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AICN & Twitch Present International Eye Candy! Lesbian Vampire Killers trailer! METROPIA! REC2! POWER KIDS! & More!!
Ah, yes, it is a mere four days after Valentine's Day as I type this and, good god, have we got things for you to love in this new edition of International Eye Candy. Sure, Harry jumped all over the BLOOD, THE LAST VAMPIRE teaser a couple days back, which quickly struck one title for the list but there's plenty more where that came from! What is there to love? Thai kids kneeing baddies in the face! Full contact basketball to the death! Roasted crocodile! Lesbian vampires! Plus the proverbial more, more, more! Here we go kids, get ready for the good stuff!
We're going to play a trump card right off the top, here, with the trailer for Ole Bornedal's DELIVER US FROM EVIL. Fantastic Festers should be well familiar with the Danish director by this point since we screened a pair of his films there last year - JUST ANOTHER LOVE STORY and THE SUBSTITUTE - and his latest looks as though it could be his best yet. DELIVER US FROM EVIL is the story of suburban life gone horribly wrong, a story of tragedy, cover up and bloody violent retribution, all of it just flawlessly executed. If you're a fan of intelligent thrillers it really doesn't get any better than Bornedal, so get hopping.
Find plot details and the trailer here
From Denmark we head to Russia for the third installment of the hugely popular ANTIKILLER series, the films that topped the Russian box office before NIGHT WATCH came along. And yes, gamers, these are the films that the shooter of the same title is based on. The ubiquitous Gosha Kutsenko - you seriously can't miss this guy if you track current Russian film, he's everywhere - stars as a former cop turned violent vigilante slowly losing his grip on reality. There was talk that Christopher Lee was to have a part in this at one point and while he doesn't show up in this - and I have no idea if they actually used him - what DOES show up is a whole lot of classic 80's style action. Cars, guns, 'splosions, all the good stuff ...
Find the ANTIKILLER 3 trailer here
Any fans of French action flick DISTRICT B:13 out there? Because here comes the sequel, BANLIEUE 13: ULTIMATUM. I had the chance to catch this one while in Berlin for the European Film Market and while I'm a little bit mixed on it - the villain is weak and parkour co-founder David Belle generally underused - good god is this thing ever one hell of a showcase for martial artist Cyril Raffaelli. Cyril owns this film, positively owns it, just like he owns the asses of everyone he fights within it. We've run the trailers for the film in this column before but we've got five fresh clips now that are also worth a gander.
Find the B13U clips here
Need something a little different to spice up your martial arts menu? How about POWER KIDS, a muay thai kiddie flick from the same creative team that gave us ONG BAK and CHOCOLATE? You know what that means - a bunch of ten year olds driving their knees into the faces of assorted bad guys and villains. The two way flying knee is a personal favorite, as is the little kid going face first through a pane of glass while taking down his target.
Feel the wrath of the POWER KIDS here
THE HORSEMAN? Isn't that the thing with Dennis Quaid and Zhang Ziyi? Well, yeah, but that's not the HORSEMAN we're talking about here. This HORSEMAN is the pounding as all hell - hurray for crowbars! - Aussie revenge picture about to premiere at SXSW. Not for the faint of heart, this one, but it looks exceptionally well done.
Find THE HORSEMAN here
For those familiar with the original this needs no introduction: it's the first official trailer for [REC]2. For the uninitiated the original [REC] was a hugely successful Spanish zombie film a couple years back, one that provided the basis for American effort QUARANTINE and a film that QUARANTINE producers Sony are making sure nobody in the US can see so that their own film won't suffer by comparison. The sequel picks up exactly where the first left off and carries on in the original style. First person zombies, people, and creepy as hell.
Find the [REC]2 teaser here
Yu Likwai's PLASTIC CITY was one of the highest profile cockups on the international festival circuit last year, a big international coproduction with two of Asia's biggest stars - Anthony Wong and Jo Odagiri - that was accepted early to both the Venice and Toronto film festivals only to realize at the last minute - whoopsie! - that they weren't going to have it ready on time. The end result was an unfinished version of the film screening in both festivals, one all involved were unhappy enough with that they actually sent out a notice telling prospective buyers to stay away and not watch this version. Well, it's done now and whatever the flaws may be there's no doubt that Yu can shoot some amazing film. This thing is candy, indeed. Be aware of who may be standing behind you when you start this one up, it borders on naughtiness.
Check the PLASTIC CITY trailer here
Another SXSW film here, this one Pierre Laffargue's modern blaxploitation film BLACK. French rapper MC Jean Gab1 - who also has a key role in BANLIEUE 13 ULTIMATUM - takes the lead role in this one as a French-Sengalese thief who heads to Africa to pull off a big job only to get caught up in a running battle with local arms dealers and thugs. This one is FAR less tongue-in-cheek than American effort BLACK DYNAMITE but ti's already winning its share of fans.
Find the BLACK trailer here
For something as different as humanly possible we head now to Sweden and METROPIA, an English language animated feature with the voices of Juliette Lewis and Vincent Gallo that plays out like equal parts Philip K Dick and Franz Kafka. Mind control, massive underground tunnel networks, media manipulation ... it's a great big stew of urban neurosis, all of it rendered with an animation technique developed specifically for this film that gives teh characters a creepily realistic effect. This is one of the big ones to watch for in 2009.
Find the first METROPIA teaser here
Okay, I promised you combat basketball and I hereby deliver combat basketball. The film is FIREBALL and, yes, with a concept like to-the-death 'ball it really should be ludicrous in the extreme. But here's the thing. I've seen it and it's not. This thing is actually shockingly well put together by an obviously talented director who draws solid performances out of a cast of largely unknown stuntmen, at least one of whom has the potential to become a MAJOR international action star. I really, really like this movie. And I've got a high quality trailer for it with English subtitles included.
Find the FIREBALL trailer here
As we near the end now we head to France for a new clip from the upcoming OSS 117 flick, RIO NE REPOND PLUS, the second entry in the note-perfect comic recreation of the 1960s era French spy series. French comedian Jean Dujardin is absolutely flawless as the leading man in these and the first revival picture is such a huge favorite of mine - I know Moriarty shares the sentiment - that expectations are simply huge for this. And it certainly looks like they're going to be met. A knowledge of French will certainly help here somewhat but whether you catch all the dialogue or not the site of the dapper French spy shooting, gutting and trying to roast a giant river crocodile while lecturing his female companion on her proper place is pure genius.
Check out a pair of OSS 117 clips here
And, finally, we wrap things up with the full trailer for LESBIAN VAMPIRE KILLERS because, let's be honest, once you've played the lesbian vampire card there's really no point in continuing, now is there? The teaser was truly just a tease but the trailer delivers everything you could ask for: characters, comedy, a healthy dose of bad language, scnatily clad women and a whole bunch of vampire violence. This very much looks as though it's aiming for a SHAUN OF THE DEAD vibe and everybody I know who has seen it says it delivers. And, yep, it's another SXSW flick.
Find the trailer and earlier teaser here
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Now I'll go back and read the actual article.
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pizza! give me pizza!
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I'm not quite sure how a sequal will play out, but I'll be there!
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That's all I got...
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Nigga, please!! Sad to see our beloved genre taken over by cynical, talentless douchbags who think that bilge like this will make money.
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There is a God. Thy name be Twitch.
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It looks like Shaun of the Dead, except with Lesbian Vampires! Which would you rather spend 90 minutes watching: rotting corpses or hot, lesbian vampires? :)
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Cool.Now, this Fireball, is it using the rules as established by Joey and Chandler? Because I need to know this before committing to watching the film.
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I never got around to seeing that one, but I enjoyed the leaping and running and whatnot of that guy in Die Hard 4 the other week. That's the same guy, right?
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New Twitch! Ask and you shall receive. The Horseman will be awesome. The SXSW post described it thusly... When, Christian Forteski's (Peter Marshall) drug addicted daughter dies after appearing in an amateur Porn Video, he deals with his grief by burning, kicking, smashing and stabbing his way through those responsible. This will be brutal. I need to see it.
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I think the District B-13 guy is the one in Casino Royale. I might be wrong though. I haven't seen it either. It's been on my 'to watch' list for years.
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kicking the shit out of a bunch of army men with split-kicks and a razor-ponytail?I think that is reason enough to see this new B-13 flick.
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is definitely the most interesting looking thing of everything.OSS 117 just needs some subtitles. Damn if that redhead ain't pretty foxy though. God I love French chicks.
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Some of the action in this movie is better than most Holywood stuff. The plot's kind of convoluted/retarded but the action holds up well to several viewings. I would recommend just keeping your finger on the skip-scene button, and you'll probably have a pretty good time.
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just the droid i've been looking for.
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but they gave me too go-go juice and i passed out. when i woke up some cunt had stolen my fucking teeth. *gosh*
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Feb 19, 2009 4:40:26 AM CST
You can go about your business, Chipps
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Move along. Move along.
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hey! jedi mind tricks don't work on me. now, off to pay $10,000 dollars on a children's toy i will never open. What a bargin!
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The only reason a Queenslander would go to the dentist is for the happy gas.
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they're making a flick about Pauline Hanson. Just what we need.
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Cause you could store it in a box in the garage until it becomes "really valuable".
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i don't think you could make a good film about it. a lot of normal people supported her (i knew an aboriginal who liked her) - i never did, i just thought she was stupid. in a 90 minute film you would either have to make every one who said 'she may be an idiot, but this one thing she said makes a bit of sense' a bigot - which would be unfair, or you would have to make her a crusader for justice, which she was not. at the end of the day she was a bogan fish and chip shop owner with a few homespun truths and a few idiot wacko ideas who was manipulated by howard to introduce racist policies while claiming to be against racism. should have stayed at the fish shop.
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"Cynical, talentless douchbags" - couldn't have put it better myself. Have we gone back to the 1970s? Since when did the word 'lesbian' make young idiot men go 'fnar-fnar' again? Just to be clear fellas - lesbians are women who DON'T want to have sex with you. Everyone involved in this should be ashamed of themselves.
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keep fighting the good fight. i fought the good fight once, but i lost it.
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See you next month.
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ok...next!
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Has anyone seen the first two? Any good? Si o no?
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I love that shit.
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Seriously.
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Feb 19, 2009 6:26:33 AM CST
You're not supposed to put the DVDs in your mouth, jpt
by franklin t marmoset
Try putting them in your DVD player or computer or fancy games console - you should find that produces much less jaw pain.That is today's helpful hint.
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cunt.
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Good for you, Mr Gorilla.Me, I'm childish as fuck. I love to look at lesbians.
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I'm supposed to put them in my mouth though...
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On the B13 questions:
Yes, you should absolutely see the first one.
The guy in Casino Royale is the other founder of parkour and does not appear in the B13 flicks.
The guy in Die Hard 4 is Cyril Raffaelli, who is the martial arts guy - ie the non parkour guy - in the B13 flicks. Cyril's awesome. You may also know him as the smaller of the two white guys who fights Jet Li at the end of Kiss of the Dragon. And he's got a big featured fight in Transporter 2. Cyril's the reason the martial arts and stunt stuff in Besson produced films is so good. -
Don't put them in your anus, either.Seriously, that is not the way to enjoy good films.
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Yes, they don't want to have sex with us. What's your point? It's hotter than fucking hell watching two hot chicks together.
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I know DocP is a big proponent of B13. And yeah, I recognized that small dude from Kiss of the Dragon and DH4. I don't remember him in Transporter 2 though.
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The casino ass-kicking is epic pwnage.
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New Twitch. Fucking Ace.I've got some gardening to do and then may go on another drunkening, seeing as the last one worked out so well for me. B13 is great, so I really want to see the sequel. And you two pricks whinging about LVK can kiss my ass, it's in the tradition of British Seaside humour- blatantly. Even if that prick Matthew Horne is in it.
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Feb 19, 2009 6:37:13 AM CST
"lesbians are women who DON'T want to have sex with you"
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Exactly! Nothin' like a bit of chick on chick action to make your jiblits tingle.
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I feel much happier.
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they only work in pairs, hehehehehe
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I liked that guy in Die Hard 4, so I reckon I'll give District B13 a go.I had no idea he was in Transporter 2, so I'll have to watch that one again. Looks like I might be having a Cyril Raffaelli double feature this weekend.
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in the next few months: Let the right one in, LVK, and OUTLANDER!!!
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Anybody see him address Harry in the new Outlander review?
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shredding Harry for outlander. He's fucking right.
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Feb 19, 2009 6:43:22 AM CST
I've seen two of those, Jarv. Eat it!
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Haven't seen LVK. LTROI is amazing. The second best flick of 2008 in my estimation. Outlander is so-so. Enjoyable, but not the flat out dumbhouse classic I was hoping for.
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Off again.I'm hoping that the UK can do with Outlander what it did with other overlooked by America films- give it enough of a shot in the arm that the lazy cunts in the colonies take a notice and give it a proper release.
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Jammy bastard. Well, I'll tell you what, then, cuntybaws, I shall open a beer and go outside into the sunshine now It's 20 fucking degrees today here. Hope London is nice and cold and rainy for you
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I expect Hurricane Jarv to bluster through these parts in the next few hours. Batten down the hatches!
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You know, as a matter of fact, I think straight up lesbian porn (forgive the contradiction in terms) is far more acceptable than Lesbian Vampire Killers. (As long as the relevant porn stars aren't underage/on crack etc etc. Which let's face it, they often are.) Even better, have the balls (and the energy!) to find two women who are up for having a threesome with you. Lesbian porn = 'I like watching two women having sex'. Which is fine and honest. On the other hand, LVK = 'lesbians are funny/deserve to have an axe put through their heads; oh, and gays are funny/horrible too'. Which is warped and pathetic. See my thinking?
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Great stuff and dead on. Fucking Harry wrote a review of some bullshit cheerleading flick, but didn't write one for "the best indie film of the year". What a joke.
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You're overthinking the beauty that is lesbians and humor. How do you feel about Astro-lesbians vs. werewolves on the moon? There is a bunch of us that think that film would be fucktastically great.
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Feb 19, 2009 7:03:58 AM CST
Astro-Lesbians vs. Werewolves on the Moon
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Directed by Renny Harlin Best. Movie. Ever. Someone needs to get this shit made ASAP!
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In your first post, you implied that the film was juvenile; whereas now your problem seems to be that the film is somehow homophobic.Do you have a legitimate point, or are you just an angry asshole? Because if you're an angry asshole, you could at least be funny about it.
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Everyone this is the best that was never made.Come on, Renny Harlin. Get your ass in gear and bring the world to its knees with what will surely be your masterpiece.
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I swear I get worse at typing, not better.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PVnIELHdZQ
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Feb 19, 2009 7:16:38 AM CST
Astro-Lesbians vs. Werewolves on the Moon
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Starring Rhona Mitra and Kate Beckinsale Directed by Renny Harlin Make it so!
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Not sure why. Possibly some problem we have with the letter B over here, I don't know.Anyway, I have ordered it, and hopefully this weekend I will be enjoying some top quality French running about and punching and jumping and whatnot.
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Great clip! On the strength of that, I've also ordered it. Ye'd better be right about this, DocP...
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Nice clip Doc. I think I'm gonna have to correct his little oversight on my part.
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the Twitch clips at work. Fook knows why. Ball. Sacks. Ballsacks.Shall have to peruse those later.
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The legitimate points really are there in the previous posts. Not particularly funny, I agree, but funnier than just calling someone an angry arsehole, perhaps. You just won the prize for Least Imaginative Insult Ever Posted On An AICN Talkback. Enjoy the movie.
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People call me a cunt in the talkbacks all the time. That's way less imaginative than what I said.I must therefore decline your prize, sir.
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Fair point!
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Feb 19, 2009 8:08:48 AM CST
Frankie, people call you a cunt...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
because you're a cunting cuntish cunt who can go get cunted.
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Saw the LVK trailer two days ago at moviechopshop.com and on darkhorizons.com
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It's true, I am a cunt sometimes.I'm not even sure why I'm arguing, anyway. I am interested in lesbians, but I'm not at all interested in a film starring the skinny one out of Gavin & Stacey and the fat one out of Gavin & Stacey.All in all, I prefer my lesbians to be fighting werewolves on the moon.
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That was imaginative use of the word 'cunt'!
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If you were a werewolf on the moon you'd be in wolf mode all the time right? As for LVK it's not doing it for me, the film that is, looks like it's trying a bit too hard. Lesbians, on the other hand, do it for me, but porn has lied to us my wanking comrades and our lezzy sisters look more like Odd Bod from Carry On Screaming than hot bods from Larry Flynt.
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Are you really that whiney and pathetic that it makes you feel better to point out that another website had a trailer two days ago?
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Want to say: DROID - lay off Franklin! BOBA - Oddbod from Carry on Screaming is the best reference I've read here for ages. FRANKLIN - You're not alone, I'm a cunt too. As I suspect you surmised.
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Watch Distrci 13 with the subs because the english dubbing is hilarious but totally distracting. It's mockney accents at 100mph as they try to fit all the dialogue in with the french lip movements. Worth watching like that a 2nd time because it's such a bad dubbing job.
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Yes if you haven't seen it yet then see it right now...I mean literally right now. When is this sequel coming state-side?? Cyril Raffaelli is great, but if David Belle is underused in the sequel then that's a bit of a crime. I don't think Belle was used for the Casino Royale stunts (I def could be wrong). But I think both him and Cyril worked on Transporter 2.
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Feb 19, 2009 8:31:49 AM CST
"If you were a werewolf on the moon... "
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
" you'd be in wolf mode all the time right?" Aah... yes, but the insane genius of Lord Harlin will find a loophole to that rule! The dark side of the moon possibly? Who knows? It's a brainteaser that only the unfathomable depths of Renny's imagination can solve. We simpler folk will just strap ourselves in and enjoy the ride. Renny Harlins' Astro-Lesbos vs Werewolves on the Moon!
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As much as I love Odd Bod, I don't want to watch two Odd Bod's getting it on.
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Maybe I do.
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It's nice to see that we have all learned how to be a bunch of cunts together.If only the rest of the world could come to the same conclusion, I am almost certain there would be no more war.We could be a planet of cunts, united by our common cuntishness!
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I'm getting pretty excited about seeing District 13 this weekend.If it does not arrive on Saturday morning, I am going to be one disappointed cunt.
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than a disappointed cunt with nothing to do.
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A combination martial arts/john Carpenter movie. One of my favorite blu-rays.
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Because of this article last time..i got Miike's Crows Zero....which is pretty bad ass i gotta say. The way some of the fighting is filmed is very dynamic and powerful. Very pleased with this film.
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The only way I'd watch that turkey is if it starred Chris Klein and LL Cool J.
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The unbelievably hot, waifish girl who plays the parkour dude's kidnapped sister in B13 is actually a French porn star. She's done both straight and lesbo hardcore. Not that I would know of such things.
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Feb 19, 2009 10:01:59 AM CST
French porn star....mmmmmm Rebecca Lord I miss you.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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Feb 19, 2009 10:10:51 AM CST
DocP, I dub thee "King of random but essential trivia"
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Good work, mon frère.
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That's funny. I needed a laugh this afternoon, and that fit the bill nicely.
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...for Dany Verissimo and you'll see what I mean.
Iss niiiiiiice...!
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There's a place called chickpedia. Fucking genious.
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Come on, you bloody wankers! Do it!
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those pussy Jedi from the prequels. More of the King of random but essential trivia type Jedi that droid referred to.
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Fucking pussy sequal Jedis suck. They went down faster then a politician for a donation.DocP is like a magnificent old lion type Jedi, like Yoda or obi wan.
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That's me, derailing the conversation.
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Feb 19, 2009 12:32:48 PM CST
Actually..TWITCH has the teaser..you clowns..you have shit
by somashine
AICN presents?? Um no..AICN LINKS..lol..Presents means the info is on your website..not you hotlinking to other peoples work.
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You do realize that Todd from Twitchfilm is the one who writes this column, right? It's a co-presentation because he gathers his week's worth of interesting foreign titles into one report for AICN.
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Feb 19, 2009 1:28:06 PM CST
Quint-- please stop fucking around and join us in T4 TB.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
We are making motherfucking history and I know you're the only higher up cool enough to be down with that sorta shit. Come on....just one fucking post so we know you're rooting for us.
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is in B13
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That was a dope response yo!
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are just women who haven't met me yet
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are women you haven't plied with Bundy and Coke and coerced into having sex with you and you're six mates. PS. Sorry to drive-by insult the Queenslander but I'm off to the pub. I'm looking forward to your drunken friday musings, mate. Have a good one.
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just the droid i'm looking for. have a good one man
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Heh.
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Am not smashed. That's slanderous.P>Although I have had some beer, just not as badly as the other day. I will not stand such aspersions on my good name, sirrah.
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perhaps too much beer. See you tomorrow.
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... how dreary. Jarv's pissed again!"
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Can't RECommend it enough to horror fans. Fuck Quarantine!
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I'm pretty much desensitised when it comes to horror movies - but [REC] made me jump... Twice!Wary of sequels to very good films. I'm presuming [REC]2 will have an investigative team sent in to... errr... investigate.They've got to resist going overboard, keep the atmosphere and pacing of the first. And keep the running time to around 80 minutes. The original was something like 75 mins - it's a good length for this type of film.Wonder if the cute TV anchor-lady will return...?
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looks very interesting. Don't think there's enough in the trailer, we should be seeing a bit more. Mind you, that's one of the first rules of entertainment - 'always leave 'em wanting more...'
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in Metropia reminds me of that old PS1 game, Sentient, for some reason. That was one weird game - but the characters all had these strange faces.
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Yes! I have refernced that classic many times, only to hear crickets. Guess you have to be a certain age or a Brit who loves Carry On. Oddbod!
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No I still watch Lost. I am just getting sick of it. First off I don't keep a journal with me when I watch it, so I probably miss a lot of small shit. Secondly I'm tired of the whole something happens then they spend the rest of the show trying to figure out who's bad the either there is a slow sad ending of a cliff hanger. Its just getting boring, maybe if I just did DVDS like I did for season one I would like it a lot better. Plus some of the characters are starting to annoy me, Hurley who used to be cool is just lame. And Ben is just annoying, he's good he's bad he's always got a way to get you to do what he wants. He essentially is the T-Bags of the series, just doesn't get the beatings he deserved like T-Bags got. At least towards the end of Prison Break everyone was just like, fine T-bags SMACK SMACK SMACK. Are you trying to tell me Jack couldn't beat up Ben????
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Even if they don't believe in him, it's an interesting thing (if you can load it). It's almost reached the goal. The sooner it hits 10,000, the sooner we can resume our rightful place at the top of the board.
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Last night on Casa he had this reference using Duran Duran and how they don't have fans anymore and aren't still making music? Really? Because Duran Duran had like the best album in the past year or two with Red Carpet Massacre. FUCKING FINALLY!!!! I'm smarter then House!
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Or did you forget that Jack practically beat the shit out of Ben in a very cathartic beatdown in the Season 3 finale?
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I just don't get it. In the end, a bunch of people with far too much leisure time just posted random shit nobody's gonna want to read, and they did it over and over again. It's more pathetic than interesting.
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I'm not completely altruistic, Kungfu. :)
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Good luck with the project's completion!
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We've created Bale to be the new Chuck Norris but better than Chuck Norris.
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I read Dirks post. You two getting back together?
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Even if only for less than a minute at a time. It's a special bond, and Dirk does enjoy his bonds.
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We're cool.
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You ever watched Prison Break?
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please see it, it's some of Donnie Yen's best work.
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Title escapes me, but it concerned a planet of two-dimensional beings who were going about their lives until sometime in the distant past a spaceship appeared above their planet. Generations of these beings lived and died studying the spaceship that never moved in orbit. Only it turned out that the spaceship had only appeared above the planet an hour ago (local time on the ship) and that the two dimensional beings lived at an accelerated pace. Literally generations passed in that one hour. So your one minute with Dirk is probably a lifetime in Amoeba terms. Or, Dirk is just a ho!
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I watched the first Season finale figuring I was in for some good stuff (I liked it) and watched the first few episodes of Season 2. But then I felt it was getting a bit ridiculous when I realized it was becoming more than just breaking out of prison. I will say Ben is more interesting than what I saw of T-Bag.
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I'd be interested in that. Dirk's no ho...he's just very, very sociable.
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Don't know if you saw my message in the last Twitch, but if you are still offering a review of "Let the Right One In", I'd absotively posolutely love to have it.
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Feb 19, 2009 9:34:33 PM CST
Mav, it is called The Dragons Egg. By Robert l. Forward
by toadkillerdog
I just checked my vast personal library. I will have to re-read that book again soon.
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That's a scifi author's name if I ever heard one.
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I'll check it out. Sounds very cool.
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I did. I have just been really busy with school lately. I still have plenty of essays to write and books to read still, but I think tonight we will be a considerably more chill evening. So I will try to have a review to you by Friday as a nice little weekend gift for the site. This will be my first article for you huh? Are there any reviews of Let the Right One In on the site yet?
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To explain the horrible typos just now, let me just say this: my mind is far from sober at this point and time.
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But a few beers, a few rums, and some Guitar Heroing later, and its safe to say I'm not drunk yet.
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I didn't put it on. The people behind the contest did. Anyone want to see it. Maybe I shouldn't tell you which one is mine and let you guess...
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1. Drink WAY moreand...2. Show us your friggin zombie short!
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But now Im not sure if I should show the short since I'm planning on actually doing something with it. Maybe I should wait until after I register the script with the WGA.
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Just lemme see a show of hands!
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Aint that the way of things? Hey you Brits across the pond- does anyone use the word "aint"?
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and I don't think watching anything David Lynch under any kind of influence could be very fun.
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I've been putting that one off for a while now, but I like Lynch a lot so I ought to get to it at some point.I don't know, though. Three solid hours of David Lynch craziness might be more than I can handle.
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If I can figure out a way to get blind drunk, post on the Ain't It Cool, and still get a solid day's work done, I will definitely give it a go.
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you need to holiday in Spain and garden in order to get blind stinking drunk and post. Or be Chipps and need no reason what so ever beyond being Austrailian. it's one or the other.Did you pick up any episodes of Supernatural yet?
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Good job boys. Taking a TB to 10 large in little over two weeks is impressive.
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Feb 20, 2009 3:39:29 AM CST
I drunken posted in The Road TB at 3am this morning
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
And reading what I wrote now, I am surprised that it isn't all ramblings. I did say I agree with that cock Laserpants though. That's how you know I was under the influence.
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You don't need a reason to get drunk if you're Australian. The only thing that inhibits a drunkening is a valid reason NOT to get drunk. And it better be bloody good one!
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Feb 20, 2009 3:46:47 AM CST
Not to pick holes in your reasoning, Frankie
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
But when have you ever got "a solid day's work done"? Time to fill your water bottle with gin and start slugging it down, mate.
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Then I reckon the first thing I'm going to do is get a good drunk on, stick Army Of Darkness on the DVD player, then log on to the Ain't It Cool and post a bunch of inane ramblings (more inane than usual) while Ash blasts the deadites back to hell with his boom stick.
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They're on the list, Xiphos. The big Zavvi here in Bristol is about to close down, so I'm heading in there this weekend to see if I can pick them up cheap.Also, I need more Seinfelds, and those are cheap as hell at the moment.
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Just remember this, shop smart shop S Mart.Droid judging by the Ozlanders I've met over the years there really doesn't seem to be any reason needed for them to booze it up.
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You'd be amazed at my almost mutant-like ability to get the job done while also making many cups of tea and pissing about on the internets.It's not the flashiest superpower in the world, but it is useful.
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I hope you enjoy the Winchesters adventures. I know I did when I finally got around to watching them.
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C'mon just because your at work doen't mean you have to stop posting. Shit it's 3 am for me and I'm posting. Fucking insomnia.
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WTF is up with that Skybauxti wierdo in The road TB? I almost thought it was Media Messiah because of how goofy he was.
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Feb 20, 2009 4:13:53 AM CST
I'm trying in vain to summon mutant-like abilities
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
But I bludgeoned them to death with grog last night. One thing at a time. Slowly.
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That if you leave me alone here all I'm going to end up doing is posting randomly dumb shit right? Blighty bastards.
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To be honest, I didn't read past the headline of those posts. It's not a conversation I give two shits about. The guys a nutbar. Plus the people who are projecting themes of christianity onto The Road where there are none. Spirituality maybe.
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Feb 20, 2009 4:20:50 AM CST
Posting randomly dumb shit is what the CoC are about
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
9 out 10 of my posts are exactly that.
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I just skimmed his post quickly but then he said he was Austrian and it all fell into place.I wasn't quite sure where people were getting the christianity themes from in that book. All I got was a kick to the gut by McCarthey's writing. There wasn't much left after that.
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I reviewed it, but it's been quite a while ago. I don't even know if anyone reads the older reviews. Anyhow, getting a different perspective on it would be great. They do it here, so why shouldn't we do it there? Works for me. Thanks!
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I have to do a bit of work here and there. And make cups of tea. And smoke a fag. And listen politely while my workmates explain how good Saw V is to me.Maybe I'll check this Saw V out. It's mint, according to everyone here, and I heard Luke out of Gilmore Girls is in it.
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Wanna see zombies, please, please, please!!!
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How ya doing today?
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Feb 20, 2009 4:29:35 AM CST
Have you read McCarthy before?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
His books are fucking bleak, but amazing. I eased into his writing by reading All The Pretty Horses years ago, then No Country, The Road and Blood Meridian. BM is sickeningly bleak. An amazing read. I'm just starting Suttree now.
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Random dumb shit is what we're all about here.
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I'd rather watch that Fired Up piece of shit cheerleading flick. I watched the first Saw. That was more than enough for me.
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Over the last twenty odd years. I get the feeling he isn't invited to many parties.
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Since your co-workers said Saw V was good I believe that calls for a right good rogering with the ever versatile #2 pencil.
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Donuts all made? Cause you know thay can't make themselves. Mmmm donuts... I could go for a pastery of some sort right about now. Or a pizza one or the other.
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These are the same people who liked the X Factor version of Hallelujah and found Jeff Buckley's version 'boring'.They are nice people, but I don't share their taste in much of anything.
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Rasberry, Lemon, or Bavarian. Getting prepped for Mardi Gras (way up North of New Orleans in our largely non-French community). Got any beads to throw?
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I like focaccia bread. It's nice to be able to buy it while it's still hot.
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I'll take 6 each of the rasberry and lemon and a bakers dozen of the bavarian please.Here's a Carnivale travel tip for you. head down to Mazatlan Mexico instead of Rio. One it's cheaper, two it's safer and three is actually better then Rio. When I lived there as a kid for a bit they used to bill it as the second largest carnival celebration outside of Rio de Janiro. I'm not sure if it's still that way today.
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you have good taste.
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I've never been to Mexico (or New Orleans or Rio, for that matter). I'll get that pastry order ready, sir. What type of sugar would you like on those? I like lots of tomato and extra cheese on my focaccia. How about yours?
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Not if you'd trust me to cook for you. That creepy poem I wrote was from hanging out around the Patchwork Project website, I think. They're a small site that's using horror stories and art to promote awareness of domestic abuse. They call it "Fighting Horror With Horror". I offered them my werewolf story and they accepted it. Sounded like a good cause to me. :)
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Have a great day.
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Chipps! We need your drunken ramblings. Crack open a slab of XXXX and get guzzling.
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going around the TB's posting that they are remaking Back To The Future with Zac Efron. For fucks sake, this better not be true. I will officially lock and load my #2 and start jamming it into the necks of those responsible. Back To The Future is perfect. Fuck right off!
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Feb 20, 2009 6:14:56 AM CST
Denis Leary's Oscar acceptance speech
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Omigod. OmiGOD! Whoo-hoo! Omigod. Okay - okay. Is this really happening? OMIGOD!! Okay. I didn’t even write a speech! (She takes out a large sheaf of paper) Okay. First of all — I’d like to thank God for just taking time out of His busy schedule curing cancer and feeding the hungry and solving the crisis in Darfur with George Clooney and helping so many different wide receivers and quarterbacks to throw and catch footballs and instead making sure that I got singled out of such a wonderful group of actors like Meryl and Mary-Louise and Cate Blanchett and Angelina and Marcia Gay and Kate Winslet and just - all the Kates and the Kevins and the two name and the three name people I feel so honored just to be up here while they are all down there and I’d like to just thank the Academy and the people who hated me and treated me like such dirt and who made me stab them in the back just to get here and now you can suck it and Botox! I almost forgot Botox! And Restylin and Cosmoderm and Prestocheek and Instatit and all the other animal agents I’ve had injected into my face and stuff. Oh my god my agents — I almost forgot the entire squad of agents and managers and hangers-on whose asses I have kissed and coddled for so many long B and C movie years now and also — it would be so bad not to thank my team of surgeons who have stretched and sculpted and pulled and pressure-pointed every aspect of my face, neck and armfat until I look so young and ripe and yet somehow still able to move my forehead and eyebrows just enough to frown and laugh and look focused which is a huge part of why I just won this! Um — um — GOD! I don’t wanna forget anyone! This is a HUGE emotional moment for me. Because — well,because — my price is gonna go thru the roof! Gwyneth Paltrowville here I come! Also also — I want to thank my parents who I became legally seperated from after they so graciously let me stop attending kindergarten halfway thru my fifth year as a loving, caring human person on this planet and who then managed to not only turn me into a working child star but to also bilk me out of any and almost all money I made doing bit parts in crappy kid shows and anyways I don’t have to talk to either of them anymore on a daily basis which saves me tons of time and lets me focus so much more on just me and my work and my director on this project who let me come to the set late and therefore continue to indulge my drug and alcohol problem without ever having to go to rehab - which of course I will do eventually if it means having to make a full blown comeback once my career goes into the toilet and I have to do some really really hard acting-type stuff like a Broadway show – where you have to actually memorize ALL of your lines IN ADVANCE and perform eight shows a week in front of an actual breathing audience who are in the same ROOM as you? God. Which I’ll probably do just to get back in everyone’s good graces but I may have to pull a Piven and just do the beginning part where you get the good reviews and the glory and stuff and then just eat a lot of sushi - so much sushi that you almost puke and then you get a note from like a doctor-type guy and then just get on a plane and come back out here. Where it’s sunny. And where you get to do like — 75 takes and they just feed you the lines from off-camera? Which is easier. And nowhere near as fattening. Cue music again Wait! Wait! Stop! I have something really important I wanna say here! (long dramatic pause) I just wanna say that — acting is — so … awesome. It’s just such an incredibly - awesome - thing - to do! It touches people and it makes people - change - and grow and cry and laugh and — feel … stuff! And stuff is so — important. And – it … encompasses. Us. All of us. And I love acting because now I will be able to do the kind of work I’ve always dreamed of doing which will reach and touch and help people and — make them smell better. Cause when I get a new perfume contract - a really really classy one that smells really really good but different too! And I wanna help people with their hair and do one of those beautiful slow motion hair commercials that look so luscious and I wanna help George Clooney with the Darfur stuff and the anti-paparazzi thing but — and, um — last but in absolutely no way least — to my partner, to my costar in life and love — who will probably leave me for The Next Big Thing in about eighteen months after I’ve squandered whatever tiny bit of sparkle and power I may appear to have at this very moment by doing six overblown gimungous box-office bombs that leave three studios and eight agents left for dead in my wake, but tonight my sweet — I love you. And this dress. And the gaggle of gay men who I pay to dress me up and giggle at all my jokes and tell me what a bitch my mom really really is. I love you, you guys. And my arms. They’re just so toned to the right point of … tonedom. Like - not so scary I look like I stole Mick Jagger’s upper arms Madonna-type toned but — like I’ve worked out a little bit here and there and look at this Oscar at the end of my arm toned! I love this thing! And my own reflection. And my new nose. God — he did such a fantastic job on my nose. Not God God. My nose guy. Who also did my eyes. And the man who did my new nipples! Which I’m oh so willing to show you in an artsy drama Scorsese or Darren Aronofsky Marisa stripper-type thing. Thank You all so much! Cue music and applause
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I love that movie. I have decided to do the "Lee scream" after everything I do while at work today. The coffee machine should be quite interesting. I'll take a sugaaaaaaaarrrrr! (except imagine I sound like Bruce after stomping on a guy's chest)
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You should answer the phone with it. WHHAAAAAAAAAATT?????
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Feb 20, 2009 7:41:03 AM CST
I just saw a tumbleweed roll by!
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
This place is a ghost town! Changian brothers! UNITE! Jesus H. Christ, I'm bored.
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I'm sure the length of the phone calls will be but a fraction of what they were before my Bruce Lee screams.I also have noticed that my turn to get some coffee has also sped up.
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We Own the Night. Has anyone seen that? I got to see Mark curled up in a ball and Joaquin hunt down a dude in tall grass with a shotgun.
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with that wrestler dude, Austin? Saw him take out the huge dude from The Protector and Jet Li's Fearless.
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I'm bored, too, but for some reason my brain is not coming up with anything worth posting today.I don't even have anything to say about Enter The Dragon, which is one of my favourite films!I would really, really, really just like for this miserable day to be over so I can A) do a drunkening tonight, and B) get ready for the Evil Dead triple bill I have planned for Sunday night. All 3 Evil Deads, back to back. Never done that before. It's an Evil Dead-a-thon!
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Feb 20, 2009 7:50:15 AM CST
We had a We Own The Night discussion...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
on the previous Twitch. Good flick. But the car chase was amazing.
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In fact, I've never watched two of them back to back. So what's my fucking point? I think you need to do some gardening Frankie, it's quite delightful for the soul.
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Feb 20, 2009 7:53:08 AM CST
guess I'll have to try and catch it from the beginning
by just pillow talk
if possible.
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I'm just bored shitless at work and usually kept entertained by the changian banter. Evil Dead-a-thon sounds pretty awesome. Haven't seen any of them for years. Might get me some of that soon.
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We've gotten a bit of snow the last couple of days, just enough to be a fucking annoyance and to remind everyone that spring will probably never fucking get there. And now I hear that we are supposed to get some snow Saturday night. Fuck.
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I was getting ready to log off my computer last night and head to bed when my anti-virus app went off like gangbusters. Warnings were popping up faster than I could quarantine stuff. Fastest. Virus. Ever.Anyhoo, a couple ours later and I still didn't have the situation contained. So it looks like I'll be spending tonight doing a re-install. And we all know what a pain in the ass that is.Speaking of drunken posting, if my computer is up and running by then I'll give it a shot tomorrow. Plan on sucking back some rum while I watch the glory that is Red Cliff Part Deux.Started watching an Israeli war movie called Beaufort last night. The guy who you think is going to be the protagonist because he gets the most screen time for the first 20 minutes is unexpectedly killed off and then you have to start all over with somebody else. In all my years of watching movies I've never seen that approach before.Vader, show us your clip!
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to get the next little pillow talk's room ready. I had a "delightful" time putting together the crib and changing table last weekend. If my daughter wasn't there "helping" me, I would have been swearing up a fucking storm.
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I'll be quite anxious to hear your feedback on it Hawaiian. I loved every second of the first one...
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Us cunts want to view it!
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I actually had everyone's movies ready to go. Signed, sealed, not yet delivered. Out of curiosity I thought I'd take one last look to see if Part Two was up and lo and behold, there it was. So once again I am holding off sending the movies out until I have a copy of Part Two made for everyone. My computer problems at home may delay that until next week but I'm going to do my damnedest to have everything finished by Sunday.
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No need to rush Senior Donor, I just need to know if it lived up to the first part, cause then I'll be all giddy in my pants.
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Part Two is even more of a triumph than Part One. Twitch gave it very high marks. So I think we're all in store for what could be the movie event of the year as Hollywood doesn't seem to have anything interesting coming down the pipe this summer.
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Angels & Demons, Crank 2, Dragonball, Fast & Furious, Night At The Museum 2, Star Trek, Taking Of Pelham 123, Transformers 2, Watchmen, Wolverine.I may have missed something, but that's it, as far as I can tell. And I have no strong desire to see any of those films. Fast & Furious, maybe. Watchmen, possibly, although that one looks goofy as fuck to me.This could be a good summer to catch up on some reading, or maybe take up bowling. Or I could become all classy and whatnot and go to the theatre.
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And Fuck Hollywood. Fucking wankers.
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putting them all together like that just makes one realize how dreary of a summer it will be. Ugh!
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I keep looking at that list and thinking, 'Something must be missing', but I don't think there is.Either I'm just going to have to accept that this will be a dry year for the blockbuster stuff, or I'm going to give myself an ice-pick lobotomy and maybe check out Transformers 2.
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Feb 20, 2009 9:15:30 AM CST
I went through the list for 2009 in January
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
And you are right. This summer sucks dogs balls. There are a couple of interesting ones, like the Michael Mann flick with Depp and Bale, but it's mostly shit. All the best flicks are coming at the end of the year. The two I'm looking forward to most are Avatar and Where The Wild Things Are. Also Fantastic Mr Fox and the return of Mel Gibson in late 2009 as well. Oh, and The Road whenever that comes out.
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Just a quick note- I'm meant to be fixing the computer not tooling around on here. So- purpose of this post: DO NOT WATCH INLAND EMPIRE. IT'S FUCKING DREADFUL INCOMPREHENSIBLE SHIT AND ENOUGH EXPOSURE ACTUALLY CAUSES BRAIN CANCER. Heed this warning.
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A fine....under appreciated film.
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There should be a fucking freeze on zombie movies for the next 5 years. Somehow they seem uncool to me now.
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He warned me about In The Name Of The King - the cinematic equivalent of being kicked in the balls by a horse and then needing to lie down for a week afterwards - and I didn't listen.Should I take his advice this time? I do like David Lynch, so I'm torn.
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Feb 20, 2009 9:41:34 AM CST
The best flick of '07 by a long, long way was...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead Other good ones were Breach, Zodiac, Ratatouille, 3:10 to Yuma, Eastern Promises, Gone Baby Gone, No Country For Old Men, Beowulf, The Mist, Atonement, Walk Hard, There Will Be Blood and We Own The Night.
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I must admit I'm looking forward to Terminator Salvation. And Star Trek has me curious. I'm cautiously optimistic about Harry Potter. I've really disliked the entire series save for the last movie which I enjoyed. Otherwise there are no Hollywood blockbusters I'm remotely interested in this year.But that's where the overseas market will take care of us. Ong Bak 2, that Forbidden Island thing from Russia, that Queens of Langkasuka epic from Thailand and no doubt Hong Kong will pump out some high octane actioners.And if anyone is interested, I discovered that "Arn: The Knight Templar" is actually part one of a trilogy and that part two is out now. It's truly excellent stuff.For those willing to go out of their way, Hollywood blockbusters are quicly becoming irrelevant.
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Feb 20, 2009 9:44:49 AM CST
I haven't seen anything by Lynch since Mulholland Drive
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Fuck I hated that piece of shit. I need season two of twin peaks on dvd as the antidote.
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Feb 20, 2009 9:46:44 AM CST
I am yet to see Red Cliff Part Un
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I've heard good things. Might have to seek it out.
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She takes it off for PETA, she should take it off for her films.That's one chica I would drag my bag over a desert of broken glass to......
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Feb 20, 2009 9:55:08 AM CST
After watching those clips of Watchmen...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I am far less interested. Which is a feat in itself because I wasn't very interested to begin with. Having recently read the GN everyone in the movie looks too young. They're supposed to be middle aged. Especially Patrick Wilson as Dreiberg (everytime I see that name I just think of Dr Zoiberg) and whoever that guy is playing Ozymandias. And the slo-mo! The scene where Akerman is in the burning building and the fucking slo-mo hair in face shot of the fireball coming at her. Next shot is her on the ground unharmed. Really badly directed.
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I saw both seasons again last year. Season one holds up really well - better than I remembered it being - whereas season two veers wildly between some really great stuff and some god-awful shit.Great ending, though."Where's Annie?"
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I don't know how, what with that crazy talkback still hogging the top spot.Mind you, I don't really want to see that, either.
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Season One is absolute genius. Season Two is, as you say, a mixed bag. As I understand it, the show was designed as a single season (which is what Lost and Heroes should've been). But I haven't seen it since I did a Twin Peaks-a-thon about 8 years ago. Is season two on dvd?
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Look at all the shit that populates the Twitch threads. Over half of them each week look more interesting than what we are getting here in the states. Ong Bak 2. That will be the motherload for me. There will be a FLAMING LEG KICK week at work where many will suffer. I should start practicing now.
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Feb 20, 2009 10:11:44 AM CST
I'm not sure if Season 2 came out in England, droid
by franklin t marmoset
I got the Region 1 DVD box set pretty cheap off Amazon (then sold it for a £2 profit on ebay).
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Feb 20, 2009 10:15:50 AM CST
You're quite the entrepreneur, Frankie
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Impressive. Guess I'll have to see if the interweb can supply me with it.
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of those box sets, and you can ride out this economic downturn Frankie.
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Check me out, I'm a self-made two-quid-ionnaire!
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Have a good weekend, folks.
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Get drunk and enjoy the Evil Dead-a-thon.
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Feb 20, 2009 12:15:02 PM CST
Download foreign films illegally. Buy American.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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Inland Empire is the first Lynch film I out and out hated. I even liked M Drive- It's incomprehensible, unwatchable bollocks.
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off to Carnivale. Have a good Friday.
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None of those 2007 films were summer releases. 2009 is looking like being a dreadful repeat of 2006 summer or 2007 summer. Not one watchable movie. Unless Watchmen comes through- Avatar will be the shit, just because everything else looks so missable
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I'm totally with Droid on Watchmen- The GN failed to rock my world/ change my life/ suck my cock/ whatever, and now having seen the trailers and casting photos, I'm now at the "couldn't give a fuck" stage. It's just a great big "meh".
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download American. Until they start showing some fucking imagination and remaking/ marketing whoring everything.Fuck Hollywood.
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especially as I know that there is a new Romero one. I'm pig sick of them.
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Why do women take so long?Seriously. Mind you, it's spain so we have hours to go....
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was on TV- I remember watching it.Never got a DVD release though.
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I've been ready for about 45 minutes now. I'm really bored and have even been watching a Telenovello.
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because I don't speak Spanish.
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movement. Time to go. See you later.
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The burning hot pieces of ass on them make my pants melt from the inside out. Plus the stories are so ridiculous that they're entertaining as hell.
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FREE TRADE will be over as we know it.
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did they kill Baleback? Nothing new is posted for last 40 min? WTF! FTW!
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Harry's pulled the plug right at the moment of climax. Talk about blue balls...Maybe the TB crashed under the weight of frantic last posts.
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I did try to join you but there appears to be some devilment afoot. What's happening, man?
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But I used to watch those Mexican ones and they always had the most gorgeous collection of women. Couldn't understand a word but with all that hotness on the screen I didn't need to.So the Bale TB has been frozen? I think you guys shot yourself in the foot by ruffling Harry's feathers. You can't starve a dog and not expect him to bite your hand.
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It was going on its own for that long, why stop it now? Oooohhhh...power trip!
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Feb 20, 2009 2:41:06 PM CST
Yup. Its fucking over. Now we aim to destroy Lost.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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just came down a few hundred.
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Feb 20, 2009 2:45:42 PM CST
I think this is it. I'm down with this fucking site.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
That is seriously just fucking the ultimate display of cowardice to me.
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Don't be daft, mate. Steel of resolve and all that...
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I mean, if you're going to delete posts, why not just go the full monty and delete all but one?Notice how this site is toppling under the weight of it's own hubris? We didn't even get a cool cuts this week and the DVD column appears to taken the last train out of town. How do you go from being the premiere nerd movie site on the web to being this lame pathetic excuse of ego and mediocrity?Harry jerked himself into a corner and before long he'll be forced to accept contributions from pre-schoolers and hobos because no one else will have anything to do with this mess.
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Didn't really think much about it. I liked that the whole thing felt real, but at the same time a lot of the relationships just felt fake. Sorry I just didn't buy Richards performence. Fun fact to tell your kids. After the movie I made a joke about how I bet that the actors had to go to some drumming boot camp in order to prepare for the movie. Because ever since The Matrix every movie needs a boot camp. LO and behold half way through the making of the Arabic guy is like I had to go through a drumming boot camp. BAM! One point for me. No points for you.
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Seems you and I haven't seen eye to eye on movies lately.The cool thing about The Visitor is that the screenplay is only so-so, but the cast and crew were masterful in making it infinitely watchable.And although the boot camp thing has been around for decades, it really took off Saving Private Ryan.
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Feb 20, 2009 3:19:55 PM CST
I dunno...maybe he just randomly clicked a bunch....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
....and deleted to back us up from 10,000 just to fuck with us. I would ask-- if Harry didn't want that shit to happen...why wouldn't he just lock it from the start, why would he let it go on so long? But of course he is doing it for the hits and ad impressions. He'll let us give the site massive traffic and yang the rug out from under us when he's sick of it. Its just cowardly, fucked up behavior. If you don't want people to have fun....fine. Crack down on the TB's and start having strict moderation-- thats all fine, its your site. But don't fucking mislead. Be a man and be straight the fuck up. We didn't do anything wrong. We got prideful of our little goal and he didn't like it. Fuck him.
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....every movie needs a boot camp. FUCK.
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there's a good boot camp segment in the making-of. And the Pearl Harbor boot camp is worth a watch just to see the look on Ben Affleck's face while co-star Ewan Bremner is copping some flak off the Sergeant!
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What would have helped immensely if Tom Hanks had shown up to the Fourth RTB and participated in Ranger School for movie people. If Hanks did that he would have looked like he was in some sort of shape, look like knew one end of the Thompson M1A1 from the other and could lead a squad of men in combat.Unfortunantly for Hanks by showing up for only one day and "observing" he spent the movie looking confused and a bit gassy.
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Is useless. Come on I'm just happy it's said the same for this long. So what if the creators don't know what to do with themselves.
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Here is the thing, Matrix was the first REAL dvd hit. It pretty much was the movie that made everyone go I NEED A DVD PLAYER. And on it were like all these mini docs about how all the actors went through this six month training boot camp to learn Kung Fu. Ever since then EVERY movie needs a training boot camp. Shit even Ryan Gosling even went through a boot camp for Lars and the Real Girl.
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Always talked about the training boot camp. I don't mean REAL BOOT CAMP, those are just lame.
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And that was during a good year.
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We mean to trash the fuck out of 12k. This will be my last stand.
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when Carrie-Ann Moss turns her ankle attempting a kick of some sort. And Keanu getting mad at himself cos he can't pull off a wire move.
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I'll try and drop in now and again - but that TB is an utter cunt to load and refresh!
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The Horseman. That looks raw! Not sure if I 100% want to watch this but I feel compelled to do so all the same.
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Shut down my computer 4 times in a row before I decided to get out of my admin account so it would run faster.
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what I do, IE or Firefox - Baleback gets Balestuck!
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Looks and should be a lot of fun. But is all the funny stuff in the trailer? Also, is all the lesbian stuff in the trailer? Probably wrong to compare LVK with Shaun Of The Dead. That way only disappointment lies.
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Uh-huh, I'll have a go at that. But I've yet to see the first one. Got it on order, hopefully it'll arrive tomorrow. If not, work colleagues have loaned me a couple of movies I wasn't all that inspired to watch. Sweeny Todd (which I've only seen a bit of) and Lord Of War.
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Read some online stuff concerning Lord Of War. Apparently, it's a bucket of slop.But work colleague says it's mint. I'll have to see for myself.
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It looks a lot cooler then the Quintin Tarentino second attempt on a B-movie. Seriously Q.T. needs to go watch The Signal, that is what B-movies are now a days. Anyways, anyone remember the Crazies? I tried to watch it and got bored, so I am looking forward to this re-make. I am also looking forward to Last House on the Left remake and Hellraiser (which I thought was coming out this year but probably not). I know Hellraiser won't be that great, but it'll be fun to see a different take on it, since the series has been run into the groun. Last House on the left re-make while unnessecary, I really like the actor they got to play the bad guy. Him and the actor that played T-Bags need to have a creepy buddy psychopath adventure movie. Anyways, Crazies remake poster. Check it
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The show, not DGDB. Anyways, they are having an open casting call at, of all places, Tobey Keith's Bar and Grill!!! Now those who use Zhura know that I don't need to be on that show, so no need for the jokes. And yes I feel sorry for those that do. But come on wouldn't it be great to go and see all the fatties show up? COME ON! AM I a horrible person?
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http://tinyurl.com/dbpdug
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Kicked me off again! Twats!
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Tis indeed a cool poster. Like the way it riffs on the original poster from 1973.
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always seem to mirror a new movie coming out. Terminator - you get killer robots just around the corner. With Armageddon due out, loads of stuff in the news about Earth in danger of being hit by space debris. Before War Of The Worlds came out, loads of stuff about the planet Mars. Not forgetting the alien signas from space - a few months before ID4 came out.It's like a free ad campaign for movie studios.Lesbian Vampire Killers - watch out for national news stories about a possible theoretical scientifically proven threat from lesbians, who may also be vampires and whatnot.
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give it up. TB mechanism cannot handle 12k don't be one of those fucks that says I'm going to be off and then sticks around forever. Because, being the selfish cunt that I am, I enjoy arguing with you over your frankly abysmal taste in films. I'm sentimentally drunk, so am going to go and sit on the balcony and look at the stars. Ciao.
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The level of vodaka in the bottle has shrunk. I blame Aol.
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if your ever in civilisation, Me and Mrs. Jarv will by any of you fuckers dinner and argue with you over peanuts. Shit, better go to bed before I start snivelling.
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You know this. Unless it's smirnoff black. IN which case- kudos
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and it doesn't make sense. Obviously the vodka hasn't shrunk with aol being directy responsible. But they drove me to the bottle. So they're indirectly rirresponsible.
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fuckers.
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I've got a bottle of Zubrowka but that's for special occasionals. Smirnoff is for aol prats.Hope you're having a good time, by the way. We all miss you terribly.
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didn't start with spr. i know they did it for platoon, in order to make the actors look buggered.
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I think military advisor Dale Dye drove a herd of animals through the jungle where the actors were kipping at night. They duly shat themselves, firing in all directions. Not clear if they were usuing live rounds!
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i'm a big fan of lord of war. only thing, the movie goes through 20 years of nick cages life without him ageing. other than that really excellent movie
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I'm hearing both good and bad things about the film. But it sounds watchable. Gonna give it a spin tomorrow.
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i have a terrible feeling i'll be explaining this away to idiots for years. better learn a bit about it.
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Was ok, there were some cool scenes. Like the opening and the getting rid of the evidence scene. Worth a watch.
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Ain't got money to go the showing of the Academy shorts....boo. Anyways gonna watch Rock n'Rolla, Body of Lies and My Name is Bruce. Don't think anyone here has seen (or if they have it wasn't good (or bad) to mention) the first two, so hopefully they are worth a damn. Not a big Ridley fan though. Didn't really care for Ritchie until Swept Away either, hopefully he can keep it going.
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If I could, I would totally go see all those fatties with you.
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Like, I got all the pretentious artsy shit, and the claustrophobic close-ups were "oh so spooky," and the rabbit thing was cute, but that movie should be buried under a fucking volcano, it's so bad.And I personally consider myself a pretty big Lynch fan. Blue Velvet is one of my favorite movies, and while I still don't own the Twin Peaks Gold Box, I still REALLY wanna get it.
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along with Where the Wild Things Are, is still the movie I want to see most this year. Red Cliff 2 AND Ip Man are a close second. Then probably Ip Man or something.Song Kang-Ho and Donnie Yen have been two of my favorite actors for the last two years or so. I don't much care for any current American actors. Maybe John Malkovich and Brad Pitt, but for current fare, the foreign market has some pretty charismatic dudes. And personally, I would take Tony Jaa's stunted acting along with his flaming leg kicks over Bale's boring ass acting any day. Like I don't mind him, but I'm getting pretty fucking sick of seeing him.
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I fucking hate that movie. I am not a huge Lynch fan, I like to watch his movies. But I feel alot of his shit is just empire with no clothes nonsense. And Inland Empire proves it. I still want to see the Twin Peeks show. I have the movie, but I've never seen it actually? I just have seen parts. THIS TABLE IS SO SHINY!. Man I farted and it stinks, though not as bad as Inland Empire.
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Movies the Good the bad and the Weird and the Asian movie with Vinnie Jones. I need a fucking better computer though damnit!
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From the poster I was thinking that it was going to have a more glossy look to it. It has that raw Ong Bak look. Damn I want to go to that late night film fest at SXSW. I still want to see it. Not really sure about that animated movie, the trailer didn't do much for me. Its going to be a cool year for Animated film, all of them seem weird. The Horseman looks pretty awesome, it looks like what 9mm should have been.
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Why do I torture myself by watching the Terminator show? Like in the past half hour it seems I've only watched like 8 minutes???? But I've never fucking paused or stopped it? What the fuck is wrong with this show?
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the idea that you are not supposed to get a movie is bullshit. it's like those paintings that are of nothing. it isn't layered if there arn't any layers, if it is all just random. its not clever if there is nothing to it, if it is just fucking with you. I don't mind if there is no resultion, if it is left ambiguous, if they never explain it. but to have nothing there to explain, to 'not supposed to be able to get it' well that is just fucking stupid.
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in fact i watched lock stock last night and rock n rolla has nothing on it, but it was still fairly good.
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awesome.
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though i get the feeling not many of the C of C liked it. It kind of tired for me once every frat douche around kept wanting to watch it, but I still like Brad Pitt's character and Boris the Blade.
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Benicio Del Toro was great fun in his brief role, before the whole getting shot in the head and having his hand chopped off thing.
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Anyone remember that movie. That was a good movie. I used to watch it all the time when I has a wee lass. Wonder if it holds up.
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I guess it's made by the dude that made Akira, which I love every time I watch it. Those biker gang scenes in Neo Tokyo are just too cool for school. Anybody seen it or have some thoughts?
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In high school. Watched it the other day and it was OK, nothing great. It seemed like WAAAYYY slowed down to me? I remember it being so fast when I first saw it. I'm pretty sure I haven't seen it since I saw it in high school. Brad Pitts and Vinnie Jones parts were cool. The scene with the dudes coming to kill Vinnie was the best, you know the replica scene. You know what wasn't that great of a movie? Mean Machine. It was ok, just nothing great. The only scene I remember is when Jason finally comes out of the goal and goes crazy. Anyone seen Midnight Meat Train? I was HOPING to get it this week, but Netflixs said FUCK that, take this!
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Saw it back when it first hit DVD. I remember it being pretty cool. Don't really remember shit about the plot. I think I saw it kind of close to the time I first saw Akira and wasn't as impressed by it. But the animation was cool.
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I should keep a TV log, god that thing would be full. Just to see really HOW many hours I spend a day rotting my brain.
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Did you see the Visitor? If so what'd you think?
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They opened Midnight Meat Train in only Dollar Theaters? Damn and I thought that Outlander was shittily handled.
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And if you haven't added it to your DVR's then boy consider yourself...umm whatever. Anyways it was OK, this seemed like an episode that should have happened a little latter in the series. Its about the Little Britain America's Obama impersonation actor's relationship with Echo. Which I didn't think I would start questioning until later. Also I really liked the Middleman actor, how should have had a better change to psychopath, and once he became a psycho it wasn't that believable. In fact he came off as more of a psycho in Middleman. On a whole I liked it, it got better as it went along, but its all coming together so fast I am starting to think that its just a miniseries. Probably because I so used to shows like Lost you would rather present more questions rather then answering any. Also the preview for next week where she plays a pop star and goes on stage...didn't I just see that somewhere? Fuck this is going to bother me for a while now damnit. SOooo in closing I still can't recomend Dollhouse, because it still has yet to beat my level of entertainment vaule that I get out of Destroyed in Seconds (a series I HIGHLY RECOMMEND) and until it does its just not a show worth watching. Heroes on the other hand keeps gettting better??? WTF? Did they fire the whole writing cast? I mean I thought it would bother me with all the characters not doing what they would normally do, but seeing that all of the cast save for Sylar and Clare dad were fucking annoying and pussies its nice to see the show have some balls. Granted they aren't big brass balls, but you know steroids shrinks your balls (by the way I'm saying that the steroids are the new writers). OK time for final Conan and new Burn Notice.
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To the Street Fighter trailers? I mean they are pretty terrible, just a bunch of random shit. The only time it gives up a second to show us a clear image is of Micheal Clarke Duncan. Really unless you knew you don't even know how Chun Li is, which is pretty bad marketing. Anyone seeing this? Are waiting for Netflixs?
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On David Croneburg, and realizing that I don't really remember shit about Videodrome. I just remember that it was weird as shit. Why does that fucking faggoty swimmer have an endorsement deal with RosenttaSTONED??? OH DAMN NO I DID NOT!
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I'm trying to keep up with Balegate but my computer keeps fucking me.
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Cronenberg turned down Robocop, Top Gun, Total Recall and Return of the Jedi? Man seems like Paul was David's bitch, really I'm glad he turned down Total and Robo but the other two could you imagine that? Yeah I didn't learn that on from the documentary I looked him up on IMDB. Damn Naked Lunch I've seen that movie like 3-5 times over the years, probably first when I was way too young, but I still don't remember much of it.
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Is in the documentary a lot I guess he really liked Dave. I always forget that he was in other things besides Robocop. Like that Buckaro Banzi movie.
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Naked Lunch makes it seem like David couldn't get Steven Wright to star in the movie. Shit it sounds just like Steve!
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I'm gonna watch Scanner tonight. Anyone seen M. Butterfly? I've seen Madama Butterfly on the West End before. Damn seriously Crash, I've seen it a couple of times and even read the fucking book....but for the life of me I can barely remember any of it. Shit I even own the movie. Same with fucking Existenze and Spider. I remember the Fly though.
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Did the music for Scanners. I was going to make fun of him for being relegated to rehashing his shit for silly comic book movie sequels, but that was James Newton Howard. Oopsy poopsy. Looks like Shore did LOTR and still does most of Davids shit.
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I like most of his films- and Elephant Man is a masterpiece. However, sometimes I get the feeling that he's just putting shit on the screen that he thinks looks cool- there's no purpose to it. Lost Highway is a good example of this- he literally painted himself into a corner and then just put some bollocks up to get out of it. The Twin Peaks movie is qute good, but lacking if you haven't seen the show. It isn't a patch on the show, but as a companion piece, definately has some value.
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meh. Watch Lock Stock instead.
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huzzah! fucking brilliant. Crash= Huzznot. Fucking horrible, pretentious crap. Most Overrated author on the planet. Seriously, Try reading Cocaine Nights and Then Supercannes. Crap.
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Truly brilliant. Every time I watch it I come away with a new interpretation of what it means: is James Woods completely hallucinating thing; is the videodrome causing him to hallucinate; or maybe, just maybe, this IS actually happening? Videodrome is the Raging Bull of sci-fi/horror.
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I think you guys will appreciate it. http://tinyurl.com/awzf89
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Fucking true. Totally. It's the archetype of body horror. Nothing has come anyhwere near it. A genuine masterpiece.
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Most overrated author on the planet= JG Ballard. Although Empire of the Sun is awesome. To be fair.
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I want to apologise for recent drunkenings. I was weirdly drunk yesterday. I think it's the novelty of having the internets whed drunk inspires me to spout utter mince on here. When plastered.
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so I'd like to apologise in advance for future drunken warblings. Apart from to Frank. Because he's a cunt.
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so I'd like to apologise in advance for future drunken warblings. Apart from to Danny. Because he's a cunt. hehehehe
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double post.That's what comes from changing my mind after I hit go
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have fun peoples.
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Finished watching this 'un a minute ago. Good, but not really engaging. Didn't dig into the characters at all. Was I supposed to be hoping Jack Valentine's investigation would nail the Cage-meister's arms shenanigans? I didn't care one way or the other. Did Ethan Hawke have the same haircut in Assault On P13?There were some cool things - the opening credit sequence following a bullet's journey from the factory to some kid's head being a stand-out. Also liked the ringing of a cash register as spent casings ejected from an automatic weapon. And Cage sat on a fallen statue of Lenin while he did his price calculations.Good use of the Jeff Buckley version of 'Hallelujah' - I'm beginning to think there's no way you can mis-use it, so good is that song. Unless you're the latest pop mayfly, without a shred of irony singing the line "you don't really care for music do you..."You were right, chipps. Cage doesn't age a day!
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Am I a cunt? I'm beginning to feel a bit left out...Of course, in certain Mancunian locales, to be hailed a "cunt" is the very pinnacle of bonhomie.In others it will get you a punch in the face.Such is the diversity of the English language...
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The food of kings. Hot. Fantastic with beer. Try some.
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Why am I so far not entirely convinced. Direct to video?Honestly, studio honcho, do you really think Donnie needs a sequel? Nothing more needs to be said, the story is told. It was a good one. Don't blow it.Why have I. Started talking in. Short sentences?
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So many years since I've seen the Cronenberg classic. Need to add Videodrome to the collection. Hand-gun, indeed. Want Dead Ringers as well. How did Jeremy Irons not win a best actor Oscar? Words fail me!
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Shivers, Rabid, Scanners, The Dead Zone... Shit, that guy's good.Not to mention an Oscar worthy performance in the irrepressible Jason X!
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Any more free movies coming our way, please? The last one was much appreciated - though I should say not thoroughly enjoyed by this viewer.You did hint there might be more, you little minx!
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Overtaken by Donnie's sister.All because you lazy non-posting herberts!
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not 'because you...'
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Watch half of Scanners. Its ok. Not fucking my head like his usual stuff. But seriously, Croneburg makes movies that Lynch thinks he makes. Save for Elephant and Easerhead.
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I will take to heart the words of the great Led Zepplin who said it's time to ramble on...
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If you want I'll call you a cunt. Does that make you feel better?
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I found this movie to be one of hair piece's better efforts. Was it great film making nope but it was fairly decent entertainment.
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where i can watch [REC]?
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gives a person an enpowering feeling since you can raise a TB quickly with so very few posts. I reveal in the power.
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Go to Mavra's place I think there might be a link there.
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I checked out my own advice and I was wrong, it's not posteed thier. Mavra does have a link though so she might be good enough to post it when/if she comes around.
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it owed a lot to goodfellas. i liked the cash register bit
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How goes the cricket?
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i've been a zombie for the past couple of days cause i had all four wisdom teeth out. totally fucked.
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What did you enjoy above?So no drinking to go with teh pain killers then?
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ended being coerced into joining a number of facebook groups including 'earth day 2009' and 'lets spend the $950 hand out on strippers' i woke up to myself and quit the first group.
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good movie. no, no drinking with the pain killers. but i nearly hung myself yesterday cause my mates went on a tour of the xxxx brewery. that was a difficult day.
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they had a cool catch on ESPN made by NZ player(sorry I know NZ is a bad word.) The outfielder stepped over that little wall, pushed the ball back onto the main playing field in the air, tripped over the little wall while trying to get back onto teh field, stumbled to his knees and caught the ball. Nice play.
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it's not like baseball, if you are touching the wall when you catch it, that is 6 points for the batter
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I don't understand what's going on but I enjoy listening to the announcer speaking in a language that sounds like English but I absolutely do not understand.
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Piker. Were you only there for an hour?
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A pic of the next Batman Villain! http://www.noelchenier.ca/GALLERY/ALBUMS/album105/Hey_Buddy_that_tickles.sized.jpg Teeny tiny http://tinyurl.com/affb63
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we all get a $950 hand out. guess where that baby is going.
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you're a rightous dude.
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Found and issue of Transmepolitan in the bargin bin the other day. Haven't had enough money to buy the trades. Can't wait to read it. I am going to finally read Watchmen this week, probably ruining all hopes of enjoying the film? Just read the first issue of The Mighty, seems ok so far nothing amazing. Have you read any of Radicals works? Turns out they have like movie deals for their first three titles. With Berg, Synger and John woo attached to them??? Thats pretty crazy. I've been reading their comics going, man if I ever make it anywhere I will turn them into movies....to late.
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Everybody around me seems to be talking about that movie lately. I plan to see it opening night, but the eternal buzz, and the fact that all the people who are talking hadn't even heard of it or read it until like two months ago, is getting pretty annoying. I'm sure it will be fun, and completely entertaining, but like Dark Knight, I will probably grow weary of all the jabber. Hollywood seems to do this every year now, pumping up one movie endlessly since there's such a rare actual good movie anymore. They did it with 300, and then Dark Knight, and now it's Benjamin Button.Just gimme The Good the Bad the Ugly and Red Cliff 2 and we'll call it square. That's all I'm saying.And after that WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE will be the cherry on top.
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I don't think I told anybody yet, but I finished Fritz Lang's The Big Heat which I enjoyed thoroughly. It had a great protagonist, and I nice, slow-boil story that I loved.Then I moved on to a French noir-comedy called Shoot the Piano Player. It ran a little slower, and took a bit of time to follow, but I liked it okay. The main actor is great as a quiet every-man and a few of the jokes really knock it home.And then last night I watched Brazil with my girlfriend, who had never seen it. She liked it a lot, and it was nice to re-visit a longtime favorite. Movies like Brazil are great too, because you notice something new every time you watch it.Then earlier this afternoon Katie and I watched Crumb, which I had seen most of before, but missed the last half an hour until now. Wow. This movie gains a lot more gravitas in the later half. A peek at such a disturbed and sensitive family of brothers, and their insecurities and shared troubles, makes for very entertaining and poignant cinema. I really want to own this for myself now (library rental).And later tonight at a party, someone got the AMAZING idea to watch Willow. Everybody was glued to the set. It is FAR more entertaining than I remembered. The George Lucas is very apparent. He wrote and executive produced it, and his trademark swipes and character and philosophy studies are dead-on with his Star Wars stuff. Also, Val Kilmer is one of my favorite actors, and he just rules in this. Ron Howard is a director I am slowly learning to appreciate much more than I used to. His ability to harness and shepherd a village full of midgets is damn impressive. Still need to see Frost/Nixon though...AND FINALLY, my girlfriend and I watched the rest of Steamboy. The night earlier, I had attempted to watch it, following Brazil, but fell asleep. Of all the movies I saw this week, this one may be my second favorite after Crumb. Like I said before, the guy who made this is also responsible for Akira, which I hold dear. This is equally as entertaining and deep in dealing with some pretty heavy issues, but it's a whole other monster entirely in terms of style. The artistic direction in this movie shows absolutely 0 anime touches. There's no big, shiny eyes, or spiky haircuts, or lame energy attacks or any of that nonsense. The only exception is the character of Scarlett, who I felt was a bit too gimmicky and over-animated. She stuck out like a sore thumb. Not that I have a problem with traditional Japanese animation at all. I just thought the differences in aesthetic were a breath of fresh air. The movie looks like it could have been produced in some European country. The plot, firmly grounded in a fairly accurate Victorian Era setting(at least, from my limited understanding, thanks mostly to British literature and movies, like stuff from Woolf and Dickens), is a little meandering and cooky, but provides some great opportunities for some great animation of meticulous British British landscapes. The opening half takes a lot of time to delve into some pretty heavy philosophical arguments on technology and science, with an almost Shakespearean twist. This is one of the smartest anime movies I have seen since Nausicaa and the Valley of the wind. But once Ray Steam finally hops onto that steamball rocket, you will be amazed. The movie has a great vintage Indiana Jones type feel as well. Also, while the Japanese soundtrack is of course recommended, the American dub might be worth checking out too. Patrick Stewart does the voice of the crazy old scientist, and it's absolutely hilarious.
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I watched some dismalt shi called Another Country, On Golden Pond and Little Miss Sunshine None of them rocked my world, and I couldn't but think that they were all overrated
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I did the Let the Right One In review. Where do you want it?
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but I agree about Little Miss Sunshine. Like it was fine and entertaining, but it's not good enough or stimulating enough to buy or own or anything like that.Seriously, people at the party were so into Willow, it was ridiculous. I commented on Warrick's enormous man-hands that are almost as long as his legs, and from there the entertainment never ceased. Good times.
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Chipps...[REC] is on YouTube in 8 parts. It's not easy to find complete because it's quickly removed after posting, but quite a few people have it on YT. http://tinyurl.com/dcseyo Kungfu...you can email your review to me through zhura, or email me directly (my address is on zhura comments section), or submit through the website (those go to Herb first). Use whichever is easiest for you. Thanks again! :)
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thankyou marva, i've been sitting on my ass for four days now and truly have nothing to do.
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how many more is this thing gonna need? should I not have fallen asleep?
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guess not.
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Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus is on the top ten, which I have been highly excited about forever, even before Heath's death (sad that I have to say that). Tom Waits is supposedly playing the devil. Damn do I love that idea.
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Fucking ghost town.
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means Dr. Parnassus needs to come off? Damn that makes for a conflicted decision.
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I just noticed Script Girl is on the top ten. I will not fucking condone this. Lordy, some of these TBers are absolute idiots.
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will SOMEBODY just PLEASE make a good movie based on that incredible story?
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Although I must admit I am curious.
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Back on the map bitches!
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Don't worry to much about the SG TB. It's down to like 5 goofs yelling at each other and one of them is the douchebag SG works for. It's a dying TB. It gets smaller and smaller every week.
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Can anyone get an email for me? What page has he been posting at on your site? I'm talking to Quint about it....
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I will try to be back on later. Everything just seems to be piling up lately.
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She has nothing to contribute to society. All the news she does is stuff we ALREADY FOUND OUT either on here, or just by checking other movie news sites.
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was because it's for DTV shit about stupid plots like a dog that becomes a cop or a mall cop or any of that awful, vile shit they pass off for cinema these days.
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chilling on AICN after getting home from another crazy party. It's turned into a pretty quiet night, and my girlfriend is now asleep in the next room, when all of a sudden one of my bike tires (the bike was right beside me in the same room I was in) just pops. It sounded like a gun shot and there was a flash of white light. I checked my back tire and there is now a huge gash of a whole in it.The most fucked up part? I had just gotten the back tire replaced the same day. That shit cost me twenty dollars. SO is it their fault or mine? And has anything like this happened to anybody else here? It was just so fucking weird to me for one of my bike tires to just explode like that. I hadn't even touched it or been very close to it.
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razzmatazz, I passed that ass.
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doing it on your own can be little taxing. It's all for you guys though. Hopefully, by the time everybody gets back, it will be up on the top right with the other top ten, nice and easy to fun.
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not fun
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i'm watching rec
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I can do it, no doubt, but should I?
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Let's rock this shit!
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Sweeney Todd. It's just not for me. I think I've got a problem with musicals. I was okay with West Side Story and Moulin Rouge, though.People suddenly bursting into song... it's fuckin distracting.
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I have played through the entire game before, but I never seem to get tired of it. RE5 is gonna be even more kick-ass too, hopefully.
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How's my spelling?
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Along with Okami, Viewtiful Joem Final Fantasy 12 and Shadow of the Colossus, have got to be the five most incredible games on the PS2 system. We got any more big PS2 fans in the C of C?
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I've only ever played the start. I was enjoying it that much, I stopped! I wanted to save it for a rainy day. There have been many rainy days and I've still not got back to it...
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but as the years have progressed, my passion for cinema and comics has left little room for games lately. Which is a shame since some, like the ones listed above, have real artistic and story merit. A proper cinematic game can be just as entertaining, if not more so, than a really good summer action movie.
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About your tire. Do live in a cold weather climate? like cold enough for water to freeze? Because if you do what might have happened was this.Cheaply constructed rubber becomes weak rather quickly if it's semipermiable, that means if if moisture can build up inside and the tempeture goes from warm to freezing rather quickly, then the rubber weakens even more and weak spots develop and eventually you get a blow out.
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Thanks for the "cunt." Much appreciated.Wish I had a quid for ever time I've been called a cunt...
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Metal Gear Solid 3. This is like the coolest Rambo/James Bond fusion espionage/action movie you will ever see, except you control the main character instead of just watching him. Damn I love that game.Highly recommended to anybody who even remotely loves spy or army stuff. It really is James Bond fused with Rambo, and maybe toss in some Escape from New York. The cut scenes in that game are loads better than most movie sequences.
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Fuck you Script Girl. The C of C rules all, including your talentless, cheap excuse for a fake ass.
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Not sure if I can get us to a hundred though fellas. Sorry, but I got work to do still.
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Where's your zombie short, mate? Did you give us a link and I miss it?
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Parnassus. I think Gilliam is a genius, even if I don't always het what he's doing.
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i'm here to help. i aslo wish I got paid for everytime i was a cunt, cocksucker, asshole, motherfucker just here on AICN I'd be rich. If you added in the real world, I would be richer then the Sultan of Bruni. If only...
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he spent all his money on hookers and poorly planned capital ventures. this is true, i lived there for a while
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Lord Of War some more. The final confrontation between Cage and Hawke, when Hawke says to him - "I'd tell you to go to Hell... but I think you're already there."From Cage's response, I never believed he'd lost his family, his widfe and kid, and his brother. I didn't believe he was "in Hell." It was oddly flat the way he calmly responderd to Hawke.
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How was REC for you?Not sure that it needs a sequel but I'll trake one oif they're doing one.
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i liked it. not crazy good though. interesting.
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The running time is perfect - 75 minutes, means the movie never outstays its welcome.There are a lot of celluloid monstrosities out there that could do with a trim...
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Just had a text off a mate. He's in a pub in Yorkshie and he swear it's the same one in American Werewolf In London! He sayes brian Glover's in there as well! I'ver aske hjim if there's a pentagram on the wall...That remind me of a funny story. I was at work and this young lad was going on with himself, about how everyone thought he wa into the devil because he listened to 'heavy metal.' He said - "People think I worship Satan, like I go down in the basement and sacrifice sheep over an anagram..."How funny is that. Devil worshippers draw "anagrams" on the floor and make sacrifcies...
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When I was posting earlier, it wasn't showing anybody else's posts, but now that I'm back again, here you all are!ThereWolf, make time for Resi 4. It's just a great great game. Plus, if you have it on the PS2, you can get all the sweet extras once you beat it, like a Tommy Gun with infinite ammo, not to mention pretty much an entire other game with a female protagonist. She has a grapple hook that makes for some cool cinematics. I won't give it away, but let's just say she uses it for other things besides reaching high places.And no, nothing like THAT. Get your mind out of the gutter.
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Whatever do you mean!I got as far in the game as a village and all the townsfolk start coming after me and I was basicallt wasting ammo shooting everybody before deciding to dodge into a building. I think a church bell started ringing and the pepople left me alone and went to church. I can't rememnber excatly but something like that.I thought 'this is brilliant, I'm saving this for later' and never went back. Got it in a limited edition tin case. Looks cool.
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Sounds like you need to learn about teh concept of fire discipline. Only put rounds center mass in targets you have clear shots of, don't cook off rounds in fruitless pursuit of targets. Fire and manoeuver they are your friends.
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Me mate says there'so no pentangle on the wall but they've got loads of candles and a picture of an old geezer who looks like an werewolf! I asked him what the fuck he's doimng in Yorkshire and apparently he missed the last train so he's staying at this pub.I've told him to ask the locals if they're any good at anagrams...
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It's a pS2 game. In the words of Vin Diesel - "Start thinking Playstaton. Blow shit up!"Think that was in XXX.All right. I admit. I panicked! Lots of people with pitchforks and other shrap implements. Shoot on sight seeemd to be the best policy. Tactically, I should've taken refuge. I know that next time I play it.
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told me to "fuck off"!What the fuck is he doing in Yorkshire?
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getting some pudding maybe?
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You're familiar with the delicacy known as Yorkshire pudding. Preferably served with roast beef and shed loads of gravy. Mmmm...
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has challeneged him to a cider drinking contest!It's gone midnight. The pub's are shut! And they don't drink cider in Yorkshire. What the fuck as he got himself into?
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Now I'm hungary. Thanks Wolf!
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If its any consolation, I've made mesefl hungry now. I've only had hot chilli and tomato pasta tonight. And now half a bottle of wodka and a bag of chilli coated peanuts.
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The worlds on rhinestone rockstar monster of a doll baby bubba!
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I think "Brian Glover" has sacrifcied my mate to Satan over a complicated word puzzle.
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Feb 22, 2009 6:29:36 PM CST
The worlds only rhinestone rockstar monster of a doll baby bubba
by toadkillerdog
A doll for all seasons!
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Wind me up!!!
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Really wnated to catch 'pregnant galactica' but I'm fucked.Hola, Toad! Do us proud!Night everoyone.
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Booooootzilla!
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You been howlin son?
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An nom not just syaing that because imfeling good but beacuse Bootsy got his hsitstraight shit stsriaght shit straiogt fuckk!
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Moon or no moon. How's business?
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You're more wankered than me!REEE-SPECT!
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I'm feling damn good! Gona watc scars toniight an see if mickey rorke wins or hetah gets nod for joker but i might fallslseoocayuse i had some arrogant bastersdd when isgit hime too! ha
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I gotta sleep, man. 20 to fuckin 1, got wotk tomorrow.Later...
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Cause ide be dead if i had 325 ounces! fuckin picklds traight up juest embalmed if i did that
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we overtook pregannat galactica! YEEEAAAHHH BABY!
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going to bed now.
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i dont knw why i feel need to post when im drunk maybe cause chips started itand it kinda cool i know iw ull regret it tomoorrw but fick it
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but have a wolf chattin witha drunk toad jsut donet happen eveday
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If Fred can do it so acna I
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need sleep. Work. Wish it was satrudday not sunday.Take it easy, mate.
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thats what ai meant
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hope my dog or my wife drags me upa to bed or puts blanket obver me hope dog doent pee on me
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oh work s gonna be fn tomorrow
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You're lit the fuck up aren't ya?
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im locked and loaded
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Full magazine it seems like.
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Danmn strade
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Feb 22, 2009 7:05:05 PM CST
ah fuck i see a horse with tits wearina dress! i found equinas!
by toadkillerdog
chitty! I found equinas! or maybe that srah jessica parkr
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it's the wicked witch of the west. look at the hooked nose and the wart on the chin!
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One of Hayao Miyazaki's earliest. I'm really liking it so far...
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Betchya dicks to doughnuts.
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Oh well. Looks like Fox Searchlight finally got there little miss oscar winner. Good now finally Danny's films will always get wide release.
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my mouth hurts damit
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Who the fuck was the director this year? Because I want to know what asshole was responsible for:
1. Having Best Song performances without telling us the audience the name of the song, what movie it was from, and who wrote it.
2. Having the orchestra plays selections from the Best Original Score nominees (great idea), but not telling us, the audience, WHAT movie it was from (unless you looked really closely at the screen in the background) OR who the composer was.
3. Having a fucking moving camera that was too far away from the tv screens during the "In Memoriam" section so the audience couldn't read the profession of those who have passed on, and in some instances, their names.
4. Not including George Carline, Patrick Mcgoohan, or Dolemite in the "In Memoriam"? Seriously? What the FUCK is wrong with you? But you put some fucking publicist that NO ONE outside of Hollywood has ever heard of and couldn't give two shits about?
5. NO CLIPS for any of the acting nominees? Are you trying to justify your paycheck? "I need to make things different this year to prove I was a good choice so... let's get rid of the clips and just do more Hollywood backslapping and self-congratulating!"
Look, I think in theory, its a great idea to have past Oscar winners, actors who are your peers, men and women you've looked up to and respected. But for god's sake, you can only say the same thing (you acted great this year!) so man times. 25 times is pushing it. And it slows down the show. Makes it boring. Makes me wish for fucking clips so I can SEE why Penn deserves it more than Rourke.
FUCK I'm pissed.
BUT, I will give credit to the filmmaker responsible for the "Best Picture" montage (I suspect it was Spielberg). I thought editing together clips from past film classics that had a shared theme with the nominee (Apocalypse Now during Frost/Nixon for example) was a fantastic idea and was expertly executed.
That, and Hugh Jackman's opening number, were the only highlights for me this year. Which is weird. All my life, I can not recall another time in which I was THIS disappointed by Oscar night. -
Why have I not heard of this??? Where my Boll boys at? Why is this not covered, YOUR FIRED!
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Why did they play the Jurrassic Park 2 theme song for Steven Speilberg? I mean I know, DGDB knows it, but who else? I guess they were just trying to be different? Whats wrong with the theme song from Hook?
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Its a good theme and an unexpected choice (usual would be JP or Raiders or ET theme), so I enjoyed it. But you're right, the theme from Hook would have been pretty magical.
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http://www.liquidgeneration.com/Media/Games/Quizzes_Puzzles/Personality_Quizzes/Which_Celebrity_Drunk_Are_You/ I'm a fun drunk. Like Danny DeVito, apparently.
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I actually own it. I used to listen to it all the time. STAY OUT OF THE LONG GRASS!!! One day Peter you'll win your accolades.
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not as good as I thought it would be, but parts of it were startingly epic and visionary. The opening act had some of the best parts.
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Meh. Too long and a boring.
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Four over the weekend... The Big Lebowski, The Princess Bride and This is Spinal Tap. All classics that we know so no point pontificating on them. The Last King of Scotland. Hadn't seen it before. Good movie, and Forest Whitaker was very good. Apart from that my weekend consisted of an epic drunkening on saturday night. Now bored at work.
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Feb 23, 2009 4:12:51 AM CST
Just looked at Kevin MacDonalds filmography
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
He made the amazing documentary One Day in September. Also, Touching the Void which I haven't seen but heard is great. Will have to look for it now. And he's got State of Play coming up which I was interested in before, but now am looking forward to seeing.
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http://www.hawkthehunter.com/
http://www.myspace.com/hawkthehunter
First Tales of An Ancient Empire and now this!!! -
"long anticipated sequel" indeed!
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Oi! I gave ye a heads-up a week or so ago! Tunnel Rats got 3 out of 5 in DVD Review magazine.Can we dare to believe Uwe hath made a half decent movie...
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Nice to see TKD, Jarv and Wolf blessing us with their drunken insight.So I watched about 1/3 of the Oscars before I went to bed. Poor technical choices aside, I thought it was enjoyable. The opening number with Jackman was brilliant and I loved the best actor/actress intros with previous winners.Reading Harry's Oscar TB has me thinking most TBers around here could benefit from being shot five times in the head.DGDB aside, I don't understand all the hate. People hating on Penn, Pitt, Maher and Slumdog is just ridiculous.Bought a new computer with an HDMI 24" monitor on Saturday and drank insane amounts of Modelo while I set it up and installed all my applications. Vista looks pretty but it's got too much going on. And a lot of my older apps don't work on it so I kept getting prompted to go buy updates.Put in Red Cliff 2 and the beers took over and put me to sleep within 5 minutes. Woke up in time to witness one of the greatest action spectacles ever put to film. The final battle will cause birth rates to drop as any man watching it will blow out his ballsack. The word epic doesn't do it justice. Now I just need to watch the damn thing sober and all the way through.I enjoyed Last King of Scotland. Not only was that chick smoking hot (seeing her cut into pieces was deeply disturbing though) but Whitaker gave the performance of a lifetime. And meathooks? Yikes!Lord of War was good but didn't have one identifiable character. Opening sequence was aces.I still love Snatch and Lock Stock.I only heard about Tunnel Rats last week. I came close to watching it before I learned it was directed by Boll.Rocknrolla was OK. Body of Lies may be Ridley's weakest effort ever. The cast was completed wasted with that material.Because we talked about it last week I watched Black Hawk Down. Still an amazing movie to me. I wish the higher ups had authorized more strafing runs and wiped out every militant on every rooftop. I would have unleashed hell. Maybe a bomb or two as well. Not like we were going to win the hearts and minds of the people anyway.Vader, give us an update of the zombie short film competition.I'm a drunk who puts his leg through library windows and nearly bleeds to death. My friends tell me I'm a stand up comic when I'm 10 sheets to the wind.
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Even though you had the beer goggles on. I seem to remember Lord of War as okay. Watched Good Will Hunting, 30 days of night, and rewatched The Visitor again. I still like Good Will Hunting, 30 Days of Night...would have been much better if Kate Beckinsdale was in it. But really, there was no one memorable in it. And Mrs. Pillow hadn't seen The Visitor before, so she got to witness the little gem.
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I feel bad for Jenkins because he didn't stand a chance this year. Imagine finally getting an Oscar nom and being up against the comeback story of the year and Sean Penn.30 Days of Night was such a missed opportunity. It had the potential to be one of the great vampire movies but there was some serious miscasting and the wheels really came off in the third act. I have a feeling it's OK with a bellyful of beer though.You know what else would be much better with Beckinsale in it? My bed.
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was the dude who played Tarek (sp), who was quite likable and key to moving the story I thought. Yes, in concept it would seem to be a slam dunk, 30 days of night. Much like with everything in life, beer makes it better.Kate and Monica would be my dynamic duo...sigh.
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Okay, here's a link to a page where you can read about the Five Finalists for the zombie short film competition and watch an embedded video of each. When trying to watch them, I suggest clicking on the video to take you to its page at Vimeo where the screen will be a bit bigger and the action easier to see. I think I'll wait until tomorrow to tell you which film was mine and which film won. I'm curious to see which one you guys like more or which one you think George Romero would like more and which film you think won. So, let me hear your thoughts! http://tinyurl.com/bvnym4
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Twice! The man is incredibly gracious, nice, talkative, humble, and... tall. He's very tall. I went to almost every screening (except "Season of the Witch") he spoke at, and he has very good presence and is full of good stories. And, he likes to do voices too. Very funny guy. This weekend was fantastic.
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I finally get internetz at home and no one is around to chat! Guess I'll actually have to do some work now...
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Just dealing with Coughlins over on the Oscar TB. That guy is such a douche.I'll watch the shorts tonight when I get home.
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I don't know if I've ever been around to be a part of his myopic idiocy. Its fun right now. I'm sure that won't last.
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That's what I've been waiting for! Watching them now. Now I'm going to go mad with suspense trying to figure out which one is yours. Thanks a lot, Vader! :) I'll stop by later to give you my thoughts when I'm done.
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Well all righty! That's what I'm talkin about!Watching them now. No fair - not telling us which one's yours!
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enjoying them
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I was so occupied with the Romero screenings this weekend that I was unable to find the time to stop by here and give you the link. I've thought about telling you which one is mine, but I decided I'd like to get some objective opinions first. Everyone I know loves it, but then again, they *do* know me. And lots of people who don't know me really enjoyed mine and are always happy to meet me. But you guys are a different group, so I'm curious to see which ones you guys like.
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that is some funny shit. sorry if it wasn't yours vader, i did in fact like them all.
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Undead underpants...First off, I've no idea which one is D.Vader's! Couldn't even begin to guess.Antibody - interesting, thought the leading lady had a touch of the Linda Hamiltons about her, she wasn't convincing with her F-bombs, though... The film made me think of Day Of The Dead. Liked the creepy cell neighbours.Devil Comes Down - I thought the narration was too fast. The face at the hole was an obvious scare. Neat twist ending, but he was kind of verbose for a zombie... makes a change from "Brains!"Grey Matter - this one sits apart from all the others in its definition of 'zombie.' Some of the dialogue sounded familiar, "Do you want to see me go nuts...?" Where've I heard that before? Puts me in mind of the movie Identity.See The Dead - This, for me, was the most filmic. Felt professional and there were one or two good camera angles. Night Of The Living Dead homage, nice. Didn't like the weird sky filter. Another neat twist ending.Zombie Hunters - good fun, some funny lines. Did the driver really refer to "Afpakistan..." Genius! Maybe too talky. But exactly how you'd expect the TV to present a zombie holocaust!So, I narrowed it down to between Antibody and See The Dead. I'm feeling the pressure of choosing now!Right. The one I like the most is See The Dead, that's the one my mind keeps turning to. The central performance is strong and it's just wider in scope.Hope it's yours, Mr Vader! If not, well they were all good in their own way.
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District 13 (or B13) DVD arrived today. Wanted it Saturday - comes Monday... Have to wait till weekend now. Better be good, DocP!
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vodka tonight! I'm on best behaviour with 7UP.How slaughtered was Toad yesterday! Superb performance.
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"Where've I heard that before?" Wolf, that line was uttered by Michael Keaton in the first Batman movie.
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Xiphos to the rescue! I should've remembered that. Poor show by me - movie trivia points deducted!
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Kentucky Fried Movie - "Show me your nuts..."
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i reckon vader's was devil comes down. they were all pretty good. see the dead most looked like a zombie movie, but i couldn't understand till the end why the zombies wern't going for her. I liked them all actually.
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If you had been liquered up instead of 7 upped.
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I've got no clue which is his. And I'm shite at reviewing anyway. In See The Dead, the zombies were going for her, though - like 'Barbara' in the house for example. But, again, it was a different definition of 'zombie' once the end comes.Yeh, that "blaspheme" line was funny!
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Vodka's not bad with 7UP actually...
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It's impressive to see folk can put together coherent storylines within a short running time and on a shoestring. But then you don't necessarily need a lot of money to tell a good story. The money makes your project look better maybe, but it comes down to the idea in your head and how you tell it. All 5 tell their stories well.
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Regarding the line from Grey Matter ("want to see me go nuts?"), maybe its reminding you of Michael Keaton in Batman when he confronts the Joker? "You wanna get nuts? C'MON! Let's get nuts!"
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Xiphos beat me to the punch. That's what I get for quick scanning before running out the door again!
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and I'm sure it's a knowing use of the "nuts" line. Grey Matter really does set itself apart. It comes over as kind of personal on some level as well.
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Lights out.Laters, everybody. Have a better one.
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Felt good too! I even fucked up the name of the restaurant. It was Longhorn not Lonestar. Dcent place, steaks can not hold a candle to the high end big boys, but I try to only spend 97 dollars for a steak (Mortons 48 ouncer) twice a year.
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I am just checking the site today
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I think most of those zombie shorts were better than the last 3 or 4 actual zombie movies I've seen. I'm with Therewolf, I don't have a clue which one Vader did either. Could it have been Grey Matter?
If I had to guess which one Romero chose, I'd have to say Zombie Hunters just because it was closest in feel to his last movie, Diary of the Dead. No zombie film is complete without some drunken rednecks. What would Jesus do? Ahahaha. The dude in the Punisher shirt and the American flag dew rag was a nice touch too. -
So how long do we have to wait until you spill?
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What the fuck is with all the bitching? People seriously want the same standard bullshit format? The tribute format for nominees was genius.
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Feb 23, 2009 6:56:59 PM CST
D.Vader......whats the link to the zombie films again?
by dannyglovers_dickblood
Or anyone else that can help....
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Here's the link to Vader's site.http://tinyurl.com/bvnym4
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I'm watching them all in a bit.
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....very well done. I would have liked to have seen a little more gore but the hand cutting was funny as shit. I liked that line "Jesus is coming back a fucking zombie." And holy fuck the end is the funniest shit with that zombie drive-by. Now watching Antibody.
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....its got some good and some bad. It was a little too long I think. It had nice photography and impressive sets and sound design. But there just wasn't enough there for me. I think the ending just felt lackluster to me.
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...it was pretty cool. I really liked end twist. That was clever. My only complaint was the guy that did the voice over. I didn't like his voice or his acting. Though it was well written....
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Very good. This seemed to be a much larger production than the others. Great photography. Really good score. The ending was really cool. Great zombie bullet impacts. I liked the fact that the juice that shot out of them was clear. Great short.
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Feb 23, 2009 8:36:51 PM CST
D. Vader....I'm sorry if Grey Matter is yours.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
I really didn't like anything about this. It starts with like 35 minutes at the restaurant as if its Deer Hunter or some shit.
At about 1:15 there is a blonde chick that stands up from the table. She would be hot if she had implants. That was the highlight for me. The first guy terrorizing Max saying "YOU NEED ME!!" I'm pretty sure he's the worst actor I've ever seen. I don't even know why this is considered a zombie movie. The sound editing was really terrible too. Didn't like it.. -
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http://tinyurl.com/dgh2wc
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WHATDONCHAFUCKINGUNDERSTAND?!
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Feb 23, 2009 9:55:44 PM CST
Instead of going to Church on Easter this year....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
....I'm just gonna watch this on loop all day. http://tinyurl.com/akhlow
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And so did the owner of my local comic shop. Lucky fucker went to some special thing with all the stars there.
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Is it problem if I got an erection that's lasted for more then 4 hours after watching that clip?
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Thank you for them, I've enjoyed reading everyone's opinions (and noticing how similar and yet different they are). I'll announce tomorrow which film was mine and which film Romero picked as the winner. Hopefully some others might see the films before then too.
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The producers behind the contest put them all on and used vimeo.
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Where the fuck were all of you when I was fighting the lonely battle on behalf of the great movie almost nobody saw?
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Individual titles mean nothing. The man is the movement.
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There would be no movement.
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He would have had the same rant on the set of Atonement if it weren't for Equilibrium catapulting him into the action game. Hehehe.
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http://tinyurl.com/83fjrg Freaking awesome.
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Feb 23, 2009 11:33:06 PM CST
Haha. That doesnt even fucking look like Obama!!
by dannyglovers_dickblood
It looks more like this dude on the news in L.A. -- Emmett Miller. http://tinyurl.com/c9r78l
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a mate introduced it to me, amazed that i hadn't seen it. it never got a release in oz but i saw it at his sisters house with an awesome tv and sound sound sound and shit. it was great.
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Feb 23, 2009 11:34:23 PM CST
But still....that is fucking awesome. Can you order it?
by dannyglovers_dickblood
I like the shot of him doing the splits with the sword. AMERICA = FUCK YEAH!
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Like he's about to charge into battle. He even has his mouth open, like he's yelling "Into the breach!" And then the pictures only got better from there.
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And oranges are his reward everytime he does one set?
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Thanks for the link, Vader. Wow...hard to pick a favorite because they are all so differently themed. I think I'd have to go with "Antibody" for two reasons... 1. The idea of the last survivor being trapped, which reminded me a bit of "The Stand". 2. The zombie that offered her the cigarettes was a very clever idea. I honestly liked all of them. Good luck!
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I loved that movie. Good fun, too bad Ultraviolence wasn't as fun. Though I did like the fire sword fight.
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http://tinyurl.com/cgthf3
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Now the Obama/Christian Bale deathmatch I've imagined can come to fruition.
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I'll be offline for a few days. Don't miss me too much. My computer is being packed up tomorrow for my move. I'm letting you know so you won't think I'm ignoring any emails. I hope to be back by this weekend. Have a great week guys!
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We'll let you know who won when you come back!
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Make another bad ass Sci Fi movie. Anyone seen anything about Twohy's upcoming beach thriller?
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Obama: You don't get it. YOU. DO NOT. GET. IT. DO YOU?!! Bale: This city has shown....that there is still good left in it. Obama: Give me a fucking break. You want control. I'll give you control. You control the people by putting the fear.....in them!Bale: Its over Barack. Give it up. There's still hope. There is a better way. Don't become the very thing you have fought against!Obama: That's just what your Father said.....right before I slit his fucking throat.
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Looks like American Psycho left overs.
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a good point, comparing zombie short Antibody to 'The Stand.' It also crossed my mind, when cigarette zombie is offering her the pack, that it reminded me of Lloyd Henried(?) in prison being tempted by Flagg.Weird how we both thought that, Mav!
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is closing on the 10k once more, I see. I can't load it here at work.
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The start may be a little long but I think it works. You know there's something 'off' but then you expect zombies to bust in any second. I did, anyway. Then the story throws you a googly and you're into unexpected territory.The guy is 'zombie' - he's dosed up, so a zombie in that sense.
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I think they love me too.
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This could be it... Has BaleBack's moment of epiphany finally come? Or will they be cruelly denied again?
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It's exciting!
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Oooooh... it's fucking distracting...
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Whoo-hoo! Big ups for the BaleBack - way to go, guys! Let's hear a few tearful award acceptance speeches now...
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I think the 'Busters should be the ghosts this time!They could be trying to alert a rubbish bunch of TV ghost hunters about an impending supernatural doom.
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You gotta love Danny Boyle. I thought he was doing a punk pogo. Just think, he could've directed an 'Alien' movie.Still could...
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CoC where are you? We need some points on the board.Laters.
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Fucking work and this fucking cold are killing me.So I left work early yesterday to rest my sick ass, and I watched Deep Rising and Gozilla 2000. I forgot how bad the monster in Deep Rising looked. I also forgot that Djimon Hounsou was in it. Ax to the head will leave a mark.Best part of Godzilla 2000: the end where Godzilla waddles over to the building where a bunch of people are on the roof watching Godzilla make toast of a giant UFO and creature. One of the guys is holding firm on the rooftop, yelling Goooodziiiiilllllaaaa! to Godzilla's face. This makes Godzilla mad, so he smashed the building with the guy, who crumples down the smashed building still screaming Goooodziiiiiilllllaaaa!
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I was too exhausted to last any longer.
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Ms. Jean Grey looked mighty fine in that red dress of hers...
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Feb 24, 2009 8:50:02 AM CST
Deep Rising is classic dumbhouse
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Treat on a jetski, Famke in a variety of skimpy outfits, Kevin J. O'Connor with elevator music stuck in his head, Studi still trying to shoot O'Connor while he's getting gobbled by the monster and a random party goer getting sucked down the toilet. Pure dumbhouse. We need a sequel.
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And I didn't even get one final post. FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!! Its like not being able to say goodbye to your mum on her death-bed. Fuck fuck fuck fuck.
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Since I missed the fun bc of gdamn sleep! If its like the LOST thread, they lock it right at your goal of 10,000. But hey, welcome to an exclusive club. I got to be part of two of them!
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A few of us have continued posting just to keep the count going. Its odd-- it is still adding posts to the count, but they don't appear on the page.
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Weirded me out for a bit before I figured it out.
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Its pretty hilarious.
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And where the fuck is your revelation as to whether or not you won? Jesus you know how to milk my testicles for drama.
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I think someone posted the URL in the T4 thread. http://www.kongregate.com/games/Rete/dont-shit-your-pants
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This is pretty damn funny. His trailer for "The Colonel". http://tinyurl.com/cmbo7g
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We're fucking done professionally.
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Far as I'm concerned, he never needs to work again.
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Feb 24, 2009 12:44:19 PM CST
Mel Gibson made me proud to be an American.....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
....with The Patriot.
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Feb 24, 2009 12:57:36 PM CST
Dude....these Twitch TB's are fucking dead these days.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
What up with that?
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What's up with the lack of posts you ask? It could be because Jarv's on holiday, Zeddimore is MIA maybe with school maybe, Jonah MIA, TDK work related MIA, Fred work related MIA, I just started another course so I'm mostly compromised during the day until I figure out if I can post during the day. Not sure what's up Franlin and Droid. Mavra she's busy because she's moving, Hustler has school.Or I could be wrong and it's just one of those lulls that happens sometimes. Well of to lunch.
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Miss seeing the CoC firing on all cylinders.
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Poor choice of words on my part. I don't give a shit about what he said, or his drunk driving, or his walkin' about all atadadahdah. But he hasn't acted in years it seems. He's been off the radar. This reminded me just how fucking funny the guy can be.
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....The Bale TB will resume shortly in the QUINT/ZACH SNYDER PS3 TB. The continued support to our cause has proven that WE WILL NOT GO QUIETLY INTO THE NIGHT. BY GOD FIGHT SIDE BY SIDE WITH US!!
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Seriously. Everytime I have internet and time to kill, there's nothing going on!
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Join us.
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been watching Down With The Sickness Bale kicking Equilibrium arse!
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That song is fucking hilarious. Almost as good as "Let The Bodies Hit The Floor" Rambo trailer.
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Seriously, this glut of zombie flicks is going to make it very hard for me to pitch my zombie project. Or maybe it'll make it actually very easy...
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Jesus, man. Is 10k not enough? You're going full-on Bale again? What's left to prove - you won... You beat the system! Revel in your time.
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Stop teasing us! Which one's yours?
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But it seems we're missing a lot of CoC'ers. I'll make the announcement here in a lil bit.
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give people more time to watch those shorts. Hype it up a bit more.
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I was going to watch all of them last night, but some personal problems came up mid-way through the second one and I had to leave the house for the night. I plan to stay at home tonight and watch the rest of them.
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Then the revelations shall wait!
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... by D.Vader's decision. Despite a severe case of blue zombie balls.
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Feb 24, 2009 4:39:13 PM CST
I know....fuck. Talk about a hand-job without a finish.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
GIVE ME THE RELEASE!! GIVE ME THE FUCKING RELEASE!!
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http://tinyurl.com/d85nudWhoo! Get down...
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http://tinyurl.com/b5ljcoWhoo! Who said actors can't sing?Karen Allen - wow, she was tidy!
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a space appears between 'wh' and 'oo' but whatever.
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http://tinyurl.com/cg5xz9Yeehaw!
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You can probably just post the revelations if you want, unless you are concerned about others seeing it. I can just stay off the talkback until I'm finished writing my thoughts.
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"Ye ehaw"?It's Yeehaw! Yeehaw, I tells you!
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... actors singing. I'm sorry, okay. I was bored.
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Vader just wants you to watch them, comment on each one and maybe have a stab at guessing which is his.I know my favourite out of the bunch but I can't even begin to guess which one is Vader's.
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up the ass.
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Did you direct, star or run the catering cart for one of these?
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Grey Matter was just awful. Forced, and stupid. I'm sure they could have found better actors at the pound. Vader, sorry if that one is yours.
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These guys have got to start somewhere...
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Take it easy.
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"Come on! Let's get nuts!" I just heard Jason Alexander on Seinfeld shout that out.
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That the Rock is probably the most respected and liked person to come out of the World Wildlife Federation, and he was a bad guy when he was a wrestler?
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karen allens mouth reminds me of the jokers make up mouth in the time burton batman. I'm just saying
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Thanks a lot for showing all of us those zombie shorts. All of them were great entertainment.My ranking of the zombie movies:1. Antibody2. Zombie Hunters3. See the Dead4. Devil Comes Down5. Grey Matter
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you are my candy girl!
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you gotta watch out for those afpakistanis.
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But for the love of God show a little restraint and don't put your shit out there until you've honed your skills a little. Not everyone's got it. I'd love to be a guitarist in a rock band. I tried. I fucking sucked. I gave up.
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Later he became "The People's Champ." He was arrogant. But he was a good guy. He would always show up randomly to fuck up the bad guys and team up with his former foes. He put those differences aside for the greater good....almost like Mr. Bale.
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National pancake day ended at 10 o'clock! Now I don't get any free damn mother fucking pancakes. Who the fuck eats at IHOP before 10pm? I thought they were only open from 10PM-6AM?
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I saw the Rock when he was with the Nation of Domanation? Is that correct?
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Do you partake in the viewing of Nip/Tuck?
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Fuck yeah Nation of Domination with all those big ass black dudes.
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This TB is almost fucking out of the TOP 10!
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The lady's at her place again tonight so I have the whole place to myself. I'll keep this place posted while I watch My Neighbor Totoro. I've been on a Miyazaki binge for nearly a week now, and it's been amazing.
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That book thing is just stupid. Books are beautiful things. A little flat laptop that can read to you in robot voice is not that great.
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a robot voice? sweet! where can i get one? ah america, the land of dreams. (this may also apply to japan, i'm not sure)
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If it were the little robot that reads to you would also crawl on the floor and pretend to get raped.
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a robot reading you, 'do androids dream of electronic sheep'. that was the shit john lennon was talking about
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also if it were from japan it was look like scotch terrier and would be secretly plotting it's revenge
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cause we are commie homo lovers.
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so glad yo have you.Weren't you the one with all the crazy stories?
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been bailed up due to wisdom tooth removal. totally fucked. i've also been wondering how many commie homos there are out there. what would their meetings be like? I'm imagining a reunion of the Cambridge four.
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commie homos???
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like in sean penn's speech
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I haven't seen it yet. I got excited after the trailer though. That cast looked good.
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when he got the oscar in his speech he thanked all the commie homos who voted for him. there must have been tens.....still, in hollywood....
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I have never seen a movie better display childlike glee in my life. Those two little girls are like two little girls I know.
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You think you could vomit up any more posts concerning Watchmen?Strange, I see wanna see the movie, but I am also already becoming sick of it. I'm sure there is something else cool coming out right?
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Yet another zombie project!! Its in pre-production. Synopsis:AN ELITE TEAM OF SOLDIERS SENT ON A COVERT MISSION IN THE MIDDLE EAST TO STOP WHAT THEY SOON DISCOVER TO BE A GOVERNMENT CREATED ARMY OF THE UNDEAD.
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Feb 25, 2009 12:15:43 AM CST
Oh come on guys....IRON MAN 2 is fucking beating us!!
by dannyglovers_dickblood
Who the fuck really gives a shit about an Iron Man sequel anymore? FUCK!!
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Sounds like it has direct to video written ALL over it.
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Who knew? you would expect AICN to cover something like that. I guess all of AICN bandwith is being taken up with THE Watchmen coverage.I'm with Hustler on this one, I'm looking forward to seeing how the hell thay'll handle the story but sick of hearing about it.The best part of THE Watchmen finally hitting theaters is that now I can spend all my time shitting on Avatar just to break it off in that Motoko Kusugani's asshole.
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yeah Dwayne I can. I smell a bad Disney remake coming out from hollywood. The stench is bad my friend very bad.
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Feb 25, 2009 12:37:05 AM CST
A FUCKING MEN XIPHOS. Destroy the TB'ers crusade.....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
....due to limited bandwith which is being sucked up like a hungry cunt by 20 fucking Watchmen stories. fuck fuck fuck...and FUCK.
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Even if Avatar is the greatest movie ever made(which it won't be) I will spend all my time pissing on it because of people like Motoko blowing something sight unseen, it's annoying.
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I think I can do that before I go to sleep.
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I think I can do that before I go to sleep.
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I love it.
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I think I can help
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that takes up space fast.
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Enough Watchmen coverage please, we get it. Do you really think you need to tell anyone on this site to see the movie? Christ, i got morons at parties telling me how excited they are for Watchmen, now that they suddenly read the book a week ago.
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Maybe the MIA Britishers will take up the slack.
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are about Watchmen in some way.
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there has got to be some other cooler, low radar shit that I don't know about because this site is not giving me any news.
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she tends to show up pretty late.
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I did not forget to write the review. I have just been really busy. Would you still want it?
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I haven't smiled so much while watching a movie since the first time I saw Taste of Tea. What an amazing, wonderful movie.
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Feb 25, 2009 1:00:06 AM CST
Fuck bandwith limitations. I'm not drunk but i'm 96% asleep
by dannyglovers_dickblood
which is the same fucking shit I suppose. I feel like I personally know you fucks and I love everyone of you. Even you Kung. You r bastard sometimes but your like a bastard little brother i cant help but hug at christmas. I love all of you. Except hobocode. fuck him forever. thats it. goodbye world P.S. Not killing myself just going to sleep
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I didn't like that movie? I really don't remember it. I need to watch that Porky and Nautica Of the Valley again. For some reason I was really distracted watching them and didn't get the full force. Plus I think that was when I had my five at a time netflix and was killing three movies a day.
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It was like forever on Very long wait on the netflix so I just moved it down the list. Like the first 20 movies on my netflixs are very long wait.
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Has this been confirmed? I've heard it was a sequel. I have the original on the ole DVR. Speaking of being distracted I am trying to watch Scanners right now and its not engaging me. Need to finish off My Name Is Bruce.
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Mavra is moving so she will not be here for a couple of days but go ahead and send in the review. I guess you could also send it to me if you want to and I'll post it. Technically I'm sort of a moderator.
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And everyone else. Seriously season 2 of Nip/Tuck is worth every bit of your time. There is a whole serial killer story in it that is just great and the person that ends up being the killer actually went to one of my high schools? Watch season 2 and 3, I've never seen season 1 so I can't say for that but after the serial killer conclusion it just never got AS good. Season 4 was kind of boring but season 5 is back on track and just bat crazy. If you check it out and hate it, I promise you I'll find a way to give you your time back.
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Since your here, any good comics? I just read the Mighty, it was ok. Finally caught up on Deadpool and loving it. Read My Name Is Bruce Comic and it was just a short version of the movie. Caught up on Crossed and its OK I think its a little to happy with how crazy they think it is, doesn't go FAR enough for me really.
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Get me some double whammy Nip/Tuck action. New episode and Bradly Cooper in Midnight Meat Train tomorrow. Can't wait to see that very gay sounding movie.
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You guys should get library cards. I have gotten more movie mileage on that than renting or anything else.
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Like I'm excited about it and all, but I have this feeling that its not gonna be that big....well I take that back its gonna be big. Any fucking movie coming out right now has been big (save for the International), it'll be as big as 300. But I'm just glad that I'm not in college anymore, fucking whiny Hot Topic fags coming up to me to tell me how cool the Watchmen comic is. Also I guess I'm glad I don't work right now (well not really it sucks need me's some moneys) but I don't have to go to work to deal with the Entertainment Tonight fans who think they know more then me and just write me off when I out geek them, and whoop there ass.
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I tried to use the Library it was this HUGE pain in the ass, like there was this nice ass library down the street from me, but we couldn't become a member because it wasn't in my district do to the way the city lines were drawn. So we had to use the shitty library like 10 minutes away that sucked. Plus I'm lazy and don't get that much movie watching time so Netflix works good for me, even if they won't hire me.
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I haven't been buying many since I'm dirt poor right now, but I have been digging into the Joe Kelly stuff, particularly Bad Dog and Bang Tango. One is about a werewolf bounty hunter and his semi-midget drunk friend, and the other is about an ex-mafia guy who becomes a tango-ballroom dancer. They may sound weird, but they're damn good.A friend of mine has never really read a lot of comics and he asked me to get him started. I showed him that series of three Thor one-shots. I can't remember the author (I wanna say Peter David?) but I think he ended up thinking they were amazing.
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Porco Rosso is still my favorite Hayao Miyazaki movie. I loved every minute of it, although I think My Neighbor Totoro is a better movie. Porco's got an odd pacing issue or two while My Neighbor Totoro runs smooth as a babbling brook. But damn do I love old-school airplanes. And Porco's got plenty of them.
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i have fucking work in the morning with my boss that looks like the female version of Hagrid that tells me stupid stories anytime I'm near her.
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Nice.
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IS ANYONE, like ANYONE REALLY GUNNING THAT HARD about caring about it? I remember like after Batman 6 Harry coming on and proclaiming why he won't post stupid rumors about who's going to be casted as the next villain in Batman 7. SO WHY THE FUCK ARE THEY DOING IT FOR IRONMAN 2? The only news I want to hear about Ironman is that they've replaced the director, god Jon seems like a really REALLY nice guy but come on Ironman sucked. Five years from now you'll be like? Why the fuck did I like this movie? Plus with all the Batman and Ironman movies and there OH so serious, now Watchmen I'm getting a little serious comic book movie fatigue. That's why I can't wait for Wolverine the dumber the better, which kind of sucks because Wolverine has probably the most interesting back story out of any comic book mainstay (i would've much rather seen a dumb fun Ironman movie, or War Machine which we won't because War Machine is being played by a fucking pussy of an actor instead of an almost perfect choice). But Wolverine as a character has always just been kind of dumb and one note, he is more about the violence and one liners then anyone else, so in a way it makes sense.
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The recent ones? I think I got one of those, haven't read it. I want to get Thor 600 but its like $6 so I've yet to get it. Yeah I read Bad Dog, didn't dig it as much as I was hoping (so I didn't buy BangTango, flipped through it and it didn't grab me). A felt like a lot of Bad Dog didn't flow right, like it skip some steps and didn't make sense. I'll be back for issue two because I like the midget though.
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One more and we'll beat the Oscars!
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Nailed it.
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I got like 3 extra post counts in there? SOMEBODY UP THERE MUST LIKE ME!!! Ok just saw Michael Ironside's literally mind fuck the shit out of someone. Ain't gonna get us to number 1 (number 2 is not a winner). Not sure what I thought of Scanners, it had a LOT of boring parts and NAMES, weirdest end battle I've seen. Who is that other actor, he was pretty bad. He looks like the grown up version of the kid from Joshua? Damn was hoping the credits would just role over that crazy shot of Ironside's face.
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35 movies so far this year. Need to catch up a little bit, seems like most of you are at 40+. God a line up this week of Body Of Lies, Midnight Meat Train, Man Bites Dog, Battle of Algeries, Pope of Greenwhich Village. Is anyone going to see Street Fighter? I would much rather see some coverage or review of that right now rather then Watchmen which we all knew was going to be pretty decent.
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Simply Limeade is the shit. Got my fridge stocked with that and RC Cola right now, and some Choc Beer (AS SEEN IN SPLINTER!).
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Resume and I see that he was in the Any Bully. What a fucking worthless movie that is, anyone watch that? I tried to watch it and turned it off about 15 minutes in.
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Feb 25, 2009 3:23:44 AM CST
Okay, looks like I'm holding the fort in the AM shift
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Which goddamn sucks because I really haven't had bugger all time to watch anything the past few days. *Cracks knuckles*
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Feb 25, 2009 3:25:32 AM CST
Caught half of Romancing the Stone last night
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
A fun little flick that one. And boy was Kathleen Turner sexy in those days. You guys seen Body Heat? Yowser! Me likey.
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Feb 25, 2009 3:28:52 AM CST
How amusing that the Watchmen fans...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
are sidestepping the issue of Kurtzman and Orci having an (albeit uncredited) hand in the screenplay. Some ammo to bring up next time theres a Transformers TB or some such.
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Feb 25, 2009 3:32:10 AM CST
For those who haven't seen Milk
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
It's a really good flick. It was my choice for Best Pic (out of the nominees... In Bruges FTW!). Penn was brilliant. I don't exactly go out of my way to see a flick about gay people (I still haven't seen Brokeback), but this really won me over.
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Feb 25, 2009 3:36:15 AM CST
A Diablo Cody zombie flick. Ugh.
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
But according to Herc she's "superscreenwriter Diablo Cody" and is "batting 1000". Give me a break.
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Feb 25, 2009 3:42:37 AM CST
Green Hornet just got a little interesting
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Purely to see what Gondry will bring to it. Not much interest otherwise.
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Feb 25, 2009 3:44:27 AM CST
Don't know anything about Jonah Hex
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
so not really interested in it at this point. I remember Josh Brolin was attached. Not sure if that is still the case.
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Damn fine actor. Glad to see he's getting some kudos now as he's been quality for a long time. The Goonies of course, but also Mimic and Nightwatch.
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The scene with Brolin cutting his thumb off to get out of the handcuffs. Brutal. I've only seen that flick once, but it's stayed with me. It's not brilliant, but it's pretty good. Also with ultra-creepy performances by Nolte and Brad Dourif.
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Also with McGregor in it. And Ashley Judd. Again, not a brilliant film, but it was just so odd that it made it memorable. McGregor had a string of really interesting odd films prior to getting cast as Obi Wan. Shallow Grave, Trainspotting, Nightwatch, A Life Less Ordinary, Eye of the Beholder among them.
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What's happening?
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Damn, I love that flick. I always thought it was the perfect setup for a franchise. Northam (who was touted as a possible Bond at one stage) is great and a series of flicks about his bad-ass super spy would be awesome.
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I've just been stream of conscious rambling.
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Saturday: Mutant Chronicles - Shit. Like watching a bad videogame cut scene for TWO HOURS.Sunday: Evil-Dad-A-Thon - Awesome. I highly recommend the full back-to-back Evil Dead experience to all CoC types. Very enjoyable.Tuesday: District 13 - Awesome. I'm annoyed with myself for not watching this one sooner, and Cyril Raffaelli is my new hero. Very much looking forward to District 13: Ultimatum now.Also on Tuesday: Ong Bak - Awesome. I enjoyed District 13 so much, I wanted to see some more running and jumping and kicking and whatnot, so I watched Ong Bak again. Good film. Many people getting kneed in the chest in that one.I am now up to 77 for the year, which is a few too many, I think.
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Funniest typo since Clodplay.Obviously, that should be Evil Dead-A-Thon.
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Feb 25, 2009 4:05:51 AM CST
Have you had time off, Frankie?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
It's quiet around these parts in the AM.
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Stepfather, This Boys Life, The Shining... what else?
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Keep up the rambling, mate.
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I have spent two days laying in bed, coughing, sneezing, dreating soup, and watching a whole bunch of Supernatural episodes.I am now back to work, kicking myself for not squeezing an extra day off out of my man flu.
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A few years ago I bought a box set of his. 14 or 15 films in the one box for about £20. A lot of them I haven't seen. I think that's going to be my next 'A-Thon'. I feel like going back and watching some classics. Stuff I haven't seen before.
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I'm not too sure what to do next, though.I recently came into possession - for the measly price of 7 English quids - of the Robocop Trilogy box set, so that's a possibility. Trouble is, after the first one, there's a big step down to part 2, then a huuuuuuuge fucking drop to part 3, so I'm not sure I can take it all three in one go. At least the Evil Deads are all good. Robocop goes from 'Great' to 'Okay-ish' to 'Holy fucking christ, what the fuck did they do to Robocop!' in the span of three films.
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I actually think it goes in the space of two films. The second film is absolute fucking rubbish and mistakes nastiness for satire. The first is absolutely brilliant. There are no other Robocop flicks IMO.
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did you know that one of the stars of nip tuck is the son of an australian prime minister? fuckhead.
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the droid i'm looking for.
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Is it really that bad?I can't remember much about it, except it has Tom Noonan out of Manhunter in it.
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i liked it, but only in sense of it being an over looked gem. It did seem patchy but, as if it was made with big limitations so i was happy to overlook the patchy parts.
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I hated it. Really a nasty piece of work.
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Definitely an overlooked gem. I just think it's very well constructed so that 'surprise' ending was actually fairly surprising. And it left me wanting further adventures of Sebastian Rooks. Awesome spy name as well.
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Having watched all three in a row, I reckon I still like Evil Dead II the best. No film has ever blended horror and comedy as well as that one does, and Bruce Campbell is just great in it.Bruce is also great in Army Of Darkness, which has the best one-liners of all the Evil Deads, but it gets a little too goofy in places, and I always lose interest in the film during that battle with all the skeletons. What the fuck do I want to watch skeletons for? What happened to all the ankle-stabbing evil bitches? It's kind of a jarring film to watch right after the first two because it's so different, but I still like it. I remember it really bumming me out when I first saw it, but it's grown on me over the years.And the first one is still a classic. It blows my mind to think that Sam Raimi made that film when he was nineteen. I don't have that kind of drive and commitment now, let alone back when I was nineteen.All in all, Evil Dead is one of the few trilogies that remains good throughout all three films. Not many other trilogies can say that. Anyone who has a spare 4 1/2 hours could do much worse giving the Evil Dead-A-Thon a go.
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I have all three Bournes, so I might give that a go. Also, when Transporter 3 is out on DVD, a Transporter-rilogy-A-Thon is definitely in order.What else can I do?Not Star Wars. Fuck Star Wars. And not Lord Of The Rings, either - too fucking long.Back To The Future, maybe?Any other suggestions?
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The sequels sucked. I've done the BTTF trilogy a few times. It's awesome (BTTF is my fav flick). Now that the final one is out, I reckon a Rocky-thon would be a good one. I like the fact that it comes full circle and Rocky's living back in his old neighbourhood. Good series, even if 5 was absolute rubbish. Also, I thought of another for your classic original/shit sequel double-bill. An American Werewolf in London/Paris. Man that Paris one was shite.
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Feb 25, 2009 5:45:25 AM CST
The original Star Wars trilogy is a great watch
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
It's just the prequels that have ruined it. Ignore them. Watch the originals. It's not a trilogy, but the Jack Ryan flicks are a pretty good series. HFRO is just awesome. PG and especially CAPD are good. I also like TSOAF which most people didn't.
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No way, Jason Bourne is alright by me. I like all three of those films.And I don't want to do Star Wars because I just don't have any interest in it any more.I like the Rocky suggestion, though. The Six Days Of Rocky Balboa could be a good one. Also, there's a cheesy-looking Rambo box set going pretty cheap up Morrisons. I could try all four Rambos in one day, but that might be a bit much.
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The sequels were chop-socky edited rubbish with zero fucking story. It's like watching a Michael Bay flick in an earthquake. Theres a complete Rocky boxset at HMV for £15 that caught my eye.
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Feb 25, 2009 6:18:04 AM CST
The trilogy to end all trilogies is...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
The Naked Gun. Genius.
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Damn, I just ordered a Rocky box set off Amazon for £18!If only I had been a little more patient...Still, I'm looking forward to doing all the Rockys once it arrives. Should be good.
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Seeing as everybody else is listing them in order of preference, I'll have a go.1. See The Dead2. AntibodyHmmmm... I'm torn...3. Zombie HuntersNow I'm really torn...4. Grey Matter5. Devil Comes DownThe guy's delivery in Devil has notched it down below Grey Matter - which itself just needs reining in somewhat.
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I don't know if Xiphos is around at the moment, but I'm bored so I'm reporting on Supernatural anyway.Thanks to my two days of illness, I've ripped through the first 11 episodes of season 1, and so far it's not bad. I can kind of see why I wrote it off initially, though. It's got that X-Files monster-of-the-week format, which I'm not too keen on, and it's early days so it doesn't have the more developed mythology I've seen in the season 4 episodes. Still, I'm going to stick with it. The good episodes are pretty entertaining, and so far there's only been one out and out stinker (something about evil bugs). And it'll be nice to see them flesh out the mythology as it progresses.All I have to do now is try to remember that Dean out of Gilmore Girls is not called Dean in this show. he is called Sam. Dean is the other one.
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Jack Ryan movies?Lethal Weapon movies?
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Must be important to have all those TB's. Is it based on one of those colouring books?
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or cars, vehicular rampage movies. You could have Maximum Overdrive, Duel and The Cars That Ate Paris - something like that.
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The Man With No Name and the Vengeance trilogies.To me, even better than watching a trilogy is watching 3 films back to back that really compliment each other with their common themes. 12 Angry Men, Dog Day Afternoon and Glengarry are an ideal way to spend an afternoon.
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The Longest Day, A Bridge too Far...Critters and Gremlins...
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Thoroughly enjoyed Invisible Target, loved it.
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Feb 25, 2009 7:45:15 AM CST
we must stand firm against the onslaught of Watchmen
by just pillow talk
threads.You shall not pass! *Pillow slams down staff to ground*
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Watching them perform some of the crazy stunts, like I seem to remember the scene with the bus. I think that dude bounced off the bus a few times.
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And the Alien/Predator 8 films in a weekend blowout. Plus, there was Spider-Man Saturday, Fantastic Four Friday, the Blues Brothers Bipolar Duo-rilogy, and now I've added the Evil Dead-A-Thon to the list.Jesus, I should really get out more.I'm not a huge fan of the Jack Ryan films, so those are out, and I can't stand any of the Lethal Weapons except for the first one.I like HOD's Vengeance suggestion. That's a really good one, and I've been meaning to watch all three of those again.
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Universal Soldier, Cyborg, and Bloodsport. The choices are endless, however.You could follow that up with the pony tailed fatty marathon: Under Siege, Above the Law, Marked for Death.
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But that's just too easy.
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in Invisible Target as well. Like when they've had a massive dust-up in a restaurant and go back to this guy's house. They take their shirts off and start massaging each other's bruises - and the guy's Mum walks in! Quality...
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And then do the double dip of Catwoman and Electra.
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Cliffhanger, Lock Up, Tango & Cash, Nighthawks, Cobra.
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Under Seige remains the only film of his I've made it all the way through without falling asleep.
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back to work.Laters.
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Commando, Running Man, Total Recall, Red Heat.
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Feb 25, 2009 7:55:12 AM CST
I already have enough Stallone on the menu, I reckon
by franklin t marmoset
I ordered the Rocky box set today, so that'll be coming up soon. After that, I'll be doing all the Rambos.Most likely, I'll be sick of the sight of Stallone after that.
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We'll ignore Godfathers for now...Miller's Crossing, Goodfellas, The Untouchables.
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Feb 25, 2009 7:57:56 AM CST
yes, in that case you'll be overloaded with roids...
by just pillow talk
Steroids I mean, not graboids.
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That's just plain mean, jpt.No man could survive a double bill of those two.
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Since I just saw it: Deep Rising. Then you have Leviathon, Species, Deep Star Six, Mimic, Relic.
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...the all shit, all Eddie Murphy weekend.Dr Doolittle 1 & 2, Nutty Professor 1 & 2, Norbit, Meet Dave, and maybe Pluto Nash. The masochist in me is tempted, but then I remember how out of sorts I was after watching In The Name Of The King and I decide against it.
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but I suppose you're right. Sometimes I too much of a cunt myself. I take back that double dip suggestion. These are not the droids you are looking for. Move along.
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Holy shit. I double very much you could survive such a weekend. Nay, I find it impossible you would last through all of that horrific Eddie contributions to films.
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I DOUBT very much you....I double? I double dare you!
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Feb 25, 2009 8:20:08 AM CST
I could never go through with the Eddie Murphy thing
by franklin t marmoset
It's a funny idea on paper, but so was the Uwe Boll triple bill, and I couldn't go through with that, either.I came close, though. There I was, standing in Blockbuster with all three DVDs in my hand (In The Name Of The King, Bloodrayne, Postal), when a strange and oft-ignored voice said to me: "This is a really, really bad idea, you idiot." And for once I paid attention to it.ITNOTK alone was bad enough. I don't even want to think about how bad all three together would have been.
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Feb 25, 2009 8:30:35 AM CST
I much prefer themed weekends...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
as opposed to series. That way you get a variety of similarly without the over-exposure of certain actors or characters. A Lethal Weapon-a-thon would do my head in because. Pesci in particular. The fucking character worked in one film. He grated in the other two. My recent Slater-thon was quite simply, way too much Slater.
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And Nitchwatch was pretty crap remade by the director who made the original. Never saw the original.
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Was like watching an Evil Dead A Thon. All the pain of sitting through a bunch of movies but without the fun of them being actually Evil Dead movies just a mindless ego boost. It was fine and all but really pointless.
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Also has a TV movie called Masturbator in his list of credits. Wonder what that could be about?
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Is actually very watchable.
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Because if it's like an Evil Dead-A-Thon, that's fine with me. I thoroughly enjoyed watching all three films in a row (no pain involved at all).I haven't seen My Name Is Bruce yet. I think it's out next week here.
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The Chan-wook Park Revenge trilogy all in a row? That would be pretty crazy to sit through.
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Is a little fun movie, where you can tell that they had more fun making it then what was put on screen. The especially painfully obvious if you watch the making of extra feature. Its just silly and fun, just good enough to be watchable and a tiny step up from a Sci-Fi channel movie.
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Ha! Pretty much says everything about our difference in taste. Eye of the Beholder/Nightwatch = Crap Under Siege 2 = pretty watchable. Fair enough, mate. Each to their own.
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Feb 25, 2009 9:13:09 AM CST
I haven't done the Vengeance trilogy in one sitting yet
by hawaiian organ donor
But I really should.Wolf, glad you enjoyed Invisible Target. It was as pure action as any Hollywood movie and the stunts were gold.JCVD just came out yesterday so a Van Damma-thon could be finished off with his latest effort.I'm with the Under Seige 2 crowd. It was dumbhouse at it's finest and Bogosian chewed up so much scenery it tripled production costs.Plus, they used the exact same exploding footage from On Deadly Ground so it gets points for recycling.
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It's extraordinarily self-indulgent, but still somehow good.And either Jean Claude is a much better actor than I've ever given him credit for or he really is breaking his little Belgian heart in that film.
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Maybe it's good, I don't know, but Seagal's magic touch of sending me to sleep was in full effect in that film.Steven Seagal is like a glass of warm milk to me.
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Vengeance trilogy all in a row. Especially if viewed in the order they came out. When I first watched them recently, I started with Oldboy then Sympathy. Compared to those two, Lady was all sunshine.
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...is fucking brutal. And I like the films. But its very difficult to sit through all of them in a row. -
C'mon! I know you can do it! Resident Evil Rush Hour X-Men Conan (inc Red Sonja as the third) Shrek (I just saw my life flash before my eyes) Ace Ventura (inc. the new Ace Ventura Jnr) Jurassic Park Legally Blonde (apparently there is a DTV third flick) Look Who's Talking Austin Powers Major League (I do love the first one though) Maniac Cop Rodriguez's Mexico trilogy Mimic (apparently there are two more) Mission Impossible Beverly Hills Cop The Mummy Oceans 11,12,13 POTC Poltergeist Porkys Crocodile Dundee Scream The Skulls (as if the first wasn't bad enough) Spy Kids Friday High School Musical )You know you wanna) Okay I'm over it.
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Feb 25, 2009 9:34:06 AM CST
The trilogy I WILL be watching soon is...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Mad Max. Just gotta get me the dvds. Oh yeah.
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What's that, about 9 hours?That's too much even for me.
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I think there was one joke that I actually laughed at and it had something to do with the hooker that comes to his trailer. The rest was painful. It was like humor for a fucking 5 year old. Actually....I'm not even sure a 5 year old would find that shit funny. It was painful. The audience was clearly forcing out the laughs, but I got the sense most people were bored as fuck. And I was doing shots during the movie!! And excited as fuck. Perfect recipe for success. Bruce is a smart guy and knows what he's doing. There was no excuse for this shit. His head was so far up his own ass he was making a movie only he could enjoy. Seriously one of the biggest let downs since Indy IV. Come on-- Bruce fucking Campbell playing himself and being recruited to fight real monsters in a small town!! When I heard that premise I almost popped a wad. But Jesus Christ.....we get a fucking Lifetime channel movie with a guy in a Power Ranger suit and an hour and a half of Campbell desperately trying to be funny again with this bullshit love story no one gives a fuck about and Ted fucking Raimi playing multiple characters like he's some comedic prodigy. Fuck that.
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...Shrek trilogy, Legally Blonde trilogy, or High School Musical trilogy.To be fair, though, I've never seen a High School Musical film. Maybe I would love them, I don't know, but they look incredibly nauseating.
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Is there a box set? I only like to buy box sets these days.
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the Jean Claude Van Damme dual-role-a-thon Double Impact, Maximum Risk and Replicant.
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....that trilogyathon would be fucking sweet. Who could have directed a third film in the 80s? Hhhhhhmmmmmm........my money is on Walter Hill.
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I'm very tempted.
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Bargain. I bought it!
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It's what all the cool kids are doing these days.
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The one where he starts screaming about Jews and Sugar Tits? Thats the version I want.
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Yeah, Hill's a good choice. Or Don Siegel or maybe Peter Yates (who directed Bullitt).
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Feb 25, 2009 10:03:03 AM CST
if I had a choice...I would bring back Frankenheimer.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
But if I had to go with new blood, yeah-- either Walter Hill or maybe Sidney Lumet.
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Feb 25, 2009 10:04:33 AM CST
Have you guys ever seen the video...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
of the car driving at speeds up to 140mph through the streets of paris? In about '76 an 'unknown' person mounted a camera on a giro on the hood of a ferrari and drove it at about 5am on a sunday morning. It's crazy. Great vid. Should be on youtube.
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Feb 25, 2009 10:07:06 AM CST
I'd be happy for Lumet to direct anything.
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
The guys an absolute legend.
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http://tinyurl.com/ak24ox
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Feb 25, 2009 10:10:18 AM CST
I've seen that...its called C'Etait un Rendez-Vous
by dannyglovers_dickblood
It used to be on youtube but it was removed because of copyright bullshit. The one you're talking about is like less than 10 minutes right? I'll look for it.
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Everyone should check this out.
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Can't check youtube at work. But thats the same one you're talking about. Goes for 9 minutes.
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http://tinyurl.com/b4396r
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We finally made it back to the top of the tree.There we are, sitting comfortably atop no less than FOUR fucking Watchmen threads, and we are wiping our asses on all their faces.Good for us.
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TRIPLE H IS THE PRIME EXAMPLE OF A MAN WHO LOOKS LIKE TARZAN, BUT WRESTLES LIKE JANE.
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MANKIND LOOKS LIKE 10 POUNDS OF MONKEY CRAP IN A 5 POUND BAG.
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SLAP THE TASTE OUT OF YOUR MOUTH RATHER THAN SHAKE YOUR HAND
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Located on the corner of Know-Your-Role Boulevard and Jabroni Drive.
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Oh, well. Time to go home anyway.Cheers, all
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This is a hit and runpost because I have a break.Supernatural works like this. The pilot rocked out. Then the show meandered a bit finding its voice. Right about where you are they find it and the picks up considerably especially season to season.FYI, in season two I think, they make a joke about The Gilomour Girls and Sam. Be on the look out, it's when the Winchesters take a tour of a Studio looking for ghost. It's one of the funniest episodes of the series. I'm out later.
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My doctor and spiritual advisor, both of whom happen to be Christian Bale, said I should refrain from participating in amateur talkbacks. Only professionals.
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This TB is dead for days and suddenly I've got like 200 posts to comb through!
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Mainly bc my ex-girlfriend's house was out in the country and her layout was very similar to that of Drew Barrymore's in the first film. We did that a couple of times in college.
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Thats a little too much Arquette.
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If Bale ever met him in person, Bale would rip his fucking head off
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'Cept in the 3rd one. Dunno what the fuck was up with her body or hair.
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after the scream movies, b/c her cans are monumentally bigger now.
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...since Masters of the Universe.
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Hee hee. That's going to be my new catchphrase from now on.
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So how much longer do we have to wait for you to spill? Come on, man. We can't take it anymore!
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I totally agree with you about My Name Is Bruce. It's nice to know I'm not the only one who feels that way about it.
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escaped my notice that Franklin completely ignored my Vehicular Rampage-athon. Apart from Duel, The Cars That Ate Paris and Maximum Overdrive - you could also have The Car, plus the criminally underrated Christine. Then there's the animated Monty Python cars that hide behind lamp posts and leap out onto unsuspecting pedestrians.
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on telly for the movie Franklyn. Wasn't it featured on Twitch a month or so ago?Looks okay. Is it another comic book thingy?
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The Car is great. Brolin at his finest.
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That video is fucking mental. How many pigeons did he manage to mow down? In fact, it was downright dangerous driving! Where's a copper when you need one...
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It truly is. But it's been a few years since I've seen it. I remember The Car plowing through a house, that's about all!
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don't think it had a driver. Just a big fuck-off limo tooling around going after various townsfolk.
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When I first saw that film I adopted one line which became a permanent catchphrase - "You can't polish a turd." Whenever I got the chance, I trotted that line out.Couple of years ago my sister got back off holiday in Devon and says "I brought you a gift back..." I take the tissue wrap off and it's a shiny stone, really interesting colouring and surface detail. I said "Cheers, cool rock."She said - "Oh, no. It's not a rock. That's fossilised dinosaur dung. Just so you know - you CAN polish a turd!"I've been traumatised ever since.I now use Rowdy Roddy Piper's "That's like putting perfume on a pig" line from They Live whenever I can instead.Let's see her come back off holiday with one of them!
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... by Watchmen.Who do the Watchmen watch and why should I watch Watchmen?
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Hugh Jackman's opening number at the Oscars. Not bad! I didn't know he was a singist. I like singing actors. Endless fun.
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When Tom Cruise started warbling to his daughter in War Of The Worlds - I'm sorry to admit I nearly give meself a hernia through laughing.I know. I know. It was supposed to be touching and moving and I'm sorry. But ye tears of mirth did run-eth.
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THE BALEBACK LIVES!! We lost Brother Kurt Lockwood....so we're probably down a few hundred posts or so. We can now post again and take it back to 10k and put it back on the motherfucking TOP 10!
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It was either this one or Spies Like Us where a doctor sticks her hand up Chevy Chase's arse and he bursts into 'Moon River...'For about 20 minutes after that I couldn't get the image out of my head. I was in uncontrollable hysterics. Luckily, the cinema audience had a sense of humour and they were just laughing at me... errr... laughing. Embarrassing. It was one of those, you get it under control for a few seconds - then BWWWAAAAHHH!
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Ohhhh, goooood... good for you!
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Cheers.
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Thats the same sort of molested yet hilarious feeling I get while watching Besson's Subway.
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The Vengeance Trilogy is easily my favorite trilogy of movies I have ever seen. They may be a little tough to watch since they can be so morbid and pessimistic, but damn if that ain't fine filmmaking.And the Man With No Name trilogy is my second favorite trilogy. So kudos to you.Okay, I think that's enough man-love for one day.
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seen My Neighbor Totoro? Because that has suddenly become one of my very favorite movies. And I saw it for the first time last night. Nobody even seems to want to talk about it.
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I bring that movie up and the place goes quiet.Sonova bitch.
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Does everybody have a problem with me now or something? I went to a meeting and came back and still nothing.
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I like that term Wolfie! I was indeed slaughtered sunday night. Unusual on a night before work, but I was out with friends and we had a blast, and beers and more beers and some steak, and some beers.
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so it's harder for me to be consistently slaughtered. And usually every time I snag some booze, I'm enjoying it so much, it never lasts more than a few days, if not the night.
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Don't drink! It is not too late. You are young -save your liver! The liver is not evil, it does not need to be punished! That is an urban myth! Drinking leads to mind altering and synapse killing episodes of liquid induced euphoria! But it is a bad. Bad. Very bad. However, if you do drink - and it is ILLEGAL to do so under age 21, but if someone spiked your coke (cola) with vodka that is colorless and odorless and so you had no clue it was there, if some nefarious person did that, and you found yourself inebriated, then make sure you log on and post!
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McCormicks Rum or Voldka. Like $10 get to blasted for a week or two. And its got one of those all day hangovers to it too. We all had to do it. We all ain't got money for Mount Gay and Bacardi all the time.
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Yeah I saw it. Just don't remember it. Don't worry Fu usually about 75% of the time I feel like the shit I post gets skipped over.
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Where? I know where you live HOD and they got worse DVD selection there then where I live??? What the fuck? I want to see this movie soo bad! I fucking love Double Team, my fav Van Damn (proof that Rourke wasn't doing nothing for forever).
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And I'm all out of gum. And ready to butcher some awesome quotes. Pissed off that I had to watch Dook beat Maryland tonight. Especially after watching the Liev Schriber narrated HBO documentary "The Battle for Tobacco Road: Duke vs Carolina".
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About My Name is Bruce, I am just too big of a pussy to say it so eloquently. It really was a waste, at least I just had to walk to my post box.
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About Alan Moore and how he is all on his high hat about, I'LL NEVER WATCH A MOVIE ADAPTATION OF MY COMICS. He sold the rights to his shit, what the fuck did he expect? And if anyone wanted to be part of his crusade they are all stupid, because of these movie Alan will get even richer. If he was ON SUCH A MORAL HIGH GROUND he would have kept his shit his own.
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I may have to wander down to the market and buy a good cut and grill it this weekend. Along with a fine bottle of Shiraz. Thanks Vader! Series, sometimes it is difficult cutting through the clutter here.
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At one time, against commercializing his or another artists music. To which I always thought was total bullshit, because the act of selling your music means it has become commercial. So taking a holier than thou attitude about licensing it for commercials, is hypocritical. If you were so concerned about artistic integrity you would just give the music away and charge nothing for it. Moore wants to feel like he is above that - now that he has his money. He is a good writer, but far, from the best comics writer, and he only makes the lower half of my top ten. Dave Sim is the greatest of all time, followed by Stan Lee. Well I'm outta here.
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By doing something Wal Mart recently about it. He said that he was just trying to get his music to the masses for as cheap as possible.
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Feb 25, 2009 10:46:27 PM CST
The thing with Alan Moore is he lives on another planet.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
He is not of this world. He's a fucking magician and spoken word artist. He hangs with an inner circle of ghouls that smoke crack and fuck eachother. I doubt he owns a tv or goes on the internet. He seems very disconnected from the world. He obviously wants to make a shitload of money. But does the existence of these films bother him? Probably not. He doesn't get involved in the production and just pretends they don't exist. He admits to not seeing them or having any interest in seeing them. He considers his original works to be the only true works, so he can give a fuck about adaptations. Thats why he'll just sign over the rights to everything he's ever done. To him-- that shit doesn't exist. I'm not some Moore scholar. I've just been reading a lot about that fucking freak lately.
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Feb 25, 2009 10:48:33 PM CST
And Series.....I read EVERY SINGLE POST in Twitch TB's.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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In high school that was a self loather and joked with the class and let us make fun of him. We pretty much gathered that all he did all day was act very feminine and practiced on every instrument as school. Then when home put his bag on the ground and watched his old ass TV that he didn't have a stand for and it just sat on the ground, and he didn't have any furniture he would just stand there watching the TV on the ground. That's what I see Alan Moore being.
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has some of the best writing I have ever seen in a comic. There have been some opening pages to those issues that read like poetry.
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I collect every post you make and save it in a word file and print out the new stuff every week and keep the ever growing book next to my bed and read it to help me go to sleep happy and aroused.
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Is Moores swap thing the complete collection that just came out recently in trade? Like is it just one trade or a bunch of stuff? Like I thought the Transmetropolitan was just one trade, its fucking 10!!! That's a big purchase. Same with the invisible and Rising Stars, I want to read all that but I ain't got the money. So I'll just buy Superman All Stars for now and Too Cool to Be Forgotten.
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Double Team is also my favorite Van Damme film as well. And Droid that sounds like an awesome idea for a JCVD trilogy but I have an even better one. Make it his three surrealist films. Double Team, Knock Off, and Street Fighter. Three movies of his that make no sense and seem like they were originally 9 hours long and edited down by David Lynch. Watching those=perfect night.
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God I hardly remember that movie, huge let down from Double Team even though its the same director. Funny fact, another teacher story. There was this teacher in my high school, she was a useless art teacher who always carried around this bag that said KNOCK OFF on it, one day in class I got a close enough to it and saw that it was a like a swag from the movie.
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....I used to have the poster for some odd reason. And the photography in the trailer is fuckin' righteous. Though I've never seen it.
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it is so good to be part of the C of C with you amazing posters. You all have got to be some of the funniest writers I have ever met.I bought Street Fighter on tape a few weeks ago. Incredible. So many total misses and nonsense lines. Like who the fuck wrote Guile's speech? Since when does a general saying he's gonna kick some guy's ass, and at the end say "WHO'S COMING WITH ME!!!?" qualify as good motivation to go to war? And why the fuck is D-JAY some lieutenant in the Shadaloo army? And why the hell aren't Ryu and Ken the main characters?
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Feb 25, 2009 11:23:56 PM CST
WHO'S GOING HOME....AND WHO'S COMING WITH ME?!!!
by dannyglovers_dickblood
Bad ass delivery.
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Come 2012, you certainly have my vote for Congress.
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would have Ryu and Ken as the protagonists, but also heavily feature Dhalsim and E. Honda. Oh, and there's got to be a really good Vega fight. He's a great visual character. And there's got to be lots of fanboy service shots of Chun Li. And can we get a real version of Blanka please? That version in the live action movie was dumb as shit.
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That has to be the craziest most absurd action movie I've ever seen. Just the Dennis Rodman stuff was weird enough but add to that the stuff about The Colony and you have something that is either complete shit or a work of genius. Knock Off was pretty good. Though I confess I havent seen it in a really long time. I do remember that the whole point of the movie was that Paul Sorvino was trying to make high quality bomb/jeans or something like that.
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But funny. So we got a new kitten a couple months ago, and she is still really tiny. I do this thing where I pretend that she is my beard, there for giving me a kitten beard. So tonight I did it and she FREAKED THE FUCK OUT, fucking scratched the shit out of the side of my face. I'm still bleeding, and I got an interview on friday, hopfully I won't have to explain the scratches.
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Is just amazingly crazy and action is pretty good. How about the coke vending machines saving Dennis and JCVD's life? Are the scene where Van Damn rips a bath out of the ground?
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Feb 25, 2009 11:30:09 PM CST
As far as old school games....I want a kick ass CONTRA movie.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
Two bad ass special forces commandos infiltrate a mysterious island where an evil alien force plots to take over the world. The script should have an opening title crawl to explain the backstory, 15 lines of dialogue, and 90 pages of non-stop ass kicking.
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I have the movie on DVD and there is actually a commentary by the director/writer. Its the same guy who wrote Die Hard. Anyway on there he basically admits to writing the whole movie in one night to get it greenlit and then making up certain parts of the movie(including Guiles speech, which he was actually very proud of) during the day of shooting.
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Feb 25, 2009 11:31:39 PM CST
oh yeah-- and CONTRA original score by: VAN HALEN
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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Is there going to be absoultly no coverage of the new Street Fighter movie? I mean I've heard little to nothing about it.
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Wish I had a nice steak to go with this. Instead, it was vegetarian burritos supplied by my girlfriend. Which were delicious, don't get me wrong. But damnit if I don't want a good cut of red meat from time to time. Give me a good filet or NY Strip, please!
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Which means I've always got good wine to drink when I'm putzing around on the Twitch TB.
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Watching Destroyed in Seconds, one of Time Magazines top three shows of all time, and they had this thing in Holland where a fireworks storage facility caught on fire and pretty much blew up. It killed 22 people and injured 1,000! People at first where standing around watching the fireworks come out of a building.
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Out of a box, and I lived in Italy for three years.
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Actors Michael Clarke Duncan and Neal McDonough fell out on the set of their new action movie Streetfighter: The Legend Of Chun Li after a basketball spat got out of hand.
The two stars spent the final three weeks of the shoot refusing to speak to one another outside of scenes in which their characters had dialogue together.
The Green Mile star Duncan recalls, "He was my only buddy and we got so mad at each other playing basketball one evening that we stopped speaking to each other for the rest of the shoot."
The pair recently patched up their differences in time for their promotional duties.
Duncan adds, "When we saw each other for the press day we were like, 'What did we do that for?' I was so miserable without him in Bangkok. I had nobody to be with."
And the heavyweight star admits basketball wasn't the only thing he and McDonough quarrelled about: "He loaned me, like, 2,000 Bahts, which is like 15 bucks, and he made a big deal about me not paying him back on time... We argued a lot." -
were you in the military?
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Feb 25, 2009 11:47:00 PM CST
Not one fucking review for it on Rotten Tomatoes?!!
by dannyglovers_dickblood
Fuuuuuuuuuck. So they are having absolutely zero screenings before the release? Hehehe.
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Chris fucking Klein is in this shit? Check out this quote by his character.... "His name's Bison. I've tracked him through eleven major cities on four continents and never come close, not once. This guy walks through the raindrops. Anybody that's against him is either dead, or on their way." Now imagine Chris Klein delivering that....hahahaha. Now laugh your ass off as you stroke your swollen cock. Now goodnight. Fuckers.
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That the fucker geek-writer responsible for the script, who for some FUCKING UNKNOWN REASON, was handed the reigns to the He-Man script and Voltron script and Green Arrow script, despite having not a SINGLE script made into a movie yet- might not be so "great" as we've been led to believe. Which means.... REWRITES. And I'm fine with that. 'Cause Street Fighter looks awful. But that could be a case of bad advertising. I spose.
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Has anyone played the PS2 version of Contra? It's top notch gaming. Short, but very sweet.
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I thought he was Dan. That guy's like a sort of Guile clone that wears glasses during his fights. Betcha he doesn't have glasses in the new movie though.
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The character that was friends with Street Fighter II's Guile, meaning he was the whole reason Guile got involved with investigating Bison and joining the tournament. I watched Street Fighter Alpha anime on SciFi Channel last night and REALLY want SFighter IV on Wii right now (if its out for that system). Seems like a better sequel than SFIII ever was.
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I like Neal McDonaugh and all, but damn, does he look WRONG for the part (if the part is faithful to the source). FUCK this screenwriter who has Hollywood fooled into thinking he's the next "geek-god" writer. No one will top Gomez Addams.
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But I don't get this. On IMDB it says Michael Clarke Duncan is Balrog/Bison, Neal McDonough is Bison/Vega, and this dude named Taboo is Vega/Balrog. WHAT THE FUCK?!!
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but never really gave it much thought because I didn't want to spend the money. But SF4 is starting to sound more and more like the reason I will make a move to HD.
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My dad was in the Navy. I did a stint in the Coast Guard.
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They're all fucked up clones from the original film. Apparently the VanDamme clones didn't survive.
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And Danny, to answer the "Bison/Vega, Balrog/Bison" thing, the names were changed when the game moved from Japan to the United States. The original Japanese names actually make a little more too. For example, M. Bison was originally the name for the boxer fighter. The name was meant to resemble Mike Tyson's name. M. Tyson = M. Bison.
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Cool.
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I own a Wii, and I hardly play it. Every time I look at it I see $300 worth of comics.
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Its just weird they mix and matched so many names.
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I lived in England for three years, that's why I can understand everything those blimy Brits say.
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Is directed by the guy that did Doom. Doom was very weak. I remember all the hype about the SINGLE player shot or whatever.
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....directed Exit Wounds AND Romeo Must Die. I am seriously considering seeing this now. It could be incredibly entertaining.
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Gives you no clue to who ANY of the actors are. The only actor that you can clearly see is in the movie is Green Mile, you don't even really know who Chun Li is.
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My DVR fucked up the recording of American Idol so I have to fine shit to watch that my lady friend approves of.
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Who are you talking to there, Danny?
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Never mind. Move along! These aren't the droids...
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Dont I owe some zombie answers? Damnit, I'm too drunk to do some good writing about it now. Sorry gents, it will have to wait until one of my breaks tomorrow, when Im a bit more sober.
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Who get to drink in the middle of the week. My crappy part time job has me up at 6 in the AM, I'm no good even if I drink a little. OH well looks like I'll be up late on The Midnight Man Meat Train.
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I've got like 6 tabs open, and for some reason, one of them is open on the Equinas TB. It makes NO fucking sense. I pressed "back" to see what came before it, and the last page I was on was a Google search for "Kristin Kreuk", and NONE of the searches yielded an AICN tb page. And no one here supplied a URL for the TB, that I could find. Which begs the question: How the FUCK did it suddenly end up on my computer?!?!
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FUCK. "Would a cow rather have a small human dick in her or be made into a hamburger?"
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wikipedia is down!!! how will i acquire mostly acurate info written by people who sort of know what they are talking about on a range of topics considered beneath microsoft encarta? how?
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that is fucking awesome
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in oz the drinking age is 18. i think in germany it's 16. in france they don't have one, but then their beer is shit. just rubbing it in dude
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Your suggestion was a good one, but I get discombobulated when I'm simultaneously chatting here, ordering far too many box sets off Amazon, and also trying to do a bit of work here and there. Things get lost in the shuffle and whatnot.As soon as I have gathered a decent number of vehicular rampage films, I will be having a themed weekend and drinking a toast in your honour.
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i knew a guy who was observing but not participating in this co. these other big mouth losers were talking about fighting. over here no one respects clowns like that. they were talking about mixed martial arts. this one was saying he did a lot judo, this one mui thai. one guy said, 'i dont like those structed martial arts - i'm a street fighter' to which my mate said 'what? what does that mean? were you just really good at the game?'
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So I guess I'll just have to ramble on about nothing much in particular. Again.
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the great white ox
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In this game, two animated characters roll around on the pavement outside a pub, each one holding the other in a headlock. One character has ripped his shirt and the other is missing one shoe.The loser of the fight is one whose girlfriend starts crying first.Coming soon from Capcom.
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in the new Robin Hood flick. Good stuff. Especially when apparently Sienna Miller was previously cast. Ugh. Talk about a step up. While I'm not exactly overwhelmed with excitement about seeing another Robin Hood, Ridley Scott can be good (sometimes) and Russell Crowe is perfect for the role. But then again, how can you improve on Errol Flynn? Or more importantly, Costner!?
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Shit, it's hard to come up with stuff to ramble about when you haven't seen anything.
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the night in the watch house with a bunch of guys on meth. fuck
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It's awesome.
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Feb 26, 2009 4:04:42 AM CST
It's best to go with stream of concsious rambling
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
After reading back through my ramblings yesterday there was a through line that linked each post.
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and just when i found the droid i was looking for. damit
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Seriously, someone needs to take that character out to the glue factory, put him out of his misery.I think the only way I would watch another version of Robin Hood is if they set it in space and make Robin Hood a robot who can do parkour and kung fu and shoot lasers out of his eyes.If it's just more forests and bows and arrows and whatnot, they can fuck right off.
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Get a good nights rest in preparation for your Friday drunkening. Have a good one.
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Feb 26, 2009 4:21:58 AM CST
aaah... the discerning taste of the one we call Frankie
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
"I think the only way I would watch another version of Robin Hood is if they set it in space and make Robin Hood a robot who can do parkour and kung fu and shoot lasers out of his eyes." Genius.
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Feb 26, 2009 4:25:40 AM CST
I actually really enjoy those types of flicks
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Give me a little swash, coupled with a dash of buckle and I'm content. It's why I love the hell out of The Mask of Zorro. The sequel not so much. Why oh why do they insist on sticking kids in sequels!?
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that'll teach em!
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about the juvenile helmed mission to mars 'stop mucking around you guys, don't you know how important this is? we are the first kids to travel to mars' yeah. directed by Robert Rodriguez
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Honestly, who knew this would happen?When I first heard Stallone was bringing back Rocky and Rambo, I actually felt bad for the guy. It seemed so tacky and desperate. But then Rocky Balboa comes out, and I really like it. Then Rambo, and I really like that, too. And now he's working on The Expendables, and it's one of the films I'm most looking forward to.How the hell did this happen? I am almost certain he has made some sort of deal with the devil, but that's okay with me as long as the resulting films are good.
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I haven't seen that one in yonks.Sylvester Stallone AND Kurt Russell, together in one film? Surely that is more awesomeness than one film can handle.
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Am I right in thinking that at some point in the comics Reed Richards and Sue Storm have a super-powered kid named Franklin?If so, I hope they do Fantastic Four: Rise Of Franklin The Awesome Super Baby as soon as is humanly possible. I mean, they should really do it just for me. Who else has supported this ridiculous franchise with such fervent stupidity as I have?I deserve this!
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Apparently it was all he could do to keep a career. No one would meet with him/take his calls. His career was dead in the water (hence Spy Kids 3). I'm glad to see he's back, and I think Rocky 6 was great. Didn't enjoy Rambo 4 at all. But I love the Rocky films and feel no affinity to the Rambos.
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Feb 26, 2009 4:53:10 AM CST
The other one thats good to see is Affleck: Resurrection
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Maybe not as much as Stallone, but it's good to seen. His problem always was that he appeared in way too much shit and the whole Lopez media circus. But I don't dislike him. He's made some good flicks. Gone Baby Gone was really good (especially for a first film) and State of Play is looking good.
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Feb 26, 2009 4:55:03 AM CST
"good to seen" = "good to see".
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Dumbshit.
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That's one of those films I keep meaning to watch and then somehow don't.Is it worth a look?I'm mostly indifferent to Ben Affleck, who always seemed like a guy who who was more interested in money than making good films. But I did like him a lot in Hollywoodland, and I've heard a few good things about Gone Baby Gone.
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Very good. A good companion piece to Mystic River (based on a book by the same author) but a little less depressing. Good cast. Well directed. Just a solid film. Hollywoodland was pretty good. Not sure about just after the money (i'm sure it was a factor). I just think it took him longer than usual to get through the "hey, I'm not a struggling actor anymore and people are throwing roles (and money) at me so I'll do as many as I can" phase. They all do it, and then move onto more interesting stuff. It took his acting career to bomb before Affleck did it though. Theres some good stuff on his CV though... Chasing Amy, Good Will Hunting, The Sum of All Fears (Fuck You. I like it), Bounce (Fuck You. I like it) and Changing Lanes. Just way too much shit like Forces of Nature and Gigli. Although Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms, yo.
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That is the comeback I want to see next, assuming he doesn't get sent to the pokey for tax evasion.If Stallone can do it, and Rourke can do it, surely Wesley Snipes can re-attain some level of awseomeness again.
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Feb 26, 2009 5:24:52 AM CST
Snipes gets a lifetime free pass for White Men Can't Jump
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
As does Woody.
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Feb 26, 2009 6:09:25 AM CST
Stumbled upon this... Proof how much AICN has gone downhill
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
http://tinyurl.com/chc4xf It's a link to a great article Mori wrote in 2002 about the original vs re-write scripts for Suspect Zero. I haven't seen anything posted like this in a long long time. What it shows is how much of a passion the guys on this site used to have and how little they have now. Seriously, we've all said before but the only reason to come on this site anymore is Twitch and the TB.
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Feb 26, 2009 6:34:15 AM CST
Just skimmed through the Mori/Watchmen TB
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Pretty amusing. Lockwood finally got the BanHammer. Surprised it took so long. It's a shame they delete the posts of those banned as I'd like to see what pushed it over the edge.
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You are not alone in your liking of The Sum of all Fears. I personally like that one very much. Hell, the great Morgan Freeman bites it in that one. I also forgot about Changing Lanes, another Ben film I like a lot.
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Sucked. That director has a movie called Begotten I really want to see, copies are hard to find.
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Especially since it seems they aren't even trying to go in another direction, more in line with the actual story. Fucking bullshit.
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One that I love quite a bit. I haven't seen Quantum of Solace yet though. I can't remember who saw it here though.
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I'm a fan, I even liked Daredevil.
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Was pretty entertaining. You ever seen the movie Enduring Love by the same director with Bond and Rhys? Its not that good, its really weird.
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Was OK. Not half as great as Casino Royale. The plot was way to muddled and the bad guy screams like a crazy lady in the final fight and comes off as a huge pussy. Plus he is one of those, I've never seen a bond movie before and didn't want to so I didn't copy anyone, sort of actors? Well that is why his bad guy sucked, and he is a liar.
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Anyone seen that? I've always wanted to.
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The only reason I come here these days is to chat to you fine folks, make sarcastic comments, and pretend to be a concerned parent.All the rest of it is garbage.
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I haven't seen that one yet, and there is the potential there for me to do a James Bond double bill with that and Casino Royale, which I wouldn't mind seeing again.
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Good luck with your interview on Friday, mate. Hope it goes well.
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But it makes me sad that it didn't step of to the plate like Casino did.
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Cool, baby. I get muddled on here meself. I swear I was only feigning offence - cos I usually post blithering cack anyway and expect to be ignored!
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Going to see what that TB's all about now. Can't imagine a Total Recall remake...Well, I can. But why? Done once and done well. Move on. Option an sf novel that hasn't been filmed yet.
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The more blithering cack the better!
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KABLAM!"Consider dadda divorce."That's what I think of a remake. I AM NOT QUUUAAAIIID!
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That sounds like a nifty catchphrase to me...
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Ben Affleck without reference to his tour-de-force performance in the mighty Armaggeddon? I'm shocked. Shrieking "I love you!" at Bruce Willis. Touching. And moving...
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back to the grind.Ciao.
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Feb 26, 2009 7:55:48 AM CST
The only Verhoeven remake I'd be okay with is...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Hollow Man. But I'd only remake the fucking awful last act. I would not have Bacon stuck in the underground lab stalking people. There was potential there (and budget!) for an awesome invisible man flick. They just needed to keep him above ground. How the hell would you track down an invisible man in the real world? I want to know! What a waste.
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Series - are you talking about Venus with Peter O'Toole? If so, that's an interesting movie. Took a while to get going. O'Toole rocks it hard.Gone Baby Gone - great movie. And Casey Affleck gives one of the great closing expressions when he's faced with the reality of his decision.Robin Hood should be made for the 21st century. A superhero movie without a superhero. Just a guy with all his wits who takes from the rich (CEOs) and gives to the poor (me).Total Recall remake? Who cares? We'll always have "See you at the party, Richter!"JCVD is a Blockbuster exclusive so I'm not sure if they have it a few weeks early. Hope to watch it tonight.Watched Madagascar 2 last night. Screw the haters, I loved it. I thought it was exceptionally well written for a cartoon and the penguins need a movie all to themselves.That Cool Cuts garbage from Yoko is almost as bad as Script Girl. You can see everything she mentions on Amazon's new release page. With better reviews.Harry and his bride are more full of themselves than Brangelina.
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Casino Royale is good. But its a standard Bond formula. Quantum is something entirely different. Thats what fueled the hate. They don't want Bond to change....ever. I'm telling you-- the opera house shoot-out, one of the best action scenes I can remember in awhile. Its ugly and dramatic. The sound editing decision to drop the sound effects and fuel the momentum with the opera song on stage is fucking awesome. Oh yeah-- and if you don't like the quick cut approach, you won't enjoy it. Its insane editing throughout.
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I'm now playing catchup. Looks like a lot of back and forth with good ole Mori and the banhammers been a'swinging.
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Mmmmm, Paz Vega in her bra too. Yum.
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Brother Kurt Lockwood has been banned. It started when he was accusing Mori of using multiple ID's to stire shit up. Which seemed entirely possible. TB'ers were bitching at him about his new site being shit and he just comes here to advertise and he got all pissed and left, a little while later some random TB'er I've never seen before pops in and starts defending him. And he is the only guy there defending him. Mori is gone for a few hours. Kurt Lockwood starts saying that new guy is Mori and seconds later Mori pops in and says "No it's not-- thats ridiculous..." and starts calling Lockwood a stalker and all sorts of shit. Lockwood posts a couple massive fucking posts calling him out as a failure that still sucks AICN's tit for free handouts. And then Mori starts making fun of Lockwood for pretending to be a pornstar and says "My holes an outdoor only." Lockwood freaks and starts screaming Mori is a homophobic douche bag and then he starts starts threatening, and thats what did him in. He says he wants Mori to say this shit to him face to face, and it won't be hard to find him at a screening in L.A. And he insinuated when he saw him he was gonna fuck him up. More swings the hammer. Another Brother is lost.
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Feb 26, 2009 9:36:31 AM CST
I saw the end of Gone Baby Gone and Casey was horrid.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
I won't watch the rest. That exchange with him and Morgan outside...it looked like a fucking rehearsal. I do not understand the love for Casey at all. He is C-List background guy that got propelled to leading man status because of big brother pulling for him.
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Quantum was very disappointing. I'm no lover of the shakey cam (see my previous Fuck Bourne comments) but it's not even that. If it was a normal action film it would be shit. It's just not a very good flick. Casino Royale was so good. So expectations were quite high for Quantum. It comes down to shooting for a release date. They didn't have a finished script. Also, they had a good director, but unproven at action. You can tell. And the turbo charged hotel in the desert finale is shit. I'll have to watch it again on dvd. Maybe I'll look more favorably on it. I hated Mission Impossible when I saw it at the cinema, but loved it on video.
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Is that your thing? You gotta read this story about Eric Red. Insane. He wrote the original Hitcher movies, Near Dark, and an early draft of Alien 3.
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How did I miss that??!!! And why aren't you guys notifying a brother when the shizz is going down on another TB? Some friends you are.It's true though. This site may be sewage, but Mori leaving AICN to go to Hitfix is hardly a step up.
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Feb 26, 2009 9:46:14 AM CST
Isn't that interesting how some movies improve on video?
by hawaiian organ donor
I have a tough time re-watching a movie I hated in the theater but to discover it's actually good in the comfort of my own home is a pure geek thrill.
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Feb 26, 2009 9:47:23 AM CST
I think the fact that Forster isn't an action director.....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
...was the film's greatest strength. The action feels different. There is a real operatic, dramatic flow to it. They're not shot like conventional action scenes. There are dramatic moments we have never seen in a Bond film. Simple shit like the audio cutting out when he is riding off on the boat. Quiet, contemplative moments where Bond actually looks to be feeling something. And the jump cuts of him wiping the blood off his face and throwing the guy's jacket on after he kills him in the hotel. Just really simple shit like that, that elevated this film into different territory. To me-- it felt more like an actual spy film than Bond ever has. There was serious fucking danger. That opening car chase was fucking brutal, I don't know how anyone can say that was badly shot. And its a tight ass film. What is it...like 90 minutes? Casino really loses me with the boring ass card games. As soon as they get to the hotel I have serious issues with the pacing. They could have cut 20 minutes out of that shit and added more to Bond and Vesper traveling around the world, so we get the feel that they really do mean to be together as opposed to just hanging out for a day and then she dies. I understand its supposed to be longer than that, but it doesn't feel like it. To me, Casino feels like Pierce could have easily been Bond in it. No way in hell would Pierce have worked in Quantum.
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Feb 26, 2009 9:48:18 AM CST
HOD -- It was around 4:30 my time last night...
by dannyglovers_dickblood
...the ban hammer swung.
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And I see some TBers accused you of being Devin from CHUD or Seth Rogen himself. Hi-larious.
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They notice I never post in Seth Rogen TB's.
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Feb 26, 2009 9:58:17 AM CST
The direction and editing of QoS
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
was an absolute mess. In the action scenes specifically, you could tell Forster didn't know what he was doing, where to place the camera or why. In CR Campbell is in total control. It's never flashy, just confident. I loved the slower middle section of CR. I have seen it about four times and it never drags. It works. QoS bored me because it was manufactured relentlessness. It's mistakes brisk pacing for rapid-fire overediting. There are some nice individual shots, such as the Opera, or over the shoulder shot where Bond rides the motorbike onto the boat (which is on the trailer) but those are few and far between.
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Daniel is gonna be so fucking upset when I let him know your feelings about QoS. Now I have to fucking pay for lunch....thanks.
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I was thinking the same thing about Stallone yesterday. It's funny, I was never a huge fan of his during the 80's. But from Rocky Balboa on, the guy has gotten better with age I'll tell ya.
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When you tell him, remind him of his paycheck. He'll shrug off my criticism and might even pay for lunch. I do think he's a good Bond, just as I thought Brosnan was a good Bond. It's just both of them have only made one good Bond film each.
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I was interested bc the director of that film directed a commercial I worked on a few weeks ago. And yeeeecccch what a piece of shit.
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Feb 26, 2009 10:23:57 AM CST
I like Sean Bean, but Rutger is the only Hitcher in this dojo
by stuntcock mike
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Feb 26, 2009 10:25:17 AM CST
Vader...are you gonna spill the fucking beans or what?
by dannyglovers_dickblood
Pretty soon no one is gonna remember what you're talking about.
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Feb 26, 2009 10:27:00 AM CST
I haven't seen either Hitcher
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
One of the many 80's horrors that I am yet to see.
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Can it wait until after that?
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Feb 26, 2009 10:29:49 AM CST
I haven't seen those zombie vids yet
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I have lost the interwebs at home for a short while. I'm very curious.
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about AICN and it's slide, have ya'll checked out the numbers on the top ten list? only three hundred odd post for Harry's The Watchmen review and the same for Mori's. Granted part of it is over saturation of The Watchmen articlas but if it was six months to a year ago the numbers would easily have doubled.QoS, I would like to wiegh in on the debate but I have not seen it.Gone Baby Gone. I throughly enjoyed the movie and thought it was really well done. Kudos To Mr. Jennnifer Garner on his directorial debut and I thought his brother did a great job.Threatening to "kick" somebodies ass on a TB is a pathetic move by anybody, mod or poster.Have a good day off to class.
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Feb 26, 2009 10:32:51 AM CST
yeah...but its cool if you threaten to kick someone's ass....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
....with your penis.
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There was a time I popped into every article posted here. Then the scoops stopped and Script Girl began.But that Mori Watchmen TB is gold. I just wish I could see Lockwood's posts.Casino Royale came to a screeching halt during the card games. I remember saving it to watch with Batman Begins because all the fanboys were raving about the awesome reboot of both series and being monumentally letdown by both. That was a brutal weekend.
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Kari Wuhrer's tits and Jake fucking Busey? How can it be bad?
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Feb 26, 2009 10:37:54 AM CST
I think too much of Casino takes place in that hotel.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
Its a fucking boring location....and we didn't need to spend 35 fucking minutes there. I think the minute you bog down Bond in one place for too long....you're in trouble. The stories gotta keep moving.
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...to get this to #1. When did this get so hard?
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It was Bond battling the villian with his smarts. Something you don't ever see. Plus it was punctuated by the threat of some wench almost getting her hand chopped off, a bit of argy bargy down the stairs, the origins of the martini, THAT shower scene and the glovebox defibrillator. What more could you want?
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One of those massive ones that loops itself around the bowl in a coil and then pops its head out of the water to say "hey" to you.
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But do you agree the film would have benefited with more of Vesper and Bond traveling at the end? I just thought that felt so fucking cheap and slapped together because at that point we're like 2:20 in. I think something could have been cut to add more to their relationship and make me care more when the bitch drowns.
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I will say that the recovery scenes after he gets his nuts crunched (which he seems to recover quite quickly from... I guess I would if I had the opportunity to bang that) do move a little swiftly. Maybe one more scene of them together on the boat prior to arriving in Venice wouldn't have hurt. Especially since they took their time with the card game. I'll give you that.
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As tomorrow is Friday, I'm looking forward to Chipps and his weekly drunkening. Have a good one, fellas.
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It could have been an amazing 10 minute sequence where he is recovering at the hospital and she is by his side the entire time and you see them out in the garden with him in a wheelchair, really romantic shit. And then traveling, on a train, driving, a boat, etc. A few shots of them making love in different hotels, and then end up where we did with him messaging M he is quitting. The way it is now-- he just wakes up perfectly fine, cut to him on boat- M. I'm quitting. And the way the Swiss banker guy walked up out of nowhere with the case-- really fucking amateur feeling.
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Sorry Droid, I hope you get to watch them. Same for you, HOD and others who've yet to comment. I guess there's no reason to beat around the bush any longer. Here are the results: The film I wrote and directed was "Zombie Hunters". The film that won the competition was "See the Dead". At the friday night screening of the winner and "Night of the Living Dead", there was a Q&A afterward. The writer/director of "Devil Comes Down" introduced himself as a finalist and George asked which one was his. George then said that he really liked *all* the films and it was very tough to choose. He said he expected them all to be crap and was actually surprised at how good they all turned out to be. He said he felt "See the Dead" was just like, an inch above the others, and he chose it bc he liked some of the shot selection, angles, etc. Which was good, bc it confirmed what I had thought- Romero was going to go for production values. I'm not saying that's all he looks for, but Romero did say he appreciates craft, and he thought that film had some good shots. But he reiterated how hard it was to choose. Then, unprompted, he said "Ya know, if I thought about it more, I may have given it to 'Zombie Hunters'..." which got a HUGE enthusiastic response from that portion of the audience that had seen it (mostly my family maybe... it was kind of surreal, I don't remember). So much so that others around were asking "ooh, where can we see that one?" And George continued. He said he thought Zombie Hunters "was a gas!" (his words). He then made a statement that I appreciated quite a bit. He said he felt that "Zombie Hunters" was "the 'Slumdog Millionaire' of the group, but I wanted to vote for 'Doubt' instead." So I lost, but I can take a quote like that from a cinema icon. I also appreciate how many of you enjoyed Zombie Hunters. Those that liked others more, I see Zombie Hunters still came around 2nd, so at least I'm consistent.
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to find AICN has turned into a right fucking cess pit. Watchmen galore and fuck all else. Hmph. Anyhoo, this is me signing off until next week. Normal posting shall be resumed then.
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Feb 26, 2009 11:26:52 AM CST
Oh thank fuck it wasn't Grey Matter or Antibody.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
No fucking way in hell was Romero being honest if he threw Grey Matter in there with others when he said "It was tough to choose." That movie was stinky asshole. But congratulations Vader. Well done with that one. You should seriously consider shooting a full drive-by gangsta' zombie hunters episode.
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I'm glad you responded well to that coda. I came up with the idea of Zombie Hunters bc I came to the game late, hearing of the competition with only two months before the deadline. I knew I didn't have much time to find equipment, lights, and actors. And I sure as hell didn't have any money. So I thought, why not do it handheld and say its a reality show? I must thank my time working on "Jon and Kate Plus 8" for informing my decision. That meant I could shoot on the fly, do it without lights, do it without the many setups needed to edit together a scene, etc etc. I could make it look like something you'd see on TV, instead of it just being another "found footage" piece like Cloverfield, Diary, REC, and Blair Witch were. And I could make it a bit more character-driven. The only "real" actor in the group is the main character, Chris. Adam is a friend of mine whose land/cow farm we ended up shooting on. Ryan, the driver I worked with in college, and Greg Johnson was the makeup artist's boyfriend who had NO idea he was going to be acting when he showed up that day. I never could get an actor for that role bc everyone backed out or didn't return my calls. We shot the whole thing in one night, except for the coda, which I shot a few days later. That gave me one week to edit the whole thing, which I did right up until the last minute when I turned in the DVD. I struggled with the ending during script-phase bc I needed a twist and didn't want this to fall into the trappings of other "handheld" horror, where the cameraman dies. Which has become such a cliche now. I toyed with the idea of everyone dying but the cameraman and producer, and at the last second having a team of elite zombie hunters show up to kill the zombies and rescue the producer. The idea being that the show is always watching and is willing to let others die on camera, but if their pple get in trouble, they come in and save the day. But that would have meant more actors and supplies I didn't have, so I just went with the producer saying he couldn't fire a gun when in reality he had one on him the whole time. But then what? Should the camera crew try to track down Ryan to see what happened to him and Greg? Should they talk to Chris's family? Nah, if this is going to be a tv show, then let's give a teaser for next week. And I tried to think of the best juxtaposition possible: gang members. So yes Danny, I actually am working on a script for an episode focusing on the gang. I also have ideas for at least 10 other episodes as well. I'm hoping to keep this going.
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I like the idea that life seems to just continue like normal within that world. The zombies are just an occasional nuisance that must be dealt with, like fleas on your dog or something. Thats a funny approach. In the gangsta' episode, please do something with a drug deal going down on the corner-- and a zombie hunter that is actually a pimp that kills zombies on his down time. He could have a ho with him in the car, and he just casually pulls over and walks into an alley and blasts some zombies while the ho is doing her makeup in the passenger seat, and camera is in the backseat the whole time.
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...they have to take down a zombie with nothing but brass knuckles, and all the homies are waiting in the car with NWA blasting, cheering them on.
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I'm writing them down now. To go along with 2 gangs caught in a gang war as zombies get caught in the middle, and each member killed comes back to life as a zombie.
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Bc something tells me some fucker is going to steal this idea, like my killer Christmas trees.
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We could discuss further through email if you'd like. This is fun to throw ideas out there for...
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You can find me at cbake1369@gmail.com
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You may have lost but with Romero's praise you may still come out on top.I always thought a zombie movie about dead wives/husbands coming back to harrass their spouse who had moved on and remarried would be hysterical.
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Feb 26, 2009 12:20:09 PM CST
I think a Zombie/Vanishing Point flick would have some legs
by stuntcock mike
Don't bring up fucking Death Proof. These zombies are talented.
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Involves an abused wife trying to get her husband bitten. Or something involving trying to divorce her zombie husband but laws haven't caught up with the state of the world yet, and so due to legalese, the husband isn't considered "dead" and she can't get the life insurance and inheritances.
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Is certainly something I'll tack onto the applications for film festivals and pitches, if I ever get that far.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwyrNmrO-NE That's some good shit.
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Holy shit is this bad.
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gone baby gone but there was a bit in the middle that tried to show the progression of time. It was done really poorly and kinda pulled me out of the movie for a bit. other than that it was quite good
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swazinigger making a samon sandwich, right, then a another dude comes in and says 'hey can i have some of that tuna sandwich' so arnold yells 'its not a tuna!' yeah, that would be sweet.
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not as good as danny says. i did like the car chase scene but the rest was patchy. i liked it, but no way it was as good as casino royal. and it was much more of the bond formula than casino royal was. not a bad film, but not crazy good. and i way prefer casey afleck to ben alfeck. hands down
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zombie hunters was by far my favourite. great work, it was definitly the best. the whole thing was good from go to woe. i am going to rewatch it just for the argument about wether or not it is end of days. don't you blaspheme god damit!
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I'm really glad you liked it!
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Nice one. Zombie Hunters was a good laugh. I think it's kind of an extention to the bit in the original Dawn Of The Dead, where you see guys hanging out, joking, then picking off a few zombies. But obviously you don't get to know them. With ZH, you take us into that group to hear what these people talk about and what they think.Can I ask how scripted it was? Did you just let the actors loose to make up their own dialogue? I got the feeling a couple of times they were rambling a bit looking for a funny line that didn't always come.Very good, though. I laughed out loud right at the start when the guy's taking the piss out of his neighbours. Then I snorted 7UP through my nose at the "Afpakistan" line.Respect.
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Hear you on Hollow Man. Makes no sense - Bacon gets out and he's got the whole world to play in. He can murder Presidents, Prime Ministers and pop idols. He never has to pay for a meal or a drink again. He can steal money for fun (though he wouldn't need any, being invisible). He can travel the world. He can stick his knob in just about anything that moves (and some things that don't, if that's his thang). "Excuse me, Scarlett, bend over while I give you a new hat..." He can do anything and everything he so wishes.What does he do instead? Goes back to the lab. Did not make for an exciting finale.Absolutely. Remake Hollow Man.
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It was a tough call. I was going to say "drunk" but you had clearly gone beyond drunk. Toyed with using "steamboats" and "banjo'd" - then my personal favourite "wankered."None of them quite cut it. But "slaughtered" summed up your condition perfectly. Glad you like it!
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I should also say that my mind has returned to Zombie Hunters far more than it has to Antibody. I could probably switch the placing of those two on my preference list.
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... to midnight - it's like a fuckin graveyard in here!Not to infer that I have experience of graveyards at this hour.
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ZH definitely had Anitbody beat in terms of dialogue and acting. The only reason it wasn't my top one was because I had already seen the whole renecks casually hunting zombies before in the original Dawn of the Dead. Now that I think about it though, that didn't stop me from liking it quite a bit more. And I think the ending was tops.
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Awesome I've gotta take a dump too! Its amazing how much in common all of use have!
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I dunno. I was interested when I first heard about the movie - sounded like an interesting take on the Sheriff of Nottingham. Now it appears all that stuff is out the window to be replaced by a standard take on the Hood myth. Hmmmm... It'll look nice, anyway.To be completely honest, I'd watch Ridley Scott taking a shit.
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the bowel movement detail, Mr Vader. Possibly more information than was necessary to know there...I went for a shit at work earlier and the noise coming out of my arse was like a pig snuffling after a truffle.
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is a completely shitty thing to do. Trust me.
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I'm pretty positive that Cheddar Jalapeno Cheetos are a gift from the gods.
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I am much more of a sci fi guy when it comes to his work.
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I finally figured out what Bradds Pitts speech in the Inglorious trailer is. Its fucking Johnny Knockville!!! It sounds just like some dumb skit they did with JK as a military leader (probably Patton). Sooooo lame.
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I'm about to finish this bag of Cheddar Jalapeno Cheetos. And I'm not even hungry.
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Mother Juggs and Speed?
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self-restraint and put those Cheetos up. Seriously you are missing out with your only chance to make out with Allah if you haven't eaten Cheddar Jalapeno Cheetos. They had this other flavor like white cheedar BBQ, but they disappeared fast, they were good as shit too.
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But a long time ago. I recall lusting after Racquel Welch. It was kind of a comedy but I don't think I connected with it.
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As Danny pointed out, thank God it wasn't Grey Matter. I was scared for a bit. I'm always amazed when a talkbacker is able to accomplish something cool like that. Bravo to you dude. Seriously, Bra-fuckin-vo!
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With Robert Wilonsky, on the HD Nets. He is such a douche bag I always disagree with him. Anyways he showed the I Basterds trailer and I thought that it may make me more interested seeing it in full HD rather then jitttery crappy computer quicktime. No in fact it makes me want to see it less. After coming to realization that Brads Pitts is channeling Johnathan KnockknockVille, I think I would much rather see this movie but with the cast of Jackass instead. Caught the 2012 trailer again and I still can't wait to see that, its going to fuck the earth its so good and make a baby.
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Even though I've yet to see your movie. You and everyone here should check out the movie INSIDE (not the french one) is was directed by a former Talkbacker and it was a lot of fun. A much different horror movie then what your used to, it gets the Series7 slap of approval.
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The Cheddar Cheetos have started the dump, be back later.
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About a minute in I was thinking "this is quite professional." It had a good central performance. To me it was more cinematic than the other entries. Like Romero observed, some of the camera angles were interesting. I see what you mean about the 'zombie' angle, though.
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Enjoy your evening.
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Until this past weekend at the screening, the only part of the original "Dawn of the Dead" I had seen was the ending when the biker gang comes tearing through. I had *no* idea there's that whole segment on the redneck militias teaming up with the cops to go zombie hunting. I saw there watching it unfold and thought "Shit, I bet George thought I was copying him when he saw my flick." I guess I'm not as original as I thought, but its good to know I think along the same lines as the master.
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http://movies.ign.com/articles/957/957633p1.html
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was credited as "Mortal Combat's Gen."Try Mortal Kombat's Robin Shou dumbass.
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Answering the question myself that I asked you the other day, the answer is no. No Alan Moore's Swamp Thing is not a single trade its more like 9. I saw a stack of Swap Thing at the comic shop today (fucking they have like every Moore trade known to man right now, can't figure why?) and then I saw a bunch of numbers along the side. I put away my wallet because I realized that I didn't have the coin to start this series right now. Maybe one day I'll realize that I should just wait for the trades so I don't end up in the screwed situation I am right now with Fan Four and Welcome to Hoxford. Both are out on trade but with Hoxford I missed out on issue #2 but got the other three, and with Fan Four I missed issue #558 but have been continuing to collect the series and even noted that issue $560 was my #10 favorite comic of the year even though I never read it just going off of variant cover alone. Because I can't read on until I've read that missing issue, and I don't want to shell out the cash for the trade.
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Why even bother if you're going to shit out the same boring nonsense non-movies every time? Aren't the people working on these projects aware of how weak this stuff is they're producing? Don't they have the slightest bit of critical eye? Morons. Absolute, unforgivable morons. The American movie-making system is slowly becoming more and more undeniably fucked.
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Came to me while I was sitting on a beach writing down ideas for the script. I really like juxtapositions and taking people down a line of thought only to reveal its the opposite of what they expected. And I figured it's pretty truthful too, the way you hear people talk about "Mexicans" all crammed into one house around here.
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I appreciate it! And about Grey Matter... yeah I dunno. I think the first round judges gave it a pass bc it was a creative outside-the-box take on "zombies". But I thought it was poorly shot and poorly edited. I saw a couple of other zombie films that I felt were more deserving of a Top 5 status than that one.
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is there is real potential there for a cool movie. I don't see how they can fuck it up so hard twice. I gotta admit though, that tape version of the original is warming up to me. Wait no, it's still a piece of shit.
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I appreciate it! And about Grey Matter... yeah I dunno. I think the first round judges gave it a pass bc it was a creative outside-the-box take on "zombies". But I thought it was poorly shot and poorly edited. I saw a couple of other zombie films that I felt were more deserving of a Top 5 status than that one.
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The guy who made that one works in films. You can look him up on IMDB, I think he does a lot of UPM (Unit Production Manager) work, so he certainly makes more money than I do and has access to more crew members and equipment. I don't begrudge him that, though. If I was in his position, and my script called for it (mine didn't), I'd use crane and dolly shots all I could. My quibble with his film is the pacing. I think it could have been much shorter and been a much better film for it. The first time I saw it, all I got out of it was "Girl runs from point a to point b. Girl gets a gun. Girl runs from point b to point a. Girl does lots of screaming and crying in between." But it is an interesting twist, I'll give him that.
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Did I never answer your Swamp Thing question? Sorry. The good thing about that series though is most of the arcs work pretty well on their own. For example, while I have read them all, I only own the first two TPs, and I'm pretty content with that. I'm sure most of the series won't be going to far off. I'm hoping to start Green Lantern someday still.
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Are you in film school? And how much did it cost to make your film? And how was the kraft food service?
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A former talkbacker did that, really? Why is he a former TBer? Too busy and successful now to stick around? Still, that's very cool. I've yet to see it, but my gf's brother rented it one night and he enjoyed it. Its about a pregnant woman, right?
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That whole thing was nothing but a rip off of other movies, Pet Semetary for one. Also, the whole "I'm coming to get you Barbara" joke was done much better in Shawn of the Dead. But it had a shot where the girl was running through the streets! Ohhh, good for you! That was not a zombie film any more than Jacob's Ladder was a demon movie. I actually think it's the second worse one right after Grey Matter.
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Starting to get into comics is like this HUGE hurdle. Its not like movies where you can just watch certain movies, like comics you have to READ ALL THE HISTORY of shit. I mean yeah there are KEY stories and stuff. I am making it my goal to collect all the micronaughts and all of Spawn.
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Mainly bc I feel like the studios and powers that be are banking on this new scriptwriter, Justin Marks, as being the hot new thing, being hired to write Voltron and He-Man and now this Suicide Squad, on top of SuperMax (Green Arrow film), when not a SINGLE FUCKING MOVIE he'd written had been made yet. That's what I call fucked up. And so, for some reason, I want to see this guy fail, bc I feel there are probably more deserving, experienced and successful screenwriters, who should probably get a crack at these scripts before some new, untested guy gets paid the big bucks to do it. But whatever, I'm a hypocrite. Bc if someone wanted to pay me to do it, you know I'd be all over it.
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Nice Bale-rant reference there =).
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Its not the French film, thats some smelly frenchie. I'll post a link, one minute, talk amongst yourselves.
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I am not in film school. I graduated back in 2004. I didn't technically go to film school, but did major in film at UNC. I did go to a summer session in filmmaking at the film school part of the NC School of the Arts in high school, though. The budget was... off the top of my head... only a couple hundred bucks. And that money only went to gas money, going to and from the location (which was over an hour away), and craft service and beer (which I had to bribe people with). I think it was a few hundred. If you count the camera package I had to purchase the day bfore we shot, then it comes out to over $4000. Craft service, what little of it I got, was good. Some bananas, a beer. The zombie extras descended on it like vultures all through the night. And then raided my producers' parents fridge and drank all the step-father's beer, which I had to reimburse.
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Harry talks about him all the time? He said when the DVD came out that he was a former talkback. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0425132/ For those of us that are tiny. http://tinyurl.com/avvjxy
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Cool so did you do all the editing and shit on your computer? I've thought about going back to school to study film, but does that really make sense? To go back to college and get another undergraduate degree?
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Everyone noticed that. But like I said, can't blame him. If I had a dolly, I'd use it all the time.
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I kind of want to see it, mainly because Never Been Thawed I thought was awesome. But this is a whole different thing.
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Midnight Meat Train was pretty cool until I feel asleep, can't wait to finish it. I wonder if the Juggernaut says anything at all?
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its a damn fine show it is.
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I did do all the editing on my computer. I'd worked on a movie and tv show pilot back in the fall of 2006, so I earned a lot of money from that. So in January I took a trip to Rome with my family and when I returned I purchased a Macbook Pro with Final Cut Express so I could get back into editing and production. Then, a year later (last summer), I bought my camera. Soon I'll buy a nice microphone and a 35 mm adapter lens system too. Each year I keep building it up. Now should you go back to school? That's a tough question. Did you learn about film in school the first time? Honestly, its not something you need to go to school for. My degree has never gotten me a job- only my internship at Ridley Scott's production company right after graduation (technically it was summer school, so before graduation really). If you didn't learn any film in school and you're interested, then sure, look things up and see if anything is worth it for you. What was most beneficial for me was that summer session in film I took the summer before my senior year of high school. I learned a LOT of craft there, so much so that it gave me an edge up on the other students in college. College, however, did teach me more, gave me a better critical eye (thanks to a production teacher who was very critical of our work- something that was frustrating at first but extremely helpful in the long run), and helped me learn about post-production and editing with Final Cut Pro. However, you don't need to go to school to learn that. Some community colleges (at least around here), and organizations around here will teach classes on editing. And production too, I'm sure. And you can learn all you need about screenwriting and production rules (camera placement, 180 degree rule, 30 degree rule, editing, etc) from books. So its a tough call. When my internship was ending, I talked to the head of the program about my desire to go to film school at USC or UCLA. He shook his head and told me he didn't think it was worth it, that for the money I'd spend on those classes, I could just as easily use it to fund my own film. And he's right. School would have, however, given me more education and some better contacts in the industry. But I'd be a HELL of a lot poorer right now too. So did this help? I feel like I've been more confusing than anything. If you go back to school, what do you want to learn?
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I read a draft by Richard Kelley years ago when I was in Hollywood, and this new trailer looks like they took things in a different direction, one I'm not sure if I like at the moment or not.
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I'm pretty sure I've said this before, but I will say it again.Invest in the entire Transmetropolitan series. It's not like you have to buy all of them at once. The trades go for about $15 a pop, and you could just buy one every month or so. It's been my favorite comic for years now.
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My MACARONI AND CHEESE IS BURNING!!!!
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14+ stitches on his arm during a new years in Rome once. True story.
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Naw I know what your saying its not that confusing. I moved not too long ago and have been stuck in this crappy part time job and I've got two degrees (management and management information systems) having a tough time getting a job, so I've contemplated just going back to school for film. I think a big thing is that I just never really had many friends that were worth a damn. I'm pretty sure I could learn a lot of it on my own, but I never had anyone to do it with.
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Yeah I will one day, along with Invisibles.
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What'd you do, stab him with a broken champagne bottle? As for your job situation- that sucks I'm sorry to hear about it. Now if you go back for film, what is your end goal? To learn more about production or to work in production at any level or to make movies or to become a critic?
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I had something I wanted to share with you. These are the best online comic book tools I have ever seen. I've found everything from the Watchmen to old Captain America and Ghost Rider comics to Batman graphic novels.
http://tinyurl.com/cazye5
Just read the paragraph "I Need File" at the top and it tells you everything you need to know. You can also check out the home page for tons of free movie sites and tools. -
A Kraft foods service guy.
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All star superman. Thanks Herb.
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I'm at the Criterion website looking down the list of films they've released. Armageddon?!?
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I think I would like to become I director if I am capable at doing anything. But I don't know it all feels like pipe dreams right now. As far as that guy its a kind of long story. Here is the short version. In Italy a New Years tradition is to throw out all your old crap (including furniture) out your window. Some people still do it, but the main thing that happens now is that people get drunk in piazza's and then as new years hits they all throw there empty bottles into the middle of the piazza and pretty much all over the place. So there is broken glass everyWHERE. So its after New Years and we are all hanging out then all of the sudden these two lame ass Canucks show up and start cock blocking us from the girls we are with. So I'm pretty drunk and this is right in the middle of me thinking that the only thing in life is playing Rugby. So my buddy says to me, hey go run and jump and cock block those gay ass Canadians (cock blocking had become a specialty of mine). SO I heard RUN AND JUMP, and as these guys where crossing the road to the Wedding Cake walking with the girls and I ran up and jumped on the back of one of the guys and pretty much road him across the cross walk. When we came to a hault I looked up and realized what happened and that there were Polizia everywhere so I ran to away from the Wedding cake toward a food cart, bought a beer and watched as Polizia came up and the dude got taken away in an Ambulance. I found out from the girls later that he got like 14 stitches in his arm from the glass on the ground.
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So what are you going to do now? Are you going to promote your zombie flick or enter another contest? Do you still own it?
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Besides that they release bizarre movies?
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Is in Damages? Tried to watch the show when it came on, never could get into it.
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Jeez just when you think they can't find anything crazier. Furniture fuckers. The dude who's name is not Bart from Hostel 2 likes to fuck couches.
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Is having a Marathon of the first season next Saturday. You will all be expected to watch, there will be a test on Monday.
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I'm going to enter it into some festivals. I think I can use one of George's quotes to help promote it. I think the deadline for the FantasticFest in Austin is coming up soon and I've got my eye on a few more. If it were to get in to FF and somehow get noticed by AICN without knowing its a TBer's film, that'd be some sorta coup. So I'm working on scripts for more episodes and plan on putting it into festivals. I'm also working on a more serious, non-zombie oriented, short flick that would still have some elements of the macabre. But right now I'm knee-deep in videography/editing projects and helping out on an ad campaign writing scripts and illustrating storyboards. Its a busy month.
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I was in Paris for New Years a few years ago. Tradition there too is to smash all your bottles on the ground. So there's little carts everywhere where people can buy small bottles of champagne, and when you're finished, you smash 'em on the ground. And I'm terrified of broken glass, so this was a bit weird for me. And if you're a group of males, you roam around the Champ d'Elysses (I dont know how to spell that), looking for random women you can grab and kiss.
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New Years in Rome. And I've done the Hogmanay festival three times.
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is Tokyo Drifter directed by Sei Suzkui.Or something like that. But seriously, that movie is the bees' fuckin knees.
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I dunno.
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I liked Sword of Doom more. That is one of my very favorite samurai movies.
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For the Midnight Meat Train!
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No you haven't, because this site sucks ass when it comes to real movie news.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juRFUVTHQJIhttp://tinyurl.com/amnvrb
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I've got Armageddon AND The Rock on Criterion.Michael Bay owns my arse.
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trailer was on Twitch a few weeks ago. Saw a telly trailer the other night as well. Looks okay.
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I haven't even seen that on DVD anywhere I go.
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AICN has a music column by Harry's wife where she totally misspells an artist's name, and about twenty Watchmen reviews all telling us the exact same thing. I love this site. But damn.
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The part where he talks about his zebra lady is hilarious. I liked the part where he talks about his mom cooking a hamburger too. I have never seen any of his stand up until now. It's funny to me how much I can relate to him. It reminds me a lot of high school.
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i see it. so true.
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The best thing on the Criterion DVD is an outtake of Sean Connery escaping from the hotel in an elevator. But the doors won't shut. Sean stands there for a few seconds like a lemon, then shouts:"Close, ya cunt!" - Priceless...And so work begins. At least we've scored a 4pm finish today. Laters.
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I am really looking forward to Knowing. It doesn't look like it sucks and the concept (although a little different than what I thought it would be when i first heard about it ie. numbers) sounds great. Plus a large portion of it was filmed in Melbourne. My city. But so was Ghost Rider, so that's not saying much. The only enjoyment I had in Ghost Rider was pointing out Melbourne landmarks. God that flick sucked. Criterion - I have the Criterions of The Rock, Armageddon, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums and In the Mood for Love. There are loads of awesome older OR foreign flicks that Criterion re-master and release with usually great extras. Movies that the studios don't give a shit about and if they do release them they just dump it onto a dvd and stick it in stores. My collection does does not reflect this. Looking at it, it's pathetic. Oh well. Franklyn is out here today. Might see it on the weekend. Other than that, it's been a lot of Zombie short related chat that I can't participate in. And Jarv popped in to complain about the site, then bugger off again. And it was ANOTHER bloody night of no flicks so there is nothing new to talkabout!
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Feb 27, 2009 4:19:16 AM CST
Gyllanhall and Carrey in 'Damn Yankees'
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Geez. Can't wait for that one.
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Ferrell and Wahlberg in an action-comedy. Could be amusing.
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Feb 27, 2009 4:32:02 AM CST
I'm clutching at straws here, gents
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Reporting Variety news for fucks sake. It's Friday. I demand to be entertained by either random conversations or big breasted slappers. And since I can't get the latter until at least lunch time, convo's are it! As Arnie would say... "Ged yaw arz do Marz!"
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Feb 27, 2009 5:40:29 AM CST
To Robocop 3, or not to Robocop 3... that is the question
by franklin t marmoset
Morning, all (by which I mean Morning, Droid).So, I've got my Robocop Trilogy box set (£7) and I fully intend to watch the first one this weekend, and most likely I'll also watch the second one because I can hardly remember anything about it.But Robocop 3? I really don't want to see it again, because it's a pile of vomit carefully moulded so as to to resemble Robocop but not actually a fair representation of Robocop. But watching only two-thirds of a trilogy will interfere with my sense of neatness and order.What is a bored man to do?
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Feb 27, 2009 5:46:24 AM CST
I also got Blade Runner The Final Cut the other day
by franklin t marmoset
I might also watch that. Then I could maybe throw in Total Recall and make it a Verhoevian/Dickian sci-fi crossover weekend.
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You buy it, you watch it. I watched The Final Cut the other week. First time I've been able to sit through Blade Runner. It's visually amazing (and the dvd is awesome for a 25+ year old film) but the story is so fucking dull.
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If so, I'd go with the Verhoeven/Dickian theme.
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Although I only wanted Robocop, so it's more like Robocop 2 & 3 snuck into my home by hiding under Robocop's coat.
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I've got it stored on the DVR, along with about a dozen other films I haven't gotten around to watching yet.A Good Woman? I can't even remember what that is, except I think it has Scarlett Johansson in it. I see a film I maybe possibly might watch at some point maybe possibly, I press the red button, and there it is - hanging around for months on the DVR, completely ignored. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Breakdown, Elizabeth, other stuff I can't remember the names of.Shit, I'm bored today (hence the rambling), and it seems like everyone in the office has a half day except me.
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Because that's especially brutal. The scene where they all shoot Weller goes forever and is incredibly brutal and gory.
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£15, indeed.Man, I could already have started The 6 Days Of Rocky Balboa, but no, I had to be all impulsive and buy the exact same thing off Amazon for £18 and it takes 5 days to arrive.Crap! Now I might have to watch a #3 where Robocop fights a crappy Japanese robot instead of a #3 where Rocky fights Hulk Hogan and Mr T!
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I like it. It contains mucho swash and a plentitude of buckle. And it's just a classic story. Breakdown is awesome. Elizabeth is a snorefest. But it shits all over Elizabeth 2, which I will kill myself before watching ever again. Don't know what 'A Good Woman' is. Never met one. ;)
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I'm not sure what that means. The last time I saw the original Robocop it was on a VHS tape, so this will be my first experience of Robocop in a DVDular format.
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Finally saw Green Street Hooligans...in a word: brilliant. I was enthralled with that movie basically from the get-go. Fucking Tommy Hatcher was a sick fucking cunt. Fucking poor Pete. And lo and behold what do I catch right at the beginning of the end chase scene: Apocalypto. Fuck, I was wired for a bit after watching both of those.
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Feb 27, 2009 6:31:02 AM CST
Well, if it's the cut I'm thinking of...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
then you're in for a gore-fest. The dude that gets blown away by ED-209 gets torn to shreds, and the Weller 'death' is unbelievably violent. Fun times.
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I really want to. Not sure why I haven't yet. Something I need to rectify asap. Green Street Hooligans was okay.
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That's the only one of those I've seen before. Kurt is great in that one.Are you talking about the Guy Pearce Count Of Monte Cristo? That's the one I recorded. I think Jesus Caviezel is also in it.
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Directed by Kevin Reynolds who directed Robin Hood and Waterworld. Which I both enjoy and don't care who knows it!
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A solid film. Yeah Droid, you need to see Apocalypto. I tell ya, Mel sure knows how to direct a movie. "I am Jaguar Paw. This is my forest!"
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I wish we would go to a four day a week work week like those Utah state employees. That would be sweet. Or if they let me telecommute.
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Apocalypto is really good, and I also cannot be assed to be at work today.
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Feb 27, 2009 6:44:51 AM CST
Jewish ranting aside... Mel's awesome
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Funny how you miss certain actors when they stop making flicks. I'm looking forward to his return later this year. I wish we could just skip this summer and get to September - December when all the good flicks are coming out.
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Feb 27, 2009 6:45:57 AM CST
I can't be fucked to be at work most days.
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
But yeah, especially feeling it today.
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Feb 27, 2009 6:48:00 AM CST
I'm seriously considering a swashbuckling weekend
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
The Count of Monte Cristo, Rob Roy, The Mask of Zorro... What else could I throw in to the mix?
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Mask of Zorro is okay I guess, but Catherine Zeta Jones looks amazing in that, so it's quite watchable for that reason.
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Green Street. I didn't think the cast were believable as football hooligans. And if you've got a cockney character - cast a cockney.
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I shall be watching thissun tomorrow... In fact I might stick it on tonight. Unless I go to the pub and get bladdered.
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I've also got Brazil. It's a great set with a documentary charting the battle to bring Gilliam's version of Brazil to the screen as opposed to the ludicrous studio cut - which is also on one of the discs. Good stuff.Fuck, Criterions are expensive though...
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I had zero interest in Zorro prior to seeing it. But at that time I was going to see virtually everything at the cinema. I watched it and absolutely loved it. It's THE perfect popcorn adventure flick. I was incredibly disappointed by the sequel. See yesterdays complaint about little fucking kids in sequels. And yes, CZJ was absolutely sizzling hot in the first one.
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I did.Cyril Raffaelli is the man. He should be in more films, beating the shit out of people in casinos and whatnot.
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...is the sulfurous odour she emits.Also, if you look at her for too long, I believe she will turn you to stone.Get back, evil woman! Begone with you!!
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"I have negligible talent, zero credibility, all the charisma of dry white toast, and an intense desire to make lots and lots of money."Could I interest you in a mobile phone?"
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Now? Yes. 10 years ago? Hummana hummana.
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Sell it to me!
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Bur dalliances with The Zeta Jones are paid with the forfeiture of your eternal soul.She's a nice looking woman and all, but I'm not sure she's worth that.
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Danny would recommend Cutthroat Island. And I know this choice will make me instantly unpopular but I recently watched Atlantis again and it's easily one of my favorite Disney movies. Non-stop action, unconventional and a surprising amount of people die.Apocalytpo is required viewing. Mel needs to do more directing.The updated Count of Monte Cristo is aces.Have Green Street Hooligans at home but have never put it in.Vader, you're making me cry. You did what I should've done. Instead I let my family push me towards college instead of film school. And it's a struggle to try to make a life course correction this late in the game.Franklin, avoid Robocop 3. It's not even good as background noise.
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All I ask is that my typos be funny. That is not a huge request.Clodplay? That was funny.Evil-Dad-A-Thon? Funny.Bur? Not funny at all.I blame Friday and my generally grumpy demeanour this afternoon for this unfunny typo. Also, possibly Catherine Zeta Jones.
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Abso-bloody-lutely. Now I just have to track them all down because I have none of them in my collection.
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Fair enough. It is shit.The annoying thing is, I know I'm going to watch it anyway. That's just the kind of idiot I am. It doesn't matter how many of you warn me off, I will still watch it. The three men I admire most in world - Tom Waits, Evander Holyfield, and the re-animated corpse of Bill Hicks - could turn up at my flat and order me not to watch Robocop 3, but I would damn well watch it anyway.I really am quite an idiot.
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Feb 27, 2009 9:05:37 AM CST
I support you in your quest, Frankie
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Because that's the type of guy I am.
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For a short time only we are offering lifetime membership to this exclusive organisation for the low, low price of the forfeiture of your eternal soul. Don't miss this exciting offer. First 10,000 callers will also recieve membership to Julia Roberts' culinary school where you learn how to unlock your jaw in order to devour your children whole. Call now to avoid disappointment.
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I think I told you that I watched all his fights from the 90s last year and damn near cried at how awesome heavyweight fighters were 10-20 years ago when it was still the premiere weight class.Still begs the question, how do three American icons become so endearing to a Brit?
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Check this out....someone made this. Hilarious. http://tinyurl.com/bkunpv
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All I can say is you make some pretty great icons over there.Still, I should probably have included all four members of Led Zeppelin, just to give the list some more English flavour.
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Work blocks all video here which is both a blessing and a curse.So I watched JCVD last night. What a bizarre well done bit o' entertainment that was. And bad dialogue in Street Fighter aside, there's a monologue he delivers that is incredible. Acting chops to spare. And the way the background drops out when he's talking? Brilliant. That ending was mondo bizarro but they avoided cutesy so major points there.
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You liked Atlantis??? WHY? Atlantis is like one of the coolest stories ever and Disney shits out this Direct To Video quality animated cartoon. They should have put a lot more money into the animation.
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I liked Atlantis OK but the quality was fairly poor. My problem was that it was an almost direct rip off an anime film called Nadia. Total plagiarization.
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Original ‘Street Fighter’ Director Says New Flick Should Be Better
There aren’t a lot of guys out there who can claim to have had a hand in creating such awesomeness as “Die Hard,” “48 Hours” and “Knight Rider” (the old/cool cheesy show, not the new/lame cheesy show). But since Steven E. de Souza was also the man who wrote and directed 1994’s “Street Fighter” movie, we were eager to get his thoughts on how next February’s re-boot film will compare.
“I heard that it’s the story of just Chun-Li,” he said of the film. “That has to make for a better picture.”
“When we were making the original one, they insisted that all of the characters be in the movie,” de Souza remembered with a sigh. “And if you do the math, that gives you about 7 minutes per character if you split it up equally.”
De Souza told us that he’s eager to see Michael Clarke Duncan, Chris Klein, Taboo and the other co-stars in next year’s “Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li,” but finds it refreshing that the film will focus mainly on only one of the game series’ army of notable characters. “And then Van Damme was cast [in the ’94 flick],” de Souza remembered. “But he still wasn’t in the whole movie, because it was so overpopulated!”
“I was begging at the time: ‘Couldn’t we just meet some of these people in the sequel?’” he recalled. “Even after we started the movie, they added another character because there was another videogame. So they were like, ‘We have to add Captain Sawada!’”
As refreshingly candid as he is, however, de Souza is confident that his Van Damme flick can reside on the same DVD shelf alongside Taboo’s acting debut. “I’m envious of this group, because they’re able to construct a movie around a single character rather than a three-ring circus that needs to be lassoed with the story,” he insisted. “It’s a rich universe, and I think it can support all of these versions.”
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Ace Ventura Two is coming out on DVD soon! FINALLY!
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You know, technically its never too late. You too can make a film! All you need is... money. Or loans... and yeah, this economy... Hmph.
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Missing a lot of people though, like Abom.
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Feb 27, 2009 10:28:42 AM CST
Vader....I know. Its missing a lot. Stuntcock as well.....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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Who the fuck is that? I've read that before. Did you know that the awesome Die Hard 3: Die Hard With A Vengeance script was actually a sequel to Lethal Weapon.
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To more Clone Wars episode till the season close. Supposedly its going to go out with a bang!
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I enjoyed the story. If it ripped off a better story, that's news to me so I thought it was fresh. Had I watched this Nadia you speak of I might think differently.Crappy animation is never a problem for me. Some of the earlier Disney stuff and some Bluth films have less than stellar animation but the stories are spot on and the characters so flesh out I can look past it. Titan AE had some spotty animation but christ if I don't love that movie.I'll stand on the hill all day and defend Atlantis if I have to. That and Treasure Planet.
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Feb 27, 2009 10:33:04 AM CST
Yeah. Good animation can only do so much.....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
Land Before Time looks pretty shitty now....but its got the fucking heart and some incredibly voice acting so it still destroys most of the cute whiz bang shit of today. -
I'm behind, Series. Last episodes I saw were the Blue Shadow series. Is it the 3-episode Ryloth Campaign now featuring Mace Windu? The trailer for that one looked FUCKING AWESOME. And I don't mind using hyperbole.
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We need the person responsible to make one for the CoC.Vader, as much as I'd like to be the next Spielberg, I'm satisfied with just the writing end of cinema. I'm no genius writer but I have dozens of good ideas and I'm adept enough at getting them on paper so now it's just a matter of getting a script into the right hands. OK, hands period.
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Came on some syndicated local channel one lazy sunday afternoon. I remember really looking forward to the idea of a scifi take on it and digging some of the designs (like that crescent moon space-port), and I ended up really enjoying the film too. I still haven't seen Atlantis, but I wanted to. Didn't Mike Mignola of Hellboy fame do some of the design work for that one? I think Mulan was the first time I didn't see a Disney animated feature in the theater, and that continued with every film thereafter (though I did catch Home on the Range in theaters, and saw Mulan and Tarzan on DVD later).
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Feb 27, 2009 10:45:01 AM CST
I enjoyed the hell out of Treasure Planet
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
To my great surprise. Haven't seen Atlantis.
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Feb 27, 2009 10:47:18 AM CST
I'm very disappointed in the absence of a smashed Chipps today
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Very disappointed indeed. Drunk Chipps Friday is usually my favorite workday of the week.
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Have a good weekend, one and all. Frankie, you must watch all three Robocops! I repeat. You must!
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I posted in the green lantern Tb that Harvey Firestein should be Hal Jordan because he knows how to acccesorize a black and green unitard and a big butch green ring. I figure that shouold send the militant comic strip geeks over the edge.Since I have time because class is in a bit of flux this morning, anybody want to make GL Fanbois upset?
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Am I in the right TB?The crescent moon spaceport reveal is something I can loop all day.The last Disney movie I watched in the theater was Tarzan. That ended an impressive string dating all the way back to Mermaid.
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Wow, I thought I was one of the very few. I don't usually watch cartoon movies that much but I thought that one was excellent.
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Making him an anti-hero, developing the relationship between he and... crikey, I forgot the kid's name. And his cyborg design was brilliant. Loved all the different aliens too. I remember being so hyped up for Tarzan, loving Glen Keane's animation work in the past, and his Spider-Man-like movements through the jungle for Tarzan in the previews. And the first trailer was so epic, with the sinking ship going down in flames. I thought the first half of the film was great, but the second half seemed to lose some of that grand, epic feel. But I haven't seen it in a few years, I need to revisit it.
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That is a top animation! Well played, whoever the culprit is.
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Feb 27, 2009 11:15:32 AM CST
I think Mermaid is probably the worst Disney film ever.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
That movie is ugly, songs are horrible, voice acting sucks, characters are annoying.
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I thought it was brave of them to go with that style of animation in the face of all the CG stuff coming out. But ultimately, I couldn't get into Titan AE.
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I know I said we shouldn't talk, but FUCK do I hate the Little Mermaid. Certain parts of it are actually pretty neat, like the constant fluid motion of the characters' hair underwater, but that's about it. Other than that, the movie is just stupid and awful.And what the hell is wrong with that story? What the hell is up with the message? Do little girls really need to be told that a man will love them most once their voices are taken away and they lose the essence of who they are? The shallow guy in that falls for the girl even though he never hears her speak until the end of the movie, and even then he almost marries the witch because I guess he thinks she's hot too or some shit. Boy that movie makes me mad.And let's not forget the various shots of Ariel ascending from the surface of the ocean with her 80 pund body and four inch waste. That's just horrible. No girl ever should look like that in real life.
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I know I said we shouldn't talk, but FUCK do I hate the Little Mermaid. Certain parts of it are actually pretty neat, like the constant fluid motion of the characters' hair underwater, but that's about it. Other than that, the movie is just stupid and awful.And what the hell is wrong with that story? What the hell is up with the message? Do little girls really need to be told that a man will love them most once their voices are taken away and they lose the essence of who they are? The shallow guy in that falls for the girl even though he never hears her speak until the end of the movie, and even then he almost marries the witch because I guess he thinks she's hot too or some shit. Boy that movie makes me mad.And let's not forget the various shots of Ariel ascending from the surface of the ocean with her 80 pund body and four inch waste. That's just horrible. No girl ever should look like that in real life.
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well, back to work.
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The theme is really fucked up in Little Mermaid. It sorta reminds me of the message little girls would take away from The Devil Wears Prada. -
I admit I'm not crazy about the Little Mermaid and that animation looks worse than Disney movies twice as old, but damn if my little girl doesn't go ga-ga over Ariel.I agree it's one of Disney's worst efforts. Odd how it was the film that brought their animation studio back from the dead.Wolf, you need to rewatch Titan AE. That scene in the "asteroid" field is breathtaking. In fact I'm going to watch that scene when I get home.
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And I kinda wanna go home and try to watch Treasure Planet, Atlantis, and Titan AE as a triple feature.Vader, Mignola indeed did most of the character and general artistic designs for the movie.
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I haven't been on a train since I was like two years old and I still lived in Germany, so I'm pretty excited about that. Portland is one of the coolest places I have ever been to, as long as you know where to go.
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I can understand that, but I hope she admires characters like Belle too. Beauty and the Beast is just a good movie in general. I remember watching it like a year ago and it just flying by. I haven't seen a movie that well paced in long time. That, Lion King, and Aladdin are like the trifecta of the Disney comeback for me.
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Atlantis, Treasure Planet, and Tarzan all had their charms. Not as good on the production values front as those mentioned above, but nowhere near the awful message that Little Mermaid has.And the Han-avalanche scene in Mulan is still breathtaking.
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I will probably be back in a few hours.
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Even though I realize the Mouse House is the evil empire. With the exception of Hunchback, I thought all their stuff in the 90s was amazing. Hercules is one of my favorites. James Woods camping it up as Hades? Just awesome.Who am I kidding, I'm a sucker for ALL animation. Open Season, Washed Away, Over the Hedge, I eat it up like Oprah at a buffet on ladies night.
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I will give Titan AE another go then. I don't get much of a buzz off animated features. I'd seen a few of the CG efforts and I came around to Titan by way of Final Fantasy TSW - which was stunning to look at, if a little awry on story (wonderful score by Elliot Goldenthal).It's odd, cos the cover art of Titan gave me a completely different impression of the content, I was expecting CG animation. When the DVD arrived the cover was not the one advertised - very cartoony and I wondered if the wrong disc had been sent and this was a spin-off TV series or something. Obviously it wasn't, twas the movie.That's possibly what fuelled my disappointment - expecting Final Fantasy imagery and getting... well, a cartoon and I just never tuned in to the action.But, for you HOD, I shall give Titan another spin.
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those imagages were from the new underbelly series in oz. it is a pretty good show *loosely* based on reality on organised crime in oz, in droids city.
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was fucking awesome. one of the best action movie/buddy adventure scripts ever. fantastic.
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couldn't bring myself to drink, my teeth are still fucked up and now i have a cold. i'm thinking sunday, but maybe that's just hopefull
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... or B13 if you prefer. Top action film. DocP was right, I stand enlightened. Although setting the bomb off was a bit convoluted. I mean, they got the bomb into B13 - why didn't they just remote detonate the bugger? Why send someone in to do it? I've no doubt missed an obvious reason.Nevertheless, great fun. Now looking forward to B13U.
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I stayed out of the pub tonight as well.
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Who whuh buh?
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Maybe I should invoke the power of Bale...
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... the first time I saw Christian Bale - Empire Of The Sun. I wasn't wildly enamoured with the film but I recall thinking - "Hmmm, that kid might have a future."Maybe I didn't think the "Hmmm" bit. But the rest of the sentence, yeh.
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Bale, Bale, Bale, Bale...It's not working.
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(Clears throat loudly) I think Shia LeBeouf would be a perfect casting choice for Ghostbusters 3.
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Damn! Felt sure that would work.
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I had a pop at Moriarty in the Watchmen thread, then left.
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Imagine I'm Donald Sutherland and I'm pointing at you, buddy.
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Mr. Z, how-do!I knew the double whammy of Bale & LeBeouf would attract somebody. Even it is the pod-version of Mr. Z...
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It's very easy for me to imagine you as Donald Sutherland. Are you, in actual fact, Donald Sutherland? And did you invent those little jars of meat paste?
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I didn't invent those jars of meat paste, I simply use them recreationally.
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has to take responsibility for jars of meat paste. I find them extremely disturbing.
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clearly finds meat paste disturbing - judging by the error messages suddenly explodifying all over my screen. May have to sign off...
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Dollhouse 101 was so bad I turned it off after 33 minutes.
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Sorry but earlier you said you wanted to watch Treasure Planet!!! I don't care how bad of a bomb it was, its my top three fav disney movie. I love that movie, and its soooo amazing to look at, something Atlantis is severely lacking.
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Treasure Planet was the last movie I saw with my dad in theaters, the one before that was Narc. So I hold those movies in a special place. Luckily they were both very good.
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NOTHING! Best action movie of all time. He's gonna be a lot happier when he looks in the back seat.
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Perfect structure.
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How the fuck do you know what Taboo looks like based on the trailer? Have you seen something else? The only thing that piece of shit Street Fighter trailer spends more then a nano second on is MCD's face. Is he not a big enough star to say starring, and introducing that girl from Smallville? Stree Fighter Trailer is possibly one of the worst trailers ever made. And this comes from the factory that made the trailers for Hitman and Max Payne which were better trailers then movies. It gives me little to no hope that Street Fighter is worth a damn, that OR its good and the trailer makers didn't know what to do with it? But come on, when was the last time you saw a trailer that sucked that hard? Shit even the trailer for War was cool.
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Is an good stand in. I'll except that answer.
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So I got a free screening pass for I Love You Man for the 7th. Should I bother going? I managed to see Borat two months before it came out (I love you man comes out next month) and it was fucking amazing. I am not expecting that much from I love you man.
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The original is awesome. And yes, go to the screening. Rudd and JS can act - unlike Seth 'where's mah fwucking weed?' Rogen.
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I am sick of all this, OHHH I WOULD LET RUDD GO IN MY BACK DOOR! Or If Rudd was a dog I would let him lick peanut butter off my balls???? Like everyone admits that Sethery Rogain is a flash in the pain for right now, but Paul William Rudd is some bonafied comic genius? Everyone acts like they've loved every movie Paul Rudd has ever been in like he's been making movies since the early 80s? He was fucking in Clueless, the gay guy in the Friends girl movie and then Anchorman and 40 Year Old Virgin. Everything else he's done has not been worth noting. I mean him in Anchorman and 40 year old does not a comic legend make. The biggest offender of this (besides Harry William Knowles, is Robert Wilonsky). I mean I never saw Role Models, but how is this not Role Models two? As for Freaks and Geeks, never saw Forgetting Sarah Marshel, but I've liked him in everything else, but he's kind of a one note wonder as well. I'll probably check it out if only Andy (I want to be the next Adam Sandler) Sandburg had a bigger part.
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Rudd's not a genius. He can just act. Which means he gets a pass from me because he's doing more than throwing out weak improv.
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So I finally finished The Gayest Movie Title since The Dark Knight. Midnight Meat Train was one fucking strange movie, but for some reason it kept putting me to sleep. Am I that desensitized to violence? Some of the images in the movie were amazing to see and the movie was greatly shot, but it needed to be an hour 20 not an hour 40, unless they wanted to do more with the weird creature things at the end. For the most part of the movie I was waiting for it to be a CLIVE movie, then the creepy creatures came in and I was like OK this is the gayest horror writers stuff I've come to know (granted I've never read any of his shit but I want to). I really liked it, don't understand how crap like the Strangers get a full up your ass in every theater release while Gay Movie Title got released in fucking Dollar Theaters????? The Midnight Meat Train felt like a great 80's horror film. The violence was just SO good, that fucking hammer was awesome. I really wished that had explained some more of the whole concept, like was Mahogany immortal? Was he immune to weapons, because he only acted in pain really when he was hit with a severed hand? Yeah I know, DON'T ASK QUESTIONS! But there was a lot of shit that could have easily been covered in the monologue by the conductor at the end of the movie. Also one final grip, I really wanted to see what Bradley looked like with that sweet ass Vinnie haircut, they should have shown him sitting down and waiting. There was some amazing AMAZING shots in the movie I loved, like the final shot in the fight scene, and some of the Hammer shots. This would have been a fun movie to see with a crowd. I am looking forward to Versus directors next movie, he's got a crazy eye and loves the gore and I love it. I want to go back and watch Godzilla Final Wars. Last thought, there was this interview with crazy ass Clive in his house and he's got like thousands of paintings he drew sitting around his house. Some of them are pretty amazing, I would like to see an art book he's done. Shit I would ever buy one, they were so crazy.
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Yeah I know, but read any reviewers review of a Paul Rudd movie, they act like his Bill Murray right off the set of SNL, not just a good actor.
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Yeah, that's true. Even during his comedy stuff, Murray's far from a quip machine. Most of his stuff is wry, character-based. I'd say Rudd's probably the closest that this generation has to a Murray, but he's not in that league in terms of performance.
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i've always loved it, off the top of my head can't think of one i prefer. did a good job of keeping things moving along. rewatched them all recently actually. die hard one is pretty good as well, but i don't think the structure is better. I also think some of the events a little less realistic. and that the bad guys behave in a way that 'trained proffessionals' which they are supposed to be would not. these guys are portrayed as being really awesome but they arn't. the weapons the bad guys have are extremely accurate but there are a couple of scenes where mccaline is running away where these guys couldn't hit the side of a barn door. they also don't use them the way you would use these weapons. it was interesting re watching it. because they are germans the one main lieutenant uses a steyer (this is an austrian designed weapon). i've actually had quite a bit to do with this weapon as it is the main weapon for the australian infantry. it is an extremely accurate and reliable weapon. far more accurate then as used in the film. they don't fire it as you should. while it can be used both in single shot or in burst you would rarely use it in burst. maybe only if your main section weapon were out, but that is not relevant here. the bad guys use it mainly in burst which no 'professional'. even using it in burst you would do 2-3 round bursts at most. further more it's sound is very distinctive. it has two pressures, one for single shot one for burst. this means that to go to burst you have to go through single shot. this will make it sound like bang-bangbangbangbangbangbang rather than just bangbangbang like a one pressure weapon would. in the movie it dosn't sound like this at all, they have just used standard sound effects. ok nit piky, it was just something i noticed on the rewatch
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murray was the king of improv. i read that for caddy shack and ghostbusters (two of his most iconic performances) he didn't even or hardly even read the script, that they were pretty much totally improv performances, to the degree where some say he was ripped off for not getting a writing credit. and paul rudd as this generations bill murray. are you fucking serious. get the fuck outa town, that is a crazy statement.
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i havn't seen a room clear as so quick since the time rikki lake reached for the pickled eggs
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as a like blank is to blank as Rudd is to Murray comparison. I was just saying in terms of Comic greatness and relevance in the comic scene. Maybe 5-10 years from now it will make sense to go, OH PAUL RUDD IS IN THIS! I love his work, he's funny in everything. Not right now he's not done enough funny things. Well every reviewer acts like he's already done enough to say that they'll see anything with Paul Rudd, not because they like 40 year Virgin, but because they've been laughing at his stuff through the years. I don't understand this he's done two really funny movies and some things that only lame people would fine hysterically funny. So maybe after Role Models he'll be a regular funny guy, but right now he's just a 'one to watch' sort of category.
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Pretty sweet.
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Watched the first half of Brazil tonight. Really digging it, its so nutty and bizarre. Someone feel asleep so I got the Tele all to my lonesome and not sure what to so. Probably gonna make a Christian Bale Water (vodka and red bull) and knock out Saw V. Doesn't seem like anyone's caught this yet. I am not really expecting anything good, I don't know how they could ever get close to the kills in Midnight Meat Sack, and Saw IV didn't make a shit of sense and I don't really remember it. Still got fucking Body of Lies to watch too. First things first though, its shit time. Gonna read issue three of No More Heroes.
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Just read this silly fake documentary about Galactucus being a fake comic. Actually it was really funny and silly. Thought it was just a cheap money grub on Marvels part, fucking bleeding me DRY!
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I have to fucking watch the fucking terminator show before I watch Dollhouse so I don't pull a what I did last week. I watched Life on Mars before watching Lost and deleated it right when I was done, there for getting rid of the last 5 minutes or so of lost. And anyone who has seen Lost knows that usually a lot of shit goes DOWN! in the last 5 minutes of Lost. Sometimes crazy shit happens in the end of the Terminator show, but mostly is sucks, mostly.
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Was going to the name of Kentucky Fried movie. Where the fuck is everyone? Why is it I'm the only LMAO here on Fridays? Damn did Igor and City of Ember come out the same day in the picture flicks and on the Beta films?
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Or has anyone seen the trailer for Tokyo? Looks pretty cool. Though 99% of all films with three directors doing segments kind of suck.
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if so, fuck that shit. i would not be down with it.
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So on The Longest Show ever created, aka Terminator. Seriously I started the show around 11 o'clock and now its 1:30, the show is suppose to only be an hour long, and I've not once paused it I've even fast forwarded the commercials. I don't get it. Anyways back to the point, there was a machine involving vending machines and inside the machine they had made up FAKE selections for it. Hey prop guy we are going to need 30 fake vending machine food items for a 5 second scene, OK!
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The bigger problem with this episode is that 75% of it is just the dreams Sarah Conner is having so none of it even means shit. This is a boring lame ass filler episode, the last filler episode was really good (best in show really) I guess they all can't be C+ material.
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Damn Chipps are you just reading the Subject lines? I outta stab you right in the spleen.
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Anyone seen the new latest and greatest.....wait I'm wrong sorry. But still anyways, anyone seen the newest watchboys TV spot? Its got the logos for WB, Paramount, Legendary and DC comics like all in a row. See at first I thought the it was WB and Paramount that where in a fund, its really Fox. So the whole joke isn't as funny as i was hoping. But still (sorry new kitten trying to take a swig of my beer) its weird to see four logos like that. I miss the running unicorn thing and the spinning O.
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Something happens at minute 40 of this episode of Terminator that makes it MUST SEE RIGHT NOW TV!!! Especially for any "fans" of Firefly.
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I was looking through Rotten Tomatoes at there best of the best picture award winners of all time and this was like three. So I've only seen it once and while I watched it I was baked like a cookie and it was SOOO fucking bizarre. It was like they were speaking another language that was not english, it was way weird.
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Was number 5??? really? I mean it was ok and all, but now a days the guy just comes off as a stalker.
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really? REALLY ROTTEN? I mean again giving men another fucked up view on relationships. The ways woody acts in that movie has cause MANY relationships to go to shit, granted that movie is about that, but it would've happened WAY WAY before it happens in the movie.
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For a second, in your review, when you kept mentioning "Hammer shots", I thought you meant references to the old British horror studio.
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Zeddmore drops in for just a cameo, Danny is preoccupied with the Baleback, Mavra is moving... what the fuck is the rest of your excuses? HOD has been around but Xiphos is with Bale, Jarv is God knows Where, ThereWolf, Droid, and Franklin the victims of bad timing. WTF is Fred and Jonah? Shit, we can't let this TB community die, folks! Get it together! Cause if we dont learn how to live together... we're gonna die alone. Yeah I just quoted LOST. So what. That show fucking rocks.
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But shit. Seriously. I have internetz and this TB has been slowly dying. I don't like that idea folks.
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Is kind of annoying. I just wouldn't know what to do without just spamming.
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Have you seen the meat train?
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I was interested though. I think a friend saw it, who is a big Clive Barker fan, and wasn't as happy with it as he hoped.
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Its out not on VHS. You watch Doll house or Terminator?
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So tonight's Dollhouse was umm the Bodyguard. Meh, this series just isn't doing it for me.
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I'm either watching a movie I haven't seen bc my girlfriend is working, or I'm out. So I've yet to see an episode of Dollhouse (though I am a fan of Buffy and what I've seen of Firefly), I missed the past two episodes of Battlestar Galactica, and uh... is Terminator even on this night? I've pretty much avoided that.
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Dollhouse made fun of B Spears while doing an episode about a Pop Star... YAY MEDIUM!
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Feb 28, 2009 2:52:13 AM CST
Just to back it up a bit - the Stanley Kubrick turd polish story
by half vader
It's in one of the bio books that he was editing something and the great and arrogant Kirk Douglas stopped by, looked at the screen and announced to Stanley "You can't polish a turd". Without blinking or looking up from his work Stanley countered, "You can if you freeze it".
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We may get to drink early in Oz but conversely I vote that little drunken revhead cocksuckers don't get to drive monstrously overpowered HSV beasts 'til they're 25. Maybe a few less people will die that way.
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Seeing films at the film place these past two weeks, I haven't checked to see what was showing in a while.
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look and see whats playing and fucking Edward Scissorhands is showing at the theater down the streets??? Why? I may have to check that out.
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is so good it had sex with your mother and now it's your new daddy. That movie owns us all.
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Yeah, read my post. I said Rudd wasn't in Murray's league, but I also said he was the closest thing we had. As for improv... Murray's stuff never looks or feels like improv. He becomes the characters completely. It's fine character work, even when he's delivering the funny.
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Writing scripts... socialising... writing articles on horror films... doing an MA and playing computer games does not leave much time for Internet banter.
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I consider myself the Godzilla guru - even if no one else does! Godzilla final wars was indeed a great Godzilla movie. Not the best, but it is in the top five. Just the reference to the 'tuna eating' monster is enough to vault it into consideration. Now, before any wars break out here let me say that I really liked Emmerich's Godzilla. It is not a Godzilla movie though. It is a movie about a tuna eating lizard. And when viewed as such, it is just fine.
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A very quick check of the Bale TB shows that you and I have roughly the same amount of post in that TB. So if I'm with Bale so are you.I'm limited during the week in posting because I'm taking a language course.Jarv's on holiday and will be back Monday.Fred's work moved the place around now he can't post during the day.Jonah might be MIA because of a new job.
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and i reckon the person who comes closest to murray from this generation would be adam sandler. i may get a better one down the track but walk with me on this one. both came out of snl. both, early in their careers made a name for themselves with agressively assholic, breast and reefer obsessed characters as well as 'retardo' characters. then later on both movied in and out of 'serious' roles, will still doing some comedic roles. anyway there is really no one like murray, but if i had to pick someone it would be sandler. rudd makes none of his own material and is never the most funny person in any of his movies, he facitlites the comedy of the person who is funny.
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Tried really hard but couldn't get going on this movie. I did like the prisoners running at the wall in the hope of knocking it down! Then the fighter plane crashes into the prison after a series of unlikely coincidences.Like the main guy in it as well, he's got some presence. Don't know his name but I think he was in Silmido. I enjoyed Silmido - very cool.
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I'm always being told that I'm missing a lot of great stuff but TV just pisses me off. It's inane. Can't watch an episode of something, then wait a week for the next. Just lose interest.A bloke at work lent me 24, the season 1 box set. It was okay but went on too long.And all that Poop Idol and dancing twats and idiots locked in a house for year. What a load of fucking brainless cack.Ant and fucking Dec - who pays those cunts?
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I'm not in a good mood.
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2 Vaders?
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Astute points.
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Very good points.Who's Paul Rudd?
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You're not kidding are you. It's either that or this new deodorant - Sure Invisible Ice...What does that even mean? Invisible fucking ice? Where do they get these names from - it's just stuff you spray on to stop yourself from gently perspiring. Lynx, the new fragrance - Aztec Codpiece.The whole world's gone crazy.
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the other night. At the start, there was a Mars chocolate bar advert on it. You couldn't skip it or anything, go to menu. I've had a Malteser ad before but you could skip past that.Why don't they stick their adverts up their arses where they belong. And not on my DVD.
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spam titles to keep us up. But that's cheating.
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I'll get me coat...
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Watched it last night and this morning. Overall it is probably the third best Saw movie (I,II,V,III,IV) though not as bad as I thought it would be. The kills were OK, not the best but a lot better then four. Also Three had really good kills, but the story was terrible and 3/4 of the movie was recap of 2 and 1. V didn't have that and movie the story along pretty good, just needed some better kills.
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I saw him in the grocery store about a year ago. He was the worst dress person in there.
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Ordered 1 - 8 in a giant boxset. Yay
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Feb 28, 2009 7:40:11 PM CST
On comedians, It can definitely be said that Jim Carrey is the o
by half vader
true slapstick successor to Jerry Lewis though. I'm not a slapstick fan and even hated the Stooges as a kid, but I think the Carrey thing is true. Well, when he used to do that stuff anyway.
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For you American types: Lynx = Axe Malteser = Whoopers but a hell of a lot better man I lover Maltersers Mars chocolate bar advert Milky Way Advertizement. Sorry Milky Way's are much better. Though Cadberry Carmel are the shit. And ThereWolf the big thing to do on DVD's in the states is the No Pirating movies ad (which was given a right proper mocking in an episode of The IT Crowd) and Stupid anti smoking ads.
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I enjoyed it. Well minus the Gladiator parts, all the Leo stuff was good. Liked how they ended with the GnR song. Also the whole time I was like man this feels like The Departed in the middle east and lo and behold its fucking written by the same guy. Hmmm is this System of the Down guys solo stuff over the credits? Why couldn't they let the GnR play.
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It was not Serj Tankakan it was Mike Patton. Which is much better he is much more culturally relevant as well. I love me some Mike Patton. I saw him on the Henry Rollins show performing with his band Peeping Tom and they had the girl who got like 2 or 3 place in season 2 of Americas Got Them Talents doing mouth beats with them. Well that's a pretty sweet gig compared to some shitty album deal i thinks.
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Not on the DVDs (unless you can't skip the fuckers) that's logical, but when they play it at the CINEMAS. We're WATCHING the fucking movie, idiots! We're NOT at home pirating the thing on our computer (in which case we'd see the same ad on the DVD we were pirating anyway)! We just paid and now we're sitting in the cinema with our 14 buck (in Oz - I shit you not) coke and popcorn combo "deal", watching the movie!
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just sneak a six pack in in your bag.
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Pretty stupid. The IT Crowd parody of it is really funny. Its like you wouldn't murder someone?
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Last post hours ago. FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK.
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Not surprising - I log in, barely anyone posts. Then they post about random shit so I can't get a conversation going.
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So what are you trying to say? Post about alligator poop is not a conversation starter?
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Where is this post?
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Especially if the alligator that gifted you is still in the vicinity.
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Hey...it's never too late if you still have that review around. I'm really sorry we missed each other last week. Xiphos is perfectly right(and I had a major "duh" in not saying this before)....he is a moderator and anyone can give him stuff to post if they and he are both cool with doing it that way.
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You da man! :)
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What's shaking? Good to see you back!
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What happened with the Baleback? Did they finally let you get the goal?
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I thought "Zombie Hunters" was better than "See the Dead". Congrats on the Romero kudos comments! Number 2 tries harder, right? Thanks for sharing all the news and films with us. You rock!
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Hope you're all having a great weekend.
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I like random shit.What's wrong with having a conversation about Sutherland's meat paste?What would you prefer? Cartesian fucking dualism? Pah!
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Thanks for the translation. We do have 'stop the pirates' ads on DVD's as well - pain in the arse but they can be skipped or fast forwarded.
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Hope your move went well. Nice to see you back online.
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Did not like this movie. Sorry, Hawaiian. Don't know how I got through to the end, to be honest. Unremittingly bleak. I couldn't believe the copper, having seen what he'd seen, that he would turn to the needle at the finish. Unless the inference was that the little girl took it off him before he even started...Put me in mind of Requiem For A Dream - well made and all that... but fuck me, if you want cheering up steer well clear.I wanted cheering up when I stuck Protege in the player - shit, how was I to know...?
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Hee hee
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How ya doing, mate? Where've you been?
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Fred gotta do what a Fred does best
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Fred is happy to see you. Fred has been busy with family and Girlfriend, so had little time to log on
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There's an understatement. I keep coming on but no one's ever here. It's my deodorant - Invisible Ice by Sure (see Series7 post above for translation). Not invisible enough. I think it frightens everyone away.
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Mar 01, 2009 5:21:10 PM CST
Fred did not know ThereWolves wore deodorant
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
Doesnt that warn the rabbbitses?
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It's invisible, innit! Ice - odourless.Only TB'ers can smell it, apparently.
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Your pits could be frightening off the Coc'ers!
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Mar 01, 2009 5:30:42 PM CST
Nothing frightens the CoC, but perhaps your pits overwhelm sense
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
It could be causing people to post in other TB's because there sense of home has been destroyed by the overpowering smell of wet ThereWolf!
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I shouldn't mask the pits - y'know, let them go au naturale..."New from Sure - Screaming Pong - the pungent aroma of Man..."
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Mar 01, 2009 5:34:57 PM CST
Fred had similiar problem with his wee fair Nessie
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
Och! Me wee fair, gahreen scaled, fish smelin Nessie! She had loots of joonk in hare troonk! And she nyoo howta shake it!
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Mar 01, 2009 5:37:31 PM CST
Fred would smell like dead fish for a week!
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
But Nessie was worth it! <p. Hmm Au Naturale ThereWolf - it could be a hit!
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they do some exotic whiffy stuff - like 'Tiger Scrote,' I think they do that one. And 'Dead Inca' - that's another one. I bet that smells nice...
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There use tae be a Loch Ness Web Cam, laddie. So, ye kid watch fer Nessie 24 hoors a day! Och, fancy doon that all day, juss tae catch a glimpse o' the wily beastie!
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Mar 01, 2009 5:44:03 PM CST
Fred is sure the Lynx and the Inca might have something to say a
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
Why not just roll around on dead rabittses carcass?
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did ah ever tell ye that mah family name has its roots in the auld country? Aye. The Clan MacCleod, no less. Stroo! I would nay lie aboot such a thing.
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Mar 01, 2009 5:46:58 PM CST
Aye, boot Nessie be camera shy, and knows how tae avoid Nessera
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
She be the Howard Hgughes of Loch Ness moonstairs!
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Mar 01, 2009 5:50:45 PM CST
Knows how tae avoid Nessierazi is whut Fred meant
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
Och, ThereWolve be frum the auld coontry? Thet be a fair bit of gud nyoos! Ye be a wee bairn of the motherland! Welcome back laddie!
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Mar 01, 2009 5:53:36 PM CST
Fred feels lahk fixin sum Haggis tae celebrate
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
The return of our own wee bairn ThereWolve!
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She no be a moonstair! Hoo dare ye! She be like all t'other fishys in the loch, neither fair nor foul. But one of oor own, is Nessie.
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on a dead rabbit! What kind of bloke do you take me for! Only pet rabbits round here, can't take those, call it a code of conduct. So at a push, there might be a hedgehog knocking about - but not at this time of year cos they're still hibernating.
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Mar 01, 2009 6:00:36 PM CST
Och, Fred be shamed, Ye are Right. Nessie no moonstair
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
Fred apoologize fair affendin the symbol of oue wee fair coontry!
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Maine Road FC, we've got a player called Haggis!
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But it was very entertaining having this TB all to ourselves, and we did the CoC good by putting up all these posts
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Let's do this again sometime!Take it easy, man.
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Even if you do not roll around on them!
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Runcorn 1.If there's one thing worse than losing - it's losing to a bunch of whiney twathats who score an undeserving last minute goal.And with that, I'm going too. Goodnight. And, hey, let's be careful out there...
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I love Lynx/Axe. Fun fact to tell the family, Anti-Hangover is called Recovery in the states!!! Right pussies they are.
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Bust I'll send you a thank you letter!!
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Like I said before, IT'S A LION.
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Cloverfield dropped the ball there. Huge, fucking, prideful looking Lion would've broke a billion.
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Is the title track on the Watchmen soundtrack? How gay is that. I only got My Chemicals first cd which was alright, so I don't know if that is a new song or not (actually I guess it was there second cd I got, the one with the black cover and people on it, I had there very first one as well). I mean yes the lead singer writes a comic book so at least there is that. The rest of it actually is really good old stuff so that's cool. I would've liked to have seen the Smashing Pumpkins mix up on it, that song was awesome in its normal form for Bat and Rob. I wish soundtracks would put on the trailer songs.
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Thats REALLY fucking lame they got that My Chemical Romance on there, its just a shame to sell records because the rest is all old shit faggots who suck My Chem's dick don't even know (save for Along the Watchtower by Hendrix, if you don't know that and your old enough to care about music then your an idiot). Also I saw My Chem Ro at Warpped fest and the lead singer was such a faggot, like in between songs he would just cuss like he was cool, but he sounded like a nerd who was trying to cuss to sound big.
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Really good editing and music synching that make it look like an exciting film. And Series, I got that Pumpkins track off iTunes. Dig it.
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Yeah the trailers for Watchmen are fucking amazing. So were the 300 trailers with the NIN music. One can only hope.
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Is how much Coraline has made. I think Nightmare only made around $56 million.
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+ 14,486,897 3D 07 + 8,700,869 3D 06 + whatever 3D This year was = Nightmares Total BO gross. 8,871,183 Is how much Nightbreed made altogether.
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Is how much the Midnight Meat Train made. Hmm I guess I didn't realize that I saw the directors cut of it because the theatrical cut was only an hour 20 the one I saw was and hour 40. Makes me think that the theatrical cut may have actually been better.
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$3,078,987 is how much made in everywhere else except the greatest place on earth.
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Mar 01, 2009 10:50:40 PM CST
Fuck me....did you read the Street Fighter review?
by dannyglovers_dickblood
It sounds fucking awesomely bad.
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http://tinyurl.com/az7hyd
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Is how much fucking Twilight made? I still haven't met anyone over the age of teenage girl how likes that crap.
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$483,000 = Fanboys $148,000 = Outlander!!!! 12 Theaters for Outlander getting $408 this week and 46 theaters for Fanboys getting $1,391 this week. See what the fuck Harry? Maybe backing Outlander some more would get the theater count up like it has been for Fanboys. Lets face it Outlander cost about 1,000,000% more to make then Fanboys. Plus Fanboys got on At the Movies while Outlander did not!
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AND I watched the new Lifetime Rosie O'Donnell movie last night as well. SUCK IT!
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Mar 01, 2009 10:58:27 PM CST
Thats actually much worse per theater performance for Fanboys.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
Harry has no pull whatsoever. If he did-- that movie would have actually done some business. After a 5 year wait, it fucking bombs. What a fucking tragedy.
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Once again Harry screws the pooch. I get the feeling that he just doesn't give a shit about film anymore. "OUTLANDER WAS THE BEST INDIE I'VE SEEN ALL YEAR!!! But I don't give a shit so I'm not going to try to get you guys to see it."
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Outlander keeps getting in less.
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So I finished it today and OMG guys fucking amazing movie. Loved it. Yeah the ending is a little contrived but that scene where Jonathan Pryce is about to get tortured and that Baby face comes into the front of the screen classic. I want a poster of that. Can't beleive I waited that long to see it. Now I'm gonna what the commentary and the "Loves Conquers All Version". Seriously thinking about that and Outlander and how crappily they were handled by the studio on release is nuts.
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Is Brazil's total Domerstic gross, and probably cost a shit load to make. Outlander cost $50 million.
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I DON'T THINK THAT Outlander will get that, but it should.
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Made less then a million as well. That was a good movie as well.
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I didn't know you could track all the shit you put on this site? That's cool and not cool at the same time.
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Anyone think this is real? http://www.shockya.com/news/wp-content/uploads/tekken_movie_poster.jpg A NAY CHUCK! http://tinyurl.com/c2mu7p
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I found that shot from Brazil I was talking about. HOLLA AT YOUR BOI! http://www.tiemposfuturos.es/Imagenes/brazil_3.jpg Midget sized http://tinyurl.com/bp9vly
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Ricardo Montalban last role was as the Cow in Family Guy. NOT quite as classic as Unicron.
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Looks like his last person role was in Spy Kids 3-D, he's pretty much just been doing voice work, he worked on Freekazoid.
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Another week and whatnot.
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sigh. No more random drunkenings. Anyhoo- I've done all the films I've watched and am now on a grand total of 83- due to a huge binge saturday and sunday.
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Chopper Chicks in Zombie Town, Frankenfish, Cyborg, The Quest, I am Legend, and The Animal, actually, that isn't as big as I thought. It must be because I watched about 1 film every 2 days in Spain. That would make sense.
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was AWESOME. Psychotic Dwarf, inexplicable music, absurd dialogue ("No, I'm the Dyke. Blow me"), A completely bemused Billy Bob Thornton, TERRIBLE special effects, bus full of comedy blind orphans. Recommended. Highly.
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AKA: American Jesus (Paul Verhoeven's phrase for Robocop) and his two shit buddies.I made it. All three, although not back to back and it took three half hour sittings to get through Robocop 3. The results are:Robocop: 10/10. Fucking great film, and much funnier than I remembered it being.Robocop 2: 5/10. A bunch of half-assed ideas - some of which are good, most of which are not - that don't really gel together into an enjoyable whole. Pretty much what you'd expect from a guy who writes comics.Robocop 3: 0/10. This film doesn't even have half-assed ideas. It is a film of no-assed ideas! Really, one of the shittest sequels to a great film I've ever seen. Even Frank Miller ought to be able to do better than this.
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was shite. It had production values. Mistake. CGI was passable, but not scary. Hot girl was lesbian and didn't get naked, utterly incomprehensible bollocks. Only redeeming things about it (and I almost recommend watching it for them, as they are hi-fucking-larious)- Cajun/ Spanish geezer (Couldn't tell which) who kills a frankenfish and then eats it's heart while screaming "YOU THOUGHT YOU WERE KING OF THE SWAMP. I EAT YOUR HEART MOTHERFUCKER", Utterly gratuitous boobies, and a theme song which is the WORST rapping I've ever heard and had me in tears of laughter. There's also some gratuitous boobies.They seemed to miss the point that if you are going to make a film about a genetically modified chinese fish on the loose in the Bayou and chomping people then you have to go for all out shitness. Things like production values are completely out of place in a film called FRANKENFISH. I did like the optimistic attempt at leaving it open for a sequel. I think not, gents. Overall, aside from the bits I mentioned, avoid.
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Nice holiday?
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We've had this discussion before, but it outright sucks. 1 gets 9/10; 2 gets a generous 2/10 and 3 gets 0/10
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Nice to be out of work in the sun. And I've bought the nice weather back with me as a present for you undeserving cunts.
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this is the one I want to talk about today. It's 2/3 of a great film. Completely ruined by some of the worst CGI I've ever fucking seen (and there is no excuse for CGI-ing vampires anyway, especially when they end up looking like Gollum on crack), and a fucking dismal last 3rd. Big Willie Style was surprisingly good, the Flashback scenes were tasteful and well done, there were some iconic shots of wrecked New York (eat a dick cloverfield), but it was by no stretch of the imagination based on the book. They should say "very loosely fucking based on the novel- do not expect to see Matheson's work, but we kept the names".
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Van Damage by numbers. Entertaining enough. The Animal- I hate this with the fire of 1000 suns and think everyone involved should be banned from going anywhere near a film set again. Christ, it's just dreadful unfunny shite. Not one chuckle raised. 0/10.
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Captivity, which was shit. Saying any more is giving that film more attention than it deserves.Waitress, which I wanted to like but ended up hating. I haven't had such a strong desire to throw things at a fictional pregnant woman since Juno.
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to make films. He's a complete talent vacuum. His best performance was Judge Dredd. I can't decide which is worse; Duece Bigaow or The Animal. They both suck something fierce.
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Eek. Torture Porn dreck of the lowest order. Unlucky. Fuck Waitress- I've avoided it as I think it will suck something ferocious.
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I was thoroughly enjoying that one right up until the end, which was just horribly anti-climactic.And the CGI vampire/zombies looked awful. I think I read somewhere that they shot it with live actors in make-up but it looked so bad they had to re-do it all with CGI.
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At least that film is trying - here and there - to be good. It fails, but at least it's trying.Which is more than can be said for 3, which seems to be aiming for 'shit' and somehow ends up being worse than shit.
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Mar 02, 2009 3:55:21 AM CST
Only two weekend flicks brings my total to 51
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Breaking and Entering - Minghella's last film is unfortunately his worst. Why Jude Law gets cast in ANYTHING is beyond me. Oh, that's right, faghags think he's cute. It had terrible perfomances by usually good actors (Binoche, Wright-Penn) and story threads that appear then disappear at the drop of a hat. But the worst thing about it is that it had no idea what it was trying to say. And Wright-Penn is supposed to be Swedish, but sounds like no Swedish person I've ever met. Occasionally some sort of accent would leak through. Fuck knows what it is though. Ratatouille - Watched on blu-ray which is amazing in its quality. Damn I love this flick. Everything in it just pops with creativity. There is more talent and crativity that goes into five minutes of this flick than all of the Shrek films combined. Brad Bird is a genius. And that's all I got.
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I've seen the original cut, which was released in Spain before it got yanked and re-shot because of the success of Saw and Hostel into some ridiculously violent exercise in torture-porn. Haven't seen the re-shot version, because of my hatred of torture-porn and the small factor of the film sucking dogs balls.
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Mar 02, 2009 4:05:38 AM CST
About Waitress (trying not to sound misogynistic)
by franklin t marmoset
It has a few funny moments, and it's good to see Nathan Fillion get a decent part, but it's just a hateful, hateful film.I'm watching this story about an awful, passive woman who is having an affair with a married doctor while pregnant with her husband's baby and all I can think is, "Am I honestly supposed to like these assholes?".No disrespect meant to Adrienne Shelly, but that film is such a good example of a screwed-up twenty-first century woman's idea of empowerment - basically, do whatever the fuck you like and don't give a monkey's poop about how it affects anyone else.If they'd done a better job of showing that her husband was an asshole, maybe (and that's a BIG maybe) I could have gone along with it. But they didn'y, so I ended up feeling like Keri Russell's character was an empty-headed, spineless little cow who probably deserved such a crappy husband.
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I suspect that's because he actually is a prick and he's not a good enough actor to cover it up, so he's only watchable when he's playing a version of himself.
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talentless cunt.
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You know, there seems to be so many of these fucking things about recently. It's like Quirky= must be unlikable asshats. Seriously, see little Miss Sunshie for an example (mediocre, redeemed by the fabulous sequence at the beauty show). I'm tired of offbeat equalling snide, unlikable tossers with a self indulgent streak the size of the ganges. See also Alfie.
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I actually enjoyed this for the most part. I didn’t really get too distracted by the CG zombie’s. My one major problem with it is the deus ex machine plot point of the sudden appearance of the girl and kid. Abso-fucking-lutely unbelievable. Plus, (I may be wrong here, I’ve only seen it once) haven’t all the bridges leading to the island been destroyed? If so, how the fuck did they drive the massive SUV onto the island? The ending was the typical Hollywood ending. Didn’t really like the fact that they found the commune or whatever it was (I had the same problem with Children of Men… I guess I like bleak endings). I actually liked the original ending on the dvd, which humanizes the zombies and leaves the ending open. Also I would’ve loved to have seen an Emma Thompson zombie somewhere in the group. For shits and giggles.
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For some reason, I had an urge last night to watch a double bill of two films I thought I wouldn't watch again - Batman Begins and The Dark Knight.And, I have to admit, I'm warming to Christopher Nolan's version of Batman. They're not the films I'd like, maybe, and they're both riddled with flaws, but when they're good they're REALLY fucking good. I do love that stretch of TDK from the Joker's attempt to capture Harvey Dent through to the hospital explosion. Great stuff.
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the premise is unoriginal shite to begin with, frankly.
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How did I miss that? and the humanised vampire thing is nearer to the book. The Ending I saw was bobbins.
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basically good for the most part undone by a bad 3rd act?
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Mrs. Jarv wants to see watchmen. Fuck.
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Oh well. My only point was I'm on 84 for the year.
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It's coming up, and I feel like I should do something special to mark the occasion.Fuck knows what, though.
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You are correct. Terrible premise. It's more based on the twist that the other guy being held captive is in cahoots with crazy eyes. It's all an elaborate set-up to sleep with beautiful women. Really fucking stupid. I'm sure rohypnol is the easier option. I'm assuming that's the same story as the TP version.
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Funny. do you mean than watching it, or than kidnapping chicks?
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I don't want Watchmen to be 100th. That would make me sad.
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I will end up seeing it. I know it. I'm too curious for my own good. Have you read all the bullshit on T4? How a CG Arnie is in it and trying to get Hamilton involved. Ugh. Why not just CG every actor in it? CG an older Furlong and a younger Biehn! At least it would interest me as some sort of curiosity. Right now it all seems so bland. That said, just like Watchmen, Transformers 2 and maybe even Star Trek, my curiosity will make me see it.
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Both.
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Mar 02, 2009 4:33:59 AM CST
You guys are way ahead of me on the count.
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Already thinking about your 100th? Damn!
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I guaran-fucking-tee that maybe I will see T4 but none of the others will get my cash.
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Woman is kidnapped, discovers there's a guy who's also been kidnapped, the guy turns out to be in on it, and in the end it's revealed to be the most pointlessly elaborate way of getting laid ever conceived.Awful film. One of the worst this year for me.
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Mar 02, 2009 4:39:48 AM CST
Yeah, but I have a cinema card
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I pay £14 a month and get unlimited movies. So I can't use that excuse. That said, I haven't been to the cinema for over a month.
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I'm not that interested, but there's bugger all else happening this summer. Terminator, maybe, but that's it.At least the reviews for Watchmen have been good so far. Who knows, maybe I'll like it.
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is that the source material isn't actually that good/ profound/ whatever. Overrated does not begin to cover it, and I'm pleased that neither squiddy or that pirate pish are in it.
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Mar 02, 2009 4:49:31 AM CST
After reading Massa's Street Fighter review
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I must see it! It sounds awesome. The whole Chris Klein badass thing is genius. 'Nash Out'. I do love my 'so bad they're good' flicks.
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how is that good? in any way. The whole thing takes itself far too fucking seriously. Have you read it Frank? I think there's a good chance that you'll hate it.
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I hate Kruek though. She annoys me something fierce. Although it does sound like a dumbhouse classic in the making.
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Mar 02, 2009 4:56:24 AM CST
Yeah, Watchmen is completely overrated
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Plus the prospect 2 1/2 hours of big blue swinging balls is not exactly enticing.
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so there might not be too much giant blue gonad on display.
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As comics go, it's alright, I suppose. But I don't have a huge amount of respect for comics. They've created some entertaining characters over the years, but by and large they are not good examples of great writing, and stuff like Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns tend to get elevated (by comic book fans, who are an insular bunch) to the level of high art simply by being less shitty than the average comic.They do make for good films sometimes, so I'll probably give the Watchmen film a chance.
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Can the Earth withstand such a colossal clusterfuck of awful acting?I don't know. This could be bad. Bad for all of us.
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I'm either going for all 4 Rambos or all 3 Mad Maxes. Not sure which yet.I'm looking forward to seeing The Road Warrior again. Haven't seen that one years.P.S. I always thought of the 80s as being a shit decade for films, but most of the best stuff I've seen this year has been from the 80s. Die Hard, Aliens, The Thing, Robocop, The Blues Brothers, Evil Dead II. It's a pretty good list.
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Frank's Mint 6 For 2009 (so far):1 Die Hard2 Aliens3 Evil Dead II4 The Thing5 Robocop6 South ParkFrank's Wank 6 For 2009 (so far):1 In The Name Of The King2 Aliens Vs Predator: Requiem3 Blues Brothers 20004 Robocop 35 Captivity6 Shoot 'Em UpHonestly, I can't seeing anyone taking the top spot on the Wank list from ITNOTK. That just doesn't seem possible, unless a longer, more incoherent and indulgent version of Southland Tales comes out on DVD (and I'm dumb enough to watch it).
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good for films. Fucking awful for music. Fact.
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Started yesterday.
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Yeah, that's a ridiculous generalisation. Yes, a lot of comic-books aren't good, but stuff like 'Long Halloween' and 'Born Again' is excellent writing. Don't dismiss an entire medium so easily, next time.
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The music everyone remembers as being '80s Music' - Duran Duran, Culture Club, Wham, etc. - is garbage; but there's loads of good stuff from the 80s. Most of the Hip Hop from that time is good, you've got some great American Punk from the early 80s (Black Flag, Dead Kennedys, Minor Threat), then there's all the new wave stuff like Blondie and Elvis Costello and Talking Heads.Also, let us not forget that Tom Waits made some his best albums in the 80s.Howard Jones, however, can fuck right off.
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Jarv's mint and wank list for 2009 so far: Mint1)Alien2)The Thing3)Hard Rock Zombies 4)Carlito's Way 5)Chopper Chicks 6)Ginger Snaps. wank1)The Animal 2)MI3 3)War of The Worlds 4)Beethoven's sequel (any of them) 5)Dr. Doolittle 3 6)Freddy v JasonI can't see anythying toppping the Animal
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I will put up the Green Arrow I read where it was about the Vietnam War as God-awful... but I've seen equally bad films. It doesn't make the medium of film suck.
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Haven't read Born Again.And I'll dismiss anything I damn well like.
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I'll point out what a ridiculous generalisation it is constantly, but hey - no harm, no foul.
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3 words- STOCK, AITKIN, WATERMAN. The decade that taste forgot.
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Mar 02, 2009 5:56:07 AM CST
I really have to check out this Hard Rock Zombies
by franklin t marmoset
Everyone seems to love it, and I feel like I'm definitely missing out.
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That's funny. Those guys did poop all over that decade.
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Jive Bunny.
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is more wank than ITNOTK. There isn't even the comedy of Orcs setting themselves on fire in it.
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I haven't seen it, so I don't know, but is it really worse than ITNOTK?You have just blown my mind, Jarv. Trying to conceive of a film that's worse than ITNOTK is like trying to fully comprehend the concept of infinity, or imagining what it will be like to be dead.
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Mar 02, 2009 6:18:54 AM CST
The only way to summon Zedd is to..
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
take a funny books name in vain. SCENE 1 – DAY FRANKIE is sitting at his desk at WORK, pontificating on a has-been WEBSITE about the downfall of cinema and the worthiness of comics as literature. FRANKIE: "I don't have a huge amount of respect for comics. They've created some entertaining characters over the years, but by and large they are not good examples of great writing." FRANKIE clicks POST TALKBACK. Immediately the office begins to vibrate intensely. The MUG on Frankies desk falls to the floor, SPLASHING luke-warm tea up his TROUSERS. Everyone is the office looks startled. OFFICE MINION #1: “What’s going on? Is it an earthquake?” Suddenly in the center of the office a large puff of SMOKE appears. OFFICE MINIONS cough and wave away the smoke. As the smoke clears, a SHAPE becomes visible. There is a booming VOICE from the shape. SHAPE: “FRANKLIN! T! MARMOSET!” Frankie looks STARTLED. The smoke clears completely and the FIGURE comes into focus. It’s MR. ZEDDERMORE. His voice grows even louder. MR. ZEDDERMORE: “THAT’S A RIDICULOUS GENERALISATION!” (Pause) “YES, A LOT OF COMIC-BOOKS AREN'T GOOD, BUT STUFF LIKE 'LONG HALLOWEEN' AND 'BORN AGAIN' IS EXCELLENT WRITING.” Frankie stares at Mr. Zeddermore. For a moment he is speechless. He manages to regain his composure and is able to squeak out a reply. FRANKIE: “I… I’m s-sorry, Lord Zeddermore. It’ll never happen again. I swear it.” Mr. Zeddermore STARES at Frankie through unblinking eyes, as if looking deep into his very soul. MR. ZEDDERMORE: “YOU ARE FORGIVEN, YOUNG FRANKLIN. YOU STILL HAVE MUCH TO LEARN. JUST REMEMBER. DON’T DISMISS AN ENTIRE MEDIUM SO EASILY, NEXT TIME.” Pause MR. ZEDDERMORE: “NOW THAT WE ARE UNDERSTOOD, I WILL TAKE MY LEAVE. MY GUIDANCE IS NEEDED ELSEWHERE. GOOD DAY, FRANKLIN T MARMOSET.” Another puff of SMOKE appears and Mr. Zeddermore is gone. Frankie is left stunned, but contemplative. He has been visited by his Lord and Saviour. His Lord’s wrath can be unrelenting, but his forgiveness, divine. END SCENE.
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Apologies for the above post. I was entertaining myself and it got out of hand.
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Mar 02, 2009 6:30:46 AM CST
For those discussing Paul Rudd over the weekend
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
You should watch Neil LaButes 'The Shape of Things'. Very good flick and a good performance from Rudd. Very harsh writing, as LaButes good (early) stuff is. Let's all forget The Wicker Man remake ever existed.
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You missed a bit: "Another puff of SMOKE appears and Mr. Zeddermore is gone. Frankie is left stunned, but contemplative. He stares FORLORNLY at his brimstone seared desk, before MUTTERING "Long Halloween is garbage".
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That was funny.Although the truth is I don't give a fuck if Mr Z is upset that I don't like comics. If he likes them, that's fine. More power to him and whatnot.But comics are shit.
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Do I have to say it five times in the mirror or something?EVERYONE WHO THINKS A COMIC IS WELL-WRITTEN IS LIKE A DUTCHMAN STARING AT A PARTICULARLY LARGE DOG POOP AND MARVELING AT WHAT AN ENORMOUS MOUNTAIN IT IS.That should do it.
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I hate to do this, but I kind of agree. Not as extreme, but they ain't high art. And there's nowt wrong with that.The ones I've read do not qualify as literature, and strike me as something that you should grow out of. I do qualify this with I'm not exacty well versed, and I think my opinion is slightly coloured by fucknuts like Messi that clamour for attention constantly.
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Mar 02, 2009 6:39:50 AM CST
Aussies only need three more wickets!
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Come on you bastards! Gotta beat those dirty Saffas!
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I got into a bit of argy-bargy in the Green Lantern TB last week when I described the premise as sounding 'like shit'. The only one I've read in the last 10 years at least is Watchmen. Quite a few have great artwork, and some even have fairly interesting concepts or stories. But they just don't interest me very much. I'd rather read a good book than read a funny book.
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There's nothing wrong with enjoying comics. They can be colourful and fun and they've created some great characters, but it's just plain wrong to contend that any comic is a great piece of writing. Some may be great pieces of COMIC writing, which is fine if you're into that, but that's as far as it goes.If it's any consolation to Mr Z (who is a nice guy and I don't really have any desire to offend him personally), there is one rung on the writing ladder that is below comic books: Music Journalism. Those guys are as low as it gets. Why they don't all kill themselves out of shame is beyond me.
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Mar 02, 2009 6:53:26 AM CST
"I don't really have any desire to offend him personally"
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
"Music Journalism. Those guys are as low as it gets. Why they don't all kill themselves out of shame is beyond me." I'm currently dating a music journo.
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lower than Music Journalism and Comics. Writing for The Daily Mail. Lower than Music Journaism and Comics. That was a tad unfair.
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The whole decade wasn't shite. The second half was indeed populated by twathats. But there was some interesting stuff burbling around the first half.
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like say, Spandau Ballet and Ultravox? The decade was shite with a few notable exceptions.
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Here I am, just trying to have a few laughs on the internets instead of working, and I manage to offend not one but two perfectly nice people. And I don't even have the excuse of being in a bad mood today!If it is true, please accept my sincere apologies for my crass and unfortunate assholery.I'm off to punch myself in the balls repeatedly as punishment.
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They are also lower than comics and music journalism.
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lowest form of writing- Ghost Write the next voume of Victoria Beckhams' autobiography and then serialise it in the mail. Whoever does that should kill themselves. Immediatly.
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Remember what Lord Zeddermore told you... "Don't dismiss an entire medium so easily, next time."
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Ultravox in April. Not seen them since 1981.Fuck, I'm old. Eeee, it's not like I remembers when I were a lad - we useter be appy with a conker on a string, we dint ave all these fancy Gayboy machines an all that. Bet the cost yer more than thruppence, them things, eh?
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"Do not dismiss an entire decade so easily next time..."Two words for you: Classix Nouveux.
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For every example of goodness that we both agree on you can find I'll give you 5 examples of crap.80's Music was rubbish punctuated by occasional bright sparks.
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and, unlike fine wine, have not improved with age. They are still, in fact, shit.
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But I do apologise for any offense caused.
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Sure, with the luxury of 20/20 we can see that a lot of the music that was popular then was pap. But at the time, it was all mostly upbeat and optimistic. There were a lot of new artists we now know as one-hit-wonders, but at least the zeigeist of the time allowed them to make their mark--that just doesn't happen anymore, record companies won't invest in acts they don't think can carry three or four albums. And most of the music today is anything but upbeat--it's all negative and cynical (the shit on the radio, anyway). There was also some very good stuff in the 80s from people who are now legends (and I daresay today's "oldies") in the biz, Peter Gabriel, Sting, U2, Springsteen, Paul Simon, Van Halen, etc blah blah blah. I mean, the 90s weren't much better really.
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Mar 02, 2009 7:52:45 AM CST
Aussies beat the Saffas in the cricket.
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Stick that up your ass, bloody Saffas. (I say to no one in particular) Now what the hell is going on with the Poms and Windies. Talk about a bizarre test.
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70's band that carried on. Peter Gabriel is from genesis. I'll allow U2, Paul Simon is from the 60's, Van Halen were rubbish. The 90's were much better.
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I don't think they're shite. I don't think the early 80's was shite for music. Don't really care beyond that. But there was a lot of crap about, I agree.Classix Nouveux - I mentioned them with tongue firmly planted in cheek.
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Mar 02, 2009 7:56:04 AM CST
U2 haven't been good since Zooropa
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
EVERYTHING since has been absolutely fucking shite.
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crap pitch. Seriously. For both first innings to total over 1300 runs for 15 wickets then the pitch must be as flat and dead as the Dead Sea.
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U2 haven't been good since Achtung Baby. 1991. 18 fucking years ago. They have been shit longer than they have been around!
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Mar 02, 2009 8:01:08 AM CST
"They have been shit longer than they have been around!"
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Doesn't make sense. They have been shit longer than they were good. I haven't smoked since Saturday night. I'm trying to quit. I need a cigarette.
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this is a myth about the Early 80's. New Romanticism= shite, punk was over and disco still had it's insidious influence. A lot of the music woes (at least in the UK) come directly from the Hit Factory mentality of SAW et al. I really do blame the 80's for this.
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I thought "All that you can't leave behind" was a pretty strong album. Most of their other stuff since Achtung, yeah, is just mediocre. They're a victim of their own hype--every time you learn a new album is coming out, we expect the second coming of Christ, and are disappointed when it's just more of the same. I've heard the new one, it wasn't memorable on the first three or four listens.
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Mar 02, 2009 8:09:45 AM CST
I think most bands have maybe a decade and four albums in them
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Nearly all the great bands either broke up or died before they outstayed their welcome. Which adds to their legend. Look at the rolling stones. They haven't made a good album in nearly 40 years.
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they've been actively bad. I'll take the 90's anyday over the 80's
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Mar 02, 2009 8:13:55 AM CST
Unlistenable shit is what U2 have been
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
'Beautiful Day' is my going postal at work song.
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Radiohead, for example. OK computer (which as much as I don't like it, a lot of poeple do) was over 10 years ago and everything they've done since has been utter dogshite- there's no defending Kid A. They're now unrecognisable from the great band they were. What is worrying is that the time limit seems to be shrinking, and most flagship bands only have maybe 2 great albums in them. Clodplay, for example, didn't even have 1 great album. Regardless of the bickering over the 80's v 90's, the worst looks like being this decade. A pox on R n B lite.
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Directed by the same guy who did the Mission???????
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Beautiful Day makes me want to kill puppies.
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I've heard most of U2's newest cd is was ok. They get points for U23D that was awesome.
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Mar 02, 2009 8:19:26 AM CST
Yeah, there's been very few good albums this decade
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Let alone great ones. It might be that I don't listen to as much music as I used to, or the fact that I've spent half this decade in the UK (notorious for pumping out absolute shit).
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Was U2's last great song. Love that song.
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Mar 02, 2009 8:23:26 AM CST
U2 have sunk so low as to pimp one of their best songs
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
to Mary J. Blige. They are dead to me.
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we're the most innovative music country on the planet. The fact is labels are obsessed with "cracking America" and short term gains- resulting in a combination of horrible girl/ boy talent show dreck singing RnB lite and dismal dirge-y crap like clodplay. Rubbish thinking- they should be looking to crack the UK, rather than something that they haven't got a hope in hell of doing.
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sheesh. This is strange.
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to push us up to Number 2. You slackers.
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Mar 02, 2009 8:55:07 AM CST
It's because you talk to most shit, jarv
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
But we do appreciate it.
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I am back to insult you and/or your girlfriends (but only accidentally).
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Mar 02, 2009 9:00:31 AM CST
I'm looking to do a sailing tour of the Croatian islands
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Has anyone done such a thing? Can you recommend it? I need a fucking holiday this summer that allows me ample time to do nothing and sun my pasty white (courtesy of the UK!) body and drink copious amounts of fruity drinks served in large glasses with colourful paraphernalia. I'm also looking at the Greek Islands. Never been to either. Recommendations, chaps?
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as shit, droid. A bit harsh indeed hehehehehe
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Mar 02, 2009 9:01:26 AM CST
Is Darren Aronofsky still doing a Robocop remake?
by franklin t marmoset
Because if he is, I would watch it. Really, it can't be any worse than the sequels or the television programs or the cartoon or probably the toilet paper or whatever other cynical garbage they sold off the back of what was once a damn good film.
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Having been to Kos, Crete, Zante and another one, they're all quite good fun, if not particularly classy. They're hot as hell in Summer (really fucking hot), and the chances of nailing a fat geordie typist who is red as lobster and pissed as a newt is quite high. I'm going to go to Spain again. I like Spain.
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I've not seen The Wrestler yet, but Requiem is one of my favourite films and I wouldn't mind him taking on Robocop.
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Those holiday ideas sound gayer than a weekend at Elton's.(Not that there's anything wrong with that)
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Mar 02, 2009 9:05:59 AM CST
You got me, Jarv. Well played.
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
This is what quitting smoking does to me! Fucking typos and general grouchiness. I can foresee my abstinence not lasting very long.
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and chicks dig it. And I'm sulking because I could smoke in the pub last week and can't now. Which makes me sad.
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In the states, most major cities did away with smoking in public places YEARS ago. Yet, the taxes on my cigs winds up paying for things nonsmokers get to enjoy, like stadiums and the arts and shit. One of these days, I'll quit for good. It's a terrible, wonderful habit.
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Mar 02, 2009 9:12:17 AM CST
Nah, just seeing this chick who's a music journo.
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
As I just busted up with a spanish chick, and having spent the last two years going to and fro from there, I'm looking to expand my horizons. Although I am going to go to Barcelona in June for Sonar fest. I do love me some BCN. Lived there for a couple of months and been there about 5 or 6 other times. Sailing in Croatia sounds gay? My aplogies for not suggesting a rugby tour where we all get shitfaced and beat up each other in order to keep our homosexual tendencies repressed.
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it's terribly unfair- if a place has proper ventilation then it should be OK to smoke there. I agree about that taxes point, Smokers pay something like 7 times as much in their life in taxes that go to the NHS that they could take out.
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Mar 02, 2009 9:20:11 AM CST
I don't mind the smoking ban to be honest
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Since most places aren't ventilated. I actually find it a lot better to come home from a night out and not stink of smoke. I only miss it in restaurants. Nothing like lighting one up after a good meal.
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Fuck that. Every guitarist on the planet should swallow Eddie Van Halen's dick sweat and magically gain some talent.
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if it was sunny all the time, then I wouldn't mind.
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I stand by this. I'm not a fan of their style, though.
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there must be some fucking talented groupies out there.
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Mar 02, 2009 9:27:26 AM CST
There were plenty of groupies that can now.....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
....shred a mean solo thanks to Brother Eddie.
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I get that some people want to be away from smoke, but you'd think there could still be places for smokers to go and not have to huddle outside in the cold for a fag.Also, on the news this morning they were talking about getting rid of happy hour and cheap booze in Scotland to make people stop drinking. That'll probably start down here in England soon enough.I hate all that nanny state crap.
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"My son has taken on the world and wom. I am so proud of him but I want more money. I want the money now, it is of no use later. Mr. Boyle should take care of my son."
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that's inexcusable. And I argued that the thin end of the wedge was the Smoking ban. Booze will be next.
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But I have no complaints because I'm too young to have ever known the fine luxury of smoking indoors. I've always known the outdoor patio area to be where the smokers sit. But then again....its not as cold here in Cali, so never seemed like an issue. There are a few seedy establishments that allow smoking inside still. Usually bowling alleys where you can fuck a 50 year old bar hag in the bathroom for 15 bucks.
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whoever prepared that pitch England are on should be horsewhipped. It's now going at an average of 95.26 per wicket. That's inexcusable and a terrible rip off for the spectator. For you Americans, this is the equivalent of a baseball match where every player (including the pitchers) hits at least 1 home run because the ball is being sent in by a blindfolded 5 year old.
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England have lost a wicket. Still averaging 90 per player out though. Disgraceful.
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go to Spain. it's great.
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I'll be pissed. It should be impossible, but you can never put such incompetence past them.
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....have wanted to go to Spain for awhile. Thats gonna be our next trip. Whenever the hell that is though....I dunno.
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Beautiful, relaxed (mostly) country. Good food, weather and people.
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Mar 02, 2009 9:57:31 AM CST
Spain is as close to Australia as I've got over here
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Probably why I like it. But I've done it to death.
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Which really isn't news; he's King of the Universe.
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hows it going?
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how goes it with you?
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Enjoy your vacation? The movie total is up to 86 here. You?
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forgot LIfe of Brian. Yeah, it's always good to get away, but my liver hurts now.
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has anyone seen this?It's been univerally slaughtered by the critics over here, but I'm quite curious about it.
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Thanks for the Zombie Hunters love!
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Seriously? Is that what you're saying? You guys can't be that obtuse.
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I can't talk for frank, but I've never read a comic that I would describe as literature, let alone high art. Aside from Maus. It is possible, I've just not seen it.
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Mar 02, 2009 10:46:06 AM CST
The word obtuse reminds me of The Shawshank Redemption
by franklin t marmoset
I don't remember anyone saying comic writing wasn't real, just that it doesn't stand up well to comparison with other forms of writing.Also, I was being kind of an asshole about it, for no good reason.
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Got like a fucking foot of snow and it'll continue to snow until 6pm. Fuck! Wish I had a snowblower now.
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Glad you did, Jarv. I just dislike any completely dismissive attitude about any form of art. Like those extremely high-minded critics that think film can never be considered art, that its one of the lower mediums. Its just a rubbish opinion. That said, all pop country songs suck ass.
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I would have loved a snow day today.Where is my snow day?
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I was channelling a little bit of Andy Dufresne there.
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so I'm going for a smoke. Apparently our police are preparing for a "summer of rage" on the orders of Westminster. What bastards. They know they're fucking the country but are more concerned with protecting their misreable hides than fixing it.
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I enjoyed the hell out of that movie. The ending, I have to admit, got me. It was a fucking tough decision Casey made. And I watched Bridge to Terabithia, which was pretty good.
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But I'm working at home for the moment, so its not such a big deal. I did go out at midnight last night, though, to make a snowshark out beside my front steps.
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I saw a few of my friends I haven't seen in a while, and we were watching the Uconn basketball game. Well an ad for watchmen came on, and he was all fucking excited. He's read the graphic novel, and is pumped for the movie. I've still not seen anything from a trailer that has me pumped up for the movie. Perhaps I'm missing something here...
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But I'd much rather be home working than having to drag my ass down to the office and work, especially with this shitty snow.
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wa-hoo.
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That are edited in a much better way and make the flick look more exciting. I've got passes for a screening tomorrow night (if we get in line early enough). I can't wait.
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It depends how you define "great" or "art", but I've not seen Comic writing that hits the heights of other forms of writing. I'm sure there is, but when Watchmen is cited as the pinnacle and I think it's grossly overrated, and certainly not literature, then this tends to make me think that (aside from Maus, and now I've thought about it When The Wind Blows- neither of which are comic books in this context) nobody has managed it yet.
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It's hit my "couldn't care less" button. Every trailer I've seen has been totally uninspiring and I'm not enamoured with the source material. I've got an overwhelming "meh" about it, and Mrs. Jarv sent me the booking she's made to go to it.
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Casy Affleck kicks some ass in that movie.
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I really enjoyed the novel while it didn't do shit for you. So yes, I'm excited about the movie while no, you would not be.
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But those trailers have been 7 different kinds of "meh". Or maybe that's just ours. The only thing that has me a bit curious is the 18 rating.
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are you really that excited about it, what with Squiddy gone and suchlikes? If you love the novel then surely these major deviations are a bit of a serious let down.
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Didn't think about that. The recent ads I've seen that have been pretty strong were all different. One used Massive Attack's "Angel" in the background, another used Jocelyn Pook's "Dionysus" (also used in "Gangs of New York"). The recent ad that I feel was the strongest started out with this slow sense of foreboding as one of the SWAT officers whispers "1... 2... 3" before storming in after one of the heroes, and that kicks off a well edited, energetic ad with hard hits and new footage.
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And I wonder how much of a decision that was on Snyder's part or that of the studio; I'm curious if the studio was adamant about not having it, or if Snyder was willing to let that go in order to be able to keep the rest of the novel. The squid thing bothers me bc, in theory, the rewritten ending has too many logic problems. But perhaps those issues I have *are* addressed in the film, so I'll wait and see. And it doesn't necessarily have to be a squid (if there was a fear that would be perceived as too ridiculous in a film already where characters dress up like they're from the old Adam West "Batman" series); some other creatively designed alien-life form would have been acceptable and (as cliched as it is to use this adjective) epic. I'd much rather see something like that onscreen than just a big blue explosion. Its also problematic bc I know Snyder and his team could have come up with a creative solution that kept the basic idea. Blaming Manhattan just seems too easy and, as I said, has problems of its own. But something like that doesn't ruin my expectations for the rest of the film, especially when everything else looks so right. So I'm going to wait and see. Hopefully I'll find out tomorrow.
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pah. They sound much better than the ones I've seen.
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but I think manhatten is worse. It's a lazy solution, and his exile makes the situation worse surely? The problem with Squiddy was that it requires a shit load of exposition- but surely the Manhatten ending also requires a shit load of exposition. It just seems weak to me.
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That will explain it all away. I don't know if the Squid would require so much exposition. Again, I don't know the final product yet, so I can't speculate too much, until after I've seen it, where they could have put in the squid. A tv news report on the side about missing artists and writers here, a cutaway scene to the missing artists and writers on an Island discussing the project while in the distance a large object is hidden under a tarp there... Cross-cut together while Rorsach and Nite Owl try putting the pieces together until the final reveal. Then I suppose you might have to have the villain monologue (trying not to be too spoilerish here) explaining a little more as to how it was done, but then the news reports that follow the event would surely fill in the rest explaining how/why it was successful.
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On the surface, blaming Manhattan feels lazy to me.
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it comes completely out of the blue. Spoilerish, as if any of you don't know what I'm referring to. Or give a shit.So the villain monologue has to be "You see I used this technology that hasn't even been referenced yet, and this other technology that's been briefly scanned over to create this squid thingummyjig that has psychic powers. You know, you saw it earlier in a cutaway of an artists colony? Remember? It was that purplish one with a vagina face? Got it? Good, anyhoo, I used this third type of technology that you haven't heard of yet and sent it to New York knowing that it's death would kill the city, which means that mankind would unite against a multi-dimensional race of suicidal squid beasts with vagina faces that turn up on earth just to die" That's terrible. It was OK in the comic, but in a film? As lazy as the Manhatten ending is, it is better than that. There should have been some middle ground though.
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....and there is a lot of shit that seems goofy and odd. I'm sure it feels different reading it, but I'm just thinking from a studio exec standpoint-- being pitched this detailed outline. Like the Manhattan going to Mars because they are accusing him of causing cancer. If I was an exec, I would hear something like that and say what the fuck kind of bullshit is that? Same goes for the squid. If I had absolute power and didn't give a shit about stepping on toes, I would say cut that shit in a minute.
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I need to reread it, but from my memory, every bit of technology used to created it *had* been referenced in the novel. Its so full of small details that if you're a quick reader who doesn't stop to really appreciate what the artist included in each panel and what he left out, you might miss some key elements. The genetics technology or eugenics had been referenced and was visually represented by the bobcat hybrid Bubastis. The teleportation technology was referenced at that Center for Interspatial Technology (or whatever it was called) that was situated at the famous street corner cross-roads. And the third technology, I'm not sure which you're referring to... And its appearance was written off as an "accident" I believe. The psychic shockwave would be problematic without any earlier reference to that (and that is a weakness of the novel- the psychic boy its powers are based off comes out of nowhere), but everything else used to create it had been referenced. And I believe such an event would work. I've always maintained that the appearance of aliens would unite all of humanity, for a time anyway. Until we all started trying to beat other nations to getting a technology trade treaty.
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comics aren't art they are pop entertainment, that's it. yes I read the funny books, usually on deployments, they kill an hour or so and that's what they're good for nothing more.If something like The Watchmen can "change your life" like the ultra The Watchmen fanboy nerds continually assert, you had no life to begin with.
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Mar 02, 2009 1:28:56 PM CST
What if it doesn't change my life, but makes me cum?
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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In that case, avoid the blue dude and invest in some wet wipes. The ushers will appreciate it.
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Damnit, now I'll never get to see Watchmen bc she won't want to see it opening night or saturday afternoon or saturday night or sunday bc its opening weekend or she'll want to do something during the day. FUCKING SHIT.
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If The Watchmen can make you soil your shorts more power to you brother, I'd be the biggest Watchmen supporter in the world if it got me off. As a matte of fact I'd support anything if that happened.
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You're telling me if John McCain was naked, on his knees, smiling with those teeth as yellow as butter, and lapping at your balls....you'd support his efforts?
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I fail to see how they can transcend legitimate novels, etc...they are, like Xi said, entertainment value. Though I'm not sure how I would feel about them now. I enjoy the hell out of a bunch of the comic movie adaptions, but they aren't the second coming (except for Danny's blue man incident to be from watching the
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"if John McCain was naked.."You say many disturbing things Danny, but fuck me, that's disgusting. Only thing worse could be The Bates naked. On a trampoline. Extra support of course.
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I sure wish the Jets could have gotten their hands on Cassel.
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....and then I grew the fuck up.
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..well....
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One one hand, Johnny boy was in the Navy so his ability to suck cock would be magnificient from so much practice.On the other hand, since McCain has been an unwanted carpet bagging, asshole of a giant liar(even by politician standards) pimp; but not as good of a pimp as John Kerry, part of my life since the mid 80's I think I would have to decline a Johnny boy hummer. He looks like he would use to much teeth on the shaft.
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Thats a good honest answer. My concern would be jaundice on my dick, or a dick that stinks like cigarettes and dead rats for the rest of my life. No way in hell could you wash the scent off very easily. -
The odor and aroma stigma could hurt a big playa' Daddy Mac like yourself.
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Mar 02, 2009 4:09:05 PM CST
No matter how good it look, if the dick stank...
by dannyglovers_dickblood
....it ain't no good.
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....he posts that fucking old ass Terminator trailer and claims its the new one Quint saw. Moriarty pops up in there to tell them "Uhhhh....this is the trailer from December."
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Is it necessary to read the graphic novel before partaking of the movie?I don't really want to if I can help it.
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Just watched. Good film, enjoyed it. But these Koreans aren't half grim, they don't like a Hollywood ending do they! When the hammer reaches the top of its arc with the intended (and spectacularly unlucky) target helpless beneath, you're waiting for a shot to ring out off camera and a reveal of the police woman standing in the doorway. I mean, that's what happens in Hollywoo. Oh, no. Down comes the hammer, cue slow-mo blood splashes.Have these Koreans ever heard the phrase "... and they all lived happily ever after..."?Good, though. Elements of Se7en in there. Certainly better than last night's, Protege. That was beyond bleak.
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I did hit the 'd' key but clearly not as hard as I thought.Still, "Hollywoo" rings a bell. Where've I heard that spoken, as is, in a film?
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I think. Spielberg's 1941? As spoken by the 'invading' Japanese - "Horrywoo..."
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So get this JC is going around on some Church circuit and is going to be in my town this Sunday. FUCKING OUTLANDER in my town. I'm gonna go and see if I can get JC to sign my Outlander and Passion Ticket Stubs.
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I don't think it will bother you too much. If you like the movie, it might inspire you to read something more detailed and intricate. A friend of a friend saw it in LA and really enjoyed it, despite having some issues with it, and he never read the story.
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We don't get Outlander in the UK till deep into April. It's a long fucking wait, I tells thee.
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It's just with movies based on books, generally people say "you could do with reading the novel first..." I don't know why. I'd like to go in without knowing too much - and completely squidless.
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Snyder's output so far. Took me ages to see the Dawn Of The Dead remake, outraged that anyone would go near Romero's classic.Felt the same way about Aliens - had to be dragged kicking and screaming into the cinema. In the end, had to concede both films were very good.
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Have a better one.
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Mar 02, 2009 6:13:42 PM CST
Wolf. I've read alot about the Watchmen adaptation....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
....and it seems to me it would be a more rewarding experience to view the film fresh-- independent of the novel.
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I started reading it like 20 minutes ago during my daily shit. Read the first chapter, its really good actually. I tried to read it before but couldn't get into it. I'll finish it before I go see it. Though at the same time I did that with Wanted and it made Wanted the worst movie of 08 for me.
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Yeah I want to see that too Jarv.
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Am I gonna be left to my lonesome to talk to myself like a crazy person again? You fucking daywalkers.
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From AVCLUB. My boyfriend of 16 months and I have a great relationship. He loves my blowjobs, but he will not kiss me if I have his come in my mouth. It grosses him out. We have talked about this, and he won’t even try. I have no problem if he kisses me after going down on me. I just want him to try. Is there something wrong with asking him to taste himself? I do it all the time and love it. Missing Kisses It’s funny your question—with its hint of gay panic—should arrive today. I’ve been on vacation with the family all week snowboarding in beautiful British Columbia, and what I enjoy most—besides the snowboarding and the half-naked, fully stoned Australian snowboard instructors lolling around in hot tubs at the end of the day—is watching the straight boys who refuse to sit four to a chairlift. They want to ride up alone or ride up two at a time on a four-seater with two empty seats between ’em. They seem to think gayness can be contracted through thigh-to-thigh contact.
Which it can.
Now, MK, there’s kissing someone with your come on her breath, and then there’s kissing someone with your come in her mouth. It sounds like you’re interested in the latter, which makes it sound like you’re interested in passing some of your boyfriend’s load into his mouth—i.e., snowballing—and not simply being rewarded with a kiss, his come on your breath, for a blowjob well-done. And that’s an entirely different wad of spunk.
Just because you enjoy tasting yourself on his lips doesn’t mean your boyfriend will enjoy or should have to enjoy mouthing his own load. First, there’s a significant difference in volume and consistency between you kissing his glazed lips and him eating his own spunk. And then there’s this: After a woman comes, MK, she’s still in a groove, still capable of more orgasms, still cranked up. After ejaculating, a man is essentially uncranked. He’s not capable of another orgasm (not right away, anyway)—he’s been knocked out of his groove. So even if the idea of snowballing appeals to a man as you’re blowing him, it might not hold the same appeal the moment after he comes.
Some men are afraid of tasting their own come because they believe that doing so, like sitting too close on a chairlift, can turn a guy gay. And it’s not an unreasonable fear: not because it will turn a guy gay, but because, judging from my mail, a lot of women are convinced that any man who would taste his own come must secretly be gay. It’s possible that your boyfriend is dying to taste himself, MK, but, like the boys on the chairlifts, is afraid of getting a reputation if he goes ahead with this and you blab about it to your friends. -
Trailer? I liked it.
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I don't really give a shit about Terminator. I think its a pretty choppy franchise. And I'm no fan of Bale (until I became a believer) but honestly it looks like it could be the most solid film of the series. The photography looks great. And its one of the few trailers where I don't despise the CG.
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I must be on the other AVClub.
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Pretty entertaining shit.
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My girlfriend and I are into male-orgasm denial. We've recently tried putting Orajel on my cock and then covering it with two condoms so she can use me as a dildo without me getting off or even feeling anything. It works great. Is there any chance of long-term health issues if we do this once a week or so? You didn't say which kind of Orajel you are using, but I hope it's not Orajel Advanced Tooth Desensitizer. Its active ingredient—created to treat sensitive teeth, not desensitize cock—is something called "2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate," which sounds like something you might find in baby formula that was made in China. The stuff works, according to Orajel's website, "by blocking dentinal tubules, preventing excitation of the tooth nerve." And, hey, if it's safe enough for your mouth, it's probably safe enough for your cock and for newborns, right? Well, maybe not. A very quick search of the interwebs using that Googlemajob turns up a paper in the Journal of Dental Research with this rather alarming title: "2-Hydroxyethyl Methacrylate (HEMA) Is a Potent Inducer of Apoptotic Cell Death in Human and Mouse Cells."
Any responsible sex-advice professional would read the paper in its entirety and inform you about the likelihood that you're killing off cock cells when you smear them with Orajel Advanced Tooth Desensitizer. But I'm an alarmist sex-advice professional, not a responsible one, so I'm just going to lay that title on you one more time: "2-Hydroxyethyl Methacrylate (HEMA) Is a Potent Inducer of Apoptotic Cell Death in Human and Mouse Cells." I don't know about you, NDD, but I've always erred on the side of not smearing my dick with shit that kills mice. (Not all brands of Orajel contain this ingredient, but a boy can't be too careful.)
It seems particularly foolish to smear any kind of Orajel on your cock when there are products on the market specifically designed for desensitizing cocks, things like Mandelay gel and Proloonging's "penis desensitizing aid delay spray." These products are marketed to men who suffer from premature ejaculation, even though numbing the dick doesn't really cure premature ejaculation. They sound perfect for you and your orgasm-denying girlfriend, though, and I'd recommend 'em over that potential rat poison you're using now. -
And " we're into male orgasm-denial" sounds totally gay. I had to reread it to make sure I interpreted it correctly. And I don't think using two condoms is the way to go. I was always taught and have read that 2 condoms creates more friction and thus has a larger risk of tearing. But whatever. This guy's smearing cell-killing goo all over his dick. What does he care.
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Mar 02, 2009 8:40:37 PM CST
I want to weigh in on the whole comics being worth a damn debate
by series7
Yes literature is literature and will always be better in that sense. But there is a lot more to comics then books. Any Jackass can write a fucking book. But writing a comic that worth a damn means having either the skill or a bond with someone skilled enough to draw. There is a lot that is not "written" that is just seen on the page, all that had to be written first before it was drawn. Being that I got into comics just in the past year and having been an average reader but I usually read heavy stuff, I am enjoying comics a lot more and they are staying with me better. The only thing is that when you read comics week to week they do tend to get a bit jumbled, but when you pick up a trade its usually a lot better.
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How do you end up WRITING for the Onion? That or something like Mad Magazine?
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Mar 02, 2009 8:50:14 PM CST
Series.....AVCLUB is hiring for television coverage.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
Inquire here:http://tinyurl.com/2no3pd
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It is a loooong. Movie. It is good. Not great. Not talk about it for days. But good and very faithful to book. Perhaps too faithful. I am still digesting the flick, but I am glad I saw it. I would have paid to see it, and I am glad it was made. But...and I just can not quite put my finger on it, it just was not very exciting or satisfying. I mean, it was awesome to see the book come to life and it is a very well made movie. The predictions abbout it being crap are waaay off. It is a good movie. I find myself saying that over and over, because I can not elevate it to greatness that the source material was (although I still believe Millers Dark Knight is the greatest graphic novel of all time - but hat is another discussion). What I can say is that it has mucho blue dick. I mean if you ever wanted to see lots and lots of blue dick, this is your movie. If your woman asks you to paint yourjunk blue after seeing this, do not be surprised, just go with it. The portrayals are dead on. The atmosphers is perfect - I could quibble about the music selection, but that would be a quibble. I grade movies by if i would pay to see them again. Since I did not pay for this, I will simply say I do not want to sit through it again. It was very long, and unlike TDK it just does not grab you and make you compelled to see it over and over. Geeks will love it, and it will open big, but I just do not see the general public staying with it for a sustained period. I could be wrong - it does have some decent violence, and blue dicks. The squid was not missed at all. Final verdict -good movie, not in the pantheon of comic book adaptations though.
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So what I saw the trailer for Donkey Punch the other day. BOYAH!
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What is the Pantheon of comic book adaps then?
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Booyah!
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I am not going to put these in order tonight, but they would include. TDK, X-Men 2, Spiderman 2, Superman II, Blade, Blade II, Ironman
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Oh man you're in for a fun ride. Some weeks the questions are so far out there you have to wonder if they're fake but man are they fun as hell to read.
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I just noticed it. I've read AVCLUB for awhile, but mainly just the movie and music coverage. I assumed Savage was a new thing with the redesign. Hell yeah....what I've read has been fucking hilarious. Except a date rape story. Fuck that. :( It made me sad.
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there is some VERY good comic writing out there. And Watchmen does not have to be the poster boy from the medium. Hell, that AUTHOR alone has cooler stuff that just gets much less hype. His Swamp Thing is written like poetry in most of the openings. Also, I LOVE V for Vendetta, which has much more depth than the movie. Neil Gaiman's Sandman series is another fun one. Myabe at most times, not as good as Watchmen, but it's usually still MUCH better writing than a lot of other fiction out there. Warren Ellis' Transmetropolitan is still the greatest example of a satirical comedy of contemporary society I have ever seen. It's funny how a depiction of our future can still seem so close to mockery of the present. It's like all the stupid shit happening now just gets turned up to 11 in the future. Very very funny stuff.
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is the stupidest thing I have ever heard of. You absolutely always HAVE to read the book first if you can. I say if you can because I know there have been a shit load of movies based on books that I haven't seen. But for something like Watchmen where it's pretty much readily available to you everywhere, you might as well give it a try. No, it's not the second coming of Jesus and it doesn't deserve the huge hype it's getting (that's just people that watch a lot of media saying what it tells them) but it's still some pretty damn good fiction.
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Series put the whole comics argument really eloquently up there.Well if his argument has swayed you at all (which hopefully, if you're smart, it did) then check out the recommendations above. And go ahead and toss All Star Superman in there. One of the more fun and creative Supermen stories I have seen in awhile for sure. A great example of a perfect writer-artist team that works in perfect cohesion with each other.
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Unfortunantly there are some brutal stories that come through Savage Love but for the most part they're just goofy and the replies that Dan Savage makes are usually pretty funny and accurate.Even the brutal items serve a purpose I think. Maybe reading about someone else's problems that echo yours might light a fire and make somebody get some help, at least I hope that happens ocassionally.I think Savage Love has been around awhile but I found it about three or four years ago in the back of an alternative weekly newspaper and got hooked on it righ away, it's good stuff.
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They are entirely different mediums, and should be enjoyed and appreciated for their distinct, and separate traits. I would never slight a novel for excluding the images of a comic book, nor would I slight a comic for its abundance of writing. Good writing is good writing, whether it's in books, comics, movies, or radio. And if the writing happens to come with other things, whether it's images or sounds or moving pictures, if executed correctly and serving as a proper complement to the writing, it will always be appreciated by me.
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gets published in our weekly paper here in town. Always at least an interesting read. Usually pretty funny too.
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or when he berates a boyfriend for being jealous of a dildo. That guy would make a great TBer with how he rips guys apart.
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Kungfu's got a lot more comics under his belt then me. The best example I can think of is The Walking Dead, its the best Zombie thing ever. There are great tragedies in it and its very violent and gruesome but a lot of what makes it great is the art. Its a perfect mix of writing and art, there are numerous scenes where so much is said in the looks that the characters give to each other that wouldn't be the same written. The whole thing is what Romero's been trying to achieve his whole life.
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Reportedly, a computer-animated recreation of Schwarzenegger's face will be digitally grafted onto the body of Austrian bodybuilder Roland Kickinger (who played the young Arnold in a TV movie). What movie?
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and I've no problem with describing comic books as "art" wanky term that it is. However, what I find strange is the clamouring for them to be accepted as literature- they clearly aren't. I said in the first post that there's nowt wrong with them as their own medium, but it seems to me to be a touch desperate for them to beg to be named as novels/ literature- even the term "graphic novel" is wanky beyond belief. Not my thing, and I'm not well versed enough in them to say which one is or is not better than Watchmen. But if, as it is being hyped as, Watchmen is the pinnacle of Comic writing then, well, that's not very good and certainly not literature.
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For comic effect, but really, the bubastis thingy was just a throw away, as was the teleportation thingy. I can't remember what the third bit was either- and may have been talking crap. I do read fast, and I do take it in, but I just stopped dead when it happened- I did think "Well, OK, it's a comic, shit like that is fine here" but thought it would look bloody stupid and be bloody dull on film. I'm not defending the Manhatten ending either. For the record.
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I watched Dexter having missed 2 weeks of it. Vast improvement. And Boobies. I feel missing those 2 weeks of domestic shite with Rita and therapy and whatnot was worth it. In fact, I could really have missed almost all of the first half of the series.
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this makes me think that the Hulk is the victim of racism. Why is manhattan allowed to show his blue unit, but Hulk must keep his green one under wraps? FREE GREEN PIECE. Terribe pun. awful. I'm sorry. My only excuse is that it's early and I haven't had coffee.
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Well if all you really know is Watchmen being told is the best of the best in terms of the comic, then you are looking at the matter from a very narrow minded point of view. I mean I am not the biggest reader but using your logic, The Road by Cormac McCarthy would be what is considered the best of the best literature wise. Now I've never read the book or any of Cormac's stuff but I'm pretty sure that if you ask the next ten people you see none of them will tell you that The Road is the best book of all time. There is no such thing as THE BEST OF THE BEST in anything involving art. And yes literature is a form of art. There is no concrete form of writing, shit Shakespeare just made up shit. Plus what is LITERATURE? Like can literature only be defined as words? I think that at the end of the day its all about story and context and in that matter comics can measure up and do the same thing that literature can. Plus literature has a pretty good head start on comics.
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and I addressed that above. Literature is a nebulous term, but I don't believe it includes comics. Sorry. I have, I have to emphasise, read Watchmen and Dark Knight Returns relatively recently out of curiousity, so I'm not entirely talking mince.I'm not being unreasonable about this, and when I bought Watchmen I was interested to see it named in the 100 greatest novels of all time, so I checked. That list is, unsurprisingly, massively subjective- and the presence of Watchmen on it almost looks like a sop to a lesser medium. Nothing wrong with comics- if it's your bag then good for you. Christ, I wouldn't be posting on a geek site if I judged them and people who read them. Apart from Messi. Because he's a shrill cunt, and I judge him the same way I judge those losers that dress up like stormtroopers (Or any other fanatic). I bet I like loads of shit that other people despise. I don't mind.
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in this context, I suppose means novel. And before I check what the most recent list says, I will take a bet at the presence of at least 5 of these authors/ novels in the top 10: Lord of The Rings, Jane Austen, Dickens, Ulysees, Orwell- specifically 1984, Tolstoy, Eliot, Proust, It's subjective and I'm off to check to see if I'm right. I'll pull 3 lists and bet that at least 5 of them are different on each list.
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I'll try not to offend anyone today.
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By any normal standards, probably not a good film, but if you're a geek for Bruce/Evil Dead it has just barely enough to scrape through as passable entertainment.
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first up- Fail 1 for Jarv: 1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip PullmanP>
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte BrontëIn my defence, this was voted for by the public. Who are morons. JK rowling, His Dark Materials and Hitchiker's Guide are not top 10 material. The first 2 are not top 100 material. Kudos for Pooh and To kill a Mockingbird though. I got 4 right- not bad. -
Mar 03, 2009 3:04:24 AM CST
I'm making a plea to the CoC...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
hehehe... Change the fucking subject! There have been nothing but Watchmen TB's here of late and Twitch shouldn't be subjected to it. At least until I see it!
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6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee 8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell 9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis How there can be no 'Catcher' but fucking JK Rowling is beyond me. This is a BBC list though.
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In the vein of My Name Is Bruce and JCVD, this one stars Wesley Snipes as Wesley Snipes, who has been imprisoned for tax evasion. Snipes escapes and cuts a bloody swathe of revenge through the American government.The film's climax is a brutal twenty minute sword fight between Snipes and Barack Obama. Snipes wins (because some Presidents are always trying to ice skate uphill) and crowns himself King Wesley I. In his first acts as king, all taxes are abolished are ownership of White Men Can't Jump is made mandatory.
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Mar 03, 2009 3:17:00 AM CST
Not having interwebs at home sucks donkey balls!!!
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Almost two bloody weeks without it. I'm having withdrawels.
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1 Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes
2 War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
3 Ulysses James Joyce
4 In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust
5 The Brothers Karamazov Feodor Dostoevsky
6 Moby-Dick Herman Melville
7 Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert
8 Middlemarch George Eliot
9 The Magic Mountain Thomas Mann
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This is the most interesting one, but I faied again: The lord of the rings. J.R.R. Tolkien
1984. George Orwell
Animal farm. George Orwell
Ulysses. James Joyce
Catch-22. Joseph Heller
The catcher in the rye. J.D. Salinger
To kill a mockingbird. Harper Lee
One hundred years of solitude. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The grapes of wrath. John Steinbeck
Trainspotting. Irvine Welsh
Anyhoo, I wasn't far off, and got all of the ones I mentioned on the 3 lists. To be honest, I wouldn't put Trainspotting, Animal Farm in the top 10. I like the frequent appearances of the likes of to kill a mockingbird and I'm ecstatic that Catch 22 made it. -
Mar 03, 2009 3:22:57 AM CST
Damn. I haven't read any of those!
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Boy do I suck. I do have Don Quixote sitting at home waiting to be read though.
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Mar 03, 2009 3:25:06 AM CST
Yes, Catcher. About fucking time!
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Thats more my list right there. Read four. I've seen Grapes of Wrath. Does that count? Need to read Catch 22 at some stage.
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Granted I haven't read at least half of those books listed, but it's all so fucking pretentious. To some people The Da Vinci Code is the greatest book they've ever read. Catcher is my favorite book. And I would also put McCarthy's The Road in my top 10 along with Thomsons' Fear and Loathing.
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the 21 pages of Ulysees that I made it through doesn't count. I've never even heard of some of them on that one. I've read 8 of the Waterstones one, and all 10 of the BBC one. Which is embarrasing.
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greatest book ever written is a fucking idiot that should not be allowed an opinion. It's a poorly written potboiler and not even a very good one.
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Mar 03, 2009 3:41:55 AM CST
Oh, I agree. It's an absolute load of shit
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
that reads as if it was written by a fucking breast fed 10 year old. But I use it as an extreme example of differing tastes.
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I never could see the love for that book. Never read Trainspotting or Ulysses (although I have that and SHOULD have read it by now), but I have read almost all of the rest of the listed books. Man...I read too much!
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but I wouldn't top 10 it. It is an interesting inclusion, nonetheless. Ulysees is mind numbing. I've tried to read it numerous times and after 50 pages when some cunt is still shaving throw it away in disgust.
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He's as good a writer as Dostoevsky.
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It should, even if only for the section where Alex is contemplating good vs. evil. That was the part that the movie failed to catch, thus missing the real point of the title.
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It's one of those books that people are "meant" to think is great.
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But I can never resist a book discussion.
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1. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 2. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 3. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 4. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 6. Hamlet by William Shakespeare 7. The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald 8. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust 9. The Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov 10. Middlemarch by George Eliot I've only read two. Finn and Gatsby.
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it made all three of them, about mid 20's. I'd put it in the top 10 meself.
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And confusing with almost all of the characters having the same name.
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Mar 03, 2009 3:54:26 AM CST
I like these types of discussions because...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
it makes me realise how many bloody books I am yet to read.
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frankly. 2 by Tolstoy, Hamlet is not a novel, Proust, Eiot, Gatsby, Chekhov is not a novel. The only interesting choice is Lolita.
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Someone gave me this link especially for you. Hope you like it. :) http://tinyurl.com/akd9cs
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it's a fairy uninteresting choice and only in I suspect because it is American.
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Lolita was good. I'd rather read Orwell, though.
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I find it mystifying that Animal Farm made that Waterstones top 10. It's a great parable, and a nifty bit of writing but is it as good as, say, Catcher? It always makes me a bit sad that stuff like Homage to Catalonia and The Road to Wigan pier get neglected but every fucker has read Animal Farm.
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But not as widely read. How do you feel about O'Henry?
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My bad, for sure!
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It's an easy read.
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Yeah, I read both 1984 and Animal Farm a couple of years ago. Animal Farm in particular was so much of a social statement that it became less of a novel and more of an opinion piece. Just a very good opinion piece.
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Search your hearts you know this to be true. With that back to bed.
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I always want to see Dorian Grey make these lists but it never does.
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That's all I've got on that one.
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what about the literary brilliance (not a piss poor rip off of The Cement Garden or anything) of GONE? It's an outrage that it isn't on there somewhere.
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Barlow will visit you later tonight, mwa ha ha.
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Agreed. It's always a surprise to see him omitted.
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when I was in Spain I was looking for something to read and I read TALTOS. Officially the worst steaming load of crap I've ever read and I've read other Anne Rice stuff.
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Just ask the crazy cat ladies and shut ins on IMDB message boards. I've been having fun over there making fun of twilight and that HBO show True blood. The wacked out, want to be, Vamp tramps go balistic.
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Mrs. Jarv was inspired to buy me The Thing PS2 game. Never played it. I knew it was a good idea to watch it after watching I am Legend.
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so see you later people. I'm now going to be thinking about Twilight and oh-so-dreamy- not-at-all-drippy-and-annoying Bella
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Not very good.
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Yuck! Get her one of Danny's wet wipes, pronto!
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it must be good. It's The Thing. I command it.
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Yuck. MAvra, Yuck
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But Sonja Blue is so much cooler than E & B. No glitter on my monsters, please and thank you. G'night folks!
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kept me quite entertained. Jump Chesty Freckles!Then I watched U-571, another flick that while not really memorable, is entertaining for me.
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I thought it was pretty good, what I played of it. Didn't get very far and made the mistake of handing a weapon over to a character who looked like he was having a nervous breakdown - y'know, just to build up his confidence...He shot me!
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hate it with a vengeance.
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So you shoudn't give them a gun?
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You're leading a team and they've all got different personas. In high tension situations one or two might start to panic and do something stupid. So, you have to find some weapons and ammo in the hope that it might settle them down. Daft - cos then they might do something stupid WITH A GUN!They also might think you're a 'Thing' and shoot you if you're not kind to them!I got bored trying to mollycoddle them, think that's why I stopped playing the game.
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I'm not saying it's even a good movie, but hate it with a vengeance? A strange movie to harbor so much hate for. I don't even think it's worth hating so much. And the Running Man was on last night, watching bits of that while 24 was on. What a hot head.
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it's about establishing trust - is what I should have concluded.
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to talk game tactics. I'm fucking rubbish at playing 'em!
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history that only exists to satisfy rampant American jingoism.
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I think I'll like that game then.
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Welcome back, Jarv.Catcher is my favorite book hands down. Fitzgerald is overrated. Steinbeck is always playing second fiddle to him and guys like Twain which is crap. Slaughterhouse is another one of my favorites. Does non-fiction count? Then Dispatches by Michael Herr is the most affecting book I've ever read.80's music? One reason why Tom Petty is so great. While iconic artists like the Rolling Stones were changing their sound to match whatever the trend was, Tom was staying the course and writing some of the best music of the decade.I'm up to 33 or 34 movies for the year. Role Models (7/10), Red Cliff 2 (10/10) and Happy Go Lucky (4/10).Wolf, the only Korean movies with happily ever after endings are their romcoms. Otherwise, the hero either dies or is emotionally destroyed. Sorry about Protege. I loved it but then I enjoy a bleak ending. And hands being removed by sledgehammer are always a plus.My only beef with smoking in public are the cockhead smokers who complain when I light up a cigar. I got nothing against cigs, but they smell like skunk anus. Whereas a fine Dominican is the scent of the gods.
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I enjoy it but I'm a history buff so I know the real story. Yes, it should have been a British force that recovered the Enigma machine. But the Jovi gets clobbered with a slab of metal so it gets points there.
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Happy Go Lucky was alright, I gave it 6 out of 10. I liked protege
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The jovi gets clobbered. I forgot that. And if I ever complain if some lights a cigar then I shall go and smack myself. If you smoke cigarettes, then you should be able to deal with a cigar.
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I could make a plea for best book of all time. Here lies Series7. Fuck you.
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I've watched more movies this year then one Hawaiian Organ Donor! No fucking way, I gotta tell my wife about this. HEY HONEY! I've watched more movies this year then HOD! Good, now put on your pants your freaking dweeb. Does that mean we can stop watching movies all the damn time? You know take me out dancing or something? BAM! (punched Chris Brown style) NO!
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The driving lessons with Scott started to get painful after a while. And it felt sort of forced putting him and Poppy in the same confined space together. Enrahah vs. anything goes? And for all my anger issues, I'm a bubbly guy. I jump out of bed with a spring in my step. But even I couldn't tolerate Poppy and her total inability to be serious for 5 seconds. I know people like that exist, but I'm not sure I want to spend two hours with them.Hawkins was brilliant though. She deserved an Oscar nom.
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Has like a Scarlett Johanson collection and on the cover she looks like a bottom feeder fish. You know the ones that suck the sides of fish tanks. Chris Brown needs to teach her a lesson or two as well.
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Dragged in the fucking trailers, I was annoyed with that character before I even knew her.
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Except for that penal colony drama not much I care to see.
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God the only thing that they've ever done that's worth a listen is Ben and Jerry's Phish Food. I hate them so much and I hate Phish heads. And I hate the fact that a majority of Phish have never done drugs, it boggles my mind how you could tolerate that music and not be totally tripping balls. I hate jam bands, Cartmen is 100% right about them.
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I'm talking to myself in the morning, gotta go to work.
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Trying to imitate the Hepburn or Monroe dvd collections me thinks.
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Mar 03, 2009 8:45:00 AM CST
I really want to see Johnny Handsome
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Pity about the shitty transfer though
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This year I'm averaging 3 a week. I know that sounds sad but with a wife and kid to attend to, it's actually a decent clip.My sister in law arrives this week for a visit. Is it wrong to fantasize about a threesome with your wife and your sister in law?
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Mar 03, 2009 8:50:19 AM CST
Strict rules must be applied to such a threesome
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
NO TOUCHING!
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Am I running a lap dance club or my anything goes fantasy? You're killing me with your barbaric rules, Droid!
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No. to try to enact? yes. Unless you're in Utah, where I think it's actually law.
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It will sadly only be a movie I play in my mind. Tickets are still available for the 7:00 and 9:00 shows.
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Mar 03, 2009 9:26:52 AM CST
I think its odd to say you "Must" read a book before the film.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
In almost every case imaginable I see that as a bad idea. Unless of course, you will not understand what the fuck is going on otherwise. But thats very rare. If you've read the book prior to...fine. I just don't understand the people that hear a movie is coming out in a few weeks and say "Oh I gotta read that before I see it." For most people, it just fucks up the experience.
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I think "must" comes about as you can actually spoil the book if you see the film first. Depends on how good you are at compartmentalising stuff.
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Its like saying "Oh I gotta read the first draft of the script."
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Clockwork Orange. The ending of the novel is absolutely essential to understand the meaning of the film, as are a few other omissions. Kubrick never finished the book, so it isn't filmed. Reading the novel before seeing the movie profoundly changes it.
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Mar 03, 2009 9:46:12 AM CST
Reading the book can also profoundly change...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
your view of the film as well. I saw Primal Fear and really enjoyed it. A really great thriller. So I read the book, which is virtually the same all the way through, except for the end. It's one line of dialogue in the film. One! And it changes everything. There are two sequels to the book. The second book is a great bloody read and would've made an awesome sequel. The third book sucked mightily. But the point is, what was left vague or unresolved in the first book became the centre of the plot in the second. The film added in one line of unnecessary dialogue at the end which made it impossible to do a sequel. Based on the second book anyway.
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read the book. It's better than the film by a long way.
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That were mostly destroyed on film. The Lost World movie was made even worse if you read the book beforehand.Phillip K Dick is usually butchered by movie adaptations so you're better off reading the books and avoiding the movies.I've never read a Stephen King novel so I have no idea how that applies here.
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Mar 03, 2009 10:01:33 AM CST
Not that butchering a Crichton novel is a major offense
by hawaiian organ donor
His books are mostly brain candy that is quickly forgotten so a poor adaptation is no great sin.
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I've read some of his stuff. The Shining is nothing like the book really. The overall story structure is there, but it has a much different tone. I think King is interesting though because most of his adaptations are shit, yet they are still highly entertaining,
and can be separated entirely from the books.
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I recently read Carrie, Misery and The Shining. All are adapted into good films that are quite different than the source material. I have to see The Shining again, but it varies the most from the book.
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Mar 03, 2009 10:04:43 AM CST
Adaptations that are too faithful feel pointless.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
Its a fine line. Because you change to much shit and people hate you, but to me-- if you don't change enough its boring and has no reason to exist. I'm a big fan of Matlese Falcon, yet I was bored to tears by the Bogie film. I don't want to sit there and hear 5 pages of word for word dialogue. I just started zoning out because I'd already heard this like 5 times in my life.
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...a lot of weird magical moments and a sense of wonder that Kubrick replaced with pure dread.
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never has there been one remotely close to the books. The tommyknockers is another stinker with great comedy value.
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I never read it. I don't have time to get through 10,000 fucking pages.
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there is an adaptation that is different and an adaptation that butchers the core meaning of the book- See Chandler's comment about The Big Sleep2 different things. And I agree, over-slavish tends to be dull, although I disagree about The Maltese Falcon.
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Where have you guys been the past week??
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Mar 03, 2009 10:10:36 AM CST
I think Misery is pretty much on the money
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
As close as you're ever going to get. And Caan and Bates are fucking awesome in it. Back when Reiner was un-fucking-touchable.
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Not a big fan of the coke addled mess that is the book.
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I think I've said it here before but it may have been lost in conversation. Spielberg and Koepp started working on the basic story/script the same time as Crichton was working on his novel (this is what I've read). So Crichton told them the basic ideas and set pieces, maybe he gave them an outline or treatment. So Spiels and Koepp took what they liked and went from there. Its not a true adaptation bc the book wasn't out yet by the time they started on it.
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as close as you are going to get, but still loads of the novel is excised. For the better. King is one self-indulgent motherfucker.
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Just sayin'. It was pretty dang awesome.
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And I think that is the key to making an adaptation that is not despised. The core and the spirit of the story needs to be successfully captured for it to work. If you're going to take a little here and there and completely change the tone and theme, then why not write your own fucking script? Why claim to adapt? For it to work, complete scenes of dialogue and all characters don't really need to stay. Obviously its not possible given the time constraints. But the spirit must be captured. Everyone always freaks out when I bring up my love for The Beach. But I do think the overall spirit of the book was successfully captured in the film. I got the same feeling from both. And I read ther book 2 years before the film. And I like both as their own individual things. But they both feel like they are on two paths headed in the same direction.
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Did you cross swords?
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Did you suck on the other dude's balls as she rode him?
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Loads is excised. One major thing thats excised is the actual Misery novel! But they just condensed the timeframe (in the book he's there for fucking ages) and changed a few things. Instead of chopping off his foot, she smashed his ankles with a sledgehammer. Still a brutal scene.
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surely? and the major characters- else it isn't an adaptation. You need plot, characters, meaning, and atmosphere.
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I've no problems with the Misery edits.
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Thats interesting. So it cuts to actual sequences of the book in the book, you mean? That would be interesting in a film. Sorta Princess Bride feeling...but waaaaaaay more fucked up. Isn't Misery a romance novel?
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No cup.
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Mar 03, 2009 10:31:39 AM CST
The problem with adapting King. Why you can't be literal.
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
He feels the need to explain or justify why the people are the way they are. The Shining had Jack Torrance as an alcoholic who was terrified that he would become his father, who was an abusive alcoholic. Misery had Annie Wilkes' back story about how she was suspected of killing people dating all the way back to childhood. These things aren't necessary in adaptations. They work perfectly well without them.
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Mar 03, 2009 10:34:35 AM CST
Yeah, it's like the Pirate story in Watchmen
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
And Misery were period romance/adventure novels. It might be interesting, but they don't have anything to do with the story. Hence Jarv's self-indulgent comment.
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Mar 03, 2009 10:37:22 AM CST
Maybe King wanted to write a romance novel....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
....but knew he would probably be mocked for the rest of his life if he did. So this was his way to do it.
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Mar 03, 2009 10:38:35 AM CST
I can't fucking believe the Ridley Scott Monopoly thing.....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
....is true. His latest comment: I have to direct it. We’re in progress right now. We’re having it written. We have identified a pretty good story and it is fundamentally a movie, not a game, probably describing in a way the characters in the film, the passion of the game, and how the game came about.”
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Mar 03, 2009 10:40:33 AM CST
I've read one of his books that borders on full blown romance
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
But it then gets all dark, about nightmares and the abusive husband she's run away from etc. Weird fucking book. It's like he couldn't bring himself to just do a romance.
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Mar 03, 2009 10:41:49 AM CST
King did write Shawshank and Stand By Me as well
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
He really has wriiten some pretty great stuff.
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I just dislike the guy a lot. But he does have occasional genius up his sleeve. I foresee Monopoly not being genius.
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Mar 03, 2009 10:46:16 AM CST
He has a book of short stories called Different Seasons
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
It has Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (The Shawshank Redemption), Apt Pupil, The Body (made into Stand By Me) and The Breathing Method.
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were all short stories
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Is the book that you're referring to. And it's shit. Real shit.
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will not be getting 1 red fucking penny of my money. What a shit idea.
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Mar 03, 2009 10:57:08 AM CST
I just looked it up. Yep, Rose Madder.
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
From Wiki In his memoir On Writing, King states that Rose Madder and Insomnia are "overwritten, working too hard novels."
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Mar 03, 2009 11:01:06 AM CST
I do like that King can give an honest appraisal of his work
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
In the intro to The Shining he says he thinks the writing comes across as too confident and cocky. Which when reading it you can pick up on.
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I'm outta here. Have a good one, chaps.
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"Constant Reader" shite in The Dark Tower.
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Dreadful Book. On one hand, I gotta admire how prolific King is, on the other hand, I wish he'd have a bit of control. I also like the honest assessments.
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This one's getting unweildy
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Damn I need to watch that episode ASAP. I guess I'm carving out some time today at some point. Jump Chesty, Jump!
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fuck's sake.
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Just writing down some ideas about my Terminators In Vietnam screenplay. The resistance is near collapse. The time machine is damaged, John Connor dives inside it just as the worm-hole opens, and he is somehow blasted back to an alternate Vietnam - 1966 where T-800's have allied with the V.C.'s. -
He tries to much for the psychological aspect in almost every book now. "Cell" could have been really great...I seriously got my hopes up that he had snapped out of theat "and then she walked into the painting" phase, but he caved in the second half. Of course, he soon after that wrote another book where the lead character walked into a painting.
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I can't think of that many- Rose Madder jumps to mind. I can think of a hell of a lot with some sort of weird inner-mind world. And everything seemed to be linked to the Dark fucking Tower at one point.
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Don't yank our chains, man...write it, even if it's just to share with us. And the novel of A Clockwork Orange is soooo much better than the film (and I say that as a Malcolm McDowell fan). I want "I, Claudius" to be on one of these lists. That was one that worked both as a book and on film (even if it did take 13 television parts to complete it). They were both fantastic.
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ciao. Beer to be drunk, then a carpenter marathon to watch. HUZZAH!
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Mar 03, 2009 12:02:39 PM CST
Someone is developing I, Claudius as a feature.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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I was drawing a blank at the title. The "walked into a painting" was only partially literal...it just covered the gist of his more recent stylings.
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Masterpiece. Both of them.I saw Jacobi drinking red wine in the park the other week.
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Somewhere along the line Bale Connor must discover Danny Glover tied up and badly beaten in a V.C. village. I wanns see him cussing, spitting, pissing, and bleeding. And there's gotta be a scene where Bale and Glover are tracking a lone T-800 through the jungle. Glover gets his cross-hairs on the T-800's skull with a high-powered rifle and growls "I GOTCHOO." BAM. Blows that Termie's head the FUCK OFF. But in all seriousness -- Me Lei Massacre by T-800's? Maybe.
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John Hurt paying homage to Derek Jacobi by imitating him when he filmed "The Elephant Man". If you watch the scenes of the two of them onscreen together, you can tell where he borrowed Claudius for John Merrick. Very cool.
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Got to go, sorry to say. We seriously don't have these book discussions often enough. :) Next up...radio teleplays! Later, guys.
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...because it makes me want to cut my throat.
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Some damn good acting on all fronts. Nice subtle old-school cinematography. It would have been cool to see more Victorian era famous faces pop up, but it was well executed easily. Definitely Lynch's best feature effort after Blue Velvet.
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Always had a lot of respect for the book for the author practically invented an entire new set of slang terms and they all work really well and are spread wide across a specific sub culture. And I loved how the protagonist was always directly addressing the readers like he was trying to win us over (for me, he usually did). It's a great book. Same Kubrick never got to see the last chapter before he made the movie. That's pretty fucked up if you ask me. I can't imagine other books I love being made without their famous last chapters. It worked okay, thank God, but the real ending would have helped I think.
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And don't worry, I can see a lot of reasons why someone wouldn't enjoy that movie. Why didn't you?
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just a typo people. I obviously liked the book from my post. That's kinda funny though. I will never grow out of typos that turn out to be sexually inappropriate.
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....its much funnier when hot semen is shot into the dude's eye as it is being pried open.
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There's got to be a porno with that name after that movie came out. There's just got to be.
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....and much like my Vietnam joke, when I think about this-- it could actually work. Not necessarily in a Terminator movie, but some killer robot movie. What if there were sexy ass Femme/Pleasure-Bot chicks that took people out by seducing then, then going down on them and BOOM their fucking heads explode on the guy's lap. Imagine what that would look like visually. It could be done in an R-Rated film where the dude is standing with his pants at his ankles, and we cut to a wide where the dummies explode. The dude's ass is to the camera and she is on her knees in front of him and the dummies are filled with pig intestines and red goo. That would be an incredible visual. Death by Blowjob. That should have been Metallica's new album.
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Underrated adaptions - Christine, The Dead Zone. Also, Pet Sematary isn't all that bad - maybe should've been better cast. Fred Gwynne's great in it though.What's the word on Hearts In Atlantis? Haven't seen that.I fell out with King over the Dark Tower. When he pulled the final volume up short and started accusing his readers of being more interested in how the story ends and not the journey to get there. Then he grudgingly offers an ending, with a kind of 'well here it is but you're going to be disappointed' attitude.I was disappointed. In his finger-wagging exercise. I haven't read anything of his since.Hold on, wait, I read Cell. Tellingly, he couldn't sniff out an ending for that one either. Unless he was teaching "constant reader" a lesson for 'demanding' a Dark Tower ending.
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Maybe I was just in the wrong mood for Protege. I didn't get the guy's reaction at the end. You'd think, after what he witnessed, that he'd be turned off drugs for life. I just didn't believe that character would go there.
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Laters.
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Nice talking to you.
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Hearts in Atlantis. I was hoping that the book had something to do with Atlantis...so I bought the book and saw the movie with the intentions of reading the book afterward. I couldn't finish the movie is was SOOO god damn boring and I was like well if they can't make a movie worth sitting through how boring does the book have to be? I feel that Requiem for a Dream you HAVE to see the movie before you read the book. The book has no structure its just like conversations strung together with no break as to who is speaking, seeing the movie made parts in the book that didn't make sense make sense and reading the book clarified the movie. I feel that are probably one of the top book to movie adaptations.
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There is a comic book of the Stand that is going on right now. The first trade just came out, its worth reading very good.
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but if you ask me, The Dark Tower comic is even better. The third arc (I think, I lost track) just wrapped up. That's one of the best artist-writer teams around right now. Really top notch, and unlike most anything else on the stands.
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You know like Street Fighter the book? I've read a few, I think they were created by kids to lazy to read books for class projects and just watched the movie, kind of in the same vien as Great Illustrated Classics. Three I can remember are, Alladin (which I never finished I was like in grade school and I said I read it when I only saw the movie), The Frighteners and Jumanji. Yeah odd choices. I actually enjoyed the Frighteners book in parts more then the movie. Is that odd to say that a book adaptation is better then the movie. OH YEAH Phantom Menace read the book before I saw the movie it was based on and the book was a LOT better. Tried reading the book sequel to Star Trek Generations and liked it but never finished it for some reason. Mmmm cheddar biscuits.
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There's an App for that.
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On Trades? How many we talking about? Because I need to get the third trade of Skyape and the first trade of Transmepolitain before I get anything else. OH and The Walking Dead vol. 7, but that can wait I don't want to catch up.
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Seriously all of you need to go check out the At The Movies review of it. I know you don't like those two reviewers but I am starting to like them.
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I am really fucking digging the book. If I didn't have to clear some DVR space I would be reading it right now.
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Where the fuck are you? I want to talk comics. Are you reading No Heroes?
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Since you just watched it recently Fu what version did you see? Also do you think that tow truck was real, or made up for the movie?
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So I got an early review of the new Cheetos limited time flavor, and sorry to say, its not good. Though one good thing is that its only a limited time thing. They just taste like Cheetos but without any cheese, and whats the fun it that. Trust me on this one kids, I know all you fans of Chester had your hearts set on another amazing new flavor but the taste train may have finally gone bust. Stick with the Natural White Cheddar and Time Magazines #1 food Cheetos Cheddar Jalapeno.
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I can't fucking put them down, I am fucking hungry! OH man there is a Carmel flavored Cheetos that was a limited time flavor but only in Japan, I think I can E-Bay some.
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If I give you my address will you send me a box of Monster Munch and Hula Hoops (salt and vinegar flavor)? OHHH Man if you did I would be in debt to you forever.
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I don't really like them, but in Hawaii they have a flavor entitled Wasabi Funonions, and oh my gowd there are fucking fantastic.
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Edward Morgan Blake
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Watchmen with Robin Williams, Richard Gere, Kevin Costner and Jamie Lee Curtis. Damn that would've been nuts.
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That would have been awesome too but I think Jeffrey Dean Morgan is an almost perfect match.
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HOW AWESOME IS THIS!!! I can just imagine The Dickblood trolling around high schools doing tricks on this bad boy. TINYSIZE! http://tinyurl.com/dasysz
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That just because he is gay doesn't mean that he can sing Elton John.
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And I enjoyed every minute of it. There are some things I would have done differently, and the Squid omission wasn't terrible (though I still prefer it), but I absolutely loved the soundtrack choices. Oh, and Manhattan's blue dong isn't in it as much as you'd think, based on early reactions.
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Mar 04, 2009 1:33:41 AM CST
You're telling me there's not that much blue cock?
by dannyglovers_dickblood
AND.....NO CHRISTIAN BALE? Not interested.
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KNOW BLUE COCK KNOW PEACE!!!! FREE THE BLUE BALLS!!!! Without nude blue dude crank how will I know the movie is based on a comic strip that takes takes pretentous deconstuctionlist twaddle to an absurd level? oh yeah the art! Dr. Dee-troit carved an infinity symbol in his blue melon. That be some deep shit right there. Like really, really deep man. It's like when you put on the Wizard of Oz and sync it up with Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. or like that time I got hit in the eye with a laser at a Blue Oyster Cult concert. It happened during Fear the Reaper. I know now man I KNOW!
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Yes. I have to warn you, though, that Monster Munch have been rubbish since they resized them and made them poxy and small.
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I feel that it is time to unleash Hulk's Green wanger for the first time. If hulk doesn't get the chance to air his beast then it's downright racism.
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They Live and Escape from LA were the latest 2. Escape from LA isn't anywhere near as bad as I remember it being. It fails for surfing, being a retread of NY and other sins. There are, however, a few great moments in it- they are almost vintage carpenter- such as the Beverly Hills plastic surgeons.
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HULK'S JIBBLETS ARE TRAPPED IN PURPLE PANTS!! ARRRGH HULK WANGER CHAFFED!!! HULK SMASH!!FREE THE EMERALD SACK I SAY! HULK'S JUNK NEEDS TO FLOP IN THE BREEZE!
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And They Live has the great touch of Carpenter being named as one of the perverts corrupting American culture in the alien's cinema show.
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END THE UNFAIR DISCRIMINATION OF FALSELY IMPRISONING HULKS GREEN UNIT IN MAGICALLY EXPANDING PURPLE UNDEROOS. WHY IS HOLLYWOOD RACIST AGAINST HULKS SHINY EMERALD NOB?
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meeting before 9AM... How fucking rude.
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And I love the surfing bit. The shot where Buscemi turns around and his eyes bug out when he sees Kurt surfing the wave... Genius. They really ran riot with that and swung for the fences. Gold.
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yuck.
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but having just rewatched it, it isn't anywhere near as good as carpenter's golden age.
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"but having rewatched it, I was surprised that I didn't hate it. It just isn't anywhere near as good as Carpenter's golden age"
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Just woke up on the couch. So they resized the Monster Munch again? As long as they got Pickled Onion I'll still munch the shit out of them. I am gonna go zonk out now. I will send you a zhura message in the morning. Fucking Idol just sucks the life right out of you.
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That I could only find once. http://www.taquitos.net/cheese_puffs/Cheetos_Crunchy_Cheesy_Cheddar_BBQ Tinyied http://tinyurl.com/6dfhgp Those things were fucking amazing.
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Mar 04, 2009 3:43:03 AM CST
oops. Posted this in another TB. Need more coffee.
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I started watching Saboteur last night Got tired halfway through. Will finish it tonight. Good so far. I love the dialogue and delivery in old movies.
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I love his movies. Apart from Torn Curtain.
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Why don't you like it? I haven't seen it yet, but its in the box. When I looked at the box set I realised how few I'd actually seen. Only all the "big" ones.
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and pretty anodyne. It feels like a star vehicle more than a proper Hitch film. It's just overwhelmingly blandIt ain't North by Northwest.
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And was pretty underwhelmed by that. But I did appreciate that it was a stage play and Hitch was kinda experimenting with it. It just didn't really work.
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couldn't care less.
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I did comment that it would've been the greatest movie ever if i was 12 though.
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are the weakest- but even then they aren't bad. Obviously Psycho and The Birds are classics, as is Rear Window, Notorious, Vertigo, North By Northwest, Rebecca, 39 Steps, Frenzy, Strangers on a Train, Lifeboat, Fucking best director ever. Forget Spielberg. Hitch was the man. Even if he was a fat stalking pervert
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for fuck's sake. I appreciate that the majority of this sites readers are underage, but there's buckets of it on the internet.
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As is Rear Window. It doesn't hurt that it plays to my fantasy that an average joe like Jimmy Stewart (ie. my surrogate) can land someone as ridiculously beautiful as Grace Kelly. In my official opinion, THE most beautiful woman in the history of cinema.
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Mar 04, 2009 4:41:16 AM CST
Yeah, I'd put Hitch well and truly above the beard
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Although I haven't seen all of Hitch's work. Vertigo alone is worthy of the title.
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was fucking breathtaking use of technique. A genius. Also a fat pervert, but you can't have everything.
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Mar 04, 2009 4:50:07 AM CST
Don't know much about Hitch's personal life
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
So I'll have to take your word on it.
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Fat stalking pervert. Honestly, what he did to Tippi Hedren (aside from elevating a mediocre actress far beyond her level) was fucking sick and bizarre.
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am off for a smoke. See you later.
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Just found out that Mrs. Jarv has been at the lovefilm list again. She's put The Crappening on High Priority.
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It's rubbish. The only reason to watch it is to see how shit it is.
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and Poison Ivy for some reason. Fuck's sake.
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for the giant blue cock extravaganza at the weekend, but now she's tampering with my entertainment. Luckily, me and some of my mates are having a "shit movie night" on Friday when she is away- I'm supplying Sharks in Venice, and the other films are My Name is Bruce (Yay!), Surf Nazi's Must Die and one to be confirmed, but he's making threatening noises about AvP:Rectum. Despite threats of violence.
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as "movies we know that other halves will hate".
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Just been through the list, and I must have pissed her off something fierce with Chopper Chicks: Hancock, The Crappening, White Oleander, Exorcist 2, Tropic Thunder, Barbarella, and (for the win) Whatever happened to Baby Jane. And She's removed Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers.
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But this Twitch has reached the point where it's playing merry hell with my computer.Keep your expectations for My Name Is Bruce pretty low, Jarv. If you're a fan of The Chin, there's just enough one-liners and Evil Dead in-jokes to make it passably entertaining, but otherwise it's nothing special.And I love Escape From LA. It's not the sequel people wanted, maybe, but it's very funny, and it has a perfect ending.
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Just as well we get a new one tomorrow. Shall we make another home in the meantime?
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I suppose it was okay. I can't really say more to it than that...I guess the only interactions I liked were the kitchen scenes with the bus boy.Hmm...perhaps I will need to visit Escape from LA at some point.
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Society has told him to keep his cock smasher under purple wraps, but I say nay...NAY! Let the Green Giant flap his green giant in the breeze for the whole world to behold!
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I was surprised- I remembered it being absolute shite.
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of the Escapes. I'm assuming such a thing exists.
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But I don't think so. Carpenter should put the fried chicken down and make Escape From Earth. That would be the shiznit.
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given up with that fucking insipid music column yet?
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the quality here would rocket.
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Early Hitchcock. A bit jingoistic at the end, maybe but I love that film.
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and I haven't even taken a peek at the music column since it started. Is scriptgirl threads even breaking a hundred now? And Jarv, I finally saw Green Street Hooligans. I fucking loved it.
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That 15 disc set sounds pretty fucking cool.
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Sucks a fat one. Hobbit= worst hooligan ever. If you want a good hooligan movie- ID.
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Sarcasm. Back at yer, with your humour box!The only movie/novel interface I've read was an Abyss tie-in by Orson Scott Card. He added background to the characters, particularly Lt. Coffey which helped inform Coffey's decisions later on in the story. Sort of.
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Apparently Yoko is just as "motivated" as Harry.That list is only half bad, Jarv. Despite the fanboy rantings, Hancock was 2/3's a great movie. You'll look at it much as you did I Am Legend. And Tropic Thunder is hysterical. White Oleander on the other hand will drive you to drink.
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Does suck a fat one. ID is better. There's another hoolie movie out called Cass - I haven't seen it yet. Looked promising.
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Most commentaries are shit, but the John Carpenter/Kurt Russell ones are usually pretty good.As a tie-in to the commentary thing, on the Evil Dead II track, Bruce Campbell says the first thing Kurt Russell said to him when they were working together on Escape From LA was, "Bruce, say 'Workshed!'", which lets you know Kurt Russell is even cooler than you already thought he was.
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Mar 04, 2009 7:37:17 AM CST
This thread: Slower than a fat girl on an incline
by franklin t marmoset
Seriously, we need a new Twitch.
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He also wrote all his movies.
The Fortune Cookie (1966)
... aka Meet Whiplash Willie (UK)
Kiss Me, Stupid (1964)
Irma la Douce (1963)
One, Two, Three (1961)
The Apartment (1960)
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Love in the Afternoon (1957)
The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)
The Seven Year Itch (1955)
Sabrina (1954)
... aka Sabrina Fair (UK)
Stalag 17 (1953)
Ace in the Hole (1951)
... aka The Big Carnival (USA: new title)
Sunset Blvd. (1950)
... aka Sunset Boulevard (UK) (USA: alternative spelling)
A Foreign Affair (1948)
The Emperor Waltz (1948)
The Lost Weekend (1945)
Death Mills (1945)
Double Indemnity (1944)
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commentary is top. Kurt's loving every minute of it! On Big Trouble In Little China, the crazy pair blank out the movie and start talking about family stuff!Dog Soldiers cast commentary is a good laugh. Had many a tiny chortle listening to that one.
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Yes, I am at home.
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Lots and lots and lots of blue dick in that movie. Your woman will ask you to paint your junk blue - but go with it because you'll get some. Just be sure not to use latex paint!
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Me wanna day off!And now me lunch break is over - Gah! Have a good day, TKD.
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I needed this day off - so I grabbed it by the the scrotum and squeezed!
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But I'll take Hitch. Even though Hitch didn't write his own. You can argue it either way.
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Absolutely ace. "I've met a lot of hard boiled eggs in my time but you, you're twenny minutes..."
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I want a day off. Only been back 3 days and I fucking hate it already.
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Of course some people think Renny Harlin is the greatest!
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no other description.
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Mar 04, 2009 8:17:10 AM CST
If Renny ever gets off is ass and makes...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Lesbonauts Vs Werewolves on the Moon, he will forever be known as the greatest director of all time. Need to see more Wilder, but Some Like It Hot is one of my favorite comedies. Top 5.
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I thought they were Astrodykes. Either way is good.
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Mar 04, 2009 8:21:20 AM CST
Sweet jeebus! I didn't even see TKD's post ^^
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
But I satnd by my comment. Lesbonauts Vs Werewolves on the Moon must be made to ensure the eternal legacy of the one known as Renny.
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Mar 04, 2009 8:22:36 AM CST
Astrodykes/Lesbonauts... Whatever!
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Just get it made, Renny!
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You de man!
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and in the darkness bind them. Just think of those words if JRR Tolkien had come up with the idea of Dr. Staten Island.
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is does his blue Johnson glow in the dark? Because then it really is "one blue cock brings them and in the darkness binds them"
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the cunt's radioactive or some such shite.
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Mar 04, 2009 9:12:27 AM CST
One blue cock to rule them all
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Gollum would be especially disturbing in that story. Murdering people to get his hands on the blue cock. Ugh.
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triplicated himself so he could do some work while spit roasting his bird. Classy.
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Looked like gollum on crack. I bet Gollum loves the blue cock.
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It seems to me, Blue Cock would not stand a chance against Green. Green Cock is monstrous and angry and harder than diamonds.No contest.The only cock possibly capable of taking on Green is Hellboy's mighty Red Cock of Doom. That would be a battle for the ages.Good lord, I'm bored this afternoon.
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I'm going to start using that one.
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wouldn't that produce a yellow cock?
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Mar 04, 2009 9:42:39 AM CST
I'm deeply disturbed that I want to see a...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Blue/Red/Green cockfight a la the lightsaber duel in Jedi. I have the unsettling image of Dr. Manhattan getting his hand chopped off by the swing of the green cock.
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Can green lantern produce cock shaped green energy from his gay little ring?
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not the one in his pants. He's squeezed out many a cock from that.
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for example, Beast has a blue fuzzy cock. He'd lose the cockfight.
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Probably some pretty solid purple cock going on there.
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Mar 04, 2009 9:54:05 AM CST
Throw an orange Thing cock into the mix...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
and we got a smorgasbord of multi-coloured cock action.
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(Fantastic Four Thing, that is)His cock is essentially a bollard.
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you know he's made a giant fists and sat on them. That ring of his is sooooo FABU! and it's an absolute blast at parties! I should go find that goofy messi and rail on GL before I go to class.
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Alternatively, John Carpenter's The Thing's cock can make itself look like pretty much any cock it wants.Intergalactic cock, even.
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Just a giant cock with little spidery legs. Quite a match for the coloured cock quartet.
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Mar 04, 2009 10:04:09 AM CST
I don't get the "Best Director Ever" title for Hitch.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
I enjoy his shit. But come on....Vertigo is good, but its also boring as fuck. The Birds is fun, but its also cheesy as fuck. Psycho is his only true masterpiece from beginning to end.
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He's sat on the sidelines, wishing he could be in the mix with some sort of cosmically powered Silver Cock, but unfortunately he has a surfboard instead of genitalia.
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Check out the 39 steps, there's loads of stuff that was just phenomonal for the time. His use of the camera was just astounding. Vertigo is not boring.
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not allowed in the cock wars. Because he simply doesn't have one. I'm getting horrid ideas about different coloured pussies as well.
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Mar 04, 2009 10:12:59 AM CST
But Bodhi says surfing is better than sex...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
so maybe Silver Surfer feels sorry for us!
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Mar 04, 2009 10:13:24 AM CST
And just so this isn't too much of a sausage fest
by franklin t marmoset
We should not rule out She Hulk, whose gamma radiated pevic floor muscles could probably rip most of these cocks out at the root.
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the only people that say stupid things like that are either those that aren't getting any or those that are doing it wrong.
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That's pelvic floor.Damn, she'll probably come after me now.
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And I admit he pulled off amazing shit with the camera, and I really like his use of miniatures in his early films. I like Hitch a lot. I just think its dog-shit people drop the BEST DIRECTOR OF ALL TIME title on him constantly. Its just really cliche now. They hammer it into film students heads as if it will give them credibility in the industry if they claim he is their favorite director. For me...he never made characters human enough for me to truly love the film. What he did on a technical level is on par with Cameron's technical work of the 80s and 90s. It may be fun...but the Greatest Director of All Time it does not make him.
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but I feel that would not trouble the thing's chunky rocklike member.
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To Catch a thief? Rebecca? Dude did do very human character work. Especially Rebecca. What you're saying is simply not true.
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is full of character stuff.
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and I don't mean in some wanky film-student way. I can't imagine Hitch making a film and being excited about "the technology" in the way Cameron is at the moment.
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Hhhhhmmmmm......I really like Lifeboat a lot. A lot of people hate that one.
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Mar 04, 2009 10:21:55 AM CST
Mr Fantastic didn't get his name for nothing
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Thats all i got.
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and that's a character piece as well. See when you think of Hitchcock, you instantly think PSycho or The Birds, but the dude did so much great stuff some of which is better than those 2, and you just forget about it.
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He mapped out films in a very mechanical/assembly line sort of fashion with no wiggle room. He thought of actors as filler for his shots. Sorta like a George Lucas kinda thing. The shot and effect is what mattered most to him. Not the people standing in it.
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I was BSing on a less professional TB.
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http://tinyurl.com/bd8qfp
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the technology involved in getting the shot a la Cameron. The important thing was the shot itself. He did also get some great performances out of actors- not something you can accuse Cameron of.
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Mar 04, 2009 10:28:36 AM CST
I can't fucking believe you get me to defend Cameron....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
....but Cameron got great performances out everyone in Abyss.
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I haven't seen the show, but from what I've read and heard about it, I'd have Kate fitted with a leash.
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Hitch managed it in almost every film- check out Perkins in Psycho. Or Grant in North By Northwest. Look at Cameron's record- Fucking Titanic? Massive acting Failure. T2? massive acting failure. Aliens? Nope. T1 I'll also give you.
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Mar 04, 2009 10:32:02 AM CST
But is it really hard to get a great performance.....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
....out of Mary Elizabeth-- when you're threatening her with a fucking clenched fist? He probably flung that drunk Michael Biehn down a set of stairs and told the rest of the cast "You could be next."
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Mar 04, 2009 10:33:17 AM CST
Who the fuck made the Hitch/Cameron comparison?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Thats a ridiculous comparison. Plus, Cameron doesn't masturbate over every shot. If you want to stretch for a comparison, then they both had/have a specific vision that they want/ed to see and refused to accept less. The difference is Cameron works with elaborate FX that take a long time to complete. Jesus christ.
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of firing shotguns and slapping people to get a performance. Cameron isn't alone in that.
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You don't think the performances of Drake, Gorman, Apone, Vasquez, Frosty, Hicks, Hudson, Deitrich and co. were the stuff of legend?
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drake barely in it, Gorman was rubbish, Vasquez was OK, HIcks was OK. ass kicking was top notch. Acting not so much.
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to his actor's anuses and shocks them.
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Danny will probably be a lot harsher on it than me.
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Mar 04, 2009 10:38:00 AM CST
I've also never watched a Cameron flick...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
where I've noted bad performances. Each performance fits the movie. Titanic was a popcorn romance/historical epic. It was meant to be theatrical. The performances were as they were meant to be. Aliens, Abyss, T1, T2. All fairly serious action adventures. With sutiable performances. True Lies. Action Comedy. Light hearted, tongue in cheek performances. Sweet jesus.
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A remake directed by Muck-Gee though....White Vader.
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I was being sarassaristic!
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seriously. Because of their uber-wankiness, I'm having to defend Hitchcock. Fuckers. I hope they all choke so hard on their fucking moccachinos (not bought in starbucks and made with organic imported crushed with peasants feet in costa rica beans) that they die of massive rectal prolapse. Pretensious dicks.
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Because 'sarassaristic' is not a real word. Everyone KNOWS that.
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But hey, it's no Tremors 2: Aftershocks, that's for fucking sure.
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I've never seen a Cameron flick and thought "Wow, what a great performance". And I thought they were actively bad in Titanic.
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And so do I, as it happens.
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Mar 04, 2009 10:41:55 AM CST
Apparently Coppola would randomly scream at Virginia Madsen
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
between takes in her scene on the stand in The Rainmaker. Just to put her off.
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I know what you mean. I can't really think of a Cameron picture that warranted really serious, to-the-core acting, though. All my fave Cameron pictures are action oriented. Didn't really require getting all that deep, because you need time for 'splosions and stuff
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Billy Zane did a great job of having to choke a bitch in Titanic.
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I generally like Cameron films.
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Mar 04, 2009 10:45:45 AM CST
How many action adventure flicks do you see...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
and think to yourself "Wow, what a great performance"
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Especially the acting. The only thing worse than the acting was the Script. Robert Altmann said that Titanic is the worst film ever to get an Oscar. I think he's wrong. Forrest Gump is. But Titanic is Second Worst.
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The fact is, that when he's done non action the performances are fucking atrocious. I like Cameron movies (aside from Titanic)- so I'm not trying to shit on him.
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I wonder if that Sam whatever his name is was cast for T4 while still shooting Avatar. Imagine the look on Cameron's face when he heard that. Pure fucking disgust. Like the time when Linda Hamilton WASN'T in the mood to slice her tits with glass as Cameron jerked off and filmed it. She claimed she wasn't fully healed from last "Session," and Cameron simply responded "YOU BITCH." -
Mar 04, 2009 10:50:30 AM CST
Droid....Cameron has never made Action/Adventure.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
The Action/Adventure genre fucking rocks. Cameron couldn't handle it.
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That's the best news I've ever heard regarding that show. Makes me want to email my old co-workers and see how much is true and how the show is handling it. Or better yet, how Kate is handling it.
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look forward to continuing this tomorrow.
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....he made Dr. T And The Women, he should have no opinion of any film EVER MADE.
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Mar 04, 2009 10:55:33 AM CST
Danny, you're pigeonholing adventure into Indy stylings
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Worthington was cast in T4 while working on Avatar. He's been quoted as saying he talked to Cameron about it and Cameron told him to go for it. That is hi quote anyway.
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http://tinyurl.com/c9reex Jon sleeping with sorority girls? This guy's living the dream!
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Will be glad to defend Cameron from you ragamuffins tomorrow. Have a good one, lads.
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I guess you're right. Now I remember that technically categorize Die Hard as Action/Adventure.
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Fucking crazy. And didn't you say Kate is always online looking up gossip about them? Sheeesh.
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In which other pple claim to have seen him in bars around town making out with different women. Someone else saying Kate is actually cheating on Jon with her trainer... insanity. And yes, everyday Kate or Jon spends a long timeon the computer reading what the world is saying about them. A statement has already been released saying they're a-ok.
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I thought there was another story. To quote THE WATCHMEN, "Only a matter of time....I suppose."
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"PLEASE! I'M BEGGING YOU! PLLLLLEASE FUCK ME!"
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Minutes after I pointed out to Merrick that Quint already reported the same thing this past week. God this site needs to get it together.
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....if I wrote for this site, I still wouldn't read the other contributor's stories. So I would probably double-post once in awhile as well.
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See I'm the total opposite. I read just about every "important" story that pops up. So if I ended up writing for this site, I'd still be reading like a normal movie-fan.
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everything would be about Bale, or how it affects or is related to Bale, or how cute is that fiddler Jessie Burns from Gaelic Storm.
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Mar 04, 2009 11:39:19 AM CST
I get all the same content from Darkhorizons....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
....minus the annoying frat-boy style.
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Zach Snyder is like I'll never do anything remotely related to a watchmen sequel. And since now he is a big name director he won't have too. But the film's star, Billy Crudup, admits the decision about a sequel lies with Hollywood bosses - because he has already signed a contract to make a Watchmen follow-up. Billy Crudup who is not famous obviously came into this hoping to Harvey Milk it for all its worth.
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I predict impressive first day returns.....35 million opening weekend. 50% drop second week. Ends up bringing in less than 75 total.
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Mar 04, 2009 12:57:27 PM CST
and remember....Fox is taking a piece of that ass.....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
....so its gotta do very very well for Warner Bros. to move forward with it.
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http://tinyurl.com/chxnom
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Alan Rickman as the Gruber. I don't care that he sprinkles salt and pepper on the scenery, his mannerisms are pitch perfect. He's still my all time favorite villian.
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So I was talking to a female friend the other day. Mind you, she is not a dumb person by any means.....just confused about this. She said she just got back from the movies and saw this hilarious movie. I assumed it was that Tyler Perry joint or some shit. But she's like "Have you ever heard of it....Street Fighter?" So I just listened. She wasn't really sure if it was intended to be a comedy, but she admitted it was probably the funniest movie she has seen in awhile. I said "I heard Chris Klein is really great in it." And she said....."Yeah.......he's cool. Well-- I dunno. I think he's supposed to be sort of a tough guy, but he's really just sort of goofy and funny." I acted all surprised saying I heard he was bad ass, and she's like "Well.....he's kind cool. But his lines are so quick-- just like one sentence at a time, so we don't really get to know him." I asked about big Michael Clarke and she said, "He's okay. But I thought he was scarier in DareDevil." Oh AND she said one of the funniest parts was the lesbo scene. LESBO SCENE?!! "Yeah....you have to see it. Its pretty hot for a PG-13 movie, but again.....its also really funny." -
Is that you can get into a serious, important discussion about differently colored superhero cock and then get into a light hearted, nothing of a discussion about movie directors with massive emotional problems.oh and uh...Christian Bale.
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That link was a dick-tease that engorged me with blood. I wish it were real, the way pinnochio wishes he were a real boy.
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Like the chameleon.
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http://tinyurl.com/aza7wl
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Mar 04, 2009 1:50:09 PM CST
has anyone noticed how many handles with 'dick' or cock are here
by toadkillerdog
Got some dudes with issues! Hah
Now Toads, well that is a different story.
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Why is Johnny Depp on that poster? He's cool, but he's not Christian Bale. He's got to chew out a DP.
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I just threw it together. I need the link to the pdf of the infamous Baleback.
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I was about to agree with you but then..............
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Alright. Gimme a minute. Collating.
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Where I can light votif candles for Bale, and which provides an address to which I can send him pints of my blood.
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So be the biggest baddest stuntcock out there!
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I blame it on your Indy IV fixation. You were never the same after that movie.
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Now I can get to work on it.
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Heh heh, with a little therapy I might overcome the fridge, but not the Tarzan. Oh, my high hopes for that were so dashed. Sigh...
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wHAT THE HECK?
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The opposite of "professional" is...
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The opposite of " is...
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The opposite of "amateur" is "professional," and THAT is the password.
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Bale
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That movie has destroyed many -a -dream and many- a- man. Perhaps somewhere, deep, deep, deep, deep down, the real Abom is curled up in a fetal position, screaming 'No! No! Not the monkeys! Not the monkeys!'
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a hallowed thread
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These two must be combined!! Anyone have a PDF editor?
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http://freecomicbookday.com/the_comics.asp
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http://aintitbalenews.weebly.com/
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in our pants.
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I don't know I'm still not sold on the awesomeness of Street Fighter. I mean for a sequel/reboot to be as awesome if not better then the original doesn't ever happen. Can this be the franchise to change that?
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and jerked off to it. Nine times.
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That's professional. As are you all.
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Is whose head is in Bale's crotch.
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That is fucking brilliant. I'M FUCKING CRYING READING THAT.
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Put a shout-out to fallen Brothers Kurzinski Valentine and Kurt Lockwood, and link Kurt Lockwood's site.
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(AP and wire reports)
Woman attacked by chimp still critical; Christian Bale survives
The chimpanzee that savagely attacked a Connecticut woman tore off her hands, a substantial part of her face, and left her with a traumatic brain injury, the Cleveland Clinic said today in a statement that casts new doubt on her chances of recovery.
"Travis tore her lower right arm off and bludgeoned her with it," said a clinic spokesperson. "He beat her half to death with her own fist. But I hear Christian Bale is doing well."
In releasing new details of injuries to Charla Nash, 55, the hospital said, "The full extent of injuries and her potential for recovery remain unclear at this time. But most of the staff plan to see 'Terminator: Salvation' in May."
Nash was brutally attacked by a friend's 200-pound chimp on Feb. 16 in Stamford, CT. The Clinic flew the woman and her bloody, stumpy arms to Cleveland aboard a critical care jet several days later, amid speculation she would be evaluated for a face transplant. Meanwhile, actor Christian Bale appeared handsome as ever, according to witnesses in a Santa Monica deli who observed the 'Dark Knight' actor sipping a cappucino, eating biscotti, and charming his waitress.
"Jesus, is he good-looking," remarked Hector Ramirez, 24, who stocks meats at the deli. "After he left, I masturbated in the walk-in cooler. The manager caught me, but said he didn't blame me."
Though family of the mutilated Nash has withheld details, the Clinic said today that she lost her nose, upper and lower lips, eyelids and the bony structures in her mid-face in the attack. "While these wounds have been stabilized, critical issues still remain related to a significant traumatic brain injury and injuries to her eyes that threaten her vision," the Clinic's statement said.
"Christian Bale has a perfect nose, and eyelids," said Katlyn Peacock, a frequent patron at Santa Monica's Uptownz Deli. "I'm guessing he has great vision, too. Jesus, is he handsome."
The hospital said after Nash's arrival it would be days or a week before doctors can determine the full extent of her injuries and decide a course of treatment. Now it appears uncertain whether doctors will be able to surgically repair the damage with either reconstructive surgery or a face transplant. Bale is not expected to undergo cosmetic surgery of any kind for the next several years, and will likely age gracefully into his 70's.
"He'll probably grow wisps of grey hair at his temples," surmised Ramirez while wiping semen from his pants with a dishrag. "And maybe he'll get those little crow's feet by his eyes when he's like, 57. He'll be even more irresistable. He is a god among men."
Nash was attacked while visiting her friend, Sandra Herold, 70, who owned Travis the chimp. Police shot and killed the 14-year-old simian, but not before it shred a door of a police cruiser and beat four deputies into submission with it.
Actor Bale was said to have been impressed.
"The family and hospital are grateful to those across the nation who have been concerned about Charla's recovery," the Clinic statement said. "The family wishes to maintain her
privacy, but in light of the level of public support and concern, also want to convey the extent of her injuries. And let everyone know that the new 'Terminator' trailer is online. Jesus, is that Bale good-looking."
The hospital said consideration of reconstructive surgeries "is
premature at this time." Hospital officials affirmed that Bale will likely never need such a procedure, and went so far as to suggest that future face recipients have their new visages modelled after the comely actor.
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I never went into a James Cameron movie with 'performance' foremost in my mind. Weaver was strong in Aliens, though. And Cameron scored big emotional points in The Abyss - first with the drowning sequence, then the resuscitation scene. But Mary Elizabeth almost blows all the good work with her whining as 'Bud' descends into the abyss.I've enjoyed all of Cameron's films. And all of Hitchcock's - the ones that I've seen anyway (must've seen nearly all of them). But I'd never compare those two directors. Different eras, different styles and whatnot...
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...appears to have segued into a BaleBack...Not that I'm complaining, my Lord Bale, I hasten to add. Smite me, should my frivolous words be spoken askance. May I discard sustenance and become Machinist in thine image, Oh Scrumptious One.
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to fantasize, and have, a threesome with the sis in law IF AND ONLY IF she's good-lookin'
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The office, I mean--not the ethereal plane. Bale has not yet apprised me that my mission is done.
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is eternal, transcending space and time...As the Splendid Lord Bale himself sayeth - "Tetragrammaton. There's nothing we can't do."
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Especially reverse cow on this dick. She gets my balls with this iron grip you would not fucking believe. I have to cake on the Orajel Advanced Tooth Desensitizer so I don't cry. You can't cry in front of The Big Sig.
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Mar 04, 2009 6:07:48 PM CST
What if the sister in law looks like Gene Wilder....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
....but she's got the asshole of a cherub?
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It isn't perfection. There is a scene where Dan Dreiberg is getting a cup coffee Laurie Jupiter and he asks if she takes two lumps of sugar. Yeah too bad NO ONE in America uses lumps of sugar, that's a British thing. I don't think you can even buy lumps of a sugar in stores. Fucking this book is useless Moore knows nothing about America.
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My mother still uses sugar cubes -lumps. But The Dark Knight is still the superior graphic novel. Watchmen is 2nd, followed by Kingdom Come.
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But as I said a few months ago when I first saw it, its pretty funny. Best part has to be that "Roger Roger" "Doctor doctor" joke between the Battle Droids.
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And stop bragging about living with your mom.
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The episode was surprisingly fun. The show has a lot going for it, unlike that god awful Lost crap.
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I have my basement 'Man-Cave' all to myself. Private entrance. And all the money I saved from no mortgage went into a bad ass Home entertainment system/armageddon command center/alien invasion bunker. I'll bet you I have the largest collection of frozen pizza bagel bites you have ever seen!
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Millers The Dark Knight Returns is still better than Watchmen
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Fucking Marvel Apes is better then Watchmen.
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Max Headroom in it?
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Mar 04, 2009 10:19:02 PM CST
Hmmm how come the cast of Watchmen haven't been on late night sh
by series7
Its because Conan is off the air and 2nd rate actors have no where to promote their crap.
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Blue dude is on Fallon.
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Good night for tv.
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You all are missing the best show on TV right now (well it was on Monday but DVR you know). Sponsored by Watchmen the new episodes of Destroyed In Seconds this week have had some awesome shit. I finally know what a Mud Slide looks like, also if you've ever wanted to see a truck full of Lemons fall off of a overpass, well here's your show!
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Lock, which is was last week, so I don't see it being good this week. Now I know you are a lying liar who lies D. Vader. Again Idol sucked so how was it a good night for TV then really Vader? Was Life On Mars perfect like it always is? Probably it is the best show on a network, that is why they have to cancel it.
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Is on Kimmel this week as well. Good joke gone.
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Because a good episode of LOST and then that repeat episode of Clone Wars. Also watched UNC win their bball game before LOST started.
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But so does every sport. I hate them all. Except for Sumo.
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College basketball does not. You know what beats Sumo? > MORTAL KOMBAAAAAAT!!!! *dun nuh-dun nuh-dun nuh... dun dun dun dun... dun nuh-dun nuh-dun nuh*
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Mortal Kombat that would be awesome. Isn't there a new Mortal Kombat movie coming out?
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Did we not already have this conversation once, Series, regarding Mortal Kombat?
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I really can't remember the last time I've talked about Mortal Kombat. But then again I'm only a bear, what do I know I rip the head off of fishes.
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Why did even though I hate the first one the second one already has my $6? I mean you think I would've learned my lesson, and yes the first trailer was awesome with those cool sounds and the second trailer is awesome but the sounds remind me of those THX things before movies.
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I just saw the original trailer for Planet of the Apes and its so weird. Old trailers are so bizarre. Like about half way through the trailer Charlton comes out and discusses the movie about all the team of make up artist that went into it and what the original people look like compared to there ape counterparts. Heston talked some more about how great the book was and it was long.
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The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 remake. I just saw the trailer and I didn't know who the director was but I was like this has to be Tony Scott. Sure enough it is. It looks like the sequel to Deja Vu. I need to watch the original, and Deja Vu.
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hmmm. I'm struggling to follow it. Just discovered I'm working saturday so will not be seeing giant blue cock. This pleases me and I offered a sacrifice to the holy trinity by kicking a small puppy in gratitude. Unless Mrs. Jarv moves the booking.
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hmmm. I'm struggling to follow it. Just discovered I'm working saturday so will not be seeing giant blue cock. This pleases me and I offered a sacrifice to the holy trinity by kicking a small puppy in gratitude. Unless Mrs. Jarv moves the booking.
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hmmm. I'm struggling to follow it. Just discovered I'm working saturday so will not be seeing giant blue cock. This pleases me and I offered a sacrifice to the holy trinity by kicking a small puppy in gratitude. Unless Mrs. Jarv moves the booking.
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Finished off Saboteur. Good stuff. Hitch LOVES to finish on a landmark. This time it was the Statue of Liberty. Also loved the conspiracy by the 'organisation' (ie. nazi sympathizers) but the story essentially only bothered to deal with one bad guy. Fry! What happened to the large organisation? Who cares? Fry's dead and Kane gets the girl. Finis! (Not a typo) Freedom Writers - Started off as a stock-standard 'preppy teacher in da hood' story, but really developed into a good little film. I also liked that it wasn't about dumb kids who sit up and listen to teacher and instantly become super-smart or talented. It was about the kids coming together and respecting each other. Quite a good little film.
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Wallace and Grommit and the Curse of The Were Rabbit. OK but the weakest W&G film. Still had some great touches.
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He does it all the time.
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Mar 05, 2009 3:40:23 AM CST
I've never been a massive fan of W&G
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
But Curse was lots of fun. I love Chicken Run a lot though.
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Mar 05, 2009 3:52:02 AM CST
That chimp attack article by Abom is ridiculous
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
But very amusing.
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Mind you, I'm off for two weeks from next Monday, so that number will probably skyrocket. I don't have anything to do, but if I don't use up 10 days of holiday by the end of March, they will disappear into some kind of evil magical void, never to return.So I am having TWO WEEKS OF LOAF, during which time I plan to watch telly, eat delicious omelettes, smoke a lot, and work on my X Box 360 skills.I think I might get myself a toweling bathrobe, just to make myself look more like The Dude. There is a good chance I will take his title of 'Laziest Man On Earth'.
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I need a holiday like that. Just booked my 'gay sounding' holidays to croatia and greece though, so no chance for a decent break until June.
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Dark Knight Returns is better than Macbeth. That's the stupidest thing I've seen in ages
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I resolve to make an effort to insult you less once I'm back to work.Also, I hope you have a very enjoyable (and fully heterosexual) holiday.
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Mar 05, 2009 4:14:10 AM CST
Who the fuck is ALANMOORES_SQUIDBLOOD?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Just saw the name in another TB. For a guy that most people profess to hate, Danny sure does get his imitators.
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it's OK. Survival Horror by numbers. I keep getting wasted by my team. Fuckheads
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If you were hoping to see Macbeth put on a robot suit and fight Superman, maybe I can understand why the play might be a disappointment.Shakespeare's achilles heel was always his inability to incorporate robot suits into his plays.
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My favourite was RICH_GAY_UNCLES_DICKBLOOD. That was funny. There are some great handles, but the Daddy has to be TOTAL FUCKING DESTRUCTION.
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I can't even be arsed with him, but that has to be the stupidest thing he's ever written.
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tool.
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Mar 05, 2009 4:26:21 AM CST
I'd say Mediah Messiah is about 17.
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
And masturbates incessantly.
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He's just completely loopy.
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he's an Argentian nerd (real nerd), that named himself after Lionel Messi, (apparently he looks like him as well, tchyup,)with a comic book boner. He's a shrill dickheadish fanboy and I think the more reasonable Comic book fans like TKD and KFH are a bit embarrassed by him.
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But he was in the Mega Fox thread pimping Waterworld 2 and blathering on about Hollywoods mid-90's conspiracy to take down Kevin Costner. I stopped reading after that. I usually ignore his posts, but I was so bored yesterday.
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He changed names to "Most Excellent Ninja"- a name that makes me want to slap him.
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I usually goad him about the LIZARD PEOPLE, but can't be arsed today
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Mar 05, 2009 4:38:52 AM CST
Oh, right... I didn't really process the Messi bit
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I just confused myself then. Anyway, Media Messiah is the annoying twat I hate. I've never really registered this 'Messi'.
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yeah, he's a twat.
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This is slower than a fat person stuck in a revolving door.
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I was reading a Dollhouse talkback a couple of weeks ago, and he'd formulated this bizarre theory about how we (us CoC types) only come into these Twitch talkbacks to deliberately inflate AICN traffic, possibly as a part of a consipracy by Mavra Chang to steal people for her own site.I can't remember all of it, but it was loopy stuff. If he had posted it here, I'd assume he was trying to wind us up, but it was in a Dollhouse TB.Best to just avoid that guy, I reckon. Tin foil hat wearing goon.
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Mar 05, 2009 5:42:54 AM CST
Yes, we are the ones that inflate traffic
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Not the tools on the weekly Lost TB or the countless Watchmen threads that the same knob jockeys populate. I decided to avoid him a while back.
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I only really post here nowadays. I used to post everywhere, but none of the other topics are interesting for me.
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Seriously, this guy is a nutbag:"As well, she has repeatedly bad mouthed Harry. I didn't care because I had my own axe to grind with Harry, now buried...and I figure, that's between them, until Chang bad mouthed me. I then reminded her that I told her that she should be writing for AICN.com (in the Script Girl Talkback...months ago)...to which she said that she was too busy and not interested in that sort of thing. No writing for her. Mavra's school and work schedule would be in her way. So I dropped it after telling her to think about it, and saying AICN needs female contributors that can grow a female audience here, in order to get women more interested in genre fair. I told her that she is intelligent and has wonderful points of view...and that women can ad a whole new perspective to reporting genre news...like Jessica Chobot, who was once at Mania.com...and really stole the show.Next, I hear nothing of Chang for months...then I saw her post on one of the Talkbacks, then nothing again for a few more weeks. Finally, I saw her post on a Talkback and she said hello to everyone, and claimed among other things that she had insomnia. Well, I posted advice for her and she attacked me at length. Now, before I read that rant, I had noticed that she had posted details about a site that she has been writing for. I was surpised since I was the one who encouraged her to write? I checked the site, and found it to be rather elaborate...and I was surprised that she went from being someone who claimed to not be interested in writing, to having posted many reviews...and other writings on this other site??? I was impressed by the graphics and pictures, etc.I finally returned to AICN.com to see if she got my post about insomnia, and how to beat it, and I was thoroughly assailed by her, as she claimed that I had been negative toward her. I then reminded her that I defended her against people calling her, and Script Girl "cunts" and so on, on the Script Girl Talkback, months ago. I also reminded her that I was the one who encouraged her to write...and this was the thanks I got?I soon realized, that based upon Mavra corraling various posters on AICN.com, via that Talkback, the one a few weeks ago, that she was trolling the site to lure net traffic away from AICN.com to her web site(s) and possibly gather email addresses along the way? On that Talkback, she was openly campaigning and giving invites, and even inviting people to submit articles and other contributions to her site(s). Those are the facts. I just find it seamy...as there is an agenda there; bad mouth Harry as you lure away his web traffic??? And once she bad mouthed me, I had no reason to be loyal to anybody here. Anyway, if you don't believe me, check that Talkback were Mavra Chang, and others were intentionally running up posting numbers, a few weeks back, to over 2000 posts, or close to it. Read my last post on there, and check her post to me...and then look at the posts immediately before those postings. You will see her recruiting regular AICN readers to post at her web site(s) just as I said. Mavra Chang is a troll who's boosting (stealing) this web site's readers...as web traffic for her site(s). She isn't a fan of this site, she's a business women, playing you guys for web site hits."WTF? It's actually kind of creepy that he's given this loopy fucking idea so much thought.
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but we used to use our awesome powers for evil- Sabotage of TB. Even for good causes like Milf's, Zombie Remakes and Bears. Now we have a temple and the rest are just jealous.
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Mediah Messiah has your number!I am shaking my angry fist across the internets at you!Or, possibly Media Messiah is a nutbag.
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Mavra is a very benign user. Me or Danny are usually the most agressive.
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And it wouldn't fit his little conspiracy theory.Me and JPT and a few others were doing the transatlantic movie exchange program before I even knew what Twitch was. Twitch just turned out to be natural and convenient home.
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And obviously has way too much time on his hands. Not like us of course!
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It always used to be such a pain, skimming through a bunch of talkbacks trying to find the regular gang. These days, I always know where everyone is, which is cool.Many thanks to Twitch, for the cool news articles and the place to hang out and talk crap.
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admittedly I do intentionally run up numbers. But I do it for laughs when I'm bored at work. Fuck him. I remember that TB- he was loopy tinfoil hat wearing gimboid. And regarding Mavra's site/ ZHura that was something we started spontaneously and he can fuck off if he thinks it's open to the flotsam and jetsom that populate AICN
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really bored of it. Mrs. Jarv has changed the booking so I am seeing it after all on Saturday. I feel most let down.
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Mar 05, 2009 6:10:46 AM CST
I think I signed up to Zhura but never used it
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Does the CoC actually utilise it?
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Mar 05, 2009 6:14:00 AM CST
Ebert gave Watchmen a very supportive write up
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
to go along with 4 stars. But that's not saying much these days. I have the feeling he's slipping because every second flick he reviews gets four stars. I'd like someone to do analysis of his ratings over the years. The past 6 months I reckon he's given more 4 star reviews than in the previous 10 years!
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Balls, I'm giving it a go. I'm not sure I want to see it so much as I just want to go and see something (anything).Plus, it's something to do on my two weeks of loaf.Do they let people into cinemas if they're wearing pyjamas and a toweling bathrobe and carrying half a bottle of wine?
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The Chapter most scene in the trailer. Really cracking stuff in that chapter. I'm only at lik 40 some movies. Gonna watch Tokyo Gore Police, PC:TCON and FTA. Will also probably watch Machine Girl before Gore Police as well. Series 0ut.
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Mar 05, 2009 6:23:38 AM CST
Frankie, you need to be drinking white russians
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
from a glass big enough to soak your goatee in. And if the tickets are sold out you have to start half-heartedly complaining by saying 'man' a lot.
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Mar 05, 2009 6:25:53 AM CST
And bermuda shorts under the robe...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
and flip flops... also smoking a joint with tweezers.
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Mar 05, 2009 6:28:00 AM CST
I'll go see Watchmen this weekend I think
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I'm not that interested. It's more to say I've seen it.
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Things to buy this weekend:Bathrobe.Vodka.Kaluha.Bowling ball.
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It's possible I'm psychosomatically drunk and/or stoned already.
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I successfully avoided this morning's training session (by simply not turning up for it), but I've been rumbled and told I HAVE to go this afternoon.Shit.
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Nothing as boring as training.
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Bollocks. I've had an 'astronauts wake up on a spacecraft with no memory' story on the backburner for years. Cack knackers. Another idea in the bin.
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a new Twitch by now? Is it Thursday? I could never get the hang of Thursdays.
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I dedicate my work today to Mariska Hargitay, who apparently is in poor health, and who has sent me her lilac-scented panties.
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How could you? Hoodwinking us dumb old boys to the tune of your own nefarious porpoises! But no more! Thank the Lord Bale for Media Messiah and his finger/pulse interface...
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I feel if you keep up with this heresy then your heading for a pencil in the throat. Although, it must be said that Bale's lunatic outburst was more than enough to earn himself a place in the pantheon.
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Bale is but the latest, and presently most celebrated, prophet in the church. He has shown himself to be a true warciple and for that I must acknowledge him. When I say, "Bale be praised," the inclusion of fellow, and longer-standing, warprophets like Fred Ward and Clint Eastwood is implied.
Speaking of CoC, I've seen rumours that they may film a new Tremors "down under" in Australia. I haven't seen if Michael Gross, Kevin Bacon, or Fred Ward have signed on. At the very least, Gummer must be there. -
Wouldn't it be ace. Graboids in OZ.
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I also read that somewhere - 'The Thunder From Down Under' it was titled. Didn't see anything about the cast, though.
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Fuck's sake. Pull your fingers out.
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about a new Tremors (with the adjective "bad" being relative) is that it would have to sit alone on the DVD shelf, next to but not included in the Tremors Attack Pack. Unless of course they issue a new improved pack. I will email Michael Gross for his thoughts on this matter.
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Freds un-trusty Amoeba! An Intervention may be necessary.
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There are some strange ducks and toads around these parts (Toads are always strange)but MM takes the pudding.
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He couldn't be sadder and more pathetic if he tried. That long winded rant brings both tears of laughter and pity.I haven't watched a movie in the theater since Indy IV but I'm half tempted to check out Watchmen if only to get out for a change.Yoko's music page is a joke. Not to start a flame war again, but what's the point of a music column that only reviews the week's 2 or 3 big mainstream releases and then nothing but pretentious indie crap. I can get all of her "recommendations" on the Amazon new release page.
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thread. And not in a nice way. It's such shit and so unimaginitive.
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yes, it's like BAck 2 Da Hood not being in the Almighty Pot of Gore. I need a Lep 7. I know Warwick's not busy, so he needs to get this done. Maybe Lep in a camp crystal lake type thingy. Murdering shagging councillors to find out who's nicked his gold.
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I say go see Watchmen. I will not sit through it again because it just was not compelling enough, but there are some great images, and some picture perfect translations from comic book to screen. It just does not hold up as a whole for me, but I am glad it was made, and I am glad I at least saw it to judge for myself.
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He claims to have lost most of his savings in Madoff's Ponzi scheme. So he should be easily lassoed into a new Tremors.
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So I received an e-mail from my local beer retailer that they are going to start selling Fat Tire. All those beers that the group recommended to me last year are finally making their way to my doorstep. I do loves me some Arrogant B but damn at $5 a bottle you can't exactly go nuts on that stuff.
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Footloose 2
Tremors 5 -
Let us bow our heads. http://tinyurl.com/chxnom
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But the alcohol content should be enough that you only need a few bottles. Still, I love Fat Tire nore than Arrogant Bastard. It is easier to spell when I am wasted too!
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Loserguy and it nails what is wrong with AICN at the moment: Wow. Just wow. Almost universal love for (of all things) the new U2 CD, and from the detailed looks of things by people who've actually listened to and have formed their opinion around the WHOLE album, not just a single taken out of context and lazily discarded. Bravo, talkbackers.
To those few standbys who claim that there is 'hatred' here or that music snobs have a different opinion - no. The thrust of the argument here is that reviewing product you HAVEN'T EXPERIENCED is wrong. It cuts against everything that someone charged with the job is supposed to stand for, to say nothing of how it reflects on this website.
But what hurts most of all, and apparently Harry has lost all sight of recently, is how poorly this reflects on us, the readers. Not only are we marginalized and treated with such disrespect that illegitimate reviews are tossed at us without care, but that Harry hopes to make money with links back to Amazon is astounding. Simply astounding.
Are we not worth the time to give a proper review before casting it aside? Is this how little you think of us, the faithful who've stayed with you through thick and thin, bouncing from one embarrassment to the next, each time hoping it would be the last? Perhaps its our fault for mistaking Harry for someone who cares, someone able to realize he owes his entire lifestyle to people clicking on his website. I fear these days are closing in on our big, fat friend and that he couldn't care less.
So again, posting 'reviews' on products you haven't watched, listened to, or otherwise experienced is wrong. Its a blatant violation of the critic/reader relationship, and you should be fucking ashamed of yourselves. But then Yoko never comes across as someone remotely qualified to offer her 'opinion' (which we've seen isn't based on fact) towards music. Comparing U2 to Jessica Simpson (particularly as it was Nancy Sinatra who sang the original version of the song in question) negates any further viewing of this shilled embarrassment of a column.
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from praise for the TB-ers at the beginning, to the rea sense of frustration at the lack of quality- and sheer fucking laziness of it, to resentment at the amazon links.
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Apparently, the kurtlockwood site is NSFW. Fortunately, no images came up, just a bunch of those FAIL jpeg X's. I lit a candle in homage to the pros who either did not make it up the hill, or who were wrongfully dispatched on the way back down.
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New Twitch. Let's abandon this dead assed one and move. See you all there.
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but honestly, I've only listened to the new one a couple times. It didn't grab me right away, which is fine. Sometimes the best music needs time. But I can't say U2s music has had a deep affect on me since Achtung. All that you can't leave... was my last fave by them, and even then it was just a good record, not a super-great one.
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I woke up this morning thinking that for some reason.....never like the teary eyed douche.
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Mar 05, 2009 9:35:23 AM CST
When did Harry start posting DVD'd he hadn't seen?
by dannyglovers_dickblood
Thats always the funniest part. "The Little Mermaid 3, I haven't seen this. But I love the original, and I love Disney. So you should all check this one out on Blu Ray! Here is a link to amazon which helps me stuff my fucking face, and rub margarine dipped ice cubes on my nipples."
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Yes, Freeman lives. My children call him "God," because of the "Almighty" movies. When I was four, I thought he was a god because he was the "cool guy" on Electric Company.
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A link to download Revolucian's remix.
http://tinyurl.com/c7absw
And another tab labeled BELIEVE.
This can include quotes from people who have been spiritually inspired by Lord Bale, as well as biblical quotes from the man himself.
"Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you, and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart; and you shall find rest for your souls. For My yoke is salty, and My load is large."
"You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden… Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven. "
"Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it shall be opened. Or what man is there among you, when his son shall ask him for a loaf, will give him a stone? Or if he shall ask for a fish, he will not give him a snake, will he? Or if he shall say stop fucking with the light, you will continue fucking with the lights to spite me? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Father who is in heaven give what is good to those who ask Him!"
"You have heard that it was said, 'An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.' "But I say to you, do not resist him who is evil; but whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn to him and with your fists, trash his fucking face."
And this pic.....we all know and love:
http://tinyurl.com/c2lygw
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I pasted it in the address bar and uttered "Jesus Bale" even before the image came up. I needed it today.
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http://tinyurl.com/aau8mz
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Yep, that's him--the cool guy on Electric Company. Morgan Freeman, prophet of phonetics.
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and bear in mind that he was President of the US ten years before Obama was.
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http://tinyurl.com/chxnom
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...we're in the new Twitch now.
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Fuck...I'm in tears..
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I think I gotta wait on Zed to discuss last night's episode. Well anyway, it was a damn good one.
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But I of course checked out BOOB, and all I gotta say is...Are you fucking kidding me? Is that shit for real? Never before did I think I would witness a shot in a movie of a detached breast flying by a mother and her infant child. I have never wanted to actually go to SXSW before, but if stuff like that is gonna be playing there, I would totally be down.
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