legal thing....where they shot the cars without permission because you can't clearly see an emblem.....yet they found that Ford wouldn't give the rights to use their name printed on the screen, so they had to say it was something else.
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A Jurassic Shark! Please let it happen.
Imagine what he could do with that.
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No car could take the abuse they do and keep on going. And of course every driver is a magician behind the wheel and can pull off miraculous turns and zip through traffic at ludicrous speed.
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Did you also consider the handle Haydens_Fluffer?
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In almost any genre, if you want to give a character a family life where he learns to grow, you make the father a workaholic who learns to spend time with his kids. In the interim the kids are so repugnant and sassy and smartmouthed to the parent that even Fred Rodgers would have sold their little sneering asses to the gypsies. But as soon as dad attends their little league game, they stop lighting the dog on fire and start helping old ladies cross the street. If you believed hollywood you would assume every middle aged guy who was good at his job neglected his family and every 10-17 year old was Don Rickles in training.
Worst offender recently: a movie I adored with this one exception-Dan in Real Life. He should have eloped with Juliette Binoche and left those daughters behind. Seriously, what child actually says "We so prefer her to YOU."
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You bet your sweet bippy he's for real. And he's a celebrity. So show him some respect.
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I can send you pics that TMZ snapped of me getting in a car with no panties on...
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I thought it was Lindsey out on the town with her pet boa draped over her lap?
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And everything you've brought up is spot on. I too am sick of the neglectful father stereotype.And what's with all the fat schlubs who have smokin' hot wives? When does this ever happen?
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Aug 19, 2008 11:15:33 AM CDT
Danny, I have the old version of that penis readout
by chittychittygangbang
It is the pointing of the toes and the tingling of the thighs. Sort like setting your phone on vibrate.
That's when I know to give "The Tap", which is the signal for dismount for whatever girl I was with.
But you are right, as the pointing of the toes and tingling is more a guideline and not an exact point of reference for potential impregnation.
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Do you tongue your mother with that mouth?
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Obviously, since the internet this has become a bigger part of films, but how about those pics where the tension is on, and in order to resolve it we need a BIG scene of ....wait for it...people typing furiously, and whispering "c'mon, c'mon". My fave is when the other characters huddle around this character to watch them do it, when they could be doing other helpful things. It was annoying in Jurassic Park but at least Neil and Dern were bracing the door.
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That's a strange request. Not do anything to it but hold it? You don't even want an H.J.? Maybe you are a pedophile priest...they seem to think its okay to have children merely touch them and do nothing further.
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Sure thing. Let me just go grab a set of tweezers.
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Was one of the first times I remember that Jonah.....typing away frantically trying to open a door or something.
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great badass characters to show how strong the villain is, before having him fall at the hands of a teen girl or something.
Predator did this well back in the 80s, by presenting some new tough as nails guy every few minutes and then having the Predator cut through him like hot butter. I liked that, but since then we always get this tough character introduced, and we all root for him, but he gets taken out five minutes or so after being introduced.
Good brief use of interesting side character in horror/advenure: the old fighter pilot in Mummy. He has maybe ten minutes of screentime, but he is utilized well, and his final moments actually fulfill his back story. Nicely done there. -
..What film had a great build-up for a character with potential of tons of ass kicking, yet the fight was over far too quick or the character died right away? Some sort of build-up to a character followed by a huge let down...... -
Also wondered why Tim didn't just walk over and hand them the gun to shoot the raptor.
Also when T-Rex blows breath at Neil and Lex when they are by the overturned Explorer. It blows from below to knock his hat off and the T-Rex is above them looking down.
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Aug 19, 2008 11:31:00 AM CDT
You didn't see computers in movies much before JP
by hawaiian organ donor
And even then, with the exception of films like Wargames, they didn't figure prominently.I remember seeing the kid at the computer in Big playing the ice cavern game thinking it was the coolest thing ever.
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hate the scene where one dude panics, heads off from the group, and is instantly killed or eaten a few minutes later. I dislike it because it's such a cliche. I can understand it happening, but some movies have dispatched fine characters that way. And it's supposed to give the killer some fodder and make us feel anxious, but it's not because the moment the person cuts and runs you know they are ruined.
I did, however, enjoy a scene in the previously mentioned Lost World where that Robert Bakker clone was hiding in the waterfall from the t rex, saw the coral snake on his shirt and freaked out, getting eaten. -
That huge beast's head trashing around and roaring right in your face, but it cant get to you......just magical. That guy that got eaten with the long hair and plaid shirt is a real paleontologist.
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It's not that we (people who enjoyed it) don't realize the writing sucked, it's that WE. DON'T. GIVE. A. SHIT.
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and this one seems too blaise for Eggsalad. He was almost entertaining his nuttiness, that and his alter ego, ILAGCT...
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50 feet is not that much.
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Aug 19, 2008 11:35:45 AM CDT
Danny, I think we're all in agreement about Darth Maul
by hawaiian organ donor
As great as that end fight was, he should have made it to the third film.Jeremy Irons didn't get a proper send off in DH3.
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but I only thought he was supposed to be Robert Bakker, didnt know he actually was. As a kid I was so into dinos, I read three of his books despite them being terribly boring. Over to IMDB to find out.
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Car chases where a Ford Escort or some shit sounds and handles like a Ferrari.
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I thought you wanted to come and here and really start shit and argue, which is always fun. But this random sexual "CUM LORD" humor is dull man....real dull. I like good old perverse jokes....but you're just too run and gun. It makes you look like some weirdo with no life. You don't wanna tell a joke or conversate, you just type random shit and sit around waiting for a colorful response. I image you to have a pretty severe wheezing problem-- is this correct? -
He steps out of the crowd swings his sword around and BLAM! Indy shoots him.
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IMDB lists Thomas F. Duffy as Dr. Robert Burke, and the real paleontologist is Robert Bakker.
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I think he should have switched spots with Dooku....
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All these years I've been suckered!!
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Sort of like when a Ford Crown Vic keeps pace with a Corvette or Ferrari in a police chase.
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Do you go to pre-schools and tell them there's no Santa Claus too? Cold, man, cold.
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I think Hawaiian mentioned this in regards to a particular film a few TBs ago, but when a hero/cop/warrior has a known and obvious villain who is more than capable of learning of/getting at his family and said hero makes no attempt to safeguard his family, or even warn them. I also despise the device that has the psycho leaving voice mail messages for the character. That might have been effective once, but now it's just laughable. And if I remember correctly the Highlander series did it TWICE!
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for me yesterday, so I'm just returning the favor.
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Aug 19, 2008 11:51:07 AM CDT
Don't forget the magical windshield that manages...
by hawaiian organ donor
...to self-repair after getting shot repeatedly.
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Please tell me it was just a ruse to fuck with Faux News
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Aug 19, 2008 11:53:58 AM CDT
Or the windshield that allows drivers to fly through
by chittychittygangbang
This was on Abominable the other day.
Girl crashes into tree and is thrown forward through the windshield and lands in front of the car!
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Aug 19, 2008 11:54:38 AM CDT
yeah....sadly the only Sasquatch that exists is....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
..Anakin1268's sister/girlfriend. That bitch pussy stank like road-kill man......nasty ass....
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I counted seven hubcaps fly from a car's rims in a chase on T.J. Hooker.
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the kevlar/mithril vest reveal. when someone is shot and people think they are dead and the guy wakes up and the camera slowly pans down to the victim opening up his shirt Superman-style to reveal the vest.
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Aug 19, 2008 11:57:41 AM CDT
HoboCode -- yeah that is lame......the vest reveal
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Was when Sloth on the Goonies pulled back his shirt and had the Supes t-shirt on.
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Since then it's been all downhill.
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When Harry revealed his vest to Lloyd after being shot in Dumb and Dumber we cheered.
Of course we were all drunk and having a very good time.
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Aug 19, 2008 12:03:04 PM CDT
There is one I've been trying to remember lately...
by dannyglovers_dickblood
It is sort of a kids movie I think, and it it some sort of bad ass that is protecting the kids. And I remember there is an awesome build up and I was all pumped to see the guy kick some ass but then he gets left behind and attacked by a big mob or something like that......fuck can't remember. It made me sorta sad for him I think. -
"What if they had shot you in the face?"
FBI lady said it was a chance they were willing to take.
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Aug 19, 2008 12:05:41 PM CDT
or an even better topic: Movies You Got Some Action To....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
...in the theater. Anyone remember any good experiences and the films that accompany them? Jonah...I know you have like 17. Don't brag. Bastard.
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Aug 19, 2008 12:16:30 PM CDT
Sadly, I've never dated a chick that would get...
by hawaiian organ donor
...freaky in a movie theater. Come to think of it, in my youth I always got hosed. My friends would tell me about freaky this and fellatio that and when it came to me I was always like, "Does missionary with candles and Peter Cetera playing in the background count?"
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Big let down. Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh.
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Aug 19, 2008 12:20:35 PM CDT
Jonah, I'm having a hard time thinking of a payoff...
by hawaiian organ donor
...that never came. I can think of villains who didn't go out in the blaze of glory I was hoping for though.
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Aug 19, 2008 12:23:29 PM CDT
damn....that movie is in the back of my mind...
by dannyglovers_dickblood
I've been trying to remember it for weeks. But I have no memory of any details other than that moment I thought holy shit....this guy is gonna kick some ass and defend these kids. He shows up and gets his ass kicked but acts as a diversion I guess....
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Then surely you made out during Rochelle, Rochelle and Sack Lunch as well. Prognosis Negative and Checkmate probably held your interest though.
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....talk about freaky.
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Aug 19, 2008 12:36:18 PM CDT
Scorpion King 2 will be the most important film of 2008
by dannyglovers_dickblood
It will trump anything the Coen Brothers have ever attempted.
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Saw you mentioned the Wizzard of Gore thing, I am trying to get that first thing on my DVD. I really like Crispin Glover, really wish I could see What Is It, but looks like he'll never put it out on the DVDs.
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used to work at a Regal theater in high school. During a screening of, I think, The Long Kiss Goodnight,one of our ushers dicovered a guy having straight-up noisy sex with his girlfriend in a half-packed theater. We walked in, and the girl was up, riding the guy and he was underneath. When the head manager walks up, the guy literally rolls the girl off onto an adjacent seat, and stands to face to the manager. He is this tall hillbilly, complete with long hair and creepy stare. His wang is still hanging out and he basically, I swear, hits the manager. And because we were all fans of the manager in question, about six ushers bodily removed him from the theater.
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I got screwed during Emerich's Godzilla but that was more psychological than physical, and since I paid eight dollars for it, Iguess it was consensual between me and good ol Roland.
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Craziest story ever!! What fucking city was this? What kinda chick will get down like that? I understand a dude....cause dudes are nasty bastards....but damn. What kinda girl is that?
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Aug 19, 2008 12:55:50 PM CDT
and I am so glad that hillbilly got down like that....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
...in a Shane Black film.
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This was not in the city. It wasn't even in Baltimore county, but in a neighboring Maryland county. And the girl looked about three years the dude's junior and looked very crazy. I suspect drugs were involved, which is why the dude and the girl skedaddled immediately.By the time we had delivered him through the exit, she was out the door and then they were both gone.
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When we saw The Dark Knight there was this huge fat guy sitting right in front of us....about 10 minutes into the film we hear this loud liquid splash like someone just dumped their whole drink on the floor. But then I see the fat guy hunched forward and realize he just hurled.....his friend next to him is patting him on the back lovingly. And the guy stands up with puke all over his mouth and chin and starts stumbling down the aisle. This guy is like 6'2 350 lbs....no joke. So he's stumbling around in the dark and I realize he's drunk off his ass. He walked in pretty normal, but now its quite apparent. He finally makes his way through the aisle and onto the stairs of the theater and the whole place is staring at him thinking how the fuck is this guy gonna make it down the stairs. Well....he didn't...he took two steps and then just falls face first on the stairs and sorta slides down the rest of the way kinda like The Penguin when he dies in Batman Returns. The guy lays there for like 10 seconds and nobody does a thing not even his friend who is sitting enjoying the film. Finally the fat guy stands back up and instead of going out the exit on his side he has to stumble across the front of the theater toward the exit on the opposite side....mumbling to himself and holding his arms out in front of him like he's blind. He finally makes it out and we forget about him until we leave.....where we see his friend find him laying on his back in some bushes having a smoke. Fuck man....I want whatever he's drinking......
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Aug 19, 2008 1:08:15 PM CDT
sorta slides down the rest of the way kinda like The Penguin whe
by jonah echo
Danny, I have tears in my eyes..great story...you know, let's do crazy theater stories again, becuase I have a ton and I wasn't on during the time the topic was up, and when I returned we had long since moved on.
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Involving sex, drugs, rock and roll, gangsters, robberies, weapons, fights, arguments, and/or drugs......GO!!
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film on opening weekend, on a Sunday night and the theater was packed. Smelled something that had to be poop. One of our friends is chastising her husband for passing gass,when my wife points out the source of it, sitting three seats down from us. There is a woman with her baby in her lap, and this baby has a diaper that looks like the inside of a loaded cement mixer. The woman is changing the baby's diaper, and cleaning him off in her lap, and in the meantime she balls up the double-stuffed diaper and balances it on the chair arm of the seat NEXT to her.
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That would give hand jobs in the theater.
Wasn't long until we started screwing her in the hallway that led to the alley beside the theater.
You didn't even have to take her as a date. She would be there with a friend and all you had to do was talk to her and flirt.
I nailed her during The Golden Child and when I told my friends about it Sunday afternoon, one them had screwed her too during the same movie on the same night.
Her dad also showed up at a party one night a year or two later at the Fairgrounds and knocked a guy out with one shot!
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There were tears in my eyes.....luckily it was my 2nd viewing of TDK. So I was just watching the guy's every move. There were a few times when he was trying to get through the aisle and he looked like he was going to land right on someone's lap.....people kinda leaned back uncomfortable and held their hands up as he passed.......he looks like Earl's brother Ethan Suplee in My Name Is Earl....but when he used to be way fatter like in Mallrats. -
Me and my girl, who i'm always trying to get her to get freaky with me in a theater since I take her to tons of movies where we are like the only ones, saw that Host. We noticed like a teenage couple come in about half way into the movie. We were like 2 of 10 in the theater and we were sitting the furthest up, and this couple went to the back row. We knew right away that they came to full around. We looked up at them and saw them making out and then like 20 minutes later we looked up and they were gone, they were fooling around on the floor. We were both like ewwwww theater floors are so nasty! And when the movie was over we saw them leave and they couldn't have been more then 15 and the girl was a bigger black girl and it was a small skinny ass white dude. Not to be raciest but this was in Oklahoma and we figured that there parents wouldn't let them see each other.
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Aug 19, 2008 1:13:58 PM CDT
ChittyChittyGangBang -- do you still have her number?
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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So we called him Stormin' Norman from then on.
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Aug 19, 2008 1:15:20 PM CDT
Series7 -- thats sad.....good for them...fighting oppression!!
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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had several instances involving children. We had a guy soaked come and complain to us that someone's child had pissed on him, but we never actually got to the bottom of that story.
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outside the theater. One of them, unfortunately, died.
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Went to a special screening of Dogville in New York. Though the best way to describe one of these buddies is to say that he is the real life version of Harvey Keitel's Lieutenant. So needless to say that the both got drunk, but they didn't one to leave the theater so my friend threw up in his jacket sleeve and feel asleep. Forgot about it and when he left the theater he put his jacket on. And since he was getting a ride with some people he didn't know that well, and were senior to him at the military academy we all attended. He didn't take it off the whole 2 hour car ride back. Then again this is the same friend that threw up in his boot the night before we went underway and in his hangover stupor wore it all day the next day.
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a fist fight broke out briefly. I remember being so tired that I didn't notice it immediately as it was happening in the seats below us.
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Her face wasn't the best in the world, but personally if they had a kick-ass body, then I didn't care what their face looked like.
Another guy moved to our town a few years later and admitted he was a virgin to us.
So we quickly set him up with her as good friends would do.
We came and picked him up later that night as he snuck out of her house.
He said they were both naked on the bed and she grabbed his buttocks and slammed him in.
He had a tear in his eye and we asked what happened.
He said he wanted his first time to be special and she ruined it for him by being all aggressive!
Holy Shit we laughed for WEEKS about that!
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Glad somebody got the Seinfeld reference. ;-)
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The other day and I went to grab a cart and I noticed a balled up diaper in it. And I was just like, when the fuck am I going to make enough money so I don't have to shop at wal mart anymore? I mean for fucks sakes they have child changing stations in their bathrooms? How fucking nasty do you have to be? Like I've done some nasty things, and peed on things I shouldn't have. BUT I DON'T HAVE A FUCKING CHILD I AM RESPONSIBLE FOR. Seriously is it that hard to handle your kids? People that bring kids to movies pretend like they can't get a baby sitter, well those sort of people are people that don't really care about movies and should fucking wait till you get a baby sitter. My parents never brought me as a baby to movies.
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This Native American kid was running along in his daiper.
He and I guess his brothers and sisters were playing in the little grass median in the parking lot.
All of a sudden he drops his daiper and takes a dump crouched down like a dog, finishes and pulls his daiper up and keeps running and playing.
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a theater where a guy was shot during X3. I brought it up again yesterday. The theater isnt where I live, but about 45 minutes away, but whenever we visit certain friends we stop by, mostly because it's one of the few nearby theaters that showed indie and arthouse stuff. Now I go almost exclusively to the Charles in the city, but before the gunshot story we would go sometimes. And it was CRAZY.
My wife and I and a friend saw Deep Blue. We were almost the only people in the theater save for a group ofpeople that just kept wandering in and leaving, and not the same group, but a whole host of random visitors. One elderly lady wandered in halfway through, fell asleep, and then woke up when the scene playing was a school of shrimp. The lady looks up and yells at the screen "SCRIMPS! WHY ARE THERE SCRIMPS ON THE SCREEN!" and clearly enraged, storms out of the theater. She was one of about five people that just dropped in during the course of the movie. I think she was the Ghost of Christmas Past. -
Serouslt that was a hilarious story, and the Penguin line was GOLD. But didn't the entire theater reek of puke? I would have thouhgt it would have set off a Stand By Me/Goonies chain reaction?
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After seeing a movie me and my brother were waiting for our parents to pick us up and all of the sudden rocks started flying at us. We saw this fat kid throwing rocks us from the drainage ditch on the other side of the road, we were standing in front of the poster section outside of the theater. And so we started throwing back, we got pissed because we ran out of rocks and so we ran over there and he got scared and ran into the drainage ditch. When we got over there he was clearly stuck because its a drainage pipe and he was fat, but our ride was there so we left.
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Aug 19, 2008 1:33:46 PM CDT
I got drunk as fuck at Arclight in Hollywood once...
by dannyglovers_dickblood
And kept sneaking drinks inside the theater from the bar. You're not suppose to bring them in but I kept running to the bar to refill my whiskey/coke throughout the film. Anyway by the end of the film....I believe Bourne Supremacy.....I stood up (barely) still holding my empty glass. I totally forgot it was a glass glass and just released it from my hand as if it were a standard soda cup and it just shatters all over the place. For whatever reason it was insanely loud. The theater was like half full and I swear to Christ almost everyone took off running...like sprinting toward the exit after they heard the glass break.
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back of the person's head in front of her. She and her family were at Anaconda, and I remember seeing her do it. The man in question was very gracious, but as an usher, me not so much.
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Man...you know how dead serious people were about TDK. Nothing could ruin it for them....I could smell the scent of puke linger but it didn't smell that bad surprisingly. It smelled kind of like burnt toast.
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there was an obviously homeless dude sitting fourth row in just cackling to himself, loudly, and then he took off his pants and started crying.
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I live in a bubble I guess cause I've got nothing.Well, almost nothing.A friend and I got ten sheets to the wind one night and decided to see a movie. So we picked up a bottle of Goldschlager and went to see The Phantom Menace the week before it left the theater. We finished the bottle before the pod race scene and then spent the rest of the movie roaming around the theater throwing up in just about every aisle. Thankfully, the theater was empty.Never so drunk in my life. I don't even remember leaving. Just waking up the next morning in the middle of my living room floor.
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That fucking sucks....but with shit like that, what do you do? Punch the kid?
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...awwww...thats a sad story too. Poor guy.
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when it came out in an almost empty theater, and there was one guy towards the back, who sat there very still after the credits were rolling, and he was almost unnaturaly still, to the point where he seemed like a dummy. As I was walking out, I kid you not, he starts humming "Time is On My Side" and reaches out and grabs my arm. If you saw the movie, you will appreciate the joke he was pulling. It definitely unsettled me.
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Thisn't isn't great but I went to a private screening of Rocky Balboa sponsored by NIAF (Nat. Ital. Amer. Assn.) and attended by Stallone. Anyway they provided wine and champagne that you could take into the theater with you, but they used real glasses. My friend and I counted I believe 11 different people drop their glasses to loud explosive crashes during the film. After awhile it became a game to see how many more morons would drop their drinks. It was a lot more entertaining than the actual film that's for sure.
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And by the midpoint, almost everyone was up in the aisles, dancing and singing LOUDLY and not one single usher came in to calm it down. They treated it like it was Rocky Horror or something.
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You are no American......that movie bleeds red, white, and blue....
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Between these stories and what LibWar is doing to some dude stupid enough to try and take him on over on Carol TB, I am crying! Funny shit. Series, you cracked me up with that 'peeing on things I shouldnt have' that was too funny. I wish I had some movie stories to contribute, but at least you know someone is enjoying them!
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What a maroon.It seems this group has a limitless supply of topics.
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This was a while ago before stadium seating and I remember someone dropped a beer bottle from the back row that didn't break but proceeded to loudly roll and bang around the chair supports all the way down to the front where it smashed agaisnt the wall during the quietest moment of the movie.
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I still laugh about that story somebody told way back in that Fancy Theater TB about seeing House Party in some ghetto theater outside of L.A. The guy said he was a skinny white dude on a date with a skinny white chick and they just pulled into some random theater and went in to find this giant gangsta party going down. He said before the movie the whole place was up and dancing, some dude was blasting music on a boom box, some guy had a cooler full of beer he was selling. The guy said he has never had more fun.....hilarious visual.
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myself, a friend and his sister went to see The Order(bad mistake, though to our credit it had been at one point a good screenplay). The movie was supremely boring, but the theater was filled with various random sounds. First there was a baby crying, and I never could spot the actual baby, and then the sounds of a person snoring, and finally a cricket. This freakin' cricket was louder than everything else. So bad, that finally a lady complains and then we watch the epic battle of theater usher and cricket begin. These poor guys search the whole theater with a flashlight, during the friggin movie, and cannot find the cricket. Finally it stops chirping, and with clear relief they leave. As soon as they are gone, it starts chirping again.
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I fucking hated it, but I know I'm in the minority. I'm actually the same guy who got called out by Stallone when he was answering TBer questions. You may know me better as "PwnedByStallone."
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Aug 19, 2008 1:53:56 PM CDT
I had a friend in High School who was a real bad ass...
by dannyglovers_dickblood
He lit up a cigarette during The Jackal, that same time I talked about before where we were drunk off our ass and laughing uncontrollably everytime it cut to a close up of Bruce Willis with one of those horrible whigs. Anyway....I was always amazed, it was a semi-full theater in a very nice suburban area and he just lights up a smoke in 1997 and smokes the entire thing without anyone saying a word. -
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Hahahaha......and I love The Order by the way. It is a very bizarre, fucked up film that is acted beautifully.
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Bought sneak peek tickets to Zathura on Halloween weekend. It was late afternoon, and movie was stalled from starting on time. It gave the children there time to get JAZZED on candy and they were zooming about the thater like little robots. One of the large chubby kids next to me starts to sort of make this "GALLLURRRKKK"ing sound and before my eyes, chokes up a whole marshmallow into his hands, and he is so clearly relieved not to be choking, he looks up at me and smiles and then proceeds to shake his hand so the melty marshmallow flings onto the floor.
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It was the last showing of the night, I had gone with my dad. I get outside and I don't have my wallet. So I go back in, and ask the kid cleaning up if I can get back into the Event Horizon theater as I think I left my wallet there. He looks strangely nervous but says yes, seems to laugh and then I go on in. Sitting in the empty theater spread across two theater seats is the largest usher I have ever seen and he has two girls draped over him, like Jabba the Hutt or something. I spot my wallet, sadly, in the same row, on the other side of he and his love nest. Wow, that was uncomfortable.
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We used to go to the bait shop before school and get a shitload of crickets and turn them loose in class.
All the girls would start screaming and jumping around.
So yes, we naturally took them to the theater and I guess it was the darkness that made them sing.
So you could see people in front of us and around start picking up their legs and looking around.
But nobody left and nobody complained even when they were singing.
Stand By Me was the movie, so maybe the audience thought it was coming from the movie or something.
We also did the same thing with birds, as we had a live trap and could catch small sparrows or Robins and sneak them in with a brown paper sack.
That would get people moving, as the bird would fly around finally heading up into the space above the theater.
It was even funnier when we sent them down the hall at school, as you could hear the screams following the bird down the hall.
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I could not help but think that the 'gallurking' sound and the movie Zathura reminded me of Thus spake Zarathustra
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as a kid I was on my way with a friend to see Wayne's World. His parents dropped us off, and we had grabbed some stuff we randomly found in the car-the clear front of a cassette tap, two big D batteries, and an old Watchamacallit candy bar.
The bar was melted, and I put the batteries ontop of the clear cassette and covered them in the brown chocolate. When it hardened, it looked like nothing so much as a large turd. And the cassette top allowed us to easily slip it off and on the armrest of the theater seats.. We watched person after person stare at it, back away from it,etc. until finally one guy sits down almost on top of it, and starts looking at it, and then playing with it, eventually discovering the ruse. -
Did not mean to kill the TB
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Aug 19, 2008 2:17:03 PM CDT
I got my two cents in over in the Carol TB, Toad
by hawaiian organ donor
That's some funny stuff over there. Between that and GALLURKING over here, I'm done doing any work for the day. Not like I ever really started though.
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Jonah the Gallurker.
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I saw that. I commented over there, but it is worth repeating here: You are a kind and generous soul.
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at the Senator. We were in college and the group was something like 21 people. I had all the tickets, so I was actually stopped in front of the theater because they thought I was scalping. Anyway, friend of mine brings his new girlfriend, and she apparently has a shockingly viscious case of diahrreah right there. He is so psyched to see this thing, that it is only after her fifth trip to the bathroom that he acqueisces to take her home, and he made her pay for the next theater trip to see it.
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Aug 19, 2008 2:28:29 PM CDT
I just don't get these jerkoffs who thump thier chest...
by hawaiian organ donor
...say "Let's fight them over there so we don't have to fight them over here" and claim to bleed red, white and blue but refuse to serve because it means not finger f-ing poopsie whoopsie at the Silver Spoon Socialite Club while waiting to get their hands on their trust fund.You don't have to serve to be patriotic. A lot of vets down at the VA could use some company and an open ear. Vets are the greatest Americans you'll ever have the pleasure of meeting.
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ole Mary Jane Rotten Crotch...ARE OVER!!
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Jonah, I refuse to believe there was anyone else in the theater when you saw Zathura.
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or just realize that it didn't do well. Actually, that was the weekend before it's big release and there was a good sized crowd for like 5 p.m. on a saturday. And this was a screening people actuall paid for. I took that as a good sign, but it promptly bombed the following weekend.
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What TB are you getting down on HOD?
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I didn't mind it.
It was no classic mind you, but it entertained.
Like the idea of a house floating in space.
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I've never seen it. I remember there was nobody in line for that thing when it opened. Something else opened that same weekend I was all into and I peeked in the theater and felt bad it was so empty. I can't stand that cunt Dax Shepard though...fuck that guy.
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I couldn't remember the line or what movie it was from but that's what I was trying to say.R. Lee Ermey is a god.
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Aug 19, 2008 2:44:17 PM CDT
Danny, TKD brought the O'Reilly TB to my attention
by hawaiian organ donor
I posted yesterday but figured it was on it's way out, but a new flame war has begun between LibWar and the two biggest chickenhawk arseholes on these TBs.
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Dude can I have your autograph?
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Elf sucked, Ironman was alright just because of RDJ. I don't understand the John Faveru love? Yeah he's a likable enough guy. But he isn't that great of a director. I've seriously thought about seeing Handcock just because it was directed by Peter Berg, too bad the trailers showed me everything I needed to know.
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I went to see Higher Learning in college. Damn near had a race riot during that motherfucker. Fucking football team were all sitting in the front row drinking malt liqour and smashing bottles and shit.
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I liked Elf alright. Really liked Zathura(but, as an illustrator, I'm a Chris Van Allsburg fan)and loved Iron Man. On the other hand, don't get the Peter Berg love, though I thought Rundown was fun and Kingdom was mostly good.
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It's been too long.
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You do illustrations for board games?
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I had no idea.
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although I am doing the designs for the ones Im working on, but used to do book cover illustrations, particularly children's books. Haven't in a while, though have one I'm working on that is underway. A children's picture book.
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You should get in on that Bill O'Reilly TB. What is your stance on the wars in Iraq/Afghanistan?
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He finally snapped after getting shelacked by Moriarty. To know the man is to smell the man after all, and I think Egg Salad has been sitting in the sun too long. Smells like his fat trekkie cunt mother's cooch.
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is he isn't even the REAL eggsalad. He is someone else who just copied Eggy's shtick. He swears he is Eggy, but doesn't quite posess the bug-nuttiness that Egg does. For example there aren't 400 identical posts proclaiming something faux-offensive.
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Do you work for a specific publisher or is it a job by job thing?
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That guy was much scarier. Egg is just a dick.....Brane was fucking crazy. "To know the man is to smell the man's flop sweat." hahahahaha..... -
because Im trying to turn it into a more solid gig. At this point, Im basically trying a bit of everything and throwing it at the wall, and seeing if anything sticks.
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you do know you aren't "attacking" me. And it's not just because we aren't in the same room. The "person" you think you are attacking is so far and away different and seperate from myself, that you just seem looney. And there would be nothing that would make attacking Danny, I, Hobo or Fred, or Fred's amoeba any better except for the vision you have in your head. So I want everyone, yourself included, to understand this:
You log on here and hurl insults at IMAGINARY PEOPLE that probably all have Roald Dahl like characteristics, and then you get titillated by the IMAGINED responses these IMAGINARY people have. I am quite serious, and not trying to slag you. I think you need some help. Whether you are a 30 something soccer mom doing this to vent after her kids tore the house apart, or you are the school football team logging onto the libraries' computer, or if you are Judd Apatow himself, you might want to actually think about what you are doing. I feel legitimately sad for you. -
how long did it take you to do that? I hope you had that lying around, and didnt just write that to post on AICN. It would be sort of ...unfortunate.
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And keep telling us about your theater stories. You, Danny, Hobo and the rest had me crying earlier.
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I'll say hi to the wife for you. Goodluck with your endeavor, whatever it is exactly. See any good movies recently?
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Where is everyone?
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You didn't honestly read all that?
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the teacher in me started coming out. You know how you have the problem child student that everyone believes needs care? Of course reaching out to the unbalanced online is as effective as trying to insult the well adjusted via the same means.
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Were you born on twat farm?
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Never fails. I get into a good groove of posting and Damn! Here comes more work.
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it is clearly long, and it isn't done for my benefit, he posted it elsewhere. Im not his Kevin Dunn to his Mr. Glass, but that's what he is playing at. Thing is I've never attacked him once, just attempted to engage him in conversation. He doesn't like that latter approach.
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Just ignore them and they get bored and go away. He only wants someone to acknowledge his pathetic existence - even if it is only getting banned. At least someone noticed him. Just a pathetic creature.
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...I'm done so I'll keep posting here. I'm going to go read your Penguin post again. That was priceless.
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1) Ctrl-F
2) Typed "penguin", hit Enter
3) Read Danny's post
4) LOLMAO
5) Slurped cum off an ugly fat cock
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Aug 19, 2008 4:03:23 PM CDT
Sir Egg Salad -- if I could fuck Natalie Portman....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
...uhh yeah...I'd be a lame duck for sure. Stupid fuck.
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Aug 19, 2008 4:15:28 PM CDT
Aww, shucks. Fred late again. Everyone gone home
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
Well, Fred read DannyGlovers story and spit cranberry juice! Fred was drinking cranberry juice at the time. That was a very funny story.
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... just going back and forth, looking for DVD's, nipping back here, going off again...
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Fred glad you not get banned. You say some funny things.
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Jonah and myself are the only ones dumb enough to give a little boy like you attention. Anyone else can easily ignore a piece of trash like yourself. Again dude...you're not funny. That last line about Fred giving me a hand job. Seriously....what the fuck? Is that suppose to upset either Fred or myself? We don't fucking care. This is the last time I acknowledge you just to let you know you have lost it. You used to be far more entertaining but now you are just repetitive and dull. Maybe Jonah is right....maybe you're not the original Egg. Either way...fuck off. I'm done with you.
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Hee hee! Fred can't help it - just makes Fred laugh all the time. Did you read DannyGlovers penguin story?
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Hee hee. Dirk is Fred's pet Amoeba in case you do not remember.
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Must've missed that. Where can I find it?
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didn't really get into it. it was ok till the end, but the end was just crap. a)so many miss fired shots while they were out in the open b)poor motivation on the part of ben wade
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Can you imagine that guy blowing chunks and the stink it would give off if the air wasn't working.
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Typr Ctrl f then penguin. Fred learned how to do that today on this thread.
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That is a blinder! Well played, Danny. This time I remembered not to have a drink while reading.
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someone calls a film 'Australia' (ok it has only happened once). Imagine a film called 'America' or 'England'. troubling, troubling.
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Everclear!
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That couldn't happen to Fred!
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It better be about the greatest folk/rock band of all time, canvassing the country and nailing all sorts of bitches along the way!! Thats AMERICAN!!
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I'm not just saying that cause im at a computer. if you are bigger than me i would fucking hit you with the shovel i keep by the door.
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i wrote it before i read the last two sentences. just keep posting away tool.
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Everclear will get balls out of the Mason jar and reattach them just it can kick them.
If you gave Dirk a drop of Everclear he would turn into the Cloverfield monster within the hour.
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Is there anything you can mix it with? its sorta like vodka isn't it?
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mixed in Slusho, not sea bed nectar that created Cloverfield.
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Fred feels sorry for you. Fred really does. Of course you will get banned again. And of course you will come back. But why is it necesssary to try and hurt someone you do not even know? Fred bet's you would like to have friends - that is why you keep coming back to our thread. You would avoid it if you did not want to see the kind of camraderie that exists in our little group. After you come back from being banned again, why not try and be a part of our group? It is a lot of fun. They even accepted Fred!
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Fred would not like to see Dirk angry. You would not like Dirk when he is angry!
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It is basically pure grain alchohol and it makes straight Vodka look like Evian water.
Our dumbasses got a bottle one night and started riding in a huge field covered in snow (It was one of four snows I remember in my lifetime here) and we started taking shots.
It was about the third round that I started buzzing and immediatly went into drunk mode in a violent transition just a few shots later.
We thought we had run out of gas, but we were in about 12 inches of mud just spinning our wheels.
You can finish a bottle and put it in a dark room.
Then place a lighter need the open end and it will light up the room. -
We would fill up a normal size cooler with fruit juices and peices of fruit.
Then put one bottle of Everclear in.
It would get an entire crowd drunk.
But beware mixing sweet drinks with alcohol as the hangover is brutal.
I git fdrunk on Hurricanes in New Orleans and my head was stapled to the mattress the next day. -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everclear_ (alcohol)
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Work day is over. Fred will try and check back later. Hope Dirk stays away from the Everclear!
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not really a peeve per se, but every notice in period movies ie godfather, but the list is long errr that thing you do ect, ever notice that ALL the cars are shinny new waxed versions of that particualar car. You never see old bombs in period movies. My theory is they have to go around to collectors ect so they can fill like one street for half an hour with the cars, and collectors obsessivly wax their cars, so collectors don't have dodgy old ones. i throw down the gauntlet and here by make this challage, name me one sence in one period movie, where the characters have a old bomb car from 20 years before the movie. mulholland falls? la confidential, untouchables? huh? huh?
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Aug 19, 2008 5:03:05 PM CDT
Chitty...I've heard plenty of stories about the stuff...
by dannyglovers_dickblood
...the funny thing is how damn cheap it is. Its like 7.99 for a massive bottle at a drug store....
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you should join our club. you and your friend.
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and as he leans forward to fall, I hear gregorian chanting,interrupted by the sound effect of his face rubbing against the rubber guard on each step. My mind's eye has this recorded from four diff perspectives, and they play during the chanting like those fight scenes in Ong Bak, one after the other. Danny, I snickered all through work thinking bout that. Especially him out in the bushes with the cigarette, covered in chunks.
"Bro, what happened?"
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I constantly point that out about the waxed cars. Or the fact that ever transportation guy on a film is told "We need cars from the 50s...." or whatever era. So every car in say Back To The Future is from the 50s.......as if there were no cars left over from the 40s or 30s. They are only from the decade in which it takes place. I hate that. And you're right...no rusty old bombs in people's driveways or anything like that....
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Aug 19, 2008 5:07:50 PM CDT
Off my chest....hahahaha.....that dude did have nice tits....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
Whats funny is he looked totally content outside in the bushes. Like it was a completely relaxing thing to do....and this is a nice family suburb theater, not a place where people go to get crazy at all. I would just never think of letting my piss drunk friend stumble outside after he hurled...I would instinctively follow him. But his buddy didn't give a shit...he said, "Fuck that....this is Dark Knight baby!!" -
It's not really a peeve. In genre movies, somebody's always got to say:"We/you don't know exactly what we're/you're dealing with here."I think it's a studio stipulation that this be the first line written in any script.Damn that penguin keeps repeating on me.
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Any covert/CIA/assassin/government agent type shit......contractually has to have the line: "HE DOESN'T EXIST!! HE'S A GHOST!!" or something to that effect. And I see that new Don Cheadle movie Traitor follows the tradition.
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oh please oh please oh please oh please. and hoverboards
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it was their predator spoof. arnie gets blown up and they are like 'are you ok?' and he's like, 'ooohh noooo, i have sCraCted my kneeeee' and then at the end there is a nuclear explosion 'aaaaahhhgh i have sCracted my OTher kneeee' gold. and remember back in the day you used to sit around drinking with your mates and say, just once, just once i would like to see the invincible van damm character die in one of the first scene. then along came executive decision and deep blue sea. I read the Segal practically refused to do that scene.
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Good movie. I always wondered how they managed to convince Seagal to do a short slot. He can't have been happy to do that.But you don't need a Seagal when you've got the mighty Kurt.
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Aug 19, 2008 5:31:58 PM CDT
True That -- I love both....but you don't NEED both...
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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he actually belives that he is a semi god, the reincarnation of budda i believe. but yeah, he signed on for that movie knowing he would die straight up, but when it came around to it he threw a temper tantrum and sulked, and they only got the scene done after a lot of coxing and threatening and pointing to contracts.
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Do you have proof Seagal is NOT a God?
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Sings in a Blues band! And I'm sure I read somewhere that he does a song called 'Talk To The Ass.'I can imagine the next line being something like 'because the face ain't listening.' That sounds bluesy.
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yes - he can count to infinity, like chuck norris can.
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Aug 19, 2008 5:47:14 PM CDT
I saw a video fo Seagal shredding on guitar....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
I think its on Youtube. But that fucker is awesome...and of course he has his tassled Native-American leather on....
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Seagal is now DTV, so why not get him to expand his horizons abit and do some crossover sequel work. For instance, Seagal in Starship Troopers, or in Scorpion King.
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That cat can play! Just checked him out on YouTube. Whoo!
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what was that recently one where he was in the jail with ja rule and the whole movie was head shots cause he is FAT
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i saw an interview with anthony hopkins where he said when silence of the lambs came out he would go into cinemas and when the movie ended he would lean over to the people in front of him and in a lector voice say something like 'i hope you liked the movie sv sv sv sv'
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I think - Seagal/Ja Rule. Unfortunately I fell asleep watching that one. Safe to say I wasn't rivetted by the story.
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If there were one actor I could spend the day with it would have to be either him or Dustin Hoffman. Even though they are known as like the greatest actors alive right now, there is a reason they've been able to stay around for forever and sometimes make a bad movie, but its not because of them, they usually make bad movie bearable. Those two actors you can tell just love what they do. I've never heard stories of them being primadonnas on set, I think in the Marathon Man dvd there are a bunch of outtakes of Hoffman just fucking around and fucking up lines. Like they don't take them selves to seriously say like Morgan Freeman. Their only problem probably it that they care too much about making a good film, and is that really bad?
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Sir Egg Salad, I don't why we even acknowledge him? I mean the boner acts like he's above all this, but the soul fact that he is here makes him just as big of a geek as all of us.
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The next movie on my to-view-list will be another of your suggestions. "The Devil's Backbone" is an option this month on Fearnet's on demand. Good to have something lined up so easily for a night off from work. Thanks!
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I saw on Wiki that the song might be available on a midi file. Haven't checked it out yet, but plan to a little later.
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Hope you enjoy it. What did you think of Happiness of the Katakuris?
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are you from the states? - just interested.
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is in the Gamera:Guardian of the Universe films. Anyone here see those? Chitty, Danny, and anyone else, if you love giant monsters you owe it to yourself to see at least Gamera: Revenge of Iris. It came out in 1999 and one of the best kaiju movies out there. Fire-breathing turtle people! Fire breathing turtle! I'm serious. Check it out.
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Sorry about the dart comment I made yesterday. I meant no offense. It was a poor attempt at humor and insensitive. No more, honest. Also, I find your manner of "speech" charming. Reminds me of Orcus, who also seems to be a pretty cool cat.
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The Happiness of the Katakuris was absolutely trippy!I've been telling people about it for two days now. I thought the description of "The Von Trapps in Dawn of the Dead" should have been more like "The Brady Bunch in Motel Hell", but I enjoyed it. It answered the burning question "How do you remove a dead naked sumo wrestler from an upper floor room?". Seriously, that whole scenario had me laughing out loud!Chipps, I'm from Indiana.
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i don't think any of the other americans are from indiana. it good to have people from a range of locations because each person will pick up on stuff the others don't know about - like the interesting pikie/gypsy argument that happened a while back.
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What was it about, if it won't take up to much of anyone's time to clue me in?
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Another addition for me, as well. Don't think I've seen a turtle-inspired moster movie since "The Boogens".
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basically this guy pointed out (al la snatch) that pikies are not gypsies but 'traveling irishmen' I thought bulshit and looked up and according to wiki he was right. Then this other guy chimed in and said, you must have wikied that because while technically correct, to the average londoner there is no difference.
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for my lack of typing skills.
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I wasn't aware of that either. Did they face the same sort of discrimination that the gypsies have?
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Fred missed you -so did Dirk; Freds pet Amoeba. Thank you for understanding about Freds sensitivity. It is a cross Fred must bear.
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Aug 19, 2008 6:54:49 PM CDT
Fred can't stick around long, but hope to be back on later
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
Ciao
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based on the conversation that in Britain they are just considered the same. In ireland they are seen as a clan of vagrants.
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An Amoeba must be the coolest type of pet I've ever heard of. Did you name him after anyone in particular? My first thought would have been "Dirk The Daring" from "Dragon's Lair". Ahhh, nostalgia. I loved that video game!
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I love gleaning bits of information like that.
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Since someone was asking for mixes with it. Mixed with grape soda it is called a "purple passion". At least around here, it has an old reputation of being an easy way to get non-drinkers drunk. I may be a gender-traitor for saying it, but it's usually considered a way to get girls plastered without them being aware of it. I had my own encounter with it many moons ago. Good stuff. Good reason why I don't drink now.
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Read this review earlier today and wanted to figuratively raise a fist in solidarity with Vern regarding the blue Power Ranger Scorpion King movie but then I get here and there's 2,000 posts already and all I can think to contribute to the conversation is that my friend once ran out of gas in the middle of nowhere and had a handle of Everclear and used it as fuel to get him to the gas station. DAMN YOU, AT-WORK NET-BLOCKER FOR NET COCK-BLOCKING ME AND NOT LETTING ME POST MY ORIGINAL, SLIGHTLY MORE INTERESTING THOUGHTS WHEN THEY FIRST OCCURRED TO ME AND WOULD HAVE BEEN MORE RELEVANT TO THE CURRENT DISCUSSION!
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how hard would it have been to stick with the drawing?
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Do tell of your adventure with Purple Passion.....I'd love to hear more.
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...and its funny how it looks exactly the same as Smokin' Aces, considering everyone said Carnahan was ripping off Guy Ritchie's style which I didn't really see. So RockNRolla looks like Guy ripping off Joe who ripped off Guy...sort of.
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that was ripping off Ritchie that was ripping off Tarantino.
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I hope you don't plan on trying to convince me Ritchie is a rip-off of Tarantino. Ritchie's dick could direct a better film than Tarantino. Fuck Quentin and all fungus on these TB's surgically attached to his balls.
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was told to me later. The memory of that night is a bit blurry. I was about 16. I was playing cards with friends at one of their homes. One of the guys had a 2-liter bottle of "grape soda", which he had was pouring for all. After I'd had a couple of glasses of it already, he started adding extra everclear to mine. I'm told that I had at least 3 or 4 glasses of the kicked-up batch.Since I was the only one actually trashed, the rest of them thought it would be funny to take me around town. I got permanently banned from a store where they dared me to go make a pass at the clerk on duty. Instead of flirting with him, I was telling him how much one of the guys was lusting after him. My friends literally drug me out of there while I was yelling "He really, really, REALLY likes you!" at this poor fellow. After that backfired on them, everybody scattered and left me with the guy who'd laced the soda. He drove me out to an empty K-Mart parking lot (how romantic!). There we were, all alone and I was not quite as bad off in the head as I'd been earlier. He turned on the car radio and began singing "Can You Feel the Love Tonight"....and I started laughing at him. It was soooo corny!!! I couldn't stop laughing. Ruined his mood completely. He took me home and that was the end of that. Not nearly as exciting as the majority of the stories you guys have told. I'm grateful for that!
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i can see a link between smoking aces and ritchie and tarantino. it ritchie tarantino link is strong. especially with the use of music. i would also say that ritchie riffs off mad mad world and other ensemble pieces. and for that matter smith ie: inane conversation, but then, he riff offa tarantino there too. ie the milk speech in snatch, the burger speech in fiction. now off we me to rent rats of tobruk. or maybe rio bravo. TALLY-HO!
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Aug 19, 2008 8:59:22 PM CDT
chipps-- I just watched Rio Bravo last night...weird...
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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if i catch him i'll beat him with my shovel. I got serpico instead.
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i bet it was egg salad. yeah. i bet it was
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IT WAS YOU!!!!! Me, and aptow, and seth rogan, we are going to come around to your house, and pull down your drapes, stir your goldfish tank around, resest your vcr, mess up your lounge, hide one of every pair of socks and shoes set your clocks back ten minutes then go home and tell funny stories about it. Vengeance will be swift and just.
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One of those movies that actually made me viscerally angry, like Hancock. Mulcahy tossed his career away years ago. Incidentally he directed a Mummy ripoff shortly after the original came out.
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Fred hanging out with Dirk for a little while. Dirk is a very cool Amoeba.
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What are you two up to tonight?
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Dirk is a night owl- er, Amoeba. He (Gred beleives Dirk is a he, but Fred has no real proof) likes to eat popcorn and watch TCM until early in the morning. Fred has gotten up many a nights to turn off the TV
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watching serpico cause danny rented 'rats' and 'rio'. It's interesting. the dvd is good quality so you can see where, in shot where the foreground and background are in focus they have spliced two films together because the background of the fore ground shot isn't in focus.
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Aug 19, 2008 10:14:08 PM CDT
Dirkis getting over a failed romance he had with a dust ball
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
Fred hopes Dirk find true love one of these days
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Fred has no idea what you just said. Must be that Aussie accent!
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amoebas have he's and shes. i think they reproduce a sexually. i don't know if that is a good thing or a bad thing.
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this aussie is getting a little drunk. Mavra Chang if it's ok can you explain what a hoosier is. and why hillary clinton pretends to be one?
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They breed like bunnies. You could end up watching TCM in a nursery! I've been hanging around online all evening waiting for a friend of mine to show up, but that's probably not going to happen at this hour of the night. I tried to watch [REC] on google video, but all I could get was the trailer. Not batting 1000 tonight, just like chipps.
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Fred just assume Dirk was a he
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Aug 19, 2008 10:20:38 PM CDT
Fred and Dirk will be your friends tonight
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
Dirk watching Witness to Murder now.
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i think for 'honey i shunk the kids' they invented a new technique where you could have both the fore ground and the background in focus, ie: two people close to the camera are talking, but you can still clearly see people in 50m away. before that like the old cameras you had to focus on something specific, either the people close to the camera or the people far away. orson wells did this thing where he had the fore ground on one side of the frame and the background on the other, there is a scene in cane where kane is typing in the foreground and his mate walks toward him from a far away office. what he did was film it twice, once for the fore ground once for the background, then he put the two together 'in the lab'. he also used lighting to disguise he was doing it. in serpico you can see on one side, you see to the same depth as in the background shot, so if you look into the distance some of the distance is in focus and some is not.
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Some think it's coined from slurring together "Who's your/yer" or "Who's here/'ere". Some (more recently) think it means we're 'hosers' (thanks, Canada ;)). Probably one of the first two menaings. We all have a twang in our speech, if we don't work it out. I had to go to school to learn that Washington didn't have an "r" in it before the "s".Hillary Clinton seems to be claiming status from some Hoosier relatives. I think she's done that with several states to gain support, but then again they pretty much all do that.
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modern movies this is not as much of a problem
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Aug 19, 2008 10:28:43 PM CDT
There is an old Connery movie called The Offence
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
On cable. Fred getting into it. A Sidney Lumet film
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Very kind of you both. I'm going to watch tv later, after I get done on here. My cable seems to have a glitch in the splitter. If I run the tv and the Internet at the same time, the Internet will keep cutting out. I've already replaced the splitter once, but it's doing it again for about a week. I think the cable company is just Evil Incorporated.
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i just though, it would be funny if we all had a real conversation, we prob wouldn't be able to understand each other. I come from the same state as steve irwin so i talk a bit like that, but where i come from in the state has it's own slang and little flourishes. i've always said that ipswichian are born ventriloquist as we talk without moving our lips. for example i pronounce australia as ostraeya because the other sylabells require lip movement
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did serpico, brother film watcher
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Aug 19, 2008 10:35:33 PM CDT
Dirk getting agitated by what is on the screen
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
He is thrashing about - well thrashing for an Amoeba, in his tank. chipps the 'require lip movement' is very funny!
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People made fun of me there because I spoke too 'properly'. When I moved back here a few years ago, people made fun of my southern accent. It's very strange how the accent changes so much in rather short distances. Where is Professor Higgins when we really need him???
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to be honest, i just couldn't be stuffed moving my lips.
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"Let there be lips", ha ha!
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Is it a Fred movie, or does he stray from the name?
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Aug 19, 2008 10:44:45 PM CDT
Must be very diificult to lip read ipswichians!
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
Fred would not want to try!
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though big is very simular. the biggest difference in a australia is the southerners (culturally for an american read northerner) use a soft a and we use a hard a. for example i would say castle as in c(ass like donkey)tle and they would say car stle. this gets funny when you consider that our nation anthem is adavance austalia fair. there are constant arguments over whether it is adVARnce or advANCE. plus my state is almost totally anglo irish, but melbourne is the second largest greek city in the world, after athens, with a lot of italians so they have what we call a 'wog' accent. it's ok they make fun of us too. they call occa australians 'skip' as in skippy the bus kangaroo. in oz making fun of people is part of our national identity and we don't mind being made fun of.
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I miss one day and already you've annexed a new talkback and drove it up to nearly a 1000 posts! I cant even keep up with the conversations anymore, too busy with my class projects.
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Aug 19, 2008 10:48:39 PM CDT
Dirks favorite movie: A Tale of two Cities
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
Starring Dirk Bogarde
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Is it just me or has the site been very slow the past few days? Because everything on here takes forever to load, even small threads with 30 posts, and I dont seem to have that problem with other sites. Its really annoying.
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that the majority of my knowledge of Australia is from the Colleen McCullough books I read when I was younger. I do enjoy Australian Rules Football, but it hardly ever gets shown around here anymore. I liked Hawthorne (hope I spelled that right) and Footscray. I'm sure I am ignorant of most of the teams, but those were a couple that I got to see on a semi-regular basis in the past (before the cable turned evil and banished them from our choices).
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Fred would think Ireland would be called Oz - cause it is Emerald.
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I've thought it was running slow too, but wasn't sure if it was the site or my connection.
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EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN
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"Quicksdraw!!!" "I'll save ya, Babalooie!"
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He's been hanging out in that field of poppies a long time.
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Time for Fred to go to bed. Fred hopes your friend shows up
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He's the Wizarrrrd!
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i am fucking impressed you have read those books. I havn't read any of them but my gf loves them. i thought they were strickly australian fare. (although i think she wrote power of one - not sure). Also we play several sports here. it is the southerns who play aussie rules, we consider it a sport for whimps (we call it airiel ping pong or just 'ballet') Ipswich is famous for it's rugby league greats, but i played rugby union. however because i come from ipswhich i follow league and union. In fact as a kid my town (and i pull this from kevin smith films) was like new jersey, ie the place everyone though was scum but was near the bright lights. all we had to be proud of was our league player, and their legandary toughness (playing with broken rib cages ect)and fred, i don't know why but my theory is we call ourselves 'aussies' but if you drop off the last part, they way we pronunce the auss part sounds a lot like oz
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G'nite chipps
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There's always tomorrow! Fred, enjoy this song tribute to "Oz" sometime:
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night dude, stay well
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Hmm. Didnt even know they already had one sequel.
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i copy and pasted the url. what do i do?
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I discovered Aussie Rules Football by accident while channel surfing. The field that day was full of large white birds (don't know what they were, but they were big and slow moving and not much fazed by the game around them). A player missed a pass of the ball and grabbed one of these birds by mistake. He was more than halfway down the field before he realized it. I'd never seen anything so entertaining! I really admired the fact that no matter how much they bullied each other during the game, it ended when the whistle blew. I've seen them punch, kick, and bite, then help each other up and walk off together when it was all over. That would be very unusual here.
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This site makes gaps.
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Fred and Dirk only watch part of that, but Fred think that Dirk now have crush on you. He is into existentialism. Dirk is a deep Amoeba. Do not worry though, he has a short attention span and may forget he has crush on you very soon.
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Thank you Dirk. Please kiss him goodnight for me, Fred.
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He is very fickle. Good Night all.
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ahh. no i grudgingly respect it. when you watch it on tv you don't see the brutality of it cause they belt each other in the back play. It was prob a seagal, but may have been a pidgen (i assume you have seen a pidgen) i dislike a out of rivalry and b it drains good players from the wallabies. also girls tell me the players are more attractive. rugby players are boofy afl player are lean and tall.
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Spurned again. Such is life!
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Randy Couture is heavily featured on the box art and in the commercial.
Gotta feel bad for the hero of the flick right?
Anyways, how was Randy Couture? Will he be a breakout DTV action star? Or just another UFC has been, that a studio cashed in on.
Oh, Russell Mulcahy, I love him too, but guys, I have decided...he's a fucking hack.
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I'm almost off to bed. Been burning DVDs for you ingrates all damn evening and watching John Woo's Red Cliff. I gotta say, good old Woo might have made the grandest, most sweeping Chinese period piece epic yet. He pulled a Kill Bill and split it into two parts so we won't get to see the second half until early next year but for two hours not only could I not take my eyes off the screen, I couldn't blink. Just amazing, sweeping cinematography and action that will make you say Peter Jackson who?Seriously anxious to see what everyone else thinks of it.Dammit if I didn't read the Penguin story again.OK, struggling to keep my eyes open. I'll see y'all in the morning.
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Nice to see you, even if briefly. Note for anyone who watched that youtube video I posted, I hadn't seen the end of that video. It was strange. I was just familiar with the song itself before.
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funny shit, niche would aprove
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look up a band called 'tripod' i think they have stuff on you tube. just give one song ago and give if no good.
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Missed your reply to me until just now. Oops. They may have been seagulls. They were really big ones if they were. We have pigeons and seagulls around here (the seagulls if you are near Lake Michigan). I haven't seen much rugbe. I should give that a try. I'm not really of fan of American football (ducks the oncoming flames).
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is the my fav
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oops again.
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its called 'i hate your family'. you prob see the joke already.
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the game played in heaven
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Tripod was fantastic! I watched "Ghost Ship" first (I am so predictable). I am still laughing!
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But I found "I hate your family"
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all this ties back into the converation from the other night 'best school movies' tom brown's school days (first a book and then several movies) is set at written by an old boy of rugby grammar in england. birthplace of ruby.
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I watched the long one first, which didn't have the song, but acted it out. I went back to catch the song. I will have to share that. I know several other people who will appreciate that song.
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Exactly my type of music. I'm a big fan of the Dr. Demento styles. Are you familiar with the songs of Ivor Biggun? Raunchy, but hilarious! I have about a dozen of his songs on my MP3 player. My favorite is "Halfway Up Virginia".
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Keepin' this TB alive! You must be West Coasters to be on so late.
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'the doug anthony all stars' but tripod is better. i don't think it is possible to get this one cause they made it up and did it live on the radio but they did a song that was 'dream world vs movie world' which would be like 'disney land vs six flag' it was hilarious, it was a musical about star crossed lovers 'we come from two different worlds, you come from movie world i come from dream world' and the corus was ' it's just the way of things, its just the way things are' absolute gold.
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the deeeeeeep south
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I'm a graveyard shift worker. This is just my night off, so I'm wide awake.
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never heard of them
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Ah say, ah say he's a south'en boy. Whaddya mean that's the wrong south? Why I oughtta....
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Dr. Demento is/was a radio show host. His show highlighted comedy songs. He gave Weird Al his start. He did some stuff himself, but he was mostly the man behind the scenes spreading the laughs to the rest of us.
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Eeeesh....you sir are a true hero.
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my favourite australian quote (i am likely to accedently make fun of you and hurt your feeling at some point, we australias give it a lot but we can take it, i'm sorry in advance) kisanger once said ' i have never been to australia because i have never been on my way to antartica.'
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Sings the dirtiest songs I've ever heard. Many of the titles of his songs have to be changed by the censors. There's a terribly funny one called "Dorothy, Please Trim Your Minge". It's about a guy who's girlfriend has excessivley long pubic hair ("like bigfoot's bum, but hairier"). It's NSFW, but laugh your ass off funny.
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Is the best fucking sport ever. I played for 4 years during college. Haven't found the time to pick it up again. I was on a pretty intense college team for awhile, we've been in the top five nationally since like 04. I'll probably pick it up again when I move. Theres a movie about rugby coming out soon, starring Rudy and Lombard.
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I am twisted...and now masculine to boot! Won't my family be surprised? Mwahaha!
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Ever listen to Unknown Hinson? He does the voice of Early Cuyler on the Squidbillies. Type his name in you tube, he is crazy as hell, and he is a nasty guitar player.
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out here the people who play rugby are rich kids and catholics. i'm a catholic
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That I can now spit, scratch, and pass gas and it will be considered funny, right? Guys have it so great. I am excited to be a part of it! Wait...I now say "Yeah, baby!" The lingo will take me a day or two. I'll get it yet!
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Catholic, don't really keep up with all the events and go to the weekly meetings. Usually the places I go the rowdiest people were the ones that played rugby. We didn't care who was on the team, shit most of us had a DUI or two. That was my second rugby team, one that wasn't so nationally ranked.
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I want it to be real clear to the regulars of the group. i will never willingly offend you. the australian style of humour is to make fun, but you only make fun of your friends. if a non friend insults you, you brawl. but mates mericlessly make fun of each other, we are really harsh to each other. obviously i won't be like that to you guys, but when drunk i could slip. i particularly worry about Xi, worry in that i don't want to be an arsehole and you cant hear irony or sarcasm when typing
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That you were a chick, but I don't really care I'm too lazy to say boys and girls. You all know what I mean.
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That was for Danny. He keeps calling me sir and man. I felt like Peppermint Patty.
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I think it's funny. And Unknown Hinson is great, too. Just watched "Venus Bound". Getting lots of stuff here every day for movies and music. Excellent.
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was in my senior year of school. we played toowoomba (farm boys) we came from the dregs of our capital city (a coal mining town) we fucked each other up. it gets cold in toowoomba and the ground was frozen (like cement) it was the night of the girls formal (prom) we hit each other so hard. one of our boys got strechered off. while we waited, their lock said to our lock 'what are you doing next year' he said 'engninering at uq'. the other guy said 'me too, we should hook up', then every guy shook his oposite numbers hand said said one or two sentence about thier hopes for the future. we were interupeted when the ref came back on, and by god, after that it was on for young and old. I barely walked away but i know i gave better than i got. i fucked some cunts up. but there was no hatred. we bashed each other but shit, that is the game. that is what you sign on for. it was beautiful, and it is what rugby is all about
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The best part about rugby is that as soon as the game is over your all friends and party afterward. We played the longhorns one match, and they had 3 complete squads and we were one wing short of a full squad. The beat us 3 tries to 1, I scored the only try for out team, and I broke some dudes nose. After the game I realized we were at his house killing his keg and I told him sorry about the nose and he was totally cool about it and poured me a beer.
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Toowoomba. That's lyrical. The place names around here are dull. 'Colfax', 'Dayton', 'Buck Creek'. Indiana needs jazzed up.
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i have had my nose broken three times. once playing rugby
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other aboriganl names (just suburbs around me) goodna, inala, indooroopilly, moolooloba. (notice you can say them say them all without moving your lips
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....a girl has joined our group? Cool. I assumed you were a gay dude from the "Can you feel the love tonight?" serenade.....interesting. And let me tell you-- the CoC is the only group on AICN that won't start groaning, "Send me pics....are you hot?!" and shit like that....
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may I ask what kind of work? I worked the nightshift at a convenience store for a year, then I got switched to the evenings after a couple hold-ups. It was hell, I hated working there but did it for like 5 years until I couldnt take it anymore.
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Not long right...like a week or two?
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shit like that never happens when I go to the movies, all these stories the COC was telling today were quite hilarious.
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danny already has enough fans. what i want out of you is a new perspecitve. do you like chick flicks. seriously, i don't but i will respect you if you do. i want someone who loves film who can say 'this chick flick is good, this one is bad' it is something our group needs.
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Aug 20, 2008 12:48:14 AM CDT
thanks Milf.....Jonah's got the crazy ass stories....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
...but he used to be an usher....
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1. Girl, but not gay. Don't get too many hopes up on that one.2.I've been around for quite awhile. Been a lurker for a couple of years and kind of threw myself into the arena with the lions when SG first appeared3. If you want pics, you'll have to ask the guy I'm involved with. He's around here somwhere, I'm sure. He's been on the site way longer than me.4. I work in a bakery. I make doughnuts. I am also a student. I'm studying to be a children's librarian (shocking, isn't it?)5. I crashed into this group last week. I really like it here and I appreciate that all of you guys have welcomed me so quickly. Did I miss anything?
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See you all tomorrow. Good nite!
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Watched Network tonight and I am finishing up Soylet Green, two movies both really good. Especially Network, that were nothing like I thought they would be. I thought Network was going to be some kind of comedy, it really makes you think. I kept thinking that it was directed by Sydney Pollack for some reason, and I was like "DAMN, I thought this guy was well liked around hollywood, how could anyone make this movie and still be liked. Then I realized it was Sidney Lumet and it made a lot more sense.
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I like all types of movies. Chick flicks, slasher flicks, comedies, action. Just about anything. This is my doorway to higher education in films. Music education is turning out to be a bonus.
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{Punches Shoulder}Duuude!
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Some have noticed already, my favorite movies are actually zombie flicks. I am a horror nut.
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i too was a long time luker who decided to pipe up. and most people here are married. (they do fantise a bit) I myself am almost married (i live with my girlfriend of 5 years)
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Meet the guy your involved with through this site, right?
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I've been coming to this web site ever since Godzilla was released. Thats when all my fanboy tendency's started. But I didn't really get into posting until last year. For some reason i didn't interest me, or I didn't really have the time.
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Yeah, I did. We got into an argument in one of the TBs, then became friends. {whistling}
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can you imagine flirting on the net with people that have names like those around here?
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I am shredding papers right now, and I noticed on my little rinky dink staples paper shredder that gets pissed off when you try to shred more then two pieces of paper at a time (unless its a sweet Joe Perry shred) that there is a little warring box with what you shouldn't put threw the shredder. And in there is a picture of a decapitated head, I guess this is in case you are a troll with a head small enough to fit through the slot>
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Aug 20, 2008 1:05:10 AM CDT
Mavra -- never reveal your man's handle....DON'T DO IT!!
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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a bit slow marva, series, my real name is peter finch, the only postumus oscar - for network and and australian. now legder comes around. is the postumus oscar and australian thing.
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I am a student. I know how to research, even people.
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That would be awkward.
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Are you dating Soylentmean(what happened to him, just thinking about him because I'm watching the movie)? Or Sir Egg Salad? Its gotta be one of the two.
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is a scary movie. like rosemaries bayby, real claustrophobic. i'm at the scence where they ask him where else he has gone when they could only know that if his only confidant gave him up. DONT TELL ME HOW IT ENDS!!!
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ewwwschhh....
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What is this? Rumplestiltskin? Sorry no names. Sir Egg Salad? Yeesh! Good thing I don't get insulted easily, but I may get nauseous.
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Jack Nic...I mean Heath getting the oscar? Its going to be too hard to take it from Man Bear John Goodman's claws.
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stupid typos
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Aug 20, 2008 1:11:15 AM CDT
or it good be good old I LOVE A GOOD COCK TEASE....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
mmmmmm hhhhmmmmm........
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Even you Sir Egg Salad.....in whatever ditch you may be sleeping in tonight.
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It's Dirk the Amoeba. We had a brief love affair right here tonight under your very noses. Sadly, I was the transition girl after he was left by a dust ball. He threw me over for a popcorn kernel. This is all very painful still, but you've wrung it out of me. Ahhhhhhhh!
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get more respect? I really like how they have people introduce movies and give some little insight into the film your about to watch. I wish they would play more stuff from the 60-70's though. Old movies are great and all, but man you gotta be in the right place to watch them unless you grew up with them.
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Aug 20, 2008 1:13:58 AM CDT
One last prediction.....Mavra is with Fred....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
...she is the Star Trek fan-fiction girl. Don't confirm that Mavra....keep it all private....
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with odor issues. And Egg Salad's mother. I'm dyin' here guys!!!!
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I am egg salad's mom and his squeeze? I wasn't in Tennessee THAT long. That insulted Fred more than me. Poor Fred. He deserves better.
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i respect the fact that you are putting up with shit with a smile. i apologise for the group but i think you are going to have to contend with a lot of adolescent fantisises (drunk and cant spell). for my money i think you are going to be one of the most interesting tbers, causes the rest of us will fall more lock step with each other and your opinons will be a little more skewif
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I'm ghost, gonna fall asleep to one of HOD's movies again, nothing against the movie. Just fucking tired.
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Ever? The problem is elucidated really well in the reviews for The Clone Wars; the story is already complete, we KNOW what happens, so there is no suspense when anyone's in peril. In this instance, the Scorpion King will OBVIOUSLY win so he can go on to grow up and become the Rock, then die and return and die again in THE MUMMY RETURNS...so where's the danger? RED DRAGON, HANNIBAL RISING, those godawful STAR WARS prequels, CARLITO'S WAY RISE TO POWER, none of these worked. I'm serious, has a prequel ever worked and deepened the meaning of the original film? I think the answer is no, unless you count the Young Vito section of GF 2 as a prequel...and I don't.
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stay. we need a litte balance here. some guy said 'i don't agree with you but i will defend to the death your right to say it' i know who it is but i can't spell it
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I have like one minute to do this and then I'm out. Chipps why would you worry about what I would think? Post away friend-o I have real thick skin and it takes a lot, and I mean a like a metric ton, worth of crap to move me in a serious manner. If you do some how piss me off you'll know. I have a large vocabulary of swear words that I have no inhibition about throwing around, hence the multipal bannings on my resume.Mavra, I've said it before, but I'll say it again, its good to have you aboard it. Your presence mediates some of the baser instincts that tend to arise in the sausagefest of AICN. Plus, you pack a full bag, and I mean chock full, of a sense of humor. Sometimes that trait lacks in the double X chromosomes carriers in the world. sorry for the rambling and typos I'm rushed.
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"Sticks and stones may break my bones but whips and chains excite me." Just kidding guys (but I bet that got some momentary interest). If I was a wimp, I wouldn't be hanging around this site. It was suggested to me yesterday that i find some other girls on the site to hang with, but I'm going to go where I am comfortable. Right now, that's here with the true movie fans.
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That's way cool!
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Have you heard of Jon Lajoie? He's got some pretty funny videos on youtube, both songs and skits.
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See ya around.
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Back to youtube for me to check it out.
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thanks
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really care less if you were a chick or not. I hate it when dudes always gotta change who they are all of the sudden when a girl walks into a room. Fuck that. I guess I'll bring the labtop to bed and stay on for a bit longer.
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raw about my own military. i may*** be getting deployed soon (to somewhere quite safe) and my missus has said it would be like abandoning her. with that hanging over my head i am not evening getting deployed somewhere tough. i just imagine you are raw, that's all, now you have shown me you kinda get what i am saying
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"And I'm pretty good at making paper planes". That was good. I also saw that "Everyday Normal Guy" was available for free download on his site. Faboo!
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I absolutely do not want anyone to act differently on my account. That would ruin this place. If the people here can't be themselves, what's the point? I am just a name without a face like all the rest of ya. Gettin' this gender stuff cleared out of the way today and we can all just forget about it and go on to business as usual.
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I could pretend to be a gay man, like Danny thought. Naaaaaaa.
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that would be a good horror movie premise...
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You like Zombie movies Chang. Do you read the Walking Dead series? If not you really should its fucking great. I am a wicked slow reader, but I started reading volume 3 today and I finished it in one sitting. That series needs to be picked up by showtime for a show, I will be pissed if they try to turn it into like a trilogy of movies.
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Aug 20, 2008 1:43:30 AM CDT
to Jerry Horror, defender of the ancient art of on-topic posting
by vern
I thought the same thing even before seeing the movie, that poor kid is the Scorpion King but in the ads he's a little speck you can barely make out beneath a giant Randy Couture head. Well, I'm not a UFC watcher (and I didn't remember it was the same guy from REDBELT) so I had no pre-conceived notions of the guy. Definitely not a standout performance or anything but I liked him as far as athlete actors go. His giant gruff head is refreshing in this day of shiny 25 year old pretty boy action heroes. Seagal should be fighting guys like that instead of the frosted-tips, hoodie wearing serial killer doofus in KILL SWITCH.
The Blue Ranger kid is in it much more though, basically Couture is in the first act of the movie, then Scorpion goes on a journey and comes back to fight Couture at the end. Not to mention he turns into the invisible scorpion. But it's more than a cameo at least. -
don't get confused, there is a difference between 'acting the same' and being offenceive. here is how i plan to draw the line. if you declare your lust over brad pit, graphically, fine. if others do the same over other people fine. you should not have to put up with things directed at you though. if the conversation digresses into blow jobs, well its not nice but you kinda signed up for it. if you make a good payout joke ill cheer for you. sex jokes must be generally abstact - megan fox is absract enough. i'll be pissed at things directed at you and you shouldn't put up with it
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Who's the author? I'd like to find that series. Hey, Vern! Great to see you!
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what do you mean? there have been about two dozens topics discussed here today...
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dude, i'm drunk, but i came to this site to disscuss movies, and we have created a movie lovers special interest group here. you don't like that? maybe i'm at the wrong place.
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but i get genuinely angry at the critizim directed at you vern. I was lived before at what egg salad said about harry.
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Thank you. I can usually stand up for myself. My claim to fame on the Saturday topic began when I was being flamed by telemarketer. Every time he called me something, I went Petruchio on him (all syrupy sweet). That went on for a bit, then about a dozen guys stepped in and bashed him thoughoughly. I said then and I say again, I came onto this playgrouind univited and if I can't take some mudslinging, then I need to walk away and find another one. My single exception was a guy who accused me of wanting to mutilate some people. That was the crossing line. Movie violence is fine, the real deal implied is not my style.
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you just put my nose right out of join. i really don't like the haters, i think you guys do a good job...... actually maybe i'm just drunk. time to settle down. a bit of respect would be nice.
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Done by Image comics. But you don't need to by the comics, you can get the volumes, either the soft back ones where there are 8 of them. Or you can buy the hard back one where there are 3 of them I think. Plus if you don't know a good comic book store, you can get them at Barnes and Nobel I just found out. Here's a link to buy volume 1 on Amazon. http://tinyurl.com/6l8fvr The author is Robert Kirkman, I guess he is big in the comic world. I am just getting back into comics and when I used to read them all I knew was the comic book character, I pretty thought they drew and wrote themselves.
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Are you bored with nothing to do since Daily Show and Colbert Report are on reruns?
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not that I care. SG is also the abbreviation for Suicide Girls. I say let them do a crossover, that might be interesting. Or not.
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i know you can stick up for yourself, you prove it by being here. i may not say anything to help you even, but rudeness, sexual directed at you is beyond the pale. that said, it is the 'directed at you' part that is most significant, there will definitaly be schoolboy fantises played out here.
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I put that into my saved list. Barnes and Noble would probably cost me less than the comic shop. I enjoy Graphic Novels. Xiphos (I think) and I had a converation some time ago about the "30 Days of Night" books.
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I can take it. I'm tougher than I look (Think about that for a sec...ok, laugh!). What the heck are Suicide Girls? A band?
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we look for the dead ones. look over my history, i have made fun of those who have made fun of you. we don't deserve disrespect
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Crispin Glover movie in Harry's dvd forum to find out who them Suicide girls are. Seriously, buy the first volume of Walking, if you like it, your probably best off buying the rest of them all at once. I wish I had on comic book day where everything was on sale. I haven't had the money to blow on them like I wish.
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yeah they are good. if you have nothing to do and you have broadband stream triple j during the main hour in oz. ie don't do it at 1am oz time. basically it is simular to the bbc but radio and run by students. it is alternative but not wako. ok sometimes wako. but you would like it. for example before when i said tripod prepared live on the bop things, it was for triple j. it is good.
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And the owner was giving us all the run-around about the date being changed due to some error. I missed out (grumbling). I was actually looking for a purchase from B&N earlier today because I wanted to order a cd from there, but wanted the free shipping they offer with purchaes over $25. This will be perfect to add to the cart with my cd.
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Its 'alternative erotica', meaning tattoed and pierced punk/goth girls that wouldnt cut it in 'regular' adult stuff. They act like its all artsy but it's still just softcore porn. And most of it is pretty bad in my opinion, I dont mind 'alternative' looking girls (I really like that actually) but most of it is just poorly done.
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i might be thinking of desdon dolls. shit i cant remember
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I may be ready to call it a night. This has been a fascinating evening (seriously, not sarcastically). I have taken all of your comedy/book offerings to heart and will be delving deeper into them. That will give me new topics to discuss with you. Thanks for everything. Goodnight, all.
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before you said that i was thinking of saying but thought you guys wern't listening, that i would love to hear your views on topic like favourite school film or what ever. you wanna talk film? here we are. this is not a rude statement but really, we came here cause we like you. we would love if you chimed in
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Since your in the merely land of Oz, you ever heard of a band called Superhiest? Night Wang.
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I really liked "If..." as my favoirte school film. I thought it was intense, though there were a few bizarre moments that I didn't quite understand. That may be because I've only seen the US version, which I believe was edited. Someday I will get my mitts on the entire original version. I liked seeing the slow descent into the mad/rebellious state of Travis. He was the hero of my teen years. 'Night!
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a movie lovers group from all parts of the world. and we would love to have the people who drew us here pariticpate. i was thinking of fucking off but it ocurred to me that you don't own this site, we do. so you have to ban me. still though, we come here cause we like your views, so join us. we are you years ago, unattached movie lovers.night marva, you are our mpv
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no, and 'if' never heard of it
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BILLY MADISON!! There really is no other worthy school movie.
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Is also the best potryal of a military academy there has ever been. Even though its just a private school, its still run the same.
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you said you did some training, what was it if you don't mind me asking
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I don't give a shit, I'm just feeling left out because I'm more interested in the Scorpion King than Everclear. But that puts me in a minority.
I can't keep up with 2,000 posts when everybody's off in different directions. That seems like a job for the Zone where there are actual threads. To me talkback goes in a straight line so it should be a little more linear. But you can follow it even when you're drunk so it's probaly just me.
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the reason i appreciate what you just said, is that i want to continue making fun of the shit heads who question your integrity, and make fun of the idiots who show up to bag the site. it had seemed to me that what you had said previous didn't fit in with that attitude. there is no sarcasm here. thankyou for your reply, i will continue to make fun of those idoits who just keep on with their 'acin sucks' nonsense. and the invitation stands. create a false account and join our discussion.
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lets just say I went to a military academy of sorts. Also I would like to thank all of you who pay your taxes for paying for my first three years of college! Turns out me and the government don't have the same ideas about alcohol. As for the Scorpion King, I fucking loved the first one. I thought it would totally suck, took forever before I finally saw it and had a blast. That scene where he's stomping on giant fire ants with his jaw was awesome. Also it really boggles the mind that Russell is still allowed to direct movies. Him and to a lesser extent Danny Cannon were like the huge flop directors of the late 80 early 90s. Though Russel did give us Highlander and the best Denzel movie ever Ricochet, maybe the best Lithgow movie ever? Either way Lithgow was a bad ass in that movie. So Russell gets some leeway. I was hoping more from him with Resident Evil 3, probably because I just saw the Shadow right before. The Shadow has this awesome ending song the I initial knew sung by the greatest American singer alive Meat Loaf, but it was sung by some chick. Both versions are awesome, I guess neither of them were the original though.
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...sucking so much. If ya want, I can get you a DVD of Seagal's cut (which is less hyper-active)
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I guess I was just hoping something like, Scorpion King 2 rocked. Not just meh? Its ok. I mean WWE movie film looked like they got their shit together with The Condemned and are either pulling Renny Harlin out of his rut or making it worse and he is directing an upcoming WWE film. Its kind of crazy that the biggest DVD release these past few weeks have all been DTV movies? I mean Starship/Scropion/Felon are all in my queue and are on Very long wait. I was like WTF, they are DTV? Then I went to Wal Mart and saw that the only DVD displays were for those movies.
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And Rouge as well.
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military and acolohoism have long gone together. when i went through they made a big deal out of how you don't have to drink. but truth be told, every man wants to drink with the man who stands beside you. it is how you suss them out.
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Well I was at a military academy, where 95% of the people who get the boot is due to alcohol related shit. Military academy's are just breading grounds for tools. Why do you think most military leaders are douchebags?
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I alone am best! Looks like I win. Can't fucking get to sleep. Keep wondering why Asians don't have e-mail.
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just re-read. vern, you were very mild. i'm sorry dude, i read too much into it.
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is a clear chipps stop posting time. ngiht all, will prob continue to read your posts.
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It wasn't me you were talking 30 Days of Night with. It was Pondscum and VegasRon and it was that TB where we were getting on about WWZ and the window vampire kid from Salem's Lot. I read the first Graphic Novel of 30 Days, the one the movie was based on, and thought it was lame.I would like to throw my support behind reading The Walking Dead. Top notch series and each book gets more and more brutal. Whoever said get as many books as you can, there are 8 I think, at one time is dead on. You will tear through them and want more. HBO or Showtime needs to get on this ASAP this and Preacher. If you've not read Preacher, that's another one to look into. Be prepared to offended, they offend everybody in that funny book, From the Catholic Church to vampires and everybody inbetween. Its great fun.
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I like your taste in comics friend. Question. I have been very poor for awhile and had to cut back on my comics, but I have heard that after issue 50, the story goes in an entirely different direction. So could I start with issue 51 and just go from there? I want to get all the trades eventually, but don't have that kind of money right now.
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I'm not sure where #50 is in the series. It sound like it could the run in the latest trade paperback which I just finished a week or so ago. If you have read some of the previous issues you will get the drift with little or no problem I think. This latest TPB run does venture off in a new direction in typical walking dead fashion.
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as a catholic just one time i would it to happen in a move where there are vampires or ghosts or a possession or what ever and they say 'oh my god, someone call an anglican priest' why is it that whenever there is some sort of problem they call the catholics. a while back i went to confession in a major church in the city and the priest was sussing me out. he's like, you know this god thing, its only for nuts. obviously he keeps getting homeless people tell him they are being chased by vampires. come on people. please, in future, will you please go to the mormons. could you do that for us please? oh no, i'm being possessed. lets call the......ASEMBELIES OF GOD!!! for fucks sake, why always the catholics. please, just leave us to our guilt. anyway goodnight.
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Bears some more talk. I brought it up yesterday. Anyone ever see this?
Also, Vern, to get slightly back on topic, what are the chances we ever get to see Seagal in some DTV sequels? Like Executive Decision 2, where we learn that when he was blown out of the plane, wind currents carry him to Monster Island and he has to help organize labor unions for the various monsters so they aren't taken advantage of by Japan in it's time of crisis. Of course things go bad, and Seagal has to go get his daughter to recruit Gamera, and then they head on out to take Japan, being run by a villainous Michael Caine. And Kurt Russell could die surprisingly half way through the film. -
I'd say "Do not drink and post" but this is pretty funny. Anyway, good call on the priests thing. I was going to mention something sort of like that as a peeve yesterday. But, I believe David Goyer has a film coming out called The Unborn that features a Rabbi played by Gary Oldman coming in to battle the possession, probably with Kabalah. Here is a pic for you:
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1983420160/tt113966
Vern, I understand what you are saying, and we tried early on to stay somewhat on topic, but methinks there is only so much one can say about Scorpion King 2 in and of itself. I think many have learned of other films, both classic, shlocky, and in between as a result of these threads, and me personally I support DTV efforts, including stuff like Scorpion King. The longer this article stays in a place where people can see it, the greater the opportunity someone will read your review, and due to it's entertaining nature, probably give SK2 a try. -
should be that if our little group plans to hang around, we make watching the movie a priority, so we can discuss. Who is up for that?
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That's genius! Why DO they always call for the catholics?
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Aug 20, 2008 7:14:48 AM CDT
So I got held up getting to my office building today
by hawaiian organ donor
Turns out Obama is over at the hotel across the parking lot away from my building. I'm looking out the window right now and the roof is lined with snipers. Good thing I don't have a death wish.
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Well, it's afternoon here. Damned time zones. I missed a really good chat last night because of these buggering time zones!
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The snipers are there to take out Obama?
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was called "Original Sin" and it was sung by Taylor Dane. The video is on youtube, worth a look. The original song was done by a group in the 80s called "Pandora's Box". Some of the lyrics were changed for Dane's version to reflect the movie(there is a whole refrain about evil in the hearts of men). Meatloaf's version came in 95, after Dane's, and it went back to the original form.
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Seriously, I want to pick it up, but I do believe it's only out there in a standard version. Can anyone confirm this, or offer up an alternative widescreen version out there? I love The Shadow, and it's visual world deserves a widescreen version.
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CoCer's can stop bullets mid-air merely from the heat generated from a FLAMING LEG KICK.You need not worry Hawaiian.
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I guess it all depends on if they're McCain men.So I noticed we got slapped by Vern last night. Seems a might bit harsh. Especially since I now check out all the Seagal stuff he reviews.Jonah, I'm willing to bet I'm the only one who watched Starship Troopers 3 so I'll be happy to watch SK2 as well.I mean really, did Vern not read the Penguin and gallurking stuff? "That's gold, Jerry! GOLD!"I've never bought The Shadow because a widescreen version doesn't exist. At least not region 1.
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You were missed yesterday.Have any funky theater experiences?
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...verbosity buffer so I don't know if you read it, but I watched part one of Red Cliff last night. It is breathtaking stuff. John Woo knocked it out of the park. Unfortunately it ends just as the greatest battle in film history is about to begin so we'll have to wait until the winter to see how it all goes down.
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Vern didn't say anything harsh, or anything that probably the entire group of writers isn't thinking. I cannot speak for him, but imagine if you wrote a piece, and you check back to see what kind of talk it has generated, and you get instead ME rambling on about kids choking up marshmallows and random lists of things, and you have to wade through that stuff. Again, Vern was simply encouraging the guy who was still talking about Scorpion King, and not demonizing everyone else persay.
However, it's not like we don't discuss the topics, but rarely ever do we get responses when we ask questions. Perhaps we should try harder to initially engage the topic and/or the author while the TB is still fresh. I don't see a problem with us rambling on after a topic has died out. I think we did enter this one prematurely.
But, until they make us our own little zoo(and I don't mean the Zone) I'm content to do this.
It will be just one more way the site adapts. I'd love to have more interaction with the writers here.
And to Vern's credit, he did suggest a topic. Class of 1984. Who has seen it? Who is interested? Who wants to see it?
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Though like a true disciple of 2for2true, I've stabbed many a shitheel in the mouth over the past year.Does that count?
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And thanks for the heads-up, HOD. I thought it was one big epic,didnt know it had been split. Im so jazzed for that next movie set. And we are not ingrates! :) We all appreciate very much what you are doing.
I spent several minutes looking for the right word to fully express the kid chucking up the marshmallow. I did that for you!
Anyways, my wife wanted to watch movies with me last night, and Bloody Tie seemed too much of a downer. So instead we broke out the BBC miniseries North and South(no not the Civil War one) based on the Elizabeth Gaskell novel.
We have one hour left, but so far it's a great adaptation. Despite the muddy video look of BBC stuff, the acting is great, and the score is uncommonly good for such a production. If anyone here can admit to liking the works of Jane Austen or some of her contemporaries, then it's likely this is up your London alley.
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Can't confirm whether the Region 2 is 16:9 ratio.Gotta go. Work PC won't load AICN.
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Being forced to post there would kill this little group. If the contributors are annoyed with us then the only thing I can suggest is picking a week old thread that's seen all the on-topic hits it's going to get and using that as our playground.Like you said, it's not like the Scorpion King 2 has the legs to carry on a discussion past 100 posts. I'll watch it eventually but Danny's and your posts yesterday were easily the best stuff AICN is going to see this week.The only reason I'm sending out movies in the first place is because I know it's appreciated, although I'm surprised that you seem to be the only one burning through them.
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Aug 20, 2008 8:21:49 AM CDT
And part one of Red Cliff is a little over two hours
by hawaiian organ donor
So we're talking a 4 1/2 movie when all is said and done.Pillow, stabbing morons in movie theaters definitely counts.
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Haven't watched it. Is this something I should be looking into yesterday?
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And I haven't been able to watch another one Hawaiian since I've been busy painting the house. I promise to watch a couple during the week.
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and because I want to write, and for me carving out moments to ingest whats out there is important to me, if I'm ever to sift through it all and craft something of my own that can stand out amidst the rest, but in the context that exists.
Also, I think I'll take the time to start giving some thought out reviews on the stuff you sent. I think discussing this stuff will also bring it more into the light.
What movies have all of us seen so far out of the HOD series 1?
Here are mine:
Chocolate-3 out of 4
Daisy-3.5 out of 4
Mr. Socrates-3 out of 4
Antarctic Journal 2.5 out of 4
Warlords-3 out of 4
Machine Girl- 2 out of 4
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Evey time I read that I think of John Stewart's hilarious New York mobster schtick.
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This is Roger Ebert's review, complete. I agree with his conclusions about the movie.It also has a small cameo for Michael J. Fox:
Class of 1984
BY ROGER EBERT / January 1, 1982
Movies like this either grab you, or they don't. "Class of 1984" grabbed me. I saw it for the first time at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, where I wandered into the theater expecting to find the dog of the week and wandered out two hours later, a little dazed and sort of overwhelmed.
"Class of 1984" is not a great movie but it works with quiet, strong efficiency to achieve more or less what we expect from a movie with such a title. It is violent, funny, scary, contains boldly outlined characters, and gets us involved. It also has a lot of style. One of the reasons for the film's style may be that it was made by people who knew what they were doing. The whole Dead Teenager genre has been seriously weakened in the last several years by wave upon wave of cheap, idiotic tax-shelter films from Canada and elsewhere: films in which a Mad Slasher and a lot of screaming adolescents have been substituted for talent, skill, and craft -- movies such as "Prom Night" and "Terror Train" and "The Burning."
Mark Lester's "Class of 1984" stands head and shoulders above movies like that. It tells a strong, simple story. It is acted well. It is not afraid to be comic at times and, even better, it's not afraid at the end to pull out all the stops and give us the sort of Grand Guignol conclusion that the slasher movies always botch. You may or may not think it's any good, but you'll have to admit that it works.
The movie stars Perry King, a skilled actor who has survived a lot of junk, as a music teacher who takes a job at a big city high school. The first day he walks into class, he faces trouble, and trouble is personified by Stegman (Timothy Van Patten), the brilliant but crazed leader of the high school gang. Stegman dresses as a cross between a punk rocker and a Hell's Angel. He terrorizes half the school with his violence and mesmerizes the other half with his charisma. He also happens to be a brilliant musician. King tries to deal with him, reason with him, outthink him, and even outmuscle him, but the kid is strong, smart, and mean. The other teachers and the school officials have mostly surrendered to the reign of terror. A few put up a fight, most memorably the biology teacher, played by Roddy McDowall. He has one of the great scenes in the movie as he pulls a gun on his class and invites them to share with him the joys of education, or else.
The movie builds toward one of those nightmarish conclusions where everything's happening at once. While the teacher prepares to lead his school orchestra in a concert, the thugs terrorize his helpless wife at home. The teacher turns the baton over to his best student, a shy young girl, and goes off to do battle with the punks. After a great deal of blood has been shed, the teacher and the gang leader are finally face to face, high in the wings over the high school auditorium stage, and the climax is a cross between "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" and "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls."
"Class of 1984" has received some really savage criticism. Newsweek called it "The Class of 1982 with herpes." What does that mean? I dunno. I guess it means the critic found the movie so hateful that it wasn't worth anything more than cheap wisecracks.
But unless we can accept talent wherever we find it in the movies, and especially in smaller genre movies without big stars, we're going to be left with nothing but overpriced lead balloons and delicate little exercises in sensibility. "Class of 1984" is raw, offensive, vulgar, and violent, but it contains the sparks of talent and wit, and it is acted and directed by people who cared to make it special.
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from HOD movie pack volume 1:Chocolate: 3 out of 4Daisy: 3.75 out of 4The Warlords: 3.25 out of 4.
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yea, those are accurate ratings, and if I had considered using quarters instead of halves, would have the same ratings. I think so far, it's the consensus(meaning me and Pillow) that Daisy is the best film thus far. Which is not a slight on the other good films.
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Regarding the Walking Dead. If you've been following shoot the messanger, issue 51 is the most recent issue. And no you shouldn't just jump on there. Pretty much the story is how people survive a zombie apocalypse, like diving much deeper into how people live way after where movies end. And what people where complaining about is that at some point they end up in a prison for a while and some people said that they got bored with it and I guess shit all changes at issue 51. Now I haven't gotten that far, but the story is very linear you need to start at the beginning.
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Issue 50, either way that issue hasn't made it to the trades yet.
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Savor the movies. Don't feel the need to rush through them on my part.It looks like we're not going to have a full crew today.I also watched Street Kings yesterday. That movie had some promise but I just couldn't get into it. Chris Evans is a great actor though. He needs to be cast in an iconic role.
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How goes it this morning? Looks like you guys are in for some serious rain courtesy of Fay.
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Yeah I feel asleep watching Daisey, got most of the way through. How come in that and Chocolate, the two lovers never e-mailed each other? Like I know in Chocolate they sent letters, but they didn't take any steps to show that those movies weren't being held in the present? I know it kind of kills some of the story as well. I guess you could say its a pet peeve. My biggest pet peeve, when someone is typing on a computer keyboard when most of what they are doing is done with a mouse. I fucking hate that.
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Saturday at 9 on sci fi, don't be late.
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Seen the original Bangcock Dangerous? The new one looks like the sequel to Next.
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Neigh means Neigh!
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Dr. House's being in Street Kings seem out of place? Agreed about the Chris Evans thing.
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It's a great movie.The typing on a keyboard thing is almost as annoying as the driver who is moving the steering wheel like a NASCAR driver.
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Chipps, Series7, and Mavra kept the TB going strong through the night. And in response to Vern being annoyed by our presence.....I say next TB we pick has to either be Quint or Beaks. Lets just make it a rule. Those two dudes can give a fuck....why bring numbers to a TB of someone who doesn't want us here? -
About Flu Bird Horror, just saw a commercial. I'm watching scare tactics, new ones are on tonight if your following.
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It just looks like a slightly more serious Hitman....but I'll watch anything with Cage. ANYTHING.
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Oh...must have been earlier....I was reading the posts between 11-midnight I guess....
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I also considered us planning to join Quint on his "Movie a day". We pick something on that list, and decide to watch it in advance and then join him for the conv. Maybe we don't take it to 2000 posts, but I think Quint deserves some exposure with those, but if we go into those, I want to go in to discuss the movie, and not go random. Thoughts?
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...start it in a Merrick thread. He'll probably be overjoyed to have his thread at the top of the pops.And g'morning Danny. I didn't realize you were a Nick Cage fan. If I remember correctly, you're the only other guy around who will admit they liked The Family Man.
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The software applications they use in movies are always so flashy and graphic heavy. Like when someone is searching a photo database, there's all these slick popups with the person's crime history and whatnot. Total BS. Have you looked at a database search tool law enforcement actually uses lately? Looks like DOS for pete's sake.
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Aug 20, 2008 9:34:11 AM CDT
The Family Man is Ratner's crown achievement....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
I don't think he will ever top it. It is a good hearted, sweet family film. I don't know how people can NOT like it. I always find it sad at the end when Cage goes and sits with her at the airport because those children and that whole world he saw doesnt exist....and never will. Because he already has money and she looks to be doing well...so even if they have kids it will be a whole different life.
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Family Man is not only about an alternate reality for it's character, it was like an alternate reality for Ratner. It said "here, you could be the next Ron Howard, but maybe better!" or "You can go out there and make another Rush Hour film, follow it up with useless redo of Red Dragon and then...then, you can screw up a comic franchise. And then my son, you will be ready." We all know the path he chose.
Family Man was a very good movie and it's the one that makes me want to give Harry tranqs everytime he goes off on Ratner. But then I remember Rush Hours 2-3,X3 and so on and so forth, and that basement disco and I realize the guy does need to stay away from geek projects.
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for this guy. After the whole "once my son booed the Indy trailer I knew it would be bad" I haven't had the stomach for him.
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Aug 20, 2008 9:45:25 AM CDT
It is odd....maybe that is the type of film....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
...Ratner was meant to make, warm-hearted family dramas. Maybe he'll go back to the genre when he is older. Other than Willow (which is really directed by Lucas) I think Family Man blows away anything Ron Howard has touched...
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...it's not his bread and butter but he should return to drama/comedy as he's not a actor's director and yet he got some of the best performances that troupe has on their resumes.And you nailed it Danny, that ending is actually a hardcore downer as those kids will never exist he'll never be best friends with the Piven character.
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I will only give numbers to Quint or Beaks from now on....so its gotta be one of them. Remember that guy that made the handle MERRICK'S 12 YEAR OLD SON.....hahaha......and everyone started cracking those A.D.D. jokes. Faaaaawwwwwwk......I was laughing that day. -
Its very sad....because he comes to realize the joy of that life he saw is from the simplicity. Money is not what matters in that world...its all about the family. He will never experience that simplicity again. I was hoping for a big happy Hollywood ending where the two of them have a night out on the town after the airport and end up in bed together, waking up to the kids all in their face crying and back to the suburban life.
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But wasn't it on par with The Family Man? And I'm going to take a beating from every single one of you SOBs, but I think Cinderella Man is a fantastic movie. Outside of Willow, it's my favorite Ron Howard film and that says a lot since that should go to Apollo 13 considering what a space nut I am.
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besides being slightly more disciplined in still young threads is good. Remember that most of us formed this crazy train over in the 2012 TB, and for a long time, we were talking that. It was easier though, because that movie hadn't been made. There was only so much that could be said. On the other hand, if Vern really wants to keep talking Scorpion King, he can just come in and start. He hasa black box. People will notice it.
I don't want to get vindictive or petulant. That's silly. Unless Vern says, hey guys, Id rather not have you here, Im fine. I just don't care for Merrick or Latauro, they seem rather pompous. All the rest I'm cool with. -
Although I had forgotten Ratner directed it.
I also hate when somebody says a movie sucks just because a certian director helms it.
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I have been "around" since before there were talkbacks. I was reading this site when Harry posted his reviews for Fifth Element, Gattaca, Lost World, Contact, Titanic, etc. I don't recall the TBs showing up til summer of 98, but I might be wrong. I've posted infrequently during those times, and sent in reviews and reports over those 11 years as well. For whatever reason, I started posting recently.
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with my wife a few weeks ago, and yes, it amazingly still holds up. It's funny, touching and relatively true to family life with not TOO many of those peeves I mentioned yesterday(but some).
Also, down in Little Italy here in Baltimore they play movies on the side of a wall during the summer. Two weeks ago, it was Cinderella Man. My wife went down with a friend but I was at the game convention but missed it. Cinderella Man was a good movie. It was innacurate and sort of slanderous to Max Baer(right last name or no?) but it was good.
Me, I like Ron Howard's stuff, most of it, and I don't think Family Man is really up to his level, but it was a sign of the right direction.
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Fuck Merrick's son.
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I always seem to find a character in that movie that relates to somebody in my family.
I love it when the stripper shows up at the kid's party and the cowboy accidently went to the bachelor party.
The stripper informs Martin that "They beat him up pretty badly"
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that's what it was. That looked slow. Ok, go back to watching the strobe light in front of that rave video I gave you, son.
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Watching it last month made me sad to know he is gone. Also,what happened to Tom Hulce?
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Geez I should stop sniffing Sharpies all morning.
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All respect for Howard after Da Vinci Code. I mean it was wavering after how glossed over a Beautiful Mind was. But Da Vinci code is on my top five worst movies of all time. The Da Vinci code is probably one of the few unfilmable books. The book is just a long history lesson with maybe 20 minutes of actual plot. But my god there wasn't even 20 minutes of entertainment in all of the Da Vinci code movie.
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Was in Jumper!!!!!! Yeah I don't know where though, I remember watching that movie and I saw his name and I was like who the fuck was he? I went the movie and could not find him? Like his role was that small.
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He does Broadway as producer and actor and seems to be doing fine according to Wiki.
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He has gained so much weight I thought Wikipedia had the wrong picture posted.
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Was the guest on a local radio talk show recently and he called Ron Howard a scumbag for the way his father was portrayed. So yes, it might have been a gross misrepresentation. I'm guessing that's the case with 99% of historical pieces. As much as I think it was an inside job and agree with "some" of the things Stone portrayed, JFK was a whole lot of BS. Still, it was mesmerizing BS and I love it. So accuracy be damned. Just give me the goods.
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Wholly shit, your right he did get fat. Damn I wish I knew that before I saw Jumper. I thought Tom would kind of a Frank Whaley type where he looks the same his whole career, but you can tell that he's older.
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Aug 20, 2008 10:18:00 AM CDT
eeeesh....I think Ron Howard as total shit...
by dannyglovers_dickblood
He can take a pretty interesting premise that's hard to fuck up (The Grinch) and make it boring, flat, predictable, glossy crap. For someone with his degree of talent to win Oscars is just mind boggling. Something like Backdraft or Apollo 13 could easily be an amazing film, and both of them have nifty effects....sure, but they are plagued with Howard's typical boring approach to the world.
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Wow, he's chunkified. Good for him for not bowing to societal pressure. He never caught on in Hollywood which I always found odd because he was awesome in Animal House and Amadeus. Maybe it just wasn't his bag.
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I don't know how accurate it was, but man I was entertained.
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Now looks like I'd expect Peter Sarsgaard to look in 20 years after he's won an Oscar are two and admits that the reason he married Maggie Gyllenhaal is because she looks like a man and has a bigger dick then him.
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Another movie that was good but was piled on becasue it didn't meet expectations. and expectations from a mediocre at best novel I might add.
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As far as guys I thought were good actors, haven't seen in a while and all of a sudden realize they have gained a ton of weight.
Has anybody else really ballooned up to that level from being skinny when they were young?
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Stone is defintiely creating a caricature but I still have to see it.
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Got big. There was someone else but I can't remember. Val's been saying though its for a role.
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For acknowledging Thirteen Days. I've been looking for another fan for years. When a filmmaker can take a historical event where everyone knows the outcome and make it nail biting, then you know you're getting quality.Ron Howard has more hits than misses, but he doesn't have anything in my worst ever list.
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Is you can't really argue the facts in it. Stone presents it all like on big theory that no one will ever prove or disprove....its not like he claims these are the facts....this is how it happened. Its just a series of what if's......
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For Felon. I don't know if I brought this up here, but between Tom Arnold going crazy and Mickey Rourke removing his two front teeth for Animal Factory, whats the deal with these actors going all out for these DTV prison movies?
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Aug 20, 2008 10:27:35 AM CDT
If National Treasure is more engaging that Da Vinci Code....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
...you know you have a problem.
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...and I really believe it will improve his legacy. People will look back on him as a simple, flawed guy that got in over his head because of this film. -
Is even though everyone knows the outcome, simply show how close things were to going the other way.
Replace the word birds with bullets and history would be way different.
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Please just say no.
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Has any director had such a varied body of work?
From Thirteen Days to Cocktail or even Cadillac Man to Species or Dante's Peak.
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I'm not saying its anything...I'm just pointing it out. Mark my words....Oliver Stone will save Bush's legacy with this film.
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When Granny's legs melt off when she walks the boat to the shore....OUCH!
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...and I always forget its him -- Far And Away.....great great film.
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Lost Boys 2, Starship Troopers 3 and Scorpion King 2? Totally a good idea.
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The only legacy I want bush to have is that of a war criminal who somehow escaped justice.
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Lost Boys 2, ST3, and Scorpion King 2 with Art of War 2 to clean up the mess. Actually, I'll trade Art of War 2 for Rogue.
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Always liked Dante's Peak better than Volcano.
Never understood why my friends said I was crazy about that.
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I actually can't anticipate any other film more than this. I hear talk of Mad Max 4, I see great trailers for cool looking stuff, but there's nothing that I'm dying to see the way I'm dying to see Cage's Bad Lieutenant.
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That'd be great and all, but all those DTV movies are all very long wait on Netflicks. Don't really have the money to go purchasing them.
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Its just more fun with a cooler setting and a better leading man. End of story. And its got that bad ass scene where they rescue the dog and he jumps in the bed of the truck all action hero and shit.
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Murder at 1600.
Loved that movie and actually owned, but can't find it.
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Best Snipes film.
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Drop Zone!
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Swoop!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That movie fucking rules man! I like when Snipes rips the flourescent light off the ceiling to knock that one guy out.
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Man there was a line in that movie that I used to think was really bad ass. Can't remember it now. Its also got the gay dead guy from Seasmee Street. I always thought it was so weird that he was on Seasemee Street, just because he always played the wacked out scared guy in everything.
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just a little nod towards that recent TB memory.
Anyway, I'm wondering, what is the budget on a film like Scorpion King 2? It seems like DTV would be a great place for people to get a foot in on the genre, and turn out some crazy fun movies, ala the drive-in phenomena. But seriously, how often does this happen?
In the past few years, there are only a few DTV titles of this type I would consider worthy of actively seeking out. Abominable was one of those-it had a perfect drive-in sensibility to it, and was a bit of fun. Also, how does one find their way into writing these things. Thats what I want to know. -
Aug 20, 2008 11:02:14 AM CDT
Fred must apologize to Mavra Chang for Dirks behavior
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
Fred is sorry that Mavra Chang had her heart broken by love em and leave em Dirk.
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Also liked how Yancy Butler's boo-boo looked in that skydiving outfit.
Didn't Busey bite the guy's finger off?
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Unless your talking about 2nd unit directing work, or PA's Russell Mulcahy shouldn't need to get his foot in any door at this point. Though not many directors survived the 80's that weren't around before, him and Paul Verhoeven seem to survive but haven't really done much since the new Willenium save for Black Book.
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Something like Scorpion King or Starship Troopers is a bit harder to get involved with because even though its cheap....its still associated with a franchise and a brand. People don't realize but the studio that owns the rights still has a lot of pull with these projects. They don't expect them to be great for the money, but they are really involved with them just as they would be a larger film. They don't just ship them off to make a film and let them do what they want. I worked on one of these sort of films years back and you would be amazed how much hell the studio was to deal with. You would think you were listening to meetings and conference calls about Spider Man 3. Regardless if its 5 million or 200 million, its still studio cash....and they don't want to lose a penny of it. Thats why a lot of these franchise associated DVD sequels like Starship or Scorpion bring in pretty seasoned directors to handle the duties. What I'm saying is....its not like just because its low budget and straight to DVD-- its any easier to get involved with. What is easier to get involved with are the no namers like Frankenfish or something. There is a lot less studio control with something like that because most of them are not associated with a studio when produced. Most of them are independently funded through some sleazy business-man and then get distribution under a studio later. But creatively the studio has no involvement, they just buy the finished product.
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I know the budget for Starship 2 (not 3) was around 7 million, which is really high for that kind of film......but it was shot entirely in L.A. (not South Africa) so 3 probably cost around 2 grand. Hehehehe.....
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Shes gone the opposite way of Tom Hulce, like in a Amy Whinehouse way. Also you know there is a page up for the upcoming Whichblade film? Just like a poster drawing. Did anyone watch that show?
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and the movies there look AWESOME. We will give it some time to fall, but I think our asian film discussions and genre musing are probably more welcome over there. Thoughts?
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I always thought she kinda looked like Paul Reuben's in drag.
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other way from Hulce. I recall seeing the behind the scenes on the 33 Kong dvd, and not knowing he had lost that weight, and wondering who this scrawny little kiwi was, and then they put up his name, and I was shocked.
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once in a parking garage or something. I think a camera recorded him choking her, but then he later told police they were re-inacting a scene from Drop Zone or something. Seriously, it happened.
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It is weird....at first he looks, moved, and acted like a different person. He didn't seem nearly as warm and cuddly....seriously. I remember thinking he kinda came off more like a prick in interviews after he lost the weight.
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right now?
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Is he really one of the fighter pilots that shoots down *Spolier* Kong in the end? Also think about it, if you directed movies like LOTR 2 and 3 back to back like that and then Kong, you would pretty much have to lose weight from over working. Also Jon Faveru talks about losing 40 some pounds while sitting around and watching RDJ and Stan Winston Studios make Ironman.
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and let's focus on foreign films and the movies or genres they have posted. Deal?
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PETER JACKSON QUESTION? NEED ANSWER! FIGHTER PILOT NO FIGHTER PILOT?
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I really need to watch my special edition Kong dvd and see what he looks like now, because non of those fighter pilots looked like the mad kiwi.
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Wesley knocks Yancy the FUCK OUT in that movie. Awesome.
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Sometimes I think Vern might be one the only other media pundits that understands the subculture of movies for guys whom like movies. Go to Vern's website, buy the dude's book.
This isn't a dick sucking contest guys. All I'm saying is respect Vern. His articles are my favorite thing here on AICN. (Aside from Harry, because he understands the inner child of loving films within me)
Now I'm even off topic. Christ.
Point is, yes I am shocked that Roger Ebert enjoyed Class of 1984 ( A favorite of mine in the revenge genre)
It's easy to go off topic and into a tangent on some other shit.
I just did. Damn, though for a thread that was about "The Scorpion King 2, y'all motherfuckers went off into Yancy Butler (meth-head) Tom Hulce, and Wesley "I owe the government every last red cent I ever made" Snipes?!
Point is..show Respect.
www.myspace.com/jerryhorror
www.jerryhorrorlives.com
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It's so ridiculously over the top with it's craziness that I appreciated it. It was definitely a film that could have went theatrical. But what I liked was that the deaths were original, and whatever you predicted would happen did not. And the opening scene death is so violent and over the top I didn't know whether to laugh or to applaud because they were bold enough to pull something off.
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I'm a clown. In the family man, i always kinda think it's unfair, cause, where is HER glimpse? Then i think, maybe she did have one but the movie was just about his. and maybe they do get together cause maybe she liked her glimpse too
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kick ass.
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You gotta slow down and read the posts before you get mad about them. I didn't write anything about the topic you are pissed at me for. All I did was mention in a subject line that Jerry was on topic. Somebody else asked about it and I said that yes I was a little confused by this club you guys have but that I didn't give a shit AND I answered his off–topic question about favorite school movies.
If that's enough to get you in a tissy fit then you are a spoiled little girl in a glittery pink Disney Princess Club dress and not fit for these talkbacks that you yourself are always trying to promote as being blunt and obnoxious. I'm not trying to fight with you but I don't know what to do when talkbackers go on a rampage for anything I write or, in most cases, do not write. It's fuckin ridiculous the way people interpret posts sometimes like they're findin the fuckin omega code in them.
And anyway bud I know you're not stupid. I feel like if you would take a little time to think things over before and during your posts you would come across with more dignity. A little more effort and one day the name DANNY GLOVER'S DICKBLOOD will be synonymous with class and insight. thanks bud -
He called me a prick and told me to fuck off because I asked what was up with the talkback flood. But then I was lured into the flood myself and now I'm just an asshole. But you are all class, man. Cheers.
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Take your own advice and read my posts before you respond. I never said I was pissed at you. I said you sounded like you were annoyed by our presence, and you did. You said, "To Jerry Horror, defender of the ancient art of on-topic posting," and then you went on to say you couldn't keep up with 2,000 "Off Topic," posts. Thats fine. We'll do you a favor and take our posts to another TB and not disturb yours. I don't mean that as a smart-ass response either. You're acting like I went on some rampage insulting you and shit. All I suggested to the other guys is that we take the party elsewhere. You respond with this bloated whiny post about me being mad at you. What the fuck? Are we dating? You feel the need to hurl personal insults? I'm a "Spoiled little girl in a glittery pink Disney Princess Club dress" ? Okay...I get it-- you're the clever funny guy. Yeah....yeeehahh...you got some laughs for that one. You're trying to come off lighthearted yet there is some serious bottled up resentment. Why....because I like to bullshit with other film fans on AICN about random shit? I'm sorry if that upsets you and you feel the need to personally attack someone bringing hits to the website that employs you. And you suggest I post with more class and dignity? Again.....this is because I have the audacity to suggest switching TB's? I don't understand you. You go on these strange rants. Random shit sets you off. I was never upset at you. I didn't say one negative thing about you. You feel the need the attack me every chance you get....and from now on I feel the need to just ignore you and your TB's altogether. Now we're both happy.
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this time Danny didn't go on any kind of rampage. I think the sentiment was more or less go somewhere and disturb the peace less. I think posting is a difficult thing because stuff can always be read different ways.
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I for one just totally blew it out of all proportion. so sorry about that. great site, keep up the good work.
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Aug 20, 2008 8:01:43 PM CDT
I PROPOSE AN OFFICIAL PERMANENT TALK-ABOUT-ANYTHING THREAD
by bringingsexyback
Something to keep the vast talkback community happy and the hits a comin'.
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And the crowd goes wild! Now everyone can be confused in one place all the time without upsetting anyone else! Brilliant!And it will be linear!
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You just melted my laptop's irony chip: "I don't understand you. You go on these strange rants. Random shit sets you off."Maybe if you didn't have a legacy of shrill abuse and swearing death on everybody that disagrees with you we might be better at discerning when you are and aren't in attack mode.Seriously though, I was very impressed with your apology re. the AIDS comments you made earlier. Good for you, mate.
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anyone want to shell out their hard earned on watching something like this? I really dont get it. And on a seperate note watched 'surviving the game' the other night (dont ask) - Gary Busey isnt acting is he?
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Aug 21, 2008 2:04:17 AM CDT
While we're all still here...a question for all talkbackers!
by jerry horror
If in fact you had the power, what film is most deserving of a DTV sequel? You must explain why and what the sequel would be about....
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Is beyond mere acting now.
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Fair enough. When I read "And in response to Vern being annoyed by our presence.....I say next TB we pick has to either be Quint or Beaks. Lets just make it a rule. Those two dudes can give a fuck....why bring numbers to a TB of someone who doesn't want us here?" the last sentence especially sounds like you being mad and thinking it would punish me to not post on my talkbacks. If I misunderstood then I apologize. As for the Disney Princess Club comment it was an "if the glittery pink dress fits" situation so if that was not throwing you into a tissy fit then that means there is no dress involved, so don't worry about it.
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Excellent question. I was kind of hoping since they cancelled the Blade series that they would at least make some DTV movies with Sticky, although Wesley somehow thinks after the jail and lawsuit he can still do a part 4 which would obviously be better.
I think it would be funny if they had a DTV sequel to GHOST DOG (I have the whole thing plotted out, it stars RZA as "Samurai in Camouflage," the little girl now grown up and the ice cream man with a souped up ice cream truck with guns). But it's probaly for the best they don't do that.
They could start doing Punishers as DTV movies if they get sick of remaking it every couple years.
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i'm thinking generally you want to go with low budget indie films like clerks (i know it has a sequal) or low budget slasher flicks because it must be mostly dialog/ character interaction, so that the quality dosn't change. A hugely big budget film just wouldn't work. right now I'm thinking wolf creek. or something that was a telemovie to start off with.
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res dogs. I'm writing a script (it's not a sequal but it kinda started that way) Imagine they didn't all die at the end. then imagine ten years later they return to split the loot. I'm writing this thing about returning to the scene of a botched robbery to divy it all up
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'JFK 2: Here's Johnnie!'
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Well, I'm all up for making another House movie, but maybe we can actually go back and make House 3, since it sort of, kind of doesn't exist. Or, in the spirit of SC2, since all House movies are unrelated, we can get DTV sequels to ALL of them. Like House 1.2: Fright Court:Moll's Revenge, or House 2.2:Rise of the Pugworm, etc.
In fact, it's totally likely that Arye Gross, William Katt, Richard Moll and probably even Bill Maher would come back.
WHY ARENT THEY MAKING THESE NOW?
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Will Ragsdale and Chris Sarandon aren't doing anything. And this time we can have Malcom Mcdowell as Dick Vincent, Peter's scowlier big brother. Seriously, I would totally watch this.
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out of gay porn and bring back Evil Ed.
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For me its got to be Stone Cold. We can totally get the Boz, and rescue the Baxley from Left Behind movies. They should make a Stone Cold movie every other month.
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Reliquary DTV, but I wonder if it would be plausible given the possible budget constraints...might have to make a non-novel related sequel. The sequel had tons of creatures as oppposed to one.
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Neigh means Neigh!
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it's getting like The Most Dangerous Game, what with the setting of traps and all.
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Hah!
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Is that the book they wrote based on the movie 'Surviving the Game' with Ice-T, Busey and Hauer?
I set two Neigh traps earlier and so far am up 2-1 today.
If Neigh traps were an Olympic sport I would still only have the silver medal.
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you have it backwards, as in the book from early 1900s was the basis for Surviving the Game..but Busey's insane speech about killing his bulldog was not, it was based off of Gary's childhood.
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The difference is I'm just a wee TB'er. I wouldn't expect a mod to go on similar explosive rants about equally random shit. They should be a bit more levelheaded. Thats why they're are up there and I'm down here. I'm not saying Vern's post to me was equal in brutality to things I have said to others in the past. It was nowhere near that.....I just didn't understand where it was coming from originally.
As you've probably noticed, I'm simmering down lately. I came on here not giving a fuck about anything, and I'm slowly starting to warm up to the place. Maybe I'm just getting old. .
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If they're not giving me another theatrical sequel, at least give me the "Attack of the Martians," sequel straight to good old DVD.
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Aug 21, 2008 9:38:32 AM CDT
edit: not ANOTHER theatrical sequel...just A sequel...
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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WHERE? WHERE?
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Dear Lord I should clarified that.
Trust me I read The Most Dangerous Game when I was in Junior High.
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Wherein Carl Weathers shows up with a peg leg and an eye patch, riding the great turtle back to civilization, with two or three scantily clad devil girls by his side, planning his revenge. And his eye must glow green, and the socket can sort of undulate green light behind the eye patch.
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my post was for all those who might think you were serious, and to make a joke at Gary's expense.
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Fuck me that scene with poor Carl hanging onto the raft screaming, "CUT IT!!! CUUUUUUUUUUT IT!!!" Absolute comedy gold. But then when he got pulled away and his eyes flutter underwater, I must admit. I got a little sad. I never EVER want to see Carl Weathers die.....and it seems he has a tendency of doing that on screen.
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when I saw it as a child, I cried when he died. But tell me that sequel idea wouldn't be awesome? I mean, cheesy yes, and never doable, but still..
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spinning off from the Cornel Wilde 70s goyle film. That thing was hilarious. Or lets just get that one on dvd.
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Troll 3: Harry Potter and the Bologna Sandwich of Redemption. Wonder if they could still use young Harry Potter without getting sued. Unlikely, but Troll was first!
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That would be da' bomb. They could get Phil Tippett to do all the effects....
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from the end playing...And Carl Weathers doing interpretive dance to Vivaldi, which played during the original film.
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I sort of forgot about this fact, but is there ever anything in these films that even suggests Mathaias will become a villain? That was the wierdest aspect of the first. It didnt even SUGGEST for a second he was even the same Scorpion King. Meaning there was no connection. Is there at least a little something here? Id suspect not, since it's even earlier than the last movie.
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Because he didn't really age for in the 20 year span between Rocky and Happy Gilmore. Predator is 11 years after the first Rocky and he looks exactly the fucking same. And God-Damn no man can pull off that midriff revealing halter thing he worse in Bermuda. Hahaha.
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That is in my top 20 all time favorite flicks.
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Aug 21, 2008 10:19:28 AM CDT
Forget prequels, I want to see a movie where...
by chittychittygangbang
Carl Weathers fights and 800lb werewolf with a chainsaw for a penis.
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go bring up BERMUDA DEPTHS on youtube. You may even remember it. I saw it as a kid on tv, and was haunted by the image of who I then thought was Billy Dee Williams being dragged underwater by a godzilla sized sea turtle. I now know, as of about 3 weeks ago, that the movie is Bermuda Depths and it was Carl Weathers, not Billy Dee that takes the plunge. The whole flick is on Youtube and you get the great value of having Burl Ives as an old professor, a devil-posessed sea witch, mutant sealife, 70s pop songs, Vivaldi, and a turtle that would intimidate Gamera.
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Gargoyles is on dvd. Hooya! Where can I get it?
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Jackyl's 'The Lumberjack' will be in the background.
Werewolf will howl as the chainsaw solo kicks into full gear and use his chainsaw penis to slice open the doors to a church.
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It holds up amazingly well
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Equus still lurks in the shadows.
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We gotta get there before we let it float away like Carl Weathers....
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I used to watch it everytime it came on TBS. The combo of the slow motion and the makeup and the lighting created a very odd atmosphere, especially towards the end as we learn about the gargoyles true nature. What a freaky little film. I want all these things: Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, Bermuda Depths, Gargoyles, They Only Kill their Masters, Bates Motel, Don't Go To Sleep, all on one box set. Like 70s and 80s tv movies or something.
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Vern, You lost me as to why Scorpion King is better than the original Mummy. I like B movies but Scorpion King was utter garbage. The Mummy 2 was a better B movie than SK. Your comment leaves me confused.
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I'm thinking of other things. Well, there was Devil Dog, and what was the movie where the dude got rabies and tied himself to the post in the backyard?
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Aug 21, 2008 10:47:35 AM CDT
A guy gets rabies and ties himself down in the backyard?
by dannyglovers_dickblood
Hahaha....I pray the character is played by either Carl Weathes or Gerard Depardieu.
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Oh okay....
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he is bitten by Depardieu.
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Ok wtf is this movie? Some B-movie staring Apollo? You can watch on You -tube? Damnit I'm pissed I never watched [REC] when I was on google video.
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I have said this before about Gargoyles, it was the first movie that scared the lil Toadkiller. When the damn gargoyle was in the bedroom, well that scene had me seeing gargoyle shadows for a few days!
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yes, it's a 70s t.v. film that is a wierd supernatural drama with alot of odd disparate elements. Giant sea turtle, Carl Weathers, Burl Ives,sea devil women. It's worth seeing.
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also make the cut, but they are both on dvd already. I gues so is Gargoyles but Im having trouble finding it.
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It is there - but the prices are ridiculous - and not even new!
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TELF: We need to get Baxley interested in action again. I think he got burnt out. There are interviews with him and he seems happy doing "character work" in mediocre Stephen King and Sci-Fi Network TV shit. But I did watch that LEFT BEHIND movie he did and I'll be damned if it doesn't have the most spectacular exploding SUV shot you've ever seen in a movie sold in Christian bookstores. Also SNIPER 2 was okay.
JONAH: Yeah, there's not much. In the first one I think they said something in the very end about how he would eventually fall, in this one I think all there is is the fact that he's not willing to give up his warrior lifestyle, because he loves fighting. Also he gets picked on in school, he wears a Kiss t-shirt, his mom is a stripper and William Forsythe yells at him about skullfucking. -
and do check out Bermuda Depths. It will give you one more classic Carl Weathers image for the archives. And c'mon, Fright Night 3 could be fun no?
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I watched the movie the other night and some of the moments are really good, like the shoot through him scene, the bullets hitting each other in mid-air and the Shadow with his cape in the Hotel Monolith. But Koepp's script was a cliche-ridden mess that's all over the place. Red-wire, green wire and a bomb with a big red timer in the 30's? Couldn't Koepp have come up with a better, more original climax? Even when I saw in the theater back in 1994, I thought that was weak. And the plot is borderline incomprehensible. The Shadow finds the hotel in daylight, then waits till nightfall to go in stop Shiwan Khan?! Huh? And don't even get me started on that scene in the water tank.
Not to mention that the film should have been called Lamont Cranston since he's there more often than the Shadow. It's like making a film called "Robocop," then having Alex Murphy appear throughout most of the film until he's killed off about ten minutes before the end. Here's a tip. Next time you make a film called "The Shadow," be sure the title character is in it for more than ten frigging minutes. Thank you.
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