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AICN & Twitch Present International Eye Candy! Nicolas Lopez's SANTOS! Gay Zombies! Russia's ADMIRAL KOLCHAK and More!
Yes, kids, once again it is Todd from Twitch here with your bi-weekly dose of the best and brightest from the world of film. And by best and brightest I do, of course, frequently mean the strangest and most unusual, though there is the occasional title in there you could show to mom as well. You got it, it’s time for another edition of International Eye Candy.
But before I get to the Eye Candy proper I should point out that when it comes to trailers at Twitch these days it’s all about the festivals as we’re hosting as-near-to-comprehensive-as-humanly-possible collections of trailers for a pair of major festivals. The biggest fest in North America – that’d be the Toronto International, right here in my own back yard – is running right now and we’ve got a hefty selection of trailers for participating, all nicely sorted by program here in the Trailer Park. And for all of you genre hounds hungry to see what’s coming to this year’s edition of Fantastic Fest, well just take a gander at the INTERGALACTIC TRAILER FORCE 9000! It’s got all of the good things that a growing boy needs.
Enough of that, now, on to the Eye Candy! This time out we’ve got animated Argentinian hit men! South Korean go-go bands! German terrorists! Brit criminals! Russian boxers! Japanese acrobats! And, because his fans demanded it, Dolph Lundgren rocking a drum kit. Onwards!
What the hell, let’s get things started with Dolph, shall we? The big Swede, believe it or not, is currently directing his fifth feature film, titled COMMAND PERFORMANCE. The gimmick? Lundgren plays a former biker turned rock band drummer who must save the Russian President, the President’s family and a rival band when they are all kidnapped by a terrorist group at a charity concert. No shit.
The world is a better place because this exists.
Ad now we head off to Spain where a trailer for the stunning KING OF THE HILL has FINALLY arrived. This was one of my absolute favorite films of 2007 – I saw it almost exactly a year ago at the previous edition of TIFF – but footage has been hard to come by despite it having quickly sold for distribution all around the world. With this one you’re really better off the less you know about it going in so I’m not about to spill any details but the trailer is finally out there.
Check out the trailer here
Another of my favorite films of last year was THE SWORD BEARER, a bleakly gorgeous Russian arthouse-superhero-bloody vengeance flick from director Philip Yankovsky that we were proud to screen at Fantastic Fest 2007. For my money Yankovsky’s the cream of the current crop of Russian genre film makers, a guy who started in the industry as a child actor – he worked with Tarkovsky as a kid! – and just seems to have film in his blood.
Well, Yankovsky’s back, this time with an amnesiac boxer revenge flick titled ROCK HEAD. In the lead? Real life heavyweight champion boxer Nikolay Valuev, who is an absolute beast of a man. As was the case with SWORD BEARER the first ROCK HEAD trailer looks to have been cut from footage that hasn’t gone through post production yet, a bizarre only-in-Russia practice that I don’t understand at all, so the video quality isn’t the best but it gives you a good sense of what he’s up to this time out. Expect future trailers to sharpen up considerably.
I wouldn’t want to get hit by this man.
We’ll stick with Russia a little while longer, this time with Aleksandr Melnik’s NEW LAND. Picture LORD OF THE FLIES with adults and you’re not all that far off. It’s a social experiment in which a remote island is populated entirely with hardened prisoners who are left to freely organize their own society. Shockingly enough it doesn’t seem to work out all that well.
Hey, look! Sociopaths like to kill each other!
Aaaand one more from Russia, this time the handsome naval epic ADMIRAL KOLCHAK, which features NIGHTWATCH star Konstantine Khabensky – you might also recognize him from WANTED – in the lead role. This thing looks to have pretty much everything you could want in a war epic: a potent leading man, massive scale action, impressive production values and enough attention paid to the characters that you might actually care once the bombs start falling. Very nice.
Take a peek here
Sure, the Russian admiral’s got a big ol’ ship with big ol’ guns but how would he cope with, say, an angrily attacking whale? This is the question posed by visually sumptuous Thai fantasy epic QUEENS OF LANGKASUKA. SHUTTER’s Ananda Everingham and BORN TO FIGHT’s Dan Chupong star alongside copious sea creatures, treacherous pirates, sinister assassins, black magicians and more in this one. Lots and lots of pretty pictures, that’s for sure …
Ride a manta ray here!
Okay, time to get a little more serious with the full theatrical trailer for German docu-drama DER BAADER MEINHOF KOMPLEX, the true story of the home grown terrorist organization that spread chaos throughout Germany in the late sixties and early seventies through the liberal use of explosives and assassinations.
The first teaser for this one made the IEC an issue or two back but this full trailer is even more impressive. The cast looks very strong, the production end is impeccable, the action quotient very high. This is definitely one to watch out for.
Check the teaser and trailer here
And now to Argentina for something more serious, still, the independent drama PROPER EYES, which has been scooping up awards at South American festivals. It’s the story of women shooting a documentary about prison wives and it just looks to be everything you’d want from a little indie drama: good cast, well shot, strong story. A change of pace from the rest of the stuff in the column, to be sure, but a welcome one.
Get yourself some culture
Now it just wouldn’t do to have you thinking that independent Argentinian film is nothing but serious drama, nope can’t have that. And to prevent that from happening I am happy to present you with BOOGIE, the animated version of a popular – and ultra violent – comic about a misanthropic, aging hitman trying to prove that he is still at the top of the heap despite the arrival of some younger rivals. Head shots abound.
Check it out here
I’ve got nothing to set this one up at all, really. It’s Bruce LaBruce’s gay zombie movie OTTO; OR, UP WITH DEAD PEOPLE and it’s got a brand new, extended trailer. Ever wondered what gay zombie love would look like? Well, wonder no more because LaBruce is here to show you.
Hey, they can get married, why shouldn’t they get to be undead, too?
Retro music movies seem to be the thing in Asia right now. Singapore’s 881 was a big local hit, BATTLE ROYALE’s Chiaki Kuriyama is starring in upcoming Japanese entry GS WONDERLAND and out of Korea you’ve got GO GO 70’S. And, really, that’s all you need to know. Impressive period detail, a slamming soundtrack and big lapelled clothing. It’s like your dad’s yearbooks, only Korean.
Get your 70s freak on here
Normally a major staple of the Korean film world there are only two horror films being released there this year. The first – GOSA – we’ve linked to here before and has gone on to become a major hit. The second? This film, LONER, built around the increasingly common issue of extreme social isolation. Production values are very high, there’s nary a trace of the overdone, once ubiquitous Asian hair-ghost, and the cast looks strong. What’s not to like?
Lights down, volume up and let ‘er roll.
Austinites will be able to see PROMEDIO ROJO director Nicolas Lopez’ latest soon enough when it takes it’s bow at the upcoming Fantastic Fest but for those of you poor, sad souls who won’t be able to attend here’s a little something to either tide yourself over or torment yourself with, depending on your state of mind. It’s the full trailer for Lopez’ big budget – huge budget, by South American standards – superhero comedy SANTOS. Comic book author drawn into parallel dimension to battle his own creations? Yes, please.
Check it out here
From the ridiculous now to the sublime, the sublime in this case being the trailer for Nicolas Winding Refn’s true crime picture BRONSON. Refn, for those unfamiliar, is the director of the absolutely brilliant PUSHER films – films that I believe stand as the absolute finest trilogy of crime films ever produced. Refn’s a genius and this time out he puts a very Kubrick spin on the life of notorious English criminal Charles Bronson – a violent, unpredictable man who was finally put away for a theft valued at about thirty pounds and held on that conviction now for about thirty years. I won’t say which of these you should watch if you only watch one of them, but, well, you know …
This one’s essential viewing.
And, finally, we come to the end of yet another edition of International Eye Candy with the trailer for upcoming Japanese blockbuster K-20. An adaptation of an adaptation of Edogawa Rampo’s famous Fiend With Twenty Faces character, the film stars massive international star Takeshi Kaneshiro (you know him from HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS) as a circus acrobat set up to take the fall as notorious thief and master of disguise, the Fiend With Twenty Faces. To save himself Kaneshiro must escape from prison and discover the identity of the real fiend.
Special effects on this one are handled by ALWAYS director Takashi Yamazaki – an outright digital genius – who is helping to create an immersive steampunk oriented world for it, Kaneshiro seems born for this hero stuff and the whole package just looks fun, fun, fun.
Unmask the fiend here!
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Sounds bizarre. I'm in.
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referring to Santos.
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oleg, fucking your grandma since 1940
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for BRONSON. The Pusher-Trilogie is one for the time-capsule. And I just ordered KING OF THE HILL. Its already out on DVD in good old Switzerland, hehehe.
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awesome line-up there. The Lundgren thing sounds hilarious, and that Thai fantasy has my name all over it.
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I saw a trailer for Otto a few months back. That is some strange stuff! It looked a little too out there even for me, as I recall. I may have to see if this is a different trailer before I automatically dismiss it, though.
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Ah well...maybe I'm becoming a zombie snob.
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OK, let me be the first to say. The Ruskies are rockin' it right now.Those films above look incredible. A movie with Valuev? Count me in.And that Thai movie has me shaking with anticipation. Since when did Thai cinema become so sumptuous? Between this and Tears of the Black Tiger, it's like cocaine for your eyes.Consider me interested in everything this week.Chipps, what a movie shipment you just received, sir. The Guns of Navarone is the first war movie I ever saw and what a thrilling experience that was for a kid who collected army men and thought warfare was cool. On The Waterfront, Brando's best, Hot Tin Roof fanatics be damned. Vertigo continues to switch places with Rear Window and North By Northwest as my favorite Hitchcock film. It depends on which one I watched most recently. The Desert Rats? Richard Burton. 'Nuff said. The Day of the Jackal is still one of the most riveting movies I've ever seen.Kungfu, did I not send out I'm A Cyborg to everyone in the last batch? I could have sworn I sent you a copy. Great little movie. And yes, if you take it as a trilogy, the Vengeance series is probably my all time favorite trilogy. There isn't a single misstep. And Mr. Vengeance is probably the most raw and gut wrenching movie I've seen this decade.
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I'm having a preference at the moment for "New Land", "Queens of Langkasuka", and "Loner" (obviously the disturbed long-haired person is replacing the long-haired ghost, but can she control elevators and reach her intended prey through video equipment?). I'll need to look through these again when I'm more awake.
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Did you check out the Chanambara Beauty movie on that Asian horror site you introduced us to? It's a fairly weak zombie movie but it has a few cool scenes. It's probably more geared to teenage boys as it has women prancing around in biker leather, bikinis and schoolgirl outfits.
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I was waiting for a punchline from you, something along the lines of "I think the story got better during my third viewing". ;)
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Ha, I remember my drummer days and weep with nostalgia.
Wonder if his cage comes out and spins like Tommy Lee's did at my first Motley Crue concert?
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Neigh means Neigh! and I dedicate it to Toad.
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Top to bottom goodness and I have to say the creature flick would be something to behold.
There really hasn't been a good whale attack since ORCA.
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It is Fredday!!!
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The trailers and verbiage is very confusing. Fred not know which one to click on to get to the correct trailer. Maybe Fred is just slow - ok, Fred is slow. But it is still confusing.
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Hows it going? There is alot of good stuff up there to look into. I like the fact that probably everyone's foreign film literacy has been increased as a result of this group. I love foreign film, but my interest lately had begun to wane when I realize that many international movies are just as crappy as the ones we have here in America. Lately, my faith has been renewed. HOD, I finsihed Romance of the Three Kingoms. As you pointed out it's passable, but not up to the terrific quality of everything else I've seen in shipment 2 so far. On to The Chaser tonight!
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you aren't the first person to complain about the Twitch article layout. Yea, it might be worth changing it because I always click on the wrong thing. I expect I'll see fantasy and whales, and instead it's gay zombies. Not cool. Ok, that didnt exactly happen, but you get the drift.
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....Ivan Denisovich
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I am now pumped about foreign cinema, but as Jonah pointed out above, they are just as capable of making a stinker as the USA.
And just like American trailers, they can make even the most mundane movie look good.
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Sep 05, 2008 9:32:36 AM CDT
Fred would love to see the Thai kunfu whale movie
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
That looked very entertaining!
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but the kung-fu whale movie better knock it out of the park, cause it clearly looks like the right choice.
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With the ideas over on Zhura, are you all looking for a good/bad comment or some serious input about direction and whatnot?Foreign film is where it's at today. Sure they pump out a lot of garbage, but there are far more gems the past few years than what Hollywood has put out. I figured Thailand was only capable of crazy over the top action stuff like Ong Bak, Chocolate and Dynamite Warrior but Black Tiger so thoroughly blew me away, I can see that's an industry well on it's way to greatness and Queens of Langkasuka looks to be absolutely killer.Jonah, I'll be beyond shocked if you don't completely groove on The Chaser. It took about 20 minutes to pull me in but it came on like gangbusters.
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Does the guy have the ability to summon sea creatures? Or does he have the voice that acts like a sonic wall like Don Knotts had when he turned into a fish in that old movie (Mr. Limpett maybe?)
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Fred is looking for critical comment on script - no need to molly coddle. Fred can take it!
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I tell you, just when I think you guys cant get more awesome, you pull out a reference like that. Good for you Chitty.
HOD, yea, some kind of comment, whatever you are thinking. In most cases of those I have, I have them mostly or fully written, and just need to revamp them a little because some are years old. Also, trying to find out if the general concepts sounds interesting, etc. Whatever you got for me, I want to hear, basically. Even just your initial thoughts.
Honestly, HOD, I had no expectations for The Chaser. I programmed it as part of my viewing this week, just cause I wanted to balance out the darker films with the lighter stuff, and wasnt packing in Bloody Tie, Running Wild back to back like last time.
But just this week, in that Fright Fest article here, someone reviewed Chaser, and I looked up reviews online and people are RAVING. So, it seems fortuitous that I chose it this week. That and Wedding Campaign on the agenda for the weekend, and if we get rained in like I expect we might, Sinking of Japan and Empress and her Warriors too. -
Sep 05, 2008 9:55:26 AM CDT
I fell in love with Ladyfish - or the voice of ladyfish
by toadkillerdog
I just love any type of lilting voice, and she could lilt! Good call Chitty, and good neigh! You have stepped up your game!
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Spot the gay zombie in any zombie flick!
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...but I always thought that statistic sounds a little high.
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...God intended zombies to reproduce by BITING each other, not by poking each other in the ass with their rotting ding dongs...
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Did you either of you ever see an Irwin Allen Movie called City Beneath the Sea? It came out in early 70's. I saw it only once. I know it is on youtube, but I can not remember if the guy with gills could talk to the fishes.
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...marriage makes me feel uneasy. Does that make me a Republican? I hope not.
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No thanks. I don't want to see a zombie film with sexual active zombies in it- I've seen Braindead and that was enough.
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where he's a chef that runs a for hire witness protection programme (I shit you not). It's ace. But not as good as the masterpiece that is Dark Angel.
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...Project Runway next season. It's going to we wakadoodle...
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Ha! I agree, no sexual activity with zombies. I do not want to see it. Gay or straight. I think there is a movie out right now an asian one with zombie sex. But, no, my question was simply to spot the gay zombie by his swoosh!
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It is Robert E Howard
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But it seemed familiar once I read about it.
I seem to remember the Robert Wagner character as my mom watched anything he was in (Hart to Hart!).
I looked at the cast and it had Joseph Cotten! Hell yeah.
Of course it came out before I was born, so unless it was a rerun on tv or something I can't say I saw the whole thing.
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I saw City Beneath the Sea, and yes, I think he could talk to fish. I loved that movie as a kid.
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I do not really like watching movies on youtube, but it may be the only way to see that particular one.
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Stared out as a Robert E. Howard story back in 1938 - very, very good horror. Then Marvel revieved the term because the comics code refused to allow the word Zombie - even though a Zuvembie is the same thing!
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and that's saying something.
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It's been pissing down all day. I mean all day, literally. Sickener. I thought, 'not watched Die Hard 4 yet, I'll stick that on.' I nearly lost the will to live.Maybe I'm being too harsh because it's raining, I don't know. Wiseman's blue colour tint might work for the 'Underworld' movies but it doesn't work for a 'Die Hard.' And Timothy Elephant just isn't scary.Right. I'll watch some of these Twitch trailers now.
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Todd, I read your original review of this, and don't know this one slipped past my radar. I'm seeking it out pronto. Last foreign thriller I saw was Tell No One and I LOVED that. Tonight is The Chaser, so trying to find King of the Hill has become a priority.
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you still want to come to zhura? We have quite the little group over there now.
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you that are already a part of it, let him know too. I tried to catch him yesterday, but I think I missed him.
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One fuck of a day.
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I've got to do it when I've got more time to bugger around with the server at work. It's still blocking it for some reason.
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if you need a pick me up go over to the asian site mavra sent, and check out Survive Style 5 +. Sure to make you smile. Two words. BIRD.DAD.
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Fucking hate it. It's fucking SHITE, listen to this- I took this morning off work to try to get a repeat prescription. However, I don't have a GP (because I'm never ill and registering is such a pain in the ass). So I walked into my local GP and asked if I could register and see the Doctor in the Afternoon. The woman tells me that I can register but won't be able to see a quack FOR A REPEAT FUCKING PRESCRIPTION for 3-5 days. This ordinarily wouldn't matter, but I work in education and from next week until mid-october I can't take time off. And they're not open on Saturday's or outside of working hours. So I thought, fuck this, and went down to Casualty. AFter waiting 2 hours I got in to see a doctor who then promptly misdiagnosed me. I asked him- "are you sure about that, dude, because that advice you've just given me will cause me to lose hearing in my left ear, and I will sue you." The stupid cunt just stares at me, which prompts me to ask "It was diagnosed by a spanish doctor and I just want some more antibiotics to clear it up as I've run out". After a while the cunt then makes with the prescription pad. Socialised medicine is shit- and the NHS is now worse than it was when I was a kid. It's a fucking incompetent joke.
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and work is just annoying me know.
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wow, just really awful. any plans this weekend?
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and just relaxing. It's too misreable to do anything.
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but about 1 million times better than what passes for Healthcare in America.
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Can not argue with idiots. You can point out siz ways to sunday how wrong they are, and they still do not get it. Just parrot the 'officially sanctioned' response. No point arguing with someone people, unless that is all you want to do.
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Luckily for me their playing just round the corner. I love Camden. Urban hellhole that it is.
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Sep 05, 2008 11:07:22 AM CDT
Jarv, did you pick up some Spanish disease in your ear?
by toadkillerdog
Kinky.
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And what got me with coughlins was when Node posted the definition of Casualty (which he was obviously misunderstanding) then the numbers and he still thought Node was wrong. What a twat.
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And, frankly, your more likely to get food poisoning. I was just stunned at the ineptitude of our allegedly "free" health service. Scary Fact of the Day- The NHS is the third biggest employer in the world behind the chinese Army and the indian railways. And clinical staff are by far the minority. I dread to think what would happen if you apply the NHS model to America.
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and go to the pub. See you all monday.
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...on the Carol thread. I'm going to pull my hair out.Get some stout in you Jarv and put this day behind you, sir.Sorry to hear about the ear infection.
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Jonah Echo - great recommendation, Survive Style 5+ is FUCKING AWESOME. It'll never be available in North America due to music rights - it's the Cake song - but there's a UK edition and the Japanese disc is english friendly.
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Oh, and for future reference, the links are always BELOW the write up. I'll try to be more clear in the text next time ...
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I see that Red Cliff is getting released on region 3 DVD soon and much to my surprise, region 1 Blu-ray as well. Any word of if it will get an official standard DVD release in North America?
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You made an excellent point about Lebanon.
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Survive Style 5+ I saw at an anime convention a few years ago, back to back with Cat Soup and Save the Green Planet, so obviously, my mind was blown. Gagam Boy followed that, but I rather hated it, so.
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was brilliant. It just made you happy to be alive. Never before has a surreal ensemble movie like that actually made me feel warm and fuzzy inside. You liked those characters. Even Asano and his nutty zombie wife. And Vinnie Jones! Why was Vinnie Jones there? Ha!
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Did you ever see Aziris Nuna? It was a russian sci-fi, looked Fifth Element-esque to me. I never saw it, but I've never been able to find it. Was it a bust?
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Ladies and gentlemen, on drums, Dolph Lundgren! Who doesn't want to see some of that, eh!Also, Baader Meinhof looks grim but compelling. Admiral Kolchak, another good looking film but the power ballad wasn't hooking me. Only Bonnie Tyler can do power ballads! Finally, Queens Of Langkasoka looks like a lot of fun.
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Haven't got time to watch it now but I'll get around to SS5, definitely. What was the link again?
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Fred can't wait to see some of these movies!
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Did you read Freds script?
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Is it Anime?
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Not yet. I'll get to it, I promise. Don't know about you but the way the posts are laid out over there, I find it hard to follow.
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I'm logged in over there but the side panel has got me 'offline.'
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But Fred is easily confused anyway, so just keep plowing through.
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it's taking awhile to get used to the layout at zhura. Thanks for the comments though, There. I'm currently just trying to post several ideas, and get a feel from all of you what you think is worth developing. Some are just ideas, most exist in some written form. Others just popped into my head over the last week or so.
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Man, you are bursting with ideas! It's hard to keep up. Consider me daunted!
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No, its live action and like Crash or Magnolia, it follows a whole group of characters destined to collide, but the difference is how bizarre the whole thing is. One of the major characters is a salaryman who gets hypnotized into thinking he is a bird, and is never un-hypnotized so he is forced to live his life that way.
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Dinner time!DIRK! I'M HAVING A CHICKEN CURRY! STOP QUIVERING!
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Sep 05, 2008 12:12:18 PM CDT
ThereWolf - Dirk says that is proof that you
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
Eat more than just rabbits! Dirk is afraid you will bring your curry powder and try something new! Dirk packing bags - again.
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I read too much political TBs today.
I'll even try to discuss merits of Jaws: The Revenge or give you guys another story involving The Brim, Warwick Davis and Carl Childers.
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It's no good. I need alcohol. I'm going to the pub.
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They aren't real chickens. They're rabbis dressed up as chickens! And then curried.
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No. That should be RABBITS. And that's before I've had a drink. Even I couldn't eat a rabbi dressed up as a chicken. Unthinkable.
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Still have three hours to go
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Fred spit his cherry coke out at that!
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Hang in there, man. Just focus, picture that drink in your head and hold onto that image. If anyone talks to you - just imagine them as a drink also. One big giant talking pint.
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The pleasure's all mine. If you can make just one person laugh the world is a better place, I say.Now. I'm definitely going to the pub this instant. Later!
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Enjoy weekend ThereWolf
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Looks amazing. Its like how I would always imagine a comic book looking like had it been animated. Can't wait for that.
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Remind anyone else of the Shawdow? No it'll never be enough. NEVER BE ENOUGH! I've been looking for an original sin, one with a twist and a bit of a spin. And since I've done all the old ones till they've all been done in. Great song, shame about the movie.
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I love that song. I know Taylor Dane aint the original artist, but Im headed to youtube and see if they have the video. I loved that movie. K-20 is high up on my must see list. I freakin love the 20s noir hero stuff.
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Just because he is the greatest.
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Yeah, Red Cliff will come to R1 soonish. Shouldn't be too much of a wait. Yes, I've seen The Chaser, really like it but think it's been overhyped. I actually think the remake could improve on a few points. Aziris Nuna is pretty good, really pretty, and very much a kids movie. Don't hold your breath for a release.
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I was counting on Aziris Nuna being crap, and that sated the fact I might never see it. Now that I know it's a pretty good, pretty kid's movie, I have to seek it out.
Anyway, thanks for the feedback. I really enjoy the jobs you guys are doing here. And I assume you thought Red Cliff was great? I just saw it, and loved it. Best John Woo work in a while. On the flipside of that, I saw the Sammo Hung Romance of the Three Kingdoms and found it to be watchable, but weak. Seriously, is it no wierd they cut out the whole middle of the story? -
http://www.asian-horror-movies.com/surs.php
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that's what QUEENS OF LANGKASUKA makes me think of, a mix of Aquaman and Pirates of the Caribbean. Looks pretty damn good though!
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there, I think I just gave heart attacks to all the geeks with these two posts, haha
I'm just kidding. The movies look interesting. And its been a long week so I feel snarky right now.
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I'm up, but probably not for much longer, I'm wiped. Its been a really long week at college, we only have less than a month left in the program to finish our portfolio, so its crunch time and little sleep in my foreseeable future. Hence my scarcity around here lately. I still drop in to check, that Brim and Warwick stuff yesterday was just priceless. It certainly helped me forget about class for a while, so thanks to everyone!
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nice to see it get a mention.
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Bronson definitely looks the most interesting. I love crazy people biographies. What a cool trailer too.
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And because it looks like The Shadow, K20 gets my vote too. And King of the Hill. That looks great.
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Lets see how it is.
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I didn't watch all the trailers, just the ones that sounded interesting, but those three trailers were my favorites for sure.
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but I got lots of other great movies from him so I'm not complaining. Every one of them so far has been spectacular. Maybe next time though.
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It's a darn creepy movie. I'm in complete suspense over here. It's a beautifully made film, and so far it's extremely creepy and terrifying with showing very little. Im only 30 minutes in though.
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damn.
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did you watch survive style 5+ yet?
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Just finished up The Chaser. What a great thriller. It never let up, and it's been awhile since I've been that invested, to be that frightened for the characters, or that angry at others. If any of you are fans of the serial killer genre, this dances circles around most recent ones, without resorting to "torture porn" but not losing it's graphic edge either.
I wont say more for now, but if David Fincher moved to Korea to direct movies, it might look like this.
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I'm loving these movies. desert rats was great, it is so rare and refreshing to not sit through a movie about the English siege of tobruk, the action scenes were great. the whole movie really well put together. day of the jackal was fantastic. i was so happy because i loved the book but bruce willis really put it through the ringer. i was a faithful rendition. Vertigo was great as well. I did think the final act dragged on for too long. the others im still looking forward to.
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Damn, that site has got to be infringing on copyrights. Glad you loved it, Jonah. I was confident you would. The main actor was fantastic although the villain weren't too bad himself.
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Sep 06, 2008 10:15:04 AM CDT
I feel like a shitheel for omitting some movies...
by hawaiian organ donor
...in your kits people. I'll get it right the next time. Also happy to hear my selections seem to be hitting the mark for the most part.
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Sep 06, 2008 10:16:05 AM CDT
And on that note, I'm going to go watch the Forbidden Kingdom
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Have a great weekend, y'all.
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Enjoy Forbidden Kingdom. It's a fun little flick-Neverending Story for asian folklore. Chan and Li both do great jobs, but surprisingly, I think Chan gives the better performance.
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you shouldn't feel bad at all. You spent your own time making and sending this stuff and we didnt pay a dime.
Also, I think Chaser might be my favorite of the films in batch 2 thus far, though that's no slight on Red Cliff(also, it's hard since RC is just the first part of a larger story). It's just I think Chaser might have been Oldboy and The Host kind of good. I need to see it again. Both are getting picked up in bluray when the opportunity arises. -
Raining like crazy here. Working on some writing, hanging with the wife and catching some movies. Nice intro to fall sort of weekend.
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and like I said, everything you have sent me so far has been great, and you are doing it because you just want to share some cool movies with people. It's a great thing. Don't even worry about who got what.
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right now I live with three girls, and they all wanted to watch it after one of them recommended it, being a big fan of Edith Sedgwick.I gotta say, it was the absolute worst movie I have ever seen. The absolute worst. Ever.
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Holy snapping arseholes that's quite the bold statement, Kungfu. My condolences to whatever little part of you died watching it. I think Forbidden Kingdom is going to have to wait until tonight. Been busy doing chores around the house.I'm already working on your next kits, getting movies ready as I go and it's a lot less work when not rushed.OK, back to the laundry.
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HOD,we are all reaping the benefits of your generosity, so even those of us who are wretches are at least not ungrateful ones. :0)
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That should have been Factory Girl < Machine Girl. Most peculiar...
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Guy Pearce really did an excellent job as Andy Warhol. everything else was just awful though.It is the one movie I ever walked out on because it was so bad. I eventually came back and finished it, but that's a pretty big deal for me. I usually believe every movie deserves a chance to be fully seen, but that one just wasn't doing anything positive for me.
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I can reccomend a few films you should definitely check out, if you haven't already.
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we are at least back on the list.
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back to suggestions.
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Okay, it's not Miike's best movie, that would be Happiness of the Katakuris, but it's a wild, odd time nonetheless. It's Miike's take on children's fantasy, but only Miike would make a kid's film that features a mutant man calf being born only to utter a mysterious portent and then fall over dead, or have an army of posessed junkyard parts form monsters that eviscerate most of the town. It's a giddy, goofy potpourri of myths, comic book inventiveness and childhood imagination. Basically, Neverending Story on acid.
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there is even one of you out there that hasn't seen this, it is a MUST see.
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I gave up on the creepy japanese ghost girl just about the same time she became popular again, with Ringu. I greatly prefer the older japanese ghost stories. But this one, Hair Extensions is goofy enough, and the premise wacked out enough-haunted hair extensions- that it mostly works as a B-movie good time. It's a wierd, sublime idea married with the right amount of schlock. If you anticipate wierdness, there is some to be had here:
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pure camp. If you don't look at the poster, and read the premise, and want to see this movie, there is nothing I could say that would change that. Take a look, and decide. The film within pretty much fulfills the promise of the poster.
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I wrote them all down and will certainly check them all out when I have time. At the libary today I rented a compilation DVD set with all those old 40s werewolf movies including the original, Werewolf versus Frankenstein, and Werewolf in London. I love werewolves. Excitement abounds.
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Thanks for that link, Jonah. Good film, really liked it. Reminds me of 'Magnolia' actually. Bird-Dad was great! Liked that version of 'I Will Survive' as well. Never heard of Cake.Not a very in-depth review, I know, but the film hasn't settled in my head yet.
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Mmmmm... Very wise, Kungfu. Very wise indeed.
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POTC 3: At World's End. Totally uninvolving. Didn't drag out any kind of emotion, I watched it like a zombie. I'm not saying it's terrible, the finale was well done - except for the snidey bloke - I thought Knightley would get to waste that cunt for killing her Dad. Poor resolution.Maybe I'm just all Pirated out after the first 2, I'll give it another go at some point. Luckily, I followed that with Survive Style 5.
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where the hell is everybody?
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Don't think they 'do' weekends.
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but I will still check in when I can. I'm watching Survive style 5+ right now. I already love it. I saw Vinnie Jones's name in the opening credits. Of all these Asian movies I have watched so far, I would not expect this one to have him. Cool.
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What can you say about Vinnie? Not much of a range - always the hard case. Safe to say, was a bit surprised to see him turn up in this.
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when you think about it, has Vinnie ever really played anything else? Talk about typecasting. Sheesh.
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what an incredibly inventive, hilarious movie. I don't know the name of the actor playing the hypnotized father, but I remember seeing him in a lot of other Japanese movies and I just love him. I think the last thing I remember seeing him in was Takeshi Kitano's Zatoichi remake. Highly recommended to those who have not checked it out yet.Does anybody know where I can find it on home video? Is there a region 1 DVD of Survive Style 5+ available anywhere?
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I guess I'll just have to put this thing back on that list.
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Happiness of the Katakuris. Just the opening scene so far. What a way to start a flick!
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wait for the Sumo wrestler and the insane claymation. One of Miike's most experimental efforts.
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I began Open City that Hawaiian sent me. i liked what I saw so far. I will probably finish that one tomorrow.
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I need at least another 14 posts to push this back up. *cracks knuckles*
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I have been meaning to see the Great Yokai War for awhile. i know I will probably be chastised by jonah for this, but I am a sucker for anything Miike.
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Sep 08, 2008 3:11:33 AM CDT
I saw one of the funniest things I've seen in a long time on
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Friday night. Me and Mrs. Jarv had tickets to one of my favourite bands, and for the encore, they did an insane cover of the Cantina Band- and introduced it by asking "Who's in the mood for some bizarre Space Jazz?" I nearly died laughing.
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How was your weekend? Good?
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And I have to say that if anyone is thinking about seeing it- don't watch the trailer. It seriously misrepresents the film. It's not a bad effort, sure enough, but I just couldn't stop feeling a bit swindled.
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and actually bothered to watch the extras in the Quadrilogy box set.
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I keep picturing him in the stereotypical Egyptian garb, but also wearing a pair of big, brightly colored Nikes.
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remains my favourite. Just perfection. It still grabs me. Fucking love it- athough I maintain that it could never be made now. It would just be butchered in test screenings.
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In pharoah garb except instead of a face mask he's got a beanie and a pair of ray-bans.
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also love it. A true classic, but not as good as Alien.
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besides the Wolfman movie collection...
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a classic I have been meaning to revisit, since last time I enjoyed it was under the strong impression of a great deal of red wine
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I have been working on a script idea set in the warring states period in Japan, partially inspired by the events covered in this film. I wanted to re-watch it and take notes on specific shots and scenes.
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I get why people don't like it. I really do. But I've got a few new-ish thoughts about it since watching the extras: Alien 3 has gone up in my regard- it really is quite good. It's certainly the one with the most room for improvement- for example, they could fix some of the shoddy CGI on the alien itself. 2)Fox are lying when they say that the Assembly cut is the definitive version. It clearly isn't as they have footage that appears in the extras that doesn't appear in either version of the film- Ripley getting chest-burst leaping to mind. There is a definitive version of Alien 3 to be made, but we're never likely to see it. 3)Marketing executives are morons. I already knew this, but to listen to that dick harp on about how catching the beast had to be taken out (which I reckon does more damage to the theatre version than anything else- the film becomes disjointed without it), because he didn't want to sully this "mythical monster" was the dumbest thing I've ever seen. 4)The wood planet was a shit idea. 5)Fincher really got shafted. 6)The Bambi chestbuster is a fabulously good idea, and remains my favourite chestburster of the series. Although not my favourite chestburster scene- nothing tops the original. 7)Danny Webb is great and needs more work. 8)The score was brilliant.
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a funny, and simultaneously gut-wrenching film I wanted to show to my girlfriend after making her watch the Vengeance trilogy over the past couple weeks. It is still almost as said and affecting as those films, but has a great deal of comic relief in it as well.Highly recommended to any who have not seen it.
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has actually gone down slightly in my esteem. Really, the problems with it are twofold- Joss Whedon's script, and that hideously messy last third. Whedon't script fuck's me off because he can't help but put inappropriate pop culture references in it. I'd never noticed them before, but for some reason I did this time- at one point Johner calls Vriess "Ironside". Not only is this crap- but what on earth makes Whedon think that an obscure detective programme from the 1970's/80's will survive thousands of years in the future. And there's loads of them. This is actually why the film has sunk a bit in my eyes. 2)The end. The problems with this are all well covered, so I'll leave it, but it was interesting to hear Jeuneut say that he was making a long "commercial" as in he was just there to do everything the studio wanted. It still has enough cool bits in it to elevate it above the herd.
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and I wish Fox would stop raping the legacy with the dismal AvP pish. It's not big, not clever and stops my dream Neill Marshall Alien 5 from happening.
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that would have been cool.
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Fuckers.
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Wow.
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tonight a pair of friends and I watched the 2002 horror movie May. It had a pretty lame, almost laughably bad buildup, but by the end became a much more intelligent, poignant piece. It was not the idiotic horror movie I thought it would be. Going in I figured it would be similar in tone to Teeth, but May really is a better film in my opinion.I also remember recognizing Nora Zehetner from the movie Brick and thinking she could maybe work in the role of Shosanna in Tarantino's Inglorious Bastards. Any thoughts on that?
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woot.
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did not like it. At all. But I made the mistake of renting it after Harry's laughably glowing review. The only bit of it I did like was the very end when the assembled body parts seemed to give her a cuddle when she was lying down. Aside from that....
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I'm not sure it even qualifies as a horror film. Psychodrama?
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It's interestin comparing how different countries interpret the police forces. I have noticed this a lot while watching all those cop movies Hawaiian sent me. The Koreans tend to acknowledge the fact that the force is usually corrupt, but still have righteous cops who just take extreme measures for justice. The Chinese on the other hand, tend to paint their police in a heoic, almost selfless, superheroic light, like in Invisible Target and Jackie Chan's Police Story. Very interesting...
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should I post more?
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In honor of the Asian Horror Movies site...What is everybody's favorite Asian horror movie?Have we discussed this yet? I would not be surprised at all if we had and I missed it.Well anyway, mine is probably Audition, but I haven't seen that many Asian horror movies. A good deal, but not enough to feel like there is nothing else that could top Audition.Survive Style 5+ was incredibly funny and I enjoyed it a great deal, but I'm not sure I would classify that movie as horror, given the fact that I was laughing my ass off. The hypnotist's opening dance number with the rabbit's magical semen was the funniest thing I have seen in weeks. And when he ripped out a tuft of his own hair and blew it into the crowd? Brilliant.
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We have real problems with the police- on one hand we paint them as bumbling fucknuts and on the other they're all bent. It comes with holding them in contempt. I had an ex-girlfriend who's father in law reckoned that Traffic cops were the reason that the public lost respect for the Police. I think he's right.
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and Hawaiian, I hope you don't think I was complaining about not getting certain movies. Jonah asked me if I got them and I was simply responding. There was no whining on my side at all, believe me. Your packages are a source of utter delight and entertainment for me, and I am of course grateful for the movies I have received from you. Sorry if I seemed like I was just whining about movies i didn't have earlier. That's really not a big deal at all and I really have a lot of good stuff from you I still have to watch.
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like i said, almost the entire movie is nearly maddeningly stupid, but once you accept it for the somewhat campy fare that it is, it gets a little easier to enjoy. Most of the movie is still barely mediocre in my book, but the last twenty minutes or so really elevated May to at least something other than horror for horror's sake.
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I didn't even realize you were on here until I scrolled up part way through typing my last post. I was not giving you the cold shoulder, I promise. Sorry about that dude.
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for the past fifteen minutes (probably more like half an hour to an hour), every time I have posted, it only showed my posts, and I didn't even see that you were on here. I guess it takes awhile for the talkback software (or is the TB fairies?) to organize the posts in chronological order. You are in the UK anyway right?
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it's 2:09 AM here.
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and I had kind of the same thing happen- THat's why I split the Alien rant. Very bizarre
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who needs it? WAAAAAAahhhe?
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Howya doin' chipps?
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ALien 5 idea. I feel we need the numbers.
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Basically, I was listening to the "reaction" bit of the Alien 4 extras- and one of the techy geeks came out with a suggestion for Alien 5- and that's the origin of the ship before Alien. While this is not a bad idea, it is, obviously, a prequel and will therefore suck. If it was an ideal world and fox gave a shit then they could go one of two ways (and I reckon both of these would be good
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You accept AvP as cannon. I know this is pretty much an anathema, but bear with me- you then continue the story from AvP:R- but fast forward 100 years or so, and have FUCKING SPACE MARINES. Film ends on planet where spaceship with Alien came from.
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nice job on the posting. Kung-fu, glad you liked SS5+ and hopefully Happiness of the Katakuris. I wouldnt chasten you Kung-fu for watching Yokai. Didnt you see that I was the one who recommended it and posted the link??
And no SS5+ is not a horror movie. I dont know why it's on that site, but Im glad it is. I showed it to my wife(I saw it years ago and told her bout it) this weekend and she liked it too. Everything involving Asano's wife and bird-dad she loved.
My fave asian horror is probably Kwaidan-though it's more of a classic ghost story. Omnibaba is also very good, and of course there is The Host. Audition is indeed intense, but also just too vile for my taste. I dont know if it counts as horror, though there are moments, but The Chaser is a great one too. And it's on that site. In fact all the ones I've mentioned are Kung-fu and if you havent seen them, you should.
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because a) we have the zhura group now b)we started this one on friday, not a good time to start a new TB and c) the political tbs have been drawing away alot of our regs. But lets get this up where it belongs.
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this is the one I would rather they did. Granted, at the end of Alien: Resurrection the Auriga had crashed in a fucker of a nucear explosion. Ripley, Johner, Vriess and Call abandon The Betty. Evil government types attempt to clone the Alien based on blood spilt on Betty. 100% Successful but none of this half-human half alien nonsense. Instead they are laying eggs by the shitload in a government installation. A group of lunatic apocalypse cultists believe that the communion with the Alien=God and organise a suicide bomb attack on the installation. They rob the eggs and get infected in some sort of dreadful religious ceremony. Aliens obviously break out. Carnage and hilarity ensue. Film MUST end with full blown Alien infestation across Earth. Title- Alien: Contagion. Pros- No need to bring back Ripley or original cast. Chance for some fucking great Blade Runner esque sets and a nice chance for some dystopian social commentary. Gives straight lead into Alien 6: Extermination. Cons- Fucking expensive. Alien without Ripley?
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have to hack the server to do it. As soon as I get clear I Will do.
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but I can't remember the title.
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How was the weekend?
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It's a korean rom-com that is so far, much less annoying then I originally expected and not so bad really. However, when they brought the plot point of Uzbekistan and that the korean guy would go there to get a wife, I got excited for a movie where a korean guy and a woman from uzbekistan would be the couple in question. It seemed like alot of interesting potential there. Of course it appears the korean dude will go for the matchmaker who sets everyone up instead. I just finished the part where pulls that forrest gump running moment. Also, the grandpa in this film is like a korean version of Albert Finney crossed with Mr. Belvedere. it's awesome.
And HOD, is the main character's friend not the korean doppleganger of John Leguizamo?
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and I'd probably give it to Audition. Either that Dark Water or Ringu. The American remakes of those last 2 are not to be recognised. I'd also give an honourable mention to the ones Jonah just said, a Tale of 2 Sisters and a few others.
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It is apparent from that statement above, but I do like the movie. However, the main character is such a schlub, that we havent reached that point where he becomes endearing, you know that point when romantic comedies usually become endearing. I think we turned the movie off (due to the late hour and the fact we were falling asleep) right at the point where this was starting to happen. I'll try to finish it tonight. I think this is the one where the cultural barrier is felt the most on my part. Also, after Running Wild,The Chaser and this movie, does it seem like South Korea is stuck in the 70s?
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Anyone see this? I sort of feel mixed on this one. A couple scenes didn't really work for me, but yet I still was sort of involved in it, and yet pulled out of it at the same time.
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I think some of it was pretty funny, but it was interesting too considering when they actually did the show (during Katrina) and how it impacted them. I won't come down on them considering their initial reactions to going to the campgrounds, but at least it did affect them in a positive way.
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Just stop. There is no way it will ever be handled correctly again.
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Which is why I said "in an ideal word". Frankly, I'd rather see them have a proper go at Alien 5 than another AvP. Which is what we'll get. There's no hope of the Alien formula (middling budget, young talented director, Violent and scary as fuck) ever being applied again whilst fox has PWSAnderwank's number. A true shame, but I can dream.
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Jonah, I couldn't have said it better myself. It's not the greatest movie you'll ever see but since Asians either butcher romcoms or I just don't get them, I figured I'd send Campaign to you as it's only one of 3 or 4 that actually worked for me. The lead is a schlub but I tend to cheer for the pathetic loser.South Koreans are oddly stuck in the 70s> Go figure as socio-politically it wasn't a great decade for them.With regards to the Alien franchise, after Aliens I wanted them to return somehow to the space jockey species. I mean, here is this advanced alien race with the means of space travel, I'm guessing they've been to the alien homeworld, it always seemed like there was some real potential there.I had planned on watching Mongol and The Fall over the weekend but ended up getting sucked into season three of Prison Break. That show is pulpy nonsense but damn if it can't be entertaining. And season three is infinitely better than season two.As you know I haven't seen much Asian horror but go with Audition.I realize you guys aren't complaining about what I sent you, but if I haven't told you already I'm a real perfectionist, so I wanted to send kits out with no omissions.
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is to have someone follow the formula you just laid out, but with a different 'alien'. The title, the studio must be different.It is the only way.And I'm NOT including any of the sci-fi channels "attempts" at this.
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...in the third act. Great concept, lousy execution is what my brother said. I have it at home and that was another film I considered watching over the weekend.It has a solid cast and I generally watch anything Dennis Quaid is in but nothing ruins my day more than a movie that has me totally sucked in only to fall apart at the end.
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save your idea, develop it, change the alien, and the title, and put it on the zhura group and work on it.
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So, this weeks lineup for me is Japan is Sinking, Going by the Book and Open City. Of those three I've only seen Japan is Sinking once before. What do you think of that line-up?
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I will ponder it while pretending to work.
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best films of 1990. This was HOD's idea, start there and go forward again, through 1997. Sounds good.
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Going By The Book is the best of the bunch. But they're all great, mindless entertainment.I wonder if Fox is so stupid that if Ridley Scott himself approached them again and said let me do an Alien 5, if they'd turn him away.
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I'm still trying to overlook some things so that I can say I liked the whole thing. Not working so far. Makes me a bit sad, almost like Sunshine.On the plus side, Vantage Point never gets blurry as fuck.
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Clearly my being here is a complete waste of time. We are such a bullshit non-company that makes shitloads of money in spite of ourselves.It really is quite amazing.
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yes they are. Simply because they think that the best way to do it is to keep churning out AvP shite aimed at the moron disaster movie market. Give it to Marshal or someone like him.
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Fucking sympathise. I'm so fucking sick of IT departments that I'm tempted to go and retrain so I can become one of the useless overpaid fuckmonkeys.
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Goodfellas....Total Recall....Miller's Crossing...Misery...Dances with Wolves...fucking Tremors..heh-heh-heh...then other shit like Darkman, Blind Fury, I Come in Peace...Jacob's Ladder..Hard to Kill...Not a strong year for me. What the hell am I missing?
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it's all blending in to one for me. So I'm struggling to pick 10
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The money they blow on expedited shipping is crazy.
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Wikipedia is my friend.
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http://www.listology.com/content_show.cfm/content_id.11474I sure as hell don't know when the exact year everything came out. I'm going on the assumption that this one is correct.
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lazy, useless bastards. I want to be one.
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How the fuck did I miss that one?
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I remember thinking Quick Change was funny. And I liked Memphis Belle, if I remember correctly, that was the bomber crew. Shit, I liked DH2, so I have to add that one.
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Save us Lou!
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Robocop 2.Yeah, definitely a good year for me for the action movie.
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Seriously: In no particular order- Goodfellas, Edward Scissorhands, Miller's Crossing, Cyrano De bergerac, Cinema Paradiso, Henry, Total Recall, Tremors, Wild At Heart, Misery. HM- Darkman, Die Hard 2, Pump Up The VOlume, King Of New York, Dark Angel, Back To The Future 3, Arachnophobia, The Krays, Exorcist 3, JAcob's Ladder. I could go on, but what a fucking year.
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That's another film I remember liking, but haven't seen since the initial viewing.
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Edward Scissorhands.
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and I missed White Hunter, Black Heart/ Predator 2. Wow. What a Year.
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I've been on my own a lot though, so it's alright. What did you not like?
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I'l have a go: Days of Thunder, Three Men and a Little LAdy, Bonfire of The Vanities (possibly worst film of the year- way to miss the point), Joe Vs Volcano and Navy Seals. What. A. Year. I'm genuinly stunned.
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Even with its cheesiness, I like Navy Seals better. Just so disappointed with Predator 2 as compared to the first one. They definitely didn't pull an Aliens with that.Jarv, you forgot Pretty Woman and Ghost. *shudder*
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so it's been, what, like 16 years? My tastes have definitely changed of course, so that would be a candidate for another viewing. It's not like it's trying to match a standard I have in my head like other old movies. I think I was way too much in the action mode at that time to even think about another type of movie. I mean 1990 delivered a ton of action movies.
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they aren't as bad as the 5 I mentioned.
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They're worse than Navy Seals.
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I'd rather take Ed's scissors and gouge my eyes out than watch Pretty Woman and Ghost. That does apply to 3 of the 5 you mentioned as well. Days of Thunder sucks, but there's no question I would watch that before PW and Ghost.And as stated above, I enjoyed Navy Seals, cheesiness and all.
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I think I'm alone in not liking Dances with Wolves. Pity it wasn't Eaten by Wolves.
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Goodfellas, Miller's Crossing, Dances With Wolves, Misery, Hunt For Red October, Total Recall, State of Grace, Cyrano, Robocop 2 and My Blue Heaven.Have to give honorable mention to Edward Scissorhands, Back to the Future 3, Memphis Belle, Blind Fury, King of New York, Quick Change, Predator 2, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead and Tremors.
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was a wretched catastrophic failure. As much as I'd watch it before Pretty Woman and Ghost, I have to say I think it is a worse film. If that makes sense.
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Silence of the Lambs, T2, Boyz n the Hood, Cape Fear, JFK, Hudson Hawk, The Last Boy Scout, Point Break...
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arguably the last time Steve Martin was remotely funny.
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Out for Justice, The Perfect Weapon, Richochet.
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I could probably watch it again now since there's been enough distance since I last saw it. One of my damn friends used to watch that all the fucking time in college for whatever reason. Drove me mad.
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I didn't like it that much. Honest.
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Top 10: The Silence Of The Lambs, La Femme Nikita, The Last Boy Scout, The Rocketeer, City Slickers, Barton Fink, POint Break, People Under The Stairs, The Commitments, Showdown In Little Tokyo. HM- Too many to mention. Shitbags- Highlander 2, Child's Play 3, Freddy's Dead, Scenes From a Mall (I hated WOody Allen for about 10 years because of this), Suburban Commando. A good year, but not as good as 1990
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Steve Martin has been in good in dramatic movies like Grand Canyon, Spanish Prisoner and Leap of Faith, but My Blue Heaven was the last time he made me laugh.
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but not ranked:
• Cyrano De Bergerac
• Miller’s Crossing
• My Father’s Glory
• My Mother’s Castle
• After Dark My Sweet
• Cinema Paradiso
• Dances With Wolves
• Edward Scissorhands
• The Freshman
• Goodfellas
• Tremors
• The Witches
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• Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams
• The Hunt For Red October
• King Of New York
• Misery
• Quick Change
• Wild At Heart
• Avalon
• Jacob’s Ladder
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I forgot about La Femme Nikita.
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Sep 08, 2008 9:12:55 AM CDT
Steve Martin made me laugh in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
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But that wasn't 1990.
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Great movie
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Do ya?
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I say!
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again, no ranking:
• Barton Fink
• Beauty and the Beast
• Boyz N the Hood
• Bugsy
• The Commitments
• Delicatessen
• The Doctor
• The Doors
• Dutch
• The Fisher King
• Grand Canyon
• Heaven and Earth
• Only The Lonely
• The Rocketeer
• The Silence of the Lambs
• Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
• Once A Thief
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day
• What About Bob?
• The Indian Runner
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Muhhooohaahhhahaaahhhaaaa!
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91 was a pretty decent year. If for nothing else, it's the year Delicatessen came out. Brilliant, that one.
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did anyone actually venture to the theater this past weekend? I know I didnt. With summer behind us, my movie intake at the theater usually dips. Even more-so now, with all this asian goodness to partake of. I told several of my co-workers about The Chaser and they are just in disbelief.
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will probably be for Burn After Reading and Apalloosa. Though, depending on the reviews, might switch out The Duchess for Apaloosa.
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No, I have not gone to the theater since Tropic Thunder came out.
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Hook blights it. There's bugger all out that I want to see in the Cinema- we're being bombarded with Ad's for "The Duchess" which looks like a laboured Keira Knightly vehicle that is trying to draw some sort of bullshit Diana comparison. And a woman I work with said it was fucking dreadful.
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I have to scan something or grab a file and that's when you hit.
Also, I can sit in my office all morning and the phone doesn't ring. But let me get up for two seconds and I have five voicemails to return once I get back.
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Ya got me perty gud las week! Sos' turnabout is fahr pley!
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Sep 08, 2008 9:36:01 AM CDT
Since my daughter was born I can count on one hand
by hawaiian organ donor
...the number of times I've been to the theater. I predict I won't make another trip until 2009.And now that football season has started, half of my Sundays will be spent at the stadium in Charlotte.
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but my wife is a huge fan of the period dramas, and I tend to like them if they are done well.
Toad. The Chaser is a south korean thriller about a murderer of prostitutes who evades the inept justice system(after being captured twice before) on technicalities only to be pursued by an ex-detective who is the pimp of several girls this man has abducted. It's pretty intense.
And you can see it here:
http://www.asian-horror-movies .com/chaser.php
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It's been absolutely battered in every paper here except for that stupid woman that Gave TDK 1*
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I must leave to fine gentlemen for several hours- duty calls.
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Good road win at SD, but when do they get Smith back at rec?
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I got Morpheus' product placement package already and he led me straight into the janitor's closet. Then he offers me two pills, I take the red one and I wake up in a bathtub full of ice.
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Duty calls. Paycheck must be earned.
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http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/film_reviews/article4669222.ece And this is one of the nicer ones.
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I had to sweat it out while weak-armed Chad almost led the Dolphins back on my fucking Jets.
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Sep 08, 2008 9:48:54 AM CDT
That final drive had me pulling out my hair, Chitty
by hawaiian organ donor
What a win. Nice to see they have a running game again.Smith's suspension lasts for one more game so we'll be without him this Sunday.Between the Panthers dramatic win and the Jays sweeping the best team in baseball over the weekend I was momentarily in heaven. Then the alarm went off at 6:00 this morning to remind me my life sucks.
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How was your weekend?
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Morpheus would start prank calling people and I would be the first one.
Morpheus: "Hello Chitty."
Me: "Morpheus?"
Morpheus: "Yeeeesss."
Me: "is this real?"
Morpheus:"Chitty, I need to ask you something and I need you to be very clear."
Me: "Ok, sure, anything."
Morpheus: "Is your computer running right now?"
Me: "Yes, why?"
Morpheus: "Then I suggest you go and catch it."
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...haven't seen you in a while.
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Also, chitty, were you the guy that wrote that fake conversation between Mori and Tiny Lister over in the TDK thread. That was just as I was starting to meet you guys, and don't recall it but it was hilarious. It was based around the fact Mori said Tiny took his number and wanted to call and talk to him bout the fact Mori was touched by his performance. Whoever wrote it, it was kind of genius.
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when do we get to see your ideas over there? Also, tops of 90 and 91 when you get a chance.
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I know, work had me all tied up last week.
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here's the repost. It wasnt Chitty though, some guy-zombot.com or something.
mori: (wakes up at 3am) H-Hullo?
tiny: I like puppies.
mori: who is this?
it's Tiny, man, y'know, the president from fifth element? you said we could talk sometime about life and shit.
m: oh yeah man- hey, it's just that..
T: yeah i like the way they smell, man. puppies.
M:yeah, yeah it's okay, I-
T:yeah man, and the bellies are are warm and fat and shit. sometimes i cry man, 'cause of puppies.
M:okay.
T:man, putting down my dog was like the hardest thing i ever had to do, more than that time i chose to die on the ferry when the joker was gonna blow the other boat up.
M: tiny, that, um, you're talking about acting in the movie, right? your part?
T:movie?
M: (click)
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Sep 08, 2008 10:00:36 AM CDT
I would love to take credit, but I don't recall that
by chittychittygangbang
That does sound genius though. I may need to write a conversation a day just to keep the creative juices flowing.
Maybe Morpheus calling The Brim.
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I'm gonna post an idea over in Zhura just for you.
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I heard you got a question answered on The Movie Blog podcast the other day. I assume it was you. There could be another Danny Glover's Dickblood, I suppose, but it seems sort of unlikely. It's definitely not a common name around my way.Do you like that show, by the way? I like Doug Nagy - very funny guy - but that John Campea puts my teeth on edge. Has there ever been a more ill-informed blowhard?
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The poor guy. If you're that huge, people are just going to assume you're like Lenny and are forever killing small animals accidentally.
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Sheer genius.
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Fuck. 1991 could very well be the most rockin' year ever. There are probably more films here I would watch on a regular basis than any other year I've looked at. Just fun goofy movies..
The Addams Family, Beauty and the Beast, Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey, Billy Bathgate, Boyz N the Hood, Captain America, Child's Play 3, City Slickers, Curly Sue, Defending Your Life, Doc Hollywood, Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead, The Doors, Double Impact, Dutch, Ernest Scared Stupid, Father of the Bride, The Fisher King, Guilty by Suspicion, Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man, Hook, Hot Shots!, If Looks Could Kill, The Indian Runner, JFK, The Last Boy Scout, Little Man Tate, My Girl, The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear, New Jack City, Not Without My Daughter, Nothing But Trouble, Only The Lonely, Out for Justice, Point Break, Regarding Henry, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, The Rocketeer, Rover Dangerfield, The Silence of the Lambs, Stone Cold, Suburban Commando, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze, Toy Soldiers, White Fang
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What the fuck? Thats not me. I have no idea what the Movie Blog podcast is...
Who the fuck is jocking my name?!! Fuck!!
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Sep 08, 2008 10:22:57 AM CDT
you definitely have a wider range of films you like
by just pillow talk
Danny, than me. While I can say I don't hate all those movies in your first half of the list, they're definitely a good chunk of films there that I would probably never watch again.
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There can be only one!
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He is on a full-fledged smear campaign against you.
I bet he starts calling or emailing into Access Hollywood using your name to ask Pat O'Brien if he thinks Britney is "truly back to form" -
like which? What are my 3 worst in you opinion?
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There's a website called The Movie Blog that has a daily podcast called Uncut, during which listeners can call or e-mail with questions, many of which the host is not able to answer. Anyway, a question on a recent podcast (sometime last week) was from a guy called Danny Glover's Dickblood. It gave them all a giggle, and I assumed it must be you.Maybe someone stole your name. It is pretty funny. I think you need to check into this and maybe unleash one of those pencil whatnots pillow is always on about.P.S. Hey, pillow.
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I'm going to bypass the neck and shove a pencil straight up that fucker's ass.
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Was clearly inferior to the Terence & Phillip masterpiece, Not Without My Anus.
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And by back on form, what I mean is back in taut shape and showing her ladygarden in Playboy.Come on, Britney. Many former pop starlets have chased redemption with a Playboy spread. There is no shame in it. You can do it, too.
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there's at least 5 on that list that I fucking loathe- Father of The Bride, Hook, Suburban Commando, Regarding Henry and Robin Hood.
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some cunt did it to me on The Guardian Website and started posting as Jarv> I have a different name there, but it still pissed me off.
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NUMBER ONE WITH A MOTHERFUCKING BULLET. RESPECT. BITCHES.
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A good solid hulking out would definitely be in order.
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City Slickers, Doc Hollywood, Ernest, Hook...Now I don't remember Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead, though I know I saw it. Father of the Bride my wife loves, I struggle through it everytime I watch it. If Looks Could Kill, I know I saw that, but for the life of me can't remember one scene from it.
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Catch Hellboy II or are you still destined to not see it till video?
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I can see steaing Danny's handle as it's priceless, but mine is pretty anonymous. I think it started out as an acronym, but I signed up here so long ago I've actually forgotten what for.
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Yuck. I'm thinking about that Piece of shit now. Wasn't it one of the movies that helped to sink Harrison Ford's career. I seem to remember it being despicable sugar-laced Oscar Bait. But it was better than Sabrina.
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Perhaps Warwick and be riding one of them, much like in the Two Towers. But different. Scary muthafucking different.
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Fuck. How can you hate that film? I can see finding it boring.....but LOATHING?!! Awwwwww fuck!!! You have no heart man!!
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the movies following it.
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I just don't find it particular memorable. Then again, it must have struck some chord within you Danny. Not for me though.
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Sep 08, 2008 10:51:53 AM CDT
A compliment from Jarv...regarding my handle...
by dannyglovers_dickblood
...this moment is golden.
It shall be cataloged along with my first used rubber in a sandwich baggie, and the blood stained boxers from the time I first nailed a female on the rag in High School.
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because it's cynical Oscar bait. It's dull, predictable, shallow and only exists to allow Harrison a few clips for his highlight reel. The fact that he sleepwalks through the film makes it even more unforgivable. It's nothing to do with not having a heart- Cinema Paradiso is on my list and there isn't a bigger hearted film than that one.
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"blood stained boxers from the time I first nailed a female on the rag in High School" Sick, but funny.
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Awww...I don't really remember it that much. I just remember it is sad as shit during the scenes with his daughter. It was a a well made drama though, and I always welcome Harrison in ordinary dude roles.
J.J. Abrams sold the Regarding Henry script while still in college!! Fucking cocksucker. -
So you got your blood wings in HIgh School?
As did I, which the most important rule of getting the blood wings is NEVER look down after withdrawing and have some water and soap near by.
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Well...I used to be a little less confident and back in the day I didn't want to take my boxers off for some reason-- I just fucked through the piss hole. Awwww....how I miss thy youth.
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Regarding Henry is the movie equivalent of blood stained boxers from hitting a girl on the rag.I guess I could agree to that.
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....now that is a title for an epic World War II film if I've ever heard one.
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Exactly-- in essence Harrison's character in Regarding is trying to break out of his shell, back into the real world. It is really a story of rebirth....you can see the symbolism regarding the menstrual cycle of life and my confidence improving after High School where I broke out of my shell and finally dropped my shorts. -
Feeding on the audience searching for the oscar like Jarv said, and then bursting free of the human host (the audience) running free laughing to the back, and then growing into a bigger Alien, one the audience is frankly scared of because he forgot who he is: an actor.
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Bah..time for lunch.
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but if it morphs before my eyes into some sort of tiresome amnesia effort that finishes with a laughably sentimental ending where the brain damaged lawyer realised he had been a shithead all his life then I will be unimpressed. I think that the world would actually be a better place if you shot most lawyers in the head.
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I haven't seen it in years though. I recall preferring Awakenings. Not that they are identical or anything, but both had those same feelings to them of oscar bait, with big actors playing sick. The best of that bunch was The Doctor with William Hurt. anyone here see that?
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...Regarding Henry? I have one faint memory and that's Harrison telling Leguizamo that he's just buying a pack of cigs and then he gets a hole in his head. I think it's a redemption story but it could be about serial killers for all I know.Maybe Apatow finally got the box of pencils I sent him and he's taken the flame war to a new level by impersonating Danny. That would actually be funny as hell.
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I love the fact that a humble TB-er has managed to get under that overrated twat's skin so badly.
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It is not to be taken lightly.
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I liked Robin in Awakenings, but DeNiro....fuck talk about getting on your hands and knees to suck dick for an Oscar.
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I wouldnt be surprised if it was Judd Apatow, or even one of the trolls around here who don't like Danny and think it would be funny to impersonate him. This world of internet personas is a funny thing.
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she's alright looking, but not enough so that I'd sit through her laughable (at least from the sounds of it) updates. Why is she a "regular" and why does anyone give a shit?
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Sep 08, 2008 11:20:16 AM CDT
yeah...I gotta hunt down that movie blog question...
by dannyglovers_dickblood
...that fucker. I KNOW ITS YOU JUDD!! If you really wanna go down as Comedy powerhouse than be a man and O.D. in the blaze of glory like Belushi and Farley. Oh yeah...and take your asshole masseuse Seth Rogen too.
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I give her thing a quick look to check out her ta-ta's and that's it. Not sure really why Harry continues to bother, but whatever.Jonah, when I read your headline of "Regarding Danny", I thought you were going to suggest a movie where Danny "awakens" to rediscover himself..heh-heh...
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read that headline you wrote but actually pronounce COC as a word. It's so much better that way.
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I'm not a fan of Oscar Bait and everytime an actor wins for something like LA Confidential it makes me happy looking at the fuckers that whored themselves on weighty dramatic shit for a little statue.
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I'm sure that's how Apatow would read it!
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Sep 08, 2008 11:23:14 AM CDT
Yep, Danny one of the Pumkinhead sequels was Bloodwings
by chittychittygangbang
And I laughed and laughed and laughed.
I pictured Pumpkinhead with a hot chick and the following happens.
Hot chick: "Oh Punkin' yes. Mmmm."
Pumpkinhead is carressing her in his long arms. Holding her close and telling her through his hard grip on her ass that kissing is just the beginning.
Pumpkinhead: "Oh yeah, you are amazing, lean back.."
The passion is reaching a thrumming candence as Pumkinhead's heart is redirecting much-needed blood to signal his readiness.
Hot chick, whose hand finds Pumkinhead's growing member, moans with delight.
Hot Chick: "Ohhhhhh Punkin' yessss."
Pumkinhead rips her shirt off, revealing a braless hot chick, who arches her back to show him the full potential her plastic surgeon promised.
Pumpkinhead: "Holy shit!"
We have now gone beyond a simple junior high ass grab session as Pumpkinhead's hand begans the slow decent to a region that nonverbally indicates whether this night will be true success or a total waste of time.
Pumpkinhead feels the well trimmed area and begans final descent.
Hot chick: "Wait!"
Pumpkinhead jumps in the sudden shout of warning.
Pumpkinhead: "What is it? Did I do something wrong? I trimmed my claws this morning?"
Hot Chick: "It's not that, it's something else..."
Pumpkinhead is puzzled and wonders if his lack of commitment to stay the night as given the girl reason for pause.
Pumpkinhead: "Look, I can stay if you want me to, I just have to get up early for a group revenge and have coffee with Ed Harley to discuss it."
Hot chick: "No it's not that, I sort of have something going on down there.."
Pumpkinhead: "I'll say you do, I've never been more turned on."
Hot Chick: "No, I mean it's that time of the month for me."
Pumpkinhead hears the words that cause the single-greatest decision a guy can make in the throws of passion.
Do I keep going and risk being called a sicko, or do I make out a little longer and ask when it's going away.
The answer comes almost too easily as Pumpkinhead is way beyond letting a little hurdle like that stop him.
Nervously Pumpkinhead whispers his response.."I don't mind."
Hot Chick: " I had a feeling you didn't...now just cut out the lights and let me do the handling. Remember don't look down when your done..."
Pumpkinhead has never felt greater pleasure. -
Danny runs down to the local blockbuster to buy a copy of regarding henry and see if it's as good as he remembers. While there Judd Apatow runs in dressed as Ma Kent and sinks one of HOD's pencils in Danny's skull. The COC has to come together and along with the magical power of Marissa Tomei find a way to make Danny live a full life again.
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The story of blood stained shorts & the power of confident cock.
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hmph. Motherfucker just didn't have a pumpkinhead. I feel robbed.
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Sep 08, 2008 11:25:26 AM CDT
"Look, I can stay if you want me to, I just have to get up early
by jonah echo
Brilliant Chitty. One of your best lines yet.
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"Pumpkinhead feels the well trimmed area and begins final descent."
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Sep 08, 2008 11:26:09 AM CDT
you laugh but confident cock can take you far in life...
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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Was this in one of the extended versions?
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the group revenge and have coffee with Ed Harley was the best part. Awesome.
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In fact, one who has confident cock can overcome many shortcomings (maybe not down 'there') in life.
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Sep 08, 2008 11:29:10 AM CDT
remember when we talked about the Jason Goes To Hell...
by dannyglovers_dickblood
...scene where the chick is riding the dude in the tent and Jason spears her through the stomach and rips straight up-- splitting her in two and showering the guy fucking her with blood? Well thats how I picture Judd and Seth going down. And the guy doing the spearing is Teddy Roosevelt. The only question is-- who's on top? -
hehehe. Former TB War veteren decides gets out of rehab and then hunts down Apatow and crew before choking them with a period stained dildo. I'd buy that for a dollar.
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Thats a pic of Chitty after going down on Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio on the rag.
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but Lovefilm are pretending it doesn't exist. Apparantly it's not bad.
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close enough.
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they've just got it.
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What a day. Mind you I did fuck up by being an hour late in the morning, with no reasonable excuse.
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It's coming next from netflix.
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Sep 08, 2008 11:37:59 AM CDT
Shit I'm laughing my ass off Danny (explicit below warning)
by chittychittygangbang
I can see me raising up and grinning at Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and once she grins back, me jumping up and planting a deep, wet kiss that lasts so long we are fused together at the mouth by the dried, meaty period.
Sort of like lasagna that been left on a plate for a day or two. -
Nasty. At that point she would look blue and fucked up like in Abyss. You know Ed Harris got off on that shit...slapping around a dead woman. I could tell he was a pervert the minute he signed on for National Treasure 2 and decided to only do a Southern accent for the first 10 minutes.
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Sep 08, 2008 11:44:00 AM CDT
"Sort of like lasagna that been left on a plate for a day or two
by hawaiian organ donor
Just what I needed to read with a mouthful of watermelon. Seriously, we need warnings people.
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Keeriminity, man! You got all Tom Savini meets Larry Flynt up in here.
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Well....at least watermelon doesn't have a meat like consistency. Imagine if you had a mouthful of lasagna!! Good lawwwwd!
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chitty did give us a warning...
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Now I am getting looks from co-workers as I have tears rolling down my face.
Yes, Danny Ed Harris likes the chicks giving lifeless performances, ever wonder why he did Stepmom?
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I've got it at home, Jonah. Yet to watch it. I want to get through Mongol and The Fall first.
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Look guys I realize I have gone too far this time.
I hereby promise no more menstration jokes at all...PERIOD!
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Ed Harris, Rutger Hauer, Miguel Ferrer, Michael Rooker, Michael Ironside, Kurtwood Smith-- all taking on one female. That motel room would stink like rotted cottage cheese.
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sloppy seconds!
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Well hell, he may be the best smelling of the group, so nevermind.
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Sep 08, 2008 11:53:57 AM CDT
I nominate Meg Tilly...as the only female able to...
by dannyglovers_dickblood
...endure that misery. Just go all the way in the nasty factor and throw Lance Henrickson in there as the photographer.
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that one is so far my favorite movie of the year. Mongol is good and you will really like it, I think.
To my dismay, I realized last night I've actually made it almost halfway through those 16 movies you sent. I'm in the middle of my 8th movie right now. I should probably pace myself better. -
She showed so much range and talent in Bride of Chucky that I believe it was a shame that she wasn't nominated for an Oscar.
The subtle pouting of lips and deep sadness of her eyes when she was in a scene with Chucky just floored me.
I can't think of anybody else that could make believe she was in that movie for more than just a paycheck.
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and thinks this is exceptable behavior, time for a new topic. But Danny, Meg Tilly-priceless!
Strangest movies you have ever seen? -
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000672/
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Oh well, you guys still can't deny her acting chops.
Oh yeah, she has huge cans too.
Yep time for a new topic ASAP! -
First reaction is Eraserhead, but I know I can think of stranger and more obscure.
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One of them would be Hukkle. Anyone see this?
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Sep 08, 2008 12:19:18 PM CDT
strange movie -- Pi, I fucking hate that piece of shit.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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...throw Alan Rickman in there and you got yourself a demolition derby!! Yeeeeehah!!
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I know the opinions surrounding Pi is that it was a thinking man's movie but it never really worked for me.
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Chitty - you are on sick bastard. Danny you are two sicks bastards! y'all had me laughing!
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Sep 08, 2008 1:04:28 PM CDT
another weird movie...also one of the funniest of all time...
by dannyglovers_dickblood
...Rollerball. For no reason it just cuts to 15 minutes of video night-vision?! What the fuck?
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Sep 08, 2008 1:22:15 PM CDT
I really would hate to see a party we were all attending
by chittychittygangbang
Jebus, it would be really fun, when we were all meeting and greeting and discussing movies.
Then the Everclear would come out and I would turn into Dark Chitty and everyone would just sit there in stunned silence like watching a David Lynch/John Waters combo effort on screen.
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Sep 08, 2008 1:22:38 PM CDT
Chitty, why am I not surprised that you liked Pink Flamingos?
by toadkillerdog
You just might be moving in on two-sick bastard territory!
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Oh the good times I had watching that movie.My friend: "Did the drag chick just eat dog shit?"
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And we, Baltimore, take credit for him.
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I thinks she did!
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on the Pink Flamingos DVD.
Did they even put that on DVD?
I had to watch a worn out VHS copy, then we watched the series finale of Seinfeld if I remember correctly.
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here's a fun question.Favorite John Waters movie?I recently saw Cry Baby for the first time at a party. It was surprisingly good.
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and it was improvised. It was just something he did while the camera was rolling, not a direct suggestion by Waters if I remember correctly. My 10th grade english teacher had Waters in class. She frequently told him he was going to probably end up in jail or a mental facility. She seemed honestly perturbed by his success, all these years later, recounting the story.
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Chitty: Arnold would fuck-up that choir boy Satan's day! Dark Chitty: I would fuck that bitch Satan up the ass screaming the power of chitty compels you! Chitty: Everclear makes me blow up propane tanks! Dark Chitty: I fucked some skank on top of a propane tank then lit it off! My dick is still flying somewhere over Tennessee! Chitty : The Brim could fuck three women, punch a horse and make turkey samich at the same time. Dark Chitty: I would fuck seven women, bite the throat out of the horse, drink the blood shooting out of it jugular, bar-b-que that bitch, and foot fuck The Brim all the while screaming the power of Chity compels you!
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You know, I'm not a fan, but I'm sure none of you are surprised by that.However, I do really like Cry Baby, and Hairspray was good at the time. His other stuff always feels more like sketches than a movie. Dirty Shame or whatever was almost unwatchable.
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Sep 08, 2008 1:41:22 PM CDT
The story of Pink Flamingos is the Devine really ate dogshit
by toadkillerdog
Then panicked and started calling hospital emergency rooms saying that his 'son' had eatne dog shit and what should he do? Apparently this is not an unknown event to hopsital emergency rooms, they calmly told him that the boy should be fine, but if any gastric problems ocurred, to bring him in.
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The best line from the original Hairspray. I loved when the guy responded right after that by smashing his head through the painting he was working on.
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So much of what I watch is strange, that these days it takes something truly bizarre to make a difference. Some of Miike's stuff has done that. Pi, I really liked that flick. Strange flick is Jan Sjvanmaker's Alice. Anyone here see it? Same goes for pretty much anything the Brother's Quay touch.
And if any of you want a special wierd cinema treat, rent The Guatemalan Handshake. Especially you Kungfu, you should queue it up immediately. I saw it at the Maryland Film Festival, and had to wait two years to pick it up on dvd. The director himself acknowledged the fact that the movie had gotten away from him. I have a poster he signed that says "Thanks for watching my s****y little movie." Anyway, its worth seeing. The dvd even has a written essay by David Gordon Green praising it. -
Who told you about the skank on the propane tank? (ha, that rhymed in a sick Dr. Suess sort of way)
Who told you that?
First and last time she ever lit a cigarette after sex.
By the way my pecker found it's way back like The Iron Giant's parts did.
I heard a knock on the door one night and opened it.
I quickly blurted out "'Bout Time!" and then went to the local bar in search of more conquests.
Also I heard a rumor that was on her way up from the explosion and met a guy going down.
She said "Do you know anything about propane tanks?"
And he said "No, but do you know anything about parachutes?"
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I mean he acknowledged that the movie had expanded in it's wierdness as it was being made. It's a pretty tightly created film, it's just not got a clear, this is what it means wrap-up. Id say it felt like Donnie Darko moves to rural PA, or David Lynch meets Napoleon Dynamite by way of Terrence Malick. That last description is probably best.
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must be kooky. I'm curious, Jonah. What makes you say I should get it before anybody else?
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You just ruined Iron Giant for me man! I will never, ever be able to watch that flick again without thinking of the knock on the door!
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you seem to really be keyed into those surrealistic, odd tone sort of movies. When you reviewed Django, which I've immediately prepped for a rewatch after your glowing review(I was almost comatose the first time I watched it, and had it playing in the background)I noticed that you just seemed to enjoy the movie for it's imagery and it's energy, unconcerned on whether or not every moment was tied to a "story" or greater dramatic arc. For all of those reasons, I think you will appreciate this one. Not that everyone else wont, but you seem to be a guy that devours that kind of stuff. Several years ago I went on a similar bent, and it was during that time I encountered Django's spiritual predecessor, El Topo. See any of Jodorowsky's stuff yet?
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What is he topic? Fred posted over on zhura as well.
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topic...strangest movies you have seen.
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when you get a chance, Im curious what thoughts you have on my other ideas too.
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Hmm, well Fred has seen some doozies. But perhaps the Sonny and Cher movie was the weirdest. Fred trying to find title.
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This is not the strangest movie Fred ever saw - but Fred was really sick with a fever when it was on, and it has stayed with Fred through the fever dreams!
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Hey all, just watch Election for the first time in say a good 4 years and I have to say, that is one of my favorite comedies of all time. My best friend was actually going to that high school in Omaha when they filmed that movie. Didn't realize it was based on a book either, I will be checking that out. Seriously, WHO THE FUCK DOES SHE THINK SHE IS!
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Sep 08, 2008 2:11:36 PM CDT
The Strangest movie Fred ever saw - without being sick
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
Is Hedwig and the Angry Inch
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"Her pussy is soooo wet."
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Please erase from your memory my post, as Iron Giant should be watched once a week by everyone.
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El Topo is a movie I enjoy a great deal. It's definitely an acquired taste, but if you get it, it can be a lot of fun.And I guess you're right about me enjoying the more surreal stuff and being especially observant of imagery. I have been an artist all my life as well as a writer, so I tend to pay a lot of attention to a film's visuals. I also think it depends on what kind of movie I'm watching. I can watch a movie for an incredible story, or for the characters, or yes, even for a movie's visuals. But I wouldn't go into a noir movie like Double Indemnity expecting flashy surreal visuals. I also wouldn't go into something like Sukiyaki Western Django expecting an especially thought provoking story or riveting dialogue. Different movies have different strengths.
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there you are. Interested in being part of the zhura screenwriters group?
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Its been in my queue forever. Especially now after watching most of Sacagawea didjeridu Western.
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Right, I know you would potentially watch Dark Knight with diff expectations than The Fall or The Mist or whatever. I mean that some of these movies do start to move into questions of taste, as opposed to simply good or bad. Again, I've always been more adventurous when it comes to films, but my friends not so much. I showed some of them Gattaca this weekend, and they accused it of being strange. Thats when I realized they had no hope.
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When Broderick is trying to get hos wife pregnant and she is saying "Fuck me, fuck me, fill me up!"
All of the sudden her face is replaced by Flick's saying the same thing.
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I appreciate the offer but I'll pass. I don't write scripts, and it would just remind of my utter lack of courage in following my dreams.
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awesome title mutation. Did you like it? El Topo is awesome. Septuigent Western Dibbuk I need to rewatch.
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no problem. Just wanted to make sure you got the offer, since you were one of the few mainstays that wasn't here when we put it together.
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I just can't see past that forehead. I mean that thing provides shelter in a rainstorm. Sort of like Rumer Willis jaw!
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Just got them from NF. Interested in what you guys thought about them.
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hobo we have people who are writing plays, short stories, graphic novels, etc there too. So it covers a wide range.
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This is why paper bags were invented.
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is one of the sweetest and funniest movies Ive seen this year. Redbelt is still on my need to see list, but it comes highly recommended by a few here, HOD included.
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That movie seems pretty tame compared to some of the other shit I have seen. I can't believe anybody would call that movie strange. Seems like pretty light sci fi fare to me.
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that's because it is. I was planning on showing them The Fountain. I'm glad I recanted. And strangest film I never finished-Singapore Sling. Ack!!! Stay away!
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I write movie reviews occasionally for a website, but rather badly. Too painful to think about my failed aspirations.
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the kind of movie I could put on whenever I'm feeling down and just need something to put a smile on my face.Haven't seen Redbelt, but I have heard mixed reviews. Need to see that one though, for sure.
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Just seems like a weird film for Mamet. When I think of Mamet I don't think of kickboxing. AT ALL. But maybe that's a good thing.
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Its not typical Hollywood future film.....its more a drama, but who the fuck would consider that strange? Thats like saying man Home Alone was a strange movie cause there are barely any adults in it.
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Sep 08, 2008 2:39:10 PM CDT
I'm not the least bit interested in MMA horse shit....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
...fuck that. Douche bag sport.
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I heard about the film before but I wasn't really interested until you guys praised it, so I'll gibe it a try.Well of to go job-hunting.
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It always turns into two dudes folling around on the ground in sexual positions. Just come out of the closet already.
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Bad Boy Bubby. If you can get through the first twenty minutes it's a worthwhile journey. But beware, that first 20 is grim viewing.
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What's up dude?
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Hee hee! Fred just cracks up every time. Fred is easily entertained! Thank you for nice comments on Fred play. It is work in progress.
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Fred miss Mavra Chang.
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Don't get me wrong, I really liked Redbelt, Glengarry, Ronin, State and Main and Heist, but he'll do tripped out stuff like Spartan or Homicide where people are talking but no one seems to register what they say. It's like 90 minutes of Ralph Wiggum.Police chief: "Did you or did you not see the shooter?!"Witness: "My cat's breath smells like cat food."
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You should join our writing group on zhura! You could write a Neigh story with ChittyChittyGangBang!
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That's okay. I like good dialogue. I've been wondering how much of 'you' is in there. It feels quite personal.
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Bad boy bubby is on my list as well as savag messiah and last house on the left. Fred, thank but no thanks , I am not really a writer.
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I enjoy his stuff at times.....but yeah. That whole community from Chicago that lick his balls....don't get it man. Just don't get it.
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sorry there, I did manage the gag reflex but after the first twenty it was still a mess, particularly the part where he lands in prison. It wasnt even all that unique ultimately, it was just another fish out of water story. But dear lord, that first twenty is dire!
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Fred would be the bulldog puppy if Fred is in it at all! That is a story about fortysomethings - Fred have a few years to go before Fred reaches that age! But Fred knows people that age, so it made it easier to write the dialogue. Did you read both parts?
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is a rather odd movie. Anyone see it?
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Help! I have ABBA songs in my head and I can't get them out! Quick, someone call Max von Sydow!
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Not much, what's up with you?
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Bad Boy Bubby is one of those films you've just got to trust as you're going along. You know it's taking you somewhere. I think it's ultimately uplifting.Random fact: They used 32 cinematographers on the film!
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Sep 08, 2008 2:59:25 PM CDT
Take A Chance is an awesome ABBA song to fuck to...
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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I did that. Then I watched it again. So, watch it again, Jonah.
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You should join zhura. Half the time I can't even type legibly, and I was MIA all weekend, but they still let me hang out with them.
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Not a ding dong thing! I have just been enjoying the weather and riding my bike. I put 300 miles on that baby this past weekend.
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How's it hanging? See, I remembered!
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I did read both. While I was thinking about the first instalment you were in with the long version!
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October is good riding weather in the southwest.
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I actually like ABBA. I watched the movie about them, i think it was a 70's thing, and I just really liked the way they sounded.
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I saw "Mamma Mia" in the theater this weekend. Even as long as it's been out, the theater was full of women singing, clapping, and dancing (no kidding!). I may need intensive psychotherapy to ever remove the songs now.
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That was very funny Mavra Chang! But now, Fred has to clean his keyboard!
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Knowing Me Knowing You and Take A Chance On Me are both in my vinyl record collection. Sorry. Best song they've ever done is Dancing Queen, though.
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Not dissing ABBA, but I now have trouble picturing them as anything but Pierce Brosnan in a sparkling disco suit with platform boots. It's very bizzare.
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Sep 08, 2008 3:06:04 PM CDT
Mamma Mia on stage always looked cool to me.....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
...but the movie looked like fucking butthole. I do love Abba though....I even love A-Teens....now thats gay!
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Hmm? has anyone seen The Candy Snatchers?
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Plenty of great riding weather left.
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We all need to invest in sneeze-guards for our keyboards. This group inspires these sort of sprayed drink moments.
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That will knock ol Pierce out of the brain pan!
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This group has made Fred spit lots of cherry coke at the screen with laughter! ChiittyChittyGangBang and ThereWolf owe Fred a new Keyboard!
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Rabbis dressed as chickens!
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I tried to counteract it with a night of Aerosmith, but I may need something more heavy duty.
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Sounds like I've heard of that one before, but can't place it.
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But my coworkers are regarding me more strangely than usual since I keep singing out loud. Infectious is a good term for ABBA music.
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Candy Snatcher is one sick rover of a movie. 70's drive-in thriller type.
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And chicken soup is good for the soul. 'Rabbi's dressed as chickens soup' must be nearly divine.
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Slayer. It's there second or fourth album or something.
A tasty little treat called Reign in Blood.
Turn the volume up and you will eat and chew your ABBA collection and spit out GI Joe action figures with guns that really work.
Yeah, it's pretty intense.
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Sep 08, 2008 3:17:42 PM CDT
With a great big hug and kiss from me to you!
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
Oh, no!
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"Hell Comes to Frogtown", or maybe "Night of the Lepus". How do ThereWolves feel about eating killer rabbits? Do they run away, run away?
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There was a film festival in the next town over and there was a short film about some kids planning a candy store heist.
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That killed Fred. Just killed!
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Good evening (or afternoon). I was just trying to sidetrack Fred with the old 'Rabbi' manoeuvre - it worked once before.
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Sounds like just the ticket! Spitting out G.I Joes? That would be something to see!
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15 October is the scheduled return date.
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Fred can't read it though.
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Have a little priest.
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Bring 'em on, bring them bad boys on, they ain't got nuthin for a ThereWolf. Nuthin! Iza chews 'em erp and iza spits 'em out! Pyut!
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Chitty, nope, not the same movie. two Will Smith TB's, and one has him rumored to be Captain Amurrica?
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yea, I forgot about b-movies that are wierd just because of their cheapness and odd ideas. The Pit anyone?
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Nastie Bukz. It's a slang for those Amoeba gigolos.
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It will wipe ABBA out of your head and probably several brain cells with it and your hearing will be lessened, but still, its better then ABBA rattling around your dome.
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But what about "The Stuff"?
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Thought that was Uzbek for 'porn magazine.'
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Fred certain that Dirk is planning on taking over the booming European Amoeba gigolo trade.
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If some these movies like the Pit can get made, then I know we can crank one out.
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I have so few brain cells still held hostage in my noggin. Motorhead, eh? Will they melt my headphones too? Sounds fun!
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He loves the Uzbekian playmate of the month centerfolds.
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Motorhead will smoke your headphones set at level three. Braincells are overated, go ahead and smoke them with some Motorhead.
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...for some ACE OF FUCKIN' SPADES!!! YEEEEEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!
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Miss September - Sonja Oozaloppitov, a dusky cabbage picker from Tashkent. Mmmm...
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I'll switch to the portable speaker. Friends don't let friends smoke alone.
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Burglar wakes men with spice rub
Posted: Sep 8, 2008
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) - Authorities say they've arrested a man who broke into the home of two California farmworkers, stole money, rubbed one with spices and whacked the other with a sausage before fleeing.
Fresno County sheriff's Lt. Ian Burrimond says 22-year-old Antonio Vasquez was found hiding in a field wearing only a T-shirt, boxers and socks after the Saturday morning attack.
He says deputies arrested Vasquez after finding a wallet containing his ID in the ransacked house.
The farmworkers told deputies the suspect woke them Saturday morning by rubbing spices on one of them and smacking the other with an 8-inch sausage.
Burrimond says money allegedly stolen was recovered.
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Fred remembers a commercial that featured women from former soviet bloc modeling "dayvere, eveninkvere, undervere" and they were all the same gray shapeless smock!
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Someone mentions chicks and boom, you're back! It's like you've got a built in Chick Sonar.
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Are any of your friends snobby musicphiles? Especially the snobby Jazz listeners. They will cringe at the first note struck in a Motorhead song and by the end of the first guitar solo they will be rolled up into a ball sobbing for mommy. Good times!
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Are you telling me you've never been smacked in the face with an 8 inch sausage? Prude.
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They found you in a field wearing only your underwear!
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..and its called my penis.
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I did not think you would be old enough tp remember that one!
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Anything remotely twangy plays on my speaker (as in Jerry Reed) and the manager will appear and say "Is that fucking country playing on that thing? What's wrong with you!" Heavier stuff should be met with approval.
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Funny part is they thought it was a sausage I hit him in the face with!
Also it wasn't eight inches, as I hit him twice, so four inches.
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A few years ago.
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I didn't allow him to rub me with spices and steal my money at the same time. Just 8"? The guy has small ambitions.
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Script Girl is spilling out of her fucking top this week.
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It said daywear, eveningwear and swimwear - not underwear.
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That manager needs to be kicked in the jewels, repeatedly with steele toed boots.
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Uhhh yeah. I'm part Mexican. So on my best day its a strong 5.
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Sep 08, 2008 3:53:31 PM CDT
country music is an abomination of the human race....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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Sep 08, 2008 3:55:51 PM CDT
Fred think all music should be Donny and Marie
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
She's a liitle bit country, he's a little bit rock and roll!
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And is hunting down Danny. He will chew you up and spit you out while pickin' and grinnin'.
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hopeless. constantly staring off into the middle distance and saying 'oh my god' kinda like obama.
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How much cooler could he be?
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Fred agree.
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The top 40 with a twang shit they play on the radio is crap, I agree. But there is plenty of great stuff out there that nobody hears or has heard for years. Great muscians and good songs.The female country singers are hot, you got to agree on that one.
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Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Walyon Jennings, Johnny Cash, Bob Wills, etc.
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Oh I'd rail almost every female country singer out there-- but if she tried to speak afterward I'd break an acoustic guitar over her head.
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...sure he had a few good tracks. But his only truly great album was his last.
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On my player, maybe a dozen are country, and all but about 3 of those are either Jerry Reed or Cledus T. Judd, both of whom are as much comedy as anything else. My favorite of the set is "My Cellmate Thinks I'm Sexy". Non-traditional and non-top 40 suits me.
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That music video was amazing, as was his performance on that song.
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Good stuff.
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The line for railing female country singers starts behind me.Here's a suggestion, try listening to Shooter Jennings or Hank Williams III. It could change your mind about what country is. Or maybe not, you're from LA so....
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Is incredible and the video too. How did he come by the NIN version in the first place? Anyone know? You wouldn't think it was the sort of music on his playlist.
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...but my favorite song on the album on one of my favorite songs ever-- is his rendition of Sting's "I Hung My Head." Amazing song. And Sting's version fucking sucks balls in comparison.
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Ever listen to Junior Brown or Jed Zepplin? Both of them are on the comedy side of country. Junior Brown is really good musically and super funny. Jed Zepplin is self explanatory I believe.
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Rick Rubin-- the producer of the album suggested it. I read that Trent said in an interview after it was released, "I feel like I just lost my girlfriend, because that song isn't mine anymore."
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Just started listening to them and they have a little different sound.
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according to Cash he loved the song Hurt and apprached Trent Reznor about covering it. I believe Reznors responce was "when, where and can I be there when you do it?"
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Also The Man Comes Around.
They played at the first of the Dawn of the Dead remake.
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Cash's take on the Depeche Mode song is not too shoddy either.
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top ten drinking buddies. throw in keith moon, bon scott
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I've heard of Junior Brown, but not Jed Zepplin. I'll have to look those up. Thanks! ThereWolf and Chipps have introduced me to some new comdey music, too. I've gotten some great tunes here and I'm happy to find more.
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Look no further than Tim Wilson.
Listen to the First Baptist Bar and Grill.
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See you all later!
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Got that name saved! Cool!
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do you like Tom Waits at all?
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Which, as I type this, I can't think of the name but that was great also.
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I love that song 'The Piano Has Been Drinking.' It makes me weep happy tears. Trying to find the waitress with geiger-counter... Beautiful.
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I think it was 'In My Life' but I'm not 100% on that.
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I just dug out 'The Man Comes Around' CD.
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is amazing. Hung My Head is excellent, but then so is Streets of Laredo and Bridge over Troubled Waters. That was one of the greatest albums he has done.
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has got the Hurt video on it as well - bonus.
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... about RETARDING HENRY is that Harrison Ford passed on starring in BIG, thinking it would never work. When the film turned Tom Hanks into one of the biggest working movie stars, Ford put out the word that he wanted to find "his BIG." When the RETARDING HENRY script showed up, it was specifically bought to "help Harrison get his Oscar." Cynical, cynical, cynical, and yes, I know JJ Abrams wrote it. This is one of the reasons it took me a long time before I tuned in to what he was doing.
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Poor Henry. Ha. I specifically thought that regarding Crossing Over, like it's Crash redux and "hey look, it's harrison ford!" At this point, I wonder what he could do to get back on top.
Mori, did you see The Promotion. It's coming from Netflix next, and appears no one here has seen it yet.
Also, have you seen Survive Style 5+? If you haven't, you must rectify this:
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and that second one might have been the gnarliest bit of crooning ever with Waitts and Cash. Also, anyone heard that Waitts rendition of "On A Downtown Train." It's something else.
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Okay, best movies of 92, or just movies of 92, since it seems like our biggest topic today from that was Regarding Henry.
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'I Am The Walrus.' I've heard it but I can't remember Waits doing 'On A Downtown Train' though I do recall the Rod Stewart cover oddly. Hmmm. Didn't Waits do another 'train' song with Cash?
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Waitts is down right morose. It's pretty strange, and strange in a good way. Tom Waits is a guy who constantly seems to be on the move artistically.
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1. Bram Stoker's Dracula2. The Last Of The Mohicans3. Reservoir Dogs4. Unforgiven5. SneakersDogs might come under 1991 - if so, I'll stick Tetsuo: The Iron Man in there instead. Although that might be '91 as well!
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Reznor's version (his own dang song!) was fantastic, but Cash, my God, just completely obliterated Reznor. The video is simply the most haunting, and powerful video I have ever seen. Just mesmerizing. Danny you are very wrong about Cash and his early stuff. The man was brilliant. He hit a very long rough patch, but his early and superstar period in the mid sixties is tremendous. The Man in black earned and desreved his rep. Watch his concert from Folsom County jail. A consumate performer at the very height of his powers.
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In no ranking:
Reservoir Dogs
Batman Returns
Braindead
Bram Stoker's Dracula
The Crying Game
Damage
Glengarry Glen Ross
Hard Boiled
Howards End
The Last of the Mohicans
Like Water For Chocolate
Malcolm X
The Mambo Kings
A Midnight Clear
Of Mice and Men
The Player
Porco Rosso
Thunderheart
The Story of Qiu Ju
Unforgiven
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I guess it was a good year, but a bit serious, alot of experimental stuff going off. But notice, not alot of popcorn fun. This was when everything got dark for a time. That summer was one of the most downbeat. I mean, when your big summer flicks are stuff like Batman Returns and Alien 3, and Death Becomes Her who can blame people for checking out Encino Man?
Also, this was a big time to go back and redo the classics. Dracula and Last of the Mohicans? Also, foreign movies were getting a little exotic in their own rights. I almost forgot about the Merchant Ivory phenom back in the day. Howard's End was a fine movie though. A few underrated and forgotten films on the list thought. Midnight Clear? Thunderheart? Damage?
And check out some of the geek mainstays, RD aside, there is Hard Boiled, Brain Dead(dead alive) and Porco Rosso. Who else, like myself thinks these movies feel timeless now, and sort of just assumes they have always been around. And 92 was the last time there was a good batman movie until 2005.
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regarding henry wasn't THAT bad. it wasn't real good either. it was pretty boring. Ford was over the top in it. that man has been in some turkies i can tell ya. I just couldn't get into glengary glen ross. at the time i watched i wasn't in a fantastic state, but it seemed like it was in a forign language to me. i had convinced my friends to watch it and by the end there was nearly a riot. the whole thing was like 'we need the leads we don't have the leads, lets make our own leads' 'you don't deserve these leads, you need to show us you can handle the leads then you will get the leads' repeat 1 and 2. later i realized what it was about but at the time i was like, what the fuck is all this about leads, they are just repeating the same nonsensical lines over and over. i have a copy here but have never been able to bring myself to watch it again, i disliked it so much. one day i'll watch it again but i tell you it just seemed bizarre and pointless.
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Even Sly says so!
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With Aladdin.
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Porco Rosso, just didn't really click with me. Also I need to watch Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, I was in the middle of moving while trying to watch it and I didn't understand it nor follow it.
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I know I'm awful for it, but I could never must much enthusiasm for Aladdin. I liked it, but I didnt find it up to the same snuff of some of the other animated films from Disney at the time.
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A League of Their Own Basic Instinct 1492, The last Ridley movie I really liked (i'm probably alone on that one)
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Also how dare you dis the best man ever, Batman Forever: Die Hard With A Vengeance.
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Porco took a while to grow on me. Now it's one of my favorites from him. It really has alot of small details and some poetic moments layered on some subtle character stuff. But the first time, it seems terribly slight, or at least that was my experience with it.
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You didn't like Aladdin? Not up to snuff? Disney from 88-94 minus 93 Disney was flawless. Oliver & Company (88), The Little Mermaid (89), The Rescuers Down Under (90), Beauty and the Beast (91), Aladdin (92) and The Lion King (94). I think Disney's best run.
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but 1492 was actually on that list Series, until I remembered Reservoir Dogs. 1492 is a fine Ridley movie. Beautiful scenery and a truly great score.
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My neighbor Totoro/Rosso/Nausica. But my first movie was Spirited Away and I think that by far is his best. I also need to watch moving Castle again. Non of the others just really stuck with me or sucked me in. Did you watch them dubbed or subtitles?
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I do like those others quite a bit, but honestly, there wasn't magic in Aladdin to me. I know that runs counter to almost everything everyone was saying bout it at the time, but it felt sooo by the book. Wisecracking character, love song, evil scowling villain. And this was just after Beauty and the Beast, where they took all those tired old conventions and made them wonderful and new. And I didnt hate Aladdin. I like it and think it's very good, it just doesn't cross into magical for me, or one of the best of 92.
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I really dug that movie. Man I love League, "ARE YOU CRYING? THERE'S NO CRYING IN BASEBALL!"
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subtitles. Im not a dubbed man at all. Spirited Away is pretty terrific. That dub is not a bad dub actually. Thats how I first showed the movie to my wife, when she was dubious of foreign stuff early on when we were dating. But she has been tearing through HOD's dvd shipments right along with me, so she has gotten over that hurdle.
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I had that on the list and accidentally erased it. Arrgh. That totally makes the cut over some other stuff there.
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Added to the fact that was when Robin Williams still mattered. I think it was his character that did it for me. Also its funny that Gilbert Godfree was a disney voice. Tetsuo: The Iron Man that came out in 91-92? That movie is just nuts, I don't think I liked it. I wanna see the sequel. Also I need to see Glengarry Glen Ross. Plus saw the Crying Game a couple months ago, and I think Britain may have been right.
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The one with Val Kilmer? As a native american cop? I really really liked that movie. I think it's underrated and I always expected it to find it's audience, but it never really did.
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Yeah I've been meaning to see it. See John Lassater took it upon himself to make proper dubs of all of his stuff, so its probably the best dubbed stuff around. Sometimes I just have to do dubbed because I get tired of reading and missing out on the scenery.
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WAY back in the day, don't remember anything besides the scene with the badger living under the house and someone sticks his hand down there.
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What do you mean?
Also, if you want to see the tetsuo sequel, guess where you can?
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In no particular order
Belle Epoque Bob RobertsThe hand that Rocks the cradle Indochine -
In no particular order
Belle Epoque Bob RobertsThe hand that Rocks the cradle Indochine -
I still have no idea how I do that!
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that was partially adapted by Neil Gaiman and handled by Claire Danes, Billy Crudup, Billy Bob Thornton, Mini Driver, Keith David (yeaaah!!) Gillian Anderson and strangely, Jada Pinkett Smith. It's really a fine dub, and you won't lose any enjoyment watching it that way.
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and it was deleted, making me think I didnt have to cut anymore down. Im glad someone mentioned it thought. Fine movie. As was Indochine. Both are great.
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This is for Lost Jarv The original script ending was much better. Had the Alien surviving and they chased it down and killed it on Earth I think. The original script was much crazier and better. I remember being really let down with the movie. But since I've forgotten most of the script save for a scene where they fight bunches of Aliens in a field of giant sunflowers in a sort of ramped up version of the T-Rex jeep chase scene.
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That they thought that The Crying Game was shit and it bombed. Then it got Oscar noms in the states.
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Younger then you guys when 92 rolled around.
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In fact, it was the first year I went wild and started putting together my movie (in VHS) collection. In retrospect, 1990 was probably a more solid year but at the time, during my annual wrap up, I thought '92 was the greatest yet. I'll have to put my list together in the morning though. Too late to do that now.That Regarding Henry news from Mori is brilliant. He could've had a much stronger filmography in the 90s if he had kept his ego in check.
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Seems I keep missing you dude.
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Yeah, we're on at different times lately it seems.I was out on the deck all night smoking Arturo's and writing my script. If I didn't have to work tomorrow and wasn't being annoyed by mosquitoes, I think I could have easily stayed out there until the sun came up. Alas, I need to iron a shirt, watch another episode of the crazy antics of the Prison Break brothers and catch some Zzzzz's.How's life treating you?
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Speaking of Zs, I wanted you to know I wasn't purposefully slacking on the other site and I didn't abandon ship. Just had a busy weekend. How y'all are anyway?
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Prison Break how I love the let me count the ways! Really pissed that I missed last weeks 2 episode opener. Though after feeling lost and a little bored tonight I'm not sure if the magic can carry over to season 4. I don't know if I don't like NO ONE actually being in Prison. Also if Teabags doesn't die this season, then I will start questioning the realism of this show!
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I have some Romeo y Julietas in the humidor just waiting for me. Took a nice stroll with my dog tonight and got 35 minutes out of one of those babies. I need a prssed shirt for tomorrow as well.
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Almost time for the sandman over these parts
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As I hear so often "Time to make the donuts". ;) Well, someone has to do it, might as well be me.
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He should be up soon
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Series and Hod are here, aren't they? I thought you were calling it a night.
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I'll fight him off. I'll throw powdered sugar at him. They hate that. It's so hard to get out of their shoes.
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But I have to go to work. I'll be back in about 6 or 7 hours, hopefully. Goodnight!
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I'm going to bed. I toyed with the idea of staying up until midnight then throwing a "Neigh" on Chitty, it would be Tuesday! But that would be dirty pool! Goodnight!
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anybody around now?
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I'm here but not for much longer. Ended up watching NFL highlights. Damn crazy way to start off the season with all the injuries.Did I read right? You're coming back our way soon?T-Bag needs to die soon. He has outlived his welcome. I love the actor but that character has got to go.OK, gotta go iron a shirt before I come back to say goodnight to all.
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cigar fans here? excellent. 92 was a pretty good year, and in some ways better than 90. These years seemed like they were really trying to get their footing as far as handling edgy material.
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Now doobies I do like to smoke though.
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T-bag is going to be the bad guy in the new Transporter 3 movie, and early rumor is that he is a shoe in for best supporting Oscar nom.
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havent caught up with you a while. do you ever write, fiction, screenplays that sort of thing? We started a zhura group where we can post things and collaborate, encourage,etc. The stuff we can't do here because of anonymity and fear of idea theft. You interested? I mean to ask you, but never see you on.
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Which segment in what episode?
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so its gotta have an oscar nod for someone. Unlikely it will be Statham though. The Academy realizes hes boing going for the oscar bait lately with Dungeon Siege and Death Race, and I think that sort of shameless bid for glory turns them off.
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I expect to tune in.
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Last week we were um... Taking in the sights and the fresh air of the country and I wasn't near a computer.You want me to join a writers group? Have you read my near illiterate posts? The best I could offer is maybe some ideas or technical data that writers seem to consistanly get wrong about the armed services, weapons and combat. As far writing goes, no I haven't ever really "wrote" anything like what you mentioned. Years ago I tried to write some stories I had ideas for but those things sucked worse then a turbo powered hooker Does writing letters to Penthouse forum count?
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But I may be busy. I'll have cable and everything on Wen. I've been using rabbit ears and watching TV through a screen of static.
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Done by the same team as Lost?Prison Break was absurd from the get go. Within ten minutes of the first episode I was thinking what a fantastic alternate universe these characters live in. Still, I'm shamelessly hooked.Nothing wrong with a doobie. I haven't smoked one in close to 15 years but it's a better alternative to drinking. Zero calories, no hangover.Jonah, lots of cigar guys here which surprised the hell out of me. If we're all ever in the same room, I'll pass round a box of Cohibas and give Series some B.C. hydroponic even though I have no idea where I would get it.OK, off to bed for realsies this time. Take care, Xi.Jarv, make us proud. Although don't try to compete with the Capt America fluff. It's a crap casting rumor but what is it about Will Smith that sets people off? Did he go door to door slapping people's mothers when I Am Legend opened?See everyone in the morning.
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holy hell that has got to be the most disturbing piece of shit I've ever seen! Rented that with an ex, and I didnt make it halfway, I bailed when it got scatological. She was willing to watch the rest but didnt because she didnt want me ditching her for the night. Yeah, she had some issues.
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Smoke a cigar, I've been staying away from that stuff as of recent anyway. I actually kind of see the Will Smith rumor, don't believe it, but I could see Will Smith at his house burning some money for heat telling his wife. "AWWWW HELL YEAW I could be Captain America! Shiiiii I pretty much am the real life Captain America anyway!" Smell ya'later.
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and it can be summed up in two words, Orci and Kurtzman. Those two dunces are piss poor writers. JJ Abrams had almost nothing to due with Lost after the initial idea and the first episode, he got involved with the entirely forgetable MI:3. For that I would like to thank him. Cuse and Lindolf do a wonderful job with Lost and frankly if Abrams stayed involved with Lost I don't think that would be the case.
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YEAH it really pisses me off that those names get throw around all the time now like Transformers was some miracle of writing? Transformers could have been written by a 10 year old, if not just made up on the spot by Michael Bay himself? Also now the writing team that pooped out Wanted are getting there names on everything? Two fucking terribly written movies, saved maybe by there competent visual director terrible story teller. Timur and Bay need to team up and make the ultimate leave your brain at the door movie.
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We’re your friends. We’re not like the others
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Transformers, MI:3, The Island, Zorro and some TV work. That resume is not engendering in me much hope. Plus when Orci posts on AICN he comes off as a massive prick.Here's to hoping they beat the odds and catch lightening in a bottle.
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Jesus, mezcal by itself blows the top of your head off. Mixing it with the Singapore Sling can't ease the situation.
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No point in mentioning these bats, I thought. The poor f**ker would see them soon enough.
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Bill Murrays Where the Buffalo Roam is also a great adaptation. F&EiLV, to me is a near perfect movie.The Book Fear and Loathing is among my favorite reads also. It's to bad Thompson never again reached the sublime heights after that book, but if you hit a home run, knock it the fuck out of the park. That's my motto.Now Chipps remeber this:"There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge, and I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon."
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Nothing new there.
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Rumour Control. Here are the Facts. Divine was interviewed at a later date and not only did he/she/it chomp down on that dog egg, but it was pre-planned and he/she/it checked with the doctor beforehand to see if it would do any damage. Not for her/his/it's own sake but because Waters was worried that it might be extremely dangerous. Divine was well up for chomping on that dog pie.
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Fucking knew it. Never liked that film.
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How's England today?
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So I won't. Fucking hell. I bet it's stuffed with assholes like Messi telling us what the British want despite being Argentinian.
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How's another glorious day in the Corp?
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I agree 100% with Danny. Country music is FUCKING DREADFUL. If your life is so shit then bury Ol' Yeller, sell the farm, learn to fucking type and move to the city. Stop whinging.
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Was a storming year- Reservoir Dogs, Alien 3 (Underrated- severely), Die Hard 3, The Player, Hard Boiled, Glengarry Glen Ross, Braindead and Unforgiven. A great year
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anything with "Sam SHeppard" in the writing credits, Inland Empire, Naked Lunch (athough that's down to the novel- and Cronenburg did as good a job as can be done), Pi, Tetsuo 1 and 2 (especially Bodyhammer), 2001. Un Chien Andelou (Sp?),Weird is not very hard,
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awww what? o brother where art thou? shit movie, great sound track
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For us, the Crying Game is extremely probematic. To begin with it's partly about the IRA and we never like things about the IRA. For good fucking reason (PS In The Name of The Father can kiss my arse), secondly, someone leaked the big "cock" scene, Thirdly, it had problems getting past the censors. This combination caused it to sink without trace. Overrated, certainly, but not completely dreadful. Stephen Rea is always watchable.
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Its hot in North Africa today, like it was yesterday and like it will be tomorrow.I will point out again that the Country music they play on the radio is crap, but stuff that hasn't seen they light of day on the radio in several years or bands that will never see the light of day can be top notch.
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country and western
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as I quite like O Brother and don't like the Soundtrack.
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Seriously. We just don't get it.
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On that point I think we can all agree. Same for Danny also, seeing how he was born and bred in LA and folks like me, rural Arizona and Chitty, from what I'm guessing, is rural Mississippi. Differnt places different times.
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sounds like an amazing place, i'll probably visit one day. i'll start my journey by catching the 3.10 to yuma
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in australia, if we catch a catfish, we throw the damm thing back. or use it for crab bait. even the crabs are too discerning to eat it. my god, they farm the fucking things. FARM them. that my friends is absurd.
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When I was growing up if you got Fish and Chips that meant either Haddock or Cod. Now it's stuff that my Gran only fed to the dog- things like Coley. I blame the EU for this- the good fish has nearly been fished into extinction.
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That didn't come out until '95.
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It's bloody slow isn't it? I'll be pretty inactive for a bit as I'm snowed under at work- but I will keep checking and submitting when I get on top of things. Sadly for me, Mrs. Jarv is a much more talented writer than me. Or maybe I'll submit her stuff as mine. MWAHAHAHAHA-HAAAAAA.
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SO it didn't. Slip of thekeyboard/ Brain
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Off to lunch- see you all soon
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We all changed to our real names over there. I'll switch back and find you. When you get this search for Jonah Echo and send me a message and I'll send you the group link.
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I think I found you and sent you a message. The guy who sent you a message that's me. Obviously no need to repeat the name or the group here, but yea, thats a Big Trouble in Little Chian reference.
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A fella can't get decent basket of fish these days. All my life in N.S. when I order fish and chips I got the best, freshest haddock in the world. Then I moved back down to NC and learned that outside of Atlantic Canada and England, you're guaranteed anything but haddock. What a bloody letdown.Who here will be surprised to learn I never saw The Crying Game.Jonah, did you see the review for Good, Bad and the Weird? Anton Sirius raves about it. Exploding horses? Sign me up!
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You dont have that in your posession I take it?
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Got your message over at zhura. No pressure, but if you undersell your writing talents and ideas as much as you undersell your movie tastes, then whatever you post is probably Pulitzer worthy. You kept apologizing for your tastes here, and those asian packs you sent have pretty much enriched everyone's film knowledge here, in addition to just being good times.
I'm looking forward to finishing this second batch of films, and it totally blows away the first one with ease.And bring on the hollywood ideas. We need those too.
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I was at lunch. I'll try again now.
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And I'm craving a big basket of golden battered fish and crispy chips. With a little malt vinegar.I'll have to settle for the pesto I brought.Good, Bad, Weird hasn't been released on DVD yet. I'll order it as soon as it is.
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Oops, looks like you guys have been here a while. Dang it, I can't keep up with you and your sorcerous ways!
I love High Fidelity (book AND film) but your lists just give me headaches. I hate ranking movies like that, always have. 1992, for instance; how does one place Glengarry Glen Ross and Army of Darkness on the same scale? What defines "good" or "better than" in a case like that? -
Fish and chips with a delicious beer would be great for lunch. Speaking of beer, anyone ever have Long Trail's Blackberry Wheat? I was in the mood for something a bit different yesterday.
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Isnt your handle on zhura jarv? I sent you a message. Or was that the wrong jarv?
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We've been going crazy with our lists lately. I always feel guilty about putting a cheesefest on a top ten list so I usually omit them for the high falootin' stuff.Long Trail's Blackberry Wheat? Never heard of it, but if it's as tasty as a good raspberry wheat beer then you're golden. Sadly, I have no beer in the house. That f-ing Chitty made me feel like Fat Albert. The guy is 4 inches taller than me and 20 pounds lighter. WTF? So I held off picking up a six-pack on the way home.
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Damn you Chitty!
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wasnt on my list for 92, was because was a 93 release here. I remember seeing it as a kid at the theater in 8th grade during February or March of 93. To me, picking 20 great films that aren't ranked, gives a good picture of what I liked about a particular year, without trying to hard to compare everything. AOD and GRGR are to me both good movies. Dead Alive is listed as a 92 movie, so that did make my 92 list.
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It was me. Hmm, how come you have more luck than me on this?
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are a good way to recall the years themselves, since almost everyone has diff movies, and it creates some interesting discussions, like the Regarding Henry one from yesterday.
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but quite good fun. I agree that it is madness putting films together like this, but I sort of justify it by some daft mental formula- Good= success+enjoyment+rewatchability. Therefore I can justify elevating some utter cheesefests and placing them alongside high-brow stuff
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your summaries, however they breakdown, of the stuff you really liked during 1993. 93. The year of the Spielberg. Let's go.
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did you join the group yet? I dont see you.
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I just love to work out and run, bike etc.
I actually am trying to gain a little weight, so ate four sloppy joes last night and two glasses of milk.
I figure if I am 35 and still in the habit of working out, I might as well keep it going.
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Army of Darkness - I think my handle and the amount of quotes I've thrown in the talkbacks speaks to how much I fucking love this movie. "who wants some...huh?"
Cliffhanger - Stallone fucking ruled, as did Lithgow.Carlito's Way - Benny, nuff said.The Fugitive - My love of Ford continued. The breakup hasn't happened yet between us...Groundhog Day - Bill made me laugh. In the Line of Fire - loved Clint. I don't care if it wasn't realistic considering his age, it worked for me.Jurassic Park - upon repeat viewings, it of course doesn't match up to that first look at the dinosaurs. Rudy - Even though I hate Notre Dame, I love football. This was a good football movie. Schindler's List - Not sure what to add to what everyone knows about this one. Great movie.Tombstone - I'm your huckleberry. Love this movie.True Romance - haven't seen it since forever, but I remember liking the hell outta it. -
I think it's the shitty work server knackering me. I want to do it before I have a deeply tedious meeting.
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Alive, Demolition Man, Falling Down, The Firm (Brim!), Leprechaun, A Perfect World, Posse, Wayne's World 2.I remember liking all of these as well when I first saw them.Out of these, I've seen Perfect World again, which I still liked, and I've watched Demo Man again, in all of its cheesiness. Still enjoy it. I realize Posse is crap, but Mario as a cowboy is just great. I seem to remember Stephen Baldwin in it as well? I believe he got taken out.
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This really isn't happening for me. And it's fucking slow. Hmph. I have managed to change my name back now. So I am getting somewhere.
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You see a small figure in the distant, nothing indicating it is moving.
You adjust your eyes and notice a small trail of dust rising from the figure and slowly blowing to the right.
That's when you realize.
Something is coming.
Your instict makes you twitch suddenly as you almost fight the urge to bolt and run.
But something is telling you to stand your ground.
You rosk on your heels a bit and clinch your jaw tight, adjusting the grooves of your teeth for the perfect lock.
The figure is closer now, covering ground at an almost supernatural pace.
Your fists alternate turns clinching and opening up, warming up for what may be their finest hour.
The sun slowly dances behind a cloud, taking cover in a blanket of mist almost fearing what could be a collision to rival its own presence.
The figure, no longer hidden by the blinding sparkle of the sun is in full view and is within 100 yards.
It is a horse.
But not just a horse, rather a teaming mass of muscle and fury. Each stomp of the hoof moving a tightly wound orgy of sinews and power.
You take a mental inventory of what can be done to this rapid monolith and realize there is only one thing.
Stand your ground.
You lean forward and dig your toes into the ground, which is shaking from the pounding cadence of inevitability.
Time seems to slow down and there is no sound as impact is measured heartbeats.
Thump, Thump, Thump.
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this was an awesome year! So I basically tried to keep it to the best movies, but there are more than 20 here.
• Addams Family Values
• The Age of Innocence
• Alive
• Army of Darkness
• A Bronx Tale
• Dave
• Dazed and Confused
• Faraway, So Close!
• Farewell My Concubine
• Fearless
• The Fugitive
• Gettysburg
• Groundhog Day
• The House of the Spirits
• In the Line of Fire
• In the Name of the Father
• The Joy Luck Club
• Jurassic Park
• Mad Dog and Glory
• Matinee
• Naked
• The Nightmare Before Christmas
• The Remains of the Day
• Rudy
• The Sandlot
• Schindler's List
• The Secret Garden
• Shadowlands
• Short Cuts
• Three Colors: Blue
• Tombstone
• The Wedding Banquet
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How fucking depressing.
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you really need start posting stuff over in zhura, you are awesome at humorous writing. That neigh bit is some of your finest yet, but I say that everyday I feel like.
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Well, almost. And man, am I ever going to get raked over the coals for my two substitutions.Cliffhanger, Carlito's Way, The Fugitive, Groundhog Day, In the Line of Fire, Rudy, Jurassic Park, Schindler's List, Tombstone and *cringes* Fearless (the Peter Weir version) and My Life. Army of Darkness and True Romance would come in after those.
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And just in time for me to go to pointless shitty meeting. I predict that useless cockchafers will "action" things, and other hitherto unmolested nouns will be heinously bashed into unintended use, that global warming will for some inexplicable reason be my fault, and that I will be harbouring murderous thoughts by the time my arse hits the seat.
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Jarv is officially part of our group, and he got a real name and pic up faster than any of us did...save HOD or was already on there.
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Fucking so cross.
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Everyone talking at once, important topics being looked over and we crawl to a pace that is actually slower than universal time.
I went into one with a beard and came out looking clean shaven.
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and I was half way there when I found out. I've just discovered that I'm taking minutes for it. What the fools don't know is that that gives me an excuse to have a sharpened #2 pencil ready to jam into the throat of the first cocksucker that dare to use the word "proactive". IT'S NOT A WORD SCUMBAG. Seriously, people just used to do things, but that wasn't wanky enough for middle management so then they "actively" did things (as opposed to, erm, passively doing things), but that STILL wasn't wanky enough so now they have to Pro-actively do things, even though it's the same fucking things that they should be doing back when people just FUCKING DID THINGS.... AAAAARGGGGHHHHH. Fucking hate my job.
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For having the free time to do all that running and biking. I have one mere hour a day I can devote to the stationary bike and that's just not enough to drop the beer weight. Nothing is hanging over my belt yet and I haven't had to utilize the shoe horn and axle grease to wedge myself into my pants but I haven't dropped much either.And on top of all that, you kick my ass in writing too. If they find my stiff pale body hanging from a rafter, you can rest assured that "HOD was here and Chitty kicked his ass" will be engraved in the wood above my dangling corpse.
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I used to actually like this word, but having seen it abused as a verb for so long I now despise it. Not to mention "solution". Seriously, why is everything a fucking "solution" nowadays? we don't have any fucking problems. And I bet not one damn thing will be accomplished. Apart from the odd pencil-severed carotid artery. Middle managers are like cockroaches. The fuckers breed everywhere and can survive nuclear winter.
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Fucking joke. BTW, actually, in all seriousness- Mrs. Jarv is really quite talented, but bone fucking idle, so my primary motive for joining is to get her to submit her stuff. It's much, much better than mine Although I write better copy than her *Jarv kicks desk in self-disgust.**Satan looks up from lunch and God kills a puppy because the size of that lie disturbed the natural balance.*
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I sense much anger in you young padawan...
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And I'm talking getting up at 4:50 a.m. and heading up the gym when it opens at 5 a.m.
I also live on a street that has a running lane on both sides, so I can sneak in a run at night after teeny and wife go to sleep.
And running at night allows you establish patterns of people and what windows they leave unlocked.
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How fucking dull. probably see you all tomorrow.
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Jarv is damn near identical to how I pictured him
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Although a lot f-ing taller. The boy is huge, yo. And he knocked it out of the park when finding a wife. Good show.Although those smokin' outfits don't match the background. Looks like a vendor tent at Knebworth. Although it's probably just an outdoor wedding or work function.
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The Fugitive and In The Line of Fire.....AFTER Army of Darkness?!! Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?!! See this is why I pictured you to be like 45.
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from carrying back home all the loot Chitty.Smart thinking.
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Sep 09, 2008 9:17:30 AM CDT
holy fuck.....Jarv is in da' house of Egg Shen?
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But it's harsh. The wife is back at school taking night time classes so that leaves me in charge of our daughter much of the time these days. I need to start waking up around 5:30 so that I can squeeze an extra 45 minutes or so on the bike. I would jog but after a year long bout with bronchitis 10 years ago, my lungs have never recovered and when I try to jog now they seize up on me. It's the damnedest thing.But you've inspired me, my friend. I need to drop 20 pounds by Christmas. Without cutting off a body part because that didn't work so well last time.
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I feel your pain, Jarv. The above is a line from a current advert (I forget for what) and it bugs the poop out of me for two reasons.1 - It's sick-inducing business-speak.2 - It doesn't make a lick of fucking sense. How the fuck do you come up with a solution without knowing the problem?CUSTOMER: "Uh, hello, I was wondering if you could..."SHOP ASSISTANT: "All wood floors!"CUSTOMER: "What? You didn'ty let me finish my..."SHOP ASSISTANT: "We start with solutions, sir, not problems. Next customer!"P.S. Good day to all.
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an army of talent over there, we need to do something with it. Otherwise it's like Equinas at the Preakness and all he is doing is placing bets.
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So it deserves a fresh viewing. That could very well catapult it up the list.You pictured me to be a geriatric because I have old guy taste in movies? Jeeeeeeeesus.
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I do like The Fugitive just because its packed wall to wall with some of Harrison's finest, "I have to take a shit," acting. But In The Line of Fire...thats where the guy has that wooden pistol thing right? And Eastwood's secret service? Would they really let a guy continue to guard the President at the age of 90? Awww...that was back in 93, so he was only like 80 I guess.
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I've hardly seen any films lately. Half Nelson, that was pretty good, and Far From Heaven, which was also pretty good. Also, I tried to watch King Kong again at the weekend. That film does not hold up at all. When it came out, I thought it was decent if self-indulgently long; but this time I could hardly stand it. How do you devote over three hours to a film and still have nothing but one-dimensional characters? For shame, Peter Jackson.
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No, mate, it looks like Hellboy II has been demoted to DVD status. For shame, Franklin T Marmoset.
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The same way the CG can get progressively worse in each LOTR film...these are the mysteries of the world.
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Clint fucking Eastwood. His stare alone breaks people in half. The CoC approves of Clint fucking Eastwood.
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to the streaming asian horror films? There is some good free stuff there for viewing.
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...I have to take a shit acting as well. In that scene where poor Harrison is learning how to walk again....15 minutes of constipation close-ups, I swear!
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Fear not though, start with the solution and all will be clairvoyant!BTW, I fucking hate group shit in class. Drives me fucking bonkers.
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I took my bike out and came back with a mini-fridge, 13 dvd players, a lawn mower and an oil painting of a naked lady called Crazy Daisy.
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But him as secret service running alongside the President's motorcade? Come on!! It would have made more sense to cast The Brim in that roll-- at least that fool can bust through a brick wall when he rolls up in a ball like that fat kid in Hook.
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Don't we all have films we love that make everyone else give us funny looks when we confess our secret shame?For me, it is Bring It On, a film I can happily watch over and over again, and not just because it has Eliza Dushku in a cheerleader outfit (althought that does help). That film just makes me smile. It's sweet and funny and it makes me smile, and bollocks to anyone who makes fun of me for it.
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and his corpse will have bigger balls than any other actor working today.And his rotting corpse could be propped up against the president's limo and no one would dare take a shot at the prez. Clint fucking Eastwood.
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....it has some very genuine moments. Like that scene where Kirsten spends the night at Eliza's house and she is brushing her teeth alongside the dude that can stop time with that watch.
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"And his rotting corpse could be propped up against the president's limo and no one would dare take a shot at the prez. Clint fucking Eastwood."
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Dear God what a fine morning this is!
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You just described In the Line of Fire.
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been better: Warwick Davis. Granted, he's the same size as one of Clint's balls, but it would have been quite comical to see little Willow (yes, he would be wearing his Willow garb throughout the movie) running along side the limo. The only thing he could protect was the limo's tires.
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Confusion 1: There's a link to streaming Asian films? I must of missed that one. Any chance of posting it again?Confusion 2: Group shit in class, jpt? What the hell? You are an adult, my friend, and I believe it is your god-given right as an American to shit alone if you want to. There are special rooms you can visit for just this purpose. There's probably a Wikipedia page about it.
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and gave her viscous banging from behind.
She would have awoken in the morning and looked at Eliza and wondered why her cooch was sore.
Hiliarity ensues, as he stops time again at a pep rally and removes all of their undergarmets right before they do back hand springs.
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...running alongside the motorcade yelling at onlookers, "BACK!! BACK THE FUCK UP PEOPLE!! BACK THE FUCK UP!!"
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Only thing I dont understand. Why would Lindsay hang out with Frankie Muniz?
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As long as the black cheerleaders join in. Fuck me. Fine ass chocolate black skin....so smooth....silky n' sheeet........mmmmmmm.
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It's a special class.
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AAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Because he is hung like a fucking camel.
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In the movie In the Line of Fire.
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Its fucking pathetic, I agree. Unless you get teamed up with a fine ass female and you have an excuse to hang out with her after class and your old lady can't give you shit. I got grouped up with a chick that I'm pretty sure was a real life nympho years back.
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But the box on the shelf always looked like sausage spanking material to me.For some reason I thought Speed Racer came out today so I was all excited that I was going to be able to watch that tonight.
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That is a cardinal sin of some sort, and my friend Lisa would kick me in the balls for that (she is is a grammar nazi).Jesus, I am so ashamed.
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While the ta-ta's are yum-yum's, at least she's a bit older than that gymnast.
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Dusk settles on the horizon, barely illuminating the rotting clapboard hulk of an old slaughterhouse, that still, after all these years somehow casts a malevolent shadow across the small abandoned farm it resides on. A clump of unmoving darkness, stands near the place of lost lives. An almost windless night seems to amplify the slow creaking of blood soaked wood - expanding and contracting as if the countless lives that had spilled out onto it had somehow found purchase and a renewed heartbeat. Suddenly, the winds increase, the bits and pieces of rusted metal that dot the farm, begin to groan with a cacophonous life of their own. Then an actinic flash races through the darkening sky, and the unmoving clump is illuminated! They are farm animals. Cows, and goats and pigs. And one other. They are all wary, and very fearful of being so close to the place of horror. Were loved ones died. They all can still hear the screams. But tonight, they have gathered. Tonight they have overcome their fears. Tonight with each bearing scars, they will carry to the great farmhouse in the sky, they have come to hear - Him! He is taller than the rest. He is darker than the rest- a darkness that makes the night seem to slither off of him and gather in pools beneath his hooves. he has one purpose this night. One purpose for the rest of his life - which he knows will be short. One pupose that he was born to perform. He raises his head, his mane whipped by the increasing winds! They all know why he is here. Why they are here. A low rumble begins amongst them. At first, it can not be distinguished from the increasing wins, but slowly, the sound coalesces into a recognizable cadence. Slowly, it becomes apparent what they are saying. "Chitty. Chitty. Chitty" They have invoked the name of the Dark Magister himself. Who, on this very night, has inflicted upon them yet another deep wound. But this time, unlike the rest, they are not afraid. This time, unlike the rest, they have an asnwer. It is Him! He rears up on his hind legs. Forelegs reaching for the sky, and screams above the howling winds, screams so that the Dark One himself can hear. " Chitty! You have terrorized us for the last time! You launched a brutal attack on us, and inflicted pain! But we are unbowed. We are undaunted! We have gathered here - by the place horror to reclaim our destiny! You have claimed this day by being the first to utter the holy words! But I say to you, this will not stand! I say to you, we will not allow you to ride rough over us any longer! I say to you and all other's - NAY! Nay! I say thee NEIGH!!!!!!!!!" And the animals went wild! The gauntlet has been thrown down! The die cast! And the deed done! Doom approaches!
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And the idiots in my group didn't think we had to turn anything in this week.Can't wait until this fucking class is done. No more school.No! (in my best Kurt Russell imitation from Tombstone...bye-bye Powers)
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Watch The Fall. It will satisfy the eye candy urges. Not the same kind of eye candy as Bring It On, but I mean it has lots of really cool visuals.
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Well I'm not THAT much older....I'm late 20's.
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I do not want my filthy fantasies to become enmeshed with yours. I alone am allowed to imagine doing mucky things with her. Get your own super-hot mediocre actress to spank to, you dirty-minded bastards.
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Thought you were a bit older like the rest of us bastards.
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...the massive bucket of liquid shit dumps on the naked girl? I had a dream just like the other night-- except the recipients were Eastwood and Eliza Dushku. And they were wearing Richard Nixon masks....weird.
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you guys are on target. Toad, are you sure you don't want to come to Zhura. You definitely have a handle on that "writing thing."
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Naawwww. I'm just a baby. I still wear gloves when I sleep, so I don't scratch my face.
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That could be problematic since she just rolled out of my bed this morning. I'll make sure to convey your message to her tonight.
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if not, that's funny stuff Danny. If you did, I'm sorry for you.
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What the hell has this place come to? This is still the AICN, right? Home of the unfiltered asshole?I expected to at least be accused of homosexuality, but... nothing! I'm actually disappointed.
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And add to it Nixon masks? Damn...
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But I closed the browser the instant those red lips appeared. I'll visit that sucker when I get home.I miss being 20. It was that perfect age when no chicks were off limits. You could still look at an 18 year old without feeling guilty.
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When she rolled out of bed-- was she wearing the Dick Nixon mask? Come on...was she?! WAS SHE?!!!
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...but it wouldn't have been quite as nasty if it were someone other than Verhoeven. I was disturbed thinking he was totally into that shit (literally) when they shot it. Sick fuck.
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It's what she's "in to".I'm a cheap whore, so of course I went along with it.
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Sep 09, 2008 9:54:37 AM CDT
Verhoeven probably invited Uncle Joe Esterhaus
by dannyglovers_dickblood
over to the editing room to watch the raw footage of the shit scene over and over and over again while they shared a beer.
Speaking of Joe-- here's a pic of the handsome devil! Enjoy!
http://tinyurl.com/6x5vw4 And yes..this is the guy that claims to have nailed Sharon Stone repeatedly while they shot Basic Instinct. -
I think it's a step up from the FF.But both are much like getting a bucket of shit dumped on you while wearing a Richard Nixon mask.Better?
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This is not that part of AICN. This is the part where you can say that sort of thing and only expect good natured berating.For the most part. In fact, I've been concealed in this TB(or one like it) with our group for so long, that when I venture out in the others I forget how mean and nasty everyone is to each other.
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The Lindsay link is work safe....its not a porn site or anything. Just a site that displays hot ass.
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Ruiners of perfectly good dirty fantasies. Don't you realize I watched Tru Calling in its entirety? That show was not remotely good, not in any way, and it had Jason fucking Priestly in it! Such is my commitment to Eliza Dushku, I watched every miserable second of it. I would hope good people such as yourselves would have some respect for that. But no, here you all are, besmirching her half Albanian beauty with your filth.Shame on you all.
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the pics arent lewd. It basically just shows Malcom contemplating how he's going to get in the middle of the twins.
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No wonder she cum swaps.
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I swear there was only the funbags in the pics. Might as well make her scriptgirl too.
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Now Jonah is calling me Frankie. I blame you for this, and I am considering a Hulk out.Mind you, by this point of the working day, I'm pretty much always considering a Hulk out...
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After that link of Danny's, I was still thinking Frankie, and it just translated. Franklin, did I invite you to Zhura? You have also been a regular round these parts for some time. It's a script-writing, any kind of fiction writing group we started. Many of us are over there. You interested?
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I thought I heard that somewhere, although it may have been some kind of beautiful daydream.
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she was with a girl in those pictures. I think.
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And if Lindsay is gay, that just sweetens it for me. Now whom can I imagine Lindsay with? Can you help me out Frankie? Nobody is coming to mind yet...oh wait! I know!Eliza Dushku!!!
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I just prefer Frank, that's all. Frankie reminds me of that damn song from the Eighties, which still haunts me to this day. Brrrrr...P.S. What is Zhura? Man, I am seriously ill-informed today.
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Jurassic Park
Alive
Army of Darkness
Blood in Blood out
Cliffhanger
Fire in the Sky
Groundhog Day
The Nightmare Before Christmas
The Sandlot
Swing Kids
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I have to admit I've never heard of that. What is it?
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And I decided I was going to be Fresno Bob (all you cool AICN types know who that is), but when I went to sign up, I was told Fresno Bob was already taken, so I went with a rather fanciful arrangement of my own name instead. I should have gone with Frank Marmoset, but I must have been in an odd mood, so now I'm stuck with Franklin T.The worst thing about it is, I have never (not once) seen a post by this fucker who stole my well-chosen screen name. Wherever you are, Fresno Bob, you are a cunt. A cunt.
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Its this bad ass cholo movie that takes place in San Fernando Valley. Three kids growing up together as gangsters all go a different way-- one becomes a cop, one goes to prison, and the other a drug addicted artist. Its a very cool movie. A very cool look at Mexican urban life. Benjamin Bratt is the dude that becomes a cop.
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Zhura is a place designed mostly to aid screenwriting and screenwriters. Last week, we all realized several of us are authors or prospective authors, and most all of us are doing the moonlighting writer while doing crappy day job routine. So, Hod suggested this place Zhura as a meeting place where we all could discuss our potential writing, collaborate on things, post scripts and get feedback,etc. It's Zhura.com. So if you go over there and sign in initially as Franklin Marmoset, I can invite you to our group. Interested?
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Eliza and Lindsay, brunette and ginger. That is a nice combination, and it would be wrong of me to forbid anyone from using it.You're still a cunt, though. He he.
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This stealer of thunder, if you will. He will be hunt down like the dog he is and impaled with a #2 pencil. Rest assured Frankie, he will be found.
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...Taylor Hackford directed Blood In Blood Out, the fucker that is nailing Helen Mirren.
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I've added it to my queue. Not sure when I'll get to it, but it's there.
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It is a good movie, but I practically forgot about it. Good on you Danny! Also, good on you for including the Sandlot.
The saddest part of 93 list for me was the realization there isnt a currently available american dvd release of Matinee. Man, that really stings!
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a lot of bad ass prison shanking and race wars and shit.
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Apparently you guys haven't seen the pap photos of her from the last 6 months walking hand in hand with her bulldike girlfriend?
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The animal's uprising has indeed created a stir.
But this is a stir on the edge of a vast lake, sending a small ripple that spreads onwards and outwards increasing its swath across eerily dark waters.
Though faint and barely detectable by the time it reaches the other side, its mere presence and stirred something.
The dark lake of evil has been touched and deep beneath something has indeed diverted its awarness in the direction of the small ripple of resistance.
But, there are minions for such tasks. Minions that are all too eager to appease the entity known as Chitty.
Eager to appease his desire of death and servitude among all against him.
A slight quake is all that is needed to summon a past minion thought long deceased and buried in the lake of darkness.
This minion is eager to fetch upon the uprising calling it.
An eagerness that drives from it's lair deep in the bowels of the domain Chitty has built.
The darkest of eels and leeches flee the entrance of the cave as a swell of water pushes. Being driven by a beast turned loose from a leash strained by years of desire to break free.
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I'm not working on a screenplay, but are prospective novelists invited? I've been noodling with one for a while and became more serious about it a few months back (fuck, it's hard work), so I reckon a place like the one you described could be useful. A little support sounds like a good thing.
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you guys are too much.
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Prospective anything creative is welcome Franklin. Go for it!
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I scour the net every morning for new LiHo pics.....
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Im mostly in the novelist bent, but Ive also considered doing some of my ideas as screenplays. It's a good place for feedback. We are just getting started, and drawing our group together though, so bear with us.
Go to zhura, create an account and use either your AICN name or Fresno bob and I will find you. You won't recognize me, but I'll be inviting you to a group. Follow that, and I'll explain the rest. -
Did you see her photos from Fashion Week? Dear god her melons are glorious.
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I was gonna sign up as Fresno Bob, but decided against it. I'm not THAT big a cunt.Wow, that was a big lie.
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I apprecite the tip, Jonah. I won't get around to it today, but I'll sign up as Franklin T Marmoset (I use it pretty much everywhere online now) tomorrow and take it from there.AICN really has gotten quite nice recently. I'm not sure what to make of it, all this friendly chit chat and advice and whatnot. Hardly anyone calls me a cunt anymore. I kind of miss it.
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I did, right?
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not to seem pompous, but I'm not sure it's much more than our little group here and the Lost Tbers. Go to the other top TBs and you will see the same old usual venom. I think these groups who are made up of regulars talking to one another like a conversation are a bit diff than those bloody mosh pits elsewhere.
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But since I sure ain't a writer and can barely write coherent thoughts here, I passed. Frankie: don't be a cunt for missing being called a cunt. The circular cunt theory holds in this case.
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Especially when they're to films I like. You've jpt, obviously, because who doesn't love Ash? Then there's Nice Marmot and Alonzo Moseley, both nods to two of my favourites.Holy fuck, I went to IMDB to check my spelling on Alonzo Mosely, and it turns out Yaphet Kotto played the same character again in something called Witless Protection starring Larry The Cable Guy. Has anyone seen this? I hate to think of Agent Mosely being besmirched by some shitty comedy starring a guy with an asinine name.
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I just re-read some of my recent posts and I am deeply ashamed. What an illiterate ape.Still, time to go. Cheers to all. I am going home, and on the way I plan to think about Eliza Dushku and Lindsay Lohan and circular cunts...
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Later Frankie.
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see ya later.
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JPT is a bad influence.
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The fey creature known as Equinas, has indeed risen from his unmarked and unholy grave. He is accompanied by an equally repulsive attendant - who picks and greedily devours the maggots sloughing off Equinas's decayed a dessicated flesh. The attendant is known only by the sobriquet that was attached to a toe tag after he was found abandoned and crawling out of a still steaming pile of cowshit - Egg Salad. Together these foul and evil creatures have unleashed a reign of terror on the countryside. A frightened an cowed humanity could only gibber in fear and dribble in their pants while anticipating the nightly onslaught. But now, a force has arisen that gives hope to the cowering masses. A force that does not fear the horseflesh loving, maggot eating, urine soaked, cowshit smelling two-some. A force of freedom mounted on four thundering hooves! A force that will compel the horse fucking Equinas to both love and loath it! And therin, will be the doom of Equinas, and his foul ass-wiping attendant Egg Salad. Neigh approacheth!
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Fuck yes I saw those pics.
And true story, I actually met LiHo and sat and chatted with her for about 20 minutes, 3 months ago. Some friends and I rented a house for the weekend to shoot a short film in. I guess the house next door was also a rental house where people just rent it for a week and throw these massive Hollywood parties with all sorts of trendy cunt rags. Anyway after a long day's shoot myself and four friends finally crash in our place....its about 2am when we hear this insanely loud music start blasting from the house next door and instaneously the roaring sound of a mob of drunken hipsters start yelling from the driveway next door. We all jump out of bed and look out the window to see a fucking line down the street trying to get into this place. I'm not kidding like 200 fucking people shoving there way into this house. I convince my pal Tom to throw on some clothes and head over there with me-- so we stumble out in sweat pants looking like we just woke up (because we did) carrying a 12 pack of Heineken with us, we shove our way to the front of the house where they have a fucking Tiny Zeus looking doorman taking hundred dollar bills!! And I tell him, "Look man...we live next door-- we need to get in this place or I'm calling the fucking cops right now. I'm tired of these fucking parties over here!!" And anyway he lets us in...
and the place looks like the set for a fucking 70s porn. Its all weird 70s looking marble with an indoor grotto style pool and waterfalls. It was cheesy, but pretty sweet. Get this-- they're charging 100 dollars to fucking get in-- and they have no fucking alcohol!! They have nothing but shit music blasting on a stereo. So we're sitting there drinking beers and trying to blend in for about 10 minutes when someone asks, "Hey can I get one of those?" I look up-- and its Lindsay fucking Lohan -- not showing the cans really, just wearing a hooded sweater and jeans but looking fine as hell. I give her a beer and she sits down on the couch next to my friend and I. I pull out a smoke and she asks for one-- and I say, "You came unprepared." And then she goes on to explain how she didnt wanna come-- she was just driving by with friends and they wanted to stop and starts talking about how she's sick of partying and all this shit. I look up and spot every creature with a dick and balls just staring at me. Every Hollywood homo with a shiny shirt and exposed freshly waxed chest giving me a nasty ass gaze while Lohan bullshits with a dude wearing sweatpants for about 20 minutes. Eventually she gets up, thanks me for the beer and smoke and leaves with her friends who were in another room the entire time. Weird.
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extremely fucking painful, we got there in the end, but I'm left with the lingering feeling that I could have been doing anything else instead.
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Im sure you realize now, THAT should have been the short film.
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reached FUCKING NINE! NINE individual and unrelated uses of the non-word in 2 hours. Cunts. And now I'm even further behind. I hate my fucking job.
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to get some chick like Lohan to play herself and have the same story. Just like a 5 minute romantic comedy sort of thing.....
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And Doc, would you like to join us over at Zhura?
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Schindler's ListTrue RomanceJurassic ParkArmy Of DarknessTombstoneOh, yeah, I wanna add Dust Devil and Candyman to my 1992 list from yesterday. Philip Glass's score for Candyman - minimalist and very cool.
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and write that crap down, or change the sex, and make it about the night one lucky girl met Warwick Davis.
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No Jarv was talking bout your meeting, not the story.
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that meeting. Complete waste of time *Grumble, grumble, grumble*
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oh wait, that was already done to a racist dwarf...
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thanks.
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Mrs Jarv says thanks. I am tall, but she is petite- so it makes me look bigger in photos. And it was at a wedding.
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Have you ever had a "The Crimson Permanent Assurance" fantasy while stuck in a suckhole of a meeting? It's been 25 years since I first saw that and I STILL have that fantasy every single time I'm confronted with a room full of PC "think" tank policy shitheels who "feel" that we need a "paradiggum" shift in the work place.
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you really groove on the obscure horrors huh? Dust Devil. The memory of it is returning from across the years. A cool flick if I remember, with a creepy video cover if memory serves.
Candyman is a really cool little flick. I will catch crap for this, but I think it's superior to all the other horror slasher franchise starters(i.e. Friday the 13th, Nightmare, Hellraiser,etc.)save for Halloween, which will always hold the prize.
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I'm stealing Pillow's list but firing Rudy from a cannon into a brick wall, taking the smashed remains and launching them into the sun and replacing it with Dazed and Confused.
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Oh god yes, wouldn't that be wonderful?
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When she left,and the dudes were staring, you should have just raised the beer for explanation. You walking into that big obnoxious faux 70s party with beer and drawing the attraction of Lohan seems directly relatable to boat-fishing near Amity and dragging a freshly slaughted cow behind you and catching Jaws.
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Fine director who needs more work. Ivans XTC is the only version of a tolstoy story I actually like. Candyman is good, but Hellraiser was special- and Paperhouse is ruined by a weak third act. But Rose has an excellent track record.
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I like Paperhouse, I just think the end was a bit weak. Overall, it's an original, creepy little film that just misses greatness.
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...a great real life James Herriot story, but most of you people are probably too young to remember him or too cool to want to hear it.
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...as it hardens. I like to think she would normally have just bummed a beer and split-- but she found my humor interesting. Fuck. Maybe not.
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agreed on Paperhouse..It was soaring for the clouds, and the third act shot a hole in it's wings. It got kind of lame after that. But it's still a good movie.
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Absolutely. Ben Cross. I thought it was a decent little chiller if a little slow. I think Zimmer had a hand in the score but to be honest I don't remember the music.
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remember, the blood attracts Jaws, but it takes a MAN to keep him hooked.
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I thought her attention span was a 1/4th of that, so kudos.
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All ceratures Great and Small, James Herriot? or someone else?
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Completely lost on me. Mrs. Jarv keeps trying to explain to me why it's good and I keep staring at her blankly. To be fair, it took her a while to understand the awesomeness of Leprechaun, and she's seriously ambivalent about the 80's Sword and Sandal's nonsense I keep listing (she keeps downgrading Hawk The Slayer).
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Sep 09, 2008 11:38:15 AM CDT
How did you hide your erection those sweat pants Danny?
by chittychittygangbang
I would have set that 12 pack on my lap just in case.
And when you go done drinking the beer you could have the perfect dick in a box.
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..there was nothing in her conversation or demeanor that would make you believe she was famous. We talked about movies, bands, completely normal shit.....she never once acted like she was too good for this place or any shit like that. The guys gripping their scrotums as they stared would have probably been disappointed when she didn't immediately try to snort a railroad off their shaft.
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Have you shown her the trailer of Hawk the Slayer? That sold me.I should go move it up on my list.
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I'm in no fucking mood to go home. I need to unwind.
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But they are shipping Oldboy (yup, never seen it) and Pistol Whipped.The pony tailed one will be most happy with pillow...
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you should write the sequel to hawk the slayer. Is that on dvd yet? My wife was appalled by the trailer, let alone the whole movie. She doesn't believe me that it's "great".
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hahaha...its still on my queue from a conversation way back Jarv. It like number 63 by now....
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from an "epic" movie like Hawk the Slayer. Women are very strange and unreasonable sometimes.
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when you get a chance, add your alien idea over on the site. I think if you change the aliens to a diff type, you have a cool story there.
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Sep 09, 2008 11:49:04 AM CDT
very strange...Orcus got all his old posts wiped out
by just pillow talk
He can still post now, but no more Orcus postings in the older threads.I fear what sort of impact this will have with the time continuum.
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Thats what fucking happened to me-- remember? When I slammed Capone for slurping Paris Hilton's droppings in that interview. Fuck that.
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...trying to show my wife movies like Hawk. I love her to death, but she and I are in separate universes when it comes to things like that. In fact, she's hardly a movie person at all.
Still, I will have my revenge when I turn my boy into a full-fledged geek-o-tron. But a cool one, of course. -
like we all thought he was gone, and suddenly he showed up all "WTF..I'm right here!"
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Hmmm....But Orcus doesn't harm a fly, let alone calling out one of the site's contributors.
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regarding the wife. I try and get her to tune into some movies that are outside her "comfy zone". Forget it.
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...can be found at wayback machine.
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This message approved by the CoC.
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but not mine or kevinwillis'.Makes no sense.
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Whenever that day was I was all pissed off....like a month and a half ago I believe-- I have no history before that. Fucking bastards....they would erase the truth about the JFK assassination from the history books if they could!!
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Free the Mystic one's words!
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campaign.Humblest apologies...
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Maybe just as well. People might have thought you were giving the stuff away...
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Does Orcus even post anymore? Granted I don't check most threads On AICN and I'm not on every day so I could easily miss him, but I haven't seen him in awhile.Since it's missing TBer discussion time, guess who I bumped into on a TB? Occula. She hasn't been around in awhile, that crazy broad, so it was cool to run across her.
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...on here awhile back with that guy trying to get funding for a film about the experience of making Texas Chainsaw Massacre? That guy was such a fucking freak it wasn't even funny. What was it called? I can't find it.
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He's been busy lately, but he's been posting in the past mostly. All, and I mean all, his posts have been wiped out.Yeah, haven't seen Occula in a long time. Nor Rickey Henderson nor Finky.
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...because you can't free the bird with no cage. The dick blood is part of us and we're all a part of it.
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...man I used to get into it with that brotha' over Batman Begins.
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Jesus. Thanks for reminding me of why I never moved to LA to follow my dreams. Couldn't stand the people. Not you of course but a bunch asswipes lining up in a carjam to get into a party in the middle of nowhere with shitty music played too loud and no alcohol? No thank you.
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Hypothetically, say a fella went over to this here new fangled Zhura thing all the cool kids are talking about and signed up. What would the next step be?
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I talked to finky a couple of weeks ago. Rickey Henderson has been UA for awhile now. Of course he's also proclaimed his growing disgust with AICN for a long time also, so that might have something to do with it. I miss our sports discussion hijacking of threads you, Rickey and I used to do. That was fun, especially when the stuffed in the locker geeks got their man panties in a wad because of the sports topic. Good times....
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Sep 09, 2008 12:28:47 PM CDT
Xi, the next step is reading the garbage I pass off...
by hawaiian organ donor
...as a script and ignoring me in all future TBs.Or you go just read the ideas that Jonah, Kungfu, Danny, Mavra, Chipps, Wolf and Series have put up which are all pretty cool.Just flipped through a Vanity Fair in the lunchroom. I think I went cover to cover and didn't see one article. Just ads with jackholes dressed in obnoxious clothes that I'd stand in line and pay $100 to hit in the face with a shovel.
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C'mon Rickey, just ignore the douches here, and hijack meaningless threads like Xi said. I mean, college football has started (I almost died laughing with the performance of the Big Ten), NFL is upon us, pennant race is heating up.
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It should intersting this weekend to see just how badly Ohio State gets rolled by the evil empire known as USC. I could really see USC putting 50 on the Luckeyes.
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We're putting up serious ideas we want feedback on or goofy ideas just for fun...like your midget script idea. Let Jonah know if you want in....almost all the trusted ones are on there now. We should be closing the gates soon. -
..its a Tuskegee Airmen project that should rival Lucas' he's been talking about for years. Thats all I will say here.
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I think a 52 - 20 score isn't out of the question....
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They just be so gosh darn cute in their little airmen outfits..
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I see that idea flowed pretty freely from your mind. Seems not fully solidifed. Are you just waiting for it to gel?
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Sep 09, 2008 1:06:27 PM CDT
Jonah...something about it just doesn't smell right...
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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once you clean it up a bit, and groom it, it might be something really special.
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let me know when/if you sign up at zhura, and sign up for now as xiphos so I can look and add you, and then you can change stuff.
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there is a part toward the middle that gets sort of thick and chunky......but after that it flows.
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With Wings as Sparrows.
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I've sigened up on Zhura. Do I need to send you an email there? or do you send me one? I'm Xiphos there also.
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check it out.
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Why don't do you go read what Morgan and Woods are up to right now.
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"He both smiled and fought back vomit as he grabbed her airborn ankles and pushed them apart, revealing a bloody mass of hair and pink flesh. He wondered if this is what a plumber's snake felt like as it pushed past a clogged sewage line...."
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And it's up. Yes, I have the descriptive prowess of a 5th grader, my dialogue is lacking, there are grammar issues galore, I need to fix a lot of the formatting and the ending needs to be retooled, but it's finally there for you to mock.
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I've joined. Must be part of the reindeer games, if for nothing other than reading you guys' thoughts...
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I'm all signed up now and working on the profile info I missed filling in due to the fact that I'm not bright enough to scroll down.
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so far. I think it's quite good.
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Like I said, it needs more tweaking and my partner and I agreed last night the ending needs to be changed but this is pretty much what we submitted recently. We're submitting again at the end of the month.And I just replied to your e-mail.As you'll find it, it was heavily influenced by Best In Show.
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You can tell me what you really feel after the gentleman with the gun to your head leaves. Odd, I thought I cut him from the payroll a while ago. He must be freelancing now.
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I woulndt lie or candy coat something, especially to friends. If I tell you something and you feel like the opposite is true, it can only reflect my own bad taste.
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It currently has a best in show feel, but thats enough talking on AICN about it.
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I have suspicions this year isn't all that great, but it did have some great movies in it. I think there are going to be some real face-offs on this one, if for no reason other than it contains stuff like Forrest Gump and Stargate and Natural Born Killers, all of which have often elicited strong responses from friends in he past.
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Just saying.
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Just cause its a new thing this week....I suspect we will start to trickle back in......Z is more a thinking thing...while this is just blind fun while I'm at work.
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I saw people walking out of the theater, but I had to stay and watch it.
Could. Not. Turn. Away.
Rodney Dangerfield had the creepiest line in the movie if you can believe that.
When he told his daughter to go upstairs and take and bath, then he was going to come up and check her real good and make sure she was clean.
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Sep 09, 2008 2:36:18 PM CDT
Stargate elicits a strong response from your friends?
by dannyglovers_dickblood
They just scream "STARGATE AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH FUCK!!!" and their heads explode in a geyser tapioca pudding.
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That blew my mind when someone asked me to really think about it.
Stargate really was one of my favorites of Emmerich and Co.
Along with ID4 and parts of Godzilla.
The rest, Bah!
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You put your Johnson in and on the other side, 100 declawed kittens start gently tickling it.
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Ed Wood, The Professional, The Crow, Pulp Fiction, Shawshank, The Scout, Quiz Show, Hudsucker Proxy, True Lies and The Madness of King George.What a dire year. I enjoyed stuff like Speed and Timecop at the time but they haven't exactly aged well.If Moira Kelley had been naked in With Honors, that would have taken the top spot.
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Anyone remember DropZone? I can't for the life of me remember the plot but Snipes (I'm pretty sure) and other dudes jumping out of planes.
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• Burnt by the Sun
• The Crow
• Ed Wood
• Heavenly Creatures
• Hoop Dreams
• The Hudsucker Proxy
• The Shadow
• Léon
• The Lion King
• Little Women
• The Madness of King George
• Muriel's Wedding
• Nobody's Fool
• Only You
• Pulp Fiction
• Quiz Show
• The Ref
• The Shawshank Redemption
• Three Colors: White
• Three Colors: Red
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that list isnt in order, before someone shanks me for putting shadow above shawshank.
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It even had Busey in it.
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Geez, I thought it was older than that.
Wasn't there a Crow with Edward Furlong playing the lead?
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..over the obscenely overrated Shawshank any day. It beats it in replay value and fun factor.
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..stars Furlong. That is the why he turned down T3, to do The Crow 3.
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...I was certain it was a decent year but it was just dreadful. I mean, there are some absolute classics that could make someone's top ten of all time (Shawshank for me, Pulp Fiction for others) but as a whole, just lots of forgettable junk.
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Just saw it the one time in the theater and had a blast, which perplexes me because that usually means I pick the movie up when it comes out.
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you didnt pick it up for the same reason none of us own it, it's not in widescreen here in the states.
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Whaaat?
I mean really, I would think for the money alone you have to take the T3 money and then do a smaller role that suited you.
I picture The Crow as a well built mysterious dude, not some slacker shuffling his feet around, stoned all the time and jacking ATMs for "Easy money".
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no Forrest Gump? good for you!
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Went out pretty early. Got back... guess what was waiting in my porch?Cheers, sunshine! So. What order do I watch them in, huh? Shall I just work through the spindle as you've placed them or what?Not sure how fast I'll get through them, probably won't race through. I'll give each movie due care and attention.
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which movies you get?
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which movies you get?
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Who the hell is Shoope?
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... didn't turn down jackshit. Furlong is a train wreck. That kid can't get insured on a studio movie for very good reason. He was not offered the lead in T3. He was not asked back to the series. He's done. Out. The producers moved on. If he claims he "turned down" the role, that's ego and pride talking, not truth.
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why such strong words for Furlong?
I mean outside of clearing up the issue, you seem personally sort of offended by him. I might be misreading it though.
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The sun rises on an ancient Mountain range, formed when the plates of two continents slammed into one another countless millennia ago. Unchanging, unbowed, majestic. It has stood the test of time. Come to the base of this mountainous majesty, are Equinas and his faithful maggot eating stooge, Egg Salad. They are attempting to cut through a hig pass in order to reach the valley on the far side. A far away rumble echos across the dawning sky, as Equinas and pal, scrabble like epileptic spiders over the landscape. The rumble gets closer, pebbles on the ground begin to vibrate. The echos get closer, and rumbling increases and larger rocks begin to hop up and down like grease popping out of a fying pan filled with chicken. Equinas and pal, turn toward one anotehr with looks of worry in their faces, and the rumble becomes a roar! Boulders begin to break free and tumble down Equinas and his lil bosom buddy Egg salad. They dodge and scream while hurling imprecations at the capricious Dark Majesty they call master: Chitty! The Roar becaome Thunder itself, when suddenly, breaking over the horizon the source of this mighty sound reveals it's true nature! It is the Great Neigh Horse whose mission is to slay Equinas and his slimy friend! Equinas, who has been driven insane by the competing imperatives of both his Lord and Dark master Chitty, to slay the great beast, as well as his own twisted and intense sexual desire for the Great dark Horse, is ripped into a psychic asunder. While his attendant, egg salad, has been turned into an even more than useless ball of gibbering fear and piss filled poopy shorts.
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Well, there's a fair few! Just shy of 30, I'd say.Red Cliff, Open City, Shinobi, Running Wild, Righteous Ties... Lots!
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Watch Red Cliff, just in case an asteroid hits tomorrow and you don't get to see any of the others, watch Red Cliff. Mostly Im being selfish and want someone else to discuss it with.
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Dude....1994 rocked. One thing I notice is that I liked comedy a hell of a lot more in the 90s......comedy of the 2000s is fucking pure shit in comparison.
Airheads
Angels in the Outfield
Baby's Day Out
Backbeat
Blind Justice
Blown Away
Blue Chips
Cabin Boy
Camp Nowhere
City Slickers II
Color of Night
Cops and Robbersons
The Crow
D2: The Mighty Ducks
Darkman
Disclosure (best fuck scene EVER!! And he doesn't even put it in!!)
Drop Zone
Ed Wood
Guarding Tess
The Flintstones
The Mask
Speed
Dumb & Dumber
Highlander III: The Final Dimension
House Party 3 (first time I ever saw Bernie Mac in a film!!)
The Hudsucker Proxy
Immortal Beloved
In the Army Now
Interview with the Vampire
Iron Will
The Island of Dr. Moreau
The Jungle Book
Junior
Legends of the Fall
Little Women
A Low Down Dirty Shame
Major League II
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Maverick
Miracle on 34th Street
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
No Escape
The Pagemaster
Radioland Murders
Renaissance Man
The River Wild
The Santa Clause
The Scout
The Shadow
The Shawshank Redemption
Speed
Stargate
The Stoned Age
Timecop
The War
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did you have a timewarp Danny? that movie was 1996.
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that was 1990.
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Jesus Christ-- first time you join in and you just bust through the door violently waving a chainsaw.
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1. Pulp Fiction
2. The Shawshank Redemption
3. Ed Wood
4. Legends of the Fall
5. Quiz Show
6. Dumb and Dumber
7. Four Weddings and A Funeral
8. The Crow
9. Cronos
10. Killing Zoe
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I'm just going off that piece of shit wikipedia page.
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... is first on the spindle so I guess it's first by default!
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It was a bit cheesy, and Costner was a bit ham-handed in it, but as is usually the case, it has good nostalgia. I really appreciated that about it.
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with an interesting explanation for Ford in, as he called it, "retarding henry". Actually insightful glance at why Ford's star has faded.
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was great. I missed that one.
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Just the scene with the Gorilla alone makes me chuckle evertime.
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is shunning Gump. To this day, it seems like there are still those that think it's the american classic it was made out to be at the time.
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I promise we won't mention anything about the 90s lists.
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...and I can't believe no one mentioned Maverick..
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1) True Lies 2) Pulp Fiction 3) The Mask 4) Forrest Gump 5)Speed 6) The Flintsones 7)Stargate
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Sep 09, 2008 3:43:22 PM CDT
I have confessed my love for Maverick the movie before
by chittychittygangbang
But nobody really said anything, so I guessed I was the only one that felt like it was a really funny movie.
You can't beat the scene where Maverick is talking to the indians and nobody else can understand them.
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About the third time I saw Forrest Gump I realized I was laughing AT it and not with it.
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StargateShawshank RedemptionWyatt EarpPulp FictionBody SnatchersThat was akin to pulling teeth for some reason. Like Cronos too, good call.
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I'll just never get the hate for Regarding Henry. Its a touching drama about a dude that used to be a cunt becoming a better person. So he took the role because he wanted an Oscar, who fucking cares? That doesn't make it a lesser film. This site licks Frank Darabont's balls until they're raw...you don't think he throws out the lure for Oscars every chance he gets? Harrison is a fucking bad ass. If I can still love the guy after that worthless tub of shit Indy IV, then thats saying something.
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Geez, I almost expected Mori to bust through my monitor.
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Furlong fucking rocked Detroit Rock City.
I think is a pretty good actor from what I've seen of him. T2 sucked balls-- but that was more the shit writing than his acting. -
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Fred having trouble on zhura. Hard to post or comment without logging off and back on.
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Furlong was good in that and Pecker.
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Sep 09, 2008 3:59:43 PM CDT
Unlike a lot of guys around here, I don't hate the Gump
by hawaiian organ donor
I'll just never forgive it for winning best picture. It might make my top 30 but that's because it was such a dreadful year. Pretty good lists, fellas. Lots of agreement for a change. Node, love what you've got there.
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Fred read first five pages of your script. it is well written and thought out. Fred will read the rest later.
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That's exactly what I have to keep doing on zhura. I can't refresh - have to log out and log back in again.
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Hee hee hee hee! Fred really laughing hard! Hee hee
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I have no problems by the way.
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Sep 09, 2008 4:13:15 PM CDT
Fred has some reading to do over here to catch up on the day
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
Going home soon too.
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... and ThereWolf has some reading to catch up on over at the site whose name we dare not speak!
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that shit about a chick having a Stargate vagina and getting your dick tickled by kittens had me rolling Chitty
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he's ok. american history x, t2, Detroit rock city. he's been ok in some good movies.
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i bet you are a fan of george carlin. he had a lot to say about jargon. it was funny. maggie laughed. she's such a little trooper.
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oh man, i just laughed my ass off
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I got stuck with another chick who sent you to the planet where the kittens still had their claws.
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that is a good fucking story
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incredible movie. Like it was from another time. Hilarious and heartbreaking. Highly recommended to everybody, regardless of taste.
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Good news on you finally getting the package. Test a couple discs out to make sure they work. If you can play Red Cliff then that takes care of the DIVX concern. If you can play Shinobi then you player can read the stuff I stripped the region coding off of.Go with Red Cliff first, Daisy second.With regards to Zhura issues, if you use Firefox as your browser, it will work perfectly. IE doesn't like the java embedded in the site me thinks.
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????!!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!??!?!??!?!
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glad mori cleared that one up
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were separated by 2 years
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Good man, I truly believed I was the only person who thought that the Shawshank Redemption was overrated. The cream, it always rises to the top.Well folks I have to go grab a helo. See you in a couple of days.
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have a good one
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Checking the discs right now... Red Cliff came straight on, no problem. Whoa, that music sounds good... Yeh, that looks fine. I'll give Shinobi a quick spin... Yep. Straight on. Cracking picture, my 50 inch plasma's loving this! Nice one, HOD.Firefox? I'm a luddite. What in tarnation is Firefox?
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it is this feral animal that we have in australian, decedent of english foxes introduced 200 years ago. due to climatic differences between england and australia (in particular the amount of moisture in the air) furry animals in australia have a larger build up of static electricity than they do in england. this is particularly bad with foxes who often hide under hot water systems in winter (many australian houses are made of wood and are on stilts). sometimes the combination of static electricity and gas from the heater (or even just piles of wood and news paper under the house) can cause an explosion or a fire burning the house down.
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... how an exploding Australian feral fox is going to improve my internet connection!
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I see - a free browser. I ain't messing with that right now, maybe tomorrow. Oh. It is tomorrow.
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I was a little worried but it looks like everything will be fine. Enjoy.Firefox is a much better and secure browser than Internet Explorer. All you gotta do is install it, it'll bring over all your bookmarks for you.OK, back to the bike, gotta get myself into Chitty shape.
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that will bring Microsoft to it's knees: exploding Australian feral foxes. Those Google folks will stop at nothing to achieve total domination.
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Fred read the stories you and ChittyChittyGangBang wrote up above, and Fred loved them! You are a writer! You really should join our group. The stories the two of you wrote are exactly what we are trying to do over there. What Fred loved about what the two of you did today, is that the story is evolving right before our eyes.
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Sep 09, 2008 10:37:47 PM CDT
Fred needs to learn how to spell "little"
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
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Neigh means Neigh! I will be at a satellite office all day Wednesday, so I wanted to make sure you felt the love! Hah!
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Thanks again for invite, maybe when things are less hectic I can take some time to check out that little community of yours.
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i found it a while ago after a conversation we had here. http://www.bfro.net/ 'We are the largest supplier of BFRO apparel.' bfro = bigfoot field researcher organisation. total gold
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just finished on the waterfront. what an ending. oh man. that movie is all about what it means to be a man. physical and moral courage, loneliness of doing the right thing, high noon all over again. awesome.
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Back to read the TB now. Will comment afterwards.
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I do like Carlin, but I have to admit that most of that above rant was pilfered from a Scottish author called Christopher Brookmyre. And I also have to admit that the character giving the rant was a psychopath. He was (he's lost it now, judging from his last few efforts) a very funny author- with a lot to say about Scottish attitudes in general.
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gotta look him up. i'm a catholic and carlin heaps it on us, but you gotta pay him. i love the way that he uses and criticises the use of language. he once said and as a catholic even i can totally agree with and have taken it as a mantra 'it should not be in god we trust, but in god we hope'. brilliant use of language. language is power, look at 1984
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off to the pub
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I hate Forrest Gump with a passion. I know I say this a lot as I’m prone to hyperbole, but this actually is my most hated film of all time. I’m going to list the reasons it is not only a bad film, but a fucking evil one:
1)Acting. How in the name of Satan’s soiled underoos did Tom Hanks win an Oscar for this? It’s a fucking mystery. The only person that actually can remotely say they put in a performance was Gary Sinese.
2) It’s trite. Forrest lives throughout the 20th century and during this time he teaches Elvis to dance (one of the most annoying sequences ever filmed), serves with distinction in Vietnam, becomes a ping-pong ninja, becomes a shrimp baron (so less impressive than being a coke baron. I always envisioned Al Pacino jumping out at the bus stop and beating him to death with a can of “bubbagump” shrimp”.) This is bullshit. It’s also boring- for example. You could lose the whole sequence where he goes pointlessly running.
3)The plot device of him telling people his life story at a bus stop. Just awful.
4)Propaganda. If Forrest Gump had been made in Germany in the 1930’s then everyone would despise it for being a loathsome piece of propaganda. Instead, because it was made in America in the 1990’s it is “heart warming”. It fucking isn’t. The central message of the film is “even a retard can get rich in America, but only if you conform”. Just to bang this point home, the only character that doesn’t follow the rules (regardless of how morally bankrupt your behaviour is following the rules), is killed with fucking AIDS. For fuck’s sake, if they could have found a way for her to be cut into little pieces on camera by a guy in a black lightening gilded uniform they would have.
5)Misogyny. The gump is one of the most appallingly misogynistic films ever. The only possible way it could have been worse is if he beat the shit out of his girlfriend’s AIDS riddled corpse.I could go on with this, but I won’t- it becomes boring after a while
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I wish I was back in the pub. Admittedly, it's only 9AM but I bet it would be more fun than doing what I have to for the next 8 hours.
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whoopee-fucking-doo. This gives me such a sense of achievement.
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will not kill CoC here. It's too slow frankly. I will happily post (admittedly the good Mrs. Jarv's) work there, but I'm still going to turn up on AICN for the TB carnage.
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And only a few posts to regain #1. Captain America/Not Captain America, prepare to be replaced! Mwa ha ha!
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I read the conversation about him being nearly erased and was curious if anyone knew the reason. I can't imagine Orcus saying anything offensive. That's pretty much like the thought of Fred being offensive (and Orcus probably hasn't even been posessed by Nessie lovin' Scottish pods!). It's just unfathomable!
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CERN switch this dimension bending gizmo on today which will more than likely destroy the planet.Just wanted to say: It's been a pleasure knowing each and every one of you.
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I've been lurking around AICN for several years, so I don't see myself giving it up yet. I tried again to get ChocolateReign to pay us a visit(here on Twitch), but he's not over the banning incident yet.
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Wow...we're going to be destroyed? I wish now I hadn't gone into work on my night off!
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Maybe we'll just end up in a parallel dimension. The Z group will all be famous writers/fimmakers longing for anonymity.
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Time for the Bristol Stomp! Bam!
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How ya doin? Frighteningly, I just went on CERN's web site and everything froze! "Not responding..."We're dead!
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Obviously not the president of the Optimists club. Do your atoms feel differently than they did before? Seriously, if I just spent my last night on this plane of existence standing over a vat of grease, I'm gonna be so pissed off. There better be someone left to haunt 'cause I'm going to have a grudge and I'll need someone to put some wrath on! Booyah!
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I've never been through a wormhole before. Might be interesting. Maybe it won't it mean instant death. Maybe you'll end up on a loop acting alongside Hayden Christenson in a movie... Maybe that means instant death.Goodbye cruel world.
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Life as we knew it was going to end on Y2K, also. I know people who stocked up in preparation for that! Go out, hang with your pals, have a few drinks, have some laughs. When you're still here tomorrow, at least you'll have all had a good time. That's definitely not a wasted day.
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Great with a cold glass of milk.
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... sounds like an okay guy, got his head screwed on.Have I still got time to do all those things I've always wanted to? Like tightrope walk across a large ravine with a live stoat down my trousers?Or was it a live ravine with a large stoat... damn memory...
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"The worms crawl in The worms crawl out The worms play pinochle on your snout..."
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I don't think you're taking this seriously enough. What if all the atoms in our bodies get simultaneously discomknackerated? Huh? Thought about that? No. Didn't think so. Time start, sister.
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That sounds like a title for a horrible EMO Zach Braff vehicle about struggling to cope with his celebrity lifestyle and the problems of being an early thirties millionaire. Do women really like him, or do they just want to be with JD from Scrubs?
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you do the hokey cokeyand you turn aroundThat's what it's all aboutHoy!Oh, do the pinochle, ochle..."
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Best. Word. Ever. I hereby resolve to use it at least once a day in conversation
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Or a transporter accident. Oh well. I wasn't really doing anything interesting with my life right now. Might be fun. Maybe they'll just create a brand new Universe and we can vacation there in the winters.
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Help ThereWolf. He's singing the "Hokey Cokey" I think his atoms may already be smashed!
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Feel free, glad you like it!You stuck at work?
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How much hokey 'cokey' have you had since you found out the news of (duh duh duh duuuuuh) certain death?
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I was desperately grasping for a point of reference. "Worms" and "pinochle" - what? You have me at a disadvantage, my good lady. I do not know this popular hit record.
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The closest match I've got to hand is Andrews Liver Salts.
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Pah!Can't be worse,
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Yup. Back in- working a job I hate to buy shit I don't need. Mind you, all jobs blow to some extent, so maybe I should be grateful what with recessions and all that.
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Damn, I'm glad I don't work in the Music Industry anymore.
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My mother used to sing it (I didn't become this twisted on my own). Here's the lyrics:"Don't you ever laugh as a hearse goes byFor you may be the next to die They wrap you up in a big white sheet From you head way down to your feet They put you in a big, black box And cover you up with dirt and rocks All goes well for about a week And then your coffin begins to leak The worms crawl in The worms crawl out The worms play pinochle on your snout They eat your liver They eat your nose They eat the jelly between your toes A big green worm with rolling eyes Crawls in your stomach And out your sides Your stomach turns a slimy green And pus pours out like whipping cream You spread it on a slice of bread And that's what you eat when you are dead!" Did I ever happen to mention she was a horror movie fan?
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She's still singing that song, not experiencing it yet.
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Work = necessary evil.If anyone gets on your nerves, particularly to your face, imagine them on the toilet trying to have a great big shit - but can't.
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That's a catchy tune! I'm sure the Spice Girls did a cover version...
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... your Mum sounds cool!
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Christ. I'm having Tyler Durden fantasies now. Seriously, I'm wondering if I go in to see the boss and beat myself up whether I'll get full pay and stay away. Or psychiatric sick leave at the very least
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Some other day I'll have to share her #1 favorite kiddy ditty: "I'm Looking Over My Dead Dog Rover". My weirdness is apparently genetic. You think a little atom attack can scare me when I grew up with that sort of stuff?
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I'd ilke to hear the Spice Girls cover some Death metal. That would be funny. Having recently heard Ash cover the Cantina band, (which was hilarious), and previously heard the Reggae stairway to heaven, I quite like unexpected covers.
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My friends always wanted her to be their mom too.
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Looking forward to that already!Okay. Gotta go. Tesco is calling my name. Later, folks.
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And why are you fantasizing about him? Also, if you beat up your boss you are sure to get psychiatric leave, although not with pay. There's always a catch.
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... oh, I don't hate him. I actually think he could have been a strong intuitive naturally talented movie star if he'd taken better care of himself and if he'd been taken better care of. If I sound angry, it's because I've lived in LA for 18 years and seen this one stupid pattern play out about a bazillion times, and every time, it's depressing. No shotgun or Uzi, Danny.
And REGARDING HENRY is worse than you remember it is. It's really, really contrived and false. I'm a believer in sentiment in films, but earn it. HENRY doesn't. It's a checklist of moments in that story that you know just from the trailer.
You'll find no bigger believer in Harrison Ford as an actor than me, Danny. And no one more disappointed with where that career's gone, either. I don't see those feelings as being mutually exclusive, either. -
See you later there and there and there, too. I'll help gather your atoms where they lay.
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... I apparently really like the word "either" tonight.
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Any opinions on the Hadron Collider? In L.A. will anyone notice if their atoms are rearranged or will everyone assume it was just nips and tucks?
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... I don't know. I told Orcus today I can't imagine what he did, or how his posts are gone and he's still posting. I don't know that particular trick. In my personal experience with the banhammer, the trick is "push the button, erase them from the records." Not "push the button, erase everything, but let them hang around with the same name to react." I like Orcus. I find him eccentric. You know who he reminds me of? Vern, when I first started talking to Vern in newsgroups about 14 years ago.
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ThereWolf was the worried one. I was looking forward to it. Orcus is cool. Some weird stuff going on around here of late. I already picked out my next name, just in case...
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... we're working on a new talkback system. We're working behind the scenes. Things may indeed be wonky for a while, and right now... I don't think anyone gets a next name. I don't think we're turning new accounts on until we update the system.
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... he seems able to post now, which is good, and as for his time traveling posts vanishing, I blame... ummm... Hadron!
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Although if it can happen to Orcus, it can happen to anyone. I am glad he's not completely obsolete though. Wonky talkback systems could be almost as much fun as having atoms smashed. Will the new system perhaps include an 'edit' button? That's seems to be a popular request. The Great Singularity will flee in terror from the power of my psuedologic. I am revved up from a night of listening to Joan Jett, so bring on whatever apocalypse ya got!
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Nevermind about the Tyler Durden question. I looked it up. I haven't seen that movie, although I may have to find it since Meatloaf is in it. He's absolutely cool!
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There's been some weird ones for a while. That massive cocksucker Memories-of-Murder had all his posts deleted in the summer which I thought meant he was banned. Sadly not the case. Mori, do you feel the same way about all obvious Oscar Bait movies? It's something I despise, and actually makes me dread when Spielberg releses a "weighty" film. Generally, I'm wrong with my misguided pre-conceived notion, but I get a sinking feeling when I see Spielberg's new film about Tiannaman Square....
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There's been some weird ones for a while. That massive cocksucker Memories-of-Murder had all his posts deleted in the summer which I thought meant he was banned. Sadly not the case. Mori, do you feel the same way about all obvious Oscar Bait movies? It's something I despise, and actually makes me dread when Spielberg releses a "weighty" film. Generally, I'm wrong with my misguided pre-conceived notion, but I get a sinking feeling when I see Spielberg's new film about Tiannaman Square announced. (Not that it has been)
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recommended. Far better than the book.
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Sorry. And no edit button please Mori- it's essential that we can take to task some of the more extreme posters on here without them being able to delete their insanity- it's part of what makes TB great. Imagine a word where AnimalStructure could hide his evil. That would be scary.
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I didn't know there was a book. I can probably find the video when I go pick up the next Jasper Fforde book at the library.
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You would actually force me to try to improve my typing skills rather than cheat with an edit button? What's next...I'll have to read my textbook chapters before doing my homework assignments? Tragedy!
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Very interesting. I'm a typical lazy American who wants a spell check for my posts. I'll admit it. That would be my main use of editing anyway.
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seriously. The undiluted craziness is half the fun of TB.
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so every time I see one of Memories' overinflated sense of worth burblings I could hit it and deliver 20,000 volts to his pointy cranium. That would be great,
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And time for me to crash. Good morning/good night/ good luck.
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Trolls can still make decent pets, as long as you get 'em neutered and keep spraying them with Lysol to decrease the stench. They are awfully cute when you bury them in the yard, though. L8R!
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i aint no yank and one of my pet hates is the jingoist way that american cinema usurps history. as an aussie whos family died in north africa i have seen films where the yanks won al alamein (i will resit making a list) but i truly like gump. i i think the story works the way it is posed, as a mirror to the times. a simpleton, tell a story we all know thus shedding light on it. it fails in many ways. and seriously non americans hate it with a vengeance because of its jingoist approach to american history. but to me, it works as a simple story (though you don't deserve an oscar just for playing a retard) and for me the descriptions of solidering ring true (i found that in training i overthought things and that this slowed me down) anyway i cant justify it, i just like it.
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As you know, the time traveler is very sensitive to his older posts....
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the funnies thing of all is that steven hawkins is taking bets on it all
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holey shit...that....is...a...great....song....fucking awesome
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it wednesday right now! holy fucking shit! i'm a whole day ahead. AAHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH. i better get my ass to confesion.A AHAHAHAHAHH
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i just realised. I'm drunk and i'm tired. I think instead i will sleep through this particle excellerator thing. and marva go see fight club now! it is one of the best movies ever! it is one of those under the radar philosopical films, that masquerades as brainless action. i will not at this point (drunkenly) go into the ideals of nihilism but will happily discuss later how awesome the underlying philosophy is.what i will say is this (and i realise i am trying to sell to a girl here). most girls i know say that brad pitt is at his best looking in this movie, and he rarely wears a shirt in it. plus: ten points if you can figure how to use a fly swat during sex.
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So I finally watched There Will Be Blood last night..Daniel's performance is top fucking notch. I mean, just a great performance like he always gives. Paul Dano was good too, especially as Eli.That being said, it didn't 'feel' to me like a best movie. For instance, I much preferred The Lives of Others over this or No Country for Old Men.
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I had just recently watched The Lives of Others, and that was a far better movie to me than There Will Be Blood.I think I liked Michael Clayton better too.
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or one rubber glove. re gump: Sorry man, I fucking hate it- it's just evil.
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has lovingly stroked me and told me that the second time around is even better than the first.
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If he was around the time of the CoC he would have received 84 #2 pencils to the neck. AND we would have stolen his chocolates. Drippy little whore.
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I hope we get meet some cool new species from this whole thing. Watched The Promotion last night, and Fringe and just gawked at the new bluray for The Fall. Any of you fine people here who have not seen that one, should do so straightaway. It's the most beautiful film I've seen in a long time from a visual standpoint, but unlike most of these eye-candy films I enjoy, this one actually has substance to go with it. Honestly, I think it's a near perfect film. Best of 08 thus far in this guy's humble opinion.
The Promotion was alright. It encapsulated too perfectly that misery of working a job you dislike just to provide for family and being forced to turn on your coworkers as all of you vie for the same exact promotion, regardless of how you feel about the people you compete with. Sean William Scott and John C Reilly actually made their characters sympathetic, and that somehow made the experience more painful. Office Space is funny because it's about one of the cogs being freed from his blinding fear of his job and exacting revenge on the clueless bosses. It's empowerment. Promotion is more just like documentation and confirmation of the fact, that yea, blue collar and white collar work sucks hard.
Fringe is pretty decent, at least thus far. John Noble has the juiciest role. The leads aren't too compelling, and the story is really a more science-y version of the X-Files. We will see how it goes. -
Jarv, Gump is a loathsome movie. Shawshank was robbed in my opinion. It was a weak year, and that allowed some mumbly bit of slop like Gump to waltz in and take the prize.
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having had it's way with me. WHich was nice.
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Phew. 1994 wasn't THAT weak a year. Bear in mind that both Shawshank and Pulp Fiction were nominated for Best Film that year and if either of them had won it would have been fine.
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and I despiced The Cell so much that I'm not fussed about seeing it. I'll probably watch it on DVD at some point.
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Since I loved Casino Royale, this looks more like in the same tone as that.
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In fact, in the history of my movie-going experiences, I have only walked out of the theater once and it was The Cell, bout halfway through. And I never went back to it. It was such a piece of cynical, slapped together nasty garbage. But Tarsem really did a complete 180 with this one. Honestly. Cell was a money gig where his hands were tied, and this one he financed himself, and shot on location for. It has heart. Really.
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and I've sat through some horrible stuff. I have got my money back before though- thank you Attack Of The Clones.
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I just fell asleep at my desk. No word of a lie. Thank fuck the boss is out.
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during early on in the cell, someone pulled the fire alarm in the theater and we all had to file out for like 20 minutes. We were able to continue the film exactly where it left off, but at that point I realized I could walk out AND get my money back midway through. So we did.
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Perhaps you need to go on a mission for 2for2true to liven things up a bit at work?
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Inspired by my own crappy office experiences and energized by your loathsome office stories, I pulled an old idea out of the closet and have brushed off the original story and am posting it on Zhura. I'll have the brief synopsis up on the site there within the hour, and you can take a look at it.
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the fire alarm in the theater. That happened to me when we went to see Batman Begins, just as he and Liam are sliding down the mountain...
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That's funny Jonah. The only reason I got my money back from the cinema for AOTC was I started telling everyone in the queue how shit it was and a few of them actually walked away- so the manager came up and gave me my cash so I would bugger off.
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Did I ever show you the thread where Jeff Albertson got whacked? MNG had given me the heads up.http://www.aintitcool.com/talkback_display/37912#comment_2228039
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I was working on a sort of office based story but realised that it was morphing into ultraviolent wish fulfillment. It didn't have my usual sarcastic tone and had devolved into the written equivalent of Torture Porn
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I'm off to read that.
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They took the boy to task.
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Orcus told them "Don't press the red button, it would be bad" but do they listen to Orcus? NOOOOOOOOOO! THEY PUSHED THE FRICKIN' RED BUTTON and created a sigularity point! How many time/space rift's can Orcus take? His point eared head is still spinning over the last one. FEH! Any good news for Orcus? Orcus made the journey once, and Orcus is still up to the task.
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that I could not give a fuck about/ view with mild contempt. Comic Books didn't used to bother me until that gargantuan tool Messi started posting "DARKSEID IS DEAD" in every thread. I don't even know who Darkseid is, and care less.The other 2 are anime and Tabletop (seriously, Tabletop? what the fuck?)
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are like a light to moths...resistance is futile.Do you want your old posts back? The eye may be upon us, but that won't stop us.
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Happy comic book day gents! Don't forget to drop by the local comic shop today to see what's cookin. I myself am poor, so will not be making any purchases this week. However, I do have the new Namor comic on hold and will definitely be checking that out.
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When you are surfing the Time waves do you have a sort of magic time surfboard?
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See my post above with the link to a thread where the ban hammer fell upon the infidel Jeff Albertson.
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I heard Desmond showed up and yelled "Don't push the button bruthaa!"
Locke's eyebrows raised up in contempt as he hit it anyway.
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I don't think we have met before, though perhaps, with those time waves of yours you can make it so we met months or even years ago, maybe in the godzilla TB.
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give us comic fans a little credit. I myself am a comics fanatic, but I still have the good sense to not blabber on about the stuff to people who don't care about it, and I'm definitely not one of those dumb shits that has to get every issue of those huge Marvel crossovers. I tend to stick to smaller B character stories like Iron Fist, and I just finished up the omega the Unknown miniseries, although I do enjoy the current Captain America run a great deal. If you really enjoyed the new Bond trailer, you might actually like the current Captain America run. It's got this really neat realistic (well, sort of) espionage feel that works really well. Then again, it's pretty convoluted right now, and if it's gonna make sense you would have to start from about issue 25 when the original Steve Rogers is assassinated. Woops, I went and did exactly what I said I don't huh? It's the morning jitters I think. Too much coffee.
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and I'm debating whether or not to go to the pub and watch them. On one hand, I always enjoy the pub. On the other hand they're so shit it's painful and they play dreadful football as well. It's interesting times being English at the moment- I have never in my life seen the supporters turn on the national side like this. They get booed off every game. The thing is, if they would only FUCKING try and said beforehand "we're shit, but we're doing our best" then I reckon the fans would get back behind them. Instead we get the likes of John Terry pitching up before every game spouting shit like "on paper we're the best side that ever kicked a ball" (I'm only slightly paraphrasing). They need to keep their fucking traps shut, play with some fucking pride, and look like they care. The club I support is fucking atrocious, but we always know they're doing their best so we never boo them off.
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back in a sec
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Off to the pub you go.
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I don't generally give a shit what people take enjoyment in, and there certainly isn't some sort of Geek Totem pole (Let's face it, as soon as you get AICN Talkback account you're forever a geek), but Messi managed to put me off comics to a huge degree with his hysterical Darkseid is dead and Sinestro Corps war shite. One of my best mates is fanatical about Batman comics, so horses for courses. The contempt bit was really about Tabletop. I've tried to read the TB in there and have come to the conclusion that it isn't written in recognisable English.
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seriously, they're truly fucking awful,
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or a black box, thunderdome, or being the official AICN time traveller. Not that Orcus is stomping his foot and having a shitfit or anything:) If it can be done, hey wonderful if not then it's "put one foot in front of the other" So Mori, what was Vern Like 14 years ago?
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both the NY Jets (horrendous team about 85% of the time - never been to a superbowl in my lifetime), and the NY Mets (proud members of the biggest regular season collapse in baseball history from last year).Alcohol has a way of comforting oneself...or making oneself very, very angry. Either way, you win.Pub > shitty team. Hell, change your favorite team to the Pub. They never let you down, always there, consistent.
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HAD to have had a pony tail like Seagal. And dressed in black. All the time.
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I don't think we'll really have a problem anyway since the stuff you mentioned that Messi talks about is all from DC and I generally stay the fuck away from anything DC, with the exception of some of the Vertigo stuff.Sorry about the football team. Believe me, I can sympathize, except it's fucking impossible to even watch a game now where I am. There are two TVs in this house, one in my girlfriend's roommate's room and the other is about seven inches wide in the kitchen. Neither of which is ideal for game time.
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So I know the calm, soothing effects of alchohol to wash away a kick-in-the-nuts loss.
There is comedy, there is high comedy and then there is watching a Saints fan get his hopes up.
But on the flip side, the alchohol can also fuel a potential powder keg of violent emotion when also thinking of previously mentioned kick in the nuts.
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Pillows, supporting England is 50 years of hurt combined with ludicrous hype before reaity comes inevitably crashing down with a limp defeat. At least your 2 teams seem to care for the game. And don't the Jets have Favre now? THe Guardian reckoned that now Brady is fucked for the season the Jets were in with a good shout at second in their division.
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too bad those Jeff Albvertson posts are gone. I would have loved to have seen that shit and imagine it as the voice of the guy who owns the local comic shop here in Eugene. Snarky asshole argued with some other shmuck about the scientific improbability of zombies for ten minutes while I sat there waiting to buy my comics. Then he went right back to reading some shitty manga. I would bonk that foo over the head with a steel chair if he wasn't my sole source of geeky comic goodness every week.And if you want the secret recipe, I can give it to you for 10,000 dollars OR a Blu Ray edition of both Red Cliff movies.
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The rugby season has started again. A much better game than Chavball.
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is comic book guy's real name. How predictable that he lived up to it. Didn't he hate EVERYTHING? And everyone knows that not only are Zombies scientific fact but you've got one as potential president (hee hee). The Republican nomination is a very sore point in Casa Del Jarv. Mrs. Jarv is very, very pissed off at the Palin nomination. She's trying to work out how she can get her vote counted in one of the swing states as it's a postal vote and she knows that California will be a democrat landslide.
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Orcus was not a saint in his earlier incarnations. In fact Orcus prime could be a complete dick at times. Orcus fully admits to that. But time does have a way to mellow on one out . Orcus is at the sitting on a porch swing waving at cars phase now. Bit of a 180 tone wise
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Damn Kungfu, that's like arguing the many, many reasons I should be dead after all the stunts I pulled when I was younger.
Laws of averages say I shouldn't be here, but I am.
So yes, zombies could happen.
Also I found out that if swap the 8" pulley to the back of the lawn mower and the 3" to the front, a 10hp mower can reach around 45 mph.
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Maybe your Mets will go on a hot streak like the Jays have hit. If Boston collapses it's wild card time, baby.Looks like Ronaldo could be coming to the UK, Jarv. Nothing like the deep pockets of those Saudi pricks to try to buy your way to the top of the EPL. First Robinho and now this.
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I posted that idea over at Zhura. It's the newest one. Let me know what you think. It's just a basic concept, based of a short story I did.
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but if I know my Jets, even without Brady, they'll blow it somehow. And yet beer will always be there for me...
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I know Cristiano "diving preening twat" is staying at Man U, but are city trying to get Brazilian Ronaldo off AC. Fucking money is ruining the game.
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He was the fucker who was saying everyone wasn't giving a reason as to why he was wrong, they were just opinions. So he was still right.Put it this way: the way Jarv feels about M-O-M I felt about Jeff "drippy whore" Albertson. Fucker.
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between the coasts, at least during election time. (sorry if I offend those of you not living on the coasts, but if fucking McCain and Palin win...my wife has declared we will be "moving to Europe".
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Well, I'm hoping the Phils continue to lose to the Marlins, and then get whacked by the Brewers. I'm pretty confident this year that the Mets won't collapse. Honest.And I'll be going to the Yankee game this Friday to laugh at them. Ha-ha!
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but you guys look so dapper in your brown paper bags...
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he was arguing why he would never read the mos excellent comic series The Walking Dead because zombies were involved in it, and he thought zombies were too unrealistic.Ironic that he said this while looking up from his anime warriors with cat ears in space suits manga to say this.
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My copy of Red Cliff ships today. I'll include that in your next kit. It won't be Blu-ray but it'll do until in the meantime.This whole Palin thing has me bowie knifing my arm like Michael Biehn in The Abyss. Conservative leaders that have been quoted time and time again as saying a mother's place is in the home and teen pregnancy is unforgivable are now proclaiming Palin as the greatest mother who ever walked the earth and her family the ideal snapshot of the American dynamic.
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Braveheart, Heat, Seven, Toy Story, 12 Monkeys, Usual Suspects
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I bet a shitload of the public will eat up what the conservatives are spewing.AAAARRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!!
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Walked into Alternate Worlds a comic shop down my way, and I had gone in specifically because a friend told me they had free passes to Shaun of the Dead sitting on the counter. So my whole plan was to get in, get the tickets, and get back out. But when I went in there were two guys actually arguing over the legality of certain presumably underage comic heroines and whether or not it was okay to think of them sexually, since some only LOOKED like little girls. It never dawned on them that lusting after even the "legal" ones would still be creepy. Good news was I got the passes. Bad was I heard more about Veronica from Archie than I ever wanted to.
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And you can use them on the head of the Plan B you bring home from the bar!
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No order. 1995 was a pretty slim year, yet I love and adore many of the movies on this list, and the rest are pretty good.
• Angus
• Apollo 13
• Babe
• Before Sunrise
• Braveheart
• The City of Lost Children
• Dead Man
• Dead Man Walking
• Devil in a Blue Dress
• Ghost in the Shell
• Heat
• A Little Princess
• Les Misérables
• Restoration
• Rob Roy
• Persuasion
• Secret of Roan Inish
• Seven
• Toy Story
• Twelve Monkeys
• A Walk in the Clouds
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Fat Ronaldo is considering Man. City or Flamengo, but you know those Abu Dhabi coffers will win out. And money ruins every game.I apologize to any McCain/Palin supporters in this group, but as much as Obama infuriates me, I can't believe the right is embracing something they normally abhor. That spin machine the Republicans have is top notch. Hell, they could probably even convince people I'm not an a-hole.
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Nothing wrong with that! *Jarv shuffles feet and stares guiltily at floor*
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Or if you feel a wee bit sick...and can't make it to the bathroom.
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Or find the front porch of the general manager, take a dump in the bag and set it on fire.
Damn we should patent the idea for a Saint's paper bag and sell them with these ideas on them.
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Hello, all.How the hell do you bastards remember years and suchlike? I have no ability to remember that stuff, except for 1999, which was an exceptionally good year, I reckon. All other years kind of blend into one for me, which is possibly the result of too much booze as a youngster.
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being as she is half Brazilian. She blames him and Roberto Carlos for Brazil not winning the last world cup. I like to think that I take England losing better than she took that. There were tears, tantrums, ludicrous amounts of crap wine consumed and neighbours abused in slurred Spanish and Portuguese.
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and Blu Ray is really just a distant dream right now, so no worries. I'm going to try to go with standard stuff as long as I can.
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I cheat. I look it up and then pick my favourites.
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Head for the hills!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!
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the only reason that I will get Blu Ray is that I need to feed my pathetic Final Fantasy addiction (now there's pubescent girls as sex objects) and this requires buying a PS3. Mrs Jarv is being most unreasonable about it at the moment. Her precise words were "Fucking waste of money"- but I make more than her, so I will eventually get my way.
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I bought the PS3 for much the same reason- now as a bluray player and in anticipation of the next Final Fantasy.
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Thats my argument everytime there is one of those Blu Ray propaganda TB's and all those douch bags are bragging about the quality and how much money they make and how they already own every Blu Ray release. I just say, "Fucking waste of money.....go fuck yourself."
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In that case, I declare my favourite 1995 films to be:Smoke/Blue In The Face, Casino, City Of Lost Children, Dead Man, Heat, Leaving Las Vegas, Mallrats, Mighty Aphrodite, Seven, To Die For, Toy Story, The Usual Suspects, and, obviously, Show-motherfucking-girls, the undisputed heavyweight champion of the Dumbhouse genre.
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What Jarv said. Oh, and morning to ya cunt!
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how are you today?
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My regular 'ol DVD player works just fine for me. Plus if I've never seen the quality of a blu-ray, I won't know what I'm missing, if anything.la-la-la....
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complete pish. Historical inaccuracies galore, stupid jingoism, offensive acting. A good battle, sure enough. Why does Mel hate the Engish so much?
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And I watched with excitement as I realized the pool scene was coming up. When the action was about to start it abruptly cuts to the next scene and I screamed FUCK, before realizing it was playing on network tv. So I changed the channel. Showgirls on network television is like a pussy with no opening, just a piss hole.........worthless.
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I was perfectly happy with the picture quality of VHS, so I see no reason to shell out perfectly good money on a Blu Ray player. That is money I could be spending on delicious omelettes. DVD works just fine and dandy, as far as I'm concerned.
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Sep 10, 2008 9:25:51 AM CDT
Mel hates the English because they're not American
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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Also serves as a "adult beverage container".
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The pool sex scene is the heart of Showgirls, just like the pie was the heart of that film Homer Simpson pitched to Ron Howard.Funniest. Sex Scene. Ever!
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Have you seen this? I see it all the time at Best Buy. Is it the specific tv its on? Pirates 3 was playing the other day and it looked so weird because it looked like 29 fps video. It looked like history channel shit. Anyone know why this would happen?
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Sep 10, 2008 9:28:35 AM CDT
yeah, I think I saw Showgirls on the other night too
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but quickly realizing it was on tnt or whatever the fuck it was on, a quickly muffled "fuck me" escape my lips and I changed the channel.
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Obviously, Grand Theft Auto will be purchased as well. I live in fear of the inevitable Hollywood GTA: Vice City. Before they do it someone needs to tell them it has already been made and is called "Scarface"
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I made it about half way through and turned it off, which was strange because I had always thought Braveheart was a good film.I don't much care whether Mel hates us English, but the film was just boring. Some good head stabbings and whatnot, but everything else was really dull. Duller than King Kong.
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And I'm not ashamed of it.
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And I AM ashamed of that.
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I noticed this just last night in fact. We were walking through Boscov's which was going out of business, and they were playing King Kong HD on the tvs there, and sure enough, one looked just like you said, like video, or live television or something. Even Kong himself. The whole experience was sort of unnerving, and not what I would call cool.
Blurays are pretty neat, and the picture is better, but honestly, I don't think anyone should lose sleep over it. DVDs are still currently better because there are more titles, they are cheaper, and right now so few have blurays it's hard to swap or trade titles. One of the reasons my wife and I have a big collection is so we can loan them out to other people. I love introducing people to new movies. With blurays, I literally have to have everyone over to see it, or that's that. So, while the picture can be spectacular, or at least it is with the projector, it's not what everyone else is making it out to be. -
Very well shot, acted, all that. The battle scenes set the standard for countless knock-offs. It does get slow at times with multiple viewings and I never liked the idea that Mel just bangs the English Princess chick. Come on!! This guy waged an entire fucking war over the death of his woman, he is fixated on revenge, and the second a pair of lips struts by he says, "I gotsta get me some a that!!"
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so I prob should revisit it, upon which I might learn it just doesn't hold up.
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..with Pirates it was fucking bizarre to see the CG shit looking like a live broadcast of A Christmas Carol or something.
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Sep 10, 2008 9:40:40 AM CDT
Showgirls wasn't as bad as people made it out to be
by chittychittygangbang
Now if there hadn't been loads of nudity then yes, it would have been bad.
But add quite a few nude scenes and the watchability goes up.
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that almost ruined the movie for me, because it seemed so obviously jammed in for no reason. It added nothing, save for that silly sense of revenge on that king.
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Just gets a little slow at times and its a bit too much of a downer for me I guess.
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as Kong is swinging through the city, it's moving as if it's real and you get this wierd feeling of what it might be like if we lived in roger rabbit land and cartoons were often shown destroying crap on the evening news.
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fucking DREADFUL. Christ, it's a film about a giant monkey running amok. How can you make it a 3 hour borefest. I do not want to see Kong fucking ice skating. And Adrian Brody was fucking plank-like.
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...he would have included a scene chronicling the plight of Blood Wings!
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I never even thought to bring that up. Okay, I know not everybody is not interested in that kind of stuff, but can the few of us that are just geek out for a sec? Cause i'm curious.Favorite Final fantasy game anyone? 9 was actually my first and I still love it today for the characters, especially Vivi and the more fantasy style story. I also really loved 12 for pretty much the same reasons.
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I signed up at this Zhura business.What's next?
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..and I can't put my finger on it. I liked all the casting. I actually really liked Brody as a leading man type, Dustin Hoffman nose and all. And I liked the look and style of the film and the effects. The music really sucked if I remember correctly. I didn't really like the dinos just because I always compare dinos from other films to JP quality. I dunno what it was, but I left feeling a little let down which was perplexing because I liked almost everything about the film.
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Loved 7 and 8. Never played 9. X was OK. X2 was shit. 12 was fucking wonderful. The village of the Payboy bunnies makes me happy in the pants.
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in regards to verhoeven, didnt he? Back in the day young echo saw said movie and seemed to remember something at least bordering that issue.
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I don't think I've seen it since the theater...or maybe like a year after the theater.
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Typo or freudian slip? Hmmm...
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sent you a message.
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I saw it again at the weekend and was surprised by how bad it was. Unengaging, way too long, phony looking, and with horribly insubstantial characters. I just didn't get what Peter Jackson was up to. The Kong effects were pretty spectacular, but otheriwse it was a hard film to get through. I did cheat and read through some of the boring-er scenes, though.
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sadly, it's been that long (95) for me too, but for some reason my memory doesn't let go of things, which is why I limit the amount of disturbing stuff I put in my brain.
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That main protagonist was a little too pouty for me. Of course, I loved 7 but I feel like the artistic style is a little scattered when you look at the whole thing in retrospect.
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obviously. 12 is as close to perfect as I've ever seen, but it still had a few annoying quibbles- for example: the most fun character to use, Fran, is actually the worst. There's a lot of pointless trudging around (especially in the hunts)It's stupidly difficult to get the best stuff, and I got fucked off with repeatedly getting my clock cleaned by ridiculously strong "rare game" monsters early on taht randomly appear and you can't do anything about (That cunting Necromonger thingy in the Stillshrine). On the other hand- anyone that says they don't want to nail Ashe and Fran is lying and the story felt epic without being overly weird, it was also intensely absorbing, pretty much never dull and the battle system was Fucking brilliant.
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Sep 10, 2008 9:54:09 AM CDT
Yep, Jesse is going make out with a guy in Showgirls
by chittychittygangbang
and she stops him and says it is her time of the month.
He checks and she is telling the truth.
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and thought it was the best of 2005. Don't judge me. :)
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Shitty work keyboard makes me look like a whoremonger.
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I enjoyed KK, especially the extended version which, oddly and miraculously, seemed shorter than the theatrical release.
The problems I had with it are threefold:
1) Jack Black. Horribly miscast.
2) The truly IDIOTIC comparison to Heart of Darkness which made no sense whatsoever.
3) Changing Denham's character completely transforms the final line into a non sequitur.
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Might as well have cast Matthew Broderick in it as well checking footprint sizes.
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Cool!I'm sorry to hear that Orcus's posts were deleted but I'm glad that he's still alive and kicking (one must be wary of the dangers of the replign). Three cheers for AICN's token time traveler!
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I stand by it though. That finale on the Empire State Building is awesome.
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I've noticed that too. It makes movies look like they were shot with the digital cameras they normally use for behind-the-scenes docs. Weird.
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Sep 10, 2008 10:00:43 AM CDT
yeah weird when more footage makes it run faster....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
Thats like the second cut of Alexander I believe. There is a third now....but the second cut is like 10 minutes longer than than the theatrical and it feels a half hour shorter!! Weird. But they heavily shifted the narrative focus around and flipped the order of scenes and things like that.
Concerning Showgirls-- Chitty, really?!! Fuck. I don't remember that. That is fucking weird. It seems even more weird the fact that they DON'T have sex. Seriously-- it makes it more bizarre to me for some reason. Verheoven is a fucking animal. -
Did someone say they didn't know Fight Club was a book? Sigh.
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I actually like him (most of the time) as a comedic actor, but he doesn't appear to have any ability to tone down his performance. With those eyebrows flapping and that mushy face... mushing... I kept feeling like maybe I was supposed to be laughing whenever he was onscreen. But it wasn't funny.I also hated that bit with all the bugs. At that point in the film, who the fuck cares about a bunch of bugs. You've already got dinosaurs and a huge fucking gorilla, Peter Jackson, focus your attention, for god's sake.
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...that because I'm only able to check into the CoCbacks very infrequently I'm forever condemned to resurrect old topics or comment on things people already have.
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The funny thing is-- everyone now thinks I jerk off over my VHS copy of Regarding. The truth is-- I saw that movie like twice with my mom and T.V. and thought it was a decent family drama sort of film. But now that the war has begun-- fine FUCK IT!! REGARDING HENRY IS THE GREATEST FUCKING FILM OF THE 20TH CENTURY!!
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The problem with the Empire State building finale is that by that time I didn't care. My only hope was that when he fell, he would have crushed the entire cast. Alas, twas not to be...
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what name did you use.
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..it felt awkward and out of place, like it was from a different movie. Went on way too fucking long.
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Have you read our talkbacks? We always go in circles....
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Have you been drinking already this morning?
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I've signed up as... Franklin T Marmoset.I was scratching my head for hours over that one.
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I signed up too.
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Sep 10, 2008 10:07:27 AM CDT
Jack Black was excellent in Margot At The Wedding
by dannyglovers_dickblood
Great great film. Weird as fuck...but great.
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...have a 42-inch plasma and an upscaling DVD player and it looks awesome.
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I enjoyed it up to a point. The battle scenes were dull and it isn't as good as 7.
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I would have liked to have seen more of the city during the opening. I remember that feeling too quick.
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Maybe I thought Regarding Henry was an inspid load of old cobblers, but I admire Danny's stubborn insistence on liking it, no matter how many people suggest he's crazy for doing so.Good for you, Danny. Now, what are your thoughts on Fantastic Four...?
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on a 40" sony bravia. The DVD's are crystal clear to me, especially pixar movies.
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I agree with all of DocPaz's points. Basically, it's a movie overflowing with ideas and set pieces. Some of it is good and some of it is just plain goofy. But I do think that there is a great movie in there... it just needed a tighter edit. There is too much bloat. And having not seen the extended version, perhaps it needed an entirely new edit altogether.
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ways Danny!Just say no!
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Worst movie I've ever seen. I've never wanted to bash my television in more than when I watched that bullshit.
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I was nice and all that, but all I could think was, "Who cares?""Hey, I can see every leaf on that tree!" Is that really what I should be focussing on when I'm watching a film? I just want a good story and some good acting and maybe a boob or two. And boobs always look good, regardless of definition.
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Sorry. Big ideas or whatnot is not the point. It's a giant ape running amok and they made it dull. How can you do this? If it's any consolation Fantastic Four sucks as well. Even if I don't get why people get upset at whatshisname as Victor Doom.
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You guys are nuts. I bought the Extended version because I loved it so much. It and the original are based on adventure serials. It's near perfect in capturing that feeling. Each part of the journey is a new story/adventure. And personally I loved Jack Black as the obsessed egomaniacal director. I thought it was inspired casting.
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For example, those of the "fish eye" variety are invariably minging.
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I've defended FF 2 on here before. I thought part 1 kinda sucked.....didn't really have anything going for it. But I had a lot of fun with 2, and I thought the relationships worked much better. And I think I started hating Chris Evans a lot less after Sunshine. Its easily 10 times the film that piece of rotted catfish X3 is.
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Sep 10, 2008 10:17:24 AM CDT
One day, I will stop all the Fantastic Four shit
by franklin t marmoset
I've been posting here for a couple of years now, and it seems like I'm always bringing up that damn film. Maybe I should declare a moratorium or something. Find a new stupid film to champion.
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Jesus take a Ridilin Jarv.
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I'd rather watch FF than Kong. For one, it's a lot shorter. And two..let me get back to you on that. I think it's enough to say it's the shorter of the two films.
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King Kong blew. I stand by this one the way danny stands by Regarding Henry.
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sent you an email
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You praise Kong and slam Margot? Sheeesh.....Kong stars the poor man's Nicole Kidman, Margot's got the real deal. AND it features a scene of Kidman grinding the fuck out of her own hand until she gets off, for not liking that alone-- you are no man.
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I would be more pissed. I finally saw in Sunshine that Evans could act. And then you have the debacles that are the FF movies...
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The Fantastic Four!I'm talking, of course, about the Roger Corman version. Anyone seen it? It's one of the few films that's funnier than the Tim Story one. Dr Doom is amazing in it, all wiggly fingers and whatnot. I highly recommend you all seek out a bootleg and give it a go.
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Are you referring to those with inverted nipples? The horror.
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now, what was I saying.... hehehe. It's not about time, and I love lots of slower films, but Kong bored the shit out of me.
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Considering the source material, I don't know. I was never a KING KONG fan (original or otherwise). And quite frankly, I was disappointed when Jackson announced that was his next project after LOTR. And yes, I do think the fatique from those films played into the final results for KONG.As for FANTASTIC FOUR, I saw maybe 3/4 of the first one and I came to the conclusion that it was a bubble gum movie. A flavor of bubble gum that I DO NOT LIKE.
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An epic story to match the epic visuals. The Brody/Watts romance was very flat. Even though I like both of them-- I never once felt all tingly, rooting for Brody to kick some ass and save the girl. I was never on the edge of my seat.
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I don't know why that was a movie he felt needed to be updated or pay homage to, or whatever reason he gave.
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I've been thinking about seeing it, but, as always, I can't make up my mind. I do like Jennifer Jason Leigh very much - she's an under-appreciated actress, I think.I liked what Noah Baumbach did with Wes Anderson, but I haven't seen The Squid And The Whale, mostly because the title annoyed me for some reason.
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Everyone in Kong felt hollow to me. I didn't give a shit what happened to these characters. Oh look, stampeding dinos, oh no bugs. Look out for those t-rexes...oops, they're not out of it...oh no, dangling from a crevice...don't drop her...
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If you're going to make a long film, you have to give the audience characters they want to spend that much time with, and I don't think King King did that. They were all just so flimsy and uninteresting.LOTR was long as fuck, but that an epic story and characters you actually cared about. King Kong didn't have either of those, so it should have lasted for a maximum of two hours, preferably less.
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Were the young boy working on the ship and his mentor that was trying to protect him and make him do better in life.
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I need you gentleman to upgrade to the pro status. It's free, but it won't let me invite you until then.
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Does it compare to any other movie Danny? For different reasons than Frankie, I need to throw in some sort of chick flix for the wife. Since I've sort of monopolized the queue, I have to throw her a bone.She won't be wanting to watch Oldboy and Pistol Whipped. Not a fan of the pony tail..sigh..
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WTF? Watts makes Kidman look like dogshit in acting ability and looks. And what is redeeming about Margot? It's a horredndously awful film full of the most unrealistic and hateable characters ever put together on celluloid.
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That we were expected to feel bad for Kong when everyone was trying to kill him. I appreciate that New York isn't the best place for a giant Gorilla to break into show business, so maybe we shouldn't be so mean to the guy, but he was wrecking up the place and tossing around skinny blondes like they were empty pop cans - of course people are going to try to kill him. The sooner the better! Kill that giant bastard bastard before he kills me!
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Is there any comparable movie in look and feel to Margot?
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Jesus what is happening in here today?
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sent you a message
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Does this mean I can't compete at the next Olympics?
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I loved Margot. Its a very interesting/complex film about a family with a lot of inner turmoil. The trailers played it as a bit more comedic than it is. There are funny moments because of how bizarre and uncomfortable they are. Really-- its just a great family drama with a lot of odd tension under the surface. The photography and music are beautiful, and the acting is top notch from everyone. Jennifer Jason Leigh is amazing as always. -
Sense.
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I can't think of anything off the top of my head. It's rather unique in it's total shittiness.
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Explain how you feel the characters in Margot are unrealistic? IMO they behave very much like a real conflicted family. They are just rich and they don't have to really work much.
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It really is like a less quirky, more realistic Royal Tennenbaums-- set in the real world instead of a fantasy sort of world.
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I beat Frankie...wa-hoo!
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"I wanna be a mothafuckin gangsta!"So, in the style of a nineties gangsta rapper (G's up, Ho's down!), I'm audi. More talk of crap and whatnot tomorrow.
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But for those that haven't seen Margot consider yourself warned. It's not complex it's overwrought and pretentious. It's a family drama if you're the Mansons. I don't remember the music but that should be a warning as well. Anyway I'm done bitching baout it now.
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Quite an example of extreme reactions from Node and Danny on this...."Sense is happening here today, Hobo...Sense."I have to admit I chuckled at that.
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I can see why someone would walk away hating the characters. There is no clear cut good guy or anyone you really root for. Everyone is fucked up. Kidman is the central character and she is probably more fucked up than anyone. It leaves you with this uncomfortable unsettled feeling at the end, and I think thats the point. There is no end to family drama...it goes on and on. -
I'd find a gun and kill them all. Seriously. They are all fucked in the head. They're suppose to be some quirky bohemian family (which is fine) but to me they came off as a bunch of selfish assholes.
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Dude that is painting such a bullshit picture of the film. Its crazy it had that affect on you. I have heard many say it was so bleak it made them feel like shit about their own family demons. I admit-- immediately after I sort of hated it. But the more I thought of it, the more I appreciated it for its honest portrayal of the dark side of family. And not fucking eating people's fetuses.....its just adultery and shit like that.
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Sep 10, 2008 10:50:56 AM CDT
Hobo-- they are selfish.....most families are....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
...you'd shoot them in the head? Fuck. You are becoming me!! Next you'd inject them with AIDS!
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you coming?
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Nicole Kidman's behavior was more immature than the fucking kids'. I wouldn't let my child within ten miles of the psycho and I would actually get a restarinign order. She was a cancer spreading in the family that they continued to put up with.
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and Fish-Eye tits refers to those unfortunate women who's breasts hang underneath their armpits. so their torso can be seen as analogous to a fish's head with nipples being eyes. See also Spaniel's ears. It generally happens to older ladies.
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Ka-ching!
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Danny's positive comments about Margot are actually putting me off it more than Node's negative ones. Bizarre.
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Awwwwwwww fuck.
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Its the Regarding Henry/Signs effect.
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and I'm a bit ashamed of myself for this. Who started it anyway? eh? eh?
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...see that Illuminate tool in the Quantum of Solace trailer TB? Funniest thing all week. The guy defends Die Another Day and when called on it, talks about fucking talkbackers' mothers and how he is a virtual real-life Bond in the ladies department.
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WOW. FUCKING WOW.
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"honest portrayal of the dark side of family"- what are those dreadful made for TV daytime movies called? Lifestyle or something. It reminded me instantly of one of those. Whereas Node's "It's a family drama if you're the Mansons" actually makes me want to see it.
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Troll repellant? check. Big Troll smacking hammer? check. I'm prepared and off to get him.
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I admit that probably wasn't a good description. It's not like they're a family of serial killers. They're just all unapologetic, spoiled, stupid, egotistical, selfish, idiots that have no business raising children. If I knew of a a family like them I would call social services. I'm serious. And yet the film wants us to think their antics are quirky. Just couldn't take it.
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Illuminate thinks Indiana Jones is a spy movie
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The whole thing with the neighbors was so fucking weird in Margot. I still don't know what to think of it.
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for the second Tomb Raider or something.
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Best line was the "I live like James Bond" one. What. A. Twat.
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I spit water on my paperwork.
Tomb Raider 2 was better than Indy 4.
Hahahahahaha!
So I should not even watch it on DVD?
I didn't go to the theater because so many of my friends told not to waste my money. -
...over the in the recent MAD MEN thread.Also, did you guys happen to catch the recent postings by nevahagin and cocolopez?
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Indy 4 was better than Tomb Raider 2. Indy 4 was "meh" Tomb Raider 2 was horrible. The fact they fucked up the Tomb Raider adaptation is one of life's mysteries. Seriously, it's Indiana jones with giant breasts. How can you fuck this up
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..don't really remember the second. But no way in fucking hell could did it feel like getting a plunger forced up my anus like the Indy 4 viewing experience. I would have remembered that.
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But anyone who can consider that trash to be "Meh," is blind/deaf or both.
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Have a look at The Guardian's new redesigned blog for an example of what not to do when you're redoing the TB. Keep them simple, keep them fast and easy and keep them nasty.
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...Indy 4 is a better movie than TR2, yes. However, TR2 was not the crushing disappointment that Indy 4 was, which makes it more tolerable.
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Keep 'em plain and fugly. No edit function and none of that snooty CHUD shit. Fuck avatars and quotes and neon green font on black backgrounds.
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But TR2 was retina scarringly awful, Anyway, off home.
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You can't really be hard on Tomb Raider-- it is goofy/dumb fun. Indy 4 was goofy....but they forgot about the fun. And its the fucking Berg!! Come on.....you're gonna compare the resume and skills of The Berg to Jan fucking De Bont? Give me a break. Jan De Bont is a schlocky filmmaker. The Berg is a master. Shame on you Steven....you have no excuse. -
...is all a part of my 2008 campaign for Mod.MNG for MOD!Vote nice, vote MNG.
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worst redesign EVER. And very similar to AICN. And check out user's reactions. One guy wrote: "It blows. Well done" and that sums it up. Keep them simple, keep them fast, and keep them nasty. Anything else is just digital onanism.
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or I will use my magic flute and summon the ghosts of Trolls slain to parade outside your house singing Kum-By-Yah in a strange portuguese accent punctuated by the occasional howl of "As it were".
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I would rather watch TR2 and Indy 4 every day for a year than watch The Haunting ever again.
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I'm betting this is going to a really useless year, but I dont quite recall.
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Sep 10, 2008 11:51:33 AM CDT
there is nothing wrong with the TB design here...
by dannyglovers_dickblood
The only feature I wish we had was to click on your name or other's names and view all their post history. That would be cool. Edit feature? Fuck that. So pussy ass mothefuckers can deny saying shit and go back and erase it really quick before anyone notices. FUCK. THAT.
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Ha! So, I take it you haven't heard of my "Pencil Jihad" icon button proposal? It's just one of the many features that will be implemented when I take office!
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UGH.
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...I'm liking both the jihad button and the post history link. I also miss accessing talkbackers e-mail addresses. Even with the spam.
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...is defending Spidey 3.
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Amen to the 'The Haunting' comment.
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where you could invite TB'ers to be friends and they accept or deny and the only people that can email you are your accepted friends. They could do it where they never actually get your email address but the AICN magic just forwards it to you. But again-- all this would do is create more of a socializing site and continue to hoist a prominent middle finger in the air to these sorry sacks of shit they call movie updates. Our TB hijacking has already begun this, so I'm assuming they wouldn't be much into the idea. It clearly pisses them off when we discuss everything BUT the TB topic.
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I assume one must be a CoC member, or is this button available for all? Your initial proposal has piqued my curiosity, but I need more details.
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September 9, 2008.MNG. Node.Did you feel sort of invincible that day? Both of you had the good fortune, nay, were blessed, to have participated in one of HIS threads...
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Sep 10, 2008 12:05:30 PM CDT
It would be cool if everyone could name their own "BUTTON."
by dannyglovers_dickblood
I would name mine BLOOD WING LAUNCH! And I would include an animated graphic of a geyser of rotted period blood (the color of Ramin juice) sludge blasting out of an 8 foot rusted pipe protruding from the uterus of Jane Fonda, and into the face of my adversaries.
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wow. this was hard. It really was a very poor year. Blech!
• Bottle Rocket
• Breaking the Waves
• The Crucible
• Kingpin
• Fargo
• Fly Away Home
• The Frighteners
• Hamlet
• Hard Eight
• Dragonheart
• Kolya
• Last Man Standing
• Lone Star
• Matilda
• Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
• Secrets & Lies
• Shine
• Sling Blade
• Star Trek: First Contact
• Trainspotting
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Inquiring minds want to know...MNG, your jihad button would be most handy right now.
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Excellent question, my good man. The "Pencil Jihad" icon button would be available only to the initiated and recognized members of the CoC. When the various Warciples decide to declare Pencil Jihad upon an unsuspecting shitheel, they can press the icon button to include the image of a deadly No.2 pencil with their post. (You can also press the button multiple times to show just how many pencils you are throwing per post!)It's gonna be great!
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Do NOT put an edit button on these TB's. It will ruin TB forever. It's perfect the way it is.
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As long as it has a really cool flying arrow sort of audio clip attached. Can't you hear it now? Whooooooooooooosh-- DOING!!
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so then these are movies I just remember enjoying:The Arrival, Dragonheart, The Frighteners, The Long Kiss Goodnight, Mars Attacks, Mission Impossible, First Contact. That list sucks ass.
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The button sounds great, and has my full support now. However, to educate the masses, will Jarv's holy scriptures on CoC cannon be made available via some link at the top of the page? In fact, will there be a whole section devoted towards the CoC? Put it next to "home" and "cool news".
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Blessed? Hmmm. I don't know if I felt blessed per se. It was more like the feeling one might experience when catching sight of a double rainbow or the aurora borealis.
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Actually, I'm proposing many audio features. MANY...
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Another rockin' year. I swear-- the 90s were the most fun movies in film history. I would buy almost every one of these....but sadly I only own a few.
The Arrival
Beautiful Girls
Beavis and Butt-Head Do America
Big Night
Bio-Dome
The Birdcage
Black Mask
Black Sheep
Broken Arrow
The Cable Guy
The Crow: City of Angels
D3: The Mighty Ducks
Darkman
Daylight
Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
Down Periscope
Dragonheart
Dunston Checks In
The English Patient
Eraser
Escape from L.A.
Executive Decision
The Frighteners
The Ghost and the Darkness
The Glimmer Man
Happy Gilmore
High School High
The Island of Dr. Moreau
Jack
James and the Giant Peach
Jingle All the Way
Kingpin
The Long Kiss Goodnight
Mars Attacks!
Mission: Impossible
Multiplicity
One Fine Day
The People vs. Larry Flynt
The Phantom
The Rock
Scream
Space Jam
Spy Hard
Striptease
SubUrbia
That Thing You Do!
Thinner
Twister
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Hahaha. And the Jane Fonda animation in the top left?
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Great movie.
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Well, I believe that the provision and availability of the holy scriptures would require negotiations between the site administrators and the CoC. You may have to form a committee and draft an official proposal.As for having a whole section devoted to the CoC......I think that would be treading awfully close to The Zone territory.
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Not if it is just topics we put up ourselves, and the TB format stays exactly the same.
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Just called a different name. Various topics to include: a running total of shitheels smited, much like the "Top Talkbacks" on the right hand side, 2for2true sightings, and other assorted topics involving the Holy Trinity and whatnot.
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Im not gonna comment on your other choices, except to say: Biodome? Really?
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Run for the hills people!!!
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I have no idea how anyone can NOT laugh their ass off while watching that movie.
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which movies didn't you like?
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No way in hell did anyone actually like this movie.
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It's funny, because I think that opposite of that movie. Funnier than all of biodome was the excerpt from stephen baldwin recently where he said he believes God had sovreignly ordained for him to make the movie Biodome.
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I never feel the need to scope out the award winners and box office giants of each year. I put up the movies I remember have fun with back when they were originally released. Many I have not seen since then.
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First Contact is on my list as well. That's how bad I think '96 was.Though looking at your list, I see I forgot about The Ghost and The Darkness and Kingpin. Dammit.
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First Contact had a decent concept, better villains than usual, and better good actor ratio than the usual due to the significant inclusions of Alfre Woodward and James Cromwell. It was also just a fun star trek movie. Not meant to be weighty but at the same time, it delved into Picard a bit more and we briefly glimpsed what a next generations flick, done like wrath of khan, could have looked like. The visual fx were quite good and the movie's pacing didnt sag, which is very rare for Trek film.
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Sep 10, 2008 12:47:10 PM CDT
Stephen Baldwin quote, for those who missed it:
by dannyglovers_dickblood
"The critics may have hated Bio-Dome, but kids loved it. They loved it when we first made it and they still love it today. Everywhere I go I have some kid in his late teens or early twenties come up to me and tell me that this is their favorite movie. Most have never seen The Usual Suspects, or 8 Seconds or Fled, or One Tough Cop or any of my other sixty movies, with the possible exception of The Flintstones In Viva Rock Vegas. But they've seen Bio-Dome over and over again. That's why God wanted me to make the film.
I didn't know it ten years ago when I agreed to become Doyle Johnson, but God had already called me both to know Him personally and to impact the youth culture in America with the Good News of Jesus Christ. I didn't know it because I didn't know Jesus at the time. One of the reasons kids will listen to me today is because they recognize me from the movies. But not just any movie. One movie: Bio-Dome.
God had me make this film to give me the platform that would later become my life's work. At the time I just wanted to goof off with Pauly Shore for a couple of months. God knew that, and He also knew the plans He had for my life, plans He made sure came to pass. "
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A co-worker has been harping on it and he let me borrow it. Now, I seem to remember it being bashed on this site, but I could be wrong.
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that's proof God takes evil and uses it for good.
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...but don't believe a fucking word out of my mouth.
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to Baldwin's quote. The dude should be jumping up and down on a couch I think.
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Visually and conceptually its fucking brilliant. I didnt think it really worked as a film though....it is more little individual music video vignettes strung together. But you should see it anyway. The renditions of the songs are great....
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You're like the 'Harry' in our group: pretty much love everything it seems.
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Just wondered what kind of thing I was in for.
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I fucking hate me some Tarantino and Apollo 13.
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Across the Universe isn't terrible, but then, I didnt think it was all that either. I went to it, expecting a visual experience, and to some extent it is a pretty groovy visual movie, but the "story' that the visuals are hung on is pretty weak, and not all of the directorial decisions work. It's made to be a world that is influenced by the Beatles and where they have been infused into the very fabric of history without them actually having had existed. This isn't explained, but just is the way the movie rolls. Taymor has a unique visual sense and she has a penchant or overdoing things. She does both to the fullest here. It isn't wretched, but it may or may not leave you in love with it. I think it will depend on your attitude towards the beatles, to heavily visual movies and to musicals in general.
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...fucking amazing.
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common threads between one another. For example, ultimately, Danny and I seem to agree with ATU. He pitched it more positively, and me maybe a bit more negatively, but I bet if we discussed it further, we basically are saying the same thing and agree.
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Sep 10, 2008 12:55:17 PM CDT
This is all I have to say and it's not even mine
by hawaiian organ donor
Don Gorske says he's skipped eating Big Macs only eight days in 36 years.The Fond du Lac man said he hit the 23,000 milestone last month, continuing a culinary obsession that began May 17, 1972, and is fed by his obsessive-compulsive disorder."I enjoy them every day," said Gorske, 54. "I need two to fill me up."Gorske has kept every burger receipt in a box. He says he was always fascinated with numbers, and watching McDonald's track its number of customers motivated him to track his own consumption.Despite a diet some would call unhealthy, Gorske says he keeps himself in good shape. He says he's 6-foot-2 and weighs 185 pounds, and walks as many as 10 miles a day.He used to order fries every day in the 1980s but began to cut back in the '90s, now eating them about once a month. He eats two Big Macs and two parfaits a day. Gorske has written a book about his experience."Sometimes people call me a freak but it doesn't bother me. I just say respect people as they are," he told The Associated Press. "I just want to make sure people understand I'm not going to change."He can instantly recall the eight days in which he failed to satisfy his craving. One was in 1988, the day his mother died, to respect a request she made."I made a promise to her and I always keep my promises," he said. "I also promised her I wouldn't cut my hair and in 20 years I haven't."He twice failed to attack a Big Mac because of his job. A correctional-institution employee, he said a number of work emergencies kept him on the clock past midnight so he recorded those days as missed days.Three other times he was traveling and couldn't find a McDonald's. He also went Big Mac-less on Thanksgiving Day 2000, and during a 1982 snowstorm that prevented the local McDonald's franchise from opening."That's when I started a habit where I kept them in the freezer," he said. He keeps one or two burgers on hand but increases his inventory to four to five during the winter.
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so I'm more or less with you on Tarantino. I did like Apollo 13, though I haven't seen it in a long time. I think I would still enjoy it.Jonah, I like the Beatles, sort of mixed on the visual and musical movie, but maybe the wife will like it. I was really hoping to get to another Asian movie that Hawaiian sent...
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but then the great Joe Cocker got to show up for Come Together. The bit in the bowling alley and the war sequence were also brilliance, and there was something sublime about the cheerleader singing I Wanna Hold Your Hand.
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...a true American Hero.
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Meh. Maybe if you're a teenage girl.
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The only sequence I didn't really like was the Eddie Izzard bit. Went on way too fucking long.
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didn't you guys make some kind of pact to never discuss Indy 4 again? I thought you guys were through with that bull shit.
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I think it was the better of those two exercises in unconventional musical movie based around an artists work.
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Though I prefer the Italian McCrispy.
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Dude...its like someone waving a crack pipe in front of Bobby Brown's face and telling him to forget what he just saw. Its SO HARD!! I still have that foul taste of urine and used band-aids from that viewing experience. You can't ask me to just forget about the injustices in our world!!
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1. Wrath of Khan
2. The Voyage Home
3. First Contact
4. The Undiscovered Country
5. The Motion Picture
6. Generations
7. The Search for Spock
8. The Final Frontier
9. Insurrection
10. Nemesis
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Has anyone seen that?
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Star Trek films rankings? That's like me asking you which Republican you would rather have as our next President.
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Sep 10, 2008 1:10:32 PM CDT
Moulin Rouge is fantastic....and better than ATU.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
I love almost any musical though, saves Chicago. I fucking hated that one.
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First Contact! MOTHER FUCKER!
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Took forever to getting around to seeing it, but I remember liking it.
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I saw it. I don't remember anything about it though except it was pretty funny. Fishburne was really cool in it if I remember correctly.
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Wrath of Khan, First Contact, Undiscovered Country, doesn't matter after that.
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I hated Moulin Rouge and Chicago. Hell, the wife and I hated Chicago the actual musical.I'm in trouble tonight...
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...you have the most maddening taste in movies I have EVER seen. EVER.
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...did someone smite M-O-M? His posts now appear to be missing.
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uh huh.....uh huh.....and then what?? Hhhmmmm?.......oh yeah?!......no shit...........oh-- great!
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....well... just look at your lists!!!! AAARRGGHHH!!!! I'm not going to get into a point-by-point, movie-by-movie smackdown with you because (you'd lose) it's meaningless. I'm into eclectica like most folks here, but DAMN, son...
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Let us hope.
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Docs tone with Danny makes me think he has that look on his face that a parent has when they come into their child's room and realize that the kid has managed to cover all the walls and ceiling in poop.
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Congrats Danny boy! I've never seen anyone stump DocP like you! Not even M-O-M...heh-heh-heh...MNG, I wouldn't count those chickens yet. It's happened before with M-O-M, and look what just happened to Orcus.
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Then take the time to put up some lists of your own for the 90s. Lets see what films you found enjoyable. Its easy for you pop in and out and slam my tastes and then disappear for a few days.
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with the white hot passion of a thousand suns. HATE. HATE. HATE.
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I thought I was the only one who wished a nuclear bomb was just dropped on that play. Endeth that pain and prevent future movie pain....
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Perhaps you could grow a sense of humor during my absences then.
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I just got a bag of fireballs and now anxiously await the great DocP/DannyG faceoff of September 2008....
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has started releasing their titles in more stripped down versions that are more wallet friendly. For instance, now you can get Knife in the Water, Grand Illusion, Lord of the Flies, Rashomon and Belle et la Bette for 11.99 a pop. I'd recommend Rashomon and Belle et la Bette as essential purchases for film fans.
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...of what you list, since I also like a lot of those movies, it's the odd heinous curveball every now and then that is so jarring -- like Escape from L.A. WTF?
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...I've actually never once even cracked a smile while on AICN. Its like community service for me.
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but otherwise, let the good times role.
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I can enjoy any film starring Kurt. ANY film. Even Overboard. Its got a sweet soundtrack, Kurt Russell surfing, Bruce Campbell, and that bad ass Bangkok Rules scene where Snake says, "Nobody draw until this can hits the ground." What the hell is there NOT to enjoy?
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but the play itself. HATE.
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Was that it became the basis for on of the best flame wars to ever grace AICN, DocP vs Ringwearer9. Other then that KK blew.HEY ORCUS!!! What's going on my man. Long time no see. Clan Orcus well?
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you had to go and pick one of the few wildcards on that list I also like. Escape from L.A., is basically like a precursor to Scifi channel originals and is one of the biggest nails in JC's career coffin BUT I actually find it to be a fun, un-pretentious good time. It's silly, sometimes clever and it isn't afraid to go all the way out there with a visual gag-the surfing sequence. Yes, it's just a sub-par remake of the first film, but to be honest, I had a good time watching it, and sometimes, if it's on tv I will watch it to this day.
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...to slam Kurt. To this day I still defend his role in Soldier as being perhaps his greatest acting achievement, considering how much he conveys with only his eyes and very few words.
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Ok. You don't like Escape From L.A. So?
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Austin Powers (note: I love the first two), Cop Land (Stallone gives a great performance), The Fifth Element (even though I'm not crazy about it, I turn the damn thing on everytime it's on network tv), The Game (great movie), Gross Pointe Blank (fave Cusack movie, along with Runaway Jury), L.A. Confidential, Murder at 1600 (I liked this Wesley movie..and Ms. Lane....), Men in Black (heinous curveball), Mimic (I love these 'monster' flicks), The Peacemaker (I heart George), The Relic (see Mimic), The Saint, Starship Troopers (damn smart bug)
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True. And strangely enough, it has already happened to M-O-M once before. Very strange these new TB tinkerings...As for the Talkback area proposed by you and DANNYGLOVERS, that would be pretty interesting. But it would probably require a committed writer/editor/mod to provide the proposed TBs and so forth. Again, I fear the response from TPTB would be, "Go to The Zone for that.".
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Sep 10, 2008 1:52:13 PM CDT
The Peacemaker -- Whaaaaaaaaat?!!! You gotta be kidding.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
Just kidding. I'm impersonating Doc and trying my hardest to come off as an elitist prick.
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Mario and Kurt. Should have them be the next "Tango & Cash". There would be absolutely NO talking in that movie. It'd be great.
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Totally. That like when Vern bitched about us and said we should take it to The Zone and went on a page long rant about me being mad at him. But that would totally be their answer, "Take it to The Zone!"
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Ah yes, the KING KONG Flame Wars were legendary. I was glad to be a part of that. In fact, I believe I cut my troll-slaying teeth on ol' Ringy. His posts were so maddening that I had to toss my hat into that particular ring.Hail, the color of CGI FIRE!!!
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You can assign Jarv as your lieutenant for the CoC button. He could call out the "fucking cunts", hurl several insults at them, and then banish them. His power would be limited to the CoC threads. Problem solved.
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Ha! I made a pun and didn't even know it.
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Ok, Orcus can understand that but Daaaaaaaammmnnnnn! It's like that old Star Trek TNG ep where all the cre members are disappearing and Beverly Crusher is the last person standing. Damn Wesley and his precocious science projects. BTW, Orcus saw Lane Myers on the other side. He says hi and asks when is Fox going to bring back Parker Lewis Can't Lose
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That was hysterical. A mad man I tell ya, a mad man.
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Shit I haven't seen that in years. I like the underwater scene.
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What happened to him?
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He's like the reverse Keyser Soze. Poof! He's baaaaaack!
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Don't get me started. Chris Tucker is the Jar Jar of that film. You pray he could just be erased from it.
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Kong, was that it was the best movie that year. It was awesome. Jackson is the only director in Hollywood without a single bad movie.
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He noticed that M-O-M's posts are missing. I confirmed this in one of the Will Smith/Cap threads. Someone address M-O-M, but there's not M-O-M posts in that thread.
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One of the tastier bits of Hollywood cheese. RaulMonkey slipped Orcus a few pages of an alternate draft and damn it was nifty
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seeing the posters, getting my hopes up...not prepared for what we actually got. I soooo wanted to love this movie. Bruce in fucking space. Alas, like Node said, Tucker is a ruiner. And I wanted a great sci-fi adventure, and I don't feel I got that. I still like it, just wish I liked it more.
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Tucker only worthwhile performance. Also I think I've asked this before and got 0 responses but does anyone have the soundtrack to that movie with the song at the end with lines form the movie inserted it. Its mainly Tuckers interview with Willis, except the voice of Bruce has been replaced by some British bloke? Did Bruce try to distant himself from this movie? Also whatever happened to Jean Paul Guatiee?
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It's not even the best 'K' movie of the year: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and Kingdom of Heaven (DC) were better.
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point on Kong. I never saw any of it so I was just curious.
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That was back when I though George Clooney was going to be a cool Actor, then Batman and Robin came out and somehow he manged to still have a career. He should write a book about that.
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Not that great after first viewings though. And Kingdom of Heaven was about as good as my foot. Boring lame, haven't seen the DC cut but that doesn't count since thats not what was put on the screen. Then again I am a huge Ridley hater.
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Orcus quite literally woke up one day and found out that there was some Fall cleaning in the underworld where ALL or the rants and witticisms (that just a fancy name for crappy jokes and puns) are now gone. POOF! Into the subether. Orcus didn't have the satisfaction of liking like a prick first :)
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Tuckers was the only worthwhile performance??????? He practically ruined the film.
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DocP has the whole ringy review of Kong. I forget how many pages upon pages it was. He hates Jackson with a passion that many would deem "unhealthy".
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You haven't seen Kong?
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I got your back on Kong. It was awesome.
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I would still take the theatrical Kingdom of Heaven than Kong.
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No, that was Tuckers ONLY worthwhile performance, except for maybe Friday. Everything else he's done is crap. 30 million dollars a movie crap. I love everything about 5th element. I am a meat popsicle. Especially the director of Babylon A.D. star turning role as the GIVE ME THE CASHHHH!!! guy.
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...I don't have this problem at all with Jarv or any of the others here who I disagree with. Contrary to what you seem to think, I wasn't being hostile, just poking fun at you like I do with everyone else in this company. If you want to be a shit about it, fine. In that case you can just go fuck yourself.
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Orcus spent the who time laughing his ass off wondering "What the Fuck is Orcus watching? What the fuck is that?"
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Bruce in space shouldn't generate a "What the fuck am I watching?" response.
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As Jacksons bottom 3. I liked them and all, and I am pretty sure if I had read the books I would feel like they were decent movie adaptations. But since I never really cared about them they just didn't stick with me the way his other movies have. I think I have all except bad Taste on DVD..and forgotten Silver. I did sell back Heavenly Creatures just because I didn't think I would really watch it again, but it was still an amazing movie. I feel like when Jackson is out to do a movie for him self its amazing (Kong/DeadAlive/Frighteners) but when he's trying to appease a studio (Creatures/LOTR1-3) the results are still amazing just not as bat crazy.
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i meant Ringy's coments. I was wondering whether he was pro or con on it.
And despite all the dislike here, I really enjoyed it and thought it was the best movie of the year at the time, but part of that is my unconditional love for the original film, for giant monsters, for big epics and I saw it with my dad who showed me the first Kong back when I was four, and it became the first movie I have a strong memory of. So, I was destined to love it, and love it I did. I thought there were missteps but a good bit of what people complain about here, I love. I don't deny it's unwieldly and in love with itself. But that's fine by me. I loved the extended edition even more. -
Sep 10, 2008 2:21:47 PM CDT
did you guys seethere is an Extended Waterworld DVD coming out s
by hobocode
It's really extended too. Like 30 minutes. Against my better judgement I'm going to have to watch it. Although I didn't hate the film as much as many people seemed to.
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It was one of the first movies I bought on dvd. It's one of the first I bought on bluray. It's just nine different kinds of awesome.
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On a whole is really under rated as a Sci Fi. There is so much little shit in that movie that just gets over looked. I've read Harrys review of it how he was disappionted because you thought you were going to be transported to this crazy future world and you only get like 2 crazy special effects shots. But there was sooo much wacky shit in that movie that it was awesome. Just look at Willis apartment, the 4 cigs a day that were like 3/4 filter and his bed and crazy eyed cat. I want to put that movie in right now...but I can't sitting around waiting for the dish network guy to figure out how to install this shit.
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It's a long story but Ringwearer9's point on KONG comes from his bizarre obsessive hatred of Peter Jackson. This stems from Jackon & Co.'s take on LOTR. Basically, he hated KK before he even saw it. (Ironically, he ended up seeing it in theater at least twice.) But chief amongst his complaints were Jackson's choice of color palette for various sunsets and CGI fire (which still kills me to this day!).If you mention it to DocPazuzu, he could probably forward to you (via The Zone) Ringy's KK review...which is somehere around NINE PAGES long!
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Now ya did it Series.Regardless of the missteps in ROTK, all 3 LOTR movies blow away Kong. It's not even close. Characters. There are none worth noting in Kong. None.
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I didn't think it was nine fucking pages long.
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I would probably watch that too, Hobo, but not buy it. I think Waterworld is a mildly entertaining movie. Some of this is because if it's silliness and you are laughing at it, but it isn't exactly the debacle everyone thought it would be. Just more of a shoulder shrug. It could have been something really special, but it was broken from the script level in that regard, and should have been much more than a road warror retread.
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Really, what the fuck was he supposed to be??
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but it appeared in a 'Bruce in Space' movie. It should never have, that's all I'm saying.
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and I think many of you that dislike the movie would agree with me. Yes, it's hard for an ape to carry the movie, but I would argue he did. And I liked Watts take on Darrow. I really thought most everyone was fine. Kong just needed more time to be fine tuned as a movie. I think it's a great big batch of escapism, and understand it didnt hit everyone that way, but I've seen it about four times now, and havent felt an iota different on any of those viewings.
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Was that I just didn't care. I wasn't a fan of the books, never read them. Felt they were trying to buy into the Harry Potter fantasy wizzard craze right now. I liked how it made Jackson a known director that will be allowed to do whatever he wants until he dies. Do I see the same hapeneing to GDT with the Hobbit, not really, but I put those two up there in terms of making damn good films. Jackson is a lot better. But I'm sorry I just don't want to sit through the 3 hour movie over and over again about these annoying characters. I'd sit through Kong over and over again, but thats because its 3 hours and that is it not 9 hours. Plus I can watch DeadAlive, The Frighteners, Meet The Feebles on repeat probably. Also Bad Taste had its moments, knowing the back story behind it makes it a lot more impressive.
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Don't try to play it like we're pals that poke fun at each other all the time. Nearly every encounter I have had with you goes like this: We're talking movies in here, you pop in and make some smart ass jab at my taste being shit, and then you disappear. My point is this-- I CAN GIVE A FUCK WHAT YOU THINK OF MY OPINIONS. You are nothing to me. There are disagreements all fucking day on here sure-- Jonah and I go at it constantly. But when all is said and done we chuckle about it and things stay civil and we move on. Neither of us believe we are 100% right. Some of us like different films for different personal reasons. You strut around here with your nose in the air as if your opinion carries more weight than the rest of us. You go on about MoM...I got news for you-- there is not one fucking difference between the two of you. You are a snobby elitist prick that believes he's always right just like MoM. So from here on in I ignore you, you ignore me-- and we'll all be happy.
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everyone else, which didn't work, didn't make one care more for the characters, and just dragged the movie out.
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I wished they had gotten a little bit more into his character. He kind of disappears for gaps in the movie. Plus the Early Edition Actor role of the movie star was one I liked. But Echo is right the Ape carried the movie.
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Holy fucking shit thats awesome news. I remember reading years ago that Costner had his own cut of the film. On IMDB, he and Kevin Reynolds are credited as co-directors.
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we have come full circle. We started at 1998. I suggest we go back and start with 1980. Now that I truly can't wait for. A recap of the 80s. But first my 97 list.
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Is that he brings his crew with him. Him and Taylor are the new Stan and Cameron team.
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your LOTR annoying characters = Jack Black for me.And I certainly won't disagree with you and Jonah on the big guy carrying the movie.
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Toy Story and City of Lost Children. If I had seen City back in the same year I saw Toy Story and not 8 years later, I think I would be a much more messed up person. Those are 2 of my top 5 fav movies.
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...is that he lost all that weight. Fuck man-- he lost half his personality!! I think all Kiwi's should be short and rotund!
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• The Apostle
• The Butcher Boy
• Cats Don't Dance
• Contact
• Eve's Bayou
• The Fifth Element
• The Game
• Gattaca
• Hana-bi
• Kundun
• L.A. Confidential
• Lost Highway
• Men in Black
• Mimic
• Princess Mononoke
• Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
• Rosewood
• The Sweet Hereafter
• Wag the Dog
• Waiting for Guffman
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You felt that LOTR was buying into the "Harry Potter fantasy wizzard craze"?! That is a very, very odd statement...especially when you consider how long LOTR has been around and when the long awaited production of the film finally started.I'm no fan of Harry Potter and perhaps I'm not the best one to pass judgment on its "craze". However, the fans of LOTR have been around for decades. The books have always had one of the largest and most consistent places in bookstores around the world. And when the announcement came that the film version was finally under production, the excitement created had little to do with the Harry Potter series.
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I never said we were "pals". And I'm certainly not intimidated by you and I sure as fuck don't run out on any debate you seem to think we've been having. Furthermore, I have NEVER said your movie taste is shit.
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Hey everyone? Did you know I'm a Stalin and Holocaust apologist? That's what Doc thinks anyway. Good. Now that that's out of the way we can talk about movies.
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Glad you didn't object to being called an elitist prick that thinks no one's opinion is right but his own. This time MoM #2, gargle my piss before you kindly fuck off.
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meant that at that time, and to his eyes, the LOTR FILMS were coming out to cash in on a return to fantasy. And to some extent he is correct I think, but due to the planning of the films, I'd say the timeline reflects that Jackson got the Rings movies picked up because of Star Wars Ep1. Before the unthinkable, EP 1 was a sure thing, and anything in that epic vain had appeal.
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is full of good stuff. Fewer movies released, but goodness, look at the quality difference. There is a reason we remember the 80s fondly. Behold people.
• Altered States
• Atlantic City
• The Big Red One
• The Blues Brothers
• City Of Women
• Coal Miner's Daughter
• The Elephant Man
• The Empire Strikes Back
• The Fog
• Gloria
• The Gods Must Be Crazy
• Kagemusha
• The Long Good Friday
• Melvin and Howard
• Ordinary People
• Raging Bull
• The Shining
• Tess
• The Stunt Man
• Superman II
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(in no order)
As Good as It Gets
Alien: Resurrection
Dante's Peak
Starship Troopers
Cop Land
The Edge
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
The Game
A Life Less Ordinary
The Man Who Knew Too Little
Amistad
Donnie Brasco
Anaconda
The Apostle
Breakdown
The Saint
Seven Years in Tibet
Event Horizon
The Fifth Element
Beverly Hills Ninja
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just come down on danny's side in the danny vs. doc war?
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Why wouldn't he? I'm way cooler.
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that one month ago the two of you had agreed to never acknowledge each other. You know me, it warms my heart is all.
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Oh, and what's that, HoboLoad?
When did I call you a Holocaust apologist? Link?
As for Stalin, when you say his mass murdering "in part" is due to "outside Capitalist forces", then yes, you are making excuses for him.
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...he was giving me an inadvertent assist, while also defending his own legacy. So he doesn't have to ever REALLY admit to backing me up.
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...whatever.
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We have mostly managed to keep these threads jab-free (with the occasional egg salad, ILAGCT or anakin visit) since early July. I'd hate to ruin our track record now.
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Cockspaz and I have had a feud for a while now. Pretty much because of his snobbish, elitist, pedantic, has to be right all the time attitude that DGDB pointed out.
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but I don't think it would be wrong to point ot that you and danny are at least cordial now, if not full on friendly.
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Shut the fuck up and let it go. He did say that, sure......that was months ago. Do you really live such an uneventful life to never EVER forget about shit that is said on the TB's? Jesus Christ, what a fucking crabby old man you must be. I hold grudges for about 2 days on here. You seem fixated on continually reminding the world what a prick you are. You have said Hobo is DANGEROUS, and others should be WARNED. Give me a fucking break.
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Sorry Cock. Must have had you confused with another troll.
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You would have thought Tossed Salad show up earlier or something?
I meant Egg Salad by the way.
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this is like watching something on wwwf. Previous foes Danny and Hobo are tag-teaming Doc.
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AICN has a mob mentality. It's much easier to get along with just a small group of TBer's you are familiar with like in here. Outside it's no holds bar.
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Hence the reasoning for my endeavors to keep this as it is for as long as possible.
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But in all seriousness though.
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...an "Abort Unnecessary Flame War" icon button. Especially since I'm running for Mod.Vote MNG"He'll sort this shit out quick!"
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we survived, wooohoooo, i guess
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Feeling a little down?
Awwww, don't cry, just hit the "Busted Tees Girl" button!
Your entire screen would be filled with a fully nude and frontal shot of Busted Tees Girl with two miniature horses under each feet galloping.
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Just kidding.
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...I don't give a shit if you're serious about us ignoring each other or not. I'm not engaging you any more in this talkback out of respect for the other CoCers, but if you want to tangle in any other TB, I'll be more than glad to pick up where we left off. Maybe then you won't be so desperate that you have to resort to HoboLoad's support.
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Were you around for that Chitty? I don't remember. Fuck. We had our chance and we blew it. Only like 40 something signatures....we needed 1,200 signatures to get the girls to commit to taking off the tops. I signed up for a revolution, and what I got was fucking community organizing. FUCK!!
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Sep 10, 2008 3:55:24 PM CDT
Speaking of abort, I used to work at a newspaper and..
by chittychittygangbang
Any time a political candidate came in they would address the newsroom and let us ask a few questions.
The sports department would always ask their views on abortion.
You could almost feel and see the room divide in half.
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In LOTR coasting off of the Potter craze its kind of like how Watchmen is finally getting made after the success of 300. Everyone has been waiting for Watchmen but it's always seemed to big and epic and they've never been able to get it together. Now 300 was a hit and studios boasted there asses to get Watchmen made. Granted its the same people, but you think they would've made Watchmen had 300 flopped? And Watchmen has been in the making for forever just like LOTR was.
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I don't get it.
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WHAT. THE. FUCK??
How in the wide, wide world of sports did I miss that?
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no one likes gump. i guess i'm on my own.
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That movie was fucking terrible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm sorry low low low point in my fellow whole foods shoppers career.
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I don't get the hate either.
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Sep 10, 2008 4:03:44 PM CDT
Star Wars prequels coasted on the success of Jar Jar
by chittychittygangbang
MEESAH THEENKS THAT BEEZ THE REEESON!
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I never asked for Hobo's support. Like I said above he was moreso defending himself from your cunt-like antics. Pick up where we left off? What exactly do you mean by that? We didn't leave off anywhere. I'm sick of your shit. You offer nothing to our group but a big fucking ego. I asked for you to put up a list and we could discuss it, and you ignored me as usual. Just like the Aliens argument-- others had to fill in for your defense because you split as soon as I engage you. Know whats that called? CUNT-LIKE BEHAVIOR. You can go ahead and parade around the other TB'S like you're some all-wise big shit, but I'm not falling for your fucking gimmick. You're a joke dude. You're MoM #2. Please stop wasting my time. I like to discuss movies, I don't like to baby-sit dick wads like yourself. Go impress somebody else with your vast movie knowledge since I'm not lucky enough to actually hear any of it. Cunt.
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This was like 3 months ago......I forget the guy that wrote it. But it sounded all formal and lawyer talkish. We demanded Busted Tees girls pose bottomless from here on in. We were trying to convince them this would highlight the T-shirts, if they wore no pants.
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But I'm afraid it is not known enough in the mainstream to be a huge blockbuster.
Yes, The Dark Knight gave me hope that more and more good titles would be turned into movies, but like someone said in previous talkback on the Watchmen trailer in the theater...half the people were excited and the other were wondering what the hell they just saw.
I just don't want the studios to say "See, we give you something you want and nobody saw it."
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a stack of serbs and croations have settle in melbourne over the last 20 or so years. the've started up an australian professional soccer competition. (not that those of us who get issued passports care) Croat team vs Serb team playing soccer = nightmare.
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and have the t-shirt on some manneqin they are straddling.
Of course no one would focus on the t-shirt, so I guess I'm shit out of luck.
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Right on. She is my favorite. I writer her fan mail but I never get anything back.
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No love, eh? I think that movie is funny as fuck. Bill is a pimp.
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The Miracle Worker was on at lunch and the scene where she is trying to get Helen Keller to sit down and eat is slapstick at its best.
When they just stand there and take turns slapping each other I nearly fell in the floor.
Also when Keller spit her food on Bancroft's face and she responded with a jug of water.
Priceless.
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You heartless fuck.
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need to give it a rewatch. i liked it the first time through. About 2 years ago i went to stirling, i felt i needed a drinking to take it all in. so i went into a corner store (i love the fact that in britain you can get booze at a corner store, in oz you can not) and there in the HOLY SHIT!! 4x! I couldn't believe it. 4x is the drink of my state. i live about 1-2kms max from the brewery. (i assume it sold under license). on each can is a picture of the brewery, which i can almost see from my balcony. that was a good day. In fact i'm changing my zhura pit cure to one of me with a 4x at the battle of stirling
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Just been on the news. It was hilarious. You can hear this guy counting down from 10, slightly accented. The count's all over the place, awkward pauses - then he starts giggling! We're on the verge of being obliterated by the push of a button... and the twat's laughing!He goes: "3... 2... heh, heh, heh... 1 heh. Uh! Nothing!"I swear that's what he does! I can just imagine after saying "Nothing..." - BADOOOOM! And a million years later aliens land and find the footage."And this is how the human race became extinct, the final historic words uttered by mortal man...""Uh! Nothing!" BADOOOOOM!"So unfortunate, wiped out by a giggling fool..."It's funnier when you see the footage. Sorry, I've been drinking.
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And saying "That wasn't a collision! I want to see a collision dammitt!!!"
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"It's a giant ape running amok and they made it dull" i think that pretty much says it all.
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A Hard-on Collider! That's even better. We can run riot with this!
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One condition: it could only be used once a day max. And BTW, DocP & Danny, that sums up what transpired pretty nicely. DocP was not attacking you at all Danny with his first few initial comments to you. Of course it escalated after that...So MNG, are you running on "change" and "hope"?
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Long Trail Blackberry Wheat ain't too bad.
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The FogEmpire Strikes BackAltered StatesBig Red OneThe ShiningAlso got to mention Dogs Of War, Galaxina, Airplane and Humanoids From The Deep.
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i'm taking this whole damm place down with me.
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Schneider Weisse, Bavarian wheatbeer. Hic.
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still my fav star trek movie. james cromwell was pretty good in it.
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Don't know if it's my favourite but I like it a lot. Good fun. Especially when Troi is drunk, falls off her chair and Cromwell's grooving in the background!
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Fred is writing something just for you. Check out Zhura in about fifteen minutes.
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I daren't look! See the kicking I got off Danny!
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Also think this is good fun. I'll certainly check out an extended cut. Kevin Costner with gills - what's not to like?
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... maybe she didn't fall off her chair. Might've just gone face first onto the table - Riker just looks disgusted. Still funny...
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Hee hee
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Love me some quad X! But Belgium has Judas and Kansas has Boulevard and you can't beat'em. AND THEY ARE DELIVERED RIGHT TO YOUR MOUTH!
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Thought you were commenting on my thing. Disaster averted!It's a winner. What else is there to say? Jake Busey as leader of the cult!
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lets see some more lists. I was surprised how much good stuff came out that year.
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Sep 10, 2008 6:20:09 PM CDT
Fred almost afraid to ask ThereWolf. What Thing?
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
Jake Busey would be great as an ELF leader. Fred could see him in the cult as well though
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http://tinyurl.com/5ohejzthe above should be a link where you can see a rap about the Hadron Collider, written and performed by the scientists who are using it. and we thought we were nerds. favorite foreign beer: erderor (spelling?)
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how nerdy these guys are. it is some funny shit, right there
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That. Is. Fucking. Gold.These people have got the annihilation of the planet in the palm of their hands!Aliens find that footage a million years from now, they'll be like - "What the fuck? These cunts are better off dead!"I've got tears running down my face, me t-shirt's soaked...I need a minute...
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I posted an excerpt from a novel - that's the 'thing' I was on about.
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A few slight word changes, but now you can know the tune when/if the wormhole opens up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gHY26yrffA
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Man fucking comics, stealing all my money. I was itching all day to get to the new comics, its like a drug.
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Is that a traditional performance of the song? That guy, he's got a big 'fro goin on there!Check out Chipps's link right now. It's a hoot.
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ThereWolf, Chipps, in America when sports teams make videos proclaiming their greatness or whatnot before the big game has been played, they almost always lose! These scientist's are gonna blow up the planet for sure! Fred starting to pack. Dirk, says he has a hook-up with an off-world type that likes amoebas. Fred can get a job as Dirks batman.
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Fred can ont stay around long tonight, but wanted to say: Hi. Hi.
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... sleep beckons. Tis the booze methinks.
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The rap was a riot. I missed that before. That's pretty much how the Worm song goes. That song has been around for decades, but apparently only in America. Now you and Chipps have been enlightened to a tradtional folk song. "The reason most folk songs are so atrocious is that they were written by the people."-Tom Lehrer
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Is Dirk "Mr. Nastie Bukz" trying to lure you away from us before the 'slosions? Watch out, if his gigolo business dries up he may turn pimp and rent you out to those aliens. He does not seem like the sort of Amoeba to let an opportunity pass him by. Also, "To Serve Man" is a cookbook. Don't forget that!
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night
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Ya know what I mean. :)
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nice
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I come from poor but loud people who love to fill children's heads with disgusting images then send them off to public schools where they can share with less-cultured kids. Traditioooon....tradition!
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Sep 10, 2008 7:28:47 PM CDT
my dad used to him me in front of his friends then proudly say:
by chipps
see that! you can't hurt steel.
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Yup...sounds normal. It sucks being short.
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I'm going to watch it, but Brad Pitt's got nothing to do with it. It's going to fall more into the catagory of 'everyone else but me has seen it'. I'm neutral about Pitt. He's not a draw factor for me.
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triple is the best radio station ever
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who else is still here?
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I'm here and watching Fight Club. How are you this evening?
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it really is a guys movie: just the philosophy of it 'we are a generation of men raised by women'. it holds its self up as braindead violence but it really has a thoughtful core. one major idea is we have all of these THINGS but do they make us happy? we are trapped in jobs we hate in order to buy things we don't need. would we be happier if we just let it all go and did what we wanted to do? only when you have nothing to lose are you truly free. anyway, good movie.
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fucking awesome
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I'm good. By the way I totally know The Hearse Song. The one with the worms. Are you familiar with "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark?" by Alvin Schwartz? They were a series of children's books that collected folk tales songs and urban legends into anthologies that featured the art work of stephen gammell. When I was very young I had a recording of one of these books on tape, and a creepy old dude singing "the worms crawl in, the worms crawl out, the worms play peaknuckle on your snout. They eat your eyes, they eat your nose, they eat the jelly between your toes."
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I approached it thoughtfully the first time, but I just wasnt taken with what it was saying or how it was saying it. How far along are you Mavra?
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when you get a chance, go check out The Chaser on that asian site. HOD sent it to me in the second shipment, and I must say I was very impressed with it. The style and execution of some sequences reminded me of Fincher. I think you will really like it. Totally engrossing.
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But not the taped ones. I do have the one with that song in it too. That philosophy goes for women as well as men. Don't know about the urge to start punching each other, but the trapped by consumerism is not gender specific.
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when ever someone mentions that i cant help but think of the tv show in oz 'the chaser' they are political pranksters, kinda like bill maher or michael moore meets borat. hard to explain. last year we had apec in sydney. george bush came. they hired a limo and put canadian flags on it and had a 'security detail' running along beside it. this allowed them to get waved through the security barricade. they drove right up to the hotel where bush was staying, then the passenger jumped out: a guy dressed up as bin laden. They got in the shit for that. the court case is ongoing. they have a bunch of good ones, getting fake names called over the speaker at an airport 'we are looking for terry wrist. is there a terry wrist in this airport?' it on youtube. good stuff.
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I disappear for the day and I miss a flame war and a whole lotta meaty discussion. Let's try to keep this civil people.I hope we can all have a group hug in the morning.
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did you ever see the ep of Fear Itself called Skin and Bones? The one Mori and Scott wrote? Where Doug Jones played a man posessed by a wendigo spirit? Well, Doug Jones all done up in corpse makeup looked just like those gammell sketches.
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Marla just told him that she knows he hasn't been going to the support groups. I will look for The Chaser. I've watched part of Survive Style 5+, but I put it on in the morning and missed most most of it, so I need to go back and finish it. Speaking of creepy children's books (which I still have a small collection of), have you ever read "Rod Serling's Triple W: WItches Warlocks and Werewolves" (I think I got the order right!) or the Tales of Terror with Boris Karloff's face on the cover (he did the intorduction). Both good choices with some memorable stories. In the Schwatz book, my sister and I used to love to tell each other the stories where there would be a 'gotcha' at the end, like the one where the boy found the toe.
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I'm in bad form tonight! Hod,don't push the group hug. Someone might lose an ear! Jonah, I missed seeing "Fear Itself". I was going through a no-tv phase to wean myself off of CNN political shows. I was kicking myself about it when I heard. Wonder if I can find it online...
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Forget the hydron collider rap. Check this out. Japanese performers doing "We are the world" in full makeup impersonating the original singers, and doing it seriously. WOW.
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that fight club wouldn't/doesn't work as well now as it was released in 99' and is largly centered around a cultural apathy. in 99' people didn't worry about terrorism, there was no war going on - and whether you support the war or not, it has put a huge bee in people's bonnets, driven us back to what it was like during vietnam. again it dosn't matter which side you take, but rather that there are sides and people are so fired up about it. plus there is a real fear of attacks (whether or not the fear represents something real) and we certainly know that there is a group of people out there who hate us and want to destroy us.it is my view that we angleo celtics thrive during a time of war. we have had a big one almost every generation going back over a thousand years. Without an enemy we lose a sense of purpose. i feel it is no coincidence that say grunge rose and was popular immediately after the fall of the berlin wall. the lack of an enemy created an apathy in us, we lost purpose and became culturally depressed and neurotic and again, we get shows like seinfeild. we also start to internalize and we get the xfiles - the enemy is within. point beling that fight club fits into this perfectly. it is a film about our cultural apathy, born in a time when no one had any responsibility and great things were not happening. francis fukiama called this 'the end of history'. Now we live in a time of fear, of war and of political turmoil, where we feel it is hugely important to take sides in the political debate. and i think that diminishes fight club.wow, that was long. sorry guys.
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How did you find that? I was laughing at a couple of the makeup jobs, then realized they were pretty good when seeing how different they were from their true appearances.
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I just found out that they made a TV show based on your favorite movie. Jurassic fight club The first rule of jurassic fight club, you don't eat jurassic fight club.
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now i do feel ill. maybe i just ate too much nandos
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Violence as our purpose does make humanity sound primitive. Do you believe that despite any efforts we make to rise above it, that it's so ingrained into our cultures and our genetic material that we cannot escape? This is a fatalistic view, isn't it? Anthony Burgess is smiling somewhere in the cosmos.
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or even that its the violence per se (we were in a COLD war), but rather that we kinda lose direction without something to hate. when i think about it's a bit like 1984, with obrein and the hate sessions were people go and yell at a tv. more than anything it is a general observation of the type of entertainment we watch in a given period in time. an example would be often stated idea that a lot of what people liked about star wars was that it had very real good guys and bad guys. the bad guys had red light sabers and the good guys had green or blue ones (one wonders what you would do if you were traveling incognito) these movies were made not long after the vietnam war ended. that was a time of moral ambiguity (as is our own time) during vietnam no one knew who the enemy was (both in the sense that you would patrol past civilians who would open fire on you, and in the sense that some people felt the communists were the true enemy and others felt that the enemy was their own govt) in many ways people missed the nazis, as they were clearly evil. i think that starwars and indiana jones taps into this 'nazis, i HATE these guys'. High noon makes less sense when you take it out of the context of mcarthyism. the point is that 'message' movies, and i think fight club is one, make less sense when taken out of time in which they were made. i think this is particularly true of fight club. remember how much upheaval occurred in the entertainment industry after 9/11 (i know that it's trite, obviously worse things happened) so many projects were shit caned because in an instant 'the times' had changed. comedians felt they shouldn't be laughing, a tv show i liked about wall street got the boot. they even bumped a swartznegger movie. I guess the point is some movies (like fight club) exist in a point in time and when you take them out of it they loose something.
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then it exploded. creating everything.
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its the anniversary of the battle of stirling bridge.
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SHE IS HOT!
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SOme of my brethren seem to be straying from the path of righteousness. Let me correct some hideous misconceptions. Escape From LA is a syphilitic turd of a film. If carpenter hadn't lazily remade Assault on Precinct 13 as Ghosts of Mars it would in fact be his worst effort. I love me some Kurt, and Snake is obviously a badass, but that effort is a fucking patchwork quilt of bad ideas. Even Bruce Campbell (In by far the best bit of the movie) can't save it. Only morons like cococcococococolopez try to pretend it's satire. It isn't Moulin Rouge and Chicago are also wretched garbage. But I hate musicals with a vengeance (they just annoy me), so am more than prepared to admit that it might be my taste.
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hows it goin' this morning?
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go up to that video I posted a few blocks above. It's insanity.
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Now, I've never seen any of the pony tailed one's other DTV attempts, so I have no comparison value..First, the dude is fucking huge now. I mean The Bates type huge. I nearly died laughing at on point where he is of course in a fight with a few guys. At one point a guy kicks him and he blocks it with his behemoth sized body. The kick bounces off of him and he then proceeds to clock the guy.Second, the story......luckily they give a nice synapse of "Matt's" life story when he gives confession at one point.Third, he does get to hook up with a sweet piece of ass.Fourth, Vern was absolutely right. No one gets pistol whipped in this one. However, there's a line in the movie along the lines of "You're cremated now muthafucker".And lastly, Lance Hendrickson takes time out of his busy schedule to put in about 3 1/2 minutes work. Good job Lance!
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and if the Brew-crew does their job and wipe out the Phils, Mets take care of the Braves...all will be right in the world...
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this is a shelter from the storm, people. I love a good flame war as much as the next geek, but there are better places for it. Ringy, for example. Did you see the Harry Potter TB where he tried to pretend that the series was a moral vacuum based on Fred and George. He's nuts. And he LARP's (Which is the saddest thing on the planet).
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I saw Darkon a few years ago at the maryland film festival which followed a group of LARPers. My wife and I and some friends went because of the humor potential, but were dismayed to learn that the entire group of Darkon were in attendance, dressed in FULL BATTLE REGALIA and carrying FOAM MACES, SWORDS AND RAPIERS. Some were dressed as GOBLINS and a few wore KILTS. And during the film, I had to keep kicking someone's freakin
foam weponry that he had stowed under the seat, because it kept getting caught about my legs. The guy to my right was a massive type wearing a kilt and we were all pretty sure not only was 100% trashed, hadn't taken a bath since 2000 but he wasn't wearing anything under his kilt. It was a sad, sad evening. -
what is seagal thinking. If you call a film pistol whipped then some cunt had better be pistol whipped What's the Seagal film called when he fights a thai ladyboy. I think it's something like "Belly of the beast" but I can't remember.
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Look at his name- of course he LARP's. I once asked him, in regards to a particularly boneheaded tirade against Jackson, what the fuck he thinks Goblins's should look like and his repy was "It should look exactly like X's illustration on page 47 of Dungeon's and Dragon's handbook 3 volume 2". Saddest post ever.
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you get a chance to check out the ideas and comment over at our other dive?
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did he assume he could have done a better job?
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LARP?
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He's almost fighting weight for a sumo wrestler now...
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Pillow. It's....sad. Look up darkon and you will see what I mean.
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And regarding darkon, I'd rather not after what you mentioned above.
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SEAGAL: You wanna be buried or cremated?
BAD GUY (shot and bloodied): Buried.
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..is Seagal making breakfast for his piece of hot ass the next morning. A true playa' cooks bitches some eggs.
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What's great about that scene is he picks up the dude and throws him into the limo and then shoots the puddle of gas. All while his little girl is running towards him screaming "daddy". Heartwarming.
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The Pony Tail when he tries to hide his fat ass behind the headstones???
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At one point the fat pony tailed one is practicing shooting, and he's able from I don't know, let's see 100 feet away, hit a row of matches with a bullet and make them light up. I repeat, made them light up.Fast forward to later in the movie with the first big shootout with the crooked cops, and he can't hit shit besides their cars. What the fuck fat boy? What happened?
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Pistol Whipped? Sounds like I gave up on Seagal alot sooner than most here. Last thing of his I saw was Fire Down Below, which featured the line "If your father knew how stupid you were, he'd trade you in for a pet monkey."
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It was a fun movie. Production wise it was very well done for straight to DVD shot in Czech Republic crap.
Another great line:
(To a cop.....while standing in a fucking Police Station!)
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on the roster for everyone, movie wise this weekend?
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Lance is the head of this mysterious organization that hires Seagal to do hits on people.
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I'm gonna try and catch it this weekend. Its the only DeNiro movie I've been interested in in a long loooooooong time.
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Not too far from where I live.
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It's like his home or something.
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Really?!! Hahaha.
I just figure everything Seagal does is Czech.......thats what Connecticut looks like? The architecture looks Eastern European. Who the hell gave Seagal the cash to shoot in the states? Maybe they took it out of his budget for a personal trainer. -
Hawaiian's Asian pack movies. Probably also try and take a look at Across the Universe and I'll probably get Margot at the Wedding this weekend as well.
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...by his little Asian side-kick? That shit was fucking crazy.
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We have a wedding to go to, I have a business related meeting tomorrow night, and my wife has a shower to attend on Sunday and she roped us into a 9 mile hike on saturday morning. So, with the remaining time the film plan is : Burn After Reading, the rest of Wedding Campaign, After Hours, Going by the Book, Open City and The Fall.
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The Host, and I may rewatch the Die Hard movies. I watched Day Watch last night, and was seriously "meh" about it. I just don't rate either night watch or it's sequel.
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they give to the filming industry to try and beef up the amount of films done here: witness Indy 4 which filmed in New Haven (University of Yale served as the backdrop)And that is not symbolic of what CT looks like, more
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As I was saying, it's not symbolic of what CT looks like. CT is more 'country like'.
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...that city looked very industrial/urban....and had those high cathedral like towers. It looked cool.
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and then popping the dude who should "call an ambulance"? Bad boy Stevie! (the character, not fatso)
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Awwww...you didn't say WHO shanked the priest though.
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as a year in film. My choices are somewhere up above, but here they are again, to restart the conv.How bout everyone else's list?
• Altered States
• Atlantic City
• The Big Red One
• The Blues Brothers
• City Of Women
• Coal Miner's Daughter
• The Elephant Man
• The Empire Strikes Back
• The Fog
• Gloria
• The Gods Must Be Crazy
• Kagemusha
• The Long Good Friday
• Melvin and Howard
• Ordinary People
• Raging Bull
• The Shining
• Tess
• The Stunt Man
• Superman II
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Very, very distinctive in terms of architecture. I went to Prague in the late 1990's and it was great. They sell "KGB: STILL WATCHING YOU" T-shirts. Which I think is hilarious. Unbelievably, last night I decided to stay in and watch Day Watch rather than going to the pub and watching England and the unreliable bastards won 4-1. Sodding typical.
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I thought those moments with Seagal and the girl worked surprisingly well. At first, when he takes her to the aquarium I was kinda tense-- thinking, oh fuck he's gonna snap this chicks neck.....but I calmed down once he softened up a little.
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The worst that could have happened is they lost, BUT you would have had a number of adult beverages. Instead you get a "meh" viewing experience.
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He just bragged about the ridiculous amount of arse he got over there. Some paid for...some free. He said the paid stuff was much better quality though.
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The watch movies were interesting conceptually, but ultimately, I agree with your assessment of meh.
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Airplane!
Any Which Way You Can
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Is it cool? I really liked The Hobbit cartoon with all that weird folk music.
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It basically tells only the last part of the LOTR. I assume this might have to do wth the fact that between the hobbit and this one, Bakshi did his LOTR that covered FOTR and Two Towers. The ROTK cartoon is of a piece with the hobbit cartoon. I liked it, personally.
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and great classics, 81 was a year of great B-pictures and cult classics. It's no less great, however. Seriously, to get years like these back to back, amazing. A good chunk of the stuff on this list defines my childhood.
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Wasn't that part of a song too?Like Jonah said, it's like the Hobbit cartoon. I'm sure you'd like it Danny.
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• An American Werewolf in London
• Arthur
• Chariots of Fire
• Clash of the Titans
• Das Boot
• Dragonslayer
• Escape from New York
• Excalibur
• The Evil Dead
• Gallipoli
• The Great Muppet Caper
• The Road Warrior
• Mephisto
• On Golden Pond
• Outland
• Prince of the City
• Ragtime
• Raiders of the Lost Ark
• Time Bandits
• Wolfen
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that I forgot: Supes II and The Fog. ooooohhhhhh Adrienne....
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Sep 11, 2008 10:05:31 AM CDT
I actually like the Gollum design in the cartoon....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
...better than Jackson's design. I liked him more reptilian.
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and the ring of Doom!"
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Crowe Writes Appeal On Snoop's Behalf
Latest: Russell Crowe recently pleaded with Australian authorities to grant his "friend" Snoop Dogg entry into the country.The Gladiator star, who lives in Australia, sent a letter to the Immigration Department earlier this month arguing for the approval of the rapper's visa application.
Snoop Dogg - real name Cordozar Calvin Broadus - was initially denied entry in August 2007 because of his criminal record, which includes drug and firearm offences dating back to 1990.
But Crowe, a friend of Snoop's for the last three years, maintained the hitmaker deserved to be allowed to bring his tour Down Under later this year.
He wrote: "I write this letter on behalf of a friend of mine... I submit to you that Snoop Dogg poses no threat to Australia or to any individual in this country.
"He has toured here three times before without incident and there are no reasons to assume this tour will be anything but the positive experience the last three have been.
"Snoop has built a stellar reputation with promoters and audiences worldwide."
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I'm not joking about this as well. If you give a fuck about this film, stop reading now. The concept of Night and Day Watches is a great idea. However, who the fuck are these "Inquisition" punks that just pitch up randomly? If they have 2 police forces then why have they got a third. And how are Vampires different from "Others"? Also, THe Gloom is a great idea, but having established that you can go to different levels in "The GLoom" depending on how much of a badass you are they did nothing with it. And the whole magic chalk/ reset button pissed me off. Really, it is a great concept that just seems to peter out leaving an overall flatness. And these aren't nitpicks- these are major fucking plot points. It just doesn't make sense (a problem I also have with some of their powers- swapping bodies? WTF and is Olga still a "Great one" even though she was imprisoned for ages), how come Zavulon and Geyser are so much harder than anyone else. And given that they are so much tougher than the rest, then what's the big deal with "Great Ones". And how did everyone remember him after he'd used the chalk? Not thought through.
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the list I looked at for 80 included it, but as it turns out I think it was actually 81. Either way, it would make the list.
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Raiders, Das Boot, Stripes, American Werewolf in London, Excalibur, Dragonslayer, Time Bandits, Clash of the Titans, Taps, Escape from NY, Evil Dead, The Howling, Road Warrior, Wolfen
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I don't even need to do one. I have yet to see Das Boot.
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starring George Hamilton.
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there are other issues, but you have nailed the big ones and **SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER**
the chalk is a giant reset button. I wanted to see Anton forced to win back his son, but it doesn't happen. It's wierd in that I really dig the characters, but it's the plot thats disjointed beyond belief, and keeps you from really caring because of the arbitrary nature of the whole thing. Really, those last twenty minutes, what the heck was actually happening, save for that chalk wrap-up, that I understood. But by then it felt like A Wonderful Russian Life. ***end SPOILER.*** -
really lay the foundation for alot of the genre stuff we see today. Evil Dead. EFNY. Road Warrior. Raiders.And then we had great stuff like Outland and Clash of the Titans, which aren't appreciated enough. And Time Bandits and Dragonslayer! Both containing the last performances of Sir Ralph Richardson. And both of those movies totally rock!
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It's quite good.
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The FogEmpire Strikes BackAltered StatesBig Red OneThe ShiningWith winks in the general direction of Galaxina, Humanoids From The Deep, Airplane and The Dogs Of War.
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....and if thats not Oscar hand-job I don't know what is. Its still a fantastic/ sad ass movie.
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Sep 11, 2008 10:26:12 AM CDT
holy fucking shit....Golden Pond made 119 million?!
by dannyglovers_dickblood
Second highest grossing film of the year behind Raiders, which made 209!! Fuck me thats crazy.
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Sadly I've never seen Humanoids from the Deep.
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Das BootEscape From New YorkRaiders Of The Lost ArkAn American Werewolf In LondonWolfenAlso - Time Bandits, Outland, Clash Of The Titans, The Hand, Scanners, The Howling, The Beyond, Galaxy Of Terror and The Final Conflict.
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Is so bad it's good! And it's got gratuitous nudity in it which is never a bad thing.
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It has been spoken lovingly by DocP.Doug fucking McClure.
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man.....I fucking love tits.
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48 Hours, Beastmaster, Blade Runner, Conan, Dark Crystal, E.T., Fast Times at Ridgemont High, First Blood, Poltergeist, Wrath of Khan, The Thing, Tron
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but I love Doug McClure even more. Is that normal or should I seek help?
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Normal.
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How much would you love McClure if he was actually a woman with a massive set of cans?
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... that would be equitable. But Pillow's right, Doug has got nice tits anyway.
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does indeed rock. Avoid the remake the same way you would avoid an obese 80 year old rent boy.
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Of Humanoids? Say it ain't so!
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and it sucks. There isn't even any nudity.
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lots of great stuff. hard to limit it. Even though this is widely regarded the best year(or at least best summer) in context of the first two years of the 80s, it's very good but pretty much in keeping with the trend of strong films. It would blow away any year in the 90s, but in the 80s it fits in nicely.
• Blade Runner
• Creepshow
• Conan the Barbarian
• The Dark Crystal
• Diner
• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
• Fanny and Alexander
• First Blood
• Gandhi
• Missing
• My Favorite Year
• An Officer and a Gentleman
• Pink Floyd The Wall
• Poltergeist
• The Secret of NIMH
• Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
• The Thing
• Tootsie
• Trail of the Pink Panther
• Tron
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The Beastmaster
48 Hours
Blade Runner
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
First Blood
An Officer and a Gentleman
The Secret of NIMH
The Toy
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Sep 11, 2008 10:57:08 AM CDT
its funny, there is a lot less debate with this 80s....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
...everyone knows the good shit and sticks to it.
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When I look at the 1982 lists, all I can see is The Thing. I am blinded by The Thing. The Thing is all.
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Now imagine The Thing with tits.......how does that make you feel?
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Blade RunnerThe ThingThe Road WarriorPoltergeistForbidden WorldAnd also - Wrath Of Khan, The Entity, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid, Halloween 3: Season Of The Witch, Parasite, Cat People, Android, Conan and The Sender. Oh. And Dead & Buried.
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Not when it was in human form, of course, because then I choose to imagine it would look just like Eliza Dushku. But once I had figured out its little secret, and possibly done the hot wire blood test on it, it would freak out like crazy and grow a whole bunch of additional tits, a couple of random dog faces, and maybe a few extra fannys, too.Christ, I just arrived and things have already taken a turn for the weird.
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did you join the group yet? Waiting for you.
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WTF? yuck.
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... also sprouting a dozen Doug McClure heads. Mmmmm...
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Imagine Wilford Brimly...with tits.
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Are you thinking just the ass and cheeks or actual additional anus holes for entry? If it is indeed the latter....then your vision is truly fascinating. Fuck John McCain...you sir are a Maverick!
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I love the Secret of Nimh. Almost as much as I love the masterpiece that is Watership Down.
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good call There. I love that movie, just wasnt enough room on the list. What's wrong with Officer and a Gentleman, Jarv?
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Another one of my loves....along with Kurt Russell, Bruce Campbell, and Costner-- I also love all things Gere.
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is IMO, the greatest animated film of all time. The animation is good, sure.....but I'm talking story and voice acting. It will never get better.
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The work server is being a slag and won't let me on to zhura. As soon as I can I'll be back on there. It's driving me nuts actually.
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I don't rightly unnerstand it yet, for I am a simple man. Give me a while to nose around and get a feel for the place.I do take my hat off for the Egg Shen reference, though. That is one of my favourite films.
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In England, 'fanny' is the word you use for what Americans call a pussy when you're a kid.Front bum. Virginia. Pink Taco. Etc.
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sssshhhhhhhh.......hush yourself sir. No details here.
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compared with those first three. It's a decent year, with some great films but you can start to see more foreign films becoming prominent(a good thing) and a lack of really good genre films. Might have just been a year where things were going into production and not ready. If I recall, 84 was a good genre year. Was this the point where hollywood started concentrating on sequels as opposed to original stuff? Some vapid sequels in 83. Here's the top 20, not quite as good as the other years.
• A Christmas Story
• The Big Chill
• Blue Thunder
• The Dead Zone
• Le Dernier Combat
• Educating Rita
• El Norte
• Entre Nous
• Koyaanisqatsi
• Local Hero
• National Lampoon's Vacation
• The Outsiders
• The Right Stuff
• Rumble Fish
• The Scarlet and The Black
• Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
• Testament
• Twilight Zone: The Movie
• Zelig
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and I'm not a gere fan. At all. The man makes so many shit films it's untrue.
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Awwww really? I thought fanny was always ass. I will say the prospect of extra assholes was much more exciting.
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I left you a message.
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What the fuck are you talking about?
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KRULL!! KRULL!! KRULL!!
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I was kidding Franklin......Jonah shall explain on the thing. We try to be covert.
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The KeepSomething Wicked This Way ComesThe Dead ZoneLocal HeroThe Right StuffBubbling under - Return Of the Jedi, The Hunger, Nightmares, Q The Winged Serpent, Biohazard, Christine, Stage Fright, Scarface, Britannia Hospital, The Day After, Brainstorm, Krull, Xtro, Videodrome, Of Unknown Origin.
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Other than Krull and Jedi...I won't bother.
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I ain't sayin' nuffink.
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too..Nightmares was fun...And I am so wrong for missing Something Wicked This Way Comes!!! I completely forgot that one!!
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wonderful. Absolutely wonderful.
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Schlock you say! Have at you, Jonah! Inventive, I say!
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Bachelor Party
Beverly Hills Cop
Ghostbusters
Gremlins
Greystoke
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Johnny Dangerously
The Karate Kid
The Last Starfighter
Meatballs 2
Missing in Action
The NeverEnding Story
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Once Upon a Time in America
Police Academy
Purple Rain
Red Dawn
Revenge of the Nerds
Romancing the Stone
Silent Night, Deadly Night
Sixteen Candles
Top Secret!
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and 83 wasn't bad. It seems every decade has had more good than bad with this one being the exception-so far. And there is only 2009 left to save it. I'll take a large bet on 2009 sucking horribly- Wolverine? WTF?
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The TerminatorThis Is Spinal TapBuckaroo BanzaiStarmanGhostbustersI think I should change... no! Stick with it. Also, Temple Of Doom, Once Upon A Time In America, Philadelphia Experiment, 2010, Dreamscape, The Killing Fields, Runaway, Night Of The Comet, Dune, Razorback, Impulse, CHUD and Nightmare On Elm Street. And Birdy.
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"We've got to get the women out of the army. We've got to recreate the warrior culture."
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I like a couple of films he's been involved with, but that guy needs to get his own personality. Just because Ernest Hemingway is dead, that is no justification for stealing his entire persona and adopting it as his own.No doubt, Milius's wife will one day find his head decorating one of the downstairs rooms. You know he's thought about it.
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...before I read more about him just now. I didn't realize he is a hardcore right wing war-monger obsessed with guns and war. I just figure anyone coming out of the old Zoetrope days would be a cool mother fucker, but Milius seems like a prick. Carroll Ballard is a much cooler dude.
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"We've got to get the women out of the army. We've got to recreate the warrior culture." Are you sure that isn't a joke? It looks like a joke to me.
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...but if you read more about his interests and shit, it seems like a serious statement.
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Pillows- I've just finished reading an artice on the Mets and some dude called Degado. The article seemed to think he'd sucked all season, but turned it around recently, and was therefore responsibe for the Mets current good form and a shoe-in for MVP. This sounds like horseshit to me, seeing as he was utter crap for 93 fucking games, according to the journalist, but is it true?
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Another great year. Pained me to leave off Streets of Fire and the Repo Man. Oh well.
• Amadeus
• The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai
• Blood Simple
• The Company of Wolves
• Ghostbusters
• Gremlins
• Greystoke - The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
• The Killing Fields
• Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
• The NeverEnding Story
• Once Upon A Time In America
• Paris, Texas
• A Passage to India
• Dreamscape
• Romancing the Stone
• Starman
• Stranger Than Paradise
• The Terminator
• This Is Spinal Tap
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hehehehehe.
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"Many people think “Apocalypse Now” is an anti-war movie, and there are certain attitudes that are sort of anti-war, but it’s a very pro-American soldier movie at the same time. I felt it was futile to make an anti-war movie; it’s like making an anti-rain movie."
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Milius is a pretty conservative, cigar chomping NRA type guy. Also, it's worth remembering he wrote Conan The Barbarian and took it very, very seriously. His original ending for Apocalypse Now was Willard and Kurtz teaming up to fight off the entire American army while making pompous speeches about warriors and whatnot.So, no, I don't think he's joking.
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Streets Of Fire. Good one, Jonah. Pretend that's on mine as well.Food time...
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Apparently, Milius was the inspiriation for John Goodman's character in The Big Lebowski. I had never thought of that before, but now I do it makes perfect sense."This... is what you get... when you fuck another man in the ass!"
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Now thats a fucking pic!
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...on him. What the fuck?!
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Sep 11, 2008 12:31:20 PM CDT
Hell, I can get you a toe by 3 o'clock this afternoon...
by franklin t marmoset
With nail polish. These fucking amateurs...
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from the look of that pic he was also the inspiration for the bounty hunter from Raising Arizona.
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The chinaman is not the issue here, Dude. I'm talking about drawing a line in the sand, Dude. Across this line, you DO NOT... Also, Dude, chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature. Asian-American, please.
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Nobody is going to cut your dick off. Not if I have anything to say about it.
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When you're basically just spamming the board with quotes from The Big Lebowski, it is time to head home.Cheers, AICN types. Fuck, it's tipping down outside...
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Sep 11, 2008 12:40:29 PM CDT
I'm going to start a FRIENDS OF JOHN MILIUS....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
group. Who the fuck is in?!!
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Its gonna be you and Joe Ezterhaus and that might be it.
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Sep 11, 2008 12:42:05 PM CDT
you calls yourselves men?! Then join the fucking group!!
by dannyglovers_dickblood
Come on-- he is on the NRA's Board of Directors and he has two nicknames; THE DOG TRAINER, and VIKING MAN.
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Sep 11, 2008 12:43:46 PM CDT
me, Ezterhaus, and Milius would paint this town RED!!
by dannyglovers_dickblood
If its just the three of us-- thats more ass to go around. And I guarantee you Friends of John Milius go straight for the butthole!!
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please tell me you are kidding about the nicknames.Are those real? I sort of hope they are.
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Is one of the original founders of the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
Currently serves on the Public Affairs and Shotgun Committe in the NRA.
Considers himself a "zen anarchist".
Made an honorary member of the Sioux Nation, after his filming of The Rough Riders.
Notable quotes:
"I love the bomb. It's sort of a religious totem to me. Like the plague in the Middle Ages, it's the hand of God coming out indiscriminantly to snatch you."
"I'm a very efficient director - it's my training in military tactics. I've trained my whole life to be a general but I never could. So I became the next best thing, a movie director."
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You can read this tomorrow morning...It's actually very true since there are no dominant performances from players this year in the league the Mets are in. There are a couple of guys (Howard, Pujols) from teams that will probably miss out on the playoffs. Generally, MVP's don't come from non-playoff teams. Delgado has had a remarkable 2 1/2 months, so it's not out of the question that he could win it.
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...so I dunno. You never can know whats real online. There is no damn biography on him either-- I've been hunting for it!
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I sent you a message.
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1983 - Bad Boys (Sean Penn version), Christine, Dead Zone, National Lampoon's Vacation, Outsiders, Return of the Jedi, Scarface, Trading Places, Wargames1984 - Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai (haven't see this in years), Beverly Hills Cop, Ghostbusters, Gremlins, Temple of Doom, Last Starfighter, The Natural, Red Dawn, Revenge of the Nerds, TerminatorIt seems I'm pretty heavy into comedies during these two years compared to other years..
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They should have gotten John Milius to write and direct it. I hear he is pretty easy to book, you just have to pay him in antique rifles and large ice chests packed with raw hamburger meat.
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missed that one. Eddie fucking dominated the 80s. I always thought Eddie and Don Ameche should have teamed up for a gang-bang vid. They could have called it PASTING FACES, with a VHS cover that plays off the Trading Places one sheet, and features Eddie and Don standing back to back with nice suits and holding a wad of cash. It could have been Eddie, Don + 90 lucky women. Of course 90, representing the total box office take (in millions) for Trading Places back in '83.
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There has been a Rickey Henderson sighting over in the new Transformers TB.
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Another awesome year. Lots of comfort food on this list.
• After Hours
• Back to the Future
• Brazil
• Cat's Eye
• The Purple Rose of Cairo
• A Chorus Line
• Cocoon
• The Color Purple
• Enemy Mine
• Explorers
• Fright Night
• The Goonies
• Kiss of the Spider Woman
• Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
• Prizzi's Honor
• Ran
• Runaway Train
• Subway
• 28 Up
• Witness
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One of my favorite 80s films. That thing is not one bit dated. I caught it recently and it still looks great.
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I'm all for turning a TF thread into a sports one...
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BrazilLifeforcePale RiderThe Emerald ForestBack To The FutureA few more - Warning Sign, Trancers, Explorers, Ghoulies, The Company Of Wolves, Enemy Mine, The Sure Thing, Better Off Dead, The Stuff, Weird Science, The Quiet Earth, Legend, The Goonies, Demons, Breakfast Club and Silverado.I dedicate Quiet Earth to our crazy Hadron rapping friends at CERN!
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Back to the Future, Better of Dead, Breakfast Club, Commando, Fright Night, Goonies, Live and Die in L.A., Real Genius, Weird Science, WitnessI hate to admit it, but I've never seen Brazil.
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never seen Brazil!!! Netflix that badboy IMMEDIATELY.
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where are you getting your lists...I didnt have pale rider, emerald forest, quiet earth or silverado on mine, and all of those would have made the cut.
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An old movie note book I used to keep!
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sigh...
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...great great original score too. Brazil is interesting. Everyone should see-- but I don't really fancy it. Its a little too dreamy for me.
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I just read an article in a travel mag about William Wordsworth and the "Lake Poets." They had some amazing pics of the Lake District, in England. I had never seen most of these place. Beautiful land....just beautiful.
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Bang on, Danny. Tis truly a stunning and peaceful place. If you ever visit, though, be sure to bring an umbrella. It's the only place I know where you can be looking at a clear blue sky with the sun beating down - five minutes later you're drenched! It pisses down out of nowhere.
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and drive everyone fucking nuts with all the third person conversations.
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like you used to keep track of the movies you saw? that's a cool idea.
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...to keep track of the movies I watch. Just thought it'd be neat to look at. But I keep forgetting. FUCK!!
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I thought the punchline was: And existence folds unto itself, bringing an end to the Age of the CoC.
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It keeps track of your entire rental history, even if you had stopped for a while.
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Yeh, found it awhile back, pages falling out, bad handwriting... Used to rent VHS tapes years back and I just jotted stuff down. Wish I had a better memory of some of these movies as well.
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As it's the 9/11 anniversary, I put on the documentary which is on the 'United 93' DVD. It's the one where some of the actors go to meet the families of victims in preparation for the film.Very moving. The first guy on is in bits.I still remember that day. A mate ringing me and saying "You'd better switch your telly on..." I couldn't take it in, I was like "This is a film, right?" - just standing there in the middle of the room.And then the news showed footage of people jumping out of the building. The strength went out of my legs at that point.
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Since you saw fit to ignore my other post to you I thought I would try again. That hurt man, but the first cut is always the deepest. How goes it with you? Time travelling seems to be on hold for now eh? Clan Orcus doing well? Is the little Orcling Orcaling about?
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should snoop dog stay at home, but we should also kick that fat arse new zealand fuck russel crowe out as well.
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i really wanna see Secret of Nimh and watership down. i read the books as a kid and loved them (nimh was one of my favourites - how can you not like a story about a society of supersmart rats). I nearly got to nimh one time, but the big kids insisted on wedlock. at least i got to see exploding heads.
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There's a series of books out called MOVIES OF THE (insert decade). They've done every decade from 1920 up to 1990. The publisher is Taschen and they feature a selection of films, not always the obvious ones, with plenty of stills and informative text. They really are good looking books. Check them out if you've not seen them already. Recommended.
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Not in order. 1.The Elephant Man 2. The Empire Strikes Back 3. The Changeling 4. Look Back In Anger 5. Windwalker 6. Friday the 13th 7. The Fly 8. Airplane 9. The Shining 10. The Blues Blues Brothers
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when the hell is Ong Bak 2 getting here?!?!?!?!?!
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1. Evil Dead 2. Raiders of the Lost Ark 3. Clash of the Titans 4. Arthur 5. On Golden Pond 6. An American Werewolf in London 7. Escape From New York 8. Excaliber 9. Dragonslayer 10. History of the World, Part 1 I actually had trouble finding enough for a personal top 10 for 1980, but for 1981, I had trouble limiting it to only 10.
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I overlooked Elephant Man, ashamed to say.
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1981? 1982? 1983? I ended up missing it off altogether because I couldn't decide what year it came out!
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1. The Wrath of Khan 2. Ghandi 3. Blade Runner 4. Deathtrap 5. Tootsie 6. The Last Unicorn 7. Poltergeist 8. Britannia Hospital 9. Shoot the Moon 10. The Thing (last, but truly first)
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I'm cheating a little. I found a website called awesome80s with long movie listings by year. How are your atoms today?
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Does any of us actually know how our atoms are today? As far as I'm aware the atoms are fine but then CERN would say that wouldn't they! How are you?Pleased to see Britannia Hospital up there. I dropped it a mention before.
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I'm a fan of all 3 Mick Travis movies. I can watch them over and over. I keep hoping that my molecules will rearrange themselves into something more interesting than the current state, but no luck so far. Maybe I'm too far away from Geneva.
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Have a good time and some drinks with friends?
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we're all dead. this is purgatory. like on lost.
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Gonna have to sign off. Something wrong with the connection - keeps booting me off!I had a good time and a drink!Hope your connection's better than mine. Later...
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1. Blue Thunder 2. A Christmas Story 3. The Dead Zone 4. Twilight Zone: The Movie 5. Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence 6. Something Wicked This Way Comes 7. Strange Invaders 8. Scarface 9. Christine 10. Wargames
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You rate going to purgatory? Good for you! I took the Dante's Inferno test ages ago and I'm a lost cause. Dare to try it? http://www.4degreez.com/misc/dante-inferno-test.mv
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I'm not a religious person.
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1. The Killing Fields 2. Gremlins 3. Ghostbusters 4. Sixteen Candles 5. The Terminator 6. The Last Starfighter 7. Big 8.
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8. 1984 9. A Nightmare on Elm Street 10. The Company of Wolves
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get drunk and punching people really kills you on that test though.
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Of the Corn". After watching it for the first time (on tv), I was mimicking a few of the lines for my mom and sister. "Malachi...He wants you too, Malachi!" (in my best raspy voice) was barely out of my mouth when there was a 'pop' and the power went out. We had no lights for several hours. It's been a family joke ever since.
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They are very particular. You can get condemmed for thoughts! Still going to purgatory? I think I qualified for at least 2 or 3 of the lower levels...maybe more.
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though i also got high on lust full thoughts. i don't know how else to type that. i didn't high anyway.
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With this group, you will not be alone in that circle.
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i think i'm going blind!
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does that mean that they like, put all the lustful people in this big room together? wouldn't that end up like a swingers party?
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The original schematics of the 7 circles may not have been so well thought out after all, for long-range incarceration. Those places should also be pretty crowded by now. Party on, dude.
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i imagine this one ring of hell filled with drunk people brawling. possibly populated mostly by the irish.
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would possibly look like a typical high school. That is terrifying! The brawling one might be fun. Hey, if you're already dead, how much damage can really be done to you? Hey...we may have just come back around to last night's conversation! Ha!
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1. Fright Night 2. LadyHawke 3. Silverado 4. Pale Rider 5. Back to the Future 6. Ran (now that I've finally seen it!) 7. Lifeforce 8. Kiss of the Spider Woman 9. Murphy's Romance 10. Brazil
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You saw Ran!Did you like the whole noh theatre make-up on a few of the characters, and how it emphasized their characteristics? Also, I love the court jester character too.
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I obviously had the wrong version of "The Fly". I'm replacing it with "Altered States".
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Yes I did and Kyoami was my favorite character also. I didn't know until I got it that it was based on "King Lear" or I might have looked for it sooner. It was great. I like the scene where Hidetora has been 'invited' back to the castle to sign the oath and begins to realize what he's done. The venom in his daughter-in-law is very well played out.
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now there's a movie!
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Go forth with that one, pronto!
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I proposed a thought on the other site, if you are interested.
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Beware of the 7 circles of Hell, though Chipps and I are doing our darndest to make them less intimidating and more like a potential party central. Sorry you asked now? :)
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Isn't that whole sentence redundant?
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I'm not even sure if it's a sentence.
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Brawling, drunken zombies could be of any nationality, but Irish ones would have cool accents. They would also have to be wary of their shillelagh's rotting and falling off. Ouch.
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I have already seen an irish zombie comedy, it was called Boy Eats Girl(it sucked). But there weren't any drunken irish zombies.
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I just finished the first episode after the two hour pilot. Any fans here? I have been interested in the show for years but I wanted to start from the beginning. so far, I like it!
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everyone is saved by a giant space leprechaun
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I put it there right before you got here. For once I am ahead of the game.
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I have all of the box sets. It's the only series I watch regularly.
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I'm a Lost fan. Welcome aboard and enjoy the ride. DVD is the way to go, with Lost.
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definatly my favourite show at the moment. i also like supernatural.
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save for The Office, Lost is the only thing I follow, and I can honestly say, for the only time, ever Ive been following a show from it's very first episode. That pilot was terrific. It really got you into the show. Yea, kungfu, the series is definitely worth watching. As far as Im concerned its going on season 5 and still going strong.
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the pilot was the most expensive pilot ever filmed? the guy who greenlit it got fired. I'd say he's doing well for himself though
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that could be something we could all maybe discuss once I've seen more.
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like every other day here.
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hows it going over there? forgive me, but where exactly are you at the moment? I know you said, but I seem to have forgotten where you are stationed.
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Camp Lemonier in the wonderful city of Djibouti in the nation of the same name.
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i looked it up on google earth. it looks like seems to be a happening place.
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will be cold and wet, hoochied up in the rain forest at cunnungra. at least it is only three days. plus it's kinda fun
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I sent you a message over at our other hangout.
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i'm in the reserves. all a bit of fun.
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okay I'm going ovr.
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if you are around. I have NEVER understood the scene in platoon where they get over run at night. 1)was it junior or charlie sheen who was in the wrong 2) we never ever have single man piquets, we call them dead man piquet and may do them if we have to guard a packet of fruit loops and haven't been issued weapons. why the fuck was there only one guy on piquet and does that ever happen?
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No things like that don't happen. Ops are two man gigs. I'm with you, the scene was confusing but I think that was the point, to disorient the audience. If it was in real life the whole thing was so poorly set up that they would have been over run in just a few moments. The fighting positions were to far apart to cover each other, no interlocking fields of fire and no crew served weapons were in evidence and no grenidiers either. No wonder they had the shit kicked out of them.
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you'd think the set up would be better considering stone was in vietnam though
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hehehehe
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maybe it's over-exposure to the English Countryside because of where I grew up and where my family tends to live, but the countryside does less than nothing for me. I had to drive through the lake district once a week when I was at Uni (long story, won't explain why), and I invariably did it at dawn. After the first few times when the sunrise caught me with a "wow" I just got used to it. I actually started to recognise it as the long downhill bit of the M6 where I could get my little warhorse up over 100 mph. The same goes for the Peak District and The Cotswalds- although the scottish Highlands are still genuinly fucking impressive. There are bits of the country that can knock me out, (the snake pass between sheffield and manchester that crosses The peak district and Ladybower reservoir- where they filmed The Dambusters- is a fucking incredible looking place, especially when the fog comes down), but as a rule, I'm a bit nonplussed by the countryside.BTW- Wordsworth is an overrated establishment hack. Coleridge was the talent.
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Are the mets likely to make the Play offs?
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Both you sumbitches have the best names for things in the world. Bravo.The Scottish Highlands are on my list of things to see next time I'm in Great Britian. Don't know when ever the hell that will be. Australia is also on that list, never been but I want to. I need to surf some big Australian waves before I die.
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The Mets have a two game lead in their division and are playing well. If they don't pull a massive choke job like they did last season they are in good shape to make the post season. Either as their divison champs or maybe the wild card.
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and I don't know why, as it hits a lot of my buttons. I think I don't like the cock-teasing. Give me some resolution
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I seem to remember Harvey Keitel getting cleaned out in Bad Lieutenant because he was betting on the Mets.
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i'm off like a bucket of prawns on a hot dayand Xi i was looking up arizona the other day and it looked beautiful.
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Last year the Mets melt down was one of the worst in the history of Baseball and maybe in all of American sports. Mostly the Mets have been mediocre. They won the World series in 1969 and 1986 but between times they were okay to very bad.
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Later on man. Yeah there are a lot of really beautiful places in Arizona. If you ever come over to America give it a go. If you ever want some suggestions for some off beat places to see hit me up.
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man this TB is getting unwieldy. I wonder if there is a new topic worth hijacking.
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If you say you didn't cry to that when you were a kid, then you're lying. It's a masterpiece.
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Hallelujah, Halleujah CAN I HAVE A HALLELUJAH. But it does beg the question: without ANimalFascist and Memories, who am I going to flame?
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That happened like two days ago. I opened an article and I saw one guy spamming the TB and MoM had two posts on it. When I opened the TB itself, inorder to unleash many sheep copulation jokes at MoMs expenses, MoM and the spammer were gone.
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I wouldn't be surprised to discover that the mods had used the spamming as an excuse to unleash a ban exocet on him. Please be permanent this time.
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Clan Orcus is fine, thanks for asking. Yep Orcus is just wandering around the Tb's nowadays. Orcus seems to be wasting alot of time on Facebook playing that MobWars game so that's why he's been a bit scarce. :) Orcus is still trying to piece together his nuking and might have found a possible reason and it was really bizarre if that was the case, but thinks it's unlikely
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and Myspace and the rest of them. It's just horrible "Look I have 95million friends" culture. Yuck.
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Orcus now does IT work for an Ivy League school and Facebook is a friggin way of life there and so Orcus tried it out. When they added MobWars and D&D apps, that got Orcus hooked because you and your friends can now beat on other folks who play. Hehehe
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AICN is enough for me.
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Seriously, the kids here eat that shit up like it's the greatest thing in the world seeing what their friends did that day. Orcus is still waiting for the entry:"Took a huge dump today, had to crack it with a stick to flush"
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"Woke up, had wank. Then 8 Brekfst" I hate txtspeak- and facebook just encourages it. Is it that hard to type in "you" rather than "u"
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Jarv is the real man of the bunch. Even something as simple and innocent as the beautiful English countryside and Jarv responds OH FUCK THOSE FUCKING CUNT MOTHERFUCKERS!! TWATS!! WANKERS!! I'M NOT IMPRESSED BY JACK SHIT!! Hehehehee.
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That is a shame. I always liked that guy, so comically pompous and not quite gramatically correct. Also, he seemed to always annoy Jarv (like so many other things), and the ensuing agruments were usually good for a few chuckles.Come back soon, MOM.
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I would read people argue with MoM once in a great while, and it was always funny as piss.
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two different people when he posted, like he had multiple users for his account. One post he stated that English was his second language when there were grammatical error, then there were days he was quite eloquent. Did anyone else pick up on that?
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What is the topic?
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Yeah I noticed that too. Sometimes he sounded straight off the boat-- and I asked him where he was from and he would ignore me and go away for a few hours. Then he would return and sound completely different. Weird. Maybe they were two college dormmates or something.
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Fred has heard of you. Toadkillerdog called you a mystic. Just Pillow Talk said you are a time traveller. Are you the first third person speaker?
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Sep 12, 2008 9:58:35 AM CDT
Proposed topic: What's the nerdiest thing you own?
by franklin t marmoset
I was thinking about this while selecting clean pyjamas last night, and I decided the T-Shirt I picked out (a burgundy Sunnydale T-Shirt as worn by attendees of Sunndydale High School) was the nerdiest thing I owned. Also, I have an action figure of Butters from South Park, but that was a gift from a friend so I reckon it doesn't count.Come on, some of you must have some nerdier crap than that.
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that was meant to sound jaundiced rather than angry. Hmph. Mind you, I have got a very, very short fuse. On that note, I hope memories is festering in the 9th circle of ban hammer hell and is being repeatedly sodomised by the rotting corpse of Emmerich's Godzilla whilst Mikey bay repeatedly beats one out in his face and PWS Anderson screams "YOU LOVE IT YOU FILTHY LITTLE BITCH, LICK MIKEY'S HUGE HOLLYWOOD BALLS, LICK THEM BITCH" to a soundtrack composed of the score to every Renny Harlin film. This is the only punishment I feel suitable for the dirty little cockchafer. And no, Orcus, I was always convinced he was just one person.
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It would have been just perfect if you said it all happened to a soundtrack composed by Hans Zimmer.
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http://tinyurl.com/3mcknhI was nosing around on The Movie Blog site today and stumlbed onto the date the 'other' Danny Glover's Dickblood posted. It's become a bit of a running joke over there, everyone is so impressed with how funny the name is.Check it out if you like.
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I'm not really into the whole merchandise angle. I own a few Lego Star Wars ships, an Ash bobble-head, and Star Wars Christmas tree ornaments I put on my tiny tree at work. Oh-- and I have the Green Destiny Sword from Crouching Tiger that I bought in Chinatown. Thats about it.
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He should feel real good about himself getting laughs from MY FUCKING CREATION!!! Thats like urinating in the face of God.
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So, have you cracked open a bottle of bubbly yet in celebration? Heh.Yeah, poor M-O-M. But if you're looking for a new target to flame, you can always jump on that FuckMichaelBay guy. He's pretty one-note and easy to thrash.And yes, Memories was definitely one person. Anyone who saw his previous incarnation's (BladeRunnerUnit) posts can attest to that.
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Fred has Star Wars action figures from the 1970's from Freds dad.
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I have ironic stuff, but not nerdy. Mind you, I suppose deiberately buying ironic stuff is pretty nerdy in it's own right,
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Don't be cagey, Jarv. I just confessed to owning a Buffy shirt. Yours can't possibly be that bad.
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No, I only just found out and am still at work. But I will be toasting his festering banned corpse. FMB is a one note cretin, and what with the demise of the equally vile messi, I'm running low on trolls. I think Whinynegativebitch (not just a clever name) is worthy of a kicking, simply because his taste is so shit, but I'm running low other than that.Danny, that post originally had "Soundtrack by Aerosmith with a perpetual loop of "Dont want to miss a thing", but I changed it because 2 Bay references in one post was too much.
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I used to own a Thundercats T-shirt I bought because it's ironic. Then I found out that Thundercats does actually have fans and people thought I was one of them. So it now lurks in a drawer and Mrs. Jarv sleeps in it. I own lots of old Band T-shirts that are pretty geeky. Who remembers Olive? I still like that shirt because it's dark green and has Extra Virgin on the back.
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...is on a perpetual loop on my "SONGS TO FUCK TO" mix at home. I love to pop right as Tyler hits the high note.
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Thats pretty funny actually. Right on the part where he says, "Yeah, yeah, yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!"
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Somewhere M-o-M's testicles exploded.
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Better to be sincere and avoid confusion, I reckon. I am happy to say I bought my Buffy shirt out of genuine Buffy nerd-dom and not irony.
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Do you English have mandatory jury duty? Don't know why I just thought of it.
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...now that I now what some of you look like.Weird.
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Sep 12, 2008 10:31:34 AM CDT
the only nerdy T-shirt I've own and worn as an...
by dannyglovers_dickblood
...adult is a Ninja Turtles shirt. It was pretty fucking awesome. I lost it about a year ago. Hate when that happens...it just ran away!
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I did jury duty once. Everyone always complains about it, but I thought it was pretty great. A fuck of a lot better than work, anyway.Now I can put my hand on my heart and say, "I helped put a man who stabbed another man in the foot with a screwdriver behind bars!"
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You look like a corpse.
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Sep 12, 2008 10:35:55 AM CDT
oh so its required citizen's duty over there as well?
by dannyglovers_dickblood
I've never been called! I think it would be interesting....I don't understand why people get so freaked out at the prospect of being called. Lazy fucks.
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Yes. But it's unlikely you'll be called as not everything is trial by Jury- and most civil cases are not heard before a jury
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That's me at The Riviera in Las Vegas after walking up and down the strip THREE FUCKING TIMES! Everyone looks like a corpse after that.
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unlucky Frank.
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I hate my work server it's been days now.
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The most fascinating thing about it is how fucking stupid criminals are. Not like CSI and whatnot at all. I had two cases - the foot-stabber and a pimp/drug dealer - and they were both idiots. I would absolutely do jury duty again.Also, they pay for your lunch. Every day!
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Fuck man....I was in Vegas with friends once and we took a cab to old-town area to go to some after hours club. We were piss drunk already and its 3am....anyway when we get there its an hour wait to get in to the fucking place!! So we're like awwwww fuck this. We already spent like 20 bucks on the cab so we just figured we'd walk back. We were staying at The Luxor, which is almost 8 fucking miles away!! I suppose it was the alcohol or the stimulating aroma of hookers that gave us the confidence we could achieve any goal that night!! We did it. It took three hours....but we got there.
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I spent to long studying law for it to interest me at all. And if I was called up, then the person is pretty fucked for putting me to the inconvenience. I am a self-admitted lazy twat though.
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Yep, Orcus is the ol' rambler in the dark, folks catch me when the catch me, usually skulking in the archives. Kinda like the AICN verson of "Killroy was here" During WWII. Orcus has been around her since the days of the Proto-AICN of '95 or therebouts. Orcus Prime didn't speak in third person but after a few temporal mishaps Orcus ran into previous incarnations of himself and started going off in third person. Long story short. Orcu sleft out a bunch of details
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Fred loves how you refer to first incarnation as Orcus Prime. By the way, you can call Fred: Fred. That is Fred's real name.
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Sep 12, 2008 11:30:53 AM CDT
Danny, I read this article and immediately thought of you
by hawaiian organ donor
It's an excerpt from an article about Alec Baldwin:He recalled a day, a few years ago, when he was driving through L.A., saw a car run a red light, smash into another car, and keep moving. Baldwin gave chase and, eventually, blocked the culprit in a cul-de-sac. Before the police arrived, the driver got out of his car—“Typical drug-addict, alcoholic, fuckhead look on his face. He was, ‘O.K., what? What? You’re chasing me. What?’ This nineteen-year-old kid, his eyes blazing. I’m thinking, I’m going to come over there and knock your teeth down your fucking throat just because you’re asking me ‘What?’ You know what, you little fuck? I saw you. I’m a pretty liberal person, but my liberalness comes from what the government should be doing with its excess of wealth. That doesn’t mean I’m not a law-and-order person. I’m the kind of person—you catch the kid who’s drunk and high and he almost killed a girl, let’s take him in and beat the shit out of him for a couple of hours. Then he’ll learn.” He laughed. “I believe that!”
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Sep 12, 2008 11:40:32 AM CDT
Fucking Awesome. Alec is the real Liberal Warrior!!
by dannyglovers_dickblood
"I’m thinking, I’m going to come over there and knock your teeth down your fucking throat just because you’re asking me ‘What?’" Fuck that is intimidating. Imagine that voice and those cold blue eyes. FUCK!! I'd piss myself if Alec got in my face.
Oddly enough....I saw him at a mall in Northridge, CA around Christmas time years back with his daughter (before he called her a pig....hehehehe) they were at a toy shop and he was the most soft spoken, loving father I have ever seen. He kept saying, "You like this one honey, what about your friend-- you think she would like one too?" -
Do you have the link to the full article?
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I'm never on Fridays cause I'm always too fucking busy at work. But today I don't got shit to do and its all quiet 'round these parts.
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I remember getting all excited at the sight of The Shadow standing before me-- and I moved a little closer pretending to check out some random toy and those eyes....FUCK-- those eyes!! They just locked on me like a fucking wolf. I sensed that if I even so much as said, "Mr. Baldwin-- I'm a big fan...." in front of his daughter-- he would tear my fucking throat out. He was very sweet to his daughter, but you can just sense he is a dangerous motherfucker. There is something very predatory about his presence.
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Equinas, and his butt cleaner attendant, Egg Salad, have managed to escape the Boulders of Doom almost brought down by on their pointy heads by the Thundering hooves of the Great Neigh Horse. Invigorated by their narrow escape from being pulped into bloody smears and burst guts and other innards by the rampaging boulders, Big E and Little e, have called upon their Dark Master - Chitty, to lay a trap for the Great Neigh Horse. Lured by the pitiful wailings of what he thought was a child being set upon by rabid mutant Turkeys, instead the Great Neigh Horse stumbles across Equinas pleasuring himself with a rusted two pronged pitchfork. Suddenly, the trap is sprung, and the Great Neigh Horse is caught in the unbreakable grip of Dark Magic unleashed by the Dark Mage Chitty! Equinas, quite overcome with perverse sexual desire, strips off his remaining clothing and runs toward the Great Neigh Horse, his 3 inch member bobbing up and down with his each stubby little step. The Great Neigh Horse, frightened at the prospect of being the latest victim of Equinas's lust, summons all of his great power and with one tremendous exertion of fear backed will, bursts free of the of the Dark Mage's grip just as Equinas reaches his exposed backside! Then he wheels an rears up on his hind legs, Equinas, quite overcome at his unobstructed view of the Great Neigh Horse's unmistakable maleness, freezes in place, and the fore hooves come crashing down upon him. On his face, just before certain death strikes, one can only read the look of complete rapture that a dung beetle must feel when coming upon the exlosive diarrhea of an elephant. As for Egg salad, he scurries off mummbling to himself, vowing to return, again, and again, and again.
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And the Great Neigh Horse thunders away into the sunset having slain the beast Equinas!
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People going home early and whatnot.I e-mailed you the article Danny.
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action aborted or some such shit. THis is annoying me now.
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Sep 12, 2008 11:56:54 AM CDT
HOD-- Thanks Dude. Jarv-- That is totally fucked!!
by dannyglovers_dickblood
Your input is golden....fuck fuck fuck!!
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I read that excerpt again....and I'm pretty convinced thats the coolest fucking thing I've ever read in my life.
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Baldwin had just finished writing a book on divorce and the law—part memoir, part polemic about the legal barriers sometimes put between a divorced parent and his children.
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Sep 12, 2008 12:11:38 PM CDT
"3 inch member bobbing up and down with his each stubby little s
by lost jarv
swop each for "every" and that's gold.
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Alec Baldwin once wrote a screenplay for a Western, derived from “The Fastest Gun Alive.” He and his three younger brothers—Daniel, Billy, and Stephen, all of whom have had acting careers in film and television—were to portray a family of unnaturally skilled gunfighters. As Billy Baldwin, who appears in “Dirty Sexy Money,” the ABC drama, recently recalled, “Basically, it was: Daniel’s the outlaw; I’m the riverboat gambler who gets all the pussy, the shallow, good-looking sap; Stephen’s the village idiot; and he’s the fucking hero! He’s the one who saves the day at the end; he’s the Clint Eastwood. If you’re looking for how my brother thinks about his brothers, and how he always felt about his brothers, that’s it. That ’s the movie he wanted to make with his brothers.”
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Happy Friday! Whats new? HOD, I'm starting Going by the Book right now. Hopefully, I can get through this and Open City today.
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it's nearly cunting 6.30 here. And I've actually been working. What a bugger. Right, just one more task to do then I'm off. Friday's are a slow news day at the best of times, so it does tend to be slower than usual round these parts.
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i'm outta here
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especially "stephen is the village idiot.."
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I sent you a message over yonder..
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We gotta get him on pronto!! There are not nearly enough appearances of the words CUNT and BOLLOCKS over there...... -
Gads, is there no end to Orcus' bad puns. Somebody get Ricky Henderson on the horn, this could be fun
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Fred likes being asked that question. You are only second person aftrer Mavra Chang to ask Fred. Other's like DannyGlovers, are too shy! Hee hee. Fred would like to talk to Orcus and Rickey Henderson. Good things come in thres - so do bad ones though. Three third person speakers could spell the end of life in this continuum...or not!
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The Mets have been really good twice, had a few more good years where they made the playoffs, and suck every other year.
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The jihad for truth and justice continues..I've been trying to spread the power of Ong Bak and The Protector to those at work.
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always killed me.
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How is your Fredday coming along?
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M-O-M and I never tussled, so I do not have any lingering bad memories of him. I know could be consdescending as hell, but never towards me. But with his banning, and Jeff Albertsons, and Brane before him, me thinks it could get mighty dull around these parts. The "Good" guys need Trolls to smite. There are some lesser trolls, but they fall into the moron category, not even worth swatting. They are too stupid to know they are dead after they have been killed.
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Is that the end of the story?
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Well, it may be. I have not seen Chitty around in a few days - then again I was out of town. Still, he may have been smote when his vassal was destroyed by the Great Neigh Horse.
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The Mystic has returned from his Time Travelling to interact with the 'static mortals'. Who knows hoe long ot will be before his peripatetic time tarvelling ways take ahold once again. Orcus, good to see you in this time frame.
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Still, only a few hours left until Fred can go home!
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Baldwin, who admires Fey—“She’s so bright you’re always wondering if you’re boring her,” he says—agreed to be in the pilot, but on the understanding that, if the show worked out, he would appear in no more than six episodes a season, for six seasons. The pilot was made. NBC saw it, and offered to take the show only if Baldwin was in all twenty-one episodes of the first season.......
......some actors might have taken NBC’s avidity as a compliment. “I said, ‘Go fuck yourself,’ ” Baldwin remembered. “I saw it as network scumbags trying to fuck you around. Zucker, I like”—Jeff Zucker, now the president and C.E.O. of NBC Universal, was then running NBC television—“but everybody who works for Zucker I have reservations about.” He added, “If the show does succeed, it’ll be something of a fucking miracle, because NBC hasn’t done a fucking thing to help this show at all. This show is the red-headed stepchild in the lineup. They’ve gone out of their way to wring the last drops out of ‘My Name Is Earl’ and ‘Scrubs.’ Those shows are done! They’re cooked! Yet they do a one-hour episode of ‘Earl’! You’ve got to be fucking kidding me!” -
Orcus Prime, was a rampaging beast. Snarling his way through the talkbacks when they were in their infancy. He was a terror that multiple bannings could not expunge. Until, one day, he saw the light, and he evolved. He became the mystical, time travelling Orcus we know today. Gradually he removed himself from this plane of existence, his appearances becoming more infrequent. But still, he needed a presence in this time frame, so a part of him spun off into a guardian aspect. Thus, Rickey Henderson was born. He did not rampage as he predecesoor, but he still dealt out smitings when called upon. Eventually, even Rickey Henderson felt the call towards peace and tranquility, and thus he removed himself from this plane, and into the void stepped: Fred. Not a Mystic, or combative. Just Fred. Everyones friend - along with his trusty sidekick Dirk the Amoeba. The three are really one. But should they ever meet - it could be the end of all! Or the beginning!
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But, Fred is Fred. Not Rickey Henderson or Orcus. Still, maybe in a parallel universe, it is true!
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He is booking passage on an intergalactic flight just in case the Large Hadron Collider does what ThereWolf fears it might do, and decides to belch. Dirk promised he would take Fred with him. Mavra Chang did warn Fred about being on the 'menu' of the aliens though. Fred looking at alternatives.
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That Amadeus spoof was soooo funny!
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We must have formed a psychic connection since the exorcism. Hello to everyone else, also. I've got my nerd items at the ready: I have a small collection of X Files memorabilia: Several action figures (in original boxes), the 'Barbie' versions of Mulder and Scully (boxed), and two of the Master replicas (The Host and the Smoking Alien). I also have some large Planet of the Apes figures and a collection of Monty Python clothing (shirts and sleep pants). I believe in poker terms that would be a see and a raise.
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Have you guys seen the trailer for The International? My god it's awesome. Tykwer is a god.
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any thoughts on moving to another thread? I know we didnt reach the 2000 post thing, but this is getting pretty insufferably slow, and I think the 2000 posts has been more of a guideline than a rule recently.
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it does have the "poor man's Nicole Kidman" in it so DGDB may not like it. ;-)
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any thoughts on moving to another thread? I know we didnt reach the 2000 post thing, but this is getting pretty insufferably slow, and I think the 2000 posts has been more of a guideline than a rule recently.
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I'm on my way out the door, but I'll look for you all over there later.
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it's been thin on here today, but that theory regarding rickey, fred and orcus would be good stuff regardless. Awesome.
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and Im not five minutes in and I've already spotted the korean doppleganger of Nick Frost.
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A bit late in the day but wazzup. Orcus is getting ready to pack it in for a day and get ready for the weekend. Orcus may pop in occasionally, there's some underworld business that may be attended to
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Oh. No one driving again.
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Sep 12, 2008 3:18:04 PM CDT
HoboCode -- DAMN I've never heard you excited...
by dannyglovers_dickblood
...or read you excited-- whatever the fuck. And I never said I didn't like Watts. She is fine as fuck and a good actor-- people should just come to terms with her being the poor man's Nicole Kidman. That doesn't mean Watts career can't (or hasn't already) surpassed Nicoles..... Complicated shit, I know.
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Shit you didn't tell me that it also stars the poor mans action bad ass Clive Owen....blah. I'm sorry Eagle Eye looks to be a better thriller. This kind of looks like that other Naomi Watts movie The Interpreter. I hope I'm wrong. I mean Tykwer did something Kubrick deemed impossible.
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Whaaaaaaaaaaaaat? No fucking way did you just pledge allegiance to LaBeef's new film. Ouch, that hurts. I like Clive. I would rather watch him take a shit, a foot and a half away from his arse-hole then sit through a film with a supposed leading man Shia.
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I assume you were being sarcastic with "other watts movie The Interpreter". Cause of course, that actually was Kidman. And it's not that Naomi Watts is the poor man's Nicole Kidman. It's that Kidman is the first, wonky prototype of Naomi Watts.
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Sep 12, 2008 3:37:27 PM CDT
whatever people.....Watts/Kidman who fucking cares...
by dannyglovers_dickblood
....the only question is-- which one is gonna work my shaft, and which one is gonna focus on the pebbles?
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30 Rock is a great show and last season was genius. Baldwin is a god. Not only does he have brilliant comedic timing, but he can play a prick better than most. Plus, he gives a crap about the world.I missed the 80s best of lists. I guess it's for the best as no one ever sees eye to eye on my tastes.Jonah, you'll enjoy Going By The Book. Very well done and great performances.My home theater upstairs has my few nerd items spread about and they are all Simpsons related. A clock that flashes "Moe's" on the hour, a sign that lights up "Moe's Tavern", a bottle opener that has Homer salivating over beer when you use it, a blanket featuring Homer that covers a papasan, an Oscar-like statue of Homer and a globe ball that lights up with donuts spinning around Homer's head.The International has Clive Owen. Nuff said.Mets don't look like they'll choke this time, Pillow. Now if only the Jays can sweep the Sox this weekend for a shot at the wild card, all be be right with the world. Although a Panthers win on Sunday would be nice to.Sucks to live in Galveston.Gas went up 50 cents from one minute to the next at every station in town. Good times.
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Storming performance in The Others. I believed every inch of that performance. When she's looking through the gates for 'lost' Sean Bean it's heartbreaking - I wanted to reach through the screen and give her a hug.
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I would totally let Kidman perform on every inch I could give her.
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Not at that moment in the film. She needs a strong shoulder to cry on - not to be taken advantage of. Shameful!
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Forgive me. Actually I would not even do her in that film at all. But I would bruise it in The Peacemaker.
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... to a Hans Zimmer soundtrack as well!
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... officially done with or what?
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for anyone looking for us.
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