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International Eye Candy
January 21st, 2009
Yes, kids, Obama day has come and gone and in the new global spirit of peace and cooperation - not to mention the post-Sundance lull - it's been a fairly quiet week in the world of film. But quiet is not silent! Oh, no! and we've still got a solid dozen new slices of international cinematic goodness with which to dazzle your eyeballs. Yes, indeed! We've got giant robots! We've got tiny kaiju! We've got Jackie Chan and real life art-punk criminals and rock-and-roll Dolph! We've got Brit superheroes and Japanese school girls in short skirts kicking things high above their heads! This can mean only one thing: it's Todd from Twitch here with another edition of International Eye Candy!
The fine lads at Hong Kongs Imagi animation studios have got a serious lust thing for classic Japanese anime, apparently. These are the people behind the upcoming feature version of ASTRO BOY, they're already hard at work on a feature version of GATCHAMAN (or G FORCE or BATTLE OF THE PLANETS, depending on your age and location) and now they've set their sites on TETSUJIN 28, the classic boy-with-giant-robot story that is better known on these shores as GIGANTOR. Now, Imagi may not have the funding in place to make a feature of this one yet but that aint stopping them from making a serious play for it by putting together one seriously kick ass trailer to show off what they can do if given the chance. Love the look and feel of this thing.
Check out the TETSUJIN 28 trailer here
From the Very Big to the Supposed-To-Be-Very-Big-But-Actually-Quite-Small we move to one of the most brilliant little pieces of advertising I've seen in ages. Yes, it's an ad, which normally means I wouldn't look twice at it, but THIS ad happens to be built around classic cult kaiju creature Guilala (THE X FROM OUTER SPACE). This is just brilliant, funny stuff by people who obviously know and love their men in suits. Somebody should give these guys the money to make this into a feature.
Say hello to Baby Guilala here
Okay, time for a film that actually exists: Nicolas Winding Refn's BRONSON. Now, anybody who knows me knows that I absolutely adore Refn and think his trilogy of PUSHER films is the greatest series of crime films ever made. His latest - loosely based on the real life of notorious real life British criminal Charles Bronson - was a quicky for-hire job put together while Refn prepared his viking epic VALHALLA RISING but where most director's for-hire jobs fade deservedly into the background and are forgotten Refn's has just premiered to a good amount of love at Sundance. Yeah, he's good. And, yeah, the full trailer for this is simply stunning. Oh ... and, believe it or not, the big guy playing Bronson himself and looking scary in that image there? That's Tom Hardy who just played Handsome Bob in Guy Ritchie's ROCK N ROLLA. Hardy's a big-time chameleon.
Check out the BRONSON trailer here
We'll stick with the UK for a little longer, now, and take a look at the trailer for dark, noir tinted superhero picture FRANKLYN. The WATCHMEN vibe is pretty obvious on this one, with maybe a dash of DARK CITY thrown in for good measure and it's kind of hard to believe that something that looks this good hasn't been picked up for US distribution yet. But it hasn't been. I kind of wish they'd stuck with the originally announced older cast but if you've got to go young and pretty including the kid from CONTROL and the best Bond girl of recent years aint a half bad way to do it. You could do much worse and get someone like Ryan Phillippe. Oh, my mistake. They got him, too.
Find the FRANKLYN trailer here
Yeah, I'm getting kind of tired of the whole wire-fu wuxia epics, too, but CHASING SHADOWS is one that I'm more than willing to make an exception for. Why? It's the directorial debut of Francis Ng and if Ng proves to be only half as good a director as he is an actor he'll still be one of the best in all of Asia. That he's been openly referencing early classics like DRAGON INN along the way doesn't hurt at all, either, nor does the fact that he's got the producers of stellar high end stuff like Feng Xiageng's THE ASSEMBLY and THE BANQUET behind him. The first teaser has just arrived and while it doesn't show much what it does show is looking goooood.
Check out the CHASING SHADOWS teaser here
Now, even though I still consider myself a total neophyte when it comes to the world of Indian film - there's just WAY too much to keep up with there - I will say that I have learned that if you want to find the really over the top stuff your best bet is to ignore Bollywood and look to the Tamil films. Films like PADIKATHAVAN. Whie I have no idea what this film is actually about I do know that they have jammed more stuff into the thirty second teaser than should be legally allowed. You've got kung fu, big explosions, bad hair, motorcycle stunts and well-nigh every major action-film cliche known to man. It's glorious.
Check the PADIKATHAVAN trailer here
Full contact, no rules, to-the-death, muay thai basketball. That's the concept behind the upcoming Thai effort FIREBALL and if you know what's good for you you won't say anything bad about it or someone from the film will comes and knee you in the face. Owie. FIREBALL has made the IEC before and it's back now thanks to a lengthy - as in almost seven minutes - promo reel made up of equal parts finished footage and interview segments. I'm not sure whether this one skews more to the 'guilty' or 'pleasure' end of the 'guilty pleasure' spectrum.
Check the FIREBALL promo and trailer here
Now, support role in Stallone's THE EXPENDABLES notwithstanding I seriously doubt Dolph Lundgren has the sort of career resurgence in his future that Stallone has been enjoying recently. I mean even in his prime Lundgren was never treated as a leading man in his own right, but golly his self-directed DIE-HARD-at-a-rock-concert film COMMAND PERFORMANCE is looking like big, stupid fun. Unfortunately the band Lundgren is drumming for in this thing is blanding me to death but once the killing begins it's very pleasing in an 80s beefcake sort of way. This one's made the IEC before, too, and it returns thanks to a lengthy new promo reel.
Check the COMMAND PERFORMANCE promo and original teaser here
I've heard mixed reports on this one from people who have actually seen it but I've got to say that I absolutely love the trailer for upcoming Spanish teen-noir - think Rian Johnson's BRICK - EL JUEGO DEL AHORCADO. The thing's got a sort of raw energy to it coupled with this dreamy quality that hints at layers upon layers of meaning and I'm determined to see more as soon as possible.
Check out the EL JUEGO trailer here
Did I mention guilty pleasures a while back? Because I think HIGH KICK GIRL definitely qualifies. You know the drill: Japanese high school girl who is also a karate master is drawn into a fight with local gangs and proceeds to kick much ass. We wrote about this one back when the first (very short) teaser arrived and now it's back with a much longer promo. Word is out there that some in the Japanese stunt community aren't looking particularly kindly on this one since the director's insistence on accuracy in the fight sequences has been leading to on-set injuries but, hey - it aint my face getting kicked and real contact makes for real entertainment in my book.
find the HIGH KICK GIRL promo here
As we draw near the end, now, we move to Denamrk and ORIGINAL, the debut feature from a writer-director combo who look to be staking a claim as that region's answer to the Coen Brothers. Slyly absurd humor and fantastic, just slightly off-kilter, production design make this very much one to watch. And for those who like to watch we've got both the first teaser for the picture and a rough cut of an extended clip featuring Tuva Novotny as an art-punk stripper with an anger management problem.
Check out the ORIGINAL trailer and clip here
To wrap things up we turn to Hong Kong and the erstwhile Jackie Chan. Jackie's star doesn't burn as bright these days as it used to and, knowing that he's lost a step and needs to cultivate a persona outside of his normal comedy-stunt man shtick, to change things up a bit he's teamed up with ONE NIGHT IN MONGKOK director Derek Yee to tackle a purely dramatic role in THE SHINJUKU INCIDENT. No, Jackie does none of his trademark martial arts or stunt work in this one, instead playing a character named Steelhead - an illegal Chinese immigrant in Tokyo who is drawn into a conflict with the local crime lords. The content of the picture has already led to the Chinese government blocking its release in the mainland but Yee is sticking to his guns and refusing to alter anything to appease censors. Without the Chinese box office in play this is almost certainly going to fail miserably - it was hugely expensive by Hong Kong standards - but at least we'll get to see it as intended.
Find the SHINJUKU INCIDENT trailer here
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oh well
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Some damn fools are making a live action Battle of the Planets. God bless ya, you crazy bastards, I hope it works.
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looks crazy
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I feel like I'm the child in the middle of a divorced couple. I say things I like about slashfilm in hopes that aint it cool would give me stuff. I'm a bad person.
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... will be animated. Imagi is the Hong Kong studio that did Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It's all CG animation coming from there, no live action.
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what a good day.First it's comic book day, with lots of tasty issues being releasedthen volume 3 of Transmetropolitan came in the mailthen I got my first album review ever published in a local magazinethen I got free dinnerthen Lost startedthen Twitch came back, providing the supreme icing on quite the tasty little cake.and it's not even my birthday.
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Can't wait for this one. Refn is the man!
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Bronson looks the best.EASILY.
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Ah, that makes more sense. When I read the info in your story I got excited and mentally inserted the word "live", which was not in the orginal story, in front of the word feature. I retract my crazy bastard statement about the folks working on this movie.
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actually looks good. Interesting to see older stars hitting the 'harsh reality' trend reminiscent of the 1970's.
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New twitch. Thank the lord.
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although Bronson does seem to be our attempt to do a "chopper". Bronson is a nutjob who legally changed his name by deed poll to Charles Bronson because he liked the Dirty Dozen actors "style". He's fucking insane. Frightening as well. Interesting trivia, at one point he held the world record for 1 armed press ups in a minute.
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must see this. It looks fucking great
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Jan 22, 2009 3:15:07 AM CST
Pfffft, that is the GIRL'S way of spelling Franklin!
by franklin t marmoset
I'll still probably see it, though.Morning, folks.
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You missed a great ruckus in that presidential TB.
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I watched War of The Worlds and I have to say that I've actually been nice about it in the past. It's a pathetic, tedious, badly acted, misconcieved load of horseshit with less tension than a clowns trousers. Fuck it was awful. 1/10
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this takes my total up to a mighty 36.
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...just to stir up some shit in the Obama TB.I had all sorts of good stuff in mind, mostly based around how I encourage my son (as a concerned parent) to experiment with the cock as much as possible, but then it turned 5 and I shot out the door like greased lightning.
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I should have been watching films, but instead I ripped through the last four episodes of The Wire. Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, The Wire is good.I did record Cutthroat Island last night, though. Cutthroat Island! I reckon I might try to get through that piece of crap tonight.
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and I've cashed in my lovefilm chip to get an extra one at home- which had better be Toxic Avenger.
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Was a bad, bad, movie. It reaches down to the level of something like Shymalans The Crappening. Which is the absolute nadir of movie making.
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I'm buying the Toxic Avenger box set, then I can put that together with Poultrygeist when it arrives and have myself a mini Troma festival the next time I have an empty weekend.I should also get Chopper Chicks In Zombietown (starring Billy Bob Thornton!).
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Morning chaps. I watched zero movies last night to keep my total at eleven. Me thinks there will be a flurry of activity in the viewing department this weekend.That Franklyn does look pretty good. Even though he's been in absolute shit, I like Phillipe. He was good in Breach and Way of the Gun carries a lot of goodwill his way.
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seriously? He's lost it in a big fucking way- Munich aside, and even then the last 3rd of that wasn't good.
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Cruel Intentions, Way of The Gun almost make up for absolute dross like antitrust.
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It was ok with an absolutely shite, cop out ending (the kid magically appearing at mummy's house). But i haven't seen it since the cinema so I would have to watch it again for final judgement.
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I have the not-so-sneaking suspicion that the showstopping emergence scene is unfairly causing me to remember the film as so-so rather than awful, despite a truly dreadful and unending performance by Tim Robbins. I always like to think that the Robbins death-by-shovel was improvised. And real.
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Jan 22, 2009 3:54:41 AM CST
State of Play trailer at apple.com
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Looks pretty good. I like Crowe and I'm interested to see how 'The Rise of Affleck' pans out. Helen Mirren and Rachel McAdams thrown in for good measure. Looks promising.
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...in Sweden there's something called "Summer Talkers", where celebrities are chosen each year to sit and talk about anything they want for two hours on the radio and play whatever music they want, commercial-free. One celeb a day for the entire summer. Last summer Dolph was one of them. He came across as a really, really nice and down-to-earth guy and talked about growing up (being beaten by his father), hooking up with Grace Jones, getting his breakthrough with Sly (who he says is a great guy) and family life. Toward the end he talked about his dad's death and funeral, and you could hear he was in tears.
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it loses the "wow" factor that, to be fair, it did have in the cinema. Worse, all the flaws in it are magnified horribly (cruise's dreadful performance, Spielberg thinking that Dakota Fanning screaming every 3 seconds somehow= tension). Avoid.
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absolutely fucking kicked ass in Way Of The Gun( a personal favorite) Breach, Cruel Intentions and Flags of Our Fathers. Anything else not so much.Munich was entirely blah in my opinion. Watched it once, yawned my way through it, and I've had no desire to ever watch it again.Seriously, The beard has some real dreadful shit on his resume. Saving Private Ryan, WoW, Munich, Crystal Skulls and that's just recently. Good thing he turned out some great and pretty good thing earlier, he's still has a bit of goodwill built up but is disappearing fast.
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Dark Angel needs a sequel. I've always had a soft spot for him,
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It's nice to hear that about Dolph. He always seemed like a decent guy. Statistically speaking some of these asshats have to be, right?
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Jan 22, 2009 4:04:20 AM CST
"he's still has a bit of goodwill built up but is disappearing f
by lost jarv
That's exactly what I think. Spielberg gets a pass when any other director would get slaughtered, Serioously: The Lost World (crap), AI (crap, but some like it), Minority Report (crap), WoW (crap), SPR (Crap), Amistad (crap), Indy 4(Meh), Munich (quite good, bollocksed by last 3rd), The Terminal (crap), This is not a good resume.
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...again, but it's only "meh" compared to other films in its genre, I would say. As an Indy film it is grade-A, flaming, homogenized SHIT.
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Have you got any schlock suggestions that are on UK release. Mrs. Jarv is away at the weekend so I have potentially an epic drunkening and shlock marathon to be had.Ta
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being "meh" is a fucking crime for an Indy film. It's not bad, per se, like AI or The Lost World though, just a terrible crushing let down as an Indy film,
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I always thought that Dark Angel (I come in Peace for you colonials) required a prequel- tie it in to Jack The Ripper. Sort of Dark Angel by Gaslight. Get as many Landan actresses to play hookers as you can, have Danny Dyer play an opium addled plod that gets killed by intergalactic drugs dealer and have some hard case British Actor kill the dealer by booting him into the Thames. Would be gold.
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Have any of you seen Demons? It's got Gleinster (awesome in Life on Mars) in a terribly wank buffy rip off. He's got the WORST American accent I've heard in ages- it drives Mrs. Jarv batshit crazy
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...I still haven't seen Future War, so I can't vouch for it. The past week has been pretty bad for me in filmic terms. I've only watched shit -- BAD shit, that is. The last schlock movie I watched was The Gravedancers which was awful. It had its moments, but Dominic Purcell is one of the worst actors in the universe with a very disturbing physique, and the rest of the cast was either terrible or sleepwalking (I'm looking at you, Tchecky Karyo!). The horror was by the numbers and ultimately sucked, despite nicely designed creatures.
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His is the worst I've heard so far.
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Jan 22, 2009 4:16:47 AM CST
Any of you guys seen The Keep?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I remember watching it on late night tv when i was about 8 and it scared teh bejeezus out of me. It's Michael Mann so I might try to track it down.After looking it up, apparently the reviews weren't nice.From Wiki "The video run time of 96 minutes is thought to be a studio-ordered cut against the wishes of Michael Mann. His cut of choice is speculated to be in the three to four hour range."3 or 4 hours? WTF?
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That Dark Angel prequel idea is GOLD.
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There's a laserdisc DVD rip of it online (widescreen, too) if you want to see it again. It's bad, but has a very cool atmosphere which goes a long way and is refreshing to watch since it's so different from other movies in the genre. Great performances by Jürgen Prochnow and Gabriel Byrne, but Ian McKellan is dreadful in it.
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"Before Michael Mann had devised Miami Vice he directed The Keep and produced it and wrote it. He cast me as the heroine's father, a Romanian academic who gets caught up with Nazis and a monster trapped deep in the Keep. Ever-diligent, I had specially made my first trip to Bucharest and then had a couple of lessons from a dialect coach in London. So by the first day of filming I was ready to sound and feel authentically Romanian. Just before my first take as Dr. Cuza, Michael said: "Drop the accent - make him more Chicago." Well, if the writer/producer/director makes a request, you jump to it."". Cuza had a strange disease that made him look 30 years older than he was. This was convincingly achieved after five hours in the make-up chair. For 12 days in succession, I was aged early each morning but never called to the set to work. I began a nervous breakdown or at least the line-producer thought so, because I was flown home from wet and dreary Bettys for a week-end's recuperation back home in London."
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haven't seen that one in years but remeber I liked it as a kid. Way over the top goofiness if I recall correctly.
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That Dominic Purcell always seems to have his shirt open in a Tom Jones-ish manner in everything he does, so I can only assume this is some kind of bizarre demand he inserts into all of his contracts. He's like those actors who always want a huge trailer as a part of their deal, but instead what old Dominic wants is to do up the smallest possible number of buttons on his shirt.Lazy bastard.
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Jan 22, 2009 4:23:22 AM CST
5 hours a day, 12 days straight...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
For Nothing. No wonder he gave a shit performance!
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but Gleinster's is even worse. It's terrible. So bad that it almost defies belief. What astounds me about this series, is the quality of supporting actors they get. It's weird.
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Fucking Blade trinity. Twat.
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...has no neck or shoulders. Come to think of it, he actually looks like the Molasar monster in The Keep.
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Statham as hard case booting dealer into the thames. Could be some quality swordfights as well, as British plod wasn't armed with guns then. I'd cast Kelly Brook (even though she can't act) as a hooker and require her to be naked for her entire screen time. There would be no love interest shenanigans in my version either. Fuck that.
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Funny.
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Dude I did a spit take after reading that. You owe me a new keyboard from the tea I just spewed on it.
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Did you see that, Brazilian martial arts are now influencing Japanese karate??? Interesting since martial arts were created in Africa and spread-out across the world, first to Asia. BTW, as for Brazilian style martial arts, it came from African slaves. The irony??? The circle has come fully around.
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I'm in love!!!!
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Wait, don't tell me -- is it part of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Sex Cult's plot to overthrow the world through the cunning use of satanist pornography and W's mom?
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It's his fault, because he's such a curious looking fellow - all muscle from the collar bone up, but a normal guy from the collar bone down.What kind of fucked up work out routine is he doing?
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...I'm getting drawn into that hideous inauguration talkback. Must... Resist... Morons...
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Martial Arts came from Africa to the far east? Bullshit, says I. Anyway, everyone knows that are interplanetary Lizard People overlords taught them to their favourite slaves.
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Jan 22, 2009 4:42:39 AM CST
"Hey, Dominic, you don't always have to do shrugs, man."
by franklin t marmoset
"Shut the fuck up, you idiot. I'm Dominic Purcell, and Dominc Purcell only does SHRUGS! Chicks dig a man with a muscular neck area but a normal physique everywhere else! Especially when you top that shit off with a nicely unbuttoned shirt! Check out my sternum, dude!"
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to go into that again. I did yesterday in a moment of boredom, but will not be returning.
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His arms and torso have the same girth. He's like a fat, bullet-shaped head perched on three musclebound arms, with Sebulba-like legs dangling below. Very creepy guy. Fucked-up workout indeed.
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...mmmmm'kayyyy?"
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Frankies off on a tangent...
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I guaran-damn-tee you that somewhere in Purcell's workout he does pyramid pull ups sets both regular an inverse.
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Jan 22, 2009 4:45:51 AM CST
I would cast Kelly Brook as a naked hooker in anything
by franklin t marmoset
When you think about it, there are very few films that would not benefit from the addition of Kelly Brook as a naked hooker.
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...a new AICN staple is created:
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Shit, that's funny. Now I'm imagining Dominic Purcell making his way to the gym on his hands.When he gets there, he will do SHRUGS!
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He's a simple man, interested only in simple things. Simple things being the maximisation of his neck and traps while cruelly ignoring his own legs.That's just the kind of guy he is.
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that Nazism= left wing thing sucked me in. Morons
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crab walks like in the exorcist. His body CLEARLY is not made for normal human ambulation.
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And got a boxset of all the Rambo films. YATTA
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Jan 22, 2009 4:54:15 AM CST
I avoided the Inauguration TB like the plague
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I didn't even go in to read it.
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It's deserved. He's a tool. And Blade Trinity sucks like a Dyson.
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Ya young cunt!
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hate them. The world does not boil down to "guys in white hats shooting guys in black hats".
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Media Messia you poor sick son of bitch. Various Martial Arts styles arose in different areas of the world independant of each other. There is no first martail art like there is a first ancestor.Tell you what you crazy bastard, I will talk to my friends in the CIA, The Tri-Lateral Commision, The Council on Foreign Affairs, Star Fleet Command, The jedi Council and the Tin Foil Manufacturers guild and see if they can't dial down the microwaves they are sending into your brain.
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Be back in 90... unless I post sporadically.
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Research it yourselves. You guys seemingly wish to attack everything I have to say without even bothering to check out my statements. You will find out that they are all accurate. There are African ruins in China. The Chinese government, admits it.
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...to shrugs!
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I hate you for your youth, obviously (cunt), but congratulations all the same.
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is that the Tin Foil Hat manufacturers guild is actually controlled by a triumvate of the Freemasons, The Illuminate and Opus Dei, and work on the orders of our INTERPLANETARY LIZARD PEOPLE OVERLORDS. I think Purcell might be a Lizard person. Or maybe a potato person.
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Jan 22, 2009 5:01:09 AM CST
Other than Prison Break and Blade 3...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I haven't seen Purcell in anything. What else has he done?
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Good Lord. Nothing to do with Pangea or whatever it was called then?
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it alwasy devolves into the same six people scraming at each other, cherry picking facts, making shit up and giving the rest of the human race a bad name.
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Enjoy your youth while you can. Bastard.
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which despite a great premise, sucks a fat one. Anyway, isn't Blade Trinity enough?
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I knew that if I poked MM with a spoon he'd bless us with some new rubbish!
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A forensic anthropologist is looking over a mass grave of people who have been killed by what she claims are identical gunshot wounds. Both the woman and the UN soldier head away from the mass graves to inspect another one on the south side. She digs her shovel into what she believes is another mass grave only to be attacked by an unseen creature. The anthropologist is dragged into the water as the UN soldier opens fire. Other soldiers show up and begin shooting at the attacker as it devours the woman and heads for deeper water.
The next setting is a New York City news room. The main character, Tim (Purcell), is seen and he is looking at a TV and talking on his phone. Apparently he is waiting to see if his name is mentioned in connection with a case that he was working on. Not much is heard about this. His cameraman and best friend Steven is telling him maybe their boss, Roger, did not see or hear what was being broadcast on the news. Right when he says that Tim is asked to see Roger, which Steven says was really quick and jokes about being a cameraman for another reporter. Tim then goes to see Roger who in turn does not want to talk about his contract just yet but instead introduces him to a very attractive woman standing by another television set viewing a report about the woman who was seen previously with the creature. This is where Gustave is introduced. The woman's name is Aviva and she is a reporter that focuses on reports dealing with animals being killed or harmed, and she is interested in the crocodile who is known to have killed hundreds of people in Africa. Tim is more-or-less "forced" into going to Africa with her and brings Steven along to help capture this creature.
In Burundi they meet Harry, who is there to warn them about "The Bush," as he calls it, and the dangerous warlord who lives there, who has nicknamed himself "Little Gustave." They are to travel via riverboat to their destination, a small village, where they will set up their traps in attempts to capture Gustave. All attempts to capture Gustave fail. Their cameraman, while getting scenic video, catches on film Little Gustave himself executing the village people who helped the group. The guards that are sent with the group end up working for Little Gustave. Both of them get killed either by gunshot or Gustave.
Then a fast-paced series of events takes place. The group tries to kill Gustave with a hand grenade resulting in the death of their guide and their crocodile expert that went with them. A helicopter appears and it looks like the survivors are going to be rescued. But Little Gustave's men attempt to blow up the helicopter to stop them from showing the video of the execution. That results in the group getting separated. Steven gets separated from the group and Gustave chases him. We don't find out happens to Steven till later. The other members of the group come together to look for Steven but Aviva has to stay with the injured Jojo. Tim finds Steven's camera. Little Gustave (who is actually Harry) comes to get the video himself. That results in Aviva, Tim and Jojo getting captured. Tim attempts to trick Little Gustave by giving him the GPS locator that tracks Gustave by saying it tracks the suitcase that also has a copy of the video. Little Gustave declines and forces Tim to find the suitcase. That's where they finds Steven's body. Aviva splatters pheromones on Little Gustave and Gustave comes and kills Little Gustave. Tim, Jojo and Aviva escape to the range rover and Gustave appears and attempts to kill all three but they manage to escape. We see the group on a plane home. The ending states that the civil war ended and Gustave is still alive and killing. -
Jan 22, 2009 5:05:23 AM CST
Primeval is the crocodile one?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Speaking of crocs... Have you guys seen Rogue? The aussie croc flick? It was pretty average.
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I don't think Criticalbliss is AnimalBalls. He's been around a long time. He is one of AnimalBalls cronies though,
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Down low that info buddy. MM has not figured out that particular conspiracy yet. I'm starting the web site as we speak so he'll claiming it soon as his own.
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I sort of want to. I like big croc flicks- which is why Primeval was such a let down.
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Capoeira - (Contributor: Daniel C. Sobral)
Intro:
This is a very acrobatic, very energetic Brazilian martial art.
Origin: Angola and Brazil.
History:
Capoeira is the common name for the group of African martial arts that came out of west Africa and were modifed and mixed in Brazil. These orginal stlyes inculded weapons, grappling and striking as well as animal forms that became incorpated into different components and sub styles of the popular art.
In the 1500's, black slaves from Africa were used in Brazil to build the empire of the sugar cane. These slaves lacked a form of self-defense, and in a way quite parallel to Karate, they developed a martial-art with the things they had in hand, namely, sugar cane knives and 3/4 staffs. Being slaves, they had to disguise the study of the art, and that is how the dance came into it. Their hands were manacled for most of the time, so the art uses a lot of standing on the hands feet up, and some moves are directed to fighting mounted enemies.
In the early 1800's Capoeira was outlawed in Brazil, especially in its "home state" of Bahia, where gangs utilized it as their personal fighting style against police.
Capoeira was born in the "senzalas", the places where the slaves were kept, and developed in the "quilombos", the places where they used to run to when they fled from their enslavers.
Description:
Capoeira consists of a stylized dance, practiced in a circle called the "roda", with sound background provided by percussion instruments, like the "agogo", the "atabaqui", etc. The "Berimbau" is a non-percussion instrument that is always used on rodas.
Capoeira relies heavily on kicks and leg sweeps for attacks and dodges for defenses. It is not uncommon to not be taught any kind of hand strike of parry, though arm positioning for blocks is taught.
The "ginga", the footwork of Capoeira, consists in changing the basic stance (body facing the adversary, front leg flexed with body weight over it, the other leg strechted back) from the right leg to the left leg again and again.
Capoeira also puts a heavy emphasis on ground fighting, but not grappling and locks. Instead, it uses a ground stance (from the basic stance, you just fall over your leg stretched back, flexing it, and leaving the front leg stretched ahead), from which you make feints, dodges, kicks, leg sweeps, acrobatics, etc.
Hand positioning is important but it's used only to block attacks and ensure balance, though street fighting "capoeiristas" use the hands for punches.
When fighting, it is rare to stop in one stance, and in this case, you just "follow" your opponent with your legs, preventing him from getting close, or preparing a fast acrobatic move to take advantage when he attacks. The rest of the time, you just keep changing stances, feinting, and doing the equivalent of boxing "jabs".
Training:
After a through warm-up, standing exercises are done, with emphasis on the "ginga", the footwork characteristic of the art, and on the basic kicks: "bencao", a front-stomping kick, "martelo", a roundhouse kick, "chapa", a side-kick, "meia-lua", a low turning kick, "armada", a high turning kick, "queixada", an outside-inside crescent kick. Then walking sequences are done, with the introduction of sommersaults, backflips and headstands, in couples and individual. Some more technical training follows, with couples beginning a basic and slow "jogo", and then the whole class forms and goes for "roda" game for at least 30 minutes.
Capoeira conditions and develops the muscles, especially the abdominal muscles.
Sub-Styles:
Regional - Capoeira in a more artistic, open form, giving more way to athletic prowess and training.
Angola - a more closed, harder style that is closest to the original African systems that came to Brazil.
Iuna - a totally athletic and artistic form of the art, where the couple inside the "roda" play together, as opposed to one against the other.-Source: Martial Arts Meta
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happy birthday.
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Everyone knows the first true martial art was wrestling, which was invented by Vince McMahon and Hulk Hogan in 400 BC as a way of selling toys to children and retarded adults.Anyone who argues otherwise is working with a brain atrophied as Dominic Purcell's calf muscles.
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But thanks anyway. Besides, this also came from the Lizard people. Are you not keeping up?
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Jan 22, 2009 5:20:05 AM CST
"working with a brain atrophied as Dominic Purcell's calf muscle
by lost jarv
Very funny
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But...Egyptians use to pack mummies in cocaine as a preservative. The only place in the world that cocaine is native to, is South America, which means the Egyptians were in South America harvesting or trading for cocaine and they got there by ships. Egypt is in Africa, BTW...and some suspect that the Chinese people are related to the original Egyptians...and the culture that they may have come from...is Atlantis and Lemuria. The legend of Atlantis comes from the Egyptians and was told to the Greeks as fact. The Egyptians mentioned Atlantis in present tense and past tense, after its destruction. It is belived the survivors fled to Egypt...among other places in the world.Plato first mentioned Atlantis in his writings and attributed his source to the teachers of the Greeks, that being the ancient Egyptians, who were Black Africans, not Arabs.
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with that, I'm going to bed. It's freaking 4:30 in the morning for christ sakes!Franklin, everbody knows wrestling was invented by Mean Jean Oakland, Rowdy Roddy Piper, Randy "The Macho Man" Savage and Barbra Walters, Duh!
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Happy Birthday, whoever you are???
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Who the hell let one of those Chariots Of The Gods assholes in here?
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Plato's use of Atlantis is meant to be an Analogy. There is no such place. I was taking the piss out of you with the Pangea comment.
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That started slow, ended awesome. John Locke is a fucking legend.
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Media- despite the fact that you obviously know nothing about Ancient Egyptians, their mythology, history and culture you seem to put them at the root of everything. I find this very strange. Especially as we now know that THE LIZARD PEOPLE (or possibly MAN-CATS) are behind everything.
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What, were they buying major weight from the Cali Cartel? Christ almighty nutbag, you realize you need certain things that the ancient egyptians did not have in order to refine the coca plant into base right? Christ the original coca plant which is basicaly a weed in Columbia has been refined into the cocaine bearing plant of today sometime around the end of the 18th century.
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Mrs. Jarv was hilarious about it the other day,
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Don't worry about it. He never lets facts get in the way of a completely barking theory.
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Clearly, Stephen Sommers was doing quite a bit of cocaine during the making of at least The Mummy II. Maybe Media Messiah is just getting his information mixed up. That's easy to do.
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yeah Lost was pretty good I agree. Locke was cool again, the twitchy Physics dude came up big and Sawyer looks like he needs to hit the gym. I hope somebody offs Kate soon, she's annoying. Juiletts Cans looked good and the red haired chick looks like she has down syndrome but I'd throw a hump in her anyways. Sun looked great and very bad ass.That's my personal review. Oh yeah the story was good also. Many questions answered and new questions posed.
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They're answering questions on Lost now? Well, i guess it only took five seasons. Better late than never.
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Lost is like a woman who makes her way seductively down your naked, supine torso toward your exposed and expectant cock... only to give it a little kiss and then come back up again.Who the hell wants that? That's just mean.
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very true Jarv It's the major problem in dealing with any conspiratard, but I can't seem to be able to go to sleep so what else do I have to do?MM says so many dubious things that on occassion facts have to be brought up. Mostly I just try to work in every word I know that means crazy when dealing with him.
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My fucking christ. Do they actually need more fucking questions? Haven't they only got 1 series left?
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and ended up in tears of frustration.
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When do we get to see the party pictures? ;) Media Messiah, I saw your message a bit late.Sorry. Good to see you again. I was not involved in any conversations of Palin or UFOs and wasn't paying a heckuva lot of attention to any others on those topics. I missed "Lost" last night (unbelievable!!!). I need to go find it before I trip over an accidental spoiler. Have a great day everyone.
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Dudes, stop being lazy and look it up, you will see that this is a scientific and medical fact. The Egyptians used cocaine to preserve mummies.
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Stop being a cock-smoking douchebag and shut the fuck up.
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The modern plant that yields cocaine base did not come about till realitivly recently. You need a way to synthezie the plant into base. the Eygyptians did not have the capability. stop listening to Coast to Coast AM
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fuck all happens, There's a flashback that's confusing, Jarv dies of boredom.
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and it is, in fact, bollocks. They even said so in it- presented that fact that Xi just did.
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1. He's involved in some sort of performance art with his post.2. He's involved in some sort of lame research project at the community college he attends part time.3. The straps on his helmut are way to tight and are pushing down on the soft part of his head.4. He's actually a cybernetic organisim from the future sent back in time by the aliens of Zeticula Nebula IX. Proof of this you ask? It's a well known fact that Nebulan cybos, as they are known, overuse the exclamation point when posting loony tune conspiratard theories on the interwebs.
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Sky High Egyptians?
Were the Pharoahs Junkies?
(Published at Samhain 1996)
The problem started in Munich. A forensic pathologist specialising in toxins had been asked to carry out what should have been a series of routine tests on a number of whole and part mummies to determine what drugs had been used by the Egyptians and how widespread such use may have been. It has long been known that the Egyptians had and used a number of narcotics and hallucinogens including mandrake, belladonna and henbane - and lotus, one of the main icons of Egyptian art and religion, was also known to various ancient cultures as a powerful narcotic and hallucinogen. Anyone familiar with Egyptian art will be aware of just how important the lotus was as an image, whether as the columns supporting temples or in paintings and sculpture. The flowers, for instance, were often shown in art as being dipped into cups of drink.
What came as a bombshell, therefore, was the apparent discovery of both cocaine and tobacco in the mummy of a XXIst Dynasty priestess, as well as a number of other bodies and body parts. Disbelieving this incredible result, the pathologist re-ran her tests only to obtain the same results; she then sent samples from the bodies to other laboratories expecting negative results in which case she could have explained her original results as being due to contamination of the samples tested by her. To her amazement, the results came back the same. She then published her findings, only to come up against the archaeological establisment; the results were fraudulent; the results were the caused by gross negligence due to the contamination of the mummies and/or the samples; anyway, the results were impossible. The accusations of contamination were based on the suggestion that earlier generations of Egyptologists had been heavier smokers than those of today and had been more careless in handling the mummies. Stung by these accusations, the pathologist then took further samples taken from deep inside the mummies and had these analysed as well - still with the same result.
As a forensic pathologist with experience of undertaking police work, she was experienced in using what is known as the Hair Shaft Test, which is regarded in courts of law the world over as providing incontrovertible proof that a substance found on or in a body was ingested during life and could not be a post mortem contaminant. The principle is that when someone consumes a substance, it leaves traces in body tissue. Although such traces may be very quickly metabolised from soft tissue, eg the muscles, and vanish from soft tissue within hours or days, they will remain in the hair until the hair is physically cut off. Traces may therefore remain on the body, ie within the hair tissue, for many months or even years after consumption. The Hair Shaft Test is therefore used by police to detect cases in which poisons have been administered over a long period of time or by drugs testers on athletes and people being treated for drug abuse to determine precisely what drugs have been taken, in what quantities and when.
For the test, the hair sample is thoroughly washed to remove any surface contaminants. It is then retested; if the hair still tests positive this proves (to the satisfaction of courts of law the world over) that the drugs are contained within the hair tissue; they must therefore have been ingested over a period of time and could not be the result of later surface contamination by careless researchers.
The pathologist was also able to show that the tobacco concentrations found in some of the mummies were up to 32 times those found in modern smokers; such doses represented possibly lethal levels for a living person so it is not considered likely that they were ingested during life. However, the presence of such massive quantities of tobacco deep inside the bodies has been interpreted as evidence of mummification practices.
Deeply skeptical about the results, Dr David of Manchester Museum ran similar tests on a number of mummies in the Manchester collection. To her utter amazement these also produced positive results and showed that the Munich findings were not isolated. In the past couple of years, similar tests have been carried out on on bodies in from places as far apart as China, the middle east, Germany and Austria and ranging in date from around the same date as the mummies in question through to the European Middle Ages. The presence of tobacco (if not cocaine) was found in all these areas. Nor was it found in isolates specimens, for some areas traces were found in every body tested.
The German pathologist originally suggested that an unknown species of tobacco had once grown in Africa and Eurasia and had been used in various ways until it was driven to extinction by overuse. However, no evidence of an unknown species of tobacco has ever been found in Africa or Europe (unless Rameses II's bandages were shown to be made of tobacco fibre from an unknown specie - see below) - and besides that could not account anyway for the presence of cocaine in the mummies.
One theory which has emerged is that tobacco may have been one of the herbs used in mummification. Although it is known that embalmers and priests kept recipes for blends of herbs and spices which were used during the mummification process to cleanse, purify or otherwise preserve the bodies, such recipes were always kept as a ritual or professional secret. Consequently our knowledge of what was used for this process has almost entirely come from autopsies on mummies rather than from manuscripts or temple records, and to some extent we are still unsure as to what herbs and plants were used.
Ironically, some valuable evidence for the presence of tobacco had emerged over 20 years ago during tests and preservation work carried out on the mummy of Ramesses II who was taken to Paris in 1970s; as the body was found to have deteriorated alarmingly and was in need of rewrapping, part of the original bandages were removed and a researcher was given fragments for analysis. She discovered that they contained considerable quantities of fibre from the tobacco plant - results which were promptly "lost" and disregarded for almost 20 years because they were regarded at the time as "impossible".
The significance of the cocaine and tobacco discovery in Egypt (if it is eventually upheld and accepted by the archaeological establishment) is that it effectively blows apart current archaeological theories about the nature and scale of world trade in the ancient world. Bear in mind that, barely 40 years ago, the idea that the Vikings could have crossed the Atlantic to the Americas was considered utterly ludicrous. Here is a suggestion, however, that world trade was being carried on on a regular and organised basis some 2,000 years earlier. Impossible!
The somewhat conservative archaeological establishment is therefore having to wrestle with the idea that international trade on a world scale was regularly being undertaken from at least as early as 1,000 bce. What is NOT being suggested by anyone, however, is that the Egyptians were trading directly across the Atlantic with the Americas - with or without the benefit of warehousing facilities on Atlantis! Rather, it is suggested that trade was being conducted across the Pacific, probably by the Chinese, and that products from the Americas were being traded westwards through south Asia and the Middle East, eventually reaching Egypt. This theory has received independent support from a recent discovery of strands of silk amongst the hair of another mummy from around the time of the XXIst Dynasty, ie contemporary with our "junkie" priestess. It is most likely that this silk came via trade routes which ultimately linking Egypt with China. Clearly, products traded that far would have been luxuries and their use would have been restricted to either the rich and powerful or to those who had a religious or ritual use for them - eg the priesthood, members of the court and for the mummification of their bodies.
Leaving aside the trans-pacific trade theory, the other possible explanations for the positive test results are downright fraud or deliberate hoax (which would involve both the German pathologist and Dr David of Manchester and which is NOT being suggested); carelessness in conducting the tests (unlikely but not impossible by a forensic pathologist with experience of working with the police); contamination of some sort yet to be clarified; or that both tobacco and cocaine in some form had once grown in the Old World, or that some other plants with similar chemical constituents had once done so. The archaeological world currently seems to be favouring the last two possible explanations, ie contamination or an Old World source of some kind. However, the establishment is desperate not be seen to fall for something which turns out to be a hoax or fraud (memories of Piltdown still raise a shudder), nor are those individuals who have built their careers and reputations by arguing certain points of view happy at the thought of it all being swept away by a couple of bloody women.
Pure speculation ....
Another idea which I find intriguing (but which I have not seen discussed elsewhere yet) relates the later years of Rameses II. X-rays of his skull show that he, like many other Egyptians of the New Kingdom, suffered from appalling dental problems. These were mainly due to the presence of grains of sand in bread and other foods which wore the teeth down almost to the gums and allowed serious infections to develop in the teeth and jaw. Rameses, poor old bugger, suffered from a number of dental abcesses, the infection from which had effectively hollowed out whole sections of his lower jaw by the time he died. It has usually been agreed that his later years must have been filled with constant pain and therefore pretty miserable. But were they?
If, as now seems at least possible, cocaine was available in Egypt by about 1,000bce, is it impossible that it was already available during the XIXth Dynasty, a couple of centuries earlier? The Andean Indians have chewed coca leaves for centuries to relieve hunger pains, and cocaine derivatives are still among the commonest dental anaesthetics used today. Could the Egyptians have used cocaine, for example by chewing coca leaves, precisely to relieve dental pain, even if they did not have the ability to treat the underlying infection? Could Rameses' last years have been spent in greater comfort than has hitherto seemed possible, eased by the availability of painkillers which we have arrogantly assumed he could have have used? I'd love to know the answer!
I'd also like to bet that this discovery, if upheld , will eventually revolutionise not only our knowledge of international trade in the ancient world, but also our knowledge of its medical capabilities - especially in relation to complex surgery and anaesthesia.
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Jan 22, 2009 6:22:14 AM CST
"The problem started in Munich."
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
My alcohol problem also started there. Litre steins are to blame.
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It's a marginalised nutbag theory that the majority of respectable archeologists won't go anywhere near.I'm all in favour of you having crazy opinions, MM (belive what you want - what do I care?), but don't throw around a phrase like "scientific and medical fact" when it isn't appropriate. All that does is reveal your own ignorance and make you sound like those Christian idiots who say "Well, evolution is just a theory, not a fact".You don't want to be like those assholes, do you?
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You're entertaining in short bursts, but cut that long shit out, for fuck's sake.
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Fucking A.
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I stayed in and drank beer.
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you're basing your entire argument on some some psudoscience "alternative" history internet website? Fuck you're a deranged lunatic. When did the institution you were in street your crazy ass?Let me guess, you buy extra small and tight sweatshirts then cross your arms inside the sleeves because it gives you that safe feeling you got from the straight jacket, right?
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"According to Emily Teeter, an Egyptologist at the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute, the Germans' work has been dismissed by mainstream archaeologists. No discussion of it is to be found in recent surveys of the field. Theories about transoceanic trade in ancient times are considered too outré to warrant serious consideration."
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The reports are a scientific and medical fact. Now, whether all scientists agree with them, as conclusions, or not, is another issue? Just like scientists don't all agree that Pluto is a planet, some say no, another group says yes. Who is right??? All we know is that Pluto is real and exists as two separate masses. And then there is the debate as to whether String Theory is correct, or not? And hell, they are now tearing apart sections of Einstein's Theory of Relativity. BTW, scientists had been telling us for years that they knew what causes Lightening, but about 8 year ago, they withdrew that theory altogether.
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Fuck off and let us get back to talking about schlock and whatnot.That is the kind of crazy we like here.
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Do your own web search. If I posted several other sites, you'd claim that isn't good enough either.
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I think there's one aboard each Voyager probe, put there by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Sex Cult as a greeting to the Star Gods.
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they are disputed and generally discredit theory that nutbags like yourself latch on to. Dude you're insane. Stop reading shit like www.tinfoilhatsahoy.com It isn't doing you any good.
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Your logic - and I want to get this straight - is that we should accept whatever nutbag theory comes along because scientists have sometimes disagreed about other things?Please, I'm begging with you, fuck off. You're an idiot, and I always end up feeling dirty when I argue with idiots.
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John Locke is the fucking man. Best character on TV.
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I disagree, I think SPielberg's problems started with Hook
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"Please, I'm begging with you, fuck off. You're an idiot, and I always end up feeling dirty when I argue with idiots" That was really heartfelt.
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were the lizrd people crack heads.On that note, I think winehouse may be a Lizard person. It would explain a lot about her appearance
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You really have no grasp on the how science and the scientific method works do you? I mean none at all. These "facts" your clinging to come from what I would imagine are some very flawed psudoscience from way out on the fringes. Really, son, I'm starting to feel bad for you again and the state of the chemicals roilling around in that head of yours. Please seek some help. I know those darned psychotropic drugs can make you feel bad but working with a skilled physcian the side effects can be minimized and the upside can be really good.Like for instance you won't feel compelled to grovel to scriptgirl on those TB asking for a job. See, things would look up right there.
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Man, he grovels to titgirl? Does he not know she's a satanic porn slut sent by Horus to bend his mind?
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I have done an advanced DNA test (in my role as Dr Franklin T Marmoset of the Bullshit Institute) using a random sample of pixels from Media Messiah's posts in this very talkback, and the results are astonishing!He's David Icke!Or, at the very least, he's as worringly gullible and misguided as David Icke (these kind of DNA tests are only 87.6% reliable).So far, no other scientists have disagreed with this revolutionary new theory, therefore proving it to be fact!QED and whatnot!
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Lightening. I thought it was accepted fact that Lightening is the afterburner of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Sex Cult as they attempt to break out of the Earth's gravitational field in their quest to breed with the interplanetary lizard people.
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nooooooo he's confused. She's the concubine of the dark lord Anubis and has been sucking on his satanic unit to get her 15 minutes of youtube fame. Mind you, he's a complete fucking tube so it's no wonder he's trying to get a job with her.
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...actually referred to Leonard Nimoy's "In Search Of" in the last talkback as a reliable source.
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Media Messiah, have you not starting praying to 2for2true? Learn the ways of the #2 pencil, and all the mysteries of the universe will reveal themselves to you.
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...gravitational field in their quest to breed with the interplanetary lizard people."
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Man on Wire last night, which was pretty damn enjoyable I might add.
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We were talking about that badass trailer a long time ago. It's cool news to be sure, but old new.
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fuck no. That's dumb. Media, what's wrong with you?
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I gave you facts, modern coca plants that are able to yield base came around late in the 18th century. nobody in the ancient world had the chemical resources nor the technologiacl ability to refine coca leaf into base. Not possible.on the other hand you you gave me some drivel and hookum from fucktarded psudoscince web sites.Getting info from "the Web" is the last place I'd go, but then again, I'm skeptical and have the ability to use discernment and judgementwith with web "info" so I'd be okay. It's that whole Occam's razor thing. It's a concept that seems Alien, pardon the pun, to you.Here's the problem with gleaming your "facts" from the web, they aren't usually facts but somebodies opinion or flat out BS. I could have somebody build me a website that says Lost Jarv was the gunmen on the Grassy Knoll and he killed Kennedy. Never mind that he's not old enough to have done it, some numbnuts will believe it. Especially if I lie, spin, obfiscate and cherry pick what I want known correctly.In two friggin weeks I'll have a book and "documentary" deal in place from some scam artist out to fleece the gullable and credulous masses like yourself. You know what? We'll be laughing all the way to the bank.
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Bound for Glory
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By ANN FINKBEINER
Published: June 3, 2001
THE MUMMY CONGRESS
Science, Obsession, and the Everlasting Dead.
By Heather Pringle.
Illustrated. 368 pp. New York:
Hyperion/Theia. $23.95.
In the end, we die and go the way of all flesh. Just what that way is, ''The Mummy Congress'' describes in fine detail. I quote here only the phrases ''delicate shade of green,'' ''bloody ooze,'' ''liquefy,'' and ''comes sliding away at the first touch.'' If the description of decay is distressing, the physical reality is worse, and the spiritual implications worse still. Faced with dissolution and meaninglessness, civilization got to work some 7,000 years ago and invented mummification.
For those of us who aren't dead yet, these dead who are still recognizable people hold what the author, Heather Pringle, calls a ''deep, almost primal fascination.'' For her, and for the handful of experts at the Mummy Congress, fascination slides into obsession. Pringle is a science journalist specializing in archaeology who covered five continents, seeing mummies and interviewing experts for her book. The experts are scientists usually employed otherwise, who pay travel and research expenses themselves. The Mummy Congress is an obscure scientific conference held every three years, the last time in Arica, Chile: five 12-hour days of formal talks, then more talk over dinner at the Restaurant of the Dead.
The book isn't about obsession, though. It is a series of self-standing stories about mummies, half dealing with mummy science and half with the uses to which societies have put mummies. Along the way, it recounts natural and artificial methods to mummify bodies; life stories of the experts; the rampaging Victorian trade in mummified body parts; the puzzling presence of nicotine and cocaine in the hair of Egyptian and Peruvian mummies; ways in which ancient German, British and Dutch bodies mummified in peat bogs had been murdered; Buddhist priests who tried to mummify themselves; incorruptible bodies of saints; and a lot more. By the end, I felt a little obsessed myself, or maybe, after zipping from story to story, just dizzy.
One story is provocative. In the 1970's, hundreds of bodies were found mummified by the desert in Xinjiang province in northwestern China. Most were dressed elegantly in brocades, bright leggings and intricately woven plaids and had deep-set eyes, heavy beards and blond or red hair. They dated from the 21st to the 11th century B.C. and were obviously Caucasian, thereby causing no end of trouble. The similarly Caucasian-looking Uighurs now living in Xinjiang used them as evidence to reclaim ownership of their ancestral land. This annoyed the Chinese government, which refused to allow the mummies to be tested genetically. The West didn't much want them tested either, because Hitler seems to have sent archaeologists to Xinjiang to look for evidence of the Aryan ancestry of his hero, Genghis Khan.
Eventually a few mummies were tested anyway, more or less sneakily, and their mitochondrial DNA showed that they were indeed European. But their dates -- at least 1,000 years before historians thought the Chinese first met Europeans -- implied that the horses, chariots and bronze swords accompanying the mummies had been introduced into China by Europeans, thus upsetting the amour-propre of the Chinese. Pringle notes soothingly that since the East gave gunpowder, compasses and printing presses to the West, the Xinjiang mummies are only evidence that ''human societies have always profited from the genius of others.''
Another story: On the coast near Arica, where the Mummy Congress was held, archeologists in the 1980's found an assembly of the world's oldest mummies -- of an Andean people called the Chinchorro, who disappeared around 1100 B.C. The mummies were masked and wigged, their bodies painted with manganese and polished to iridescence. They seemed to be not aristocrats but common people, including children and a few unborn babies. Apparently they had not been buried but laid out on the ground, sometimes in families, facing the sea. The living families of these dead evidently tended the shining mummies, Pringle says, ''for it was natural for families to speak to their ancestors.'' Even after the Chinchorro died out, the Andean Inca continued mummifying, tending and consulting their dead, preserved in special houses or caves until finally, in the 1600's, Spanish priests hunted out and burned or buried the mummies. For years the Incas told local priests they could hear their dead calling from the graves, unhappy to be imprisoned underground, unable to sit up.
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Ann Finkbeiner, a freelance science writer, teaches in the writing seminars at Johns Hopkins University.
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...Lost Jarv, he deed...
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you seem to be under the delusion that we give a shit about what you talk about in the Zone. Twitch is our starting place, and then we move on to other subjects. Congratulations on "beating us", by the way. Did typing that give you a boner, being "first" and all?
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Fuck's sake. I was trying to keep that hidden. The Lizard People gave me a time machine and ordered me to do it. I feel bad about it now.
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Have any of you British/ European types seen the banner ad for something called "The Tatooist"? It looks a bit like Torture Porn to me.
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Back in the early days of Titgirl, Media Mental spent several talkbacks kissing her ass and thinking she could help him land a writing gig. It was beyond sad.
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Words fail me.
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But they didn't assail this report as presented in the book their reporter, a free lance science writer, from Johns Hopkins University presented in their pages, again, The New York Times!!! I gues according to you misfits, this science reporter and I are just insane nut jobs, hhhhhmmmmm??? Go eat some peanut butter products!!!
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...is for losers. Talkback is pure win by definition.
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Jan 22, 2009 7:20:16 AM CST
I hate those fucking roll-over banner ads
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
They annoy the shit out of me.
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Why? she's a fucking Youtube 1 note, 2 nippled flash in the pan.
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Goddam it's 6 fucking thirty all ready. Even though i'm on holiday like you forgien bastards like to say, I need some sleep. If not I'll go crazy like the conductor of the looneytuneville trolly MM.
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That is a book review from the New York Times. Heather Pringle is not a journalist for the New York Times. She wrote a book that someone else is commenting on. The NYT is not the source of the theory. You are a fucking idiot that didn't read your source properly, the give away is that the price of THE FUCKING BOOK appears in the first sentence. Moron.
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getting chatted here. Cocaine snorting mummies from atlantis FTW? I myself beleive some of the Chariots of the Gods shite but never heard that one
Anyway Shinjuku Incident looks awesome.
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usually bought and paid for by a publisher. Depending on which science editor of the NYT you're talking about, yes they could be as nutty as you and a holiday fruitcake.
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...is when he tried insulting a talkbacker recently (in the Watchmen/Fox TB) using the term "sex toys". The recipient of the insult then proceeded, in lengthy form, to demolish MM and expose him as a virgin.
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That's the strangest thing I've heard all day.
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and the "industry". Which he knows less than he knows about the inner workings of the freemasons or the touch of a woman.
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It will get crazier by the minute because now MM is feeling threatened so more outlandish shit is on the way. good times are a brewing!
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I must apologize for my fellow talkbackers. It usually takes us a few days to get this far off topic in one of your articles.Todd, have you heard of a movie called The Divine Weapon? I came across it last night and was surprised that I had never heard of it during it's theatrical run overseas. It has the always entertaining Jeong Jae-yeong and those purty period customes so it should be up my alley. Also, have you heard of Truck? The reviews are calling it one of the better Asian thrillers to come out in a while?Lastly, what's the word on The Last Princess? So far I've read mixed reviews but I'm always up for Japanese fantasy.
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by Moon Unit up there.
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Is the Theory of Relativity accurate??? Is String Theory real...or false??? You guy's have refused to answer any of this...nor do you wish to address the issue of cocaine being used to embalm mummies, no, you'd rather call names...which means, I have to call this another clear debate win for me.
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The only thing clear is your insanity.Oh wait, my phone is ringing. *pillow picks up his stapler and stands on one leg* "what is thy bidding my master?"
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1)Maybe 2)Don't know and don't care 3)Don't know and don't care. 4)WE HAVE REFUTED YOUR IDIOTIC COCAINE MUMMIES THEORY- AND I JUST TRASHED YOUR SUPPOSED NEW YORK TIMES SOURCE. How is this a clear win for you?
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Jan 22, 2009 7:50:46 AM CST
Let's not give the loonies a chance to sully our turf
by hawaiian organ donor
Ignore MM and anyone else who would bait us to talk about tinfoil hat nonsense. Let's keep the lunacy to CoC approved topics, people.So I watched The Express last night. You know, I enjoy these "based on a true story" sports films as much as the next guy, but at this point they really are starting to become indistinguishable from one another. It was still fresh with Rudy and Remember the Titans, but at this point we've had too many We Are Marshalls, Glory Roads and Friday Night Lights to make even a true story feel unique.Franklyn looks like the British are returning to form. And Fireball promises to be the ultimate drinking movie.
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I can't find that thread. Which one was it. And the idiot fascist apologists are back.
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Not long on truthfullness are you? Everbody demolished your dumb fuck mummy nonsense several times over. But hey if it makes you feel any better you cut and paste with the best of them champ! Not quite sure what string theory and realitivity have to do with this discussion, oh wait yes I do. When everbody blew up your cockamammie mummy theory you grasped for any life line you could find and started flinging shit out on to the webs like a monkey in a zoo.Not to wory there nutter, I realize that everytime you get schooled like a fool on a TB you always fall back on the nobody answers my questions gambit and claim some sad internet victory. You need new material son, this stuff is old and used up. Although I guess it's your go to/signature move so maybe you can't.
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coming, although we may be a bit confused as to whether they are lesbians that kill vampires, Lesbian Vampires that kill or people that just kill lesbian Vampires. I'm hoping it's the second one.
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The Curious Case of Benjamin ButtonFrost/NixonMilkThe ReaderSlumdog Millionaire
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It's very funny.
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absolutely pwnd media nutbag. Hysterical.
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That you have not been able to refute my theory that you are, in actual fact, David Icke.Interesting.What colour shell suit are you wearing today?
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man, you would have been MUCH better off not replying to any of us. You've proven that you are a virgin, you are a geek, and you are a pussy. I have never learned so much about someone in as few words as you have used...where do i start--ok, there was your (geekily) valient attempt at a turn of phrase involving sexual inuendo. If you were going to turn the 'action figures' into sex toys, you need to modify the wording. It was estabolished that you are a geek who talks to his action figures. So, we knew we were talking about action figures, so, no need to call them action figures. What you needed to do was come right out and call them toys, which would segue much better when you flip it to 'sex toys.' Poor example: 'I don't talk to toys, i fuck your girlfriend with them.' That would have been better. The key is it uses less words and sounds more agressive. However, there is a built in pitfall to this 'sex toys turn of phrase'...you see, if you were a real man who has had sex with a real woman, you'd just fuck her yourself...what man worth his salt in bed needs sex toys, not counting anniversaries, birthdays, valentines days, new years eve, hell, even christmas? it seems to me like the only one being pleasured would be the girl, and i get it, sometimes you do throw a girl a gift like that (see above list of special occassions), but it's not good trash talk material. Personally, i've never used a sex toy on anyone i've slept with...i'm too selfish. So you're already on wobbly ground, but then you lose me: 'and by the way, i talk them, the sex toys, i mean' I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and not attack your wording there, probably a typo...however, talking to sex toys??? unless i've missed some new pop culture something or other, talking to sex toys makes no sense...what were you thinking? Basically, in sex trash talk, you want to stay short, quick, and to the point, (coincidentally, the opposite of how you want to perform in bed) and you want just the right amount of vulgarity. I could go on forever, you've given me so much to work with, but i'll finish up. For reasons i believe i've made moderately clear above, i have deduced you must be a virgin. But the last thing you want to be is a virgin AND a pussy. You see, Your apology really hurt your case. Under NO CIRCUMSTANCES do you ever take back trash talk. This is even more true when you're online. But when you talk shit, you gotta be ready to stand your ground. Not doing so, especially online, makes you come off as a huge pussy. I hate to break all this down for you, but this is really the shit you should learn from an older brother, or a friends older brother, or one of your older friends or one of your cooler friends that is your age...seems to me like you need a more alpha male influence in your life to show you the ropes. Moral of the story? don't talk shit if you're a virgin, pussy, action figure geek, or not willing to stand by it.
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you continue to amaze me. the funny thing is, i actually am schizophrenic...and you're right, some people with mental illness are genius' there's a whole lotta poets in the past who had mental illness, of course, they all killed themselves. But taken my personal case, i feel pretty confident that the people in this thread would say i, a schizophrenic, make more sense than you. and since i know what mental illness really is, i can also confidently state that you're not mentally ill--its clear to me that you're just an idiot. Wxmmm FOR THE WIN.
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in every TB I see with those two going at it. After MM gets tired of being Wixmmm's bitch he breaks a post like the one above claiming some sort of victory. It's as predictable as the sun rising in the east.
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..apparently, I think it was the only way the screws could get to him.,
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Jan 22, 2009 8:23:33 AM CST
Anyone else seen the Oscar noms?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Rourke will win Best Actor. Pitt shouldn't be nominated. Colin Farrell should have been for In Bruges.Come to think of it, where the fuck are In Bruges' nominations? It was the best film of the year. The Reader? Fuck off! Kate Winslets statue chasing is starting to get on my fucking nerves. She should not have been nominated of for Rev Road. Michael Shannon as supporting actor? Yes, definitely. He was brilliant. But Kate Winslet can fuck right off.Where the fuck is Jason Butler Harner's nom for Changeling? The guy was awesome. As much as I like him, Downey Jr can fuck off as well. Tropic Thunder was okay, but his role was a fucking gimmick, not a character.Frost/Nixon? Fuck off! Langella maybe deserved a nom. Maybe. But the flick was average at best.
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The Reader is a dreadful book, so I'm refusing to watch it. Presumably, Heath's nominated?
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great play. Not sure about it as a film.
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Heath is nominated. The geeks are up in arms about the lack of TDK/Nolan noms. I've posted my above rant there for extra effect.
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Jan 22, 2009 8:35:26 AM CST
For as long as they continue to snub Kurt Russell...
by franklin t marmoset
I have no interest in the Oscars.It's an orgy of back-slapping and marketing opportunities anyway. Has anyone ever tried to watch the Oscars all the way through? Fuck me, it's boring.
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fuck no.
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I couldn't be arsed to go look for the TB. Wixmmm FTW indeed! Hilarious.
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...tighter than Dominic Purcell's collar.
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It was worth it. I almost feel sorry for him.
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Jan 22, 2009 8:51:15 AM CST
Don't feel sorry for that cunt.
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
You should see him masturbating in his own shit about Benjamin Button on the Nom TB.A useless cunt.
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He's a cunt: Exhibit "A":"I love the Indian people, but Hollywood is major in need of financial investment due to the economic crash, and they want, and need, Bollywood and the Indian people watching the Oscars en mass...and with it, they are hoping to win favor and more investments by Indian Billionaires in Hollywood productions and studios like Dream Works, by giving Slum Dogs those nominations...and despite my love for Benjamin Button...the Hollywood elite are crooked enough to fix this thing so Slum Dog wins best picture over Benjamin Button just so they can get that cash!!! "That's demented. Even by his standards
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...he's been snorting too many mummies.
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...is actually very similar to baking soda (true fact, not me being sarcastic), so I reckon Media Messiah's dealer has about as much respect for him as we do.
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The Reporter called the information about cocaine and mummies, what was it, the puzzling presence of nicotine and cocaine in Egyptian mummies, and yet, you don't want to give up the ghost? The journalist could have attacked the information that was highlighted, in the text, and in the review itself, her review, but instead, was intrigued by it, as you should be??? And you are attacking me??? Face it, I'm right, you are wrong. I'm like the Red Baron of talkbacks...shooting down my critics with ease.
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Fucking gold medal there, Frank. He gets home with his freshly procured wrap, opens it up only to find that the dastardly swine has filled it with paper.(Actually, I was at a party where this happened to someone- he was pissed, especially as he'd paid £50 for it)
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It was a book review, you fucking idiot. He's there to review the quality of the writing/ story not comment on the fucking science. Christ, you're dim.
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Jan 22, 2009 9:11:05 AM CST
Lost Jarv: Who Just Gave Dream Works Millions...???....
by media messiah
...yes, Indian investors just invested hundreds of millions of dollars into Dream Works to save it. That's Spielberg's studio. Now all of Hollywood is building production offices in Bollywood hoping to create ties with Bollywood because U.S. and European banks are not lending much money anymore. The investment dollars have dried up. Haven't you been reading the industry trades over the last year??? Stop eating peanut butter dude!!!
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cretinous tool. The stories about Moon landings being faked and Elvis working in Burger King are intriguing. Doesn't make them true. You fucking donkey. In fact, the more outlandish the theory, the more intriguing it is.
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what I am doubting is some multinational Indian conspiracy to co-opt an award that doesn't apply to their industry, and that they care even less about. There's conspiracies and then there's obvious horseshit
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Jan 22, 2009 9:13:58 AM CST
Media Messiah is not only a complete imbecile...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
he's obviously got a sizable inferiority complex."I'm like the Red Baron of talkbacks...shooting down my critics with ease."You're a tool. Fuck off and take your stink with you.
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Jan 22, 2009 9:15:41 AM CST
Lost Jarv: You Can't Attack My Source On Coke & Mummies
by media messiah
Have a coke and smile. You have now hit a wall because you can't attack The New York Times or its Johns Hopkins University science reporter who seconded the information in the book, which, again, she specifically highlighted in her review.
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..could be worse though a friend once turned up, and opened his bag to find blue Ajax!
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Ha...ha!!!
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"I'm like the Red Baron of talkbacks...shooting down my critics with ease."That there is funny as hell. I get it now. You're not really a deluded loon - you're just taking the piss, like when I do my 'concerned parent' bit, right?It all makes sense now.
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That is hilarious after all the hype.
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those fucking fascism denyers on that other thread make my skin crawl.
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Jan 22, 2009 9:29:50 AM CST
Corporate Criminals Destroyed Banking & The Real Estate Market
by media messiah
Most industry/government is one big inter-linked conspiracy. Let's look at Heath Ledger, a nice guy and wonderful actor, but he doesn't deserve an Oscar for the Joker. That is the sympathy vote and he will get it. Why??? An informal conspiracy of well wishing friends who are talking him up for the award. It isn't a criminal conspiracy or meant to be corrupt, but it is there.On the other hand, big money and people's careers are on the line here when it comes to studio bucks, and two execs at a major studio were just canned for no reason. It appears the studio just needed to save a buck...so they were fired...and studios are cutting film budgets, star salaries, and DVD sales are also down...so these folks are in major trouble, and the banks are not lending. Hollywood is a place where greed is king...and a lot of people are in danger of losing their mansions and companies right now, so if you think they wouldn't vote to make sure Slum Dogs gets best picture you are fooling yourself. If it means Bollywood investment to shore up Hollywood financially they will do it and feel no shame. Do you know that each of the studios alone, have 100 guaranteed votes each int terms of the Oscars??? Well, they do!!! And they use them every year to do horse trading. And this year is no different. When people are desperate for money they are capable of most anything, at most any risk.
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I have nothing to say to that piece of stupidity.
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and think he does deserve it. So fuck off. Answer the question, asshat, on the basis that Bollywood is not represented at the oscars, and they don't give a shit about them, how is it a conspiracy to give a best picture award to a British film about India? What do you think the Academy are hoping to gain from this. You're a fucking idiot.
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Jan 22, 2009 9:34:30 AM CST
I always suspected Dolph would make a good drummer
by franklin t marmoset
I hope the drums form an integral part of the action in the film. Cymbals, for example, would be great for decapitating a bad guy, and it doesn't seem out of line to expect at least one henchman will get stabbed in the eye with a drumstick.
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Mark Dacascos on vocals seems obvious.Steven Seagal on guitar.Casper Van Dien on bass.And, what the fuck, let's hope they get top-heavy freak of nature Dominic Purcell on keyboards.
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horrid idea. He'd try and eat it. This is a tiring day, I'm dealing with the unfettered lunacy of Media Messiah on this thread and the evil right wing cabal on the other one. I feel sick.
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just trying to adhere to a theme for the day and whatnot.P.S. On saxophone, they should get that bizarre, shirtless, over-muscled sax player from The Lost Boys.What the fuck was that guy about?
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he can sort of grunt away, roughly in time with the chorus.
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Keanu sucks.
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A wonderful soul though, and a very good actor, just not in that film. Blame Chris Nolan for not giving him better direction and better scripted material and dialogue.
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Dolph and his trained monkeys. They'd sell literally dozens of records.
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....right before I go see Crank 2. Then my transformation to a man shall be complete.
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it wasn't the abomination that you make out. Ledger's performance, however, was great. You just have a sort of iconoclastic downer on that film.
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As Jarv said. Ledger deserves the nom and probably the win because he made that flick much better than it would've been. I'm more annoyed In Bruges has got fuck all recognition (in most awards) because IMO it was the best flick of '08.
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Seriously. What the fuck?
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Jan 22, 2009 11:10:42 AM CST
No one is actually reading those nomination posts
by franklin t marmoset
I'm just an honest guy, not to mention a concerned parent, trying to take a little piss, and everyone is ignoring me.Ah, well.
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That's why.
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I just posted that Batman would make a great Nazi, but even if that's stirs up some shit it's too late - I'm off in ten minutes.
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I'm being screamed down by the fascist trio.
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...they are too busy screaming about Israel.
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No it's not another Talkback for The Watchmen and it's squid contoversy, it's the hysteronics of TDK lovers not getting thier opinions validated by the Acedemay Awards. They woke me up from a sound sleep Hehehehehe....
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problems with fascists, lunatics and TDK didn't get it's nod so irate nerds.
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Which Fascists are you arguing with? The usual suspects?
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All I'm missing are Fish, the ninja counsellor and Animalballs. It's this Nazism= Left wing thing that pisses me off.
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So the usual then? I skimmed the headlines yesterday and was wondering if this OneBuckFilm, I think, is AnimalStructres new handle. I snapped to the capitalized letters in his handle.
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Expect a Changeling review tomorrow.
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There are actually militant Tom & Jerry that make The Watchmen nerds seem tame in comparison, who knew?
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Screw the Oscars, Changeling deserves Best Fucking Picture.
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I'm working on one for "Taken" and hope to have one after that for "In the Electric Mist".
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1. The freak show's question about relativity and string theory can not be answered because they are theories about concepts that are untestable in real life. However, we do know that relativity and quantum physics - the best theories we have to explain the macro and micro - are mutually exclusive, which means at least one, and possibly both, must be incorrect. I had a major scholarship to Canada's best math-science school. Fear me. And stop using shitty straw man arguments.
Jarv: your prayers are answered, the vampires are the lesbians.
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1. The freak show's question about relativity and string theory can not be answered because they are theories about concepts that are untestable in real life. However, we do know that relativity and quantum physics - the best theories we have to explain the macro and micro - are mutually exclusive, which means at least one, and possibly both, must be incorrect. I had a major scholarship to Canada's best math-science school. Fear me. And stop using shitty straw man arguments.
Jarv: your prayers are answered, the vampires are the lesbians.
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I actually liked the original movie.
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I like how we wind up seeing completely different films though sheer dumb luck. The Changeling review might be a little 'that rawked' though.
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Tropic Thunder got robbed. It was one of the funniest movies in ages, it will last longer then recent comedies. But Wall-E will walk away with all six Oscars.
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Best Costumes??? Really? Was it that hard to look at pictures of the real people and go to a thrift store and buy the clothes?
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I had a link to The Escapist, if you were still looking for it. It was posted in the Dead Snow tb and in the Ong Bak 2 tb.
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Hey, your review=your opinion, so do with it as you please. All of your reviews are great...absolutely no complaints from anyone. I think we've lucked out a bit on the varying titles so far partly due to location. Why argue with a working system? :)
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Changeling stomped the shit out of TDK.
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Next month should be insane. There's a good eight films out at the same time. Oh - if you ever want non-film review stuff, I rant on most things. Comic-books and bad comic-book games mostly.
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Yeah I saw it, I got the link up. Thank you very much.
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Shouldn't someone else win Best Supporting actor other then Heath? I mean someone that can enjoy it?
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IS IT SHOWING NEAR ANYONE???? WHY IS THERE NO ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF IT COMING OUT ON AICN?
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Absolutely! Anything you want to review is aok by me, especially if you have reviews on any new material. You have your own space on the site, so it's all good.
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Man I can't wait to see that movie.
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Where you at in The Walking Dead?
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Theaters? For Outlander released by Third Rail Releasing??? Who's that? Freestyles younger cousin? I thought that the brothers W. were releasing it?
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Third Rail is a specialty distribution arm of the Weinsteins. They don't use it much, but it's them.
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Sorry I wasn't there to back you up today. I promise you I'll be prowling the fascism nerds tomorrow.
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I gotta see that after it goes direct to DVD! That guy always makes fun films.
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excellent. Even though Matthew Horne is an annoying cunt, I'm stil wired to see that
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and something that I've never noticed before: Why does the president stop the hoist to kill the Duke of New York- he knows Kurt is on the timer thing. What a twatty thing to do- Snake would have been well within his rights to knock the fat old twat into the middle of next week
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despite the fact that I said I was off for the night, he posted "I've given him 4 hours to come back". Christ, I hate them.
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it sends my blood pressure through the roof.
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I'm psyched for this. It had better get a UK release. PS- although I enjoyed TDK, it wasn't best film material. The Changeling, Zed, on the other hand sucked.
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seeing as I will be all by myself for a while.
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I'm starting to doubt your taste, Jarv!Saying that, I'll give you a free shot...I watched Zack and Miri Make a Porno last night and quite enjoyed it. Sure it's essentially a formulaic romantic comedy, but there were some decent laughs."She frosted me like a fucking cake!" Disgusting, but genius.
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As far as I remember, he was. That seems like the stance John Catrpenter would take on Presidents. Plus, him being a twat like that makes Snake's revenge at the end all the sweeter.Now I want to watch Escape From New York again.P.S. Morning, all.
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I want to see that one.I know most people on the AICN are down on Kevin Smith, but I still like him.
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Seems like we've been waiting far too long for that one.
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But that's to be expected.
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that's required watching. I hated the Changeling. Really hated it. Mostly because of Jolie's staggeringly inept Oscar begging performance.
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That's well out of order.
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Didn't think it was oscar baiting. Winslett in Rev Road. Now thats oscar baiting. But if thats what you want, why not? Make a movie a year that's "oscar bait". Just don't make two! And one that exists for no other reason than to receive awards. At least Jolie had a stupid action flick to go along with her "important" film. I used to like Winslet, and i think she's a good actress, but she needs to stop chasing trophies.
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Almost as much as I hated Jolie's last attempt at Oscar bait- last years effort who'se name I'm temporarily forgetting. And TDK wasn't best film material- despite what the geeks are screaming. Winslet is a fucking good actress- but she's a bit of a "serious" drama whore- she's much better in things like Eternal Sunshine than she is in more "weighty" films- it's almost as if she's trying to hard in them.
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more on this. IMDB has told me that she's been nominated 6 times now. Of those nominations, I think she deserved to win for Eternal Sunshine and I haven't seen either The Reader or Revolutionary Road. She did not deserve nominating for Titanic, Sense and Sensibility and deserved nominating but not to win for Iris and Little Children.
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that was the jolie performance I loathed.
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Beowulf, Wanted, Mr and Mrs Smith, Tomb Raider (both of them), A Mighty Heart... Almost everything she's been in is crap.
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Beowulf i liked. The rest i didn't. Especially Mr & Mrs Smith which was absolute shite. Haven't seen A Mighty Heart.
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absolute shite. The thing is, she has been good in things and in some good films, but the shite far outweighs it.
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Might go see it on the weekend. Also, Underworld 3. Ugh. *Shudder*
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I know they're shit, but the premise keeps making me go back for more. It's a fucking war between Vampires and Werewolves, for fuck's sake. How can it be dull, bland and stupid? and yet it is. I don't know what the fuck is wrong with me over these movies.
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Stalkerman Returns put me off seeing another Bryan Singer film. I don't like Tom Cruise at the best of times, and we all know how the story turned out. Not interested at all.
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The first one was okay-ish, but the second one was fucking awful, so I'm not in a huge rush to see another one, especially since I heard it's some sort of prequel. Fuck prequels.It does have Rhina Mitra, though, and the prospect of her in skin-tight PVC for two hours will most likely mean I'll give the film a look eventually.Curse my never-ending attraction to sultry brunettes!
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Balls. It's Friday. You can't expect me to type correctly on a Friday.
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I like Kevin Smith mostly, but thought Zach and Miri was shit.
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Exactly what got me into the first one. Well, except for the fact that it was Beckinsale, and I read an article where she said the costume was too tight for knickers. I seem to remember her getting her norks out in the sequel, which was a bright spot in an otherwise unmitigated shitstorm of awfulness.
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How the fuck Wiseman managed to make her not attractive baffles me. She does nothing for me in those films. I much prefer her in shit like Serendipity or Brokedown Palace.
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but Jersey Girl and Clerks 2 burnt me so badly I'm not sure I want to see Z&M.
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I wasn't a fan of Clerks II. The first one was pretty good, but the sequel... it was like a Hollywood version of Clerks to the letter, just with more gross out humour.
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rhona wants me.
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I think he did that deliberately because he was porking her.
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I'm not saying he didn't make her intentionally ugly in Underworld, I'm just saying if he did he is a fucking moron.
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I know he's a shitty director and he rode the Jay & Silent Bob train for much too long, but I just like his sense of humour. I don't think any of his films have ever failed to make me laugh. Even Jersey Girl, which was sappy as fuck and not my cup of tea at all, had its funny moments.I like Smodcast, too, which has occasionally had me laughing like a hyena while walking to work. I must look like a right nutcase.
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The PVC, the blue contacts, the ass-kickery - it all worked for me. Very nice.
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Like I said - the only Smith film I didn't like pre-Z&M was Clerks II. And I hated Z&M. It's mawkishly sentimentle, it's disgusting, and he doesn't know when to tell Seth to stop improvising. It's halfway between a Smith film and an Apatow film, but when you watch it you will gain more respect for Apatow - he knows when to say 'stop' when it comes to improv.
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Justin Long is awesome in it, but appears for less than ten minutes. Soon as he leaves, the film goes to Hell.
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http://tinyurl.com/26eqk9
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Exhibit A: Underworld. Vampires v Werewolves, Kate Beckinsale, High-end cast, utter dogshit. Exhibit B: Underworld Evolution- even worse. Exhibit C: Die Hard 4.0. The prosecution rests.
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Jan 23, 2009 5:33:34 AM CST
Z&M was a fucking romantic comedy!
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Of course its going to be mawkishly sentimental. It's no more 'disgusting' than shit like Van Wilder or Superbad. I'm not saying its a great film, but it had a few big laughs, and was amusing throughout. Long and Supes were good. I don't dislike Rogen like everyone else and Elizabeth Banks is as cute as a fucking button.It's enjoyable. I liked it. And I haven't said that about a Kevin Smith flick for a long fucking time.
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I must admit, the one thing I don't really like about Smith is his sentimentality, so that's a shame.I'm still looking forward to seeing the film, though, even if it does let me down.
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that's what's putting me off.
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It's a big, dumb action film. Take it for what it is. Get over it.
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ironic_name!Thanks for that one, mate.Jesus, I suppose that guy thinks he looks all sexy and whatnot, blowing into his sax and wiggling his muscular ass about, but he just looks creepy.At the very least, he must be related to Dominic Purcell.
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Compelte shit. Olyphant was about as menacing as being savaged by a duck. Crap- although having said that, I did quite enjoy it on first viewing. It was only when I saw it again that I didn't like it. I did laugh at Kevin Smith.
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Last weekend, I saw The 40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up, Pineapple Express AND Superbad, and I still like Seth Rogen.He makes me laugh, plus he looks like a friend of mine so there's probably a bit of transferrence going on.
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If that's your opinion, coolio. But where it falls down for me is that Smith made Chasing Amy. I expect more from him than I do from Superbad or Van Wilder - because Smith is a really good writer when he wants to be. He's better than gross-out humour and mawkish sentimentality, as shown by the brilliant Justin Long scene in which a more convincing relationship is painted than Zach and Miri (who start off bickering, then are suddenly best friends... then fall in love before she plays some idiotic 'game' with him.) ever get.
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The problem is, he seems to just do things that he thinks are "cool" and they invariably aren't. But Die Hard 4 isn't totally dreadful, It's like Indy 4. By the standards of the genre it's "meh", as a Die Hard movie it's pish.
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It is a big dumb action film - but I think anyone criticising Indy IV who then goes 'but Die Hard 4.0 is okay' isn't thinking clearly. If Indy IV is nothing like the rest of the franchise - how the fuck is Die Hard 4.0? It's nothing like the first two, and it even ignores how brutal the third one was.
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You prove my point. I'm not saying Die Hard 4.0 isn't good - I'm just saying you can call Bruce Willis's character 'Peter Flint' and the film 'Flints Big Score', not change anything else, and the film loses nothing.
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I remember being disappointed by how cartoony it was - and I agree with Jarv that Wiseman's a guy who's more interested in what's 'cool' than in what's good for the story - but I've forgotten everything else.Except I recall thinking that if you replaced Bruce with Keifer, you'd have a pretty solid 24 film.
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that fucking sax player was tina turner's saxaphonist/concubine during her time australia where she did an ad for football that was on every few minutes, dr oilysax showed up too.. and dominic purcell is australian.. full circle.
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I remember that, too. He's pretty good at playing the charming asshole characters, which seemed like it would make him a great choice to be a Die Hard villain, but there was nothing to him in Die Hard 4. Very disappointing.
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But yes, they are the weaker siblings.
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It's so good for the first two thirds, but then completely turns to shit toward the end. Even the writer admitted on the commentary that it's a terrible third act.Such a shame.At least Die Hard 2 is consistently okay. Starts okay, carries on okay for a while, ends okay.What is it about Friday? Talking on the AICN on Fridays always makes me want to buy DVDs. Now I'm thinking about getting that dirt cheap Die Hard Quadradingdangdoodly box set they have at Zavvi.It is shameful that I don't at least own the first one.
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review Indy 4 and Die Hard 4.
Neither are actively bad films, but by the same score neither are good films. Certainly, they are atrocious entries in their pasticular series. The problem comes in that people are very fond of the series, so take these entries as personal slights which result in an unwarranted level of vitriol aimed at them. Harsh, but true. -
but evolution [which I believe in, by the way] is only scientific fact where it can be proven [viruses, insects] sure, we know its real.. but we can only show evidence. you can say that since evolution is proven to exist for insects there is evidence with us, then it exists for us [and you'd be right] anyhoo, thats just a technicality. oh, mummies on cocaine is a great punk band name.
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should not have gone to Canada. But I like it nonetheless. Order goes DH1>DH3>DH2>DH4.
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unfuckingforgivable thing was the nutless decision to make it PG13. If you think about all the memorable lines from the series, they all involve swearing, and Bruce Willis has great delivery of f-bombs (moronic expression). By nuetering his dialogue you totally change the nature of the character. It was a mistake.
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compare "Do I sound like I'm ordering a fucking pizza" to the dialogue in 4- it's a much snappier, convincing and more amusing line. Mistake, and one that irritates me.
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I just switch over to something else after the tanker / boat explosion and pretend the movie is over. still, the worst is definitely die harder.
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search your feelings ect
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Jan 23, 2009 6:05:20 AM CST
You can sound like a jerk if you want, ironic_name
by franklin t marmoset
I have no clue what you're on about, though.Did I say something about evolution that upset you?
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They have been best friends for 20 years. In relationships like that people bicker, but that doesn't change the fact they are best friends. The 'test' is not so unbelievable. It's actually a pretty good test. You want to know if someone loves you and is committed to you? Have a slut offer to fuck that someones brains out. What they do will give you the answer. The one aspect about it that failed is the "We didn't fuck. We talked about you" bit. It's written in the requirements of any romantic comedy to provide some bullshit that makes the audience believe the couple won't get together. This was particularly shit because they only needed to explain what happened for it to be resolved. I'll give you that.As for "He's better than gross-out humour." He's always been about gross out humour."Mawkish sentimentality" He's always been about mawkish sentimentality.Every one of his films contain these aspects. That's what a KS film is. You're expecting something from him that he doesn't do.Anyway, we'll agree to disagree. I've put more thought into this film than is necessary.
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yesterday.
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Except to say the first one is a mile ahead, two and three are pretty much neck and neck in second place, and Die Hard 4 is bringing up the rear.
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DH1 is miles better than the rest. DH 3 second, DH2 is an OK film and an OK DIe Hard and DH4 is an OK film and a terrible Die Hard.
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Jan 23, 2009 6:13:01 AM CST
The original DH3 ending is on the dvd.
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
McClane has tracked Simon down to some cafe in a euro trash town and proceeds to play russian roullette with a rocket launcher. My memory of it is vague. I remember i was underwhelmed.
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but the wording was a little off. and I'm responding to other people's arguments from a while ago.. nvrmnd.
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saw him in the paper and fell in love? he ain't crazy, SHE is.
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Fuck those people. They think creationism should be considered equally with evolution in a science class, therefore they are idiots.I was trying to draw a parallel between that kind of flawed thinking and Media Messiah's insistence that a marginal and largely ignored theory about cocaine and mummies was just as valid the opinions held by respected archeologists. It's not.
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sounds awesome.
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no he IS crazy. She's just also crazy.
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That's what I thought. But is sounds better than it plays.
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The problem with Die Hard 3 is it's basically 'Die Hard In Manhattan', so the ending of the story should really have taken place in Manhattan.Instead, it kind of drifts off to nowhere, first to the boat and then to Canada (because of a bottle of pills, for some reason). It's just not very satisfying, and the other ending has the same problem - it's more of a coda than anything else.
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The Dark Knight got robbed!
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is probably as good as an action film can get. The cab scene is genius.
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and getting behind the ambulance. Even the boat wasn't bad.
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McClane and Zeus kill Simon's crew, jump into hudson, boat goes bang. If you accept that the premise of Die Hard is 1 man trapped in X location (Building, Airport, Manhatten) you absolutely have to start and finish the film in that location. This is another weakness with DH4- he seems to traipse all over America. Which is not Die Hard.
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Is definitely very good. The cab scene, all the stuff with McClane chasing around New York, Samuel L, watching Jeremy Irons's plan start coming together - I love all that, it's great stuff. It's just a shame they couldn't figure out a way to have McClane confront the bad guy in Manhattan.If they had, Die Hard 3 would have been a pretty fucking great sequel.
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by the way. I can see why they didn't do it- but shooting down the power lines in Canada was also shit
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...to see that race through central park being used in a shitty advert for an insurance company.You would think Bruce Willis would have enough money by now.
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before we get on to the myriad problems with this one, I want to point out that I don't think it's actually bad. I do think it's OK, but it does "feel" like a Die Hard movie, something that isn't true of 4.
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Thoughts on this little 'gem'...The Runaway dude is definitely channeling Van Damme. The ughs and screams are down pretty pat.I'm pretty sure half the movie was filmed in my office. 97.4% sure.I've never seen a warehouse filled with so many empty boxes.Having said that, barricading oneself with said empty boxes will not stop the dino puppet from eating you. Nor will empty boxes thrown in the path of a cyborg (who eerily looked like a hard rock zombie to me) will slow him down much.One part is a blatant ripoff of the terminator, along with very similar music that accompanied the cyborg.Worst acting goes to sister Ann, since she was really given the "meat" of the story. She's also supposed to have been some sort of bad girl. Sure.She also knows "people" to get weapons. Happily after her episode of puppet dino killings, she still takes her vows. The Church is really modernizing me thinks. There is most definitely not a coherent story or shots that really make sense. It's no Space Mutiny. Oh, and the beginning of the movie launches you into the action right from the get-go. But who dies? The lone black man. What's even more amazing about this scene is...they show it again towards the end of the movie! That's right, they go back 4 days from this opening scene. In short, this movie is balls. Sweaty balls from the gym. In short, see it. You'll never look at puppet dino's the same again. And I haven't even mentioned their 'self-destruct collars'.
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that one for Norwich Union and the one with Iggy Pop in it. Fuckers.
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Seriously. That and the shitty ending. Them being tied up reminded me too much of say a Bond film. But I think I'll have to watch them all again soon.
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What the fuck are you doing, Iggy Pop?
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Jan 23, 2009 6:45:33 AM CST
My initial reaction to DH3 was...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I liked it, but it didn't feel like a Die Hard movie because they should be set in a defined space and be somewhat claustrophobic. And there should be a scene where Willis crawls through a metal shaft on his elbows. As time has gone on I accept it more. But DH4 exists in it's present form because DH3 removed the restriction of defined space.After DH2 I always wanted a DH on a cruise ship. On a cruise to repair his relationship with Molly. I had the image of McClane swinging down from the top deck on a life ring and shooting at the bad guys on the lower decks as he swings past.But then they made Under Seige and Speed 2 and I came to my senses.
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with a flamethrower and torch Saatchi and Saatchi and the rest of them.
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Jan 23, 2009 6:47:13 AM CST
"I'm pretty sure half the movie was filmed in my office"
by franklin t marmoset
If that were true, why the hell did you not submit any blurry cellphone photos to the AICN, jpt!You have shamed yourself, and you have shamed the art of web-based film reporting!
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agreed- but it would still work if it was just in Manhatten. DH4 has come about as a result of breaking away from 1 location, and with the idiot Bigger is better mentality, as soon as they'd done that then Hollywood was inevitably going to have him fly helicopters and shit.
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And I thought the gross-out elements of Mallrats, Dogma and Clerks II were pretty naff as well.
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why would this be any different? tsk-tsk Frankie, you should know this by now.
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That wasn't a typo. Just me being a retard.
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while funny, also has a host of problems. But I want to fuck Salma and Linda Fiorentino. The Last Seduction did terrible things to an adolescent Jarv's expectations of women
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It's lunchtime - off to Zavvi.
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I still call them Virgin.
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but soon it won't matter because they'll be called "boarded up"
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Touche.
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I'm going to go and buy either chopper chicks take zombietown or Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell.
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Jan 23, 2009 7:09:50 AM CST
I've always wondered who buys those flicks...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Now I know.
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Nymphoid Barbarian, for example is hilariously bad: She's not a nymphoid, the Dinosaurs look like the chewitt monster but are actually Aliens anyway. How is that not funny?
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"This film is the biz! The "Plot" is at best flimsy, but if we are honest, there is no plot. The acting is appallingly poor to the point of being offensive and the special effects are less than special.
This film is a must! It is utterly crap and absolute genius. It is the kind of movie that ranks alongside eternal classics like Plan 9 and Tarantula. There is a fight between two reptile Dinosaur type beasties that is straight out of the Chewits ad of the 80's with the monster eating the leaning tower of Piza, the Taj Mahal and the Empire State Building. It is so shit that you simply must see it." And that's positive!
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The puppet dino's are horrendous. There are times where it most certainly looks like the actors are running in place or jogging very slowly for the camera. Perhaps they only had one camera.
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Wouldn't surprise me.
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choreographed the epic fight scenes.
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I'm gonna watch Rambo IV later.
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is ok.
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Go fuck yourself Virgin Media.
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"This is just a big, dumb, loud, stupid movie. But how can you not like a herd of zombies chasing down an ice-cream truck filled with raw meat? Or a bus load of blind kids who act like real people instead of just some sympathy factory? If nothing else, the pure inventiveness of simply stapling a zombies mouth shut (He can't eat you if he can't open his mouth) is one of the best things I've seen in ages!" Stapling a zombie's mouth shut!
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"The plot is, at best, thin. Most of the acting is so wooden the actors/actresses should be sprayed for termites. A group of thirteen-year olds with a $50 budget could do better special effects."
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Jan 23, 2009 7:43:18 AM CST
"If you were supposed to do normal things, God would have made y
by lost jarv
said to a midgit. Or "I'm the dyke. Blow Me" hehehehehehe
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I have to do a review session on some of these flicks.
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"If you were supposed to do normal things, God would have made you look like a normal person"
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I sure wish it was on netflix.
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If this doesn't make you want to see Chopper Chicks, then nothing will:"This movie had everything, Drama, Comedy, Action, Romance, Motorcycles, Lesbians, a Musical number, Mad Scientists, Midgets, Zombies, Blind Orphans, and most especially, CHEESE! Lots and lots of cheese!" It's got it all, including a (lost) Billy Bob Thornton.
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fuck me. That's surprising. Lovefilm do- but it's on long wait.
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Took me twenty-five minutes to cancel my subscription over the phone.
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Jan 23, 2009 7:56:18 AM CST
Billy Bobs in that Chopper Chicks flick?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
When was it made? That review was good, but it was the promise of cheese, lots and lots of cheese that has sold me on it.
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Relentless gore is relentlessly boring to me.
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Jan 23, 2009 8:01:10 AM CST
Who out of the CoC watched Night Train?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Someone did. I need someone else's take on that shitfest.If I watch a shit movie, I feel I need someone to share the pain.Come forward!
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I'm not sure if that counts as "before he was famous"
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I got the 8 disc Die Hard set for £15 and the 9 disc Alien Quadrilogy set for £12.Stupidly cheap.That's me sorted for the weekend.
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to hear the following: "...Motorcycles, Lesbians, a Musical number, Mad Scientists, Midgets, Zombies, Blind Orphans.."That's just a potpourri of awesomeness. Fucking netflix letting me down with this one. Fuck!
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Not great, but pretty decent considering how long it's been since the last one (and Stallone's age).I could have done without the Burma stuff, though. It seemed a little tasteless to set a film like that in a real country with real problems.
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Jan 23, 2009 8:06:39 AM CST
Have you guys ever noticed the UK version of DH3
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
is cut? The scene in the elevator is one place. It's cut to shit.
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As soon as those DVDs arrive, I'm settling in for all 4 Toxic Avengers and the possibly awesome Poultrygeist: Night Of The Chicken Dead.
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didn't rock my casbah, didn't hate it. I'm not really a big fan of Rambo, though.
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Jan 23, 2009 8:08:04 AM CST
hmmm...I may have to stop at Circuit City after work
by just pillow talk
Since the bastards are going out of business in the U.S. I'm a bit sad as they always had some good deals on DVD's.
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I really, really hate myself for knowing this, but his name is Tim Capello and he was Tina Turner's sax player back in the 80s-90s. And yes, I have been to a Tina Turner concert where he was playing.
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That's a fucking bargain. Best set ever.
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...but it gives me great joy to know that, in the eyes of people who (for some reason) place actual value on the Oscars, The Dark Knight has been officially judged to be not as good as Driving Miss Daisy.
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I saw that fucktard Cuntlin did the same thing he did last time around. I posted a rather detailed list of how fascist governments WEREN'T socialist, which he ignored, and he also ignored your reply to his "leftist paradise" question.
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Sounds like Future War is everything I've hoped for.
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Closet Tina Turner nerd!You must love Mad Max 3.
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TDK doesn't deserve any of the big Oscars. There were far better films released this year.
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that's a deal, a steal, sale of the fucking century. I may have to go to Zavvi tomorrow.
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Purcell's headbutt can crack planets. Like the bomb in Starship Troopers 3.
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Forget Aliens and Predators and whatnot - this is the showdown we've all been waiting for.Creepy muscle dudes in a fight to the death!
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I'm not going back in there- irritable is more than capable of dealing with them. Wankers. MorbidObesity and Cuntlin drive me up the fucking wall. It's so frustrating
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crap. Not reading it. NOT READING IT.
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Hollywood realised that they had nominated the vastly superior Heat (which TDK mimics) for ZERO FUCKING AWARDS. Not one single fucking nomination. Best Picture noms for 1996Braveheart (this won)Apollo 13 (Very good flick)Babe (WTF? Nice little flick but fuck off!)Il Postino (never seen it. not really interested)Sense and Sensibility (WHAT THE FUCK?)Heat is far superior to at least three of those films. I'd personally say its superior to ALL those fucking films.Anger... subsiding...
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I never got around to buying the Alien Quadrilogy set because I'm not a huge fan of 3 and 4, but for £12 I'll take it. I may even watch all four films.
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I think it sucks goat balls.
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What are those two idiots talking about now?
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I just saw Coughlin's Laws had appeared again. Probably Palestine, if I had to guess. Arguing with them is impossible and really annoying- it's like trying to explain to a retarded child that he shouldn't eat his own shit, when you know that it's pointless as he loves the taste and as soon as your back is turned he's going to start stuffing his mouth again. Frustrating and pointless.
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Christ he's a twat. I wish I hadn't read that. I feel stupid and dirty now
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There was this prick in the Inaugeration thread who kept asking ridiculous questions everytime I posted.
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that's a good argument. But what fucks it is that the Academy handed out a shit load of awards to the (poor)Departed when the excellent Infernal Affairs didn't even get a nod in the Foriegn category.
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Indeed it is.
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How the hell do you decide which film in any one year is definitively 'the best' anyway?I've never understood why people get so hot under the collar about it. Each year, the Academy offers a marketing boost to whichever film they like best, that's all.
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Jan 23, 2009 8:52:29 AM CST
Also, has anyone ever read Down And Dirty Pictures?
by franklin t marmoset
It's mostly about Miramax, but it also lifts the lid on how Oscars are basically available to be won by whoever throws the best parties, gives the Academy members the best gifts, and does the most relentless amount of ass-kissing.
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They're very rarely actually the "best" film. Crash, Shakespeare in Love (although I do like it), Gump, Titanic, Braveheart, Million Dollar Baby etc were by no stretch of the imagination the best films of their years.
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"As I said, there's nothing great about this OUTLANDER, but if you're in the mood for big, dopey fun that actually has a concept I'm fairly certain you've never seen before, you might like to try this one on for size. It certainly surprised the hell out of me how much of it worked." Snide backhanded compliment. Outlander is totally changian, and not for reviewers that kiss Paris Hilton's talentless ass.
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Was weak. I really liked what they did with the Die Hard 3: Die Hard With A Vengeance remake this summer (TDK) where they gave you the option of three endings in the movie, nice little Return of the King nod there.
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Jan 23, 2009 9:03:14 AM CST
Fuck I hate Shakespeare in Love
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Nothing more.
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I found it entertaining and Seth I used to be funny till I did what ever famous comedian does and over expose the shit out of myself Rogen to be funny in it as well. Between that and Pineapple Express the Seth man is back on my good side. I enjoyed the shit out of Beowulf that movie is what 300 wanted to me, awesome.
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Seriously how does that happen all the time in Hollywood. With people getting two things out at once? How does Outlander end up coming out the same day as the other movie he worked on Underworld 3-D? Also I would like the record to show that I have yet to see a single damn trailer for Outlander on my mind control box.
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I guess they are hoping its a hit, somehow the last two kind of were. Even though I think they are both terrible terrible movies (But I loved Die Hard 4.0: Live Free of Die Hard, even when you can tell they dubbed over conversations to get that highly coveted PG-13 rating for an Action film). So maybe next week they can expand Outlander and tack on, from the creator of Underworld 3-D even though there are like 9 names attached to the screenplay.
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There is a guy named Danny McBride who helped with the Underworlds scripts and I was like THE Danny McBride from Pineapple Express and Tropical Thunder. No its not, but there are pictures of that actor on his IMDB page. Silly IMDB.
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Why?
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only reason for that to be 3D.
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YATTA.
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and very polite I was too. I'm going to put staples in my own hand before I ever type another word to that cocksucker.
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Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
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It's shit, but it presents me with an interesting choice: Now that I have all 4 Aliens on DVD, should I rent AVP: Requiem and do all 6 Alien-related films in one weekend?It is mighty tempting.
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Jan 23, 2009 9:55:20 AM CST
If you do all 6, you will realize the only truth!!
by dannyglovers_dickblood
ALIEN 3 is the best of the bunch!
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Don't do it to yourself. AvP:Rectum is an abomination unto the lord and has been known to cause cancer in small rodents.
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Jan 23, 2009 10:02:31 AM CST
I could chuck a couple of Predators in there, too
by franklin t marmoset
Do the whole lot and whatnot.
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Is it honestly that bad?The concept of Aliens and Predators fighting in a supermarket sounds bloody awful, but who knows...Maybe I will think it's mint.
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Jan 23, 2009 10:09:19 AM CST
All eight Alien and Predator films would be awesome...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
except for the fact that you would have to finish with the AvP flicks and it would sully the good work you did at the start.
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The characters suck, it's lit appalingly, it's fucking confusing, embarrasing shite. In fact, I only need to say one thing to you to confirm it's suckitude: PREDALIEN
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I only watched AvP:R about a year ago (maybe not even that!) and I can't even remember what the Predalien looked like. It's like I've repressed it. All I know is, I will never watch that piece of shit again.
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If you start with Star Wars with Episode 1, by the time you get to Episode 6 you've forgotten how much the early ones suck. Alien works the other way.
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I love the first one, like the second and third, don't mind the fourth, like the 2 perdator films. Therefore I don't want my fond memories of it anally violated by the AvP shitstorm.
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From the heady heights of Alien and Aliens, through the disappointment of Alien 3 and Alien: Resurrection, back up to Predator, down a bit for Predator 2, and then weeeeeeeeeeee all the way down for the AVP Duo-rilogy.
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because that would require sitting through the misery of the prequels, having the 2 good films in the middle and then ending with the fucking ewoks. That sounds like an exercise in misery to me.
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I like it. Watch the Assembly cut- honestly, it's a lot better.
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What's the correct order? Is it Predator, Predator II then AVP, or AVP then Predator?
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I can't be assed to do anything constructive this weekend, so I am setting myself the Aliens/Predators/Aliens Vs Predators challenge!What will I be like when I come out the other side?Will I think Alien Vs Predator: Requiem is mint?Who knows...
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I never got that 'watch the assembly cut' logic. When I watched it, I never thought 'hey, this has redeeming moments that scream out for a Directors Cut.' I thought it was uniformly terrible from start to finish.
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Predator.
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That's perfect. You start with two good films, then go onto two shitty films, then get two good films, then end with two shitty films. Great symmetry.
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...but the order I plan to use is Alien, Aliens, Alien 3, Alien 4, Predator, Predator 2, AVP, AVP 2.I feel like I need to buy some themed snacks to compliment the experience, but I have no idea what they would be.Any suggestions?
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Jan 23, 2009 10:28:58 AM CST
Correct Order (As I would watch it)
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Alien, Aliens, Predator, Alien3, Predator 2, Alien 4. All the directors/alternate cuts.AvP does not exist.
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Dude, I'd advise against having sharp objects nearby.
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Alien, Aliens, Predator, Alien 3, Predator 2, Alien 4. All director's cuts- but I'd fast forward the start of Cameron's. What is this AvP you speak of I've never heard of it.
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Jan 23, 2009 10:32:06 AM CST
You COULD follow the timeline logic...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
thus getting the AvP shitfests outta the way after Pred 1 & 2.
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I liked how Aliens ended the franchise. Ripley gets a substitute daughter, and you just know they'll live happily ever after.
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sound quite good.
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That puts my three favourites at the start and a steady decline thereafter. I need the promise of Predator to get me through Aliens 3 and 4.
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what it most definitely has going for it is what followed after it. It makes it look mint (borrowing that for a bit Frankie, hope you don't mind).And I disagree with Jarv on this one, while both blow big wads, AVP:R I find less horrifying than AvP. Why you ask Frankie? Simple. While the Predalion drives Jarv nuts (I think it's a horrendous insult, however I find the following more insulting), the chick being honored by the Predator in AvP AND be given a staff by the head Predator...UGH!Plus the people were I think dumber in AvP:R, so more grisly kills.
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then it's predator, AvP, AvP:Rectum, Predator 2, Alien, Aliens, Alien 3, Alien Resurrection. The problem with doing it this way, is that Predator starts you well, you've then got the shit to put up with (at least they're short), Predator 2 sort of puts you back on your feet- but the best 2 films may be soured by 2 of the Weakest 3 and you may not want to see them.
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Alien movies in order, AvP's, then the Predator movies. Except I would end it with Predator, not Predator II. You've got to end on a high note.
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That 'assembly cut' of Alien 3 is no better or worse than the original version, as far as I'm concerned. It's still relentlessly brown and has that awful fucking rod puppett alien.I'm totally with David Fincher as far as that film is concerned.
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You can't fucking see them. Honestly, you may as well watch that with a bag over your head for all you can make out. AvP is horrific bollocks, totally agree, and Anderwank is a complete twat, but AvP:R has a fucking PIZZA DELIVERY CUNT in it. It blows.
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For Rhona Mitra and that alone.
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And the assembly cut makes it a little better. Fincher predominantly hates his experience making the film, rather than the film itself. He couldn't give an objective opinion.
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from a Predator nor a staff in honor of befriending a Predator. AvP:R could have had a ballerina who questioned her purpose in life, and it still would have been better since I didn't have to see a fucking badass Predator join forces with a stupid human. I equate this to the Hulk wars. We all lose.
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Jan 23, 2009 10:49:06 AM CST
The movie I'm tracking down this weekend.
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Terminal VelocityI haven't seen it in a long long time, but i remember it was so stupid and ridiculous it was very enjoyable.Ebert says this..."You've gotta hand it to "Terminal Velocity:" This movie may be dumb as a box of shredded wheat, but it has the damnedest action sequence I've seen since Arnold Schwarzenegger blasted the bad guy with the missile in "True Lies." Nastassja Kinski is locked in the trunk of a red Cadillac, which is taken aboard a cargo plane. Charlie Sheen pursues in another plane, walks on its wing, hauls himself aboard the cargo plane, and then finds himself, Kinski and the Cadillac all falling through the air - with a villain on the hood shooting at him. This is an assignment for Houdini."Genius.
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Its just a fast paced survival movie with a tiny bit of story.
Its a much lighter film that tries to balance goofy with melodrama. It does have an odd tone. But the alien looks great and there is some amazing photography in it. I find the characters more engaging than anything in Aliens though. I'll take Ron Perlman, Michael Wincott, and Dan Hedaya over those douche bag Marines any day. And yes-- Winona's "I'm a robot but I hate myself" dileman is more interesting than the Ripley/Newt bullshit. -
worst thing about Resurrection. She sucked.
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See, I think Alien: Resurrection struggles from feeling like a thrown together 'greatest hits' film. They hired a successful writer and a visionary director... and THAT was the best they could do?
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Automatically not good.
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I'll take stupid assed warmark and being able to see what the fuck is going on over pizza collecting cunt, shite lighting and the predalien. TO be fair though, you're right. We lost. Big time. Fuck fox.
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that whole fucking character sucked. And that scene where it's revealed she's a cyborg, and the soldiers yelling exposition at her... "Oh man! I heard about these! They... blah... blah.." That was a fucking shit scene and that dude who played the soldier was fucking awful (and he has been okay in things I've seen him in like Clear and Present Danger). Just an shit scene all round.
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Jan 23, 2009 11:05:57 AM CST
I was reading an interview with Danny Boyle recently
by franklin t marmoset
And in it he said the thing that made him want to direct Alien Resurrection was that Joss Whedon's screenplay was so good.I'll have to try to find that screenplay and read it, because there can't be much of it left it in the film.
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That's good.
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It's pretty good, but it's also very similar to the finished product. Except the alien baby was different and it ended on earth.
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if memory serves.
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is great. Best bit of the film. It's from where Ryder turns up having been shot to the end that sucks. Droid is spot on about that scene. It's embarrasing.
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Fincher originally presented to fox with the gore turned up to 11. They shat themselves apparently, it was allegedly almost unreleasable.
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I've liked Winona in a few other things, but she's horribly miscast in Alien 4.Shit, I have to stop slagging these films. I'm supposed to be watching them all this weekend and I need a more positive frame of mind or I'll never get to the end.
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pretend AvP doesn't exist, do Predator 2 then the Alien films. That's some mighty fine viewing.
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Apparently, David Fincher offered the Charles Dance role to Richard E Grant because he wanted to have him, Paul McGann and Ralph Brown in the film together in some kind of twisted Withnail & I reunion.It doesn't make me like the film any more, but it's still pretty cool.
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You can't choose which parts of the mountain you want to climb - you have to climb the whole damn thing!It's all or nothing, I reckon.
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Why did Grant turn it down?
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Then do nothing. Insanity isn't a good end result.
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It also doesn't say why Monty was never offered a role, and he is the only Withnail & I character with the ability to single-handedly repel an alien. He would use the power of his creepy homosexuality."I mean to have you, vaguely dog-shaped Alien, even if it must be burglary."And the alien scarpers.
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I'm off to begin the strange and possibly beautiful oddysey through the Alien/Predator/Alien and Predator universe.If I don't return, say a prayer for me.
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and avoid any potentially treacharous pitfalls.
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That helps.
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The small scope of Resurrection wasn't surprising. It fits in with Whedon's sensibilities. Look how intimate and small Firefly and Serenity feel. Even though it takes place in a much larger world, you only get a feel for a very select small group, where something like Star Wars feels like the worlds and the galaxies and the scale of the whole thing is another character. In that respect, it fits in with his writing. And Jeunet has always been overrated in my opinion. A Very Long Engagement looked nice, but I could give a shit about anything happening to any of those characters.
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Jan 23, 2009 11:43:59 AM CST
I'm gonna call it right now....ZACH SNYDER for next Alien.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
I can see that title on the trailer "FROM THE VISIONARY DIRECTOR OF WATCHMEN AND 300." Please excuse me while I vomit in my assistant's mouth.
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posh cunt. Anyway- MARSHALL for Alien 5. This MUST be done.
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now I've been thinking about it- is the piss poor attempt to tie them into proper "alien" continuity- SHAME ON YOU LANCE. Mr "Weyland" in the first film and Miss "Yutani" in the second make me want to feed puppies into a wood chipper.
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....like a joint assistant. Someone who helps 3 people. Funny thing is, the assistant barely makes less than me. I want his job. He doesn't have to deal with hours of agonizing migraines on account of AICN.
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New Twitch. Fuck. Do we stay or go?
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I'm not sure though. Fucking hate my job. Anyway, it isn't a new twitch. It's this one again,
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I'm not an assistant. I don't assist anyone. I pretty much work (well, erm, pretend to work) on my tod.
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I blame the direction and meddling mostly... but it's just not an interesting film. While I hate Alien 3, at least that's an interesting failure. It went out swinging, unlike Alien IV which is a bunch of okay ideas done ineptly.
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hmph. I feel like Alien 3 is a little kid getting picked on by abusive parents that scream at it for not being like it's elder brothers. I've honestly got a theory about Alien 3 hate- it's because Fincher killed Newt and Hicks, isn't it?
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he says that you know what you're getting into when you sign up with fox to make an Alien film- they basically order what they want like it's a fucking menu. Fincher didn't understand this, and refused to co-operate whereas Jeunet just shrugged and said "OK".
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They're fucking good those extras.
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Twat
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have fun ramblers.
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It's because I thought the film was utter shit. I went in thinking 'this can't be that bad.' And it was. Have fun, dude.
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Its absolutely because Fincher killed them. Read some of my past argument with people over it-- it comes up every time "Fincher fucked it up from the start by killing to beloved characters." Fuck that. It took balls to do what he did. And for a first time feature director to come in and say he wants to kill off everything from the past film but Ripley and start again. Especially after the universal circle jerk Aliens got. That took fucking balls and I wouldn't have liked the film nearly as much if those two were in it. Ripley doesn't need a family. She is a fucking loner. Thats the point. Everyone she knows and cares for dies over and over again.
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...I dont think they pushed him around much.
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Boss wanted to see me- really off now. He says it himself- Fox told him what they wanted, he put it in his style and gave it to them. I really don't get the hatred for Alien 3. Never mind
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The story could've picked up from there. It didn't.
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Jan 23, 2009 12:31:14 PM CST
I think its by far the strongest story of the franchise....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
....to me, its an incredibly powerful film with actual human emotion, not that fake shit Cameron sprinkles on his films. I bet he has never cried in his life.
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Shit, I didn't cry during Aliens. I just found it fun.
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And we've talked about this before Danny, but my biggest problems with numero tres is:some downright shitty special effects, which is very distracting in this type of movie...the awful ending with Ripley jumping and catching baby alien..and reappearance of Bishop.That being said, I do still like the film, just not nearly as much as the first two.
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and Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Unfortunately Samurai Cop wasn't ready to be sent in time.
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I didn't mean you're supposed to cry during Aliens. I meant it seems Cameron has never witnessed actual human emotions. Its like if I tried to write an accurate scene depicting the courting ritual of the Bakongo tribe. It would come out feeling a bit like the Ripley/Newt or John Connor/Ahhhnold relationships.
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I see that, but I wasn't emotionally invested in Aliens. I really dug it as a blockbuster, but I'm not going to be drained from it.
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Jan 23, 2009 1:08:54 PM CST
Mr. Zeddemore -- you need to start investing yourself....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
...in films. I feel you watch as a passive spectator far too often. If the character cries, you must cry. If the character feels pain, you must slam a steak knife through the palm of your hand.
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That was a draining film. Aliens is just a really well-executed blockbuster.
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When Christian Bale feels pain in TDK, I laugh. Was that wrong?
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When Angelina screams "I WANT MY SON BACK!!" did you stab yourself in the abdomen to simulate the sensation of a woman losing her child and having her uterus torn out?
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I thought about it, but instead I slapped the man seated next to me really hard.
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When she was in the institution, I tried yelling 'THIS IS MY ROOM' at the man I just slapped... and he punched me in the face.
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The man said the film was crap. I yelled 'Fuck you, and the horse you rode in on.' Next thing I know, I have an Oxygen Mask on.
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I related to her characters struggle.
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They should have somehow figured out a way to link Changeling and Wanted into one film. Like its a prequel or something. Maybe that elite group of assassins wanted to recruit her, so they took her son. They could reveal all that in Part 3 when she turns against her own organization upon finding they are evil.
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So Part III would be equal parts flashback/present day?
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i really do like predator 1 and 2. alien and aliens are different films but both very good. alien 3 i hated for a long time, but now its ok. alien 4 i still really like, but thats because ron perlman is a space pirate fighting aliens. how can you hate that? brad dourif playing with the alien like its a dog. hilarious.
avp was so bad it does not exist. avp:rape i never saw, i thought it was a fan trailer someone made on youtube, with the joke that it was avp but r-rated.
doing a marathon of starwars 1-6? that takes a lot of strength. i fell asleep in the theater while watching episode 1 with my friend. i gave sw2 a couple of chances but gave up. sw3 was worth it just to see how fucking stupid it was.
the keep was interesting. it goes in a bunch of directions at once, and does feel a bit like a mini series.
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Yes the simultaneous storyline of past and present will mirror Godfather 2.
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That Star Wars marathon was brutal. Sadly I started to black out during every scene with Yoda in Empire. I missed the most of that which sucks cause its my favorite. I down tons of ice cream and started walking in circles and stayed up for the entirety of Jedi. But fuck....by the end it was just miserable trying to keep my mind focused and remember what was happening. For whatever dumbass reason, we started it around 8pm so we finished around 7am the next morning I believe. The interesting thing is watching a Star Wars movie in that state really does feel like you're seeing it for the first time. I swear to Christ it seemed surprising to me when Vader picks up the Emperor and helps out Luke. I was like "Holy shit.....he's on his side now?!"
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My goal is, should the Marvel films lead to Avengers, to watch all of those films back to back. Then barf up Marvel flavoured rage.
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No late shift? Or am I the only one with nothing to do besides watch Repo the Genetic Opera on a Friday night.
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You arent the only one here. Repo sucked in my opinion. I wanted to like it, but couldn't. You?
Amazingly, the Muvico Egyptian not too far from us just got Outlander, so tomorrow night my wife and I are gonna check it out. Never actually thought I'd see that movie in a theater.
Mori, Huzzah to you wherever you are right now. You were petitioning for a release, and even if it aint a big one, it's got one.
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That if Underworld does good then Outlander will get a wider release. Echo have fun at that crazy ass Egyptian theater, and don't be late for Medieval Times afterward.
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Terrible sinus headache, I don't think Repo is making it much better.
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I would really like to know how it all works. Because it really does boggle the mind as to why and how a movie such as Paul Blart can get over night fame due to saturation, and movies like P2 and Uva Bowl's Dungeon Siege can end up in close enough to anyone who wanted to see it no matter in what nothing town they live in. I know Paul Blart was a Happy Madison and In the Name of the King was Nazi Gold. But Freestyle got that Ron Perlman master craft in every theater and Columbia Pictures got the Mall Cop every where. Why is it then movies directed by Danny Boyle seem to only get the art house run, unless it is given the coveted Fox Searchlights Next Little Miss Sunshine Oscar Award? I mean are sci-fi movies like Outlander and Sunshine just TOO bizarre to make any sort of money on? Or to put any money on? Or they worried about the Pitch Black effect, in which an unknown sci-fi movie starring no one really big directed by a pretty much own known goes on to make a decent amount of money which forces the inevitable sequel which will suck a company dry if it flops? You'd think in the year in which almost silent movie starring a Robot is the biggest cartoon movie of the year, that people would be jumping on the bad wagon to put out a bunch of Sci-Fi while the kids are still interested in it? And why isn't John Hurt a fucking known name? Ever time I complain about Krystal Skull its mainly about his character and I always have to say the old guy because no one knows who he is? Also is it that hard to say Ron Perlman star of Hellboy (co-starring John Hurt!), or starring Jesus Christ? JESUS CHRIST why isn't James Caviezel a star yet? I've liked a lot of his AD stuff. It has to be something that he doesn't want to be known as THAT GUY. I don't know just pisses me off. Nothing good showing this weekend and Let the Right One In doesn't come to our art theater (for one weekend) till next weekend.
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I saw this movie today. It was pretty damn entertainig if I do say so myself. No wheels were reinvented here but it was solidly entertaining and Massa's review was a pretty good assesment of the movie.Goddamn is Rhona Mitra a fine looking gal. She can't act or emote worth a damn but I don't care. I'd pay to watch her sound out big words from the dictionary if she wears skimpy clothes.
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I just looked and Outlander was produced by Outlander Productions. I wonder what they are making next????? That and their is a movie coming out in 2011 called Outlander? Re-make????
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Also I need some good Viking ass kicking to get the bad taste out of my mouth that fucking movie left. God what an awful awful movie, that name and promise made a promise it did not get close to keeping.
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How is he the best singer in Repo????? I really like the guy, he's funny as shit in Little Britain and was always the best part of Buffy when I watched it. I wanna see a buddy cop movie with him and Alan Rickman.
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Patrick Totopolis. I always knew he would make it after the main character in Godzillia was given his name and he created the creatures in Pitch Black.
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OK its really funny to see him singing.
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What's up, Xiphos? You still here?
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The movie no the screenname. They are remaking it?
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Combined a bunch of prescriptions and some vodka. Man I hope I don't pull a Heath Ledger and end up starring in a stupid comic book movie.
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Yep i'm still around
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Where did you see Outlander? Has it been released yet?
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What are you too good to talk to me just because I am staying up late and watching crap like Repo the Something Opera.
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No i haven't seen Outlander....THAT'S THE PROBLEM!
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There you go. That's a perfect one for you to do a review on, if you wanted. Get my email?
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The human ventriloquist dummy doll in Repo was pretty funny.
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It does remind me of fellow Saw directors movie Dead Silence, which was gawd awful and not scary.
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Sorry, I misunderstood your previous post. Does anyone know when it is set for release? IMDB just says July 11, 2008 in Latvia, wherever the hell that is.
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I think if I do a review it would end up sounding pretty much like Massa review. Even worse, it would be like pages of me making everybody uncomfortable talking about Rhona Mitra. I'm dangerously close to stalking with her.
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No shit, Dead Silence sucked balls.
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Funny story about Spy Kids. So I was a lifeguard one summer in high school and I worked at the outdoor pool. But across town there was an indoor pool owned by the same people, and sometimes they would need us outdoor lifeguards to work there. Working there sucked and was boring as shit, well I got picked one day. I spent the morning asleep in my chair and the other guy came at lunch and said that I could take a two hour lunch, why not because no one was paying attention. So I went to the theater across the street and caught Spy Kids. The next day at the outdoor pool I was telling my fellow co-worker because he was going to work at the indoor pool later that week, how I slept all morning and caught a movie during lunch. SOME HOW one of my bosses lesbian lovers (ugly lesbian) heard this and told her and like at the end of my chair rotation she called me into her office and told me that she wasn't paying me for that day I worked at the indoor pool. The next summer I went to apply for the job and I got to the interview portion and all of the sudden she had this paper that said that I was fired the previous year...except I'd never seen it or had ever received it. I called her out on it and so did my dad, and she just left. Fucking bullshit, she initially hired me remembered who I was and typed up some fake bullshit letter saying I had be fired the previous year.
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Outlander is coming out in like 81 theaters throughout America this weekend. No word on whether or not its going to expand. Hopefully its Oscar buzz will help with the expansion.
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That's hilarious. They were doing a cage match of Beckinsale vs. Mitra over at spill.com. You must not be the only one who feels like that. Hee hee.
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Also this is the same weekend last year when Rambo came out. So why not make it a habit of Hollywood that a bad ass kicking movie comes out ever year during this weekend (ganted America proved how dumb it was by letting Meet the Spartans top the box office, but Rambo won in the end). I mean if Jason Statham can get his own weekend in September, ass kicking should be able to get its own weekend?
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We should get a new Rambo movie every year. The tag line should be "If it's January, it must be Rambo"
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Damn that's a classic match up for the ages. There's no real loser in that fight.
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So how would you rate Repo as a whole?
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So where the hell are you at nowadays?
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I'm stateside and on vaction.
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Len Wiseman for liking dudes.
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cause if he is, then he's a winner by every known measurable standard one would emplaoy to measre such things.
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Is pretty fucking terrible. Its just bad. None of the songs are catchy either. Probably could have made an interesting movie if they didn't make the songs. But it just doesn't work dawg, its a little pitchy.
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Do you have any info on a Finnish movie called Iron Sky? It's a Scfi comedy about Nazi secret weapon programs of WW2/space travel/Anti Gravity and a year 2018 Nazi Invasion launched from the dark side of the moon? I ran across a bit of info on this movie and it sounds insanely goofy.
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Jesus there are weakass sob sisters on this site. If thier opinion about a movie isn't validated by some whore awards commitee they act like the world is coming to an end.
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its fun
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oleg is a living weapon. oleg is your biological father. oleg shot the sheriff, the deputy, the bailbondsman, the judge, the mayor.
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He was an Agent of Chaos YEARS before The Joker? Where's Colin's Oscar?
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No-one bought it.
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Outlander was releaased in a very limited release it seems. For some reason though, it's playing at a theater about 40 minutes from my house. So tonight the wife and I are going.
Repo was a piece of crap, and Series is right. Somehow Anthony Head is almost easily the best singer in the film. I sat almost, because Sarah Brightman is in the cast. The worst? I don't know, because outside of the two I've mentioned almost no one actually sings their lyrics, more like cackles croons, or in Paris' case mutters. Could have been intriguing, but it's just further proof of the lack of the talent and creativity of the Saw. director.
The weekend movie jamboree got off to an entertaining start last night with The Boogens(lame 80s crap that while laughable, isn't enjoyable at the same time you are alughing), Night of the Creeps (a great little horror comedy that gives off the 80s production vibe like nobody's business) and Razorback (a beautifully shot, odder than I remember, giant pig running amok in the Outback movie; I liked it, but it needed more Razroback, less aussie nutjobs). -
I watched The Long Kiss Goodnight, which is a lot of fun. That's one movie that I like Sammy in. And then I watched the Thirteenth Warrior. Damn, I love that movie. "When you die, can I give your sword to me daughter?" "The dog can jump." Antonio's best movie.
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space kimchi is nasty
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The camera work on the slugs is great.
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Damn Echo how'd you see it? Where did you get a copy? I need to see that Russell Mulcahy movie now!
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While it just fails, I'll give the creators some credit for giving it a shot. Maybe had they gotten a better director it could have been better. I see how the Saw 2-4 guy was really into it, but he just isn't that good of a director. Also the creator of it, Terrance Zdunich who was the Graverobber was pretty good to and needed a bigger part. It was an interesting failure. It needed some more tiem to develop and needed to further itself from Saw in style and look.
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I'm pretty sure that Sam Waterston had an uncredited cameo as the doctor who tells Paul Sorvino that he is dying and then Paul shoots him in the head. I wondered how and why Sam did this then I remembered that he worked with Paul on Law and Order probably. Also Joan Jett was in there as well.
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Man that's a friggin fun movie I like it also. Anytime I come across it on TV I'll always watch it. Good action, enjoyable characters funny one liners.
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the end
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Did you see the Holy Grail?
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OH ME! Well I just saw To Be or Not To Be. You mean the Oscar nominated 80's movie starring Mel Brooks? NO YOU IDIOT! The Oscar nominated original from the 40's!! It was very entertaining. But I will be watching that Mel Brooks update later this week. Did you see anything else? OHHH WHY Yes I did! I saw the Ringer. What did you think? MEH. If you saw the trailer then you saw the movie. I was surprised though as too which characters were actors and which weren't. My mother is a special education teacher and she loved it, so I guess its a very safe movie that everyone can love. Unlike that horrible Tropical Thunder. Wow that's awesome what are you up to tonight? OH you know, the usual thing someone with bad bronchitis or good phenomena does on a cold Saturday night. Watching rerunes of the PJ's and Smallville. And if I'm lucky I'll get around to watching that ever to handsome Spike Feresten. Oh well you've been a lovely guest tonight, I hope you enjoy your stories. This is late night talkback see to next midnight or later.
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Your late night post the last week or so have been fucking hilarious.
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Only slightly used by Kiefer Sutherland. He is now a talkback reflection of himself in the dark of the night.
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Let's find out...
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Makes this one 2.
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Can't be that easy.
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Not I. I think Series may be living it, poor guy.
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That will probably help.
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Fast acting...must be one of those CoC lollipops.
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Why not?
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That I'm going to be doing this all day. I'm just avoiding doing useful things at the moment.
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CoC pops and now tieing up? Too much for a Sunday morning. Better get outta here soon!
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The rest is up to you. Those who haven't read Xiphos' western horror story on the other site should go check it out today. It's much more fun than posting solo.
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more later. worth the wait.
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Are they as good as pop rocks and is it safe to have 'em with a soda? Good to see you, Jonah! ;)
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on keeping the TB alive. Now I'll help out.
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I haven't even seen the trailer yet I know this to be true, all the way down to the marrow in my bones.
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Go Steelers!
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Debbie looks good to me too!
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It would be silly to post comments in the John Carter TB since I'm trying to keep this one afloat. Anyhow, time to get started.Memo to the producers and director of JCOM, please reject the impluse to hire Hugh Jackman as John Carter. I know this will be hard and on the surface he's tempting no doubt. I was on board briefly, but upon further review he's not a good choice. Jackman is a likeable fellow and a servicable actor but he lacks that sense of danger and death that John carter has. It's really what hamstrung him as Wolverine. So please consider somebody else in the role thanks.Sincerly,
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Although I have to say the ubernerds of the Watchemen are behaving themselves. i think the real issue with The Watchmen geeks is that they like to look at naked blue dude crank.
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I have railed against that movie - 'The Incredible disappearing monster' The 'Ninja Monster'etc.
And I still think it was a waste of a monster flick. But...but, I watched it again on TV last night, and I must admit, it did not bring up as much bile as it did on the big screen. I still did not connect with any of the characters, and it was still a monstrous - pun intended, waste of a monster flick, when the monster is barely fucking seen, ok, ok, this is supposed to be a concilliatory post, it was not the utter garbage I first thought it was when seen on big screen. Still aint good though and a fuckin waste of a monster. I watched the special features, and they said the monster was a baby, and was reacting like a baby, fine, give the explaination after the damn movie! -
I know squat all about John Carter. Now if the do a Doc Savage flick (a non campy version, which was still entertaining, but not really Doc) then I can talk about that.
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From Striptease to Singing Nun, one helluva day!
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If done correctly JCOM could very well be a kick ass pulp movie. The problem I'm having is Disney has it grubby PG mouse mitts all over teh project so they will dial down the violence.JCOM and Doc Savage are basically contemporaries in the literary world so they share a lot of the same ideas and writing styles of the pulp world. If you have a chance some time read A Princess Of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It's the first book in the series. Damn fun read. Also, if you have the time read Tarzan the Apeman first book in that series. It shows just how badly every Tarzan project in Hollywood has sucked.
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I watched that the other night. Damn fine amount of breast in that movie.
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Great book. There was one Tarzan movie that was very faithful, Tarzan and his Mate. The uncensored version.
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looked great! I hope it gets wide release here!
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I do not remember if she was surgically enhanced for that movie or not.
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Back to Africa?
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WAY surgically enhanced but it was a great job.I report to Quantico next week for a course I have to take.
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Gonna be with the spooks in VA?
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Did not make that up. Did you think Mosley would beat Margarito?
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It's sort of a continuing education thingy dingy for upper level NCOs they make you take. I've successfully avoided it for a while but the S3 geeks and personell nerds finally got me the bastards. Or is it's basterds now? I'm out of the loop.
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I was reading about it on ESPN and it sounds like something mighty fishy happened there.No I haven't heard of chess boxing, what is it?
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Men play chess in a boxing ring then they start wailing on ane another. Apparently it is a bif thing in Europe. I am watching the Rolex 24 now. Pretty damn cool. I watched some late last night, and they are still going strong
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Doesnt it seem that AICN is a bit more 'kinder and gentler'? I mean they got rid of most of the jackasses and trolls, but at the same time it has reduced the 'fun' quotient. Fewer assholes to smack around. NO real flame wars anymore. Must be a deliberate strayegy to clean up te place. But why?
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so it's like queen to bishops three then you start in on hooks to the body? I need to check that out ASAP!
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The trolls are returning. Telemarketer is back for sure. He's a fun one. Things could get interesting around here again.
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Chess fencing, chess wrestling, chess duels at dawn...so many possibilities~
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But I can't sleep. The clowns will eat me.
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In short: it sucks. There was a few instances that may be laugh: headstand muthafuckers!, but all in all, sucky.
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over the years I've noticed that trolls and flame wars went in cycles but now things are different I agree.I think the biggest problem is that there aren't that many movies to argue about anymore because hollywood has firmly embraced mediocrity and that mediocrity has spread to teh internet. Plus you add in the diffusion effect of so many websites to bitch on and that everything has a shelf life the, and I hate to use this word, feeling of AICN has changed immensely.
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and frankly, should have been included as part of the axis of evil.
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the 2 weeks between the superbowl has to end.
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If you have not seen it, it's the classic cowboy Samurai team up of Chuck Bronson and Toshiro Mifune. Also the blindingly hot Ursula Andress is on board.
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I'm fairly confident I will actual laugh more with this one.
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Hey Pillow, check out my Cloverfield post. I know you have love for that movie
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I can't really remember it, but I do know I liked it. Toshiro dies in it, does he not?
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Was uneven I agree but damn it all the puppet dracula musical was inspired. I want to see that.
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I actually went to the Watchmen tb, but there were no naked blue dudes. :) Guess if I decide to see that I'll just have to read the ones I got online a couple of weeks ago.
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and I do see your points, but I didn't have high hopes for it and enjoyed it more because of that I think. And I was glad that all the yahoos got killed by the monster. That made me happy.
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And I have that Alice Cooper song stuck in my head. Been there for days. No wonder I have insomnia.
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Fucking sucks. Just play the damn game already so the Cardinals can get thier superbowl win on!
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70's show, which was a positive.
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Jan 25, 2009 1:34:51 PM CST
I fell the need to smite shitheels trolls. Bring em on!
by toadkillerdog
I smacked Morbid around a few days ago, but he aint equiped to put up a fight. Yes, damn it all, I admit, I like a good fight!
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see you boys (and maybe girl) tomorrow.
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The non-football watcher is now ready for verbal assaults.
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Jan 25, 2009 1:36:46 PM CST
Mavs, no shit, I have a friend who is terrified of Clowns
by toadkillerdog
There is a long Latin name for it. Ok, gotta look it up
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it's more about the simmering homo-eroticism displayed on the Watchmen TB with nerds worshiping Nude blue dudes crank. I think his name is Dr. Bronx chiropractor.
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Coulrophobia is an abnormal or exaggerated fear of clowns. The term is common, but it does not appear to be used in psychology.[1] It is common among children, but is also sometimes found in teenagers and adults as well. Sufferers sometimes acquire a fear of clowns after having a bad experience with one personally, or seeing a sinister portrayal of one in the media. A design study carried out by the University of Sheffield found that children are frightened by clown-themed décor in hospitals.[2]
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I don't really have it. I go through bouts of insomnia sometimes for no particular reason. I just stay hyper until I have to crash.
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Freds beloved Pittsburgh Steelers vs and I still can't believe I'm writing this, the mighty big red of the Arizona Cardinals.
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I've seen the drawings...it wasn't that big of a deal, imho. These the sorta guys who got scorned by the boom animé babes? Ha!
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Congrats to both of you. It's a win-win situation.
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But from the book, not the miniseries. Weird!
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We rock!
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Humble Fred vs Hardened Marine. There can only be one winner. A fight to the death! Will the wily Dirk make an appearance and tip the scales? Will Dirk sabotage Fred's beloved Steelers for cash and naked pictures of popcorn kernels? Stay tuned!
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Mass nerd frenzy will ensue.
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Maybe even for the right flirtatious yak.
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You don't want to leave your crack unguarded in such a precarious place.
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is that it would be like beating a defenseless puppy because he's so easy going. I sort of tried last weekend but then I ended up just having a discussion with him. That's the power of Fred for ya right there.
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I do not want to know. That could bring out you-know-who. The Horse fucker
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When I started posting earlier this TB was dead last.
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He's totally awesome, but not always so innocent. Dirk is his Mr. Hyde.
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Exposed crack in The Watchmen TB isn't the best plan.
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Didn't want a repeat of last weekend.
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All the same to Dirk.
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A waste of internets is what that BS is.
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Yikes and ouch!
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Nuff said....
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Not even Egg Salad could do it. I remember reading one exchange between them, and Fred was being his usual nice and unflappable self, and Eggy was going off trying to get a rise out of him, hell he even got Jonah fired up, but Fred just was Fred. I swear I could picture Eggy throwing a fit and his computer for not being able to get to Fred. Funny shit. I almost miss eggy - almost
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Time for Pizza!
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Get syrupy sweet and you can almost picture this guy's face turning all shades of purple. I made him so mad he got stuck on one epithet for about a dozen posts. Couldn't think of any more words. Good times!
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Good points all the way around
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Who is this telemarketer chap? Where does he reside?
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When he lost it on the scriptgirl was hi-larious. He was fun to egg on.
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Must resist....
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Allegedly. Got me into this whole socialization stuff by trying to pick a fight with me too. That's when non-Xiphos people started talking to me.
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telemarketer used to show up during the very early days of SG. He was a combination of Braffed/eggsalad and media messiah crossed with a troll. He went off on Mavra but she deflected him with sweetness then others, including myself had words with him.
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This is my gut feeling Xi. Steelers D neutralizes Cards O. But Cards D beats Stelers O, and forces them into mistakes. One killer Larry Fitzgerald touchdown, and the game goes to the Cards. Steelers O line has final and most fatla collapse when the can least afford it. Steelers are my second favorite team, so believe me, I hope I am wrong about this.
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Just kidding.
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Cards by 6. The best part of this game is that I think it will actually be a game for once. Mostly superbowls are stuporbowls, but this one I think will be good.
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Giants baby! Stopping the 'unstoppable' Pats. What a game! I may pull out the DVD of that baby again!
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And the Cardinals will have the most goals.
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Way cool!
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Ten times, before the losing team says 'bucket bill boogers' twenty times, then spin in a circle and say 'flapjack attack' while throwing a dead pig into a goal net.
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Colts vs Da Bears made it unavoidable around here. I tried to maintain an aura of ignorance this year. How'm I doin'?
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sucked till like the third quarter, then it got good. The Giants found something somewhere and Brady decided to take the night off.
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And more challenging!
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make everything better.
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Might be a good idea before time to go back to work (in about 8 hours...). Thanks for keeping Twitch on top guys! Btw, the Twitchman left me a comment on my Against the Dark review. Very cool! You guys have a great day and evening. Go team! Rah, rah!
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And Xi, last years game was awesome throughout. Giants D shut down Brady all game long. Then Brady summons some demons from hell after selling Giseles soul, and mounts that last scoring drive. Then Eli sells Peyton's soul and wins the game after Tyree sould his own soul to catch that ball on his helmet! I damn near died. And I literally jumped up off the couch, spilled beer everywhere, pissed off the misses and the dog, cause the couch to need steam cleaning, and did not care!
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Yes! We can work with this!
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OMG!!! I've been stuck in donutland for waaaaay too long! I need an escape route quick quick!
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This should keep the TB near the top until reinforcements arrive. I am not sure if I have ever posted on a Sunday before. I must have, but damn, I need football!
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They got good donuts?
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When it's time to make the donuts, I'm on duty. I have been there too long!
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till the Britishers show up for work in the morning. Rugby, footie and cricket talk will ensue, good times.
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Won't be watching it. Too busy watching the Puppy Bowl on Animal Planet much more entertaining and masculine as well. Football is for pussies play rugby.
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Lazy bastards, get to work. I bored and can't sleep. I need to be entertained.
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to keep this TB in the top spot. Sorry for the rambelings that will be happening.
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Red Sun, the classic Sanurai and Cowboy western, starring Toshiro Mufune, Charles Bronson and Ursula Andress. Holds up well and entertaining as all hell. Jesus was Ursula Andress a smoking hot piece of ass.Varsity Blues, which was a very thinly veiled knock off of Friday Night Lights, even though it came out before the movie and TV shows of the same name. It was a highly fictiioniled version of the book.(good book btw)I like this movie,. even though it's goofy as hell The Dawson kid from Dawson's Creek, Paul Walker, the fat linemen and James Caan's kid all did a good job. I might cut this movie some slack becasue I've lived in small towns and played on big time football programs. aAl in all a not to bad sports movie.
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First time in like seven months. I saw Underworld 3. It wasn't all that bad. Massa pretty much got everything right in his review, I ended up liking the movie despite the movie.Was it stupid? yes but as far as the action goes it was by far the best of any of the Underworlds. The Lycan raid on the Vampires Castle was pretty well staged and the CGI wasn't for shit.Rhona Mitra still can't act worth a damn but who cares when she looks like that?
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Fucking monday. 5 more days of shite and misery ahead of me.
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And I actually have to talk about most of the movies watched: Carlito's Way- I fucking love this movie. Even if it is a bit bleak. Die Hard with a Vengeance- better than I remembered. A Scanner Darkly- confusing mess. The Dark Knight- OK, we've all been over it 1 million times, but: At the end Gordon says that Dent killed 5 people, 2 of them plod. However, He only kills 3 people and 1 of them is a cop. What the fuck is Gordon talking about. Latina rat girl gets let off, and the three killed are bent cop, Moroni and Moroni's driver. This makes me wonder if that end wasn't truncated by about half an hour- where 2face goes on a proper rampage. Or if it's from an earlier draft that they forgot to change. And Gordon's fake death sucks a fat one. What a prick. I still like the film overall, but it's losing it's lustreLast and very much least: Indy 4. I said I'd have to rewatch it and I have now. I was wrong. It is actually bad. Mrs Jarv hated it with a vengeance. Thinking about it, the big problems are: Unnecessary and fucking stupid CGI, some unbelievably boneheaded moments, a lacklustre ending (putting it mildly), no real villainous presence, Some horrible performances, nuking the fridge destroys all tension for the rest of the film, gross inconsistencies, and worst of all the fucking score- the motorbike chase should be exciting etc and the score should add to that. However, there's some god awful plinky-plonky piano shite backing it that actually diffuses the action. It isn't the worst film ever made, it isn't even the worst film Spielberg has made, but it is a bad film and a fucking dreadful Indy film. Seeing it on the big screen actually hid a lot of it's flaws.
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I'm not a monday person.
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Result:Alien - GreatAliens - GreatAlien 3 - Missed opportunityAlien Resurrection - Some good parts, some awful partsPredator - GreatPredator 2 - Mediocre but enjoyableAVP - Mediocre but NOT enjoyableAVP 2 - Staggeringly awfulMorning, everyone.
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Murray's out of the tennis. Looks like he's going to follow in Henman's shoes and suck balls mightily.
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It would have been 41, but I got all sleepy during Executive Decision last night and gave up halfway through.
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fuck me, and you saved the 2 piss poor abominations for the end. Told you AvP:rectum is worse than the first one. Not that the first one is good, but.
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must be by timeline. Because you've got Predator (great) then the 2 abominations, then Predator 2 first. So by the time you get to the 2 real stars of the series, you're a bit burnt out- and if you don't like Alien 3 or Resurrection then those last 2 are going to be a real bastard.
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I like this idea of watching films with some kind of linking theme, so I have concocted The 5 Days Of Die Hard for this week:Monday - Die HardTuesday - Die Hard 2 (Die Harder)Wednesday - Die Hard With A VengeanceThursday - Die Hard 4.0 (Live Free Or Die Hard)Friday - Tears Of The Sun (the script almost became Die Hard 4 at one point)I'm especially looking forward to Die Hard 4, because the DVD box says it's the 'Harder Cut' and contains 'More Action, More Attitude!', so maybe it'll be less cartoony than the one I saw at the cinema. Probably not, but I choose to keep hope alive for that one.
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Dreadful, dreadul film, and why the fuck was it so dark? I turned the brightness on my telly up as far as it would go, but it didn't help. Couldn't see a fucking thing.
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That is a much more appropriate title.It was like Balinese shadows puppets!
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The only ones I had trouble getting through were those AVP things. Then you've got three classics (Alien, Aliens, Predator), one reasonably enjoyable sequel (Predator 2), and two interesting failures (Alien 3 and Resurrection).It was a mostly enjoyable weekend of film slacking, actually.
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mine was a pirate copy, and I thought some cunt had filmed it in a cinema- until a mate saw it and told me that what I was watching is actually "cinema perfect". What a load of shite.
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that fucking rat fuck of a fucking movie sucks so many balls it must have been filmed at Wimbelton. Fucking Frank don't do it man, I'm warning ya brother, it's as bad idea to watch it. It's as bad of an ideas watching that shitstorm as being the kids having sex, doing drugs or going down into the dark basement alone in a slasher film. That dung heap of a movie is bad as The Happening and AVP:R Com-fucking-bined!.Am I being clear here Franklin? because I'm wondering if I'm holding back to much on how bad that fucking wretched pathetic fucking movie is.
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But The 4 Days Of Die Hard did not sound as good as The 5 Days Of Die Hard, and I needed a fifth film. Also, I have it on my DVR anyway, so it's not going to cost me anything.Doesn't it have Monica Belucci in it? That's something, right?
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Anyone got any good suggestions for marathons?I've had two ideas so far:The All Robot Weekend (all 3 Terminators and all 3 Robocops)Friday 13th - An Epic In 10 1/2 PartsThat Friday 13th would be hard, though. Some of those films are really bad.More ideas from you kind people are needed.
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heh?
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Jan 26, 2009 4:04:27 AM CST
Happy Australia Day chaps. I'm up to 20! The rundown...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
The Hurt Locker – Good. Bigelow needs to direct more stuff. Everything of hers I’ve seen, I’ve liked to varying degrees. Blue Steel, Point Break, Strange Days, K19.
The Keep – A complete fucking mess. Confusing as fuck. Half of its slo-mo. The electro 80’s music is just completely wrong for a film set in WWII. Even if it was hacked to death by the studio, I have no idea how Mann would’ve made it work. I won’t see it ever again, even if he releases a DC. Thief – I was so sickened by The Keep, I felt I had to redeem Mann. Thief is fucking genius and Caan is awesome in it. Great stuff. The Reader – Yes, I watched it. And although I wanted to hate it, I have to say it was pretty good. Winslet was pretty good (not oscar worthy though). The Arrival – Charlie Sheen as a nerd getting involved in a conspiracy by aliens to terraform our planet? Ron Silver as the villain? How can you go wrong? Genius B-Grader. Milk – This is a very good film. Penn was very good. Out of those nominated for Best Pic, I would give it to this. Best Actor would go to Rourke or Penn. Do not watch it if you are remotely homophobic. There is one woman character in it and she’s a bull-dyke. Australia – Well, this is an interesting one, because there is so much in this film that’s good. But so much that’s just completely ill-conceived. If you can get through the first hour, then you will enjoy it. The first hour is a complete load of shit. Baz gets everything wrong. And there is so much forced, panto-style humour it’s sickening. But after about an hour it almost completely drops the humour (like it realised how shit it was) and becomes quite involving in a melodrama kinda way. Good Sunday arvo movie (which is when I watched it).
Doubt – Good film. Very well acted. The actress (think she was the same one who played Mr.Glass’ mother in Unbreakable)that plays the boys mother has a ten minute scene and is fucking amazing. She acts circles around Streep in that scene. Which isn’t easy to do. Navy Seals – Amazingly, I’ve never seen it before. And it’s absolute garbage from start to finish. It’s the type of flick I should automatically love. But it’s total shite. And that’s it!
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there's just too much suck and finishing with Freddie v Jason would make me sad. All Robot is a bad idea because of the suck of Robocop 2 and 3. Sergio Leone weekend?
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The Friday 13th remake is out on Friday 13th of February, which makes me think:The Thirteen Days Of Friday 13th!All ten and a half films - then something to fill in the one empty day that schedule will give me - culminating in the Friday 13th remake on Friday 13th. It's too perfect to ignore.I have to do this!
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That is some solid film slacking.
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The shit makes the good stuff all the sweeter, and there's no challenge if I'm only watching great films.Robocop 3 is the one that puts me off the robot idea, though. That film is garbage.
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like your robot one. Robocp 1= mint, robocop 23= shit. Terminator 1= mint, terminator 2= quite good, 3=meh to shit.DIfferent versions of Red Harvest would be a good one. There's fucking hundreds.
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Jan 26, 2009 4:38:27 AM CST
Themed weekend idea: WACKY/CRAZY DOGS
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Cujo, Turner and Hooch, Mans Best Friend, K9, Beethoven, Milo & Otisetc etc
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There's a Friday 13th box set, but it's only got 1-8 in it, for some reason, and Jason Goes To Hell is stupidly expensive to buy. It's dirt cheap on VHS, but I don't have a video anymore.Also, I don't know what to watch on the 12th day.Damn. This idea is too great/stupid to pass up.
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Robocop and the first two Terminators are mint, Terminator 3 is okay, Robocop 2 is crap but watchable (as far as I remember), and only Robocop 3 is unmitigated garbage.It might be too easy, though, and I now have a bee in my bonnet about this Friday 13th idea.
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Jan 26, 2009 4:46:57 AM CST
Theres an Elm St box set that was crazy cheap
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
at HMV i remember. All films for 15-20 quid or something. This was a while ago now though.
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But I don't know where I'd get all the films from. Maybe I can keep my eye out for dog-related films and try to get a good stockpile of them on the DVR.
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But it doesn't have the poetic charm of The 13 Days Of Friday 13th.Man, I can't let go of that idea. It's too good!
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THere's a potentially gargantuan Friday 13/ Elm st cross over to be done- All 10 Friday 13ths and all 6 Elm Streets culminating in the unholy waste of Katherine Isabella that is FvJ
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Halloween. Halloween 1= mint, 2= OK, 3=hysterical, not seen 4, 5=shit, H20= not that bad. 7=dogshit, Zombie's remake= worse than dogshit.
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Jan 26, 2009 5:09:02 AM CST
7 Nightmares inc New Nightmare
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Which was the best one since the first one.
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That might be worth a try.Also, did you know there 8 Hellraisers? 8! I thought they stopped after the third one.
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slip of the brain. I totally forgot it existed. Mr. Z- I hate to break it to you, but Daredevil was a festering load of old hairy bollocks.
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Those are words that appeal to me. The bigger and stupider the challenge, the more I like it.All 10 Fridays, all 7 Nightmares, Freddy Vs Jason, AND the Friday remake on Friday 13th? Can one human being take all of that?
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don't go beyond 3. They're unwatchable. And despite Hellraiser 4 following JArv's law of good late sequels, (set it in space), because they only partially set it in space rather than properly setting it in space, sucks even worse than it should. Avoid all later Hellraisers, most of them started out as something else, and then some genius just tacked pinhead in to sell it as Hellraiser.
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What was 7, I thought H20 was 6, buster Rhymes was 7, but obviously not. It must have been something horrid that I've deleted from my memory.
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...an all classic horror remake weekend.That's 10 Fridays, 7 Nightmares, FVJ, Friday remake, then into a bunch of remakes (TCM, The Omen, The Fog, etc.) over the weekend, and if I end with the Halloween remake I could segue again into The 9 Days Of Halloween.There's got to be a pretty fucking solid combo score for linking that lot together.
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christ, what a cunt: "You are immature in the way you speak...as well as your attacks. My choices in cinema and television are solid. What agenda could I have against Nolan, other than the fact that he makes weak films? I don't know that man, or anything about his life. He is not controversial, I just find him to be a pedestrian filmmaker. His Batman films are weak, as wasThe Prestige...and what I saw of his first film. But back to Batman. When you can be bested by Batman cartoons, you know there is a problem??? Those Batman cartoons that came out in the 90s are brilliant...and a very good filmmaker should have been able to either equal, or best them, given the format of film, and the budget, instead...we got Batman Begins and TDK. Look at TDK...cut out all the Batman scenes, and just focus on Bruce Wayne, Alfred, Rachel, Dent, Commissioner Gordon, and you have nothing of a movie. It is horrible dramatically, and just plain badly written. Bruce Wayne spends the entire movie in a suit muttering things about justice...and saying Rachel, "I care about you?" He is standing around, or sitting, in a business suit, and doing much of nothing else. Most of the scenes aren't even complete scenes, but rather, red herring filler scenes, placed in between the action. What the hell is that??? This is the laziest movie ever written."This overexaggerated hatred actually makes me like TDK more.
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You've got Halloween, Halloween II is the same night, III is the one with the masks, IV is The Return Of Michael Myers, V is The Revenge Of Michael Myers, VI is The Curse Of Michael Myers (starring Paul Rudd!), then there's H20 and the one with Busta Rhymes.There's quite a lot of shit in there.
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if you did that, you'd kill yourself. The problem isn't the orignals/ sequels it's the fucking horrid range of remakes in the middle. From FvJ to Halloween, you've got many films all of which are garbage: FvJ= crap, Friday 13= bound to be crap, The Omen= offensively awful The Fog= Dreadful TCM= Crap THe Hitcher= complete shite The Wicker Man= at least amusing, Amityville= crap, but the original was crap. Halloween= abomination.
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It was 6 I forgot
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Red Planet, Mission to Mars, Mars Attacks, Capricorn One, Ghosts of Mars, Total Recall.
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As a grand exercise in stupidity, it works in theory but I don't think I could put it into practice - there's just too much shit in there.
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Halloween: 1)mint 2=OK 3=crazy fun 4=Return and shit (I thought return was 5, and forgot all about Revenge) 5=Revenge not seen 6=curse, crap 7=H20 not as bad as made out 8= Busta Rhymes and dreadful 9=remake and worst of lot.
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butchered remakes. You pick the originals that have been raped in the ass by untalented morons. So you have Casablanca, Halloween, Ring, Hitcher, any amount of things like Flubber, etc.
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No way. No fucking way. I'd rather do the sprawling Jason/Freddy/Remake/Michael path to destruction than all 7 Police Academy films.I'm still curious to try the all-shit all-Eddie Murphy weekend idea. Nutty professor 1 & 2, Dr Doolittle 1 & 2, Norbit, Meet Dave, Daddy Day Care, etc. What would that do to a person?
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erm, this one's harder: Scarface, Assault on Precinct 13, The Thing, The Fly, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (I think this is a remake), and some more.
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By the way, I think Media Messiah is actually that cockbag Memories of Murder.
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I didn't even know that.Here's an interesting idea - Original Vs Remake Double Features. Two films a night for however long it takes, the original followed by the remake.
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called*. It is shite.* clue from Jarv- it's not Casablanca
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is that in most cases the drop in quality is dizzying.
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Was that an actual remake or more on homage?I don't remember it too well, but I'm sure I remember Pammy saying something about Casablanca being an influence on the story.
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Jan 26, 2009 5:51:44 AM CST
The Pamela Anderson flick is a remake of Casablanca
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Can't remember the name
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It's essentially the same story
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and it is a remake. It's fucking horrid. Chocolate sweeties all round.
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Jan 26, 2009 5:53:45 AM CST
I need to do a James Bond marathon...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Three quarters of them I haven't seen.
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...you should always start out with some wet boobs.That is all I remember about Barb Wire.
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that's a good one. Most of them are good-great with only a few stinkers.
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Would somebody please drown Coughlins Laws?
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new series has just started, and I'm staggered to say that it's actually quite good. Funnier still, it followed Demons, and shows what a sack of Poo that is.
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I would, but I'm actually going to pull out my own fingernails before typing another word to that stupid cunt.
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Waterboarding is not torture? What the fuck?
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Some of the films are okay, but the character of James Bond always bothered me. He's a flunky for the man, and he always seemed like such a cunt. The thing I like about the Daniel Craig version is they finally seem to be acknowledging that James Bond is, in actual fact, sort of a cunt.
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Complete SHIT.
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socialist= communist. What he means is
Name me a successful communist country? There isn't one. Most of Europe (not Britain) is socialist, but elected and just centre-left. More Liberal than socialist. HE's a dick -
that sounds like shit. And not fun shit.
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ciao.
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"I command respect from everyone in my life and any new people who meet me."
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I dread to think what they're like. Horrific. Basil Fawty was at least funny.
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and he's a cunt in the books. It's only moore and Brosnan that were cuddly. Brosnan's movies post Goldeneye were shit anyway
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therefore I've taken the sensible decision to bin it.
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Mrs. Jarv will kill me if she sees it at the moment.
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Shivers, Rabid, Brood, Scanners, Videodrome, The Fly, Dead Ringers, Naked Lunch, Crash, eXistenZ.
Skip Fast Company, Dead Zone, M. Butterfly, Spider - a bit off-topic.
But throw in History of Violence and Eastern Promises for dessert.
The guy is a legend. Wipes the floor with Spielberg as a Sci-Fi director.
Sadly, he handed "Total Recall" to Paul Verhoeven. He said the result was migraines like needles sticking in his eyes.
Not the Lone Ranger there.
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If you make a clone of Ripley from her blood, wouldn't that give you simply a clone of Ripley, not a clone of Ripley plus whatever else was on her person at the time of her death?I didn't understand that part.
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from that list as well, and I've no particular desire to see Videodrome again, but that's some list.
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that's what the abortion clones were. It's like in The Fly- he's a mutant because it couldn't differentiate between the 2 DNA samples
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What do the scientists need the alien for anyway?They're way off in the future, they have intergalactic space ships, laser guns, hypersleep whatnots, little cubes that turn into whiskey - what the hell are these technologically advanced folks going to learn from what is, essentially, a vicious animal?If some modern day weapons designer said, "Hey, we've got to capture a shark or a lion and see if we can use it in our weapons development!" wouldn't someone else say, "We have nuclear bombs, you idiot, what the fuck do we want animals for?"I didn't understand that part, either.
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Doesn't it just sit in your chest and wait to burst out (preferrably at meal times)?How does its DNA get mixed up with Ripley's?
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Er, last place! Cunts, the lot of you.
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I had donuts yesterday. Synchronicity, I think?
Here's a number of ways to get rid of insomnia. Take one Benadryl allergy capsule, that will put you to sleep, it works every time. Stay away from coffee, chocolate, tea, soda pop, and Excedrin...all of them have caffeine in them, save for sodas marked no caffeine. Tea and coffee, even so called decaf brands, still have caffeine in them...and there are no government rules strictly dictating the amounts, so from brand to brand...they can, and do, have different levels of caffeine, some higher, and some lower, you never know. And don't smoke, they also put caffeine in cigarettes, if I remember correctly??? Well, don't smoke anyway...it's bad for you.
Next, get hot water bottles and fill them up with hot water. Place them at the foot of your bed under the covers and wear some socks. This will keep your feet warm, and you will be amazed at how easily it will put you to sleep. If it is too warm, you can either ditch the socks, or use warm water instead of hot water in the bottles. It works every time in putting you to sleep.
Also, get an audio book. Maybe a Star Wars audio book (?), you can get them from the library, or you'll go broke trying to buy them. At book stores, they charge 35 dollars, or more, for those things now. Ridiculous, huh??? Anyway, place the volume at a comfortably low level...for you to sleep...and turn out the lights and it will put you to sleep pretty fast. Oh, and use your stereo remote, as it is just easier to adjust the volume...rewind or place it on pause so that you don't have to get up for that purpose later on, and foil your attempts at getting sleep. Audio books are very comforting, like having your parents read you a bedtime story when you were a kid.
Don't eat any heavy foods, at least 6 hours before you go to bed...that would include spicy or greasy foods, or heavy desserts. That will keep you awake and is dangerous as there is the possibility of reflux. Trust me, I know personally.
Finally, exercise, hours before you go to bed. Exercise will tire you out, and will release relaxing chemicals into your brain and body...but don't do it before you go to bed as it will wake your body up. So exercise someplace safe with plenty of people around, I always say...if 20 different people can't see you from any given direction, unobstructed, at any given time, if you are out and about (outside), don't do it, as it isn't safe. Or get you exercise inside, but do it about 45 minutes a day, or every other day depending on how you feel, I prefer jogging. Just do it well ahead of when you plan to go to bed...and it well help you sleep later on. And then there is Vitamin B12 sublingual (under the tongue). It is very calming, and you can take up to 6 tablets a day. The 6 tablets are as good as a B12 shot that all the stars and other elite rich people take. Dots is a good brand. Look in the health food section of your favorite store. -
how about a Phillip K Dick Weekend: Blade Runner, Total Recall, A Scanner Darkly, Screamers, Paycheck, Minority Report. Admittedly, I'm "meh" about Scanner, and hate Minority Report, But there's plenty of mileage there.
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last night.Tropic Thunder wasn't that good. There was some laughs, don't get me wrong, but no consistency to them for me. I will agree that Tommy was pretty fucking funny, and I think half squat is a perfect name for a kid, but...really, comedies are fucking hard to find great ones. An overall very disappointing weekend into the comedic territory with Forgetting Sarah Marshall and this one. However, with Prince Caspian, I thought it was much better than the first one. Considering it's by Disney and whatnot, at least they had the kids killing a bunch of people in this one. Even the younger brother is much less annoying in this one, though he did have much fewer lines I think. But he did actually do something in this one.
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Isn't that supposed to be a horrid piece of shit, as opposed to the rosy rainbowy piece of shit?
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stop being dull. Proper insomnia is, for me, periodic and buggers off after a couple of months.
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It's not terribly good- and is borderline stupid most of the time, but I giggled all the way through it.
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It'll pass on through.
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I'll check it out.
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What can I do to sleep better?
Try to go to sleep at the same time each night and get up at the same time each morning. Do not take naps after 3 p.m.
Avoid caffeine, nicotine, and alcohol late in the day or at night.
Get regular exercise. Exercise during the day--make sure you exercise at least 5 to 6 hours before bedtime.
Make sure you eat dinner at least 2 to 3 hours before bedtime.
Keep your bedroom dark, quiet, and cool. If light is a problem, try a sleeping mask. If noise is a problem, try earplugs, a fan, or a "white noise" machine to cover up the sounds.
Follow a routine to help relax and wind down before sleep, such as reading a book, listening to music, or taking a bath.
If you can't fall asleep within 20 minutes or don't feel drowsy, get up and read or do something that is not too active until you feel sleepy. Then try going back to bed.
If you lay awake worrying about things, try making a to-do list before you go to bed.
Use your bed only for sleep and sex.
See your doctor if you think that you have insomnia or another sleep problem.
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From it- 28 Days Later, They Live, I am Legend and Fight Club are not dystopian. And a lot of the rest are shit.
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bugger off. Insomnia cures are not for the Twitch thread. I'm sure Mavra is grateful, honest, but do the rest of us a favour and bugger off.
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Love the song, love the movie. The should have brought Triple x back for several films, why they didn't who knows...but she was cool. And how about the open scene, wow??? And then there is the theme song, great and hasn't been topped yet!!! Well, I do love the song Live And Let Die...those two are my favorite songs of the James Bond films.The new films are missing the great theme songs and the great big climaxes. I think early Lucas and Spielberg works were inspired by the big and unexpected James Bond film climaxes...and I really miss those sudden big finales.
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Hypocrite!!!
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Jan 26, 2009 7:34:15 AM CST
Videodrome. Scanners...What Does Any Of That Have To Do With...
by media messiah
...the thread???
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I may have to abandon the planned 13 Days Of Friday 13th on account of the unavailability of Jason Goes To Hell, which I am not paying £18 for.I am deeply saddened by this development.
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That's not a bad idea. Some of those films are good, at least, and I've been thinking about getting the Final Cut of Blade Runner, which would fit in there nicely.Anyone seen the Final Cut? Is it worth a few quid if you don't own any other version of Blade Runner?
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and then throw in Hard Rock Zombies, Zombie Strippers, maybe Shaun of the Dead.
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JPT - I'm bringing up the rear with 20. But my goal was at least 100 unseen films for the year and about 16 of my list were previously unseen. Thats how I justify last place anywayTotal Recall is genius.Paycheck is indeed a dumbhouse classic. Absolute shite. But I enjoyed it. Woo has made a string of dumbhouse classics like Hard Target and Broken Arrow! Face/Off was the only genuinely good american film he's done.
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It's about changian topics of conversation. Movie Marathons are fine, (see bond etc), insomnia cures and lunacy are not. Now please bugger off- reading your gibberish makes my eyes bleed.
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fuck that.
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which I'm not overly fond of.
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But that's small potatoes compared to The 13 Days Of Friday 13th, which is a once in a lifetime opportunity to do something gloriously stupid.I'm really quite demoralised by this heartbreaking turn of events.
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Jan 26, 2009 7:55:46 AM CST
Believe it or not I've never seen a Friday the 13th flick
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
They have zero appeal to me.
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My total is now 46. Most of you are right behind me now.
The Boogens-It’s a lame monster movie from 82, whose plot involves a mining town being invaded by spooky turtle-things that have crept out of their slumber in the local mine. The movie has creepy old man, horny teens, obnoxious dog, leering yokels and puppet monsters and wastes them all. Worse yet, even though reviews seem to suggest otherwise, no one ever used the term “boogens.” At least that I heard. The audio was pretty muddled, so it’s likely I’m mistaken. No bright spots in this one.
Night of the Creeps –This film made up for the lameness of The Boogens. Tom Atkins as a smartass suicidal cop helping some teens battle an infestation of alien slugs that get inside your body and incubate. Lots of great slug death. Tons of in-jokes and odd bits hiding in character names, background shots and props. One of the best lines from the cop: “Good news, ladies. Your dates are here. Bad news is, they’re dead.” Death by flamethrower, lawnmower, axe, slug, zombie dog, etc. It’s a great little movie, far better than it’s imitator Slither, and in need of a dvd release.
Razorback- Russell Mulcahy’s first big film, I think. Not surprising it’s shot like a Duran Duran video. The giant killer pig is cool. The outback cinematography is stunning. The old razorback hunter is a gem. The marring factor is that it spends too much time trying to show every aussie living in the outback as a demented, criminal freak and cheats us from any sort of satisfying showdown between the hunter and the boar. Less time on the human swine, and more on the pig would be appreciated. But for horror fans, it’s still a good time of 80s cheese. Needs a proper U.S.dvd release as well.
The Fall- I’m pretty sure now, that this is my favorite movie of 08. Just gorgeous and well-acted at the same time. I was engaged as much emotionally by the end, as my eyes were visually throughout the duration. Jarv, give this one another chance.
Pushing Daisies Season 2- Still wonderful well up to the point where it got cancelled. I hear there are a few episodes left. I want to see them. If anyone can use some of that same mojo that saved Family Guy or Jericho, let’s see it now, because this show deserves it.
Outlander- Well, this was it, wasn’t it? The determiner by which the movie weekend would be a success or a bust. The theater was half-full when we went. The movie: Marvelous. I talked my wife into coming, and we both figured she wouldn’t enjoy it. But it was a great 80s action fantasy movie, and we both loved it. She was pleasantly surprised. One of the best, with one notable exception: it wasn’t made in the 80s. The Moorwen is a cool designed beast, taking bits from The Relic, the Beast of Gevudan, the Cloverfield beastie, the Tatapoulus Godzilla and meshing them into a far more fearsome critter. Caviezel was actually very good. John Hurt got to be more than the frail old man. He fights a bear in one scene. A bear! Perlman bellows with gusto and his parting scene in the film was an excellent moment. His dual hammers are also quite good. Best surprise of the film is while the plot is predictable, the execution is solid and takes the time to develop the Viking culture, and the dynamic of the tribes and the outlander. A good bit of it reminded me of the Edoras scenes from Two Towers. It turns out to be the most faithful adaptation of Beowulf to date(once you accept the spaceman and the Moorwen, and their respective roles in the story) and the most entertaining, though I did enjoy the Zemeckis Beowulf, the Butler Beowulf and Grendel, and of course, 13th Warrior. This one takes the cake,and is sure to please the COC. Can’t wait to hear Danny’s response to this.
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And it's easy. There's no challenge. How about a "bruceathon"? He's made some shocking bollocks but you've got some real gold.
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But it's pure dumbhouse. The crazy french uncle, the snake on a tripwire boobytrap, the mullet. All gold.Face/Off is the closest thing to an intelligent film as Woo has gotten in america. Not to say it's that intelligent. Just moreso than Broken Arrow et al.
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The Evil Deads, Bubba Ho-Tep... anything else?I might go for that one around the time My Name Is Bruce comes out on DVD.
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That in Tropic Thunder, Ben Stiller did kill a Panda in the movie and where it's head on top of his head. I did like that scene. Whose kung-fu is strong now Panda?
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I've heard only good things about it but I just can't get over the fact that it's from the director of The Cell. I fucking hate that flick.I might have to change my tune if its that good.
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Jan 26, 2009 8:03:19 AM CST
Amazon have a Bruce box set coming out on March 2
by franklin t marmoset
It includes BUBBA HO-TEP, THE MAN WITH THE SCREAMING BRAIN, ALIEN APOCALYPSE and MY NAME IS BRUCE.The only one of those I've seen is Bubba Ho-Tep.I might put those together with the Evil Deads and make a weekend of that lot.The Bruce-athon idea has cheared me up a bit. Cheers, Jarv.
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The Thing, Halloween, Big Trouble in Little China, Assault on Precinct 13, The Fog, They Live, Escape from NY. You can also add Escape from LA, Starman, and Christine.
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Alien Apocalypse...I think I saw the very beginning of that on sci-fi channel a few months ago. I'm pretty sure someone saw it and said it was not bad good, just bad.
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It would be cool to go back and watch them all again in chronological order (except I might skip Memoirs Of An Invisible Man).I never have gotten around to watching Dark Star.
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...miss a thing. They are horrible and never should have been made. Now, the first original Halloween is a great film...and John Carpenter's The Thing. Steven Spielberg's Duel was scary as hell. The original Hitcher was scary. An American Werewolf In London is cool and just for fun Fright Night. The latter is not in the class of the others but it is just a fun film...so was Monster Squad.
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Silent Running is great, see that instead!!!
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Jan 26, 2009 8:15:14 AM CST
A 81-98 Raimi weekend could soothe my aching bones
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
The Evil Dead, Crimewave (never seen it), Evil Dead II, Darkman, Army of Darkness, The Quick and the Dead and A Simple Plan.Thats a pretty good list right there. You could take it to 2000 and include The Gift. You just have to disregard For Love of the Game.
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Waiting for Godot in space! Fuck off, you ignorant peasant.
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I'm going to give it another go. It bored me to tears to begin with, but there's no doubt that it's beautiful.
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I'm not enamoured with Bubba-Ho-Tep, but it's the chin so must be bought.
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First is quite good, and not at all like the rest. Jason X is hilarious. Of the rest 2 and 3 aren't too bad, 6 is quite amusing, 4 and 5 suck, 7 sucks, Jason takes Manhatten also sucks, and Jason goes to hell blows.
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It's a deeply strange film, but I think that's what I liked about it.Worth a look.
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actually, great is too strong. It's an interesting curio with some great moments. It does not suck. Ghosts of Mars sucks for example.
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...loves Silent Running is because he thinks it's a documentary.
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...is about a thousand times more entertaining than it has any right to be. A rare throwback.
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I've never even heard of it till he mentioned it, but having read the synopsis- You sound about right. It doesn't sound remotely like Dark Star, either.
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Don't get me wrong, Silent Running is a good SF movie, if a bit 1970s hippie-wanky, but it's also aged quite a bit.
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Not to mention the fact that I'm biased towards any film that Cronenburg appears in as an actor.
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There's at least two "unofficial" DVD versions floating around the interwebs -- a VHS rip that has both endings, and an awesome widescreen version ripped from the Monsters HD broadcast.
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It sounds like a load of sophomoric granola chomping bollocks to me.
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Exception to that rule: Night Breed, which is ass.
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But overall it is ass. The premise is better than the film, and the end is proper crap
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to your Phil Dick weekend.
Shame how the movies fail to capture the paranoia of his books.
Hope nobody takes a crack at "The Man in the High Castle".
Carpenter's "Ghosts of Mars" was kinda tragic - considering deathless masterpieces like "Escape from NY" and "The Thing" -but it's always diverting to look at Natasha Henstridge. Acting? who gives a shit. -
unfilmable. It would just be an incoherent mess on the screen.
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You know you are just saying you love it, because it seems cool to say you love it.
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The film that 2001 should have been.
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... some total dickhead director will believe he's just the man to prove it can be done.
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or I may actually like it- it isn't a mess, and yes, the end is stolen. Waiting for Godot in Space= good. Media Messiah= ignoramus.
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what the fuck? That's a bold, borderline crazy, assertion.
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Fuck that. Tears of the Sun is DA' BOMB. Its probably Bruce's best overall acting. Great acting all around, great photography, kick ass action scenes all practical, great original score-- what the fuck is there not to like? I know people have a problem with this because it paints Special Forces guys to be angels but fuck that. It may be a fantasy, but thats how I like to think of them.
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Fuck. I did a search on moviefone for it and its only playing in San Diego!! Uhhhh....thats 4 fucking hours from L.A. Thanks a lot.
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You fancy Stepford Wives will second anything any film critic tells you is good. Whatever the popular opinion is, you Hive Mind Slaves, say "Yeah...I second that" Stop being a Yes Man for once in your life Lost Jarv...and unlose yourself...because I just found you, Found Jarv.
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That's something, I suppose. I've never seen it, so I have no idea how good it is.Hopefully, The 5 Days Of Die Hard will not end on too sour a note.
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Is it working?
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You know Tears of the Sun was originally supposed to be Die Hard 4? Is that why you're including it?
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I quite enjoyed it. It's not a great flick by any stretch of the imagination but its fairly enjoyable.
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That's what I read somewhere, anyway, and since I recorded it off the telly the other week I thought I might as well tag it onto the end of the Die Hard festival I'm having this week.I hope it's not shit.
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that post doesn't make any sense. In this case, Media, a restraining order is not another form of "I love you". If you honestly cannot see what is good about both 2001 and Dark Star and think I'm just following the critics vote then you're nuts. I'm the person that thinks Spielberg has lost it, remember? I would say, rather, that you are deliberately iconoclastic and make a point of disliking anything that is critically praised. Especially if it happens to be popular.
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he's still making ludicrous claims.
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Jan 26, 2009 9:47:27 AM CST
its interesting to think of it as Die Hard 4.....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
....I guess McClane gets recruited for some Special Forces gig after retiring from NYPD. Honestly he feels more like John McClane in Tears than in Live Free.
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Granted, Monica is in it (who is sooooo close to becoming Mrs. Pillow #2, but doesn't know it yet), but I don't remember much of it. Since that's the case, I would say it's a middle of the road film.
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the big mistake of DH4 is that they made it PG13. McClane has a fucking potty mouth- and Bruce delivers great sweary-words. It nueters the character, frankly.
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FUCK!!
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and the fucking plane surfing. And yes, I still enjoyed the movie regardless of these shortfalls.
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...but it's not working...the guy has already started to hit on me. Sorry dude, I'm into the ladies. Nice try though!!!
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Benjamin Buttons dick in the Oscars thread. Apart from being nuttier than squirrel shit, he's a complete tool and has zero fucking taste.Having seen all the Best Pic nominees BB is the least deserving film nominated.I would rank them:1. Milk2. Slumdog Millionaire3. The Reader4. Frost/Nixon5. Benjamin Button
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How the fuck is I, Robot dystopian? There was nothing wrong with life in that world except the robots go crazy. But the day to day lives looked pretty pleasant. Thats like saying Bicentennial Man is a dystopian film.
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Jan 26, 2009 9:53:04 AM CST
That's why I'm looking forward to seeing DH4 again, Jarv
by franklin t marmoset
The version in my box set is supposedly a harder cut of the film, which I assume means a little more blood and no asinine GUNSHOT over the Yippe Ki Yay moment.I'll find out on Thursday, I suppose.
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what MM was doing with BB's dick...He was sucking it.Darn typos.
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Jan 26, 2009 9:56:48 AM CST
Wouldn't AI qualify as dystopian more than I, Robot?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
At least that robot junk yard bit.Just because it's set in the future, doesn't make it dystopian.
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Not that there's anything wrong with that, per se. Each to their own and whatnot.But we should all note that it was you who introduced a sexual element to this discussion.Something you want to get off your chest?
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....but its unbearably fucking horrible at home. It feels so damn cheap. And I don't think its just the cussing. He doesn't feel at all like the same character. He is so fucking half ass it looks like he's on prescription pills. He can't even open his mouth all the way during action scenes like he used to!! Awwwwww pathetic film.
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Yeah, that steaming turd I just dumped on it.
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but it is a stinking Die Hard film.
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nope. Not dystopian. Neither is I, Robot. He doesn't know what Dystopia is. Brave New World is Dystopian- Fight Club is not. 1984 is Dystopian, I am Legend is not.
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Jan 26, 2009 10:02:59 AM CST
yeah...Fight Club is set in the real world....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
...pretty much. I guess you can arguing we are currently in a state of miserable existence of suffering but I dunno......are there rules that current time can't be dystopian?
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Jan 26, 2009 10:04:25 AM CST
Greatest dystopian film ever? IDIOCRACY
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
You know this to be true.
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Its not a poorly made film overall-- like the effects are obviously well done and its well shot and everything. Its just not enjoyable and it has no reason to exist. There is absolutely no reason to make that thing other than to cash in on the name value of the franchise, and for no other reason than Bruce realizes its really all he's got. But as far as having any respect whatsoever for the films that came before it, there is none of that. Its clear no one gave a fuck.
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struggle to be dystopian
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Jan 26, 2009 10:07:03 AM CST
I guess if its realistic present it will, eh?
by dannyglovers_dickblood
They could obviously pull of an alternate 1998 or something. Best dystopian film ever is clearly THX1138.
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since it was a carbon copy of the first one, just set in the snow.
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Jan 26, 2009 10:07:41 AM CST
Second greatest dystopian film?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
BACK TO THE FUTURE PART II.When they go back to the alternate 1985 where Biff is rich.Look into your hearts!
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Wings Of Desire isn't dystopian, either.And fuck knows what he's doing putting Fight Club on there.
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I've heard people rave over it, I just didn't see it.
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can be present day, but has to be "elseworld" type of present day. For example, Fight Club is not at all dystopia. I'd argue that it is pretty accurate. Successful Dystopias (CF Handmaid's Tale, Brave New World, 1984, Clockwork Orange) are set in the future, but a reaistic and not too distant future. As a genre, it deals with "big" socio-political ideas. 28 Days Later is not Dystopia, because it is a pretty straight commentary less horror film, AI isn't dystopia because it's personal and I, Robot isn't dystopia because there is nothing bad, really, in society. Dystopia tends to be depressing, as a rule, and political opression of some sort is always at the forefront. I fucking love dystopian shit, but Father Geek doesn't know what it is
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Thats like comparing Saw to Grumpy Old Men. 2 may have been the weakest until 4 came along, but it still has an actual John McClane, Dennis Franz playing a foul asshole, and Bill Sadler as the villain. Nothing can sink to the depths of Olyphant as the bad guy and Kevin Smith. Eeewww.
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Jan 26, 2009 10:16:02 AM CST
I_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looki ng_for: I've Always...
by media messiah
...had a theory on men who use the word douche or the term douche bag to bash others. Really, it is a disrespectful side assualt against women, as it is a women's sanitary product that you have chosen to use as some kind of show of disrespect toward me, like I would be hurt? I am a grown man, not an immature child like you. BTW, I never use the term, douche or douche bag...never have...never will, ever...to describe, and assail anyone.I think it is lovely that women have the bodies that they have...and can have babies, and douching is a natural thing that comes with all of it, the whole process of what it is to be a woman and to live in modern society. So, throw that word, or that term, around all you want. You can call me a pussy, a douche, whatever, but I will take no offense, as I believe women, and what is associated with them...as far as feminine products, etc., are all beautiful. I'm the type of guy that would happily buy a special girl...the feminine products that she needs...to preserve her privacy and her vanity...not a boyfriend who gives her grief over it, or whether she is hanging her panty hose in the bathroom, or leaves a box of tampons on the sink. You just gave me a most profound and wonder compliment by callng me a douche. Thank you...long named guy, whomever you are??? BTW..."I Kissed A Girl And I Liked It, The Taste Of Her Cherry Chapstick"...etc.
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Jan 26, 2009 10:16:14 AM CST
Third greatest dystopian film? Wall-e
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Believe it!
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is Brave New World with honourable mentions to Children of Men, Clockwork Orange, Handmaid's Tale and 1984. Best Dystopian Film ever is harder to pick, because stuff like Blade Runner (unquestionably Dystopian novel) pillages from it, without the political commentary. If I had to pick, I'd probably go for Clockwork Orange with honourable mentions to Cold Lazarus, Dark City, THX, and BAck to The Future 2.
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I'm too sexy for you!!!
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spot on social commentary. It's a top drawer stab at it. Children of Men is a good try as well.
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I didn't read your post but saw that you addressed me. In future, don't fucking bother mate. I've stopped reading anything you write because you're a slobbering halfwit.Have a good one.
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ditto Soylent Green, Logan's Run, Rollerball. It's so easy to fuck up though, especially if you ground it too obviously in current affairs.
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The point of a Utopia being to imagine a very positive world; the point of a Dystopia being to imagine a very negative world.Both are intended as a commentary on the present day in one way or another - 1984 being about oppressive government control, for example, and Brave New World looking at apathy and indulgence.I kind of see how you could get mixed up with Fight Club, because it's nihilistic and satirical, but it's not a dystopian vision of the world - just negative.And Wings Of Desire is a love story between an Angel and circus performer! What the fuck is that doing on the list?
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it's sci-fi. Cube 2, hypercube IS dystopian, but sucks a fat one, so I like to pretend it doesn't exist.
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Couldn't have put it better myself. Fuck knows what 28 days later is doing on that list, let alone I am Legend. Clueless old fuck
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that post from droid was brutal.
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Thanks for checking in, though.
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and going to continue to ponder why there isn't a good version of Brave New World filmed.
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Jan 26, 2009 10:26:56 AM CST
"Cube 2, hypercube IS dystopian, but sucks a fat one"
by franklin t marmoset
Cheers, Jarv. I just spit water on my shirt.Not enough discussions about utopia/dystopia include the phrase 'sucks a fat one'.
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I don't think Planet of the Apes is dystopian either. Alternate society does not equal dystopia. Again, I can see how you'd think it is- as it's sci-fi and social satire, but just because it is those 2 things, doesn't necessarily make it dystopia.
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I need to elaborate here. In Hypercube they go further into government experiments etc, but it's almost a tacked on afterthought. Anyway, it blows. An excellent dystopia that I forgot is Gattaca.
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Is a fucking awesome flick. It was on tv a couple of saturdays ago and I was almost an hour late for the pub because i got stuck watching it. Brilliant film. And the score is awesome.
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erm, well, The Trial, if you really push the definition could be argued as dystopian, but I don't think so. It's bleak, nihilistic stuff so I can see how you'd think that, but I'd say it wasn't overall. The idiots at Wikipedia got confused between The Trial and The Castle. Amusingly. If I could be arsed I'd correct them.
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think Kafka was dystopian, and I'd go with them.
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I love all the others you mentioned. Well, save for Hypercube. Blech.
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Grammaton Clerics unite!
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I liked the first one, and hated Hypercube so much I didn't bother with the third.I could do three cubes, but that's not much of a challenge.Oh, 13 Days Of Friday 13th, how I miss you.
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Dennis Potter- it was a four part teleplay and (SPOILERS AHEAD) this is the summary: Cold Lazarus is set in the 24th century, in a dystopian Britain where the ruined streets are unsafe, and where society is run by American oligarchs in charge of powerful commercial corporations. Experiences are almost all virtual, and anything deemed authentic (such as coffee and cigarettes) has either been banned or replaced by synthetic substitutes.
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I haven't the foggiest if it's any good because I hated Hypercube so much that I deliverately ignored it as well.
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so no DVD is available (which is a crying fucking shame as I'd buy it) but it can be viewed at channel four onine, virgin media and various torrent sites. Not that I know anything about those.
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I'll add to this week's worthy viewing schedule. Also, Finney as the head? Brilliant!
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I wonder if the first one will be any good?Nah, only joking. Die Hard is mint!Cheers, all.
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but is not 100% necessary- as the only returning character is Feeld (the frozen head). I've heard people say that you need to see Karaoke is well, and I've also heard people say it's better without. I'd read up on Potter first, as if you don't like his stuff then you'll hate it.
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Jan 26, 2009 11:05:39 AM CST
Alright fellas, I'm off to celebrate Australia Day
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Copious amounts of grog shall be consumed in the name of the homeland.Have a good eve one and all.
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I've just been screamed at for 15 minutes by a complete stranger and want to go home, but I'm stuck here until 6. Bollocks
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Ciao.
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how was everybody's weekend?
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no big deal. I'm turning 20. This birthday actually kinda sucks because it's just the one before the REALLY fun one. It's like the show before Lost or something. Even if it's pretty good this time, you're just waiting for what comes afterwards.
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I'm freezing my ass off at work. I'm really in the mood for some Guinness. Like right now.
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No fake id? tsk-tsk.
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A friend came over and we had a marathon where we watched the first one before the premire, so it was four hours of stylized super-violence. It's nearly completely brainless entertainment, but damn if it ain't pretty to look at. The new one was pretty weird though. Half the time I had no idea who Afro was fighting. Cyborg chinese new year dragons? And what was the deal with the parade? I don't know, that shit was too ridiculous.
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my friend and I had both decided to pull all nighters, so at about three in the morning he came over and we watched Machine Girl and drank Busch and Jim Beam the whole time. I had work in five hours but I really didn't care. My week had been hell. After we finished Machine Girl I grabbed a cigar on the way to work and we just hung out outside the cafe smoking until it was time to clock in. Best morning of my life. I'm only telling this story because JPT's Guiness talk just reminded me of beer. And I thought you guys would appreciate it.
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It turns hell into a happy place with hot bitches and shit.Alcohol...the cause, and solution, to all of life's problems.
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everybody who I have shown your movies to has loved them. My friend and I were laughing our asses off at Machine Girl and another friend of mine now considers I'm A Cyborg one of her favorite movies.Oh, and I just thought of this, but weren't you gonna send me a copy of The Good, the Bad, the Weird? I would so make an event out of that and have all the movie people I know over.
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that last post was sort of poetic. So true too.
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in many ways I am a poet, albeit a humble poet for our lord...
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but I should be returning in a few hours. Happy posting fellas
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Cunts from across the pond are gone...Everyone else...who knows?
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after gym/lunch. My motivation = Keyser Soze...POOF!
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You have motivation to begin with?
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Enjoy the birthday man.
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I hope it rocks as much as you do.
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Yep I hated Tears of the Sun with the burning fire of two dozen suns about to go super nova. Except for the practical effects used for the stunts I can't say anything good about the movie. I thought the acting was mailed in, the depiction of ground operations was beyond lame and Monica Bulucci didn't get the sweater kittens out as far as I remember. Which is a sin unto itself.It seemed to me that the writer caged most of his info about how operations work from reading some sort of "I was there" puff piece written by a jerk off. It was either that or they hired somebody who faked a backround as a the military "advisor".The biggest problem I had with the movie was that I was bored to tears watching it. Seriously, my eyes were at half mast after like 10 minutes in.
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Thanks for the tips, even though most of them would have no effect on me (non-smoking, non-drinking, daysleeper, etc.). For some reason, your posts to me tend to come off as sounding rather patronizing. I had no issues or disagreements with you, but you have had a tendency to lecture me, though you do not know me, and that really pisses me off. That is why you do not see me around much. That being said and over with, I shall now return to posting to my CoC comdrades who talk to me rather than at me. Have a nice day.
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How are you this lovely day?
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I'm okay and yourself?
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Working on a re-write of my overdue zombie story. I promised Herb I'd have it done by the weekend, but I am, as usual, running late. I must be terrible to work with. :)
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You got me.
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I'm ironing uniforms and shining low quarter shoes I haven't worn in like two years.
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Bummer! I hope you had fun and that you don't get stuck in any frigid European areas on your way back.
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and I have to wear non utility uniforms and a fucking TIE! And low quarter shoes. I had to look up the knot the Marines Corp uses for ties because I couldn't remember how to tie it.As far as going overseas I won't be going anywhere till summer. I have two schools to attend.
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Will you have to dress up every day for these? That would suck!
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fucking day. It sucks. A lot.
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I have not worn a Sevice B or C uniform in like two + years and before that not all that much. I'm usually in outfits that wear utility uniforms all the time. This tie shit is for the birds man.
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I like being able to wear jeans and a sweatshirt to work (even if it does have the store's name on the front). One of the benefits of a night-shift, I guess.
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I've been hearing rumors all over the place that a bunch of talkbackers started their own website, but I can't remember the address. Does anyone here know anything about it?
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The second school I go to is a language school and I get to wear civies. Unfortunatly, the place I go to in Virginia is like the "real" Marine Corps, meaning its full of REMFs and Pogey bait noncombat types. They like wearing all the dopey professional uniforms. They think it makes them look like how Marines should look, according to the Regs. They're a bunch of pointy headed mothers.
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www.mymavra.com Xiphos has some awesome stuff over there! I hope you like the site.
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Jan 26, 2009 2:40:47 PM CST
that would suck to give a shit about military accuracy...
by dannyglovers_dickblood
...it would ruin a lot of fun movies for me.
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Sorry, Xi. You need to at least start a movement for casual Friday's over there. Lead a revolution! Hey...did you know we had rumors?
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Reading Superhero hype eh? The site its called mymavra.com and was started by the person in the post above yours.
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That sounds weird, doesn't it?
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It's not about accuracy, it's about plausibility of something being presented as "like real".
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Jan 26, 2009 2:46:50 PM CST
Double member action is fun until your balls the other dude's.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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It seemed perfectly plausible to me.
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Or movies, Youtube, etc. What the hell do we know?
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Since there are a bunch of people floating around Hollywood with experience. I've know of at least three guys that have work with movies before. It's not all that hard to get this shit right even with the changes you have to make to accomidate the camera.
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Jan 26, 2009 2:53:44 PM CST
Tears never says its based on a true story....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
....so I don't know why anyone would care if its precisely accurate. It doesn't claim to be real. It just says something about those sort of events going on in Nigeria. If it was a movie that cited how accurate everything was and I knew that before hand, chances are I wouldn't go to see it. I'm interested in films for entertainment purposes, I'm not really into seeing a "How to" of military operations. But I understand someone who is involved in that stuff being annoyed by the inaccuracies.
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But mymavra.com is very cool. The Dio page is awesome. Brings back tons of memories. You all have a good thing going. What kind of submissions are you guys looking for?
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Reviews (doesn't have to be just movies...could be music, comics, television, whatever), fiction, fanfiction, poetry...if you have something else, we'll add a new catagory. We're flexible and we appreciate the attention. Thanks!
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Chipps sent the first submission, way back in November, and it was a photo from a political rally.
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I'll send in an Outlander review your way shortly if you want one.
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I never said that movie was based on reality, but the way a team operates was. The nuts and bolts of a ground operation. I was not advocting a "how to" those are your words not mine. I think if you're going to do a movie with ground ops as the back bone of the action, do a good job at presenting it, I didn't think they did that. I know that compromises have to be made in order to make a movie and I'm not saying it has to be absolutley realistic. I think hollywood in general needs to do better job. this applies to many jobs that Hollywood uses in movies.My main problem with TotS was I was not entetained. That's the first and most important thing I want from any movie. Instead, I was bored to hell, and found many problems with the movie, not least of which was how they presented the action sequeces. You liked it, good for you. I thought it was shit, good for me.
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Thanks, Jonah! You guys have all been really great. I appreciate it more than I could ever say.
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right now, I don't have a blog or anything, and I'm seeing so many movies, and writing up blurbs for them(of which I occasionally post small bits of here) I'll prob just start sending globs of reviews your way. I'm 4 movies away from having seen 50 this year.
This week brings Doubt, Organizm, Reflecting Skin, The Wave, Inkheart, John Adams, along with who knows what else.
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I haven't seen him in forever. He was awfully fond of fire.
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And haven't seen ThereWolf for a couple of weeks either. Our happy little group is missing some people! Jonah, I'd be thrilled to get any reviews you want to send. I'll go to the Z-Spot and post my email address.
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Jan 26, 2009 3:31:15 PM CST
Mavra Chang: I Don't Know What You Are Talking About???
by media messiah
I think you have confused me with someone else, because I haven't assailed you once, or patronized you, in fact, if you recall, I was the one who said that you should be a writer, and writing for Ain't It Cool News.com...back during the Script Girl battles were everyone else was slamming you and Script Girl. I didn't take up for her, save to say, that comments like those using the word "cunt", being aimed at her, were not cool...and the same as anyone beating you up...verbally on you, with the same stuff. You said, "Hey, I am playing in the sand box with you guys (men) and I can take it, so I pretty much said okay. That's it. But have it your way. Good luck with your writing, your web site, and your life.
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Chipps was around a few weeks ago and said he's busy with getting married. Plans and all I guess. I haven't seen him since.
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...for the record, I don't get the hate for you dude. I just can't think of a proper response to your conspiracy shit.
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And I never accused him of "assailing" me. He did, however, give me a long lecture on finances in the Riddick tb. That was what I was referring to.
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Jesus how do you remember that? You have a damn good memory. I can't recall who I fucked last night, all I know is-- it wasn't pretty.
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I'm not fucking as many people as you are, Danny. But then again, I don't have a double member. ;) Don't you know....women have VERY long memories.
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And I highly suggest the double member. Soak it in warm water for 20 minutes before use, just for fun!
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It's included in that extra piece of chromosome women have (since all of you guys get one good one and one broken one). Btw, very insightful comments on "Gran Torino", Danny. You had some very deep thoughts there about that character. Excellent!
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There is no other way to explain his quick acceptance. Eastwood is not stupid. No way would he go over to their house if he truly hated them as people. My Grandfather would throw around racist shit when I was very young and I thought it was bizarre. But he was a very kind and honest person that helped a lot of people of all colors. I think thats just the times. They are sorta misunderstood. Of course there are the true hateful bigots. But I really don't think his character was one of them.
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So the way you guys have the add-on setup, is anyone can just enter any name they want to leave a comment? So someone else could come along and leave a comment as my name? There is no way to get around this and make it where you can only post as the name you're registered as.....or if you don't want to register its just GUEST or something?
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Isn't the choice between the right and left hand? Snap!
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You are so.......so mean to me.
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if you post under the blogs, you have to verify yourself. The other comments are pretty much open for whoever. Someone posted one as me early on...don't know who or why.
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No I'm just very, very jealous.
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Speaking of identity problems over there, due to his having been the person who built the site, everything I post on the blogs comes out as by Herb West. How about that for multiple personality?
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I have magnificently soft hands.
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Hhhhhmmmmmm...........Herb needs to fix that shit right fucking now.
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It's a glitch in the system. I find it amusing....like having a hive mind. We are Borg. Resistance is futile. Mwa ha ah...
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I don't see any reviews over at mymavra.com by DANNYGLOVERS. What's up with THAT?
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there are chat room s dedicated your hands.
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Trying to get me to write a review. Nooooooooooooo noooooooooooo. I'm only effective in short form. Anything past 6 sentences and I stop making sense fast. And then it goes something like this: THIS GUY SUCKS FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK. THIS CHICK CAN'T ACT THE DICK OUT OF HER MOUTH CUNT CUNT CUNT CUNT CUNT CUNT CUNT. I LIKED THE MUSIC. THE END.
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You tell 'im! I'd like to see that myself!
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And Damage_Inc is not Herb. Not even in a Borg way.
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Some writer I am~
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THIS GUY SUCKS FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK. THIS CHICK CAN'T ACT THE DICK OUT OF HER MOUTH CUNT CUNT CUNT CUNT CUNT CUNT CUNT. I LIKED THE MUSIC. THE END.
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No wonder you blocked the memory.
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Danny would help you with those tie knots, but his hands have been insured by several people in the porn industry. He can't take the risk of getting cloth burns that are not on film.
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Danny's hands are like buttah. That's real butter and not any of that fake margerine crap. I've read that his hands are creamy, soft and heavenly.
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You are going to bring those Watchmen TBers panting over here with talk like that. Nude blue dude who? They'll want creamy Danny hands.
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I have a half written review of Metallica's new album Death Magnetic that I have been working on. If I finish it, would that be something you would be interested in?
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That's a great album. Thanks a lot. I'll definitely look forward to reading that. Much appreciated, man.
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Except for posting a couple of thngs on the website and being a beta tester I don't have any say. It's all Mavra all the time. Well Mavra and Herb.The New Metallica Album is pretty damn good. Way better then Saint Anger.
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Hey...your input is very valuable. The site is way more than two people. Without you and Zed and the others, the writing would be just me putting up smart aleck opinions. Boring! You are necessary to the well-being of the site, imo. Your say matters!
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Can't stop yawning and my re-write is in stall mode again. If I don't catch you guys again tonight, I'll see you tomorrow. Have a great night!
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So all the credit should go your way.
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Fred counting down days until Super Bowl! Fred cautiously optimistic that Steelers will win. But Fred will refrain from any smack talkin. The last time Fred did that, Steelers lost to Toadkillerdogs Giants. Humble Fred learned valuable lesson.
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Where o where has the Therewolf gone, of where oh where can he beeeee?
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I am drunk
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Changeling review - tomorrow. Definite. Goofed off.
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Way up on this TB you mentioned watching a show called Supernatural. Is that the American show with two brothers named Sam and Dean Winchester driving a 1967 Chevy Impala going around killing all sorts of Natrual and Super natural things? Because if it is, hang on tight brother it's a great show. It's one of the few shows of this type that builds on it's own mythology intelligently from season to season. Plus, each season gets better and better. The current one is fantastic.
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the love for that crappy foreign stuff
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Dr. Daniel Jackson will be in Stargate Universe!
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I'M FURIOUS! JUST FURIOUS!!
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you seem angry.
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FURIOUS!!!
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are you FURIOUS!!! About?
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I'm jealous of Echo. WHY ALLAH!! WHY have you forsaken me in a place that is no where relatively close to a showing of Outlander! Nor have you given me a copy of Razorback to enjoy in my VHS player. WHYYYY!!!! OUUUTTTTLAAANNNDDDEEEERRR!!!
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I am FURIOUS about everything!!!
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Has anyone seen that movie? It sounds really cool. Also I may feel dumb admitting it, but I've never seen Maniac Cop. Is it worth hunting down? I still need Timewarp and a computer that is worth a damn. All you lucky computer folk with all your computer skills to watch movies off of computers...wait I have a fucking worthless degree in computers. Yippidy doo! I have a 4 year old laptop....come on new job! The second I get a new job I'm buying a top of the line computer, maybe I'll go hip and get an Apple.
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yup, that's the one. The new series started last night and I was impressed. I've only dropped in and out of it in the past, and never really got what the Talkbackers were jabbering about. But it started with a real snap. Unlike Dexter- the new series of which is sucking a fat one, and will continue to suck a fat one until they give up with this therapy nonsense. I don't want to see Dexter at fucking Narcotics Anonymous. A Wankfest- although I do think his sponsor is intrinsically fuckable.
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But have good accesss to schlocky fun elsewhere.
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Late shift gossip. The lord Jesus Allah Christ has laden the land around me with ice therefore making me land locked tomorrow. My lady friend and I have made the decision to finally watch Brazil, after she bought me the MUCH NEEDED 3 disc special criteron edition super deluxe mega fun never gonna watch half the crap on it version of it 3 years ago that has never once seen the inside of a DVD player. And if I'm lucky City of Lost Children.
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Is it me or does that movie just feel like its slowly sucking the brain out of my head through my nostrils every time I see a trailer. Damn you P.J. why can't you be like your brother Paul and fuck off mate.
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Either I'm too stupid to understand House or I just don't give a shit. Man I need to this cough syrup to kick in so I can pass the fuck out. Lie to Me was actually pretty fun though.
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We've got an Outlander release, apparently. 24th April. Momentum pictures site confirms Brett Ratner Conan, by the way. Sorry Doc.
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Backgrounds I know some of you have been bugging for them. http://tinyurl.com/b25gnv
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http://tinyurl.com/c7ozwr I'm so, so sorry for you. Hopes well and truly dashed?
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Why the fuck aren't James Caviezel, Sophia Myles, Ron Perlman or John Hurt on any late night shows this week? Seriously, I just saw Josh Brolin talking about his Oscar nom and some Miller High Life commercial star on Leno tonight? While good interviews, how come the Outlander stars aren't out there pimping their shit. I would love to see Ron on Conan or Kimmel. Well he's probably too busy since he's making like 10 movies a year.
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Is anyone going to be catching Paul Blart: Mall Cop?
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Why there hasn't been more coverage of this landmark occasion for cinema. I mean fucking Harry gave his "bugnuts" review for Doomsday. He could at least let the world know that the hair on his chest grew three inches after he saw Outlander?
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There's potentially loads of schlocky fun hitting the UK Cinemas from Feb- Lesbian Vampire Killers, OUtlander, Let The Right One In (Ok, technically not schlock), and so forth. OUTLANDER!!!!!!!!!!
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the films that he chooses to cover have slid right into the toilet- fucking Twilight, for god's sake.
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Making it the best dumped movie of last week. Though Killshot was only in 2 theaters and Donkeypunch 1. Damn this pisses me off so much, I need to see this movie on the big screen.
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Cost 20 million to make? I know I haven't seen it and it could be amazing, but how did Charlie get that sort of money? I guess getting an Oscar goes a long way. Same with Miller getting 30 million for the Sprite. Obey Your Thirst.
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Last Man Standing. Which was shit. Then Dexter. Which was also shit. This made me wonder, though, why has no-one attempted an actual version of Hammet's Red Harvest. I know Yojimbo, Fistfull of Dollars and LMS are all based on the premise, but it's a fucking stomping book with oodles of ultraviolence and a really gritty noirish tone. Not to mention a brutal Anti-hero. Do it Hollywood.
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So I've seen the trailer to Synecdoche and I can see where it could have cost 20 million to make. But fucking Zach and Miri cost 24 million to make? Someone is walking around with 23 million dollars in their pocket.
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Sorry you don't like Dexter (which series are you on? I've only seen the first). But as far as book to TV/movie transitions go Dexter is sooo much better then the book its unbelievable. The book is the first season, but with all the extra plots and killers adds so much more to it. The book is mainly just about the main serial killer and its just boring and not exciting. I haven't heard good things about the second books either. Alright chaps I'm off to bed.
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A HD picture of the Paul Blart movie poster as my background is the weirdest thing I've ever seen as my background.
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Media Messiah is Memories of Murder. Fucking knew it. "you all know me under 2 other web names since retired, where I made my points" Cocksucker- mangled English, ludicrously pretentious arguments. Laughable positions- The 2 previous names: BladeRunnerUnit and Memories-of-Murder.
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The AA thing is just a way of bringing Lilah into Dexter's life. Season 2 gets better as it progresses.Morning, by the way.
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Jan 27, 2009 3:11:21 AM CST
On the 1st Day Of Die Hard my true love gave to me...
by franklin t marmoset
...Die Hard!Also, House Of Wax, starring Dean out of Gilmore Girls.Of the two, I reckon Die Hard was better. What a great, great film. That must be the twentieth time I've seen it and it's still great.
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and I liked series 1. A lot. I've read Book 1 and 2, and Frank has warned me to avoid Book 3 the same way I'd avoid a fat whore with herpes.Book 2 is fucking dreadful, so it could hardly be worse, but this Therapy shit is beyond annoying.
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Not bad.
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it makes me want to badly damage the screenwrites. Creatively damage them. I do not want to see Dexter whinging at a fucking NA meeting, or being nagged by whatshername. In fact, the whole bollocks with whatshername's hubby pissed me off no end. Bitch should have been down on her knees slobbering on his cock in sheer gratitude. We could all remember what an asshole he was, and the attempted rape etc, so are you honestly asking me to believe that she's fucked off with Dexter for getting rid of him? Fuck that.It has precisely 2 more episodes of good will remaining from the first series, but it needs to fucking improve. STAT.
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I wacthed the whole thing in one day, so it was kind of like watching a 10 hour film that built up to a big finish, which might be a different experience to watching it week to week. It definitely gets better as it goes, though, especially all the stuff with Doakes.Jesus, 10 hours of Dexter in one day. I may be the laziest man on Earth...
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With Blue collar and Another to be decided tonight. 500 should be easily doable- there's 4 days of jan left and If I reach 48 ish (which I should) then that makes 540 for the year. Actually, we could stop now and have the quota met.
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Feeling a tad hungover.Watched zero flicks last night. Boozed myself silly instead. Paying heavily for it now. It was a good idea at the time.Fuck work. Fuck it in it's ear.
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we do not want to see John Conner in therapy. Morons.
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Can't be bothered this week at all.
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Dexter is, in part, about the nature of identity, so at least the therapy angle fits (even if you don't like it) into the ongoing story of Dexter trying to figure out who he is and what his place in the world is.It was stupid in Terminator. Totally agree about that.
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I've got training later in the week, though.
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I recorded it while watching House Of Wax since it's another Bruce Willis film I've never seen.Worth a watch or no?
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maybe if I was watching it in one hit I'd be able to get over it, but this is now the 3rd episode and it's been a fucking whingefest. I get that Dexter is about identity, but I just want him to kill Rita now as I'm fucking sick of her whining, and then I want him to take a flamethrower to his NA meeting, before strangling Deb for being strangely ugly and dull as shite. The only good things about it so far are the voiceover (which has been magnificent) Doakes, and the fact I want to shag the vaguely familiar looking bird that plays Lila. 2 episodes of good will left. If he isn't out of NA by then, then I'm not watching another episode.
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erm, well, it's deeply average. Christopher walken is dreadful, Bruce is quite good. Watch Yojimbo or Dollars.
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then I'd be fast forwarding this. Sorry- but as soon as she started whinging about "new member chip", then I'd be spinning it on.
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pussification of men on these series. Dexter is a remorseless serial killer, so I'm meant to believe that he's got Post traumatic stress/ impotence because he killed his brother and that he'd attend NA am I? He's a fucking badass antihero, for the love of god.
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Nope, I'm not getting those vibes. MOM was odious, to be sure, but he wasn't the complete loon that MM is. MM sounds more like GingerTwit when it comes to the conspiracy theories, even though GingerTwit was a lot dumber. I honestly can't guess MM's earlier guises.
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Dexter's a clear case of RobZombieMyersism.
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he's Underoos Hero. Someone nailed him in the other thread. I was wrong
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yeah, that's a good way of describing it. As it is, it has lots of goodwill in the bank that it's burning through at a rate of knots at the moment.
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In reply to your ealier post, would "Pullo" be Paul Blair?
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as in Titus Pullo. Paul Blair? eeeek!
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Then yes, that's the guy.
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It even had the sadly required TP bits, with loving and pointless close-up shots of zombie Nazis slowly driving spikes into eyes and body parts. I know that sounds a bit like Fulci's classic, but trust me -- it's nothing like it.
Outpost also has a piss-poor attempt at making an awesome 1940s Nazi propaganda animation like in Rocketeer, only it's badly designed and fucking COMPUTER ANIMATED.
The plot made no sense whatsoever either. Why try to explain something and then simply end up breaking all the rules? If fucking Castle Wolfenstein can get it right, why do movies constantly fail?
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(most people here) DON'T work hard, or at least as hard as me. I realize that most of the people here are high school or college kids and have no idea what the real world is like. As far as giving Obama a chance, why should I? Show me the liberals that gave George W Bush a chance. And I'm not talking about the 2 months after September 11th. George W Bush was mecilessly attacked day in and day out by liberals, even though the vast majority of his time in office the economy was in great shape and we haven't had another terrorist attack, even though al Qaeda has promised constant attacks. Look, my problem isn't so much with Obama as it is with all of you people giving him a free pass simply because he's black. He has ZERO relevant experience, has a history of many shady friends, got married in and exposed his kids to a racist church and preacher, and is a bully to those who don't agree with him. He wants to institute all sorts of liberal and socialist policies that I'm positive will not help but hurt. He has given me no reason to think he will be a good President. Please, point out something he has done in his past that makes you think he will be able to stand up to Putin or Achmedinjedh. Not to mention the fact he's going to be taking even more of my money and giving it to people who didn't earn it and that pissed me off, too. I really just want to lower people's expectations because Obama has fooled way too many people into thinking that he's something more than just another politician. And to answer your question, no, both parents didn't raise me. My mother raised 5 of us on her own. We were dirt poor. And I didn't have the advantage of being a minority like Obama did to help with my college admissions...
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the fact that I don't work hard, possibly. The only giving obama a chance because he's black, maybe. The recycling of his George W Bush idiocy. The misunderstanding of socialism, The offensive "take my money" shite At least we know now that his mother's a hooker.
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hehehehehehe. He's mad. Completely barking mad.
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He's either one of the most despicable talkbackers ever, or the most sublime troll in AICN history. I think it's the former.
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I'm on it.
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in the Green Hornet thread. This is a truly Troll-tastic day.
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I'm stealing that.
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How goes?
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bored, demotivated, apathetic. 'Bout par for the course, really.
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I'm getting over anger at being an idiot while I was drunk again. Now I'm chilling and thinking about going into town.
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can't have been that bad. Wait, I take it back. You're a student- you knicked a traffic cone, dropped your trousers somewhere and puked on yourself. Not necessarily in that order.
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It was one of those smaller things. I'll keep what to myself. At any rate, I won't miss these shitty hangovers. And if I'm laughing at shit that's not funny, I want it to be Dumbhouse. Not a film that just isn't funny.
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An exemplary remake of an already established classic. And a classic in its own right. I have seen this movie multiple times, and I still can't quite put my finger on why I adore it so much. The plot is fairly meat and potatoes and the effects are fun, but pretty dated. I guess it's the perfect cast, the nearly mundane, and simultaneously intensely expressive art direction, and the almost flawless execution of the story. Everyone of the monster reveal scenes is incredibly affective. The Thing is probably the only movie that can still scare me on multiple viewings.I LOVE THIS MOVIE. The vague ending only makes it better.
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it's perfect.One of the many reasons why a remake/ sequel is a rotten idea
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Stallone (it was his idea, and he's still making great stuff)Kurt RussellDaniel GloverWilford BrimleyI dare anybody else to think of a more badass squad of super troopers.
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...is perfection. It's one of my former "binge films", meaning I'd watch it almost every day for several weeks. It has since then graduated to the status of "comfort film", meaning I give it a spin just to mellow out in front of, or have in the background while I'm doing something else.
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What a great film, definitely one of my favourites, and the ending is definitely the cherry on the top of the story.I don't much care about a remake, but a sequel would be a horrible idea, unless it's some kind of buddy comedy starring Kurt Russell and Keith David as ageing aliens disguised as ageing humans. It would be The Thing meets Grumpy Old Men.
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...but Kate Winslet's tits looked de-god-dammned-licious when she was picking up that SAG award the other day.Bloody lovely. I could play with those things for hours.
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Jan 27, 2009 6:28:17 AM CST
That GI Joe looks like a potential Dumbhouse classic
by franklin t marmoset
The whole thing reeks of dumbness, and the posters make it look like the film is about attractive space nazis or something.Are there weirdo GI Joe fans who take it much too seriously like those strange Transformers people? I hope so.
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because it removes the glorious ambiguity from the end. Prequel= shite idea as well. Do we give a fuck about the Norwegians finding it? No. Remake also= shit because it'll be CGI Torture Porn stupidity.
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I just kept thinking they just don't make them like this anymore. Kurt is just the balls in that movie. And it is absolutely the execution. Every story has been done countless times, but it's the execution. And I love the music tinged with dread. It really makes the movie for me.Plus what I think works for it is how scenes change where they just fade out, especially after they ask Blair a question. And for me, I don't think the effects look bad at all. In fact, I can tell you I much prefer these to countless current ones. CGI abuse has really fucked things up. I would say the only bad effects shot is when Windows is flailing about after Palmer changes.
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prequel, sequel, drippy whorequel. It's all shit.
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Sienna Miller is in it. That's all you need to know. It should be dumbhouse, but it won't be. Transformers wasn't, and this looks worse.
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on 24.Fuck, she's an annoying cunt.
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GI Joe looks retard-alicious. It's that Sommers guy, so it'll probably be boring and buried under an avalanche of CGI, but I choose to keep hope alive that this will be a new classic of spectacularly stupid cinema.
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Jan 27, 2009 6:45:34 AM CST
Amazingly, I've never seen The Thing
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Unforgivable, I realise. I will rectify the situation. Stat.
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Were you not paying attention? Her very presence guarantees suckage.
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Jan 27, 2009 6:51:08 AM CST
Sommers best flick is Deep Rising
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Treat, Famke (yum) and Kevin J. O'Connor battling a giant squid. Genius.We need a sequel.The Mummy was okay, i guess.
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I heard she fucked Jude Law or somesuch, but that's about it.Is she not good?P.S. Which one is Joe? I looked at the cast list, and none of them seemed to be named Joe. I don't get it.
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amusingly, it's the only somers film that known Van Helsing cosplay troll Valerious doesn't like.I think there is a sequel to it.
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Where? I must investigate this news.
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but aside from that she sucks something fierce. She's an overrated, overexposed Hello! courting slag.
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There is no Deep Rising sequel!Damn you and your stories!
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I must have been star-shipping. I could have sworn there was a DTV sequel to it. DocP will know, or Jonah.
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That's the only reason I knnow who she is.
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...not seeing the potential for G.I. Joe trash greatness. It looks too much like a slick, soulless, focus-group-friendly, hit-all-the-right-buttons, exercise in whorish merchandising.
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...sadly, Deep Rising has no sequel.
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what a disappointment. It should have a sequel.
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My computer has conked at home. No internet. Should get something sorted soonish but I don't know when.Mavra, if you want to use either of my z-dive stories for your site, you're welcome to.
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Good morning (or afternoon) everyone. Hey, Wolf...seriously? Wow! That's very generous of you. Xiphos has lent us his stories also. The site is rockin'! I got a new story done for there last night. It's posted, but I couldn't come up with a decent title. It's currently titled "Paranoia", but that sounds rather lame. If anyone happens to read it and can think of something better to call it, I'm taking suggestions.
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i'm kinda a "part-time" AICN junkie. i don't keep up with everything.
my question is this: did something happen between Moriarty and Harry? Does Mori still contribute to AICN?
i've been gathering bits of info from the site here that seems to suggest there was some sort of falling out. is that right?
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Yeh - my hard drive packed up. I've lost a lot of writing projects. Devastated isn't the word. Hoping a data recovery expert will be able to do something.I should've backed stuff up regularly. My fault for being too lazy to bang a disc in and click save. I am a giant sized twat.
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No, Mori just quit AICN for greener pastures, if that's what you can call HitFix.
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It's one of those things that you know can happen, but you know never will happen until it does. Doesn't make you a twat...makes you normal (and I don't mean that as an insult). May your hard drive R.I.P. and may your recovery technician be a Scotty-like miracle-working genius.
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They're pretty good at recovering all or almost all the info. I know a few people who have sent it out to one of those recovery sites and they got back 95% of their info.
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Not enough Vern around these parts over the last year or so. I know I can still read his stuff over at his 'sight', but I miss the Vern talkbacks. Those were always the best talkbacks.
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He's already got his own site and wasn't one of the "founders" either.I guess one can say he has less baggage too.
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but I don't have a clue. We're Twitch lurkers more than anything else and not mods.
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We seem to annoy him. Twitch still loves us, though...that's the important thing.
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24/7 now. Him and A.B. King that is.
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You can copy and paste stories from the z-dive to yours, right?
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I thought for sure that would make us cool with him.I even cut and pasted pics of fat head on it.
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Do you want to remain "ThereWolf" when they are posted, or another moniker?
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...that Harry and Mori fell out during a colossal Hulk Vs Hulk argument, which is really the only proper way for film nerds to end relationships.
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This is very much Vern's secondary home. He's got that old geocities site and just puts stuff up here when he feels like it. I don't think Vern will go. Shame it wasn't Merrick or Herc that went
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Feel a bit more confident about it now. I should stop concentrating on the worst case scenario.
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With a sword and everything? That would be wickedly cool. How could anyone not like that?
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with the blurb: "It's not a job, it's an adventure!"It'll be one of those talking Hallmark ones.I'm positive Vern would get a bit teary eyed over that one.
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Yeh, just use that.Hope everyone is fit and well, by the way.Lunch over, back to work...
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Special Edition DVD cases were trod upon...A whole bowl of cheesey puffs was ruined...It was a rowdy day when Harry and Mori came to blows like Godzilla and Mothra over which version of Hulk was better.Imagine the devastation!
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...with Harry feeling oddly disconnected lately and Mori (Mr. Ban Hammer) gone, I think the inmates will take over the asylum more and more until Vern and the other sensible contributors tire of this seething hive of scum and villainy and jump ship.
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in my experience (I've broken many a database in my time)if we've got recovery expert types in, then you should get at least 80% of your stuff back, and if you're lucky you could get as much as 95% upwards. Those upper level nerds are fecking good at that shit.
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either that or actually do some work.
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What a horrible thought.Honestly, I don't know how I survived at work during the many years before I was able to talk about shit on the internets.
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I should've written that Changeling review by now.
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What a weekend. Between nursing a flu and having my daughter kick me in her sleep (resulting in such a jolt I pulled a chest muscle), I've been laid up the past few days. Did put a dent in my movie pile.Milk - I can see this being my favorite film of the year. Penn, Franco, Brolin and Hirsch are excellent, Van Sant does a spectacular job making you feel like you're watching actual footage from the 70s and they pulled no punches with the ending which, even though you know it's coming, is like multiple punches to the gut. Brilliant movie.Bolt - cute family movie that manages to adhere to formula while at the say time being unconventional. As far as buddy, cross-country movies go, it's a solid entry.Dachimawa Lee - Koreans take a stab at their version of Austin Powers and the result is an epic failure. The less I say about this the better.Rocknrolla - Guy Ritchie returns to form. Great characters, sublime dialogue, wonderful photography and Tom Wilkinson chews the scenery like he hadn't eaten in a month. And any movie with a well played McGuffin is aces in my book.Babylon AD - what the zombie Jesus were they thinking? Dreadful story, dodgy effects and a third act that makes about as much sense as a Dali painting dry humping a Picasso while Pollock reads Kafka. I mean really, if you're not going to explain what's going on, then why bother to film the third act in the first place. Just leave us hanging at the 60 minute mark and we'd still be less confused. These guys threw a bunch of stuff at the wall and nothing stuck. Avoid at all costs.Now I want to see Outlander more than ever.So I missed a dystopian conversation, the true identity of Media Messiah revealed and more projectile vomit from Coughlins.What a time to be sick.
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We have almost no regular contributions from Vern anymore, but Harry's wife has a column of shallow and utterly random music reviews?I don't get it.
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Bill Paxton is great in Aliens.
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Come back... bunch a cunts.I can't do this shit on my own anymore. Without Gilmore Girls, I have nothing to annoyingly ramble on about.
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Mavra's site kicks AICN's ass!
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while essentially not a bad idea, the execution of it is pointless and dreadful. Music is vast, and people's tastes are so subjective that to use a geek site to say things like "I think X band is really cool" is pointless, especially when it's such mainstream stuff as Franz Ferdinand (yuck, you've had your fifteen minutes, now bugger off. And take clodplay with you). It should be more obscure stuff than that.
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The real fight we all wanted to see was Busey vs Predator, and I have to admit that they really screwed that one up. Busey was set on fire and cut in half and didn't land a single meaningful blow.I suspect things would have been different if Busey had been drunk and/or on prescription medication. There's no way the Predator could deal with Busey if he went full-nutbag.Maybe they can try again if they ever do a Predator 3.
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does it help anyone to see a music review with: "Imagine Kermit on his lily pad, with his earbuds hooked up to his iPod, reminiscing about the good ol' days when he and Steve Martin would just hang out and jam" That is meaningless drivel. The only remotely interesting thing from that review is that Steve Martin has relesed an album of banjo tracks.
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she's reviewed a fucking kylie effort. You don't get any less AICN than Kylie
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Gremlins versus John McClane
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she's reviewed Leona fucking Lewis below it.
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Edit Die Hard and Gremlins II together - they're both set in tall buildings.
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There's your fucking title.
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I posted one of ThereWolf's stories. I want to get one more submission before I put up his next one...space them out just a tad and give everyone a chance to read them. You'll want to read his story, too. It's amazing!
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Jan 27, 2009 9:11:09 AM CST
My bet is on some insane geek will...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
do a "fan-edit" of Watchmen and edit in the squid from Deep Rising at the end.Then masturbate incessantly.
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Joe v The Volcano. You knew Hanks would get fucked. PS- that film blows.
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Working on a Changeling review, but I am really hungover. So it's two steps forward, eighty back as I wander off to Youtube.
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Only if they dub over the dialogue themselves. IT'S A FUCKING SQUID.
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We all know the Predator likes to go where it's hot, and he likes to be around the action, so it seems entirely tasteful to me to set the third Predator 3 film in Gaza.The Predator, as a concerned alien hunter and not too knowledgeable about ancient and violent squabblings between races, does not fully understand the middle east conflict and therefore kills indescriminately. He doesn't care - Jews, Muslims, UN Aid workers - he kills them all, as long they have a skull and at least one foot of spine he can keep as a trophy.In the end, Jews and Muslims forget their differences and are joined together by the knowledge that they are all ultimately the same in that they are merely prey for the technologically superior Predator.It's a beautiful story, really. Also, very violent.
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Took me all weekend to finish one story, and I don't think it's nearly as good as I wanted it to be. I'm still down one review too. I'll be happy to have your review whenever you are ready. Gracias, man!
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that's strangely attractive to people born in the 80's. Was in Streetfighter with Van Damme
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But thanks for the info. I'll avoid that area, in case of falling pop s-tarts.
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Greatest Dumbhouse film ever.
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that was funny.
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Jan 27, 2009 9:20:10 AM CST
One of the best delivered lines of dialogue... EVER!
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
"Well, I'm not going home. I'm gonna get on my boat, and I'm going up river, and I'm going to kick that son of a bitch Bison's ass so hard that the next Bison wannabe is gonna feel it! Now, who wants to go home... and who wants to go with me?"
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Are you serious? If thats true thats fucking hilarious. We know which brother got all the talent.
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Aye. And Bison's monologue about why people should be thankful for him is almost as good as 'For you, that was the most important day in your life. For me, it was Saturday.'
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Best answer I can give you for a question you had yesterday...If someone should happen to leave a post on the other site in your name and it isn't you, just leave me a message here or at the Z site (so I have no doubts that it is you) and I will delete the offender's comment. Is that fair enough?
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Jan 27, 2009 9:24:55 AM CST
Just randomly posted this in the GI Joe TB...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Good stuff, Frankie
by I_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looki ng_for Jan 27th, 2009
09:22:16 AM
"as a concerned alien hunter and not too knowledgeable about ancient and violent squabblings between races"
FunnyIt's been a long day and my hangover has just segway'd into full blown tiredness.
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Unchapped, I hope? ;)
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depends what you want. I prefer chandler's writing style (overblown similes and all) to Hammet's, but I think I prefer Hammet's stories (with the exception of The Long Goodbye) to Chandler.
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as far as I'm concerned. There would be no other reason to come here than to read the twitch talkback. And speaking of Vern, anyone know if he ever reviewed Double Team anywhere? Like myself he recognizes that it is JCVDs best movie but I cant find him actually reviewing it anyplace. I need a review of that and Street Fighter to make my life complete.
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He comes to Earth to clean up the mess made after AVP (what a shame he did not pour his magical blue dissolving solution over Paul W S Anderson), and what's the first thing he does when he has a free moment?Kills a guy, skins him, then leaves him hanging upside down in a tree!That is not covert behaviour.
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Aaaaawwwwwww.......I guess. Still sucks there can be impostors. Especially if it did start to pick up traffic with more people, ya know? If that was possible here, you know how many people would be jumping on her saying random shit with my name?! FUCK!!
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I find him very dull. His tough guys are not convincingly tough to me. Hammett writes some mean motherfuckers you have no doubt would tear someone's head off. And Hammet's world reeks of authenticity. All the details just feel very real. It probably comes from his background.
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I seem to remember some piss awful fan comic from the 90's, but surely no-one would be stupid enough to rape to classic series by filming it would they?
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I seem to recall a phase when there were several imposters of you with just slight variations on your spelling. What an untrustworthy lot we people are!
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He was a cool cat!
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Would be the least he could do, since he was claiming relations.
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"like a tarantula on a slice of Angel Food" Chandler wrote the most evocative similes ever. He's more florid and arguably more literary. Even his description of Hammet (who he enormously admired: "He took murder from the venetian vase and dropped it in the back alley" is bang on. I've sightly paraphrased that.Hammet worked for (I think)Pinkerton's and knew what he was doing. His style is rougher. As I said, it depends what you want.
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than Hammet- The Long Goodbye is a mishmash of styles- Hammet wrote "purer" hard-boiled fiction than Chandler
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That's fucking awesome.
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I'm not sure I would pay to see that fight.Ten years ago, I would have picked Kirk Hammet to take Chandler Bing pretty easily, but he revealed himself to be quite the wuss in Some Kind Of Monster.It's a battle of the pussies, really. Who wants to see that?Now, if it was James Hetfield Vs Monica Gellar, that is a fight I would watch.
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I would slap him to death with my testicles.....Cowardly Lion lookin' muthafucka.
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but that's probably for the best. The original, however, really needs to be one of the films shown at HOD's Festival of COC, whenever that happens-followed immediately by Outlander.
I've been in the process of fielding job interviews(didn't lose mine, but am actively looking for another, with some good prospects) and haven't had time to get the review for Outlander out to you Mavra. Maybe tonight. -
Like I told Zed, anytime you guys have something ready, I'll be happy to have it. All of these submissions are very exciting. No complaints here. :)
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It's perfectly fine. It's not gonna win awards, but it isn't distractingly bad, and while this movie really could have used some animatronic creatures, or puppet-work near the film's finale, the CG never marred it at all. The Moorwen looks cool though, and imposing, and the other creatures(one of which is a bear that is done in darkness with practical fx) are well done too.
The viking village and landscapes are beautiful, and the film has a terrific visual style.
The CG that creates the scenes where Caviezel recalls the events on the Moorwen planet, the sunken space-craft and the crash itself, are all very good. The scenes are evocative, and you are paying attention to the cruelty of the humans, and the alien life of the Moorwen homeworld, instead of "Wow, that looks cheap" which was my thought through several scenes of Riddick or even Serenity(though I really liked that one).
The deaths and the gore, and at one point a slaughtered whale carcass look terrific.
It is what it is, but as a popcorn genre effort, I honestly suspect I will have enjoyed it more than most of the big sci-fi coming our way. It's one of the best B genre pics in quite awhile.
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like what? Aside from being retina-boinked by Avatar, and Spielberg's next effort (which I have less than no interest in).
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I located Cold Lazarus, and should have it in my possession by Friday, which is my day off/writing day, so I might be able to get through the whole thing. Looking forward to it.
Last night's cinematic "treat" was The Mysterians, which was playing while I did job related stuff.
Anyone here see Mysterians?
That is a classic bit of schlock if I've ever seen one. There are 30 minutes of straight toy rockets, planes and tanks fighting UFOs, a giant Mole Robot, and the Alien Power Dome.
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it depends on what you are counting. I guess I should qualify big and scifi. I mostly specialize in the smaller stuff, so me, Im excited for Cold Souls, Moon, The Clone Returns Home, Franklyn, 9, etc.
But, some would consider Watchmen, Terminator, Star Trek, Wolverine, Transformers,"sci-fi". Those are pulpy, comic-book style things, but to some degree, so is Outlander. And except for maybe Star Trek or Watchmen, I expect Outlander to smoke them all. -
after the B.O. has settled for those movies, and the sheen of their brightly polished cgi has worn away, I think we will still be watching and enjoying Outlander with various beers and pizza.
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Too much work.
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You inspired us, and then quit?
I'm a little terrified of the fact it looks like I'll end up with 50 movies in 30 days, but I'll try to keep up a steady pace.
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Have you seen any other Potter? The Singing Detective is probably his most famous thing.
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that for the creatures, it is convincing. I said "not distractingly bad" which suggests it's weak. It isn't, but it comes up against the limitations of a somewhat smaller FX house. I'd say the Moorwen works as well as,say, the monsters in Outlander and The Host worked. It has weight and substance(at least a little) and yet it looks like a Frazetta painting come to life.
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I don't consider Wolverine, Watchmen, Transformers Sci Fi. Have no interest in Star Trek (loathe JJ Adams, and Star Trek fans fill me with contempt), and completely forgot about McTerminator.I agree, I expect Outlander to destroy all the above. Including Watchmen.
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To answer your question: Yes.
I've seen Dreamchild(the Lewis Carroll film he wrote, with Ian Holm as Carroll).
I've seen The Singing Detective with Gambon. Loved that.
What else? Brimstone and Treacle with Sting, and he did Pennies from Heaven, right? With Steve Martin?
Saw both of those. That might be it.
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That should have said, as well as the creatures in Cloverfield and The Host.
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the creature to look kickass. He had martial arts and the future Mrs. Pillow talk #2 in all her glory.
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Lipstick on your collar, Dude was a genius. And yup, a true original.I'm just preparing you that it is very much one of his works, and going in blind is tough with Potter. Mrs. Jarv had a horrendous reaction to The Singing Detective (the original, not the piss poor Downey remake).
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Samurai Cop is shipping today.And for shits and giggles, I've added In the Name of the King. Did you say this was a dumb cheesy movie filled with "WTF" moments Jarv? Unless my mind has twisted it, I think you said it's worth a look for the sheer dumbness.Either way, I'm going the Frankie route and seeing it, no matter the pain that is inflicted upon my very soul.
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Crazy Bonesword, Native American Martial arts and the woman that's going to commit adultery on poor old pillows with me gets her feeders out. Therefore, good CGI is not necessary.
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one funny moment: Orcs setting themselves on fire as catapult ammo. Terminatrix= worst elf ever. It blows. Don't blame me for this.
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and Caviezel than just the monster. He's your quintessential dragon or Grendel stand-in, and while he is a major player with 3 or 4 major attack scenes, the movie is smart enough not to just stand or fall on that. The way they handle the beast helps too. There attributes to him that, from afar, all the vikings see is what looks like a red lightning storm pounding it's way through the forest. The leathery, razor claws and slobbering, lethal jaws come after that.
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I taped Lipstick on Your Collar, Karaoke and Cold Lazarus way back in 1990s when I first watched them. Potter WAS a fucking genius.
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I just recently made myself sit through The Boogens and Repo: The Genetic Opera, so I think Cold Lazarus won't be an issue.
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Suck it up and whatnot!Work through the pain!!Subject yourself to an entire Uwe Boll film!!!Really, it can't be any worse than AVP: Requiem, which has taken over from Shoot 'Em Up as the Worst Film I Have Seen This Year.It will take some beating. Maybe I should also watch In The Name Of The King.
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and I'm looking forward to it for that fact alone.
It's going to be an odd week of film for me anyway.
Here's the synopsis for Reflecting Skin, one of the other films on my roster:
young boy tries to cope with rural life circa 1950s and his fantasies become a way to interpret events. After his father tells him stories of vampires, he becomes convinced that the widow up the road is a vampire, and tries to find ways of discouraging his brother from seeing her. He must deal with an abusive mother, a father with a charge of molestation, a band of youths creating havoc, and an unforgiving environment in general.
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And more potter love! Not Harry Potter, though.
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Nah, only joking.The trouble with Dennis Potter is he's good, and I think I am swearing off all good films from now on. You damn pansies with your good films make me sick to my stomach.REAL MEN ONLY WATCH SHIT!
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Jan 27, 2009 10:48:47 AM CST
I saw A History of Violence the other night....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
...for the first time. That movie is fun as hell. I didn't expect it to feel that pulpy and almost adventurous in an odd way, at all. I fucking love the damage effects on the dude's faces. Very well done. It doesn't seem like it would work in that world. But somehow it does.
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I always get into a shitstorm over this, but that thing wasn't a lion. First of all, it's much too big. Second of all, if you look at the making-of stuff, they show very clear animatics of the thing and its front legs are longer than the back legs. In fact, its entire body is shaped like that of a smilodon or other prehistoric cat. A mutilated smilodon, to be sure, but a throwback stone-age moggy all the same.
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Changian Credo. Except it should be: REAL MEN ONLY WATCH GOOD SHIT!
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I liked everything up until John Hurt and then it lost me, big time. I think Eastern Promises is a much better film
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I took all that as part of that pulpy comic world sensibility. Hurt is cartoony, and his castle place looks like a haunted house. I thought it was a standard drama with some mystery and a few shots fired, but its more than that. Cronenberg was going pulpy all the way, especially with the CG head shots and blood sprays.
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"Can't do that, Brohiem!"
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but then again I only got 3 hours sleep last night haha! talk to you all soon!
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SPOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOILERRRRRRRRRS!!
I was honestly shocked by how fun that film is. And its simple, which is also good. And I usually stay away from all things Ed Harris, but luckily I was able to watch him get blasted in the fucking back with a shotgun in the first 45 minutes, and that made it a win for me!! I'm cool with Ed Harris, if I get to watch him die. -
Jan 27, 2009 11:06:06 AM CST
lets just call them both John Hurt from now on.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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thing. I never thought it was supposed to be a lion.
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Sad, but true.
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Only got 604 words of this Changeling review. Need a thousand.
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IT. FUCKING. STINKS.
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The Abyss, The Truman Show, History of Violence. These are all good performances.
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Then you'll hate the review.
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Jan 27, 2009 11:36:12 AM CST
Damn. History of Violence graphic novel differences...
by dannyglovers_dickblood
In the novel, Richie is captured by mobsters and mutilated after the incident that sends Tom on the lam: Richie's limbs are cut off and his eye taken out, yet he is still kept alive to be suspended from the ceiling in a harness and tortured for years. During the dramatic climax of the graphic novel Tom comes face to face with Richie, and Tom suffocates him in an act of euthanasia.
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bit of Angie screaming, it's a rule. "I want my SON back!
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I never said he is necessarily a bad actor. He is pretty good in all you mentioned. Though he is always exactly the fucking same. And before people throw in people like Harrison Ford or Jack Nicholson as always being the same, the thing they got that Ed don't-- is charisma and likability.
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Yuck. No thanks.
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Jan 27, 2009 11:41:40 AM CST
isn't Ed Harris the same guy in History and Beautiful Mind?
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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that's why I picked them, and left out things like Glengarry (where he was a prick).
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he wasn't in Abyss and Glengarry- or in History and Abyss. Or in Truman Show and History. Different performances. He just strikes me as a (to use an English sporting phrase) good honest pro. He's a journeyman that occasionally puts in above average performances.
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....he considers acting a Blue Collar sort of profession. In that sense, he reminds me of Giamatti. They both go to rehearsals wearing dirty ass jeans stained from painting their house or some shit. And both of them consider the actor's contribution no greater than the set construction guy. -
are you criticising him for playing assholes?
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I'm realizing I must focus my hatred on one target at a time. I called a Cease-Fire with DocP so I could hone in on destroying Seth Rogen. In my old age, multiple attacks weaken me.
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Here's some more roles that Harris did that are wildly different. His hughly over the top turn as the scene stealing, scenery eating Gen. Francis X. Hummel in The Rock, The single dad doing a great job in Milk Money and The Detective in Gone Baby Gone. All three roles were quite differnt.
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FUCKING OVERRATED OSCAR BAIT SHIT. I feel that I can't do it justice in 3 words.
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now there's a hate figure. Whether you want to fuck her is irrelevant. She's barely in any films worth the price of admission, seems intent on pursuing a totally undeserved oscar (far worse than Winslet- bitch already has one), consistently stinks up the camera, adopts kids as fashion accessories and is clearly a mentalist.
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ciao motherfuckers. Rogen sucks- I'm all for hate of that fat fool.
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He was good in Freaks and Geeks, Undeclared and The 40 Year Old Virgin. After that he got way over exposed and in turn put out shit pile movies like Pineapple Express and Knocked Up. No fucking thanks. Here's my ticket, let me take my seat on board the Seth Rogen dislike train.
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Is it because he's fat, ugly and currently successful?Does everyone envy him because they are also fat and ugly, but not successful?hmmm.... things to ponder...PS. I've said it before, he's only doing what everyone else would do in his sitch. Capitalising while he can. Good on him.
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In the Name of the King.Our Transatlantic Movie Exchange Program has now evolved. It will now be Transatlantic Assfisting Shitty Movie of the Week. Across the sea we will watch a shitty movie a week, this way pain will be felt on both sides of the pond.
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Nope. Exactly the same. He's an amped up version of himself in Apollo 13.
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plus Superbad, which is a movie that I like. However, Knocked Up sucked, and I haven't seen Pineapple Express yet.
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So it don't matter about Ed's performance in that.
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Jan 27, 2009 12:39:15 PM CST
I saw 20 minutes of In The Name of the King....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
...and I dunno man. Its honestly not that bad. Its not good. There is nothing new or remotely inventive here. And Statham and his bald-head and Ray Liotta as a warlock guy are horribly cast. But it looks and moves like a real film and the magic CG isn't as bad as you would hope. The sets actually look surprisingly good and the photography does its job. Seriously....I think most people will be disappointed at how un-shitty it is.
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....until I watched it again when I was over 20.
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I'm going to disagree with you on that one and leave it alone.
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A course of action has been set. There is no turning back now.
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Jan 27, 2009 12:46:44 PM CST
I'm not saying don't watch Seth Rogen movies....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
I'm just starting the DOWNLOAD SETH ROGEN MOVIES FOR FREE!!! campaign. Its fine that he continues doing what he does. He just shouldn't be paid more than $10 an hour for it. He has as much talent as a short-order cook at Denny's and he should be compensated accordingly.
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AND ASSES WILL BE STRETCHED!! So Sayeth Lord Mitt Romney
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Jan 27, 2009 12:54:44 PM CST
Thanks to the glories of technology...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I am going to watch Outlander tonight. Bring it awn.
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Fuuuuk did that movie suck. I want to throw Jonah Hill under the bus with Rogen.JPT don't rush out to see Pineapple Express. I rented it the othr day after falling prey to the blow job reviews. It's boring and not at all funny. Which Hollywood genius decided the special effects guy from Tropic Thunder was funny? I like the Rock. It's so wonderfully fucktarded, nonsensical and just plain goofy that I can't help but enjoy it. Is it a good movie no but I find it endlessly entertaining in its badness.
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WERE GOOD! But they both felt like pilot episodes to new HBO series because they both ended unfinished. That and they felt like the same movie.
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I pretty much like everything he's done except Knocked Up that has like 1 and 1/2 funny jokes. The part when Paul Rudd and Seth Rogan are talking at dinner and the girls have no idea whats going on. And something else. Other then it was an unfunny movie all around. That and all of his voice over work, he was like in ever movies needing voice actors last year, and he was terrible.
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You bastards are just jealous.
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Jan 27, 2009 1:08:42 PM CST
No fucking way-- advertising for a movie, in a movie?!!
by dannyglovers_dickblood
I can't believe its come to this. This is a sad fucking day.
"Fans looking for a first look at the poster art for the upcoming, “Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time” will have to head to the movie theater to see it, though it won’t be in the place they might expect.
Mega-Producer Jerry Bruckheimer has hidden the poster inside his latest film, “Confessions of a Shopaholic”, appearing as a Times Square advertisement about halfway into the film. It joins posters for a number of other Bruckheimer productions, including the upcoming “G-Force”, though “Persia” is unique in that it marks the first time the films’ artwork has been seen anywhere."
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I watched a couple of minutes of this yesterday while ironing. Yesh, that's all I can say.
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If your here. I watch Dexter season 1 in like a day and a half. With my cousins who are all under 18. And we all loved it. I think I'll have to do the same with season 2.
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I really down on comedies right now.
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Hurt was too cartoony, and when I watch HOV, I have to push his performance to the side, and just concentrate on everyone else's.
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Prince of Persia? Didn't some of those on set shoots ensure to any "fans" that the movie was going to suck.
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Jan 27, 2009 1:32:53 PM CST
those Prince of Persia photos were fucking hilarious.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
This wig looks fucking horrible!! Hehehe.
http://tinyurl.com/cod5w2
But look....I'm amazed I live in a world where Pirates of the Caribbean movies make money. Why any kid would want to sit through those films, I have no fucking idea. So I predict Prince of Persia opening weekeNd -- 2 billion. -
He fucking killed everyone.
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He's a good supporting actor who someone told made a good lead. Which he doesn't. Leads have to be the straight guys to the crazy, and Rogen is better at the crazy.
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He kills everyone and goes home to his family. Chances are those fuckers won't be back to bother him. Thats it. He had this dark history, it popped back up in his life and he destroyed it. Now he can live peacefully for the rest of his life but his family and townsfolk will look at him a bit differently. He'll still be cooking at the diner, people will just think twice about sending a plate back to the kitchen.
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I would comment, but as you guys are all giving it total love... no comment.
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"Isn't it about a boy and his dog? Its French, its a dog movie, and its title is gay as hell. I won't be seeing this and I don't even want any articles posted about it. Fuck Tintin and fuck anyone who likes it as well."
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Your taste is that of a deaf and blind windylicker! You may now comment on History of Violence.
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....I would destroy Rihanna's asshole.
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I think I can safely say that yours would be the only one to say "I would destroy Rihanna's asshole."
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Jan 27, 2009 2:07:23 PM CST
I want that on my tombstone, accompanied by....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
....a nice fine mist of Riahanna's period blood, shot out of a turkey baster. -
You thought I knew shit about movies before? That's sweet, but misguided.
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I really don't remember much of the film. I just remember that it felt like it could have gone on. But Eastern Promises ended where a good story began.
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My sweetness overwhelms my prickiness. It's a constant battle between the two. To War!
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"Here lies the man that almost conquered TheBates"
Of course the "almost" is why you be in the grave of course, along with many, many others.
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Jan 27, 2009 2:58:04 PM CST
I think it should be "The Prince and the Persian"
by chittychittygangbang
A prince is about to be named king, but the jealous and evil little brother turns him into a fluffy white Persian cat.
Disney should get on this now!
Somehow make it a prequel to "The Shaggy D.A."
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Jan 27, 2009 3:20:00 PM CST
I mention period blood shot out of a turkey baster....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
....and CHITTY APPEARS!!
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I sort of though of that after I was posting.
Although you need to make sure you are standing in front of a huge industrial-sized fans running at 100,000 RPMs when you release the meaty, period-filled baster.
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Jan 27, 2009 3:30:07 PM CST
There is a great period blood explosion scene....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
....in Bram Stoker's Dracula. Say anything you want about Coppola, but he knows women........oh yes.
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I bet it looks like that dam scene in The Fugitive. Only with road-kill sized chunks riding a black and red tidal wave.
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Jan 27, 2009 3:44:34 PM CST
again....The Bates heavy flow is depicted in Dracula.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
Remember the scene with Gary Oldman renouncing God and throwing the sword into the crucifix? The thing shakes and hisses and blood comes spraying out of it like a firehose. Just imagine that scene, but instead of a crucifix its the legs of The Bates spread eagle revealing swollen, bruised, and gaping cunt lips reminiscent of a barrel of mashed pig entrails, and that holy fountain of dark brown blood spraying all over the face of Gary Oldman. The blood is life. Beautiful......just beautiful.
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Jan 27, 2009 3:48:56 PM CST
Yeah, I poured a bucket of her heavy flow on a Yugo
by chittychittygangbang
Once it washed off, a Ferrari F460 spyder was parked there.
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Jan 27, 2009 3:57:31 PM CST
Maybe it was a well of The Bates' period blood....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
....that David Copperfield discovered in the Bahamas. It is the source of eternal life. I heard in Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade's Director's Cut -- Indy actually dips The Holy Chalice into The Bates' bottomless pit of a cunt and scoops out a mouthful of red custard. Connery hated shooting this sequence. He would complain "Oh not another bloody Moses!!" (A Moses of course being smearing blood all over a dude's face and giving him a beard like Moses, ya know he parted the Red Sea and shit so the name works)
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And I'm glad to know you.Seth Rogan hate? Don't get it. I'd trade places with the guy in an instant. And trading places might actually mean I'd lose a few pounds so double bonus.I love Ed Harris but what was he thinking with Appaloosa?Short of filming a guy reading the New York Sunday Times from cover to cover, A History of Violence may have the most simple premise ever, but it was executed to perfection.Time to go home and continue my recovery. Going to have to flip a coin for either Frost/Nixon or The Reader tonight.
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what's not to like?And concerning Ed Harris, has anyone seen The Hours?
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The master print was swallowed whole by The Bates Cunt. All that is left is Nicole Kidman's rubber nose swinging from Kathy's clit piercing and weakly chirping like a Parakeet on it's death bed.
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An okay movie, but the book was much better. I am personally a huge fan of Virginia Woolfe's work, which The Hours is sort of an homage to, but that movie was just kinda obnoxious. Casting Nicole Kidman and putting a distracting prosthetic nose on her was just totally pointless with there being so many superior actresses out there that look much more like Virginia Woolfe.
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I didn't intend for my bringing up The Hours to put the rest of the discussion to a screeching halt.
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This reason is a little superficial, but kind of interesting. I have apparently been subconsciously growing my hair and beard out to resemble Kurt Russell's in the movie because they are not almost the exact same as his. I was thinking of shaving my beard too, but after seeing that, I gotta keep it.
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where did everybody go all of a sudden?
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Ed Harris is one of the most under rated actors working today. Don't forget Enemy at the Gates. That was a great role.
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Kurt Russell is the man.
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What's up, man? Haven't heard from you for awhile. How is your Changeling review coming?
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How is everyone seeing so many movies that are still in the theaters, or has Fred stepped into to some guano?
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Still haven't finished it. I'm aiming for tomorrow. Quality over... um, rushing?
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Hee hee! Fred thanks you for update. Sorry to hear about your PC. It may be salvageable, there are many services, some free some costly that can recover data.
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I had a coworker tell me he saw a movie called Taken before christmas.
I cocked my head like the RCA dog as it isn't released until Jan 30.
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Haven't been on here in ages.
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Haven't spoken to you either in ages.
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It's just that we love movies so much that we have vowed to see them even we have to pillage and plunder. Yes, you too could be a pirate. Hee hee.
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Is your friend named Nigel?
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I am going to see if i can get hooked up watching some early stuff.
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I saw Taken last Spring. That one was leaked totally early, but it didn't help that it was released in different parts of the world long before it came to the US. They should have known that would happen.
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Did you see the story Therewolf posted over at mymavra.com? I just got done reading it. Very Lovecraftian. It's called Woden's Den. I liked it.
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I will ask tomorrow and find out.
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http://www.movie-forumz.org/ Go pirates? :)
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Hello! It has been ages!
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I've only tried to download movies a few times and both times I got fucking popped. Whats the trick? I'm on a mac now....so maybe I'm safe.
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Fred has never down the eye-patch thingie, so Fred can not answer.
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It's about damn time. Good work, Chang.
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You busy with work all the time now?
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You can stream them. Best way to avoid a virus is to find a site with a good rep and find movies that have been posted by administrator types, or by enough people to have left quality comments.
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Or at least Dirk impersonating a parrot.
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The original - quality Dumbhouse.
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Jan 27, 2009 7:13:20 PM CST
Wow, almost everyone here tonight! Fred happy
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
Fred misses these TB something fierce. Because Fred got re-orged (not as pleasant as it sounds)new cubicle is in a more exposed area, can not goof off during daytime any longer. Fred tried shrinking browser window to teeny tiny size, but some of the subject headers on here have some, um, colorful language and though Fred is not offended by anything, some co-workers might not be as, um enlightened.
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Since I paid for it, can I still get to be the guy to review it? :)
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Haven't watched it yet. I'm waiting to see it when I have plenty of soda, so I can have super fizzy 'Outlander Rocks'! (I hear they're more fun than pop rocks.)
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and you can send spoilers to my email, as I don't mind.
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Before I watch it. Promise! And I haven't seen Dorothy Mills or Reflecting Skin.
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Bloody hangover
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Dang it's good to see all of you again.Also, it's been what now? Six months since our little group started the TB hopping? And finally, Outlander is out in the cold light of day, I've got a promising shot at new job(the first tele interview went very well) and the crappiest month of the year is almost over. Booya!
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Yes sir, will be looking forward to it.
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Hi.
Fred has not seen Dirk since he went into hidiing for the umpteenth time. Fred did get a postcard from Medellin, with some white powdery residue on it. -
A small one. You'll feel better.
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How's it hanging? ;) Don't breathe in the powder. He may be needing that insurance money again. Dastardly Dirk!
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Mostly water from now on. Need to clear my head to write.
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Trials and tribulations of student life. Pain and suffering will add depth to any writing projects.
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Fred sniffed it. Suddenly, things made sense. Fred had a clarity of vision and sense of purpose, a defining moment that seemed to point Fred towards his ultimate destiny! Fred had an origin!
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As soon as my wife gets off (the computer) I will try that link and see what happens.
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Wow! Fred thinks the white powder must be causing halucinations!Everyone is here tonight! How have you been Jonah Echo? Fred read your Outlander review and can not wait to see it. Alas, Pittsburgh does not have it showing anywhere.
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I just like writing pulpy stuff.
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ARE YOU READY? I MEAN ARE YOU READY?
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Hi Fred. Longtime no see buddy? How bout them Steelers? Are you pumped? What is the mood in the Burgh?
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The stem cells did not work. Fred might try more of this powder though
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Holy sheet
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Are you going on a white powder vision quest? You must find your sacred animal spirit guide. It's imperative.
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Almost everyone really is here, only missing Just Pillow Talk and Lost jarv and Therewolf. Fred is cautiously optimistic about game. Fred thinks the key will be - as always for Stillers this year, the O line. They looked godd against San Diego, and bad against Ravens. Cardinals have under rated Defense. If Steelers can run, they can keep Cards O off the field. If they can not, well, Fred does not to think about that. Pitsburgh is Steelers crazy. Always has been. Pitsburgh is the greatest football city in America. No city loves it's team as much. No city travels to games to see it's team as much. It is safe to say that 99.9% of all TV in Pittsburgh will be watching the game. At Freds job it is Black and Gold week. Fred loves this!
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The drinking will turn your brain into pulpy stuff. Youch!
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Hence why I don't drink. Also, I'm more creative off it.
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I'd rather see movies in a theater, all legit and all, but A. Most of the really cool movies never show up here. B. It now costs more to go to a movie than I make in an hourly wage.
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Yeah, I am shocked at how many of day crew are here. I am constrained by my new responsibilities at wrk, I will be 'off-shift' for another few moths at least. Fred Steelers are my second favorite team, and I fully admit that no fans are as fanatical as Pittsburgh fans. The rest of the NFL is jealous about that, but it is true. Black and Gold rule!
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Not a lot, dude. Doing some writing, surfing net, dreading waking up at 8am to do laundry.
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Fuckers. I pay £3.50 or £4 for a film ticket here.
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Fred was in a walgreens last night after a sniff of the good stuff, and suddenly fred heard Diana Ross singing Aint no Mountain high enough. Fred knew it was a sign.
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My nephew was thrilled when a friend of his started working at the ticket counter recently. She charges him as a child, so he only has to pay $9. He can do that though...he doesn't have to come up with rent money yet. :)
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Assholes. I had to pay £9 to see the Matrix Revolutions.
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Jan 27, 2009 7:53:20 PM CST
I wouldn't consider Rambo dumbhouse at all....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
....thats a serious fucking movie with a great script.
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Jan 27, 2009 7:53:32 PM CST
Fred is either supposed to become a drag queen, or climb Mt Ever
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
Might need to sniff some more of the white powder to clear up the vision
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"Secret Agent Man". That may have been part of Dirk's vision quest inspiration.
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Dumbhouse was probably the wrong word - I just love how bare-bones it is. There's no fucking about, he's on the run within twenty minutes. It's so streamlined that it has a 'get on with it' feel.
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Mountain climbing in heels would be perilous. Althoug, a sequined gown would make it easier for rescuers to find you in an emergency.
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We love you as you are.
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Jan 27, 2009 7:57:21 PM CST
I think you mean "RAW." I agree. It makes it even tougher.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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Hah, damn Fred. You need to get into a detox - quick! I think Mavra and Therewolf might need to do another intervention or exorcism or at least get you committed! I'm still laughing!
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I would not classify it as dumbhouse. Stallone has re-invented himself, now lets hope he does not fuck it up.
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That shitty end credit song. You have a raw film, and it ends with THAT?
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I make less than a fry cook at Denny's? And that's after 3 years here. I need a new life.
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Not bad at all so far. Also I have a kick-ass set of Sennheiser headphones that fucking rock.
I wish more movie makers would set out to make fun monster movies again like this.
We either get a movie that tries to "redefine" a genre that can't be redefined, or somebody trying to make the first Citizen Kane level horror movie, or somebody remaking a classic into a steaming pile of TheBates heavy meat flow.
It's fucking monsters and action. You wouldn't think it would be that hard.
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I am pretty sure there are no drag queen steelers fans, so I think you need to go with the Mt Everest part of the white powder 'vision'.
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It's preordained, Kurt Warner is tight with the big G upstairs.
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Time to lie face down and crash.
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No one, I mean no one can convince me that F. Murray Abrahams nostrils are not he result of some serious 'white powder' vision quest. I mean, he was in scarface afterall! Hey Mavs. Thank for the Outlander link
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I really dug the Strangers. It's not a monster movie like what you were asking about, but it takes a tired genre, with a fairly standard plot, and executed everything pretty nicely. It certainly won't change your perspective on horror movies or anything, but it was refreshing for me. Of course, I can usually enjoy a horror movie, but the closest I have gotten to really liking one is Miike's Audition. And of course, The Thing and Alien.
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Share and share alike, and all that jazz.
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Sleep well.
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Holy shit! If Pillow shows up I know I must have gotten ahold of some of the white powder as well and it screwed up my sense of tme!
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Whenever I'm depressed about life I masturbate. It helps.
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A good horror movie would be perfect tonight. Has anyone seen The Unborn? Is it worth watching?
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Triple wow! Fred has not been this happy in weeks. Almost all of my online Friends are here. If Hawaiian Organ Donor appears, Fred will be even happier. Fred not get any 'vision' about the game. Fred can say most Steelers fans confident, but still concerned about O line.
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Jan 27, 2009 8:13:22 PM CST
The soundtrack for Nick and Norah's is fucking awesome
by dannyglovers_dickblood
It reminds me of the soundtrack for Can't Hardly Wait. And so did the film!! FUCK YES!! BRING ON THE BLOW!!
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Jan 27, 2009 8:14:19 PM CST
HOD has been deadly sick. He barely comes on these last weeks...
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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Does that ever interfere with your job?
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Jan 27, 2009 8:17:27 PM CST
and despite general opinion, "Don't Stop Me Now"
by dannyglovers_dickblood
is clearly Queen's best song. TWO HUNDRED DEGREES, THEY CALL ME MR. FAHRENHEIT I'M TRAVELING AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT! I WANNA MAKE A SUPERSONIC MAN OUT OF YOUDON'T STOP ME NOW I'M HAVING SUCH A GOOD TIME I'M HAVING A BALL
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MASTURBATION IS THE KEY TO WORLD PEACE!If we all just masturbated all the time, we would be too occupied to come to blows with our fellow man (and woman). Of course, there's those types who may run around one-handing it with a gun or katana or nunchuks in the other hand. Things could get dangerous with all those tallywackers and cooches flapping about. Maybe it's not such a good idea after all...
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Jan 27, 2009 8:18:52 PM CST
No. I'm not depressed at work thanks to this place.....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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Also Radio Ga Ga and Bohemian Rhapsody.
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You are right about that. When I was at boot, there was this dude from Marble Head, Mass. who constantly choked the chicken. We were on the range, and I swear dude was grinding away.
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Jan 27, 2009 8:23:12 PM CST
Imagine if people did use masturbation to solve things.....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
.....whenever someone was about to kill someone in a crime of passion-- they could just stop and masturbate, when someone was going to cheat on their wife-- stop and masturbate, we're gonna decide to go to war? Nope. Lets take a break and masturbate and think this through....
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If your masturbating is a cure for depression, how about making a YouTube video of it? In the fuutre, if any of us are feeling down, we can just watch you and begin to feel better.
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Jan 27, 2009 8:24:12 PM CST
I've been listening to some very homo stuff tonight....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
.....Scissor Sisters "I Don't Feel Like Dancing," fucking fantastic.
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I hope it is not too serious. I'm outta here. G'night folks
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Steelers fans should be concerned. During the playoff run the Cards defense stopped the run game of three good running teams and have been turnover magnets. If the game is put into Big Bens hands things might go sour for the Black and Gold. The real intersting matchup, in my opinion, is Kurt "thank you jesus" Warner possibly throwing all over the Steelers Blitz packages or maybe not. That might be the key to the game.
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Its Bronchitis he has.
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It's Raining Men, hallelujah.
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Peace!
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I could post it on X-Tube though.
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Or your dick hand will get callouses on it!
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Danny and I are posting alike now! I didn't even take any of that white poweder!
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You making that up?
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Jan 27, 2009 8:29:20 PM CST
well I do like Richard Curtis movies. Shit...maybe I am gay.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
And I love the "Jump For My Love" dance scene in Love Actually. Fuck. The test is whether I can watch this all the way through and not pop. http://tinyurl.com/2lv2tv
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I still only pay $7 if I can't get the college student discounts, which is pretty much friday - sunday.
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I gave up porn though when I joined The Church of River Phoenix. We only worship cigarettes and folk music.
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And tickets were $10, on a Friday night.
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Jan 27, 2009 8:31:58 PM CST
Normal theaters $11 in L.A. Nice ones are $12-14.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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You could even it out and listen to The Butchies. They have some catchy tunes.
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So, they can bring pressure with four man fronts and drop men into coverage. Fred thinks thatCrds only shut down Atlantas running game, because Crds jumped out to big leads against Panthers and Eagles, which meant no running. Still, Steelers have not shown any consistency with ground game this year. Willie is healthier, but still it is no one will be surprised if the O is what causes the Steelers to lose. But, Fred is cautiously optimistic.
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Fred hopes you feel better soon.
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Back to Idol.
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What a rip off!
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Jan 27, 2009 8:44:25 PM CST
that is odd. And its 14 at the Arclight Dome....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
....the nicest theater in L.A.
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That's what he's for, after all. I also blame Purdue, just because.
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They are a dollar more than anywhere else, but they are also the closest theater.
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But Fred happy not to have to pay 12
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Jan 27, 2009 8:57:00 PM CST
I'm gonna put that theory to the test on my next exam
by kungfuhustler84
whenever I can't figure out an answer, I'll just whip it out and grind away until I know I have the correct response. Oh man I wish I had realized this earlier. College's gonna be a breeze.
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everybody just go to more Indy movies. Hell, they show stuff like Milk and Slumdog there too, but it's also where I saw Syecdoche, New York, Lars and the Real Girl, the Darjeeling Limited, Into the Wild, and I'm planning to see Che there when it comes out too.
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On Tuesday nights. I miss that!
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Nice turnout tonight. I may be back later. Take care everyone and See ya!
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Fred is going to bed soon
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Very well done.
It took me back to almost the same experience I had in Dragonslayer and Predator.
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The guy with the shaved head was my favortite character by far.
Also liked how they played the relationship between Canaan and the Vikes.
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Osacr bait films and small release films around here is a AMC. But we have a art theater that shows like four movies a month. They are showing Let the Right One In this weekend, can't wait. Tickets there are only $6. But the screen isn't that good.
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How'd you see Outlander? On your computer.
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The quality was very good as well until the last 10 minutes.
Sound was excellent through the headphones. I highly recommend investing is a good set that covers your ears.
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Skullcandy in ear head phones, and i got some nice ass Bose around the ears phones. But I've barley used them since I left a college dorm and got a home TV with surround that I can connect my TV to.
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so not to wake up wife and they were cheaper than sorround sound.
I did have a roommate that purchased a ball-stomping sound system though.
It was unreal to watch and listen to a movie with that system.
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Just finished it...barely. Fucking lame boring movie. And whoever wrote the netflixs cover slip I guess never saw it. They called it a "dark comedy" ummm there was nothing really that dark or that funny about it. Well at least they didn't go the religious route with the promotion of the movie, but at least if they had it would have made money. Man that movie was forever long, I am surprised I finished it. Also watched The Little Mermaid today....not the same not the same.
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Where there is a guy getting measured for a suit, cracks me up. Anyone else lovin it?
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Rogen- Hate is too strong. Annoyance is probably better. Cinema tickets here are outrageously expensive- however, due to the recent collapse of the pound have become relatively cheaper to Americans- I would expect to pay probably about £10 in the Odeon (shithole) in Camden but Me and Mrs. Jarv would rather pay £30 for a sofa in Everyman- it's only £10 more between us and the experience is about 1 million times better. And they sell me beer to watch the film with. So about $15- $20 per ticket is about par.
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Blue Collar. Great fucking film. Recommeneded. Oh and I watched X3 because it was on telly at the weekend and can report that it sucks. This is not a surprise.
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Why did Richard Pryor not get more serious roles. He was fucking great in that. Bizarre.
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There is a story on Twitchfilms home page with the cover of an upcoming Star Wars novel called Deathtroopers. The only Star Wars novel I've ever read is The Phantom Menace, written by Terry Brooks. Got me pretty excited for the film. But the film wasn't the same. But minus a couple of scenes involving the Sand People and Anakin (he like saves one of their lives and becomes friends) it was pretty much the same. But this book looks pretty cool and I will be reading it....if I ever finish the book I'm reading now which I've been reading for forever.
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Lost Highway. Couldn't really tell you much about it because I don't remember it. And I don't believe that David Lynch is the end all of cinema, I think he is a just a weirdo who probably doesn't know what his movies are about.
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In what fucking world does this show take place? I mean really? When would a multi-millionaire (Lionel Luther) ever read the fucking local high school news paper? Shit most multi-millionaires don't ever realize that schools even exist.
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This weekend, I plan on checking out In The Name Of The King. Blockbuster also have Postal, so an Uwe double feature might be in order.Surely one of those is worse than AVP: Requiem.
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Saw a bunch of stuff with him in recently and liked all of them, although Knocked Up got on my nerves in places.He really was kind of a prick in that one.
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Jan 28, 2009 3:07:21 AM CST
On the 2nd Day Of Die Hard my true love gave to me...
by franklin t marmoset
...Die Hard 2!It's kind of like the first one but louder and not as good. Alright, though.
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I can confirm that it is approximately 85,421,345,708 times better than AvP:Rectum You can see what's happening (even if you wish you couldn't), Orcs set themselves on fire and then load themselves into catapults, there's a terrible wizards battle and the Stath and Ray Liotta are the least convincing medieval types ever.
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and was surprised to see how unlike a big budget summer movie it was like. It feels like an independent movie almost. I dont think I had seen it since X2 came out and did not remember liking it that much but........yeah it was a pretty good small movie. Plus I really dug the Michael kamen score. I'm kind of pissed that they ditched him in favor of that shitty John Ottman score for X2 that I fucking hate. His score for Superman Returns was shit too now that I think of it. I've always been kind of conflicted on X3. On the one hand I know the movie is filled with way too many characters and storylines and doesnt really work. But on the other hand I kind of like how brave they were on this one. Cyclops death and the depowerings and such. Then again that might just mean they dont have respect for the fans and the comic book and not necessarily that they are brave and did it for story purposes. Oh well. I like it. You guys are probably x-mened out at this point though so I'll just stop.
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Matthew Lillards truly awful...awful...awful..put a bullet in your brain bad..performance as the Kings effeminant Nephew. He seems like hes doing a bad impression of Jack Sparrow. Oh and the king himself played by Burt Reynolds. I almost forgot about that.
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Let The Right One In – My fucking god! What an absolutely brilliant flick. I didn’t really know much about it going in (except it was about vampires), and I recommend watching it that way. So I won’t go into any details. Probably the second best film of 2008 behind In Bruges. IMHO. Outlander – Pretty entertaining. I found the beasty a little odd though. Exuding funky Pimp My Ride neon lights when it attacks. Kinda strange.So those two flicks take my total to 22.
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The Blues Brothers Duorilogy, which might kick off a season of great films that have a shit sequel if I can think of any others.Suggestions? It has to be a perfect bipolar pairing - great first film followed by a single staggeringly bad sequel.
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...the more I want to see it.
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ITV4 have at least the first three Child's Play films coming up, and I'm kind of hoping they'll show all five so I can do some sort of 5 Days Of The Child's Play Quintrilogy thing.Probably not as good as the Die Hard season, but I do like this themed film-watching business.
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might do
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1 is quite good 2 and 3 suck balls, bride and spawn are good, but comedy. That's not a great one to be honest as 2 and 3 are basically the same and watered down versions of 1.
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Drag me to hell review by a douche called "miscalledhobos".
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Jan 28, 2009 3:49:31 AM CST
Speed & Speed 2: Cruise Control
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
BOOYA!
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he was shit. It's a mystery how the boll-meister gets such good casts.
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It's deforestation time.
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KAPOW!
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It was a little depressing watching the move from Alien aaaaaaaaaallllllll the way down to AVP: Requiem (the cinematic equivalent of watching Muhammad Ali lose to Trevor Berbick).With Child's Play, I only really like the last two, so I could get the crap out of the way first and then settle in for a few laughs with Bride and Seed.
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...hate In the Name of The King, sight unseen, but I keep smiling every time I think of King Burt Reynolds and orcs who set fire to themselves in catapults. I am compelled to love that.
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BOOMSHAKALAKA! (Not that the first one was great. It was ok though. It's more that the second one is so fucking awful.)
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Glad you liked Blue Collar. Why is it they seemed to churn out so many awesome movies during the 1970s seemingly without effort?
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I heard he just prepares his movies and then right before shooting just casts whoever is available. Which is why his movies are so horribly miscast.As far as ITNOTK goes he had a bigger budget than usual and I guess they just all did it for the paycheck.
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BAM!
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He described it as 70% Army Of Darkness and 30% Evil Dead, which sounds 1,000,000% good to me.
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Nice work, everyone. Speed, MIB and Get Shorty are definitely going on the list.I don't think I've ever seen Another 48 Hours. Is it really that bad?Unfortunately, I can't count The Two Jakes because it's got Tom Waits in it, and I am constitutionally unable to dislike anything with Tom Waits in it.What do people think of Ghostbusters 2? It's a long time since I've seen it and I can't remember if it was any good.
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Not that I liked the first one much or have seen the second one.
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Haven't seen the STV sequel. It would have to be shite though.
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I've never actually seen it but I've heard from people I trust that its bad. It just seems like the normal pointless cash in sequel to me.
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...Highlander and Highlander 2: The Quickening?
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It stars Mila Kunis and is directed by Morgan J. Freeman!The lesser known Morgan Freeman.Might have to seek this puppy out.
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I saw a little of it on cable once and yeah it is. I remember William Shatner in it as a professor who sleeps with his students. I think William Shatner has a sex scene with Mila Kunis as well. So it might be worth watching just for that. Oh and that reminds me of Hollow Man 2 with Christian Slater as well. Add that to the list Franklin.
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Jan 28, 2009 4:14:42 AM CST
OMFG! American Psycho 2 has The Shat in it!
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
SOLD!
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I think they can't make films as bleak as the likes of blue collar nowadays. That may be why. Also, re In the name of the king- that's exactly how I felt, and even though Kristinna Loken does her best to suck that film to new depths of comedy, it's just bad. Not good bad, but bad bad. Another 48 hours isn't that bad, Ghostbusters 2 is good, so how about The Fugitive and US Marshalls (even though US Marshalls has Wesley in it) or Under Siege 1 and 2.
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...I liked U.S. Marshals. It's nowhere near as good as the original, but a damn fine action thriller all the same. Great Goldsmith score, too.
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...of that planty cunt, by the way.
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But I think there may be more than two in the series.
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...to objectively say Death Wish and Death Wish 2, but the second one is awesome in so many other ways that its predecessor isn't that I'm loathe to make the comparison even if the original may be a "better" film.
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Jan 28, 2009 4:24:29 AM CST
The problem with US Marshals is...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
other than its too long, they made it another 'innocent man' story. I would've much preferred it if Snipes was actually guilty.
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so Highlander doesn't count. Which is a shame because that's a cracking suggestion.
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Wesley Snipes rules.
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that it's a complete fucking rehash of the fugitive. Down to the same dialogue. Jurrasic Park and The Lost World would count, if they hadn't made JP3 What about Cruel Intentions- the first is a proper film, the second is porn. I don't think there is a cruel intentions 3.
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you're doing single sequels. Gotcha. Carry on.
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the reason plants annoy me so much is that we've repeatedly told them what they are doing wrong. Do they think we are that fucking stupid. I find it personally insulting.
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Ruled.
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Universal Soldier 1 and 2? The first wasnt that good as I remember but the second one is absolute garbage. It doesnt even have Dolph. It does have Michael Jai White and Goldberg though.
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Universal Soldier 1 and 2? The first wasnt that good as I remember but the second one is absolute garbage. It doesnt even have Dolph. It does have Michael Jai White and Goldberg though.
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Universal Soldier 1 and 2? The first wasnt that good as I remember but the second one is absolute garbage. It doesnt even have Dolph. It does have Michael Jai White and Goldberg though.
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I rank it in the Gremlins II category. Maybe not a better film, but far more entertaining for me personally.
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I swear thats never happened before.
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Over the weekend I finally watched the epic Cool As Ice (which some enterprising soul has made a "double platinum" DVD of and launched onto the interwebs) and was mortified to see St. Burt slumming it as Vanilla Ice's potential father-in-law. I knew he was in the film, but the movie was so mind-bendingly awful and his part so terrible that I felt I should bring this to your attention as the soul-staining power of Cool As Ice is immense.
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fuck's sake. Burt clearly needed the money.
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There's not enough dosh on the planet.
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Janusz Kaminskis(the guy who works with Spielberg) first job ever. So I hope at least the cinematographry was good.
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which include ludicrous high-energy food, stache wax and lots and lots of lovely ammo.I hear the price has gone up on all of these.
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...he DID attempt to distance himself from it by not having his trademark stache in the flick. His source of power thusly remains untainted.
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and to be honest, we have to remember that Bruce was in Spiderman 3, Kurt was in Sky High and 2true has been known to use an eraser on occasion.
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"geek" casting: Ryan Reynolds as Face. If Hollywood must continue to rape my childhood like this, then that is the equivalent of using a condom and giving it a kiss first- my childhood is still getting raped, but at least they were nice about it.
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my job blows, the A Team is being fucked up by fox, Red Dwarf is getting fucked up by the BBC, Tomb Raider is inexplicably getting rebooted, and it's raining. What a shitty day.
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Still, you have it better than Steve Guttenberg.
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there are giant panda's dieing of sexual frustration that have it better than him
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Stupid fucking training. Boring as hell.Anyway, plenty of good suggestions. Bipolar film pairings are obviously more common than I thought.Good call to whoever mentioned American Psycho 2. That thing is fucking awful.
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How goes the concerned parent act?
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That Jaws Wayne cunt has come after us for berating a plant. What a cunt.
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Point still stands. Apparently we're all joyless cunts. He's clearly never seen a twitch TB.
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Where's this troll sprouted from?
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working from home today.So I watched The Sinking of Japan last night. It was okay, as disaster films go. I don't think they did enough destruction for my tastes, or at least showed enough.
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Anyone remember Caddyshack 2, Major League 2 or Blues Brothers 2000? Probably not.Watched Frost/Nixon last night. Loved it. Frank Langella is jarring as Tricky Dick at first and then you just lose yourself in his cracking performance.So far 3 out of 5 best pic nominees really are some of the year's best.Glad to hear Outlander is living up to expectations.
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Was so that you could see another country's take on the disaster film. I knew full well that everyone would have the same lukewarm reaction to it that I did. I'm just here to broaden your horizons.And yes, there wasn't enough destruction, but that was probably due to budget limitations.Snow is for suckers. You need to come down south where it's cozy and sexy.
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I'm very sorry to hear that. I'm also sorry you're at work. Herb put up some photos of Sienna Miller on the site to amuse you guys, but they would be considered nsfw.
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But I'm a sucker for disaster movies of all sorts, even ones without TFD.
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The amount of movies you sent that were way above average far outnumber the couple that I didn't enjoy.And the south gets way too fucking hot for my tastes.
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Laughing at the GI Joe fanboys being angry that they have generic black costumes for each character.
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Would ANYONE get a tattoo from that guy?
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I pimped it ages back... it's a low-budget zombie flick from a zombies POV. Just nasty, grimy, gritty film-making. Has a 'shaky-cam' action scene that's ridiculously brutal.
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Haven't found it yet. Looked very cool. I think I said this before, but it reminded me of "Zombie Haiku".
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Is each scene thirty seconds long? I make myself laugh, so others don't have to.
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I was laughing too (At you, with you, does it really matter?). Zombie Haiku is from the zombie pov in book form and with photos. Weird, but cool all the same.
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Sounds interesting. When I find some money...
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http://www.zombiehaiku.com/
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there is a film called "Sharks in Venice" that I feel I have to see, and Harry mentioned Buried Alive that I've also not seen, so it looks like I've been wronging his DVD effort for ages.
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Sound amazingly awful and unmissable. Still, it won't beat Shark Attack 3 and THAT pick-up line which is the greatest in cinema history.
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Jan 28, 2009 10:03:44 AM CST
That's 2 more interesting things than I've learned
by franklin t marmoset
And I've spent the bulk of today gritting my teeth through the office endurance test known as 'training'.Good christ, it was boring.
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VEnice has canals. People push wafer thin boats on them with sticks. Genius.
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some pointy headed gimboid is going to lecture me about things I neither need nor care about. It will be fun.
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Jan 28, 2009 10:35:13 AM CST
The CG in In The Name of the King is not nearly bad enough.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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the wizard fight in particular is lacking. OR Ray Liotta's telepathic links with his orcs which seems to consist of him grimacing in a smokey room. IT's pretty bad.The script makes even less sense though- all that bollocks about Wizards needing a king for power.
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There were points today when I swear I could feel my brain turning to sand and leaking out of my ears.Also, must these training people pepper their lectures with asinine 'role play' games that serve no purpose other than to make us all feel just a little less dignified?It's inhuman, I tells you.
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Or there will be fisticuffs. Still, it means I can fuck off from this salt mine early.
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In The Name Of The King... Postal... has he had anything else out lately that I could add in to make a triple feature that would provide a true test of my manhood?
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is the Shark in venice one harry is talking about the one with a Baldwin brother in it?
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Harry's cover clearly says "Sharks" plural, but Lovefilm's cover clearly says "Shark" singular. Does this mean that Shark in Venice= Alien and S*H*A*R*K*S in Venice= A*L*I*E*N*S? Because it would be great if there were 2.
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"think deep blue sea on a £20 budget."
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that's puny. Good schlock usually has an 18.
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Jan 28, 2009 10:57:05 AM CST
there is nothing creative or inspiring about the CG.....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
.....but its definitely not as bad as you would hope. Put it this way-- there are no green screen/CGish shots that look as bad as the throne room at the end of Pan's Labyrinth. Thats all I'm saying.
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Kristinna Loken shimmering down the rope when she first appears. The end of pan's is uninspired, but ITNOTK is fucking amateur.
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I caught more of it on again last night. Probably an hour. I think now I'm only missing the first 20 minutes or so. During that wizard fight I wanted Liotta to start screaming "BACK YOU MOTHERFUCKERS!!"
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A Cruel Intentions 3 And that Universal Solider with the great Micheal Jai White (my favorite non Keith David actor) is actually Universal Solider 4. 2 and 3 were direct to Showtime movies without JCVD.
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wonder what I'll watch today.
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The movies Awake and The Mist were actually hits compared to their budget. But the movie Assignation Of Jesse James by the blah blah blah...not a hit, in fact a huge flop.
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Just the other day I was teaching my lady friend about the greatness that is known as the Fat Boys. She didn't believe me that there was ever once a rap sensation known as the Fat Boys. Fast forward to a couple days later we are watching, Everybody Hates Chris (pretty damn funny show actually) and the whole plot revolves around Chris trying to get into a Fat Boys concert. She was gobsmacked to say the least.
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It sucks. I know, I know. It certainly SOUNDS like fun, but it's not. It blows. Even where there are lots and lots of snowstorms during the winter, it does not get any more fun. I speak the truth.I need a fucking snowblower.
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I came across Red Water.Has anyone seen this? It stars Lou Diamond Phillips and Kristy Swanson and has Coolio! Here's the netflix summary:Divorced couple Sanders (Lou Diamond Phillips) and Kelly (Kristy Swanson) put their differences aside while looking for a new beginning on the shores of a Louisiana river. The couple's romantic getaway is interrupted by a pair of thieves, Ice (Coolio) and Jerry (Jaimz Woolvett), who are certain that pilfered treasure lies at the bottom of the river. Little does anyone know that a freshwater shark is also lurking beneath the water's surface.I've added it to the queue. So Frankie, I propose we do these two shark themed movies to follow-up on In the Name of the King.
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My older brothers had fucking posters! Hehehe.
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Its actually pretty cool. It has a great climax action scene. Good stunts. Shark CG sucks balls, but its an okay made for cable movie.
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Jan 28, 2009 12:11:49 PM CST
I have seen Red Water, Sharks in Venice and Frankenfish
by chittychittygangbang
Red Water was well done for the budget and I enjoyed the location of the backwater rigs and boats.
Sharks in Venice was just that. Sharks. in. Venice.
Yes it had a Baldwin brother and sharks that snapped and gnawed boats like crazed pit bulls.
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Someone has seen them all!What up Chitty. Hmm...I've never seen Frankenfish either. I have also added that one, which does really sound awesome though. They travel on land too? Heh-heh-heh...
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Jan 28, 2009 12:26:28 PM CST
oh didn't even notice you said Frankenfish....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
....I've seen it as well. I really like the bayou setting, it works well with those floating house things. Its directed by the dude that directed Spawn, who is one of the founders of the effects house Rhythm and Hues so the CG is probably some of the best you will ever see in one of these sorts of movies, and the design of the creature itself is very cool. Between Red Water and Frankenfish, Frank actually had a few scary moments. Both of these are sorta too good to laugh at though.
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That rivaled the jump scene in Exorcist(Sp?) part three.
Dude was just standing there and Frankenfish showed no mercy.
Frankenfish also take whatever dignity you have left before they eat you, as slow-motion shots have shown violent and quick anal-raping before the actual eating takes place.
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But I did enjoy all three with a little ale.
We need more killer fish, whale movies now!
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Lou Diamand Phillips aka Chavez y Chavez aka Richie Valens aka the guy who turned his wife into a rug muncher and she married Melissa Ethridge. he's a fucking legend and kicks all sorts of ass. I need to find this movie forthwith.
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There was Tentacle, which was decently entertaining.
Pirahna and Pirahna 2 (with wings!) directed by Cameron I think.
Orca, in which the whales emitted more raw emotion than many actors I see on tv nowadays.
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I have no idea how anyone can clump that in with corny creature flick Piranha type shit. That movie is emotionally raw as fuck and Richard Harris kicks some fucking ass in it. I love all those haunting quiet moments when he is standing on a seaside cliff just staring out into the sea and hearing the sounds of the orcas. I think that film perfectly captured that fisherman, port-town grungy sort of way of life.
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The bad guy in Creepshow 2 that killed the store owners and the wooden cigar indian went nuts on them.
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Jan 28, 2009 12:52:12 PM CST
Orca is one of the best revenge stories put on film
by chittychittygangbang
Even as a kid, I felt for the killer whale AND Richard Harris.
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You really feel for both of them. And its odd that that film can portray both Harris and the whale as having a sort of respect for one another. They both feel they must destroy the other, but they respect one another. I have no fucking idea what makes me think this....but I do every time I see it.
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Watch after the guy says his hair is going to take him to Hollywood.
He also adds "Girls are going to want to rub it between their legs."
Holy Shit!!! I laugh my ass off everytime on that one.
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Maybe the Razzies can start up BEST WIG OF THE YEAR. Sean Connery would have won that shit at least 8 years in a row.
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Bats got to me because I can't stand fucking bats. That movie was insanely goofy. Route 666 was a very tight B movie you're right about that Chitty.Creepshow 2 and LDP. hmmm, never thought about that one but your right.Orca, I saw that movie at the drive in as a kid. They promoted the fuck out of it in comic books for months. great art on the back covers of the funny books, orca jumping out of the water and the like. Damn good movie also. nearly as good as jaws in some ways.
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He is set out on a mission of sadness and revenge. You instantly root for him, yet at the same time Harris shows a cruel side that makes you hate him at first.
Then you slowly see him accept his fate and realize that he and Orca are destined to determine each others future path.
He could have just jumped on the dock and moved to Monatana and away from the sea, but he had to keep going to what he felt like was an endgame he had no choice but to be a part of.
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which seems to have the same abilities as Spiderman's black suit that crawled on and off and had a mind of its own.
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Its strange, I can think of several themes for Orca and all the complexities of Harris' character. Don't get me wrong, I love Jaws. But really-- what was the theme?
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Jan 28, 2009 1:05:33 PM CST
Didn't Cage's rug also play oil slick in Creepshow 2?
by chittychittygangbang
That thing has more movie appearances than Kevin Bacon.
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I see them as both having the same type of themes, it's just that instead of investing in two characters Richard Harris and the Orca, they are spread out between several major and minor characters in Jaws. Maybe that dilutes the impact some? Not sure really. Just a thought.
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And thats what I love so much about Harris' character versus someone like Quint in Jaws. He did the whale wrong and he has come to accept that. He almost think he deserves the punishment coming his way and goes toward it. The film is reversed where its not man getting revenge on beast ala Moby Dick, its beast getting revenge on man. And most stories would really push Harris as being an evil bastard so we root for the whale to tear his ass apart, but here they go the opposite direction and make him a decent man deep down.
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"What we are dealing with here is simple..a perfect eating machine that does nothing but swim, eat and make baby sharks. Really a miracle of evolution..."
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Is that LDP kicks ass and turned his old lady gay. That's major street cred right there.
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If you are a coroner trying to determine a strange case of death, then for fuck's sake SEND AN ASSISTANT!!
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to star in sequel of Thunderheart that includes both graboids and velociraptors with wings.
You can call it...
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He gets offroad Segway and the world's longest extension cord to patrol South Dakota badlands.
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It had magical powers in the early 90's
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LDP, dude from Creepshow 2 and Iron Eyes Cody battle a now corrupt (and bloated) Val Kilmer.
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http://tinyurl.com/admyca
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....like in Indy IV? Thats the gag that put asses in seats.
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Holt McCallany played the part!
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Richard Fucking Harris.
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Richard Fucking Harris indeed.
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....there is a story on IMDB about him. I guess he was at some killer party at Elizabeth Taylor's house back in the day and she started throwing everyone out and cutting off the booze. She goes upstairs and finds Harris guzzling her Chanel No. 5 perfume! THATS A FUCKING PARTY ANIMAL!
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have you ever heard the party stories with Richard Harris and Peter O'Toole? Those motherfuckers could drink!
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We should use O'Toole/Harrison party stories for inspiration for our series of novels The Adventures of Hughes and Brim.
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MacArthur Park.
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Jan 28, 2009 2:35:54 PM CST
I bet O'Toole and Harris terminated hookers back then
by chittychittygangbang
I bet she had a cock in her mouth and twat and was rotated like a rotisserie chicken while they swapped stories about casting decisions.
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Jan 28, 2009 2:42:33 PM CST
Hughes and Brim with O'Toole and Harris at party
by chittychittygangbang
Can you imagine those four guys spending a weekend at Hughes's place?
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SET IT AND FORGET IT!!
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The Wild Geese
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Wood. Chain. Iron ball with spikes.
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Jan 28, 2009 2:52:20 PM CST
you know that rock grinding/mining machine in Total Recall?
by dannyglovers_dickblood
That's how I picture The Brim's cock. And it chants the Evil Dead call "JOIN US" as his legs spread.
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Jan 28, 2009 2:52:51 PM CST
Richard Harris. Destroyer of crooked-toothed prostitutes
by stuntcock mike
Blimey!
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He's got five kids to feed!
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Hughes: Now Brim, remind me why I continue paying you....
Brim: Cause I got five kids ta' feed, and diabeeetus.
Hughes: Right. Now lets proceed with tearing this whore's ass apart so that ass and cunt are one gaping hole. We shall call this "Where The Wind Blows." -
I've ever heard. Cracks me up.
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Jan 28, 2009 3:42:10 PM CST
Imagine being a female and seeing this face.....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
.....mashed up between your legs. http://tinyurl.com/buwv7l
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Fred laughed very hard at your posts!
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Sounds good. Anyone checked out Deathtoopers the book yet?
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Was one bad ass as well. Check out his IMDB info page for some awesome stories. I wonder what Crow Harris and Reed did on the set of Gladitor before Reed died.
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Played rugby. Yeah he's a bad ass.
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Is producing Rambo V!!!! Bad ass. I hope that means Rambo and sharks team up to fucking destroy third world terrorist.
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THERE AN APP FOR THAT!! How nifty. Fucking IPHONE losers.....that is until I have enough money to buy one.
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Taken comes out this weekend. Man I'm gonna feel SOOOO European when I go to see it. BRING ON B-13U!
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Is gayer then DGDB screen name. Seriously, some over weight unemployed mid 40's something WHITE male makes a computer virus that turns your brains into liquid? Really? I guess JJ and the Transformer Rapers decided that they didn't want to go to stereotypical and make them Asian? Or at least some college nerd? I guess all computer virus makers work in a shitty car repair shop. How some all these fucking show, like 95% of the bad guys work in some shitty back alley car shop? Shit poodles.
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Marv was fucking lame to the O. Not worth it. Check out Inside or Them or Seassions 9 if you haven't instead. OR OR OR! Try Joushua, its more of a Thriller but its good. And if you can find it, Inside the movie directed by a former Talkbacker, its an American film, it was pretty interesting little tale. Again thriller not jump shock, but Joshua is damn good. I am a big fan of that director.
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I saw a posting real quick by Franklin T Marmoset saying what looked to be something bad about one of the greatest pieces of art ever created. No Frank if you want to throw hands I'll throw hands. If I sober up enough to find that fucking post and it says anything negative about the Koran of movies, I will hunt you down rip off your head and shit down your throat. So let it be written, so let it be done.
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Series, your post makes no sense to me. So you didn't like the Strangers? and who is Marv?
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I meant to say that it was lame. Didn't like it Marv is Mavra Chang. I think she asked about if it was worth seeing. I was informing her to check out Joshua to Inside, Inside the French one, or Them. Also to check out Session 9 if she has not seen it. Much better scary films.
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Won best screenplay Oscar? Most have been a shitty year, that movie blew. It had some funny parts but overall it was just a lame 'adult' comedy.
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That movie looks awesome. I lived in Naples for three years, never once had a problem with the mob though.
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With people lighting off fireworks at like 8 in the morning. Don't know why, but it happened like every day.
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What the fuck are Keith David and M.C. Gainey are doing in that movie? Do they need beer money or something?
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Looks pretty promising. Also dig the Fuck Buttons at the beginning of the trailer...in fact I think on that thread was where some TB mentioned it and I went and downloaded it.
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Anyone seen that yet? Looks pretty awesome.
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the awesomeness of Evil Dead 2. Badly needed something to wipe away the pain of my job. Then the shitness of Monty Python's meaning of life. Which is crap.
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is also in a load of shady "Channel 5" porn. He's awesome. Red Water is great, but I MUST see Frankenfish.
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Jan 29, 2009 2:57:56 AM CST
On The 3rd Day Of Die Hard my true love gave to me...
by franklin t marmoset
...Die Hard With A Vengeance!Which is really an excellent film (even better than I remembered) that goes right down the shitter at the end. If it were a woman, it would have Jessica Alba's body and the head of The Bates.P.S. Sorry, Series7. I have no clue what 'throwing hands' is, but I will patiently await the fulfilment of your unoriginal threat. I'm sure I deserve it.
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Awww come on it had some good moments. The fat guy, the opening scene and the live organ transplant.
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Jan 29, 2009 3:01:27 AM CST
On The 4th Day Of Die Hard my true love gave to me...
by franklin t marmoset
...Die Hard 4.0!Saw this at 4 this morning due to an unexpected bout of insomnia, and I think I agree totally with Jarv - It's actually a pretty good film, but it doesn't feel like a Die Hard. Even the 'Harder Cut' I saw, which is basically the same film but with some CGI blood and all the swearing put back in, did not fill me with Diehardishness.
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Is a reference to a Stewy quote from Family Guy. It means to fight I'm pretty sure. But it looks like you've come to your senses about Die Hard 3: Die Hard With a Vengeance, or as I like to call it the Original Dark Knight.
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It's a great film with a shitty ending. All the momentum in the story comes to a stop after the boat explodes, and then there's an unsatisfying coda where the Police (for some reason) allow John McClane (with Samuel L Jackson tagging along, also for some reason) to ride in one of their helicopters up to Canada and kill the bad guy.It doesn't ruin the film for me, but it definitely spoils it.
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What's the connection between TDK and DH3?Was there a strangely likeable truck driver who gave Batman interesting historical facts in The Dark Knight?
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With Joker and Deep Voiced Batman was errily similar to McClane and Simon thing. Also the Hospital thing was almost a complete rip off of the school bomb.
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there are some funny bits- "Every Sperm is Sacred", Sex class, Crimson Pirate, but the suck far outweighs it. I can't stand the organ transplant bit, and Mr. Creosote is dreadfully unfunny. As is the war scene and the Seargent Major. Overall, I give it 3 out of 10.
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I suppose there are some similarities there.Also, I believe there are a few deleted scenes where Batman keeps telling people he has a really bad fucking hangover today.
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I'm going to buy the "Hard" (inevitably as hard as jelly) version, just to see if I get more of a sense of Die Hardishness if I see McClane swearing. I don't think I will though. Olyphant is just too lame- Rickman, Irons and whatshisname from 2 were badass- he is not, and Irons' scary knife weilding german bird is strangely arousing- like Maggie Q in 4 is also, but she dies too early.
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means to fight.
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I also saw Snakes On A Plane last night, which was shit.My total for 2009 so far now stands at 46. I'm still counting even if Mr Z isn't bothering anymore.
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the scope is too large, and plane riding is stupid. But 3 can be blamed for those- as soon as they went to canada that was it, scope terminally widened and Truck surfing is just as stupid as plane surfing. I like it though.
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and I think I'm on 48. I'll have to check my sheet when I get back to my PC rather than this shit one.
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fucking sucks. I tried watching it sober (big mistake) and it stank, so I thought alcohol would improve it. It made it worse. 1/10 and that 1 is just for the people that get killed shagging.
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You wouldn't think it would make much difference, but the swearing does help give the impression that the ageing bald man you are watching is actually John McClane.One thing to watch out for, though. In some scenes, you can tell they've reinstated swears that were cut from the theatrical version; but in others it's obvious they've got Bruce Wills to ADR some additional swears here and there. In one scene (when the car is suspended in the lift shaft), McClane screams "MOTHERFUCKER!" and you can clearly see his mouth is not moving. Pretty funny.And I agree, more Maggie Q would have been better.
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Jan 29, 2009 3:38:35 AM CST
No films, just 24 and Scrubs last night
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
But I've just got my mits on Midnight Run and all three made-for-tv sequels. I'll be having a midnight run marathon this weekend!Take that, Frankie!
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I really want to see them, if only out of curiosity.Damn, I am envious. That is a marathon to be proud of.
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My complete Toxic Avenger box set arrived this morning. I was expecting all 4 Toxie films, but there was an unexpected bonus - it also comes with all 13 episodes of the Toxic Crusaders cartoon!I had no idea such a thing even existed. Can you believe they made a children's cartoon out of the Toxic Avenger?
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Jan 29, 2009 3:45:31 AM CST
The wonders of modern technology, Frankie
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
The interwebs delivered the goods.
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it was great. Toxie rules.
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fucking twats.
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47. But I've got some awesomeness coming today: City of Men. therefore I shall be having a Brasil marathon tonight (fuck dexter, I'll see the repeat)- City of God, Central Station, and City of Men, Huzzah! that will take me to 50. Although I am disgusted to discover that Sallas helmed that piss poor Dark Water remake. Pah.
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...the Mr. Death vs the English and American dinner party was funny, too. At least until they went to Heaven.
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Prepare for disappointment. Midnight Run is one of the greatest movies of all time and its sequels are... er... not.
I like the guy who plays Jack Walsh in the sequels, but the original is an impossible act to follow. Besides, the end of the original movie is perfection. -
What annoyed me from the very beginning was how they overdid the rotten, creepy look of the apartment building. No human being in the protagonist's shoes would EVER consider moving into that place, no matter what the perks may have been. It looked worse than the Chicago hotel Ivan Danko stayed in.
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Don't worry, I'm not expecting miracles. It's purely out of curiosity.I like Christopher McDonald too. Anyone who was in Terminal Velocity has a soft-spot in my heart. Especially if he played a russian with bleach blond hair who still tries to shoot the good guy while clinging to the hood of a car that's been driven out of a plane and is hurtling towards earth.Genius.
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I was bored absolutely shitless in that fucking flick.Fuck I hate all of those asian horror remakes.
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He's very, very funny and underrated. He excells at playing uptight, nervous douchebags, like in Thelma & Louise and S.L.C. Punk.
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And eats pieces of shit for breakfast.
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My mind is actually boggling right now. It's boggling all over the place!Who the fuck comes up with these ideas?I would rather watch a remake starring Paul Walker, Josh Hartnett, Chris Klein, Shia LaBouf, and... I don't know... Ricky fucking Gervais... than a prequel about MacCready's brother.Good Christ, what a horrible, horrible, horrible idea.
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Jan 29, 2009 4:24:42 AM CST
Jarv, didn't you do that Brazil triplicate not long ago?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I'll have to see City of Men. City of God was very good. And I haven't seen Central Station either.
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I love The Thing so fucking much that I can't even deal with that story, much less form a venomous post in response. It literally saps my will to live.
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...how 'bout dem Johnny Rico anti-child abuse clips? Final proof that most people -- including Van Dien -- haven't got a clue as to what Verhoeven was doing.
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that is quite funny, but Mr. Creosote had bored me to tears by then. The crimson Insurance bit is wonderful. I shall be having similar fantasies all afternoon while being lectured by a nerd.
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lovefilm have only just sent it to me. Central Station is fucking great- I now own it and City of God, I'm debating whether or not to purchase it and Linha de Passe as well.
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...always butting in and saying "Lemme just say" and "I just gotta tell ya"..."
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because it wasn't a bad apartment to begin with. It certainly wasn't the fucking silent hill shithole that the remake was. I love the japanese one, and hate the remake with the fire of 1000 suns.
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A remake exists as its own separate entity and doesn't affect the original film (not for me, anyway), so they can remake the shit out of whatever they want as far as I'm concerned.But why would you sully a gem of a film like The Thing by doing a sequel or a prequel?It doesn't even make sense to me. Who do they think this will appeal to? No self-respecting fan of the film wants to see a sequel/prequel, and younger film fans who maybe don't know about The Thing won't care, either.My brain is about to boggle itself right out of my skull, and that is not good because I need my brain to find my cigarettes and operate my lighter. Probably other things, too.
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Who the fuck are they supposed to be appealing to? They are the most ridiculous things I've ever seen.I want to know more.
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but he's great as Rico so I'll forgive him
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because it annoys me. Not as much as a prequel does, but the one that really cunts me off good and proper is a sequel. NO NO NO NO
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Jan 29, 2009 4:55:57 AM CST
Look on the bright side, Frankie
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Once it comes out you can do a The Thing double-bill as per your shit sequel (or prequel in this case) requirements.
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"As a concept, the prequel is an arthritic donkey with asthma, and the kindest thing to do is take it the glue factory."
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Jan 29, 2009 4:57:38 AM CST
I'm still yet to see Troopers 3.
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Might have to watch it this weekend.
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"Let's go crack a planet" possiby the stupidest line ever. Singing Sky Marshall FOR THE WIN!
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Fox's 2008 lineup: Nim's Island," "Jumper," "The Happening," "Meet Dave," "Space Chimps," "The X-Files: I Want To Believe," "Babylon A.D.," "City of Ember," "Max Payne" and "The Day The Earth Stood Still."
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but it's hardly groundbreaking. Aside from that, are any of those films remotely watchable?
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Jan 29, 2009 5:14:48 AM CST
Out of that list that I've seen...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
X-Files was the best film. And it was just ok. Haven't seen TDTESS remake. Jumper, Happening and Babylon AD are amongst the worst films of 2008. Fox are absolute shite.
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awful, awful shite. How does Haydn Uselessnotdartheverssen get work?
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see you tomorrow gents
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Neil Jordan will write and direct the feature adaptation of Neil Gaiman's "The Graveyard Book."The Graveyard Book" is the story of an orphan raised by ghosts in a cemetery. Gaiman announced Jordan's involvement while on "The Today Show," where he was promoting the release of Focus Features' animated feature "Coraline," which Henry Selick adapted from Gaiman's work.Gaiman will produce "The Graveyard Book," which will be shot as a live-action feature. London-based f/x production house Framestore will work on the effects.
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After Mrs. Pillow witnessed this "event", she said the following to me:"Did that even have a plot?""Sure. Going after a Japanese gang that was filled with white guys and black guys."I can't believe you give me a hard time when I watch my shows, but then you watch stuff like...this!"My response, which I thought pretty much covered it, was: "But...it's Samurai Cop!"
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Jan 29, 2009 6:30:50 AM CST
I will argue that this one wins the prize out of your
by just pillow talk
recommendations Doc. The captain is hysterical, always telling someone to go to hell or join him in hell. The best is when he told the gang lawyer to "get out of my office asshole..and get a job!" Brilliant!
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Getting it on with two chicks, who do show their ta-ta's, which are nice...but our boy Joe has a perversion to boobies or something. The dude just wouldn't go near them. He'd rather rub her arm or her neck. Did they not prepare you for this in Samurai school?
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While they are about to go in and try and arrest one of the main mob dudes, turns to another cop who is waiting outside with her: "We're not doing anything right now, let's fuck."Unfortunately for Peggy, she gets hot oil poured on her later. Damn you Z'Dar!
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Doc - have you seen any of the following movies: Zombiegeddon, The Thief and the Stripper, and Pocket Ninja's? I have high hopes for Zombiegeddon: Zombies, kung-fu, zombie-eating tigers, bare breasts, and Joe Estevez! It's the ultimate B-movie! Uwe Boll is actually in this too.
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That's funny. I've used that logic so many times to defend my choices.Some people just don't get it. Especially women, who are generally too sensible to understand the "But...it's Samurai Cop!" defence.
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Ah, another convert to the genius of Samurai Cop. Welcome to the fold, brother.
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"I'm gonna get my ass burned by capt. Charcoaled." "You're already black." "Hah-hah...right on."
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He did an awesome retro review of The Hollywood Knights.
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It's his movie review debut, so you should definitely check into it.
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GET EXCITED!
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...for some odd reason.
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now what?
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Its like I took a dump and left the door open.
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Nice. :p
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Jan 29, 2009 9:52:12 AM CST
I was asking you what happened to everyone.....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
....I know you're here. You like the smell of the dick blood. : P
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You'll miss me when I'm asleep. ;) Later!
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I'm sorry, but I'll have to kill you now. I will make it as painless as possible.
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My mama warned me about hanging out with strange men.
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Go find the wayward ones and gather them back here where they belong. Have a great day, Danny.
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Jan 29, 2009 10:29:29 AM CST
Okay....I guess I'll just practice me sermon for Sunday.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
In Genesis’ god’s view, man’s drive and desire to become godlike are declared to be intolerable, unforgivable and punishable by death, although only expulsion and pain are actually imposed. In HOV, Cronenberg provides a hint concerning the outcome of man’s transition from Pisces, the fish god who is sacrificed on his journey home, to our current house of Aquarius which Jung linked to a created technological monster. I speculate or perhaps submit that in his projection of man, the course and trajectory of the technologically created monster remains rooted in his tradition, physically and culturally, and is mired in a historical blindness that leaves his future chained to Cain’s curse.
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I don't know why. Something about that film really intrigues me. Maybe its the simplicity of it thats making me go crazy. Anyway, upon a second viewing I noticed how much Howard Shore's score sounded just like Lord of the Rings. It sounds like the build-up notes to all the battles. And the chirpy light hearted intro to the town music sounds like the shire music when we're first introduced to their town. Weird. I would say he is a one-trick pony and can't do much else. But then I remember he did the amazing weirdo score for Ed Wood, which is fucking brilliant! I love all that bizarre 50s camp mixing Cuban percussion with organs and noise makers and shit.
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Damn I lost that bet. Where's Pillow at I owe him a million internets.I probably should get around to watching A history Of Violence someday.
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Some guy in a small town has to fuck and fight past groups of gang bang participants.
At the end of the movie his cock is steaming like an empty Gatlin Gun with a little drip of jizz hanging off the end.
When that drip falls, it should be in slow motion and right before it hits the forehead of the final whore, the screen goes black and the end credits roll. -
That's called Tuesday night for me.
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Jan 29, 2009 11:39:31 AM CST
My Tuesday nights are a little less exciting Xi
by chittychittygangbang
I watch a little TV, drink a little beer and....cause a whole shitload of Van Damage!!!
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Jan 29, 2009 11:45:15 AM CST
when I have that jizz drip on the head of my cock....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
.....I use it as an adhesive for floral wallpaper in my Mother's kitchen.
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Any interest in me doing a weekly rant re: Lost?
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No. Please stay focused on your Gremlins 3 script. JOE DANTE GOTTA EAT!!
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Screw that, I've already called Zack Snyder. He's promised me slow-motion.
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Jan 29, 2009 12:06:55 PM CST
Gremlin action in slow motion would be fucking hilarious.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
Imagine a massive missile being launched into a car packed tight with Gremlins. BOOM!! The car explodes and we see slow-mo hero Gremlin twirl through the air, on fire, screaming "MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!"
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Van Damage is the bees knees. You win Chitty.
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Jan 29, 2009 12:11:25 PM CST
Man who catch fly with chopstick accomplish anything.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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Jan 29, 2009 12:13:18 PM CST
In Okinawa, belt mean no need rope to hold up pants.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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I thought I'd have more to say, but there was only a page and a half.
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Jan 29, 2009 12:22:54 PM CST
If I am dreaming, let me never awaken. If I am awake, let me nev
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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Not a fan of that. Really strange timeline.
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Jan 29, 2009 12:28:45 PM CST
I HAVE AN OFFICIAL ADDITION TO THE BIBLE OF BAD ASSERY!
by dannyglovers_dickblood
Martin fucking Kove. http://tinyurl.com/bqnbuv Oh yeah...thats John fucking Kreese from Karate Kid. "FEAR DOES NOT EXIST IN THIS DOJO!"
Oddly....he looks a lot like David Keith. He could be his brother. Or he could just merge with the military weapon known as Keith David Keith and create the unstoppable killing machine KEITH DAVID KOVE!! -
Jan 29, 2009 12:35:59 PM CST
Holy shit-- a Bubba Ho-Tep ripoff?!! Awesome.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
http://tinyurl.com/bx6fjh
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Jan 29, 2009 12:49:49 PM CST
a list of Martin Kove's recent characters....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
A few thoughts on this list. The first is holy shit-- Martin Kove played a fucking priest?!! The second-- what the fuck is Clown/Martin Kove. Its not enough he had to stoop to playing a clown, but he is also playing himself? Is there some deeper meaning at play here? Is he saying the profession of acting itself is reserved for clowns, or perhaps anyone who doesn't worship Karate Kid is nothing but a fucking clown, or is this some sort of viral clue that Martin Kove shall play the The Joker in Batman 3?! Here is the detailed synopsis of the film Big Chuck, Little Chuck-- where Mr. Kove appears as a clown.
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Hank O'Hara is a former stuntman turned dog and horse trainer. In the opening we see one of his dogs acting in a movie. Hank's widowed daughter and her daughter return to Hank's place, and the 11 year old granddaughter turns out to be a talented dog trainer. We follow Hank and his family, human as well as equine and canine, as the animals act in several movies and a commercial, and we meet many interesting personalities on the way. "Big Chuck" is the older, experienced dog, and "Little Chuck", also called "Junior", is the younger dog, just learning his job. -------------------------
Lieutenant Jacobs
Judge
Lewis
Dave Reinhart
Drayton
Jack Lund
Highway Patrolman v
Sonny Cool
Steven Miles
Malick
Sheriff Jones
Uncle Patrick
CIA
Bob Depugh
Detective Reeger
DCI Collins
Daniels
Reese
Jake Lawlor
Lt. Reynolds
Kile
Jess
Corrigan
Anslow
The Clown/Martin Kove
Sandy Palumbo
Caleb
Captain Ron Williams
Taxi Driver
Jack Ames/Firearm
Father Brazinski
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Jan 29, 2009 1:07:57 PM CST
Martin Kove was also in the excellent Crocodile 2: Death Swamp
by stuntcock mike
Not to mention the stellar WHITE LINE FEVER!
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Herb doesn't watch "Lost", but I, as an avid follower of the series since the first day Jack opened his eyes, heartily approve. Cheers! This message has been brought to you by one of Mavra's waking moments and is sponsored by tap water...beloved by thirsty sleepers and small fish by-products everywhere.
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Should I send it to Herb then?
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Thanks very much. Maybe your words will convince him that he needs to watch the show. The "Lost" unbelievers should be converted, imho. :)
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Might be best sending it to you. E-mail me at ina08@aber.ac.uk, and I'll reply.
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Need to make sure the bit before 'read more' doesn't spoil people who haven't seen the episode. If they read after that, I don't care - but prior to that, might as well warn them.
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Before I slither off back to sleep, I'd like to share with all of you a personal token of love from Danny. (323) 226-0800 Handle with care.
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Laters, Mavra.
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Jan 29, 2009 2:56:59 PM CST
fuck that. Don't post my number Mav. Not funny.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
Seriously.
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Or am I being punked?What a crap day. Work ground me down to the bone down. I don't know if there's anything left of my soul to die in that place.Going to watch Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist tonight. Hopefully that romantic mumbo jumbo cheers me up.
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I thought Mavra posted a made-up number for a joke... but Danny's response. Odd.
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We don't need that kind of drama around these parts.
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Danny gave me that number under the label "for hot phone sex". I'm not telling you what it is. You'll have to figure it out for yourselves (hint: Google it).
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In theaters. I bet your jealous. You can't afford it, your mom on welfare.
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My dick I'm watching Idol.
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WATCH IT!!! OR DIE!!!
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Is it supposed to look like a single pixel image?
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Mavra got jokes.
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On Google?
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Marva got me to google that number. You're *evol*!!!
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Unless you have a wide-screen monitor. Now THAT was Evil!
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It's too much fun to resist.
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It's such a non-secret. He worships me and I allow it. How perfect is that.
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Funny how you and I were the only ones to look that number up.
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but I still can't tell if I'm looking at Series' dick or Owen Wilson's nose. Maybe I'm using the wrong search words??
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That would not be Owen Wilson's nose...
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Tired, but cool. Never enough time in the day.
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If it's a cold or the clap. Still looks the same. (Mean Girls!)
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I have to leave for work in a few minutes. My day is just beginning.
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Hilarious. It's by Ivor Biggun. He should take advice from it...
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That could apply to Series AND Danny! Double snap. This would be even better if they showed up to try to defend themselves. Like shooting ducks in a pond right now...
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The girls here are worse than the guys. What's up with that?
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Has anyone else seen Outlander yet?
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With the last 15 minutes in perfect quality.
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What the hell?
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Frank Langella, the guy that may win an Oscar for his role as Richard Nixon in Frost/Nixon, played a villainous pirate in Cutthroat Island.
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in Small Soldiers.And he played Zorro.that guy has got to be one of the sickest actors a live.As in total badass.I nominate him for the C of C Best.
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FRANK LANGELLA PLAYED SKELETOR IN MASTER OF THE UNIVERSE!which has got to be one of the worst movies I have ever seen.
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After an appearance in the early Mel Brooks film The Twelve Chairs Langella became known for his success in the title role of the Broadway production of *DRACULA*. In a recent interview, Langella commented that people (in fact, mostly men) always complimented him on the sexual energy of his stage performance as the Count, telling him, "BOY, DID MY WIFE MAKE LOVE TO ME THAT NIGHT!" after seeing him onstage. Despite his initial misgivings about continuing to play the role, he was persuaded to star opposite Laurence Olivier in the subsequent film version directed by John Badham. Langella reported that on his last day of shooting he hung the cloak on a costume rack firmly knowing he could never pick it up again for fear of being typecastWhat a badass.
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Yesterday was truly dreadful. Training crushed my spirit and made me actually envious of dung beetles. I was so drained after it (without learning anything, I might say) that I got home, drank some beers and watched Fortress 2. I am saving Brasil marathon. Fortress 2 was shit, but at least had mixed showers in it. Which is good.
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I don't know which idea I hate more. I think sequel.
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The Toxic Avenger!Saw the first one last night, a bit nervous it wouldn't live up to my memory of it, and it was great. Better than I remember, actually.I'm really looking forward to makling my way through the other three now.Those Troma guys know how to make some solid trashy fun.
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hate my job, hate everyone that works here, the work itself redefines boring and they're dicking with our "perks". Fucking stupid recession making it hard to get new job.
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if I got a new job then I wouldn't be able to fuck around on here all day.
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fuckers.
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Just a shitload of beer, too many smokes and very little sleep.Feel like shit now.
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It was pretty much the plot formula of every medieval/"Dragon Slayer" type movie ever made. The frightened villagers have had enough and decide to kill the dragon, um, I mean, alien. Except with an alien that seemed more like an overgrown Pit Bull than an alien. Oh yeah, and for some reason it glowed red.
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Yatta
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Sucked of course. The sword fights were rather silly and poorly executed. It's amazing that Boll got so many 'name' actors to be in that shit.
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but the film is sooooo poo that even such glorious stupidity can't redeem it.
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would mixed showers have improved In The Name of The King. I think so.
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can you explain the magic in it? Gimli said it was linked to a king, but he also said that it was something to do with their bloodline, and the king died really early. Confusing.
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I'll be going back to my list later, got sidetracked with being lazy.
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I was looking forward to some quality goofyness from In The Name Of The King.I need some goofy shit to watch this weekend, something that will sit well next the Toxic Avenger marathon.
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I'm on 47 so far, so if I stay on track I may even make 500 without too much trouble.
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And I've seen six since then.
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Since Gimli still had the same power after Smoky and the Bandit died. Perhaps the link just got transferred since the Transporter became King.In reality, there's no point in elaborating on this piss poor movie.You still have to watch it Frankie.
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I'm at 31, which is quite surprising.
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nobbed gimil's daughter? confusing.
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I'm disgusted that I own Alone in The Dark. MUST THROW OUT....Why can I not put it in the bin where it belongs? I suppose I could give it to someone I don't like (someone at work) for Christmas.
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Cocksuckers
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to tell them to stop chasing me and fuck off.
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Fucking broken keyboard
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"AICN geek on the run, local authorities confounded"
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sometimes it takes the hard lessons in life for people to realize the error in their ways.
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It won't be on the run> It will be: "Angry AICN geek arressted after Revenue office massacre"
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In fact, I'm considering testing my masochistic limits by loading up a Boll Triple Decker: In The Name Of The King, Postal, Bloodrayne.Who among us is man enough to withstand such an onslaught?ME! That's who.
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Authorities interviewed said that all the man known as "Lost Jarv" repeatedly said was "Praise 2for2true, the infidels have learned your ways...now."The authorities believe the individual belongs to a powerful secret cult known as 'The Church of Chang'. The investigation continues, but they are afraid of reaching a dead-end since 'Lost Jarv' refuses to give up any pertinent information.
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from Egg Shen. You're invincible.
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45 fucking minutes listening to canned mozart. "After the first pencil severed a jugular, JArv was heard to scream "It's all in the reflexes". Police are stumped"
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They go on for ages, and you can't fast forward them. "If you want information on blah please go to www.theivingfuckingwankers.com/ we'rehavingyourfuckingcash/ html
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I watched some of I, Robot. I ended up falling asleep when he was in the house getting attacked by the crane or whatever the hell it was. And I have to say, it's not a good movie. I don't remember if it gets better, but fuck, converse advertising bullshit, Will being Will, which was completely inappropriate for this movie.
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I just know how many I've seen since I stopped counting.
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don't ilke it. At all. It's a fucking extended ad.
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... went to see a Will Smith movie about sentimental, container-indwelling, aspirational tin-men.
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Setting up these silly stunts and whatnot, none of which serve any real purpose.It is entirely possible I need to get one of those 'lifes' people are always going on about.
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...I got a settlement from The Catholic Archdiocese.
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Jan 30, 2009 9:27:15 AM CST
worse thing about I, Robot is Alex Proyas directed it.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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So says this article!
"I thought she was just getting over the last pregnancy. How does a uterus handle that kind of abuse? Why the fuck is she so fertile? Is she trying to save her marriage or is she trying to lock her football husband down because she’s tired of him running around behind her back and thinks this is the way? Why doesn’t she take the load on her fucking face? Is this a tax write off, or maybe just a good reason to get paid leave from work when she needs a vacation…Does she realize what three pregnancies will do to her sex appeal/tits and pussy? What about the baggage it presents when she’s out shopping for a new husband when this one peaces the fuck out. It’s just fucking insanity, the world is overpopulated as is and her bringing more into this dying world to create garbage and mooch off our resources just shows how greedy and self absorbed she is. I think two kids was enough, give it a fucking rest, sure it’s appropriate for a cunt to make babies, but that doesn’t mean the whole thing isn’t disgusting." -
blastocysts are humans with full civil rights, but Iraqui civilians aren't?
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anymore see Outlander yet? Tonight doing a double feature of that and Taken back to back, for the perfect 80s-esque action night. Saw Taken, Doubt and Dorothy Mills this week(and hoping to start Cold Lazarus soon).
Doubt is a surprisingly good movie(that yes, is pretty much like a stageplay but that doesn't mean it doesn't also feel like a movie. Great picture but I think Hoffman is better than Streep in it. Amy Adams and Viola Davis(who is in it only for ten minutes) are also very good. The strength of the film is it's writing though, which of course adapted from the play.
Taken, on the otherhand does not have writing as it's strength, but doesn't need it because it's very very simple and very satisfying. Liam Neeson busts heads, shoots people willy nilly and generally skull-kicks his way through Paris in order to rescue his daughter. That's it, and yet isn't it oh so much, really? Liked it enough to watch it again tonight, with Outlander.
Dorothy Mills. I wanted to like this alot more, and felt when it was over, I should have. Of the recent(last year and this) "posession" movies I've seen this one is the strongest. It's also the oddest. A young woman in Ireland who belongs to a secluded island community attacks viciously the child she was supposed to be babysitting, and when a psychiatrist shows up on the island, it becomes apparent the girl might be suffering from multiple personality disorder. The community also seems to be trying to use her as a medium, a gateway to their dead loved ones. The plot was stronger than I expected, and the atmosphere was suitablty creepy but in the end it didn't quite twist the knife enough for my taste. Recommended though. Just with reservations. Don't walk in expecting a truly scary film.It plays more like a spooky drama.
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I very much would like to see it, but I'll wait to rent it. Liam looks awesome in it.
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it'a not fantastic, but it worka, mostly because it's refreshing to watch it be Neeson as the guy taking everyone down. And instead of making it this uber-dark bleak drama, it's more or less that action fantasy of watching one highly trained and viscious man deal out punishment to those who oh so greatly deserve it.
Also, a nice touch is that Neeson's team from back in the day of shady, hard-edged dudes are played by guys like Leland Orser and Jon Gries, so the image doesn't quite match up with the persona in an amusing way. -
I need some jingoistic American cinema.
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Even though I (ahem)'acquired' The Outlander several days ago, I have not watched a single moment of it. Ditto with Dorothy Mills.
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Any chance I can do both Lost and Heroes rants for the site?
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I've actually passed up these two films to watch The Grudge 3? Horrors! Jonah, don't leave me hanging for too long here, please. Ha ha. Who knows what other shlock I might choose as movie substitutes?
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Anything your little heart desires. Your public awaits. ;)
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Been a shitty week for writing on the whole, but for some reason writing and ranting about Lost and Heroes is phenomenally easy to do.
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Where are my posts going?
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Seeing as I went all evil and everything. But, it was fun.
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If we hightlight the tb, will they magically appear? Neat trick! Hi, Wolf!
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There's one! My computer is off its head. Not satisfied in switching the @ to the " key - and vice versa - it's taken to eating posts!Moving to Firefox seems to have helped.I hate computers.
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Not had home internet for 3 weeks. This is exciting.
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Being offline when you're in the habit is a killer.
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Why was AOL eating the AICN posts?Re-installed a new hard drive but can't find the disc with the DVD player software on. Ballsacks.I hate computers.
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My condolences!
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Hopefully you had something better at home.
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AOL at home. I'm at home. Day off. It's my birthday. I'm very old.
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I need to go back to sleep. My mind is not awake yet.
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Age is a state of mind and highly overrated. Have you gotten any good gifts yet?
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Yes you should.I hate computers.Whatever was wrong with an abacus?
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A bottle of vodka and some spending money so far. I'm hopeful for some kind of movie book a bit later on. Must have something movie-ish.
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But they are not so good at worldwide message transmitting. The images on an abacus also leave something to be desired.
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But they only needed to increase the number of beads per line. In my view, that would have solved any prevalent image issues.
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a lot of oldish films. Being web-less, I also got stuck into Hawaiian's Asian Disc Extravaganza. Really enjoyed 'Invisible Target.'Need to see 'Outlander.'
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It's available on that Aisan Horror site. http://tinyurl.com/aeqc7v
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But I have the correct site. Like I said, not awake yet!
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I'll give that one a go over the weekend - providing the computer stays functional.How's the mymavra site doing?
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Lots of submissions lately. Xiphos even debuted a movie review. I posted your Halloween story. Your Christmas story is going up today. Thank you again for lending them to me.
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Happy for you to use them - wasn't sure you'd want to!
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I'm very grateful. I'm going to take off back to bed now. I'm glad I was awake to see you. Have a great birthday!
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still at work. We need a new twitch. This one's nearly buggered.
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Glad to be back online finally! See you later.Off for some grub now. The chicken curry calleth...
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Jan 30, 2009 11:37:03 AM CST
Jarv-- still at work? What fucking time is it?
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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You on the night shift, mate? 6 o'clock finish?
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Savour the day.
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Savior the alcohol. Just don't try and put a birthday candle in the bottle. It never works out.
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Huzzah! By the way, since you are my brother in extreme schlock, did you ever see The Boogens? I saw it for the first time the other day, and was let down by what should have been a fun 80s movie.
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coming up Mav...You better go ahead without me though on Dorothy Mills. This weekend is turning out to be sort of busy, and there are probably some movies better deserving of a write-up first. I'll get you a write-up though.
Outlander should be in your in-box in about 40 minutes.
I saw Tokyo Gore Police. I enjoyed it, but it wasn't anything special outside a one-time piece of insanity. Way better than Machine Girl though. -
I think Ozy in Watchmen has been terribly cast.
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OLEG. legend.
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for the birthday wishes! Not had much to drink, a few beers and now I'm on tequila, kahlua and cola.Jonah - The Boogens... That the cavern-lurking monster one? I recall loving it back in the day but not sure what I'd make of it now! I need a schlock box set with all these early 1980's films in it...
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Been trying to watch it online but the picture's naffo and the sound is way out of sync. Got up to where they're starting to interrogate the spaceman - then gave up. Pity, cos the movie looked okay to me.
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Hee hee!
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How goes?
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How yer doing?
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I like this trailer.
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When you have a chance, let me know if you like the picture I chose for your Christmas story.
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Jan 30, 2009 9:42:02 PM CST
whoa....whats that bad ass pic you have up....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
....on the twisted original fiction page?
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The pic is called "A battle never won", and was donated by one of our readers.
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Yeah, the sound on my copy was a bit out of sync too. I think it was only the first half though.
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Le the right one in. And boy am I glad did I let it in. Really good. Lots of fun. Glad I got the see it in packed audience.
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Happy birthday. Who the hell mixs tequila and Kaluha?
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Good job on the birthday.
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SOOO the closest showing of Outlander to me is 155.4 mi in Plano, TX!! FUCK. But hmmm I do have some family down there, maybe I should stop by for a visit this weekend.
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Really can't get into this episode. I think I just don't care any more, its just getting old. I'm starring to realize that half of this show is just close up people talking leading up to something that is never going to be revealed. And the other half of the show is people walking in the jungle then stopping to argue about one of them being a traitor.
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I need a new computer and new money. I wanna check out all these cool online movies. But my computer struggles on the 2 minute movie trailer.
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The Bill Hicks performance on Letterman. That was really cool. For those of you who don't know who Bill Hicks is. He is a stand up comedian that used to do background vocals for Tool.
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Now I can watch some good TV with Life On Mars. Or maybe I'll check out this Glengarry Glen Ross I DVR'ed, or The Cars That Ate Paris. I got a good line up of movies this weekend. Hamlet 2 doesn't seen like anyone of us has seen it. Roman P: Wanted and Desired, been interested in the whole Roman case for a while. Finally some Soccer Documentary narrated by John Cleese, sounded funny enough. Back to The Cars That Ate Paris, anyone seen that?
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He's made two really amazing films. Truman Show and Master and Commander. Didn't really care for Gallipoli. HAHAHAHAH just checking up his IMDB, I've discovered two things. 1, he doesn't work that often. 2, The Year of Living Dangerously I actually have on my DVR somewhere down there. Maybe I'll have a Weir double feature, didn't realize he directed it may have watched it earlier if I knew that. Witness really good film too.
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Writing all that made me miss some life, need to rewind. Praise almighty Allah for recordable TV.
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say Yabba Dabba Do. Worth the price of admissions alone.
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I'm only up to 21 movies in 09. I need to catch up.
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Some prick put the hoover on at 9am.
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Hello, Mr. Z. Other than annoyed and possibly still tired, how are you?
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Has anyone ever tried a "Concrete Mixer", which is a shot of Bailey's with a squirt of Lime juice?
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Never tried a concrete mixer. I've tried blackcurrant and stroh, which I don't recommend.
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It's liquid in the glass, but solidifies when it hits the mouth. I don't personally recommend you try it, Mr. Z, but it's interesting to get a friend to try it and watch them discover why it has that name.
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I want to keep it in the top 10, but I need sleep. Later guys.
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http://tinyurl.com/cyzm87
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I'll wait till my blood pressure centralises, but I do intend to try it at some point.
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Man, Stallone is an underplaying motherfucker in this. He's so damn sombre and subtle.
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Rambo is John Locke if John Locke didn't lose his faith every ten minutes.
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But he's going with it - ain't the time to bust up their crew.
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He's not happy with Rambo, and for good reason.
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What an evil bastard he is. Kick his ass, Rambo.
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Only not, because she's telling her backstory to Rambo. She wants to leave Vietnam, but Vietnemse Ben won't let her.
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Symbolism rules.
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Damn that Vietnam Ben Linus.
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Damn the US Army Four. If they don't return, everyone in Vietnam will die.
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They won't let the Colonel tell the truth - he has to be quiet, or EVERYONE dies.
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Mikhail has arrived.
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Rambo rules.
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Awesome
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You do NOT shoot at Rambo and his new Ms.
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Rambo is cold-blooded.
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He's burning THE JUNGLE.
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That didn't look too goofy.
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Nice work!
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It's the least I can do.
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It only took 2 to get back on the board. REALLY great work, Mr. Z!
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Probably stupid question time. Do any of you non-Yanks watch the Superbowl? This is my weekend survey.
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Now I'm arguing with some idiot whose saying that I can't hate Kung Fu Panda if I only watched half an hour of it. I say a piece of shit is still a piece of shit even if you can only see 30% of it.
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fo the birthday wishes.Xiphos! I do! Tequila & kahlua. I wanted to mix a Mexican Bulldog but I didn't have any cream. Or ice. Don't knock it till you've tried it!I'm now on Guinness and... hold on... Langlois, it's a sparkly wine. Half Guinness, half sparkly = Black Velvet. I'm buzzing.Off to watch Tokyo Gore Police now.
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Can't watch the last 40-odd mins of Tokyo Gore Police for another hour!That is unecessarily rum! Mavra, you didn't warn me it was going to do that!
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The picture is good, I like it.
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gardening today. My hedge trimmers broke. I ran into some particularly obstreperous climbing ivy. The trimmers emitted a tremendous rattling sound and conked.I hate computers.
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I ahdn't finished watching it yet myself. I've never had another movie on that site do that. Very odd! So, how was the rest of your birthday?
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The rest of my birthday was alcohol fuelled. Good! Today the same!TGP says I can carry on watching in 15 mins. Should I?
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Jonah did refommend it for at least one viewing. I got pulled away befreo I could finish. You cold let me know what you think of it. I loved the photos Twitchman sent us awhile back.
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I'm just not sure what the form is...
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Nor sure what I'd think of it if I was sober. One bloke's got a cock gun! Another bloke's had his knob bitten off! A quite disgraceful carry on...
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I haven't even gotten to those parts yet.
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I've just ruined the surprise.
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It was a quirky news story.
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That's why I wanted to see it in the first place.
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On my MP3 player for a few weeks, just to show it to people. There were some interesting reactions to it. :)
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That's top! The funny thing is, one of the ppeople interviewed thought the sign might be dangerous to traffic. Like there'd be a mass panic!
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I wonder if it was someone from here? It even suggested going North (or to colder climates). Just like World War Z!
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the rest of TGP, see if it let's me.
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Rambo II CUT OUT near the end. Damn DVD player.
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Have you ever tried a "Concrete Mixer" and do you ever watch the Superbowl? Got to complete the survey, you know.
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Is that recommended? I haven't read it. Didn't know it exosted until I read about it on here.
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no. Superbowl? Is that like a very big dish?
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Yep, Mormom propaganda.
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I must be tired.Heh...
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Both the book and the audio book are worth the purchase. It's my favorite novel. The audio book has a stellar cast...nearly all-star! Mark Hamill, Rob and Carl Reiner, Alan Alda, Henry Rollins, Eamonn Walker, John Turturro. Quite a few others also. Never saw so many celebs doing one audiobook.
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You hated Twilight? I am stunned.
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If the kiddie in question is into fantasy/angsty vampire light-romance drek. World War Z is a real novel...something you can sink your teeth into, so to speak. So sayeth Mavra...one of the few Twilight hatin' females it seems.
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Haven't started yet, but I have average hopes. Won't be as good as the Vampire script I got a 72% on, but come on... it's me!
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Let me know your opinion on Twilight. I am interested on the male perspective (that isn't Harry's). If you haven't read WWZ, you should. Catch you all later. have a great night.
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Laters, yo!
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Insane.Night all.
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Fred is excited and cautiously optimistic about Steelers chances today!
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Just for the dwarf jokes alone, it is required CoC viewing. Overall, Fred enjoyed the movie. It had some slow parts and it had a quirky mix of comedy and drama that did not always take adavantage of the of the situation. here was also the unexplained skin head connection with Harry and the under developed characters of both women, but Colin Ferrel did a very good job and the story was very intriguing.
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Have not watched it yet. Fred bought Next Avengers last week, and was greatly disappointed. Fred had steered clear of it when it first came out because it looked geared for kiddie set. Fred remembered a review of it on this site that said it was more than just a kiddie cartoon. Well Fred came across a cheaper DVD and bought it. Fred should have known. Fred really loved New Frontier though. One of best animated movies. Fred loved Doomsday as well, and the first Avengers movie. The Iron Man movie was good, and the first part of Doctor Strange.
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Not to mention nachos, hamburgers, hot dogs, and beer powered. Fred loves Super Bowl food!
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Fred not sure what that means, but cautions anyone buying a ticket off of a shady looking amoeba. Note: Dirk prefers the term - swarthy looking, not shady.
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Mr. Zeddemore seems to have been a casualty of the ban hammer. He sent me an email earlier saying that he can't get onto the site anymore. He said it may be due to Rambo postingins and Polanski comments, but he's not certain. His old posts are still showing here, so maybe it won't be permanant. If I hear anything from him, I'll pass it along.
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Now people will want free Z, and not even know what Z is!
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Feb 01, 2009 11:49:01 AM CST
It can not be a banning, if his posts are still here
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
It may be a glitch in software, or a warning. Tell him to try a different browser.
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1. It did look like Zeddemore's postings from the Rambo tb had been removed. 2. ThereWolf emailed me and said he can't log in. There is something strange afoot!
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For the superbowl?
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He posted this on the other site. If you are logged on at AICN, do NOT log off, or you will not be able to get back on.
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There's a Superbowl talkback going on over here, folks. Join us!
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Sucked balls. SOO unfunny it hurt. Good night.
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The movie blows.
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Where is everybody?Has the CoC been decimated by the recent snow?If any of you are still alive, try to signal me in some way and I will grab my snow shoes and a shovel and I will Dennis Quaid my way across the vast snowscape to dig you all out.
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Feb 02, 2009 5:28:48 AM CST
That was a Day After Tomorrow reference, by the way
by franklin t marmoset
Just in case I was being too obscure.Seriously, send up a flare or somesuch.
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This board SUCKS. (that might get me banned, but at least I earned this one.)
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I see him within forty yards of here, I'm calling the cops.
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I have to go into town to buy a jumping rope. Be back laters, if I'm not banned/logged out.
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Good for you, buddy. Good for you!P.S. While you're picking up your skipping rope, don't forget to also buy a space hopper and a yo-yo. And a copy of Beano.
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I hope ThereWolf's problems are over too.
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Tears Of The Sun (boring and annoying), Toxic Avenger II (good), The Alamo (okay), JCVD (good), Poultrygeist: Night Of The Chicken Dead (zombie chickens!), In The Name Of The King (shit), The Blues Brothers (great), Blues Brothers 2000 (shit), Starsky & Hutch (not funny), Tropic Thunder (fat dancing Tom Cruise = funny).Phew. That's 57 for the year, and still no sign of a life for me.
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Officially, this is the worst film I've seen this year. AVP: Requiem was bad, but at least I got through the whole thing in one go. It took three sittings to finish In The Name Of The King. THREE!What is this magical ability Uwe Boll has to make films so tedious that you want to flay yourself with a potato peeler just to liven things up? I honestly think he could make a film in which Scarlett Johansson and Jessica Alba are naked and fingering themselves and/or each other for the entire running time and Uwe Boll would still find a way to make it excrutiatingly boring.So that's it for me and Uwe Boll. No Mas. He has beaten me fair and square and I cannot take it any more. You win, Uwe Boll. I am not man enough to watch any of your films ever again.I'm so glad I didn't do that Triple Feature thing, because that may actually have killed me.
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Do you know what watching Blues Brothers 2000 is like?It's like someone has dug up your grandmother - the one who always gave you sweets and extra pocket money when you were a kid - dressed her in a pair of those sweatpants that say 'Juicy' over the ass, rigged her corpse to an elaborate system of puppet strings, and is now making her perform an ungodly dance while saying, over and over again; "Isn't this great! Aren't you glad to see your grandmother again!"And you scream and scream and scream, because you're not glad, because you're horrified to the core of your soul, because you don't ever want to see your beloved grandmother like this, and you cry out: "Oh, God, please make it stop!" but it NEVER EVER STOPS!!!That's what it's like.
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Wow! STEELERS! Holy shit I loved that game! FRED!!!! You da MAN!!!! STEELERS baby!!!!!!! WHOO! Hi y'all
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Cleared up now - for now.
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You should know how dangerous a space hopper is.
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Left the superbowl party at the Union Bar because there are few things worse than drunken idiots surrounding you when you are sober. The game looked good, but I couldn't hear/see most of it.
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It's fun if you are drunk, yourself. But other people are just toss-pots.
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On of best SuperBowls and best football games in history. I tokk the day off because I knew i would be wiped out. Steelers are my second fav team, so while I maynot be as happy as Fred - that is his hometown, i am still quite happy.
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Whatever it was I did I won't do it again. Promise.Day After Tomorrow. The Metro newspaper has been watching DAT. Apparently we've got to watch out for an "extreme weather event."In other words - it may or may not snow at some point today.(ThereWolf looks out of window...)I can confirm there is an extreme weather event occurring in Manchester.
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What I saw was good, but I unfortunately have a problem. And that's simply - I hate people. People ruin this stuff.
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Feb 02, 2009 7:32:11 AM CST
We also have and extreme weather event in Bristol
by franklin t marmoset
I went outside for a fag and it was like I was smoking in a snow globe.Weather like this makes me worry that one or more of my colleagues may have been taken over by some kind of shape-shifting alien that was dug out of the ice by Norwegians.
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Been a while. Last I heard you were having PC problems.
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Those fucks. When will they learn? WHEN WILLLL THEY LEEEEEEEEEARN? Kidding, don't sue.
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Still got PC problems! Gonna get it sorted hopefully. Back online, at least.
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Try a blood test. Works every time. Unless somebody got to the blood...
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It's true! Secret cabal of Norweigians are actually the Illuminati! Call Mediah Messiah! BTW I am just JOKING if you are out there MM. Do not take it seriously. No conspircay, and no I am not being forced to write that bythe cabal. There is NO Norweigian cabal - other than the ones who like fjords
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a good fjord. You can never have enough fjords.
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I had a blood-test last week. What if I'm... Right, I need a lighter and a sample of my own blood.
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Wish I could post at work. Sucks.Later...
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Feb 02, 2009 7:59:23 AM CST
I am also keeping any eye out for shredded underwear
by franklin t marmoset
Obviously, I do that all the time anyway, but it is especially important when aliens and/or Norwegians are possibly up to no good.
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My god man, you would be unstoppable!
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...who thought that Super Bowl game was crap. Save for the 100-yard INT/TD and that insane catch by Holmes in the dying seconds, I found the game to be a colassal bore. And the officiating was the worst I've ever seen. A fumble? Really? Try again. And great way to kill Arizona's chances of the greatest comeback win in football history.Happy for Fred, sorry for Xiphos and disappointed and saddened at all the analysts who think that game was better than last years or Super Bowl 28.Watched several movies over the weekend:Taken - best revenge film since Payback. Liam Neeson is perfect as an out of his mind father who hacks a bloody path to find his daughter. And what he does with a pair of 6-inch galvanized nails is breathtaking.Max Payne - shamelessly steals an office shootout scene almost frame by frame from Die Hard. Garbage filmmaking at it's absolute worst. Avoid at all costs.The Divine Weapon - great movie from start to finish. Watching bad guys explode has never been this much fun.Zack & Miri Make A Porno - ok for what it was. Kevin Smith's best effort in a very long time. Elizabeth Banks is adorable. I could do without all the drunken frat boy humor though. Gets tired after the first 5 minutes.
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HULK HEAD DETACH FROM BODY TO SMASH INDEPENDENTLY WHILE BODY OFF SMASHING OTHER STUFF!!
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You're a concerned parent, you can't smash.
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I heard you were ailing, good to see you back. As ofr the game, I thought it was one of the finest Super Bowls ever. It had the kind of drama and up and downs that make games rivteting. It was not he prettiest game, nor the best Super Bowl, but it was pulse pounding excitment. Pittsburgh looked like they would blow Cards out after first drive, but Cards D came up big. And they did so time after time. Steelers stopped Larry Fitzgerald for first half, and dominated the game - except for the score, but amazingly Cards could take lead at half time, until the most amazing play (Or tied with Tyrees catch) ever on super bowl history changed the momentum. The Fitgeralds TD that semed to kill the Steelers, then Ben driving the Steelers with 2 min - 88 yards, then Holmes making that catch! Damn, that my friend was a great game!
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About how terrible and unfunny Hamlet 2 was. Have a good day.
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Particularly since Johnny Rico set me straight with his series of public service announcements. There's nothing like advice from a fictional character to help you out in life.As a concerned parent, I strive to keep my Hulking out activities until after 9pm, when little Frank Jnr is safely tucked up in his sleeping box under the kitchen sink. Safety first and whatnot.
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If the officials hadn't been so shamelessly bad. Way too many blown calls and letting Harrison get away with a cheap shot of that magnitude was a disgrace. I'm glad you enjoyed it but for me the league should be waking up today and personally apologizing for the worst officiating I've seen in a game in 16 years.I'm feeling much better thanks. I think I'm over the worst. Only mildly congested and the muscles in my chest are back to normal.
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WHY WOULD YOU CAST ALBA IF SOMEONE WHO LOOKED LIKE THE COMIC-BOOK CHARACTER AND WOULD WORK CHEAPER READ FOR THE ROLE? Fucking Hollywood.
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And while Harrison beating the hell out of that DB was stupid, their was a similar punch thrown by a cards player on first play, that was not called, read Peter King's SI story. My guess is that Harrison, who was a former special teamer, was retaliating, not smart, but it was not disgraceful. Cards got two major breaks on challenges, and made stupid defensive penalties. The only one I thought was bad call was the roughing passer penalty. But Steelers got killed by the holding call in end zone, so Cards can not scream. I loved the game, had everything. But no biggie if you did not. I plan on seeing Taken this weekend
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I guess i should imdb her
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I don't know too much about the comic, so maybe this Sue Storm is supposed to look all strung out and scrawny - I claim ignorance there. But they usually like to cast hot young chicks in those roles, don't they?I do agree a natural blonde would probably have been a better choice, but people like Jessica Alba, therefore she gets roles.
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Deborah Kara Unger looks like her uglier crack-whore cousin.
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Just kidding....I didn't see it.
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Crack whores are hot now.?
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I say that with such venom because I'm Australian and I've never even contemplated the possibility of a snow day. London has provided me with a monday snow day and I've spent this day taking a walk and having a sesh in the pub. Now it's time for breakfast. Even though its the afternoon.
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Just looked at Ms Larter - I do not watch heroes, so I had no idea who se was. I think she would have been a good choice
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Does it hold an extraordinary amount of soup?It's cold here. I could really go for an unreasonably large bowl of soup.
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I thought there was universal hatred for how god-awful she is in everything.
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The worse sin she ever committed was appearing in a Robert Rodriguez film.
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SuperBowl is a code word for HulkBuster base to mobilize and drop acid into your wheaties to make you think you are actually living in the UK eating a bowl of soup, and not out raping lesbian hulk midgets with you new found Thing powers.
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Unless you are Frankie, and can Hulk out whenever you feel like it, you do not get many chances to say: HulkBuster Base!
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I take it you've never sat through her trying to rationalise Quantum Physics.
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....thats surprising. Wonder if Warner Bros. is apprehensive or what?
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Oh I have no problem with those movies.
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I agree that she's shit, but she's attractive and likeable, so the general public (not us angry film nerds) like what she does.She's like Keanu Reeves, but younger and with an ass that looks great underwater.
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That's an instant actress demerit right there. If you are playing a stripper, the boobs must come out.Elizabeth Berkely might be an even worse actrss than Alba, but at least she went the whole hog in Showgirls. For that she deserves our respect.
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I define likeable as people having a positive attitude. Everyone I've spoken to has said 'she's okay, I guess' even without having knowledge of the comic-book. And re: FF, I don't hate them. I just think they could've been a lot better if they spent the proper time on them.
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Couldn't agree with you more on BB2000. Tried to watch Beverly Hills Cop 3 on the tube last night. WTF?! Man John Landis' ass used to shit golden silk. What the fuck happened?
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A controversial new biopic about Cuban revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara is awakening old passions and provoking vigorous defenses and denunciations of the iconic revolutionary and - in the case of an interview with The Washington Times - a dramatic walkout.
"I'm getting uncomfortable," Benicio del Toro said after fielding a question about his new movie's portrayal of the Bolivian and Cuban revolutions. "I'm done. I'm done, I hope you write whatever you want. I don't give a damn."
With that, the Oscar-winning actor walked away, abruptly terminating an interview conducted late last week to discuss director Steven Soderbergh's "Che."
Heated discussion has inevitably followed this almost 4 1/2-hour film's portrayal of the revered and reviled figure who sought to spread armed insurrection throughout Latin America and became a romanticized icon of rebellion in the process.
Yet its star seems ill at ease in the hot seat.
Hunched over a plate of guacamole in the backroom of gourmet Mexican restaurant Oyamel in the District, Mr. del Toro seemed excited to discuss the picture, which he co-produced with Mr. Soderbergh and Laura Bickford. Though the movie has received mixed critical reception, Mr. del Toro won top acting honors at Cannes this year. In his acceptance speech, he dedicated the award to Guevara.
The film was screened in Cuba, to much applause.
"Del Toro is spectacular in the role of Che, not only in his physical resemblance but also in his brilliant interpretation," wrote Granma, the official newspaper of the Cuban Communist Party. "After more than five hours of screening, the Cuban public gave its endorsement with a strong ovation."
"Not knowing much about the history of Cuba, the history of Che, not being taught anything about it," Mr. del Toro says of his motivation for helping to bring the picture to fruition. "The image that I have or what has been told to me about this character is that he's kind of a cowboy - a bloodthirsty cowboy."
In doing research for the picture, Mr. del Toro was drawn to the writings of Guevara. "First, you start with what he wrote. What Che Guevara wrote. And he was a great writer, he wrote for years, so you start with that," he said.
Given the film's tenor, however - Guevara is shown telling a reporter that the most important thing for a revolutionary to have is "el amor," love - it's fair to ask to which parts of the Guevara bibliography the producer was exposed.
"He was a man full of hatred," said Armando Valladares, the Cuban dissident imprisoned by the revolutionary regime in 1960. Named a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International, Mr. Valladares is the author of "Against All Hope: A Memoir of Life in Castro's Gulag" and a board member of the Human Rights Foundation. Speaking through Glenda Aldana, a translator who works for the foundation, Mr. Valladares points to Guevara's writings as proof.
In his "Message to the Tricontinental," Guevara espoused "hatred as an element of struggle; unbending hatred for the enemy, which pushes a human being beyond his natural limitations, making him into an effective, violent, selective, and cold-blooded killing machine."
"He took joy in killing counterrevolutionaries and was one of the most hard-edged, most Stalinist, pro-Soviet communists of the whole leadership," said Ronald Radosh, a Hudson Institute adjunct fellow and author of "Commies: A Journey Through the Old Left, the New Left and the Leftover Left."
Mr. Soderbergh defended his film's perspective in an interview with The Washington Post at the Toronto International Film Festival.
"I've had people ask me: 'How can you make a movie about a murderer? A terrorist?'" he said. "What they don't understand is that I'm in support of everyone who appears on screen. I have to be. I take the position of everyone who's on screen. I'm not judging them one way or another."
At the same time, Mr. Soderbergh seems to harbor few illusions about just who Guevara was.
"I don't know that there's any place for a person like me in the society that he was trying to make," the director said. "I'm the poster child for a lot of the [stuff] that he was trying to eradicate."
Mr. del Toro doesn't deny that Guevara's persona had some darker aspects. "We have to omit a lot of stuff about his life," he said, "but we're not omitting the fact that he's for capital punishment, which is the essence of that."
In the movie, Guevara is shown executing a man. But the man is executed for raping a child, not for being disloyal to the cause of revolution. Troops are offered a chance to desert, and get nothing more than a scolding for their cowardice.
Mr. Valladares is less convinced of Guevara's dedication to due process.
"Che Guevara executed dozens and dozens of people who never once stood trial and were never declared guilty," he said. "In his own words, he said the following: 'At the smallest of doubt we must execute.' And that's what he did at the Sierra Maestra and the prison of Las Cabanas."
"They didn't do it blindly; they had trials," Mr. del Toro said. "They found them guilty, and they executed them - that's capital punishment."
But Mr. Radosh said it wasn't as simple as that.
"Huber Matos was guilty of nothing," he said. Mr. Matos was a commandant under Fidel Castro, one of the revolutionary's earliest followers and a fervent enemy of the Batista regime. But he was no communist, and when he saw where the country was headed, he wanted out.
"He didn't even want to go into opposition," said Mr. Radosh. "He simply said, 'I don't like the direction of the government, I don't want to be part of the government, I'll voluntarily relinquish my command.' He was convicted of treason, and after a sham trial that Fidel presided over, was sent to prison for a 25- to 30-year sentence."
Guevara was instrumental in the creation of Cuba's forced labor camps, which were used to imprison and extract work from those who had committed no crimes but were thought to be insufficiently revolutionary.
The policy of extrajudicial imprisonment that Guevara favored would later expand to include political activists of all stripes, musicians, artists, homosexuals and others deemed to be dangerous to the maintenance of the Stalinist regime.
Mr. del Toro grew agitated when these prisons were described as "concentration camps," a phrase that Mr. Valladares freely employs.
"I'm a survivor of those concentration camps. And I stand firm by my belief that they were concentration camps," he said. "The forced labor camps where I also worked, where dozens and dozens of political prisoners were murdered, where thousands were tortured, that's something that even the most ardent believers in Castro´s tyranny can't deny."
Critics of "Che" have suggested that the film whitewashes its protagonist's legacy and that it's impossible to understand the man by glorifying his more romantic aspects while ignoring his darker side.
"We can't cover it all," Mr. del Toro said. "You can make your own movie. You know? You can make your own movie. And let's see. Do the research."
Mr. Valladares is afraid that Mr. del Toro and Mr. Soderbergh's film will make people forget the reality that was Che Guevara's life.
"Benicio del Toro is just one of the many accomplices of the Cuban tyranny," he said. "All the murderers of people have had accomplices and people who made excuses for them. Stalin had them, Hitler had them, Pinochet had them, all the dictators have had apologists for them. Che Guevara and Fidel Castro also had them."
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See, I don't care about her not showing her goodies. Her character is meant to be an innocent, so it was always a dumb choice by Miller to have the character strip in the comic-book. It's more that she's so bad in the film that gets me.
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Feb 02, 2009 9:56:19 AM CST
Super Bowl? I didn't know they played golf in the winter
by stuntcock mike
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She's been solid in everything I've ever seen her in. And yeah....Alba is just sort of bland to me. I agree-- I would never say I like her. She just doesn't bother me.
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But it's a tad ridiculous to call Del Toro an accomplice. The film does omit a lot, but I think they're lucky to get financing for what they are allowed to show.
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Feb 02, 2009 9:58:51 AM CST
That's exactly what your Father said Stuncock....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
.....just before I slit his fucking throat.
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Where were the critics when 'Motorcycle Diaries' came out and didn't show a single negative aspect of Che Guevera?
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Feb 02, 2009 9:59:52 AM CST
Danny, Del Toro in Fear and Loathing=all sins forgiven
by stuntcock mike
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...the book and the film. Its just sort of a shame what he became. Its probably a fine line to walk without eventually going sort of mad. When he was young though, he had good intentions. Kind of a tragic story really.
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Will reporters turn on Sean Penn because he didn't engage in anal sex while making Milk, and thus is cheapening the life of Harvey Milk?
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Ever since Last of the Mohicans.
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Poor guy. He probably just woke up with a nasty hangover.
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...why would they show a negative aspect of Che during the Motorcycle Diaries period? There weren't any really.
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If they show him as a monster, criticised. If they show him as a saint, criticised. Show him as flawed, criticised.
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http://tinyurl.com/b9zp4y
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I'm saying that it seems slap-dash to give that film a free pass as a classic, and then attack Che for not showing him as a monster. If the former reveals humanity, then why is painting him as an ambiguous figure on the latter a crime? Heck, didn't most critics love Downfall despite it showing a pseudo-Hitler perspective?
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Did ya catch my Rambo II text as I watch commentary? Fucking great film.
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Feb 02, 2009 10:13:54 AM CST
It is sorta weird to gloss over the executions though.....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
.....the only person they show him executing is a rapist? That is pretty ridiculous. Thats like a Hitler film that only shows Jewish murderers and rapists being gased.
Someone would see that and think, well whats so bad about that?
Downfall showed a human side of Hitler. Most picture him as this soul-less creature incapable of human response. I haven't seen it, but I thought it focuses on his paranoia and fear as he is hiding in a bunker during his last hours. It doesn't gloss over the acts, it just shows a different side than is normally depicted.
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Until I see it, I'll go with Del Toro's perspective. Doesn't seem fair to attack it pre-viewing. Nope - search for Vietnam Ben Linus and it should be posted above.
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Hehehe. I like "THE JUNGLE IS BURNING."
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Feb 02, 2009 10:21:46 AM CST
Downfall can't be too favorable to Hitler....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
...it was nominated for an Oscar!
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Shame the ending conked out -- apparantly he delivers a 'fuck you' monologue to the US Government.
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It takes guts to show the human side of people who have a publc perception only associated with evil. Hitler was and will always remain the lowest scum, but that does not mean that an honest portrayal of him can not escape the caricature of a raving loon. The fear - and it is an honest one, is that any softening of the portrayal will allow revisionists to say 'see he was just a normal guy'. Apologists will seize any opportunity to alter the perception of monsters such as Hitler or Stalin. To those who want us to never forget that horror, the fear is that any sympathetic portrayal will lead to a reeavaluation. This will never happen with Hitler, but other monsters can and have been 'rehabbed'. Humans have short memories.
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They have a hard-on for anything dealing with Nazi Germany. Besides, it's okay to show the human side of a monster as long as that monster gets his just rewards. They can all sleep easy knowing Hitler isn't going to be ressurected by Rasputin. On that note, has anyone read Inglorious Basterds? Tarantino writes dialogue for Hitler. I gave up at that point
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Feb 02, 2009 10:27:39 AM CST
James Cameron is a fucking prick.....fo' real.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
McG quote:"I didn't want to feel like the guy who gave birth to the Terminator is against what we're doing, so I go to see James Cameron to kiss the ring and tell him what I was trying to do," McG said. "He's cordial but says, 'I'm not going to endorse your movie. I reserve the right to hate it. But I wish you well, and if you're going to make a Terminator I'd prefer you make a good one to a bad one.'"
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See, I'm fascinated by the rise of Hitler. The Allies effectively let Hitler come into creation by crippling Germany... allowing the right man at the right time to tell the poor Germans that they could restore their glory. When people hit rock-bottom, they'll latch onto the first person who tries to save them.
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Very true. People get soft on people pretty quick.
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Heroes and Lost in the same week again. Fucking A.
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There is no doubt that his story is as endlessley fascinating as it is horrific. Monsters do not come out of vacuums. And yes, the Allies attempt to punish Germany after WWI created the perfect breeding ground. But, and i have argued this before, Germany after WWI was not really in worse shape that the rest of the world at that time. A worldwide depression was occurring. The Germans had legit beefs with the Treaty, but by the late twenties, some of the most onerous of the treaties terms had either expired or were never enforced. It became as much a perception of being treated poorly rather than a reality. Germany re-armed with the world watching, but not giving much of a damn. How could that happen if the Germans were really being oppressed? No, Hitler was able to tap into the national outrage at losing the first war and the perception that the world was against them, when in reality the world did not much care - outside of some die hard French.
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on the Hitler stuff though. Just chit chat. This movie looks to be good though.
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Feb 02, 2009 10:44:51 AM CST
As a paying moviefan I reserve the right to hate Avatar
by stuntcock mike
as much as I hated fucking Titanic.
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Holy fuck. That movies is awesome. The last 20 minutes is non-stop carnage. Bronson and Ed Lauter team up to gun down 50+ gang-members, hilarity ensues. A great moment...
Bronson buys a car merely to use it as bait. He parks it outside a seedy apartment building and goes inside, waiting a few minutes as gang-members run out from the alley and start breaking into it. Bronson casually walks out toward them: BRONSON: Whats wrong with the car? GANGSTER: We're takin' it. What the fuck do you care? BRONSON: Its my car. And he whips out a revolver and smokes both of them. Fucking classic. -
Well, I guess that's a good thing. At least it made one person's day. I couldn't find a solitary moment in the entire movie to like. And I can't remember the last time I heard dialogue that bad. And what was the point of the soldier butchering everybody who took the drug? That made zero sense.But hey, to each his own.Downfall was a brilliant movie.James Cameron comes across like a douche in that meeting with McG.
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Commercials? Fuck that.I am totally spoiled by TCM
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Best death is also the most tragic. A chick is picking up on Bronson the whole time and he resists because his family was brutally killed in the earlier films and he's all cold and vigilante and shit. Anyway-- he finally goes for the gash and takes her out. They enjoy a nice dinner and he ends up at her place putting his shirt back on while she lays in bed. I assume this means they fucked-- though I have no evidence to support this. Anyway, its like a day later and the original score suddenly becomes a score that would work in any Barbara Streisand romance in the 70s. You almost forget this is a movie where a dude blasts baddies every chance he gets. So Bronson is in the car with his new woman and he stops somewhere and goes inside to drop off his mail, of course he turns and gives her a little wink as he walks off not knowing this will be the last times he lays eyes on her unscorched. So gangsters pop out of nowhere and punch his woman in the face, knocking her out. They put the car in neutral, because its parked on a dangerously steep hill (of course, right?) and push it forward. So Bronson's new dish is unconscious in the front seat and car is rolling down the hill going about 80. It slams into a passing car in an intersection and both cars just absolutely FUCKING EXPLODE! Bronson comes running out of the post office (with mail in hand!) and spots the inferno of vehicles down the street. Now he either assumes his chick took off with his car and skipped town and this is an unrelated incident, or that is indeed her screaming, burning, corpse. We push in on Bronson's eyes for dramatic realization "What Have I Done?" moment and we're back in a Death Wish movie. This is the second chick of Bronson's to get offed by bad guys! So now this means fucking war, and Bronson vows the next time he dates a female-- he's gonna make sure she's Puerto Rican, so she can take care of her own bad self.
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Feb 02, 2009 11:03:58 AM CST
I wasn't sure if the look on Bronson's face meant.....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
"WHAT HAVE I DONE?"
"HOLY SHIT....THAT FIRE LOOKS HOT."
"THAT BITCH FUCKED UP MY CAR."
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....what were the chances the car would fly into another and just ABSOLUTELY FUCKING EXPLODE?
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Very true - I always liked history, even if I got a record number of bad marks for writing about it.
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KHAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
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http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=gPSXd6nHcEc
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KHAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!KHAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNN!!! KHAAAAAAAANNNNNNNN!! I'lll bet he practiced that scream for a week - in the mirror!
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Feb 02, 2009 11:26:39 AM CST
Holy shit...Bronson has a new girlfriend in DW 4 and 5?!
by dannyglovers_dickblood
And they all fucking die? So 4 women total have died? He had a woman in Part II, but she was smart enough to leave his ass before she got killed. Here is the description of the deaths from 4 + 5. Don't they seem a bit similar?
his girlfriend's death in Death Wish 4:White escapes through the back door as Kersey follows. Karen escapes his grasp, but is shot in the back while attempting to run.
his girlfriend's death in Death Wish 5: Paul informs Olivia to use the fire escape to make her quick getaway, as Frankie and two other men break in and start shooting the place. Frankie follows Olivia up to the fire escape, and shoots her in the back. Paul escapes by jumping off the ledge, and falling into a pile of trash bags. -
That's disturbing.
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Who lasts ten seconds after she bonds with Rambo.
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....his wife was beat to death, and that other chick was blown up in the car.
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This guy should extol the virtues of abstinence, methinks.
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Feb 02, 2009 11:47:32 AM CST
I think so. But maybe.....only marriage matters to him....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
....so the other 3 dead woman didn't real hit him where it hurts. Only the wife counts.
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If there are two smokin hot chicks in a bond flick, bet the ranch one dies a particularly nasty death. Did anyone see Damons comments about Bond? He called him a mysognistic sociopath. Damon must read these boards!
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Feb 02, 2009 11:53:40 AM CST
Matt Damon? Oh God. That retard should stop talking.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
His rant about Palin made me want to punch him in the face and vomit. He's joined that George Clooney school of "I Should Have A Voice Cause I'm Famous."
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Awesome. Especially awesome given how much disgust he shoots Julia Stiles in the last flick.
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It's kinda low to knock Bond for that given how many times Bourne has a pop at Joan Allen... or how he threatens harm against Julia Stiles and leaves her a crying mess in the second one.
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Keep your trap shut Matthew. Stick to Bourne, it's the only thing your good at.
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... I think if the writer had thrown in that Bourne punched Julia Stiles character that it would've stayed in the film through edits. That was just fucked up, ya know?
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I'm surprised she wasn't shot a few times. Between her and Joan Allen, it was a contest to see how unfeminine they could be.
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That is all.
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Too bad her face is so flat you could land a B-52 on it.
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Feb 02, 2009 2:59:25 PM CST
What did James Cameron tell his ex-wife with 2 black eyes?
by dannyglovers_dickblood
Nothing. He already told that bitch twice.
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... had slapped Linda Hamilton, she'd have fucking killed him.
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Damn, that felt good! I'm auditioning new phrases for 2009. The other contender is: F Murray Abrahams Nostrils!
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Ok, which one looks better?
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Has anyone seen this? It looks really cool I hope they show it near me!
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The F stands for Fred! And, he is also from Pittsburgh! Go Steelers!
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Are you referring to the movie with the autistic girl who fights on the side of a building, or the Juliet Binoche movie?
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As part of the Donor program. It was an awesome movie - Fred is referring to the young autistic asian girl who can fight on the sides of buildings.
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That is how yinzers pronounce it.
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What's the happpy hap?
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Fred is still a bit delirious - as is most of Steelers Nation, over last nights epic game. Fred is a bit hoarse, but happy.
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Girl.
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It starts off a tad bit slow, but builds to a truly amazing finale. Fred highly recommends it. Her fighting style is more gymnastic than brutal, but she can 'bring it' when pressed.
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I've seen it.
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The superbowl winning Fred has made the call, and so it shall be.
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Zed's Changeling review and Xiphos' Fringe Review/Rant are both posted now. Damage_Inc's Metallica "Death Magnetic" Review will be up soon. We're trying to space them out a bit to give everyone's work some time on the top of the blog page.
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The last time i looked the site was looking great.
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You should be very proud
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Its how Forrest Gump and Benjimin Button are the same. http://www.todaysbigthing.com/2009/01/19
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Now I need to see the following people cut from the Cards roster and publicly castrated for losing a game you had won you useless miserable motherfuckers.Mike "false start" Gundy. Really 3 false starts? what you couldn't come up with a fourth? I hope you're working as a doorman/botom for hire in a gay strip club next week.Anquan "alligator arms, look at the guy who made the interception but DIDN'T try and tackle him" Boldin. Listen you whiny short arming cocksucker I know you'll get paid big from some other team, but I hope they don't have a lap dog sports media like in Phoenix. I hope they rip your selfish greedy ass ten new assholes, bitch.Every douchebag that couldn't push that cheap shot artist out of bounds during the interception return. I hope you all get cancer of the prick and it falls off but you live with no cock.Now Aron "I was involved in the two plays that lost the Cardinals the superbowl" Francisco. You're a pro bowler? realy you cunt rag? Why the fuck couldn't you tackle Santonio Holmes? Why the fuck did you and two other walking pieces of crotch rot just stand there and watch a bad pass from a QB having a mediocre game? WHY DIDN'T YOU DO YOUR FUCKING JOBS AND BURY HIS DICK IN THE DIRT? THE OTHER TOE JAMS COULD HAVE TRIED FOR THE BALL!
So to sum it up fuck the Cards you chocking cocksuckers I'm done with you. Yes the Steelers technically won but you fucksticks had them beat.YOU LOST THE FUCKING GAME. I'm now going to kill a chicken while praying to Chango the war god that a metorite blows up the new space aged toilet bowl looking stadium in Glendale. Motherfucking losers. -
Said in an interview that during the filming of Never Say Never Again (1983), he was taking martial arts lessons and in the process angered the instructor who in turn broke his wrist. Connery stayed with the wrist broken for a number of years thinking it was only a minor pain... the instructor was Steven Seagal.
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Turned down the role of Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings series (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002), and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)) because he didn't want to film down in New Zealand for 18 months, and could not understand the novels.
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Declared in March 2003 that he would not return home until Scotland is an independent country. He believes this can still happen during his lifetime.
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I'm looking forward to his sons movie The Devils Tomb, sounds pretty good.
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He also turned down the role of The Architect in the Matrix sequels because he couldnt understand what was going on as well.(though we cant blame him for that one I guess)
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He didn't do Indy IV. Everyone said that was a bad call. People hated Indy IV. Sean Connery is a visionary.
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I spent twenty minutes arguing with idiots saying Heroes ripped off Lost last night. Pricks.
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I read an interview with him years ago where he said "They offered me The Matrix and I didn't understand it so I said no. They offered me Lord of the Rings and I didn't understand it, so I said no. They offered me League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and I didn't understand it, but I said fine...lets do it."Good choice. Probably the only one of the bunch I'll continue watching for the next 20 years.
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It always sucks when someone in the family passes on, and the words of a stranger rarely help make things better. But yes, Lost 503 was awesome.
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Was perfect in LXG. If you hate the film for ruining the comic-book, fine. But he nailed that character and the tone.
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It gets better in retrospect, but I saw it as a really-clever connect the dots episode. This is what happens when you spend a long time on theories - nothing surprised me, but it all felt logical. In saying that, they've really stepped up on making Locke awesome again.
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And how hilarious is it that Locke walks into a camp full of men yelling 'RICHARD... RICHARD.'
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Heroes got the highest overnight rating since 305. Encouraging at least. For the record, it was a really good episode. Streamlined, focused, logical.
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I'm scared because it looks like we'll be getting a lot of Kate. And Eggtown sucked.
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I wouldn't say 314 was the best episode ever, but it ditches the time-travel crutch and the save the world stuff completely. Takes it right back to the early S1 stuff.
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I think a fair few people were terminally put off by S2/S3.
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Lost 314 was Expose, 320 was Man Behind The Curtain.
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I got teary. Re: Arthur... they shot a scene where he stole Molly's power, but found it too disturbing.
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He says in the clip 'You're a nice guy, but don't fuck up my take. I don't fuck up your lights.' It seems he lets anger take hold, but really... if someone walked into my room while I was writing and slammed my laptop down, erasing it, I'd be fucking angry. You don't screw with someones concentration on a job.
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No time-travel, no saving the world, far more about characters than plot. They basically have an antagonistic force, but the episode is focused on how people react to it. Aside from an annoying Parkman twist, it's solid stuff.
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I assume it's not canon, if it hasn't been shown. I just shrug it off as a plot contrivance. Wasn't a good one, but he's dead so fuck it.
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WHERE is that intensity as Batman?
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Day late, dollar short. Damnit. At least the remixes are entertaining.
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Interesting read: http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2009/02/03/do-you-have-to-be-a-jerk-to-be-a-director/
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Zing.
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I'd like to see him channel some of that into his Bruce Wayne character. I, too, empathise - but he went on too long.
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Mr Z & Mr V. Keeping the TB rolling.
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At my bus stop (it's not mine, I don't own it or anything) there's a poster up for 'The Secret Of Moonacre' and I find myself transfixed every morning.It's just that all the characters are stood around looking befuddled and whatnot. Then there's a unicorn - looks like it's thinking 'Am I just standing here so everyone knows it's a fantasy?' On t'other side there's the lion off Narnia! Then you've got a young lady leaning through a door like she's calling out for the next patient to come through to surgery - "Mr Frankenfurter, the doctor will see you now."I need a lie down just thinking about it...What an odd poster.
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they made Rhona Mitra look like Kate Beckinsale in the Underworld 3 poster is also correct. I thought that too.Rhona should do all right if she's the next Lara Croft. I thought she was good in 'Doomsday' - love that movie.At the start, when she's in her stealth gear, cap on and whatnot - that's got to be a homage to T2, when Linda Hamilton goes to execute Dyson. To stop him inventing an advanced vacuum cleaner.Well, I think so anyway...
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I concur. Evil fucking machines. I say we sell them to the Norwegians.
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I want one.Am I right in assuming I can shove in a CD and drag individual tracks off it and onto an ipod? They ain't just for downloading music are they?Also, will it play my old 78rpm records?
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YOU FUCKING AMATEUR. Sorry, wrong thread. :-)
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Thank you for congratulations. Cards played very well, and should not hang head at all. It was an incredible fame. As for some of your comments about the game, well Fred truly thinks that the best team won the game, and though Cards played valiantly, it would have been the Steelers who LOST the game, not AZ who gave game away. Black and Gold dominated most of the game, but Cards D hung in there and came up with big stops. Still a 13 point fourth quarter lead had never been erased in a Super Bowl. It would have been a monumental collapse had Steelers not been able to close the deal. Simply put, Steelers where better at every phase of the game than Cards, but AZ hung in there and kept it close, and then a defensive breakdown allowed them to take the lead with chance to win. Then Steelers woeful O line almost gave game away - like eveeyone predicted. But the better team, put together an awesome drive that sealed the deal when it mattered. There were three Cards around Holmes, and Ben threw it perfectly. AZ should be kicking themselves for several things. 1) They did not go no huddle sooner. 2) They put a rookie on Holmes, who was getting killed all game long. Cromartie played well - when he was not coverering Holmes. As for Harrison, you only saw the retaliation, you did not see the provocation. A Cards player on special teams punched a Steelers player on the opening kickoff, and got away with it, MMQB on sports illustrated wrote about that, and Harrison plays on special teams as well. Yes, the Defensive player of the year, the man responsible for the greatest play in Super Bowl history,also plays special teams. Which is a meat grinder. Francisco tried to cheap shot him, and Harrison does not take any stuff from anyone, and yes he bullied and pushed Francisco. It was embarrassing for Fransicso. As for the no huddle, remeber that Buffalo used no huddle all year long during there four super bowl trips, but they never won the game, so no huddle can be stopped. And the best D in the game would have stopped them.
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I haven't seen any super bowls. The ones I've got are all regular sized. Just right for cornflakes.
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That wasn't an attack on you - I was making a bad reference to the Terminator thread/Bale rant.
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An ipod will become sentient if one plays ones 78rpm records on it?I'm definitely buying one.
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Hee hee! Fred really missed you!
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Freds fingers hurt!
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That's quite all right.My favourite part is the 'walking through the background going dah, dah, dah, dah, dah...' bit.
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I missed you too!
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We're all in the Terminator Salvation TB.
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Thank you for telling Fred where everyone is.
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Did you get your PC fixed? Did it complain now that it can no longer cozy up to the cute little laptop? Hee hee
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Laters, everyone.Feel free to answer my very pertinent ipod question...
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Feb 03, 2009 6:10:33 PM CST
Good night ThereWolf, dream of fat rabbitses!
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
Keep howlin!
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Hard drive still dead. Needs to be revived long enough to get all my precious data off it. I'm hopeful.
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and crunchible birdsies!
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Feb 03, 2009 6:24:48 PM CST
But not fat Amoebas! Who are really skinny, but look fat to Ther
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
Dirk begged me to add that.
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I see it different. I was not too impressed by the Steelers sorry to say. For all the vaunted defensive presence they couldn't stop a mediocre bunch of fuckstained chocking losers.Offensively they didn't get all that much done. If one of the Card losers pushed cheap shot out of bounds, game over it erases the seven points, but they couldn't so The Steelers won like they should have. this was not, in my opinion, a spectacular victory like it's being made out to be considering how fucking bad the Cards are. I am going to take joy in how bad they're going to be next year. I can't wait to dance on the Cards grave next season. Again congradulations and the fucking Cards are like the French in my opinion. A bunch of roll over pansys. They should hang thier heads, they would have won if they had any balls and that torques me off to no end. Enjoy the victory Fred.
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I totally agree.
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Well, my brother, to the victor goes the spoils. The way I saw it was that a fantastic offense was held in check for 3/4 of the game, by a superior defense. No, the Steelers did not dismantle Cards, but neither did the Cards do what they had done to three previous playoff opponents. Throw out Atlanta. Throw out Carolina (although no one did at the time).Philly, on the other hand, had a great D. Not in Pittsburgh's class, but none too shabby. They entered the playoffs on a massive roll, and had just dethroned the Giants ...I need a moment... ok, i'm fine. Anyway, Philly damn near won the game on a great comeback, but Cards showed true manhood in mounting last drive. No, the Cards belonged in that game based on what they did in post season. That they could not play their game for most off the game is a testament to Steelers D. That they did almost win in the fourth quarter is a testament to their fanttastic offense which finally found a rhythm. That the Steelers beat them on that incredible drive, is a testament to the fact that the best team won, and found a way to win, when it mattered most.
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Your Fringe article was one of the funniest 'fuck yousee' to a TV show I have ever read.
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With Fringe. Seriously the last two episodes have suck diddle ucked. Also Lost??? I just don't really care any more. I just feel like waiting for a synopsis at the end of it all. Just too much of nothing happening and just more and more twists added. Also I gave up on trying to watch all of Smallville. Maybe I'll just catch the new ones. Man what happened to the good old days of Television when we had such wonders like Prison Break and Boston Legal, man those were the days.
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Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired. Is a non starter. Unless you want to see two hours of people talking about how much love for life Sir Roman has, its just boring and goes no where. I don't get all the love and adulation people have been giving this doc....then again I don't get why these close friends love Roman so much...then again I don't know him, nor do I enjoy balls in my mouth. This movie doesn't really do anything besides give peoples accounts about what happened and show that the judge was a media whore. Also it just seems at this point, its stupid for Roman to come back to the states (most movies are filmed overseas anyway). Also the fact that no one seems to give a shit anymore and the girl in question just seems like SOOOO over it you know, which leads one to believe she liked it to some extent. Also being a professional Forensic Files watcher my lady friend said that this whole thing could have been summed up and about a 20 minute show. I give it two droopy balls down.
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I'm curious, if a bad show gets two droopy balls, what does a good show get: five gigantic balls? And where did the extra balls come from? Is it a mutation? Space alien? Spawn of Dickblood? What? How can one man walk around with five balls, let alone five gigantic balls? What happens if he can't shoot his wad? Does he then have the greatest case of blue balls in history? Will he die of blue balls? Has any man ever died of blue balls? If none, this guy most certainly should!
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I tried but no many were around to respond, so I checked over to the T4 thread. Glad to see this one is still moving forward!
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misspelling groaner in a post
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I really don't know about all that. But my did you know how full of life Roman Polanski is, its just ....just amazing.
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Fuck you there is not spell check in the subject line.
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I really don't give a shit. I was just bored.Anyway ever seen either of the Afro Samurai movie-show thingies? It's so damn stupid, but I love that shit. Some of the craziest, coolest looking action I have seen in awhile.
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because I spent all day looking for it and didn't see it anywhere. The closest I got was at the Target, but it was just the edited TV version and I'm looking for the Uncut release that comes with a pretty art book. Could anybody let me know if they see it anywhere?
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Scanners, Cliffhanger (VERY happy to have actually found both of these since they have been pretty much impossible to locate), The Warriors Director's Cut (which is sufficiently lamer than the original thanks to the stupid comic book cut-to additions), Futurama volume 2 (it was 15 bucks, and I needed to laugh), Donnie Darko (I still didn't own this, but having the chance now to be able to revisit this interesting film will be nice), and finally Godzilla: Final Wars, which is probably my favorite one I bought this week. I respect its sheer stupidity. Directed by Ryuhei Kitamura, the same guy who made Versus, Azumi, and his latest, Midnight Meat Train, this is a film I love despite itself. Some of the acting is downright atrocious, the editing can be super lame at times, the pacing, like with most of Kitamura's stuff, is awful, and some of the effects are distractingly bad, but I loved this movie. In my mind, it's just fantastic. It's the ultimate celebration of Godzilla. To help anyone who hasn't seen it get the sense of what kind of movie this is, one of the main characters is played by Don Frye; a veteran UFC fighter, and probably the worst actor in a commercial movie I have ever seen. It's just incredible. His big bushy moustache, slightly frumpy form, and the fact that he is the only true English speaking character in a society obviously dominated by frail Japanese people, just makes the role even better.At one point in the movie, a little white boy with chocolate all over his face is shown playing with a plethora of Godzilla toys, roaring his head off. I feel like that is exactly what this movie is. A crazy child on a sugar high stomping around and breaking things. It's clumsy, it can be quite visceral, and at times, even charming. This movie is definitely an acquired taste, but for me is now an favorite of all genre film. I seriously loved this movie.Has anybody else seen it? I'm expecting a wave of disagreements. Don't worry, I know I'm already crazy, but this movie is the bees knees. The last time I had this much fun watching a movie was Speed Racer last summer.
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Haven't seen that film, dude. Last film I watched on DVD was Rambo II.
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There is way too much shit with people and not enough Kaiju action! At least the human plot is good in a ridiculously dumb kinda way.
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respond in the new Internationl Eye Candy!
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Spice Girls?
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