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International Eye Candy: MERANTAU, INSIGNIFICANT THINGS, THE EAGLE PATH, I COME WITH THE RAIN And More!!!
International Eye Candy
May 12, 2009
Yes, this edition of the International Eye Candy arrives a couple days early thanks to the imminent arrival of Cannes and the very long time I am about to spend in a metal cylinder high above the ground. But that's not to say there isn't good stuff in here because there is, and lots of it! We've got Monica Bellucci! We've got a heaping pile of Indonesian whoop-ass! We've got ninjas and cowboys and Indians and horses! But before we get to the good stuff I present to you werewolves having sex. Yes, this movie really exists.
We start with the whoop-ass, this coming in the form of the first trailer for MERANTAU. Once upon a time Indonesia had a pretty proud tradition of martial arts films but that time is now long past, the last true action star to come from the nation being Barry Prima, and his career wrapped up about a quarter century ago. Well, make way for Iko Uwais because he's bringing Indonesian martial arts back. And when we say Indonesian we really mean Indonesian because Uwais is a master of a local martial art called silat and - to the best of my knowledge - this is the first ever film to ever feature the art front and center despite there being something like two hundred distinct varieties of silat practiced all around the world. Remember the last time a young man from south east Asia brought a largely ignored martial art to the screen? Yeah, this feels kind of like that.
Find the MERANTAU trailer here
From Indonesia we head to Spain, where Guillermo Del Toro has been wearing his producer's cap for INSIGNIFICANT THINGS. Revolving around a young girl who collects items lost by strangers there seems to be a bit of an AMELIE vibe to the story, though this one seems to play things a little bit more straight. One thing is certain, however: Guillermo's got great taste so if he's involved you know it's solid. The trailer certainly is.
Find the INSIGNIFICANT THINGS here
It was a hit at Tribeca and now absurd (mostly) Danish comedy ORIGINAL has finally got itself a proper theatrical trailer. This is the debut feature from a young duo who, when they're clicking, play kind of like a fusion of Spike Jonez and the Coen Brothers. This is, of course, ludicrously high praise, but hey – check it out for yourself. The pictures don't lie.
Be an ORIGINAL here
Enough with the subtitles and / or just plain not being able to understand what's being said for a moment! We head now to jolly old England where EVIL ALIENS director Jake West has just dropped the trailer for his new horror-comedy DOGHOUSE. SNATCH's Stephen Graham is in there along with DOCTOR WHO sidekick Noel Clarke and SEVERANCE's Danny Dyer and that's before we even get to the swarm of very angry, very violent, virally infected and zombified women who are intent on breaking up the boys' weekend away by breaking up the boys. If you've seen EVIL ALIENS you know what to expect here and, if not, come on … it's called EVIL ALIENS. Figure it out.
Find the DOGHOUSE trailer here
Trust me on this one: PANIQUE AU VILLAGE (aka A TOWN CALLED PANIC) is one of the single greatest creations in all of human history. It is absurd and juvenile and gut-bustingly funny. And it's making the leap from bizarre television series to equally bizaare feature film. Don't try to understand it, just watch and enjoy. And then ask me how happy I am I have to leave Cannes the day before this screens in the midnight program. Grr.
Find the PANIQUE trailer – and a complete scene - here
People, we need to give Spanish film maker Elio Quiroga some love. Working on an impossibly tight budget a couple years back Quiroga turned out a film titled LA HORA FRIA, or THE DARK HOUR. It was a claustrophobic little post-apocalyptic film that took a compelling character story and fused it to hard ass action-horror with some great scifi elements to become one of the most ambitious indie genre films I think I've ever come across. And it all worked, too, which made it even more impressive. And not much of anybody noticed and the film was left to die a quiet death.
Well, Quiroga is back now with his new film NO DO (The BECKONING), once again a film whose ambitions well outstrip its budget, though once again, Quiroga is more than up to the task. Part family drama, part government/religious conspiracy theory, part haunted house and possession film, NO DO throws a whole lot of elements into the pot and stirs them up into one very compelling whole. The Spanish release is coming in June and the first theatrical trailer has just arrived.
Turn the lights down and the volume up for the NO DO trailer here
I promised you Monica Bellucci and here she is, paired up with Sophie Marceau for French thriller NE TE RETOURNE PAS (DON'T LOOK BACK). Like PANIQUE up above, this one is slated to premiere as part of the midnight program in Cannes where it is already one of the most hotly anticipated titles. And how's this for a premise: not only are Bellucci and Marceau in the same film, it appears that they're actually in the same body – the two actresses playing the same character in the brain-melting psych-thriller.
Check out a pair of teasers – one dedicated to each actress – here
He's not nearly as nice to look at, I agree, but I did also promise you some new Van Damme and here it is. As anyone who has seen JCVD can tell you the Belgian action star is desperate to regain control of his life and career after a long sojourn in straight to video hell and a major part of his plan to do so is tied up with THE EAGLE PATH, the film Van Damme wrote and directed himself for his own company right after JCVD. Yes, this movie is at least one of the reasons that Van Damme opted not to be part of Stallone's EXPENDABLES. What's been labeled the first trailer has just released, though it honestly feels a bit more like a sales reel. Whatever you want to call it, though, it features a whole lot of Van Damme being Van Damme for Van Damme, which is all the Van Damme that fans could possibly ask for.
Travel THE EAGLE PATH here
Ninjas. You gotta love 'em though, sadly, there are very few ninja movies actually worth loving. But with a fistful of ninja movies in the works right now that will hopefully be changing and my guess is that the best of the lot will be Yoichi Sai's KAMUI. Adapted from the popular manga series KAMUI GAIDEN, this is one very healthy budgeted affair with a big time cast – DETROIT METAL CITY star Kenichi Matsuyama is in the lead – from one of Japan's finest directors and the first bits of footage to be shown are both a) absolutely gorgeous and b) absolutely ass kicking. This is a good combination.
Find a pair of KAMUI teasers here
Oh, now this has been a long time coming. Tran Ahn Hung's I COME WITH THE RAIN has been one of the most anticipated titles on the international circuit for about two years now. The globe hopping, very bloody psych-thriller is a huge departure for director – more given to quiet arthouse pictures – who is blessed here with a huge international cast of Josh Hartnett, Lee Byung-Hun, Shawn Yue, and Takuya Kimura and a rumored original score from Radiohead. Pictures of Lee, who you'll soon be seeing in GI JOE, doused in blood – apparently after having just violently killed someone – sent fans throughout Asia into a frenzy last year and the sales promo that leaked shortly afterwards said that frenzy was well deserved. This thing looks amazing. But there hasn't been any footage to show in public until now, with the arrival of the first Japanese teaser. Now, this has been cut to suit Japanese tastes, which means the tone is very different from the look of the earlier sales reel and what I expect the tone of the finished film to be but there are still plenty of stunning visuals to be had.
Find the I COME WITH THE RAIN teaser here
And, finally, we conclude in Sweden with a brand new clip from Tarik Saleh's Kafka-esque animation METROPIA. Vincent Gallo and Juliette Lewis provide the lead voices in this, a story of mind control and paranoia set in a massive underground city where commercial conglomerates are king. The visual style is disturbing close to photorealism and the extended promo they screened in Berlin back in February more than enough to convince me that this is a title to watch very closely indeed. We ran the trailer a little while back and that has now been joined by an extended scene from the film.
Enter METROPIA here
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The movie tried so hard to be a cult movie, that it wasn't even funny anymore. And West's Punpkinhead Sequel wasn't that hot either.
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having sex? I'm apalled.Where can I see it?
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Seriously. We need to get this written.
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And they're in each other's bodies? Sounds way too sexy.
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"I Come With Rain" is now on my hotly anticipated list (if true).
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Check the 1:23 minute mark of the trailer. Looks like someone got pissed she wasn't his +1.
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That's the creatively weird kinda shit (stop motion-ish movie about a cowboy, indian, and horse living together?) that's right up my alley. I mean, its got a giant, robot penguin for pete's sake.
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Parachuting cows. That's good enough for me.
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shouldve been dollhouse
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The Eagle Path looks formulaic. Bad acting, cheesy dialog, but if the fights are good, then it'll work. I Come With The Rain looks like a darker Red Dragon with a more varied location. Metropia looks freaky. Even if the story doesn't turn out to be good, the animation itself is reason enough to watch it. O've never seen anything like it. Kamui looks like an above average Japanese ninja flick, but these Japanese/Korean flicks never seem to have the kind of budgets that big Chinese martial arts movies have. I'd like to see what they can come up with if they had that kind of a budget. Don't Look Back has the 2 most beautiful French actresses ever in it (Audrey Tautou is more of a cute-beautiful than a sexy-beautiful), but unless at least one of then gets naked, I'm not interested. Both of them have done nude scenes before, so there's a chance of it happening. Scary ghosts movies make me scared and I don't like being scared so No Do is a pass for me. The trailer for A Town Called Panic didn't do it for me. Just not my type of comedy. But Doghouse looks like it is my kind of comedy. Insignificant Things doesn't catch my attention significantly enough. Original has a Burn After Reading vibe to it but in a funnier way. And Merantau looks like it's trying to be the Indonesian equivalent of Ong Bak. I'd like it more if it had a more original premise.
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Too bad I'm in class right now. I have been following a few of these titles for awhile, but there are a couple of interesting new ones as well.
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Even after showing off some breasts and nipples in pictures that surfaced today? WHAT A CROCK OF SHIT.
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coz shes good pussy and not spoiled wasted party pussy.
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At least I think so. Do you think Harold has actually ever seen Mighty Peking Man? I bet he has the one sheet at the least. NINJA ESKIMOS AND GIANT ROBOTS--can't wait.
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May 12, 2009 5:47:01 PM CDT
"Guillermo's got great taste so if he's involved you know it's s
by amy chasing
Not so much "solid". Perhaps... firmly crooked?
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this is boring yet its part of AICN.
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I agree with you guys on Frankenfish. It looks a little too good for my liking. Thats odd to say but it wasn't so bad its funny. It was just so so and the CG was better than some theatrical shit I've seen in the last year....
I don't think that guys is MoM.
MoM had a distinctive english as second language thing going on where he would fuck up his tenses. I haven't seen this guy do that. And I talked to him about a week ago and he was totally normal. MoM was never normal. -
He admitted as much to me in a debate we had going on in another TB. He attributed any misunderstandings we had between us to his own mishandling of the English language. I think he said he was Portuguese, or at least, that was his native language. Does that sound like MoM?
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http://www.screenjunkies.com/movienews/ode-lando-calrissian
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I dunno though....something tells me thats not him. I swear he was completely normal in a conversation we had. MoM couldn't be normal if he tried. Maybe he went to rehab.
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Because MNG continually called him out, and AsimovLives responded with saying something like , he (MNG) was always on his case, always after him, and he didn't do anything to him. I think he accused MNG of being xenophobic. I've seen AsimovLives speak normally at times and believably like a native speaker, and at others be completely aloof, mangling his english and his thoughts to the point where I thought he was drunk, not foreign.
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....MNG loves ganging up on people and playing AICN sheriff, if you've noticed. But yeah-- they went at it quite a bit. I never really got the MoM hate. He's a weirdo, but I found it quite entertaining. I think it really pissed others off that he can handle himself fine. And he never ran away from the attacks. He would sit there and take it from the entire TB for hours. Haha.
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its like a TB dedicated to stuff that isnt close to being movies, they are just pictures that move with weird language
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I fucking despise that shit. I should have been more clear, but I meant to illustrate how Transformers actually gets the characters from point A to point B more logically than Trek does. And even though I fucking despised them, I felt like there was actually more screen time and development to the lesser supporting cast in Trans. Its fucking ludicrous....I know.
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Was directed by Mark A.Z. Dippé who directed my favorite comic book movie Spawn. Looks like he just did the special effects for S. Darko. This guy is nasty with special effects he deserves more work, he worked on JP. I need to see Frankenfish
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Would you say you liked Transformers better then Star Trek?
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....because like I said the first 20 minutes were great. The first 20 minutes were better than anything in Transformers.
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Think outside the box.
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There is a documentary on the criterion second disc about the film being banned in Oklahoma because of some child pornography law?
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It makes my pants moist.
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But I wasn't impressed with the plot. I've forgotten, would this be an even numbered Trek film or an odd? The even ones usually seem to be better.
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The Evil Dead reference in the trailer is great. It does look more Evil Dead than typical zombie.
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Got to see that one!
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Anyone seen that and [REC]? I thought Quarantine was pretty good. That alien girl needed to be smacked a couple of times to shut her up, but other then that effective film.
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May 13, 2009 1:28:51 AM CDT
Kamui Good, Almost Tony Jaa Not So Good
by theenderreturnstosmiteoncemore
That trailer for Merantau, yeah it sucked.
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Seriously, one of THE worst flicks I've had the displeasure of sitting through.
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Dirty bastard. Looks like I may have to distract myself with some actual work. I don't like it. I don't like it at all.
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the directors commentary of pineapple express. you may get the feeling people are talking about you. that's just cause you are paranoid, SLACKER!
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it was pretty good.
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oh Sophieoh my!
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WTF?
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I think it's an odd numbered one since there was four TNG movies, right?
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MNG is a regulator. Mount up!MNG for Mod!
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Not hilarious, but I like mocking how stupid the show is at giving answers.
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Fucking IT monkey fuckhead drippy whores!
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who always thinks he's right. However, he has far less annoyed me than some of the other individuals on these boards (Jeff Albertson for one).
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May 13, 2009 6:53:12 AM CDT
Kamui...if that turns out to be an awesome ninja flick
by just pillow talk
Oh happy happy happy joy joy!Does Mike Dudikoff make an appearance? Is he even still alive? He should be in the Expendables.
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The New York Mess are in first place!Wa-hoo.Is the season over today? What...they have to play more games? Fuck.
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Does no one besides Jarv post in the morning? Where da fuck are ya Frankie?
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Fuck.
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When I feel like it!
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When is that being released? I wanna get my kick-ass Japanese school girl itch scratched.
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http://uploads.blip.tv/file/2107313
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You post now...dammit!
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Not my fault if you can't keep up, what with the old age and all.
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that now monitor internet usage my young padawan. You have much to learn....
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AsimovLives is, without a doubt, M-O-M. He all but admitted as much when I welcomed him back in a recent TRANSFORMERS TB. As for the two of us being "enemies", I wouldn't quite go that far. That's more of Lost Jarv's territory as he finds M-O-M to be utterly insufferable. But more often than not, I tend to agree.Here is a little AICN history. There used to be a Talkbacker by the name of BladeRunnerUnit. BRU was from Portugal (admittedly) and he used to post borish rants filled with all kinds of grammatical errors and other recognizable "tells". He was banned for his monotonous posts and for consistently attacking people's personal tastes.BRU eventually returned as Memories-Of-Murder. Several Talkbackers (who have been here a lot longer than I have) recognized the "tells" after he started attacking people in the exact same manner. And as we all know, M-O-M was eventually banned; I assume for this constant repetition and general assholery.And now we have AsimovLives - a Talkbacker from Portugal whose posts contain the same multitude of grammatical errors and hate-filled diatribes directed at the same specific targets (i.e. "Jay Jay Abrams" and "Bayformers"). Coincidence? Well, make of it what you wish. Just wait for the next TRANSFORMERS TBs and see what happens...Look, my problem with Asimov/M-O-M is not his passion for film. It's his tendency to attack and pass judgment on other Talkbackers for what they choose to like and enjoy. His pomposity is matched only by his amazing ability to flood the boards with repetitive garbage that eventually gets on everyone's nerves. Just look at the STAR TREK thread and you'll see what I mean.By the way, I have no idea how/why the "xenophobia" remarks started. It still doesn't make any sense since I've never attacked anyone's nationality. I can only assume that he got his responses mixed up with someone else taking him to task for his grasp of the English language.Anyway, there you go. Cheers.
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Quote: "when there is enough support, MNG loves ganging up on people and playing AICN sheriff..."Riiiggghhhttt. Like playing mythical sheriff would mean anything in this dump?! The only people I've ever "ganged up on" are zfisk/homewrecker, RowdyRoddyStriper (aka BraneRobot/AnimalStructure), and Coughlins Laws. And if you know anything about those guys, then you'll know why I'll gladly admit to that bit of business.
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I'm just a rider on the wastelands and a friend of the CoC.
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He has been all over the ST TB and a pattern has emerged. He seems to lurch suddenly between two types of reply. These are;1) Very lucid technical insights into the film's production.2) Insane accusations and obscene insults in a manner best described as 'moronic'Is there any chance he is a coked up movie producer? The amount of free time he would have would also explain his ability to maintain an around-the-clock presence on a board.Let me down gently if this was common knowledge already.
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..some Portuguese villagers have hacked his account and are taking the piss. If so I hope he doesn't notice.
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Amen!
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As MNG said above, he always tends to delve into #2. But he is quite harmless who happens to drive people crazy sometimes with his "superior tastes".
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He is just an arse
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i could just about quit watching American films entirely. watched QUARANTINE last week, quite enjoyable, if not perfect. just got back from STAR TREK - while i have a couple minor grievances with it, it's still better than about half of the previous films
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I thought it was better than Akira. The art style can be a little distracting, but it's a pretty thought provoking look at the ideas of technology and creation. Recommended to those who will patiently watch an anime and not immediately hate it for being anime.
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Just like the original? Or totally different story?
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Come this Friday only all true believers will witness the greatest site this Earth has bestowed onto them.
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Fucking EXTREME weather getting the way of Lost. WHO THE FUCK CARES! If anyone is really that worried about the god damn weather they aren't watching TV. Fucking fuck fuck fuck I hate this shit. Also how bad of a thunder storm going to effect someone living in a house? Someone should go blast this crap from a PA on the streets to warn the bums? Also why do they have to take up the whole fucking screen? OH WOW they just told me about a place where the rain is done?? REally fucking great because if I lived there I'd be very greatfull that they let me know that it stopped raining and I go outside and return to my work???? WHY THE FUCK DO THEY DO THIS!!!dsfkjl;sefa jfl; GOd this shit pisses me off, I'm going to storm the capital tomorrow.
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GREAT! So this effects people on the road...I guess 2002 car is obsolete because it doesn't have a TV? Because I'm sure airing shit on the television helps people already in the car driving around. I don't think you really understand how annoying this shit is, they fucking do it like for anything..... OH UH whats that Paul, well if you look here on the upper left on the HD Dopler screen you can see a clearing over in Buttfuck county so it looks like its done raining over there, and over there on the southeast quadrant of the HD Dopler screen next to Population 30 inbreeds County we got a slight little drizzle that may or may turn into full fledge rain sometime around 1AM tonight. Ok if you can zoom right into my asshole you can see the exact spot of where my life as a fucking faggoty faggot weatherman is the must useless soul sucking crap face of the planet of a life. I really wish I saw this guy on the street I would fucking throw a milkshake made out of my shit on him, everyday if I could.
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Does anyone know if the first episode of Lost tonight was just some recap thing? Or was it an actual new episode.
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Hey I guess since Crank 2 bombed Harry and Co gave up and trying to pimp these guys stuff. Anyways here is the trailer for the movie Gamer looks pretty cool. Though there was a review on here a while back saying it was not that good. http://tinyurl.com/oop58q
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It has already nearly doubled its budget. And it will do well on DVD. Lets see if Star Trek gets to 300 million.
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Thenk Crank 1 which in Hollywood land is a bomb.
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Crank 2 to be some sort of breakaway hit, I mean Adventureland and Fired Up! did better then Crank 2. Shit crappy Pink Panther 2 made the money Crank 2 was suppose to make.
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Crank 2 was hilarious. Watching it with friends and laughing uproariously at all the chaos is the way to do it. The scene where he "powers up" with the taser was amazing.
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There are the Fanboy banner ads....can you fucking believe Harvey is releasing Outlander and Fanboys on DVD on the same day?
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I was just saying, that since it BOMBed are AICN not going to give any coverage to Gamer which is made by the same directors and looks pretty cool.
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But I imagine it's pretty faithful. Personally, I think Osama Tezuka is a little overrated. Like Astro Boy is fun, but it's nothing special. Miyazaki is much better.
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Its like "Yeah, I GET IT. I UNDERSTAND we have a fucking storm outside. I HAVE WINDOWS. Just put up the damn warning on the bottom of the screen and LET ME WATCH MY TV." I don't need an hour of the same shit repeated over and over again so arrogant weathermen can feel all self-important about their jobs as they recycle the same meteorological vocabulary terms every few minutes.
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....it easily looks like it cost twice as much as it actually did. Its so fucking cheap its pretty much impossible not to to turn a profit. I guarantee there will be a third. I just pray they amp up the tits this time.
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A ripoff of The Running Man for people who liked the ultra shitty Death Race remake.
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Ohhh man Fu you need to rent that today. Its like the only silent film I could ever rocemend to anyone. Not saying that silent films suck, it just that come on you just can't tell people to watch them like they are the newest DVD release but Metropolis is fucking amazing. No wonder Hitler like Fritz so much. Also M is another amazing film. I really want to see that print of Metropolis Knowles showed at Butt Numb A thon this year with the Queen soundtrack.
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I need to see Crank 2. I will I will, $1 theater.
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Anyone else got some chimes to put in?
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Are up over on Mavra. Check'em out.
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new twitch.
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is an insufferable cock of the highest order. When I used to read stuff other than Twitch here, I'd always see his fucking horrible pretentious drivel polluting every board. After a whie my patience snapped with him (I think it was over AvP) and instead of him just taking a slap or calling me a cunt or some other such acceptable thing he posted a trollish tome of colossal size explaining in broken english why I was stupid. He's like nodiggity without the analytical ability
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I watched nothing. Because I got drunk.
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While this appeals to me in general, the presence of Danny Dyer almost guarantees suckage of the highest magnitude
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it's weird, because although it's about mutant fish eating people, it isn't a good schlock film. It's also not a good film in general. I watched it again the other day, and I have to say the effects are actually good. Far too good for this type of film. It's disconcerting, because you've just listened to some tit give a monologue about how he'd genetically engineered giant mutant chinese fish to hunt (which is a schlock premise if ever I've heard one), and then you see the fucker, and it's actually effective. It's bizarre. But there are gratuitous boobies in it, and that sort of thing always goes down well.
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Will Bell get the nod?
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thank fuck.
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If I was an England selector, I'd pay an unchanged side- it's going to rain for 2-3 days.
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Yeah, the weather looks shite.
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did you see the interview where the little cock said he was only dropped because it was "his turn"? Nothing at all to do with playing like a complete cunt for 2 years and being reprieved by a big score on a flat track then? You little prick.
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harry likes Angels and Demons. What's wrong with him?
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did you know they've got a fucking 8 year old reviewing comics?I tried to read one of his pieces of gibberish just now and gave up because it made me want to throw my PC out of the window. For fuck's sake- why give a fucking child a column and treat it as if it has the same value as a fucking adults. It's this kind of shit that makes me think comics really are kind of worthless. I know they aren't but really.....
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May 14, 2009 4:35:39 AM CDT
An 8 year old's review of anything is...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
as interesting to me as two dicks on a donkey.
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wow. Freaky. I'd look at that. It's as intersting as beige.
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They breed them odd on this rock.
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everyone likes looking at freaky shit. LIke you convicts and your strange, far too close, relationship with certain marsupials.
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May 14, 2009 4:50:30 AM CDT
Nothing wrong with a bit of marsupial love
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Especially when it's mutual.
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Oh dear. It's overcast and they're poo. Should have bowled.
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dirty bastards.
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an Australian writing is, to quote Boswell "like a dog walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.",
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An Pom playing sport is, to quote Jack Warden, "like a monkey fucking a football".
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I hope we win. Who's Jack Warden?
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It's not as if it needs any help/ support and it isn't as if there's been any interest on this site in it.
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Wiki link - http://tinyurl.com/qqwpu5 That quote is a moment of genius from an otherwise mindnumbingly awful flick called The Replacements with Keanu.
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that is one truly atrocious effort. Even by Keanu Reeves Dismally low standards
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I watched Q: The Winged Serpent the other night. What a fucking bizarre film that is.
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Good bizarre? Is it Schlock Vault worthy?
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so it should be a candidate, but it's just too high quality- even if the stop-motion monster is terrible. It's an intelligent film that actually asks a lot of questions about modern life- the guy that finds the nest makes NYC pay him $1million dollars for example.
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that's a good start. Cook could badly do with a century before you unwashed theives arrive.
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easy fucking game.
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Mets blow it in extra innings. Get the lead man on with a double...and ta-da! he's stranded at third. You can't even put the ball in play Beltran? Fuck!
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is it going to be another long summer for you?
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They are tied for first now I think.I think the only way the season will end yet again will be in sorrow and misery. AAAAARRRRGGGGGHHHH!
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with Sandra Bullock. Wow, I had forgotten how bad that movie was. I mean really, really bad. You would think Sandra would have learned that when trying to escape, don't turn around to see where your pursuer is. Every single fucking time they SEE YOU when you turn around.
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oh dear, that's going to make the inevitable disappointment all the more crushing. Any good drugs scandals?
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Fetid bag of wank.
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I remember being gutted when I saw that film. Do they reveal the creature at the end? I can't recall - I probably blacked it out.I DO remember that for most of it they just showed its big fuck-off shadow falling on skyscrapers. That and something about a huge egg.
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Gayle gets Strauss out! Controversial!
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yes- it starts to appear about half way through, they gun it down. The flying effect is clever, as the monster itself is terrible, so it builds up tension quite nicely.
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of all the people to get out to. I was thinking about this, but England currently has 2 Test Class spinners, 1 very promising up and coming sprinter and bugger all in the way of seam bowling. I can't think of when this has ever happened.
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fuck's sake. Meant Spinner.
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May 14, 2009 7:34:37 AM CDT
And Australia has fuck all in the way of spinners
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Because no fucker bothered learning the trade due to Warnie and MacGill tying up the spot for almost 20 years. We desperately need a spinner of quality.
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wasn't a bad line up. It's fucking laughable that your best option is that useless old cunt McGain or King of the pie chuckers Kresja
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We will be settling for the part time trundlers like Clarke and Symonds (who I fully expect to play) in the Ashes.
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I hope Symonds does play. Too old, Too fat and too nuts. I wonder if England can force an Aussie style mental disintegration on him the turncoat motherfucker.
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but this is the worst Aussie side in a hell of a long time- at least 20 years. I should be feeling optimistic but I don't.
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Late season collapses are more than enough. No need to add a side order of positive testing.
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Pot says to kettle "You're black" I'd take Symonds over any of your players, except for Pietersen who is, wait for it, a "turncoat motherfucker"!
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The whole time I couldn't help but think I was watching a DTV effort. The sets and costumes were ok, but something about it just screamed "This goddamn thing never played in a movie theater!" Movie was mediocre with Rhona Mitra putting in the worst performance of her "career".Fanboys ads. Figures.Why does the top TB have Korean in the title?So all five fish in the tank I setup for my daughter on Saturday were dead by yesterday. That may be a new record for me.
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But KP's entirely different. And don't lie- you'd take Swann over him.
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I wouldn't pick symonds for any english player. We've got proper spinners, two of whom can bat so I don't know where I'd put him. And I think he's an asshead.
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Flash in the pan motherfucker. His career will be ruined once Ricky and the boys lay into him.
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good effort. Rhona Mitra is a terrible actress but quite fuckable. Fake boobies and all.
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That fat fucks career is dead.
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and he's not a flash in the pan. He looked like he was when first capped a few years ago, but he got dropped and has had to work on his game. A much improved player. I bet we make Ricky cry again. That's always funny.
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Pietersen included, that can completely destroy the opposition and change a match like Symonds on his day. Sure, Symonds is a dick and who knows what he's like anymore as a player. Okay, I'll amend my earlier comment to be "I fully expect Symonds to be in the Ashes squad". They'll 1) see how he goes in the 2020. 2) Give him a run in a couple of warm up matches.
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Fat fuck or not.
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That's what I get for not going with the cockroach of fish.
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When did that happen, pray tell?
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May 14, 2009 8:13:04 AM CDT
The only thing Flintoff will be terrorising...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
is the tuck shop.
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Which was 2 years ago. He's a fat old alky nowadays. Kind of like a loopy Flintoff, who at least isn't nuts. And we do have someone that can run through a line-up: Jimmy Anderson. Except he only does it once every 10 innings and is just mediocre the rest of the timeBatting wise, though, you're quite right, we don't have anyone as destructive as Vaughan, FLintoff and KP were in 2005.
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Waaaaaah! I took a suicidal run and got out. Waaaaaah! you were cheating.Pathetic.
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Required Watching: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0910904/
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I have to watch that. I wonder if Lovefilm have got it.
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Can't get imdb at work. Does whatever it is have a wiki?
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they do! A cricket team are dismissed by a mustachioed seriel killer with a razor sharp cricket glove and an arsenal of sharpened stumps. One by one the killer exacts revenge for the torment he endured 20 years earlier. Cricket will never be the same again.
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Did he really cry or are you exaggerating?
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Cricket!!!! This may be the single greatest thing ever.
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he thought England were cheating by removing Jones for a substitute fielder. Which was silly, because Jones was our best bowler and one of the best fielders.
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I'll look for it when i get home.
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not released on DVD until 29th June. Life will have no meaning until then.
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How good is that? In an Ashes year as well.
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That's good.
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Leave it to us to make something that brilliant.
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Proof that even the sun shines on a dogs arse on some days. Or a blind squirrel occasionally finds a nut.
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it may make me rethink Australia's contribution to the world as not being totally worthless.Of course, it could suck arse.
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http://www.aintitcool.com/node/38214
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I was away for Frightfest or I'd have seen that. How annoying.
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he does look like the answer to our number 3 problem. And he's got the massive advantage of not being Ian Bell.
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What's up?Not much to report. Since the Transporter-a-thon, all I've seen is Spirited Away, which I liked very much. That's the first Japanese animation I've ever enjoyed, so I'll have to get my hands on some more of those Miyazaki films.Currently stuck on 158.I'll be back after I've I've finished reading Jartv's Leprechaun review.
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hehehehe Oh, you Poms. How i do love when you get your hopes up, then thoroughly dashed. It amuses me greatly. hehehehe
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Having seen number 3 fail to score for over 2 years it's nice to see the newest person score 193 and counting in 2 innings. Anyway, I'm not the one hoping fat alky lunatic Symonds finds form (that he hasn't had for ages).
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May 14, 2009 9:22:01 AM CDT
I never said I was hoping, you bastard
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I said I expect him to be in the squad. I'm not sure if I want him there or not yet. I'd have to see him in the 2020.
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He hasn't "had for for ages" because he hasn't played fucking cricket for ages.
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that is
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shape to be in the squad that's why. And by ages I mean since 2007. He's a fat loony clown.
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Nice work, Jarv.That definitely makes me want to watch all of the Leprechauns again. I might even invest in that new box set. It would be worth it just for parts 3 and 4, which are my favourites.
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It's not as epic as the Rocky ramblings, but it came out okay, I think.I'm thinking I might tackle Die Hard next, or possibly Robocop. Epic reviews are fun.
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The box set is only £12 on Amazon, and it has the massive advantage of not having Back 2 da Hood in it.
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a good "athon" should have at least 4 movies, and Robocop 2 and 3 are poo. Someone should do all 6 Star Wars, but that would mean actually having to watch the prequels.
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But I came to the conclusion it would just be half me saying the original Star Wars films are good for the billionth time, and half me saying the prequels are shit for the billionth time.If I can come up with an angle that would make it interesting, I might give it a go. Otherwise, Star Wars is a subject that's been done to death.
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I'll probably review that series next. Already got the box set, so no outlay, which is a plus.I'm also trying to find a way of kicking the shit out of The Matrix sequels, but that feels overdone, too.
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see Indy. Or a batathon- everyone argues over which one is the best and there is now 6 of them. Mind you, you hate 4 of them don't you?
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May 14, 2009 10:18:27 AM CDT
I was considering these themed reviews
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
or a series of reviews like the schlock vault the films of schwarzenneger the films of harlin the films of Dolph the films of Kurt the films of Verhoeven Giant and/or killer monkey/ape flicks or killer insect/animal flicks there's plenty of themed stuff that'd be cool. I like the killer insect/animal one because theres loads of them like Cujo, Mans Best Friend, Eight Legged Freaks, Swarm, The Birds, Alligator... and that's ignoring the 50's stuff.
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To be honest, I don't hate any of those films. I genuinely like Burton's films, Schumachers are utter shit but I kind of enjoy them as goofy cartoon nonsense, and I'm all turned around on Nolan's versions. Begins is just okay, but I've gotton to like TDK quite a bit.
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You have to do this, droid. You owe it to the CoC.The master's work should be praised!
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because you'd have to sit through Land and Diary again. And Diary is appaling.
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Huzzah. Bring on the criminals.
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Me and Droid didn't.
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Way to shill your box set, makers of the Leprechaun box set. I am disappointed there is now mention of Coolio, though."Hey' it's Coolio!"
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All this extra time on my hands, and I still get typos.
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May 14, 2009 10:39:47 AM CDT
Mate, if you dimwits score at 2.7 runs an over...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
against us you will not be 1-201. And if you attempt that it will be just like this fucking test is looking. Boring as batshit.
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I give them kudos for not putting Back 2 Da Hood in it, though
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It's a marathon not a spring. They'l finish the day on about 280 for 1. Fucking cheeky aussie bastard- calling us intellectually superior people "dimwits". Turdmen= Watchmen.
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It's a marathon not a sprint. They'l finish the day on about 280 for 1. Fucking cheeky aussie bastard- calling us intellectually superior people "dimwits". Turdmen= Watchmen.
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May 14, 2009 10:42:26 AM CDT
the films of Renny would be loads of fun
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Most of his flicks never get old
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Saw it and it pretty much passed me by. Didn't hate it, but didn't really care about anything that happened. I've already forgotten almost everything about it, to be honest. I liked a couple of the Dr Manhatten scenes, but that's it.It was what I expected, though - fine for people who take comics seriously, boring for everyone else.
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Have a good weekend, all.
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May 14, 2009 10:51:16 AM CDT
Did Frankie just post something?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
All I saw was "Re" Then an empty box. ;)
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Go get high and watch Fear and Loathing! Do it!
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I just wondered what he thought of that-which-shall-not-be-named, because he wasn't around at the time.
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Going to the pub to watch the cricket. Cook is so fucking slow, it's painful.
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Ciao.
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Thank Christ. I'm not staying till 8 like i did last night. Might record some of the cricket in case I can't sleep tonight. The Poms = Cure for Insomnia Adios
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Harry likes Angels and Demons? So what? You haven't seen it yet, have you?
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Maybe I should move to England. I'm positive I can be quite bitter. Positive.
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I would think this would be an obvious choice.
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If you are going to do the killer insect type movie, I would think your focus should be in the 50's. Of course, you can spend weeks watching that shit.
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I thought you meant the original anime by Tezuka. Fritz Lang's Metropolis, I have seen, and pretty much had the same reaction as you. It's a great movie. And yes, M is ana amazing movie. There are a lot less horror movies that creeped me out like M did.
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That's what I mean by avoiding the 50's. Waaaay too many of them to choose from. And they're all kind of exploitation d-grade, so I thought it would be better to focus on the ones that half attempted to be good. And this way I could include flicks like Congo, Monkey Shines, Anaconda, Arachnaphobia, The Fly, Ghost and the Darkness, Lake Placid, Piranha, The Nest and heaps more. Not to mention the ones above. The list is endless!
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I like Ewan McGregor and I love Rome. I hope its a good, solid thriller.
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Jesus tittyfucking christ.
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That's a MUCH older quote than the one used in "The Replacements".
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But it's where I first heard it. At least where I remember it from because it was delivered perfectly.
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That IMDB reports Spielberg is supposedly secretly planning for with Drew Barrymore. Seriously. Even as a rumor, I'm shocked AICN wouldn't run it. Prob bc the morons in charge don't really read any other movie sites anymore. Sigh.
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I miss the days of channel twenty showing shitty movies during the weekend.
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Don't forget ANTS!
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Jesus tittyfucking christ Fuck Spielberg and fuck Barrymore. Seriously, does ANYONE want an ET sequel? I think the original is bloody great, but c'mon!
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Remaking Cliffhanger. Piece of shit producer.
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Days of Thunder? Some kid said it to me in a "Sling Blade" voice back in film school, summer of 1999.
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Is that Empire of the Ants? Also Bats! But I think Jarv is doing.
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May 14, 2009 12:31:25 PM CDT
Supposedly, this IMDB source says Spiels has an incredible idea
by d.vader
... to bring E.T. back 27 years later. Who knows?
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May 14, 2009 12:32:21 PM CDT
Wait, I do remember it from Days of Thunder
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Randy Quaid said it. I do love that saying.
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As a kid strolling through the aisles of Blockbuster Video... I thought it showed a nude woman in a shower (extreme closeup of her belly or back) and she's covered in Ants. It kinda freaked me out, especially after I read a scary story about a kid that continually burned ants with his magnifying glass, and each night he'd wake up with ants in his bed, until finally, the last night, he is totally covered in them and is possibly bitten/stung to death. I also seem to remember a creepy freaking movie about worms. Maybe it was titled... "Worms". They had weird, slimy, electric powers or something and moved in teeming masses of sliminess. Maybe they were muddy flatworms.
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http://www.screamstress.com/wp-content/13vcants.jpg Man that takes me back to my childhood!
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http://www.screamstress.com/13-best-horror-vhs-covers-13/ Best bad horror VHS covers.
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May 14, 2009 12:41:56 PM CDT
I think theres one called Slugs
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
or something like that. I've never seen it.
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Check it out http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075261/ The worms are brought to the surface with electricity! Yeeeesh. I remember seeing this creepy movie on my mom's tiny black and white tv in her bedroom when I was like, 7 years old. Man, this day is turning out to be strangely nostalgic.
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May 14, 2009 12:48:02 PM CDT
Ok, so your killer insect-athon should include ANTS & Squirm
by d.vader
Its settled.
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May 14, 2009 12:49:25 PM CDT
It would seriously be an ongoing series of reviews
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Because theres so many of them
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Enjoy, folks. Thanks, Franklin!
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Hands off 'Phase IV'!I'm doing that one at some point. It's on the back-burner...
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I didn't mind Danny Dyer in 'Severance' but it looks like he's playing the exact same character here. Maybe he doesn't play characters, just himself.Never seen 'Evil Aliens.' I recall seeing a trailer ages ago and the movie looked like re-heated shite.
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I'm doing a drive-by posting (the kids have some school programs tonight). How goes the webcam set up?
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The webcam set up is, I believe, functional.
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Other than today, when would be a good time for you to give it a test run?
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I dunno. There's no telling when I'm gonna be on, off, in between, before or after. It's pot luck!
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I'll check back in here tomorrow and see if you are available. If not, then the same scenario the next day or the day after. It doesn't have to be any sort of set schedule. Play it by ear?
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Sorry for the quickie. :) I'll see you later!
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a play it by ear kinda bloke. I'm out tomorrow and will be back late. Saturday I might be going to see Synecdoche New York, so that might be another late one. Sunday... who knows. I don't!
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Nice chatting to you...Oh, wait, just remembered - Sunday is Angels And Demons. 'nother late one.
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Looks suitably creepy, if not especially groundbreaking in the scare department. I'm always up for a decent supernatural/ horror-ish chiller.
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Looks like it completely misrepresents what the actual flick will be like. Still, looks great.
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Seriously, that genre is so huge, all of us could write a couple of reviews for it, and it could run for weeks on end. Big bugs? that's a bit of a shorter list
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That directors first movie, the Aussie western not a huge fan of it. Felt the whole thing was just kind of boring.
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It was ok, Milk was better. Also in the end does anyone think that he just dies? Or just probably get another heart attack. Parts of the movie just felt cut off WAY too short, including that last shot they needed to fade out with the chanting not just cut it real quick so get to that lame Bruce song. I really don't get the big deal about the music for the whole film. WOWY lets give a extra special thanks to Axel for letting us use a song that he's made more then jesus on for free, HORRAY FOR HIM for not being a huge dick. And that Bruce song, give me a break it was ok nothing great same shit he always does? I guess like most American Heroes he gets a pass on creativity? You ever seen a dead man walking on the streets of Philadelphia?...cream cheese. Mickey was good, but Marissa was just not fleshed out enough to really give a shit about. Also that scene with them in bar was terrible, so lame. There was a lot of good, but at the end of the movie I was like why should I really give a fuck about these people? They do it to themselves, it wasn't like Requiem where it was the drugs bringing them down it was their own mistakes and the Ram's inability to own up to them. So at the end he just says fuck it. That scenes with him in grocery store were classic though, Todd Berry needs some more work.
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And there you go including a potential spoiler in teh first sentence!
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Sorry. There really isn't much to spoil in the movie. The ending is left up to your interpretation. I still say see it. You'll understand then. I mean its not like I told you that D.Vader was his father or anything.
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I liked it a lot. It had this simplistic feel reminiscent of Hemingway. I don't see the point in making a movie of it, but Viggo's pretty much perfect for the role. I just hope people don't get disappointed because they are expecting something with a bit more action thanks to the trailer.
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I reserve the right to judge this in advance because I've seen the Davinci code and read both books. Everything with the name Dan Brown on it is dreadful hackery. To be absolutely fair, the Davinci code was actually warmed over A&D, but as they filmed that load of shit first it'll appear to be the other way round. Add that to the fact that I don't like Ron Howard, and if Harry likes something, then chances are it's shit and there you have it.
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not a huge fan. It was OK.
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when Harry waffles on about how much he liked it then adds something like "A lot of the film is gobbledeguk" then I know I'm going to hate it.
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now I look at it, they've done exactly the same thing with this that they did with Twilight. Harry likes it, but knows it's a bag of shit that isn't for this site, so gets Massa (who I think is a knuckle dragging illiterate), to give the actual review that he should have done. I'm sure it's servicable, everything Howard does is, but it will also be the film equivalent of airport fiction.
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BUT that forshadowed event later in the book that happened at CERN in the beginning was so colossally fucking stupid that it ruins a decent pulp adventure. Plus Hanky boy cut his mullet for this so obviously A&D will suck balls.The Road is a bit overhyped among the fan boys because out of all his works it's the most accessible. McCarthy has written much better, like Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses hell the entire Border trilogy for that matter. I'm going to laugh when everybody gets suckered by the trailers and thinks this is another high adventure flick like Will Smith's I Am Legend. hehehehe
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where the fuck is that work shy convict?
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I'm here. I'd tell you I'm actually working but that concept is lost on you.
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Brilliant book. Love Cormac, but am trying to read Suttree at the moment. Fuck it's hard work. The book of his I've enjoyed reading the most is All The Pretty Horses. But the 'best' book of his i've read is either Blood Meridian or The Road. I really hope Billy Bob Thornton convinces the bloke who originally composed the music for ATPH to let him use it for the directors cut. He won't do one otherwise and apparently it's a much much better flick.
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My only interest in it is a morbid curiosity that lies somewhere in the darkness of my soul.
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"It’s one of two things - years of toil on a children’s book (Stabby The Monkey) only to have it rejected by every publisher in the world, or possibly a homosexual relationship with Colonel Troutman that ended badly– but unless someone does a comic or a computer game or an animated film to fill in the blanks, we will never know how that bug crawled so far up our hero’s ass." That is mint.
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May 15, 2009 3:48:15 AM CDT
I'm about to print it out and read it on my smoko.
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
He is very good at these epic reviews.
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an aussie actually working? Bullshit. Methinks you're lying and you're confused by the label on a bar of soap again.
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May 15, 2009 3:51:24 AM CDT
I've decided to run with my idea of...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Killer animal/insect reviews. There are loads of them, and quite a few I've never seen. I'm considering doing an epic Anaconda review to kick things off since theres 4 of them.
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May 15, 2009 3:56:51 AM CDT
"and you're confused by the label on a bar of soap again"
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
What? That's a pretty shoddy attempt at getting an aussie/soap joke, mate. But don't worry about it, British comedy's been shithouse for 20 years according to Cleese.
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You "bankers" working caused the collapse of western civilisation, so perhaps you should be slacking more.
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More importantly, there's 4 Anaconda films? How did I not know this. I think Frank should to Tremors for his next "athon" because there's four of them and they're all magic.
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And in a couple of weeks I'll be able to return to my usual half-assery.
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I haven't seen them. Actually, I haven't seen 2 either. If they're as craptastic as the first one I'll be as happy as a pig in shit.
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May 15, 2009 4:08:43 AM CDT
I wouldn't say British comedy has been shithouse
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I would say Cleese has been shithouse for 20 years. Never seen Peep Show.
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Which is good by definition. Peep Show is hilarious. A bit cruel, but damned funny nonetheless.
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you meant Anaconda. Sorry, I'm half writing Frankenfish up and not really paying attention
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Wondering why snakes would have assblasters.
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I watched it. It was pants.
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I watched it. It was pants. Fun, but pants. And J-Lo wasn't in it which is always a bonus.
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May 15, 2009 4:41:17 AM CDT
The first one is classic dumbhouse
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Especially Voight with his accent and the wink.
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May 15, 2009 4:52:44 AM CDT
I've found a reason to see The Sorcerer's Apprentice
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Well, two reasons... To experience Nic Cage's latest roadkill hairpiece, and... Monica Belluci's been cast in it. Unfortunately it's some sort of Disney flick so no tits.
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May 15, 2009 4:55:32 AM CDT
The Stath's new flick sounds alright
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
"The Killer Elite" - Based on real events, story follows a group of former British special forces members who are being hunted by assassins. Statham will play a former Navy Seal who is forced out of retirement to save his closest friend. Stath needs to make something of quality ASAP.
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And to read Frankies Rambo review
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as is when the big snake pukes him up
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I've found a great place to nick photos from that isn't caught by my work server.
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Goddamn the weather on this rock sucks.
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I was quite happy to run across this, and I completely forgot Josh Brolin is in it, as well as Matheus. And perhaps I'm being swayed by Jonah's and Danny boy's review, but I think the Relic is better. I do like Charles Dutton in this, and the insects are okay, but no way in hell should that dude have lived when he torched them all.
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And fuck, but it seems we're back to multiple days of rain in a row again. Fuck!And the AC is blowing like fucking crazy in my office, freezing my ass off.
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I've no interest in this, they'll just bat forever as the windies don't look like they know how to get England out.
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phew.
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On Rambo 2: "This guy may have reservations about killing white American police officers, but if you look remotely Asian and are not a pretty young woman, he will kill you where you stand."
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Mimic must be added to my killer animal/insect review series. I haven't seen it for about 10 years, but I liked it a lot.
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This sceptered isle, this throne of kings, this other eden a rock? I'll have you know it's a green and pleasant land.Bugger off back to your desert prison then.
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As soon as I get that passport in my hot little hand. I've had "no recourse to public funds" for too fucking long. And it's a fucking rock, mate. A cold, wet, grey depressing cunt of a rock.
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Have you been to Australia?
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I've been all over the place, but never to Australia. Strange really, but I suppose that I've never committed a crime would explain it.
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toothless ignoramus with a tendency to create sports your crap at isn't a crime as far as I know.
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this is like kicking a cripple. For a start, toothless? Is that really the best you can do? Using it twice in a morning? Ignoramus is an Australian thing, not ours. Can't argue about the fact that we invented everything and basically suck at everything we invented though. That's a statement of the obvious. I will laugh if we somehow manage to win, you lot seem to be overconfident again though.
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It gets a rise out of the Poms, the same way you guys think repeatedly calling us convicts gets a rise out of us (but we don't care). So, toothless hits a nerve, since you haven't responded with a jibe, but a deconstruction of my insults. Always a good sign. "Ignoramus is an Australian thing, not ours." That's just ordinary. You're better than that. We are overconfident before every Ashes. It's just that it came back to bite us once. I am growing increasingly amused by you Poms getting your hopes up because you're thrashing a pathetic Windies side on slow, flat, dead pitches. It tickles me.
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May 15, 2009 7:16:39 AM CDT
It's going to be a long 6 weeks until the Ashes...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
...if we keep at each other like this. hehehe Lucky I can block out a couple of them for my holiday.
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May 15, 2009 7:22:08 AM CDT
I've never really noticed that AsimovLives bloke before
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
But I just read a couple of his posts in The Road TB. He is amusing in an insane way, especially his posts attempting to rip into "MrBeaks".
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This is exactly what I meant about you being ignorant. Sigh, This windies thing is too early, we're already recycling shite that we've used. I know you'll get a lot of material from that 20/20 thing coming, which is going to be fucking misreable for me.Toothless doesn't really work on me, because I've noticed that most of our peasants are ugly fat cretins with bad teeth. Much like most Aussie peasants and yank peasants are as well. It was more surprise that you were reusing it so fast. Deconstruction does work as a patronising insult, but I should probably have saved it for the inevitable roasting I'm going to get over the limited overs fiasco.
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May 15, 2009 7:53:12 AM CDT
Lords wasn't exactly hard and bouncy, mate
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
English pitches are notoriously dead wickets. Which can make for lifeless tests. Toothless works. It's a known fact that it riles you Poms no end. Therefore there's validity in re-using it. When does the 2020 start?
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Absolute bullshit. CAribbean/ Subcontinent pitches are notoriously dead. England in early summer is notoriously fast and seamy. You do talk some utter bollocks. What is this 20/20 you talk about?
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also why we get a lot of draws- the weather. If it's overcast then the ball is going to fucking swing like a boomerang, but it could well piss it down and the light will be shit.
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They are fucking lifeless, sleep inducing shitfests.
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May 15, 2009 8:08:03 AM CDT
Have you seen Zombie Strippers?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
It has Jenna Jameson in it. Is it worth checking out?
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because they're almost all result pitches- as opposed to that riveting certain draw if Warne isn't playing pitch Adelaide- snooze inducing flat, dead dustbowl. Only Lords is a flat pitch here- and if it's overcast and a fast bowler can work the slope will still fuck up batsmen. Headingly especially is lethal.
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the first 30 mins are crap, but then it's awesome. Robert Englund is especially amusing.
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May 15, 2009 8:18:55 AM CDT
"if Warne isn't playing pitch Adelaide"
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Yes, especially if you sackless cock gobblers make your feeble attempt to play for the draw on day 5. That was a particularly hilariously inept performance amongst a smorgasbord of hilariously inept performances.
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South Africa beat England 2-1 with an amazing performance to hold out for a draw at.... Lords. England beat Australia 2-1 with an amazing performance from Ponting to hold out for a draw (and a crap last over from Harmless) and a rain affected match at The Oval (which I forgot, admittedly) because some dipshit scheduled it in September.
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Three most common words in the English sporting lexicon "England's. Batting. Collapse".
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Rain affected, yes, but also a pretty bloody good 2nd innings stint from that saffa cunt pietersen was especially annoying.
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our worst for a good few years was that fiasco on that obvious draw pitch in Jamaica a few months ago- all out 51. Luckily a good few of those fuckheads have been dropped.
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hehehehehe. That was a bit harsh seeing as it looked like Warne v England for most of that summer.
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May 15, 2009 8:32:10 AM CDT
Yeah, that was pretty embarrasing
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Rightly so they got dropped. Speaking of Pietersen, his forms been a bit shit of late. Or have I missed a big innings?
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He's just been such a one man band because he's been surrounded by complete cunts- now others are scoring he's not looking as good. That ball he got at Lords was unplayable though.
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Bopara and Cook are only 24, and both score heavily- Stauss is in the form of his life and KP (although a dick) is world class. On the bowling side, Broad and Jimmy get better with every game, Swann and Monty competing for one slot is great. Pity about Prior (crap one dimensional cunt of a keeper that can't catch), Colingwood (Scoring a lot but at the end now, and he's always been scratchy- even if he does have a lot of heart) and the other 2 seamers- Flintoff will never be as good as he was, Hoggy's past it, Jones permanently injured, Bresnan- who knows?, Onions looks like the classic "only take wickets when it swings" English bowler and we've already got jimmy for that, Khan not up to it, Mamood and Plunkett are fucking fast but inaccurate. We need some kids to come through in the bowling
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Openers too slow though. Batting sucks beyond that. Collingwood can occasionally pull out a gritty knock, but those are few and far between. You have a couple of very handy bowlers in the right conditions, otherwise they're shite. Freddie's a fat cunt that has lost whatever ability he had. Monty sucks, but that new bloke seems okay (from 1 test).
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That's the problem with them as a pair. There's a couple of kids that open and score faster, who should come through in the next few years. Ideally, KP should still be captain and Strauss and Cook should be competing for 1 place. Monty got dramatically worse under that cunt Moores (worst appointment ever), but under Mushtaq is improving again. Swann is a good player. Onions will suffer when it doesn't swing. I give them a 5 out of 10- if Foster comes through to replace concrete gloved Saffer twat prior then that will be start. Collingwood scored heavily in the last year (I was surprised too), but he's still at the end.
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Katich is shit. Always has been, always will be- not to mention that he's fucking old and not an opener anyway. Hughes is raw and untested but potentially great. Ponting is obviously still world class, but what the fuck happened to Hussey? Haddin is mince. Most of your bowling aside from Johnson (who is fast, nasty, accurate and can move it) is decidedly mediocre with your spin department being complete garbage. The worst Aussie side in absolutely yonks but as we're rebuilding, you've still got plenty in the tank to win it in style. 2-1 Aussies with a heroic draw somewhere and a rain off somewhere else.
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best bowler on both sides, and probably only bowler on either side that would definately get in a world 11. World fucking class
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May 15, 2009 9:09:46 AM CDT
What's worrying me a bit is...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Ponting has been pretty rubbish in the past year or so, as has Mr Cricket. I do like Hughes and Katich as openers, even though Hughes is untested (but getting used to your conditions! hehehe) and Clarke is good. Haddin's a decent keeper and very handy with the bat. Mitchell Johnson's a good bowler, Lee I'm unsure of now, Siddle's not too bad either. No spinner worth a damn. It's a very different story to 2005 when every player in the team I had supreme confidence in.
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If I was entirely honest with a combined 11 I'd go for Hughes, Strauss, Ponting, KP, Clarke (toss up between the Keepers as I don't particularly rate either- put it this way, they ain't Gilchrist), Swann, Broad, Johnson, Clark, Siddle. 4 of us 6 of you with 1 either way.
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He can anchor the innings while Hughes, Ponting, Clarke are keeping the scoreboard ticking over. It's why you guys need to get rid of Strauss. You have two blokes like Katich. I agree. Johnson is good. A mean bowler too. Hopefully he'll be our Simon Jones of 2005. There was only one way for Mr Cricket to go after that ridiculously amazing couple of years. Hopefully he can regain some form.
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May 15, 2009 9:18:24 AM CDT
That's a fair enough team there
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Can't argue with that. Except maybe slipping Symonds in at number 6! hehehe
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for the love of fucking god. The only slim hope I'm holding on to is that Middlesex are in Division 2 so he's only had to face utter county crap as of yet. Jimmy and Broad are a lot better. Jones if he was fit would be the test.
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I wouldn't have him in.
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As I reckon both sides need all 5. If I was Aus I'd go with 4, though, because you don't have a spinner so may as well have another batsman. Katich is someone I quite admire- getting back in through hard graft. He's like a better version of Collingwood. I'd take Strauss, another one that's come back through hard work and makes the most of his talent, because I reckon he's slightly better but there isn't a lot in it. Seriously, though, what the fuck happened to Hussey?
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I read somewhere that his eyesight has got worse, and he's nearing retirement. I would say you've got serious replacement problems coming up, but you'll no doubt pull someone like Hughes from fucking nowhere.
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May 15, 2009 9:56:03 AM CDT
What we do have going for us is...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
a shitload of talent in state cricket. While there may not be many of the calibre of Ponting (not many are), there are plenty of blokes with talent. Fuck if I know who they are, since I've been away for so long, but Clarke will be next captain and probably want to move up to 3, so that leaves someone to come in and claim their spot. It's just that we can't expect it to be plain sailing over the next few years. As for Mr Cricket, I'm not sure what happened. He's fairly old. Remember he didn't get a spot til he was 30. Maybe his time was brief. Amazing, but brief. It remains to be seen. We need a fucking spinner though, no doubt about that.
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May 15, 2009 9:58:58 AM CDT
So many Aussies like Katich have been waiting in the wings
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Brad Hodge for example. The poor bloody bloke makes a double century, then gets dropped one test later. For many of them, batsmen especially, you have to pretty much do what Hussey did to cement your place in the team.
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May 15, 2009 10:02:47 AM CDT
I completely forgot, but i watched...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Super Mario Brothers for the first time last night. What a load of shit that flick is! First and foremost, John Leguizamo as Luigi!? What the fuck!? It was so shit. The only thing that got me through was Mario's girlfriend who had amazing tits. Seriously, it was hypnotic. She had a terrible head, but the funbags more than made up for it.
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Hussey, Katich, Ponting, Lee, Clarke all fucking old. What comes from being so dominant with an unchanged side for so long- you almost need to skip a generation. 5-7 years time- I reckon when Ponting et al have been gone for 2-3 years that's when your next lot will come through. This lot will win you a few more for a few more years before being pensioned off (too late- like Hayden and Gillespee), and you'll win a few when developing but it won't be the same for you. Mind you I thought that in 2005 what with England and Pakistan having young, nasty sides and look what happened there, so I clearly know fuck all
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Kudos to Frankie for the Rambo review. Very funny.
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is just too weird. Katich was monstered by England in 2005, and Hogg is the very definition of flat track bully, so it isn't as if they're new additions. We dropped fat rob key after a double ton and he's definately improved- Bopara is the man in posession of that slot.
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Because Michael Clarke isn't old.
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I've been playing with photoshop all afternoon to try to get something like him up. How cool.
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wrong spelling I always think Stuart has the e and Michael doesn't. Yup, him. Good player, but like hussey didn't play till he's 30 and near the end.
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As was Gilchrist. The problem of 2005 is that we ended up relying on McGrath and Warne, with Lee showing a bit. Gillespie and Kasprowisch (or however you spell that fucking name) were useless. When McGrath went down on the morning of the second test it gave you blokes a sniff. You never would've won that test if he had played. It changed the entire series.
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May 15, 2009 10:15:44 AM CDT
Yeah, I feel bad for Stuart Clark
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
His first series was in Sth Africa and he was man of the series. Pretty much everyone in Australia were looking at each other going "where the fuck has this guy come from?". If only he was 5 or 6 years younger.
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It was an abject failure from Hayden, Katich, Gilchrist and your bowlers (aside from Warne). Agree about McGrath, but them's the breaks. Office drinks now. See you later.
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May 15, 2009 10:34:35 AM CDT
For your schlock vault, you should do an epic...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I know what you did review, ending with I know how many runs you scored last summer or whatever it's called. That would be genius.
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I'm off in a few too. Have a good one.
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If the Stat is a British commando how can he be a SEAL since SEALs are Part of the American Navy? Shouldn't his character be member of the SBS or a Commando rated unit of The Royal Marines?
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I ripped that off Variety. I know nothing more than that. But you make sense. The Stath won't have an american accent (i hope), so he won't be a SEAL.
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What the fuck does the world know of SBS. I've been sent back to work. The Stath as a SEAL is a dreadful idea. I toyed with doing an I know marathon, but 2 and 3 make me want to shoot kittens. I may do a Wild Things one.
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performance ever in 2. I don't spare myself anything, but I can't face his fat white rasta again.
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Now that makes sense that the article doesn't make sense. What those fuck nuggets at Variety do to the English language is grounds for a beating with a nail studded bat.
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Huzzah! Cheers Xi.
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posted.
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Ciao, Have a good weekend.
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Because the time is neigh and salvation is only coming to true believers.
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I see that he was in Demolition Man though.
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Are coming out this weekend in limited release. Want to see.
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May 15, 2009 12:36:23 PM CDT
JB was in I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
And he was fucking embarrassing. And I see from wiki that he was uncredited. Did he request his name to be taken off of it? hmmmm....
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Mate, we improved the language compared to most of your fellow countrymen and women who walk around spewing mangled pig english.
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I hardly remember that, I just remember Final Destination 3 finished off what Sill started... Death by Tanning Bed. Was it the mother in Still Know?
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Please don't make me have to start posting in those other threads!
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You have begun the two hour trek to Vahallah, we are already an hour in and it is GLORious.
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most people don't know about the SBS I was just running with water based theme of Droids initial post. You are probably correct though he will be SAS which is sort of a shame. I would like to see the Stath as a SBS sailor or a Commando trained Royal Marine. Think outside the box movie writers.
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i'm siding with you on the language thing. I've never had a problem understanding any Aussies I've met or worked with. Some of the English dialects on the other hand yikes, and the Scots, forget about it.
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I just got done reading a bunch of new comics if you're still around to talk.
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Just read Pet Avengers. What did you think?
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Enjoyed it quite a bit. Thought it was much better than The DaVinci Code. More entertaining and it moves at a faster pace thanks to the "countdown to detonation" bomb plot. That helps move things along a lot faster than Da Vinci Code's "on the run from the law" thing it had going on. Liked the actors. Liked seeing Rome. Really liked a specific event toward the end that I thought was very well done. The plot has a lot of holes and upon reflection, there are quite a few things that don't make that much sense. But eh. Didn't bother me that much in this movie (upon first viewing anyway).
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After the bad taste from The Da Vinci Code, I just don't know if I will see it in theaters.
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You know this to be true...
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Will you enjoy it more? I dunno. I hope so. But it does have its fair share of problems, one of them being the lead female. You never get to know anything about her; she's just sorta there. And given the major themes of this story, you'd think they'd go into her religious beliefs at some point. But like I said, its more entertaining when there are murders to stop and bomb plots to foil.
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I'm going with Willow on that one.
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But there are just so many scenes in Parenthood that ring true.
But I love Mad Mardigan, Bafmorda ad of course Warwick Davis.
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Was the first movie I can remember that just screamed "I have Tom Hanks and Ron Howard directing!!! Come watch me!!! I'm based on the best-selling book!!!"
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I just took a dump that had better entertainment value/art direction/acting/directing/editing/sound effects editing/extra's/Tom Hanks Hairdos/book adaptation/poster/reviews/DVD sales/catering/key grips/Tom Hanks Assistant's/Jean Reno role/chases in smart cars/visual effects and score then The Da Vinci code. Also it was diarrhea (so maybe the catering was not better) but still everything else was. So it couldn't have been that hard to make a better movie then Da Vinci Code.
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I think Lucas came up with the story? He was producer, of course, but I seriously don't think it was another case of Spielberg's Poltergeist.
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Splash! Yeah I didn't realize he directed it either. Anyone seen Grand Theft Auto? I wonder if he gets any profit from the games?
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Is Ransom, I know I didn't realize he directed that one either! I was scrolling through his IMDbizzle and he also did Cocoon, Frost/Nixon (I knew he directed that but still) and Cards, Cads, Guns, Gore and Death (whatever the fuck that Corman (probably) movie is).
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But of course, John Candy made that movie.
"I have a 12-inch penis. HaHaHa!"
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Walberg stole the show in that movie for me.
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Or today who knows, about a comic book scribe titled Chris Claremont who made some story about one of the side characters from Williow for Lucas.
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He has Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Poltergeist on his resume, but only gets credit for one.
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Mel goes on TV is classic. Ron also did the Missing, I remember seeing that movie and then promptly forgetting the whole movie.
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He also had a big hand in Alien vs. Predator for Dark Horse.
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May 15, 2009 10:10:52 PM CDT
Hahahahha Chitty I guess good thing that movie wasn't made today
by series 7
Philip Seymour Hoffman and Jack Black both auditioned for the role of Cubby Barnes (Walberg's part). Had that movie been made today, those two would've gotten the part just by telling someone they wanted it while poor Donnie would have to make another Saw sequel.
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Your souls were saved and cleansed of the evils that you have seen before tonight?
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One spring break. We had to drink everytime a phone rang, and everytime Gibson said a variation of "GIVE ME BACK MY SON!"
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Harrison Ford movies and replace son with Family.
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You know your comics now don't you. You still read?
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Just channel Hoffman's character from Twister and Black's character from School of Rock.
"Duuuuude, your son is like..alright...just fork over the dollars and like you will see him this weeekend. Duh..." -
May 15, 2009 10:25:04 PM CDT
I faded out with John Byrne's run at Marvel..Series
by chittychittygangbang
I promptly started reading Stephen King and Car and Driver after that.
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Mine and Fu's comic review forum over at MyMavra as to whats popping.
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Jeez, I was into that comic.
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Osmosis Jones, so was Kid Rock. Anyone remember that movie?
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Bill Murray drawing a pay check...
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With Backdraft a very close second. I fucking love both those flicks. Ransoms trailer ruined the flick for me. God knows why they had to put the fucking tv appearance in the trailer. That plot point made the flick. Splash and Willow are also great. I really like Apollo 13 and The Paper. I hated A Beautiful Mind and Da Vinci. Couldn't watch Far and Away. Cinderella Man and Frost/Nixon were okay. He really is inconsistent. But he did produce and narrate one of the greatest comedy programs ever so he gets a bucketload of goodwill from me.
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May 16, 2009 2:00:49 AM CDT
Seth MacFarlanes Cavalcade of Comedy
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
So I'm watching this and it fucking sucks. It's like all unfunny random bits of Family Guy was edited together into one gloriously pathetic compilation of suck.
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Was going to say its the greatest thing he's ever been associated with.
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Really? Damn I am about to start watching it right now. I've seen a few clips on the interwebs and I enjoyed those.
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Its a fine show and all but people get way too up and arms about HOW GOOD it is. Its alright but at the end of the day I I can't just sit around and watch that show. Like one episode a day. Just those characters are sooo fucking annoying and dickholes to be around for too long just pisses me off. Plus every episode is the same, Michael Bluth get involved in something and then one of his family end up ruining it or he does and sometimes he fixes it.
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Was fucking stupid.
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May 16, 2009 2:03:42 PM CDT
Ok, while I slug down this beer...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I'm going to attempt to keep us in the top 10.
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Jarv, you bastard. I watched this and suffered through the agony of the music. What you didn't mention or I failed to comprehend was the fact that it stops every 7 minutes for a 5 minute music video. But there's only about 2 songs. I know you mentioned the music and advised fast forwarding but for fucks sake! And that song about how he loves her but she's so young. Creepy. It was amusing. I'll give you that. The most horrifying thing about it, apart from the music and dialogue, was the girls eyebrows! I thought she was transforming into Teen Wolf to begin with! And the last shot of the midget eating it's head was very funny.
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Watched this piece of shit this morning. Typical shitty american teen high school bullshit fantasy. And the blonde bloke that's in it I remember from not another teen movie, where it was a joke that none of them looked like they were in high school, and that flick came out about 5 years ago. And he's now starring as a fucking high school kid. What a load of shit. I just looked him up on wikipedia. Eric Christan Olsen or some shit like that and he was born in 1977. Which makes him older than me. The guy doesn't even look like he could be in college, let alone high school.
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Also watched this flick. I remember being really excited about it when it came out, because it's a great premise and Andrew Niccol had written Truman Show and directed Gattaca, which I fucking love. Especially Gattaca which is just brilliant. And the score for that flick is amazing. Anyway, I was really disappointed by it when I finally saw it, and I caught it on tv today, and nothings changed. It's a complete misfire. It has a great set up for slapstick comedy, which it fails at. It has a great set up for satire, which it fails at. It's so confused about what it's trying to say. And none of the performances ever got passed just ok. A disappointment. I do also like his Lord of War. Niccol's a dirty bastard. Just looked him up on wiki and he snagged the chick who played Simone. Dirty, dirty son of a bitch.
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Jarv, Hayden's averaging 54 or something in the IPL. Which is at least 10 more than the next bloke, who's Gilly. I think we need to get them back for the World Cup.
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And about to head out, since I was supposed to be there half an hour ago.
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May 16, 2009 2:28:15 PM CDT
Scrubs is getting a 9th season
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I love the show, but they ended it pretty well after the 8th. Zach Braff has left it. So there should not be anymore Scrubs. Let it rest in peace.
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May 16, 2009 2:29:05 PM CDT
Seth MacFarlane's an unfunny cunt
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Fuck I hate that bloke.
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I nearly forgot. I watched this as well. I was considering kicking off my "When giant animals attack" series of reviews with it, and I still might, but it was pretty shit. Firstly and most importantly, while it was bad, it wasn't that funny. It was just bad. Things like continuously repeating special effects shots of the shark swimming, only reversing the shots were amusing but not that memorable. The dialogue was terrible. The acting was terrible. The effects were terrible. But it just wasn't classic dumbhouse. It was kinda boring.
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Jeez. Where the fuck is everyone?
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Pricks.
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Gotta be my last one before I go though. I'm very late.
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May 16, 2009 2:38:15 PM CDT
So Jonah's set up a new site for himself, eh?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I was wondering why he hasn't been around these parts recently.
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May 16, 2009 2:40:04 PM CDT
I'm running out of shit to crap on about
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Not a good sign
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It's just very bloody clever. And all the characters are hilarious. There's no weak link.
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May 16, 2009 2:46:34 PM CDT
My mates on the Monopoly pub crawl today
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
26 pubs, with a drink in each. He's been leaving facebook updates all day. His first was at 9am when he was heading off. Pubs open at 11 here. He's up to his 20th or so. I'm hoping to catch a glimpse of him a bit later when he rolls up. Or gets rolled up in a wheelbarrow or somesuch. I did it a few years ago and it nearly killed me.
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Nearly finished this beer. That was quick. Need to head off.
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Good effort. We're about 60 off the pace of 4th so I'm not even gonna try it. Should keep us around the mark though.
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May 16, 2009 2:50:19 PM CDT
4th is a video about a holographic poster
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Fuck some lame shit gets posted on this site.
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May 16, 2009 2:52:39 PM CDT
3rd is a balls up story about a 9 year old story
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
And Quint has the fucking nerve to give shit to the bloke who pointed out that his bullshit story is in fact a rehash from 9 years ago.
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May 16, 2009 2:53:45 PM CDT
2nd is about fucking Dollhouse
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I barely managed to sit through the pilot of that piece of shit.
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May 16, 2009 2:54:35 PM CDT
And 1st! Don't get me started on Lost!
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
What a fucking piece of shit show that is.
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Gotta be the solo man on this one. Hopefully it'll be light on the fizz, so I can slam it down fast.
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May 16, 2009 2:57:49 PM CDT
Doubt anyone but aussies will get that reference
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Chipps? Where are you, Chipps?
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May 16, 2009 2:59:00 PM CDT
Hmmmm..... Can I get banned for this?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Technically I'm not spamming because I'm writing something different in each post.
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May 16, 2009 3:01:49 PM CDT
Well, I've got back up handles just in case
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
It'd be a shame to lose my status as Droid though. Or as the irregulars like to call me i_am_not_the_droid. Or as Harry has called me IANTDYALF. Which seems like overkill.
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the AICN crew pop in to Twitch to check out what's being said. It's interesting how we kind of claimed this TB for our own, and we rarely get any irregulars in here. I'm not sure why, because any and all are welcome to join in. Maybe it's because there is rarely hostility. And a lot of the irregulars seem to thrive on that shit. Or maybe it's the cricket talk. In which case, eat shit.
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May 16, 2009 3:08:21 PM CDT
Okay, I've really got to go know
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
That was amusing. Kind of a stream of conscious hour. And glancing over what I've written, I really am a boring bastard. More booze will help.
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Since all you bastards seem to have developed lives. When the fuck did this happen? Hasta luego! Bitches
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My girlfriend came over and there was suddenly a party around the corner.Pet Avengers was kinda pointless I thought. When I saw the first page, I started getting all hopeful it might have been Marvel's way of sneaking super-kickass villain Thanos through the backdoor, but instead it looks like it's a bunch of animals looking for some shiny rocks. It would help if the characters were somewhat amusing but they're not. The only ones that come close are the cat and the toad, but they weren't even that cool. I read Unwritten. I'm interested in seeing where they go with this, but at the same time, I need to cut back on my comics budget, so I'm trying to decide whether or not it's worth sticking with.
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Is the greatest thing ever worthy of a movie?
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Thing was pretty stupid. Only one or two funny bits. Maybe it was funnier when it was just U Toob clips. And I like Seth.
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Well if Unwritten stays at just $1 that would be nice. I bought a comic that was like $4 and it was thin as shit. I think it was Unknown.
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Did you know that Wildstorm is doing a Resident Evil comic? #1 Came out back in March and #2 comes out next week?
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Did Echo really start his own site? Its not Lemon Party is it?
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A decent TV show with lots of well-earned laughs. Far better than most of the sitcom shlock, but not quite worthy of endless hyperbole. TV to movie never really works because it's a different formats, and stories are usually in one format originally for a reason.
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But again for me, I don't care based on the issue of format. The games are great. RE4 is possibly in my top 10 favorites ever, but I already have one decent zombie comic, and I'm sure it's a lazy cash grab anyway.
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Closest thing I can think of is Unknown Soldier, but I know for a fact it's only 3 bucks.Sorry I keep missin ya man! We'll get it one of these days, and the talkbacks shall fill with our witty gab! Sorry, I couldn't think of another word for "talk" besides "gab."
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The Unknown, I don't know why I bought it, comics this week had some sort of UN fetish. Its with BOOM! publishing. Its only fucking 20 pages, and its $4. I haven't read it yet though. Seriously can't really give you a reason why I bought it, I was in kind of a rush and it fit into my budget somehow.
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I just got Guitar Hero 3 for my Wii. First time I've played my Wii in a couple of months. Fucking DVR taking up all my time. As I was playing Guitar Hero 3 all I could think about it how there are probably 8 year old's who could kick my ass at this game.
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Try chit chat. It makes us seem like mid 20-30 something office workers talking about other office workers or last nights Grey's.
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Farrah Fawcett having cancer? WHOOPIE. Yeah it sucks and all, but ummmmmmmmm lots of fucking people get cancer (including famous people) what makes her so special. Why didn't she just make a deal with NBC to make the last year of her life a reality show, and at the end of every episode you don't know if she dies or not. And her family and friends can then go on talk shows and have the host try to get them to slip which episode she is going to die in. It will all be a lot more fun, like we can have Farrah doing crazy things like swimming with Whales, going to Disney Lang, meeting a B-list actor, going sky diving, having a sports star dedicate a point to her, getting a star named after her, appearing as a guest judges in some crappy reality show, going to church, talking about how bad hospital food is, yelling at her assistants, kill a small child. You know the whole Make a Wish Foundation List.
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And there is some Star Trek reference I am just not getting. No this is not the episode with Spock its the one with baby Ron Howard.
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Wow. Good work. Your dedication is fucking killer.
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BACK TO THE PAVILION!
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on your bike son. take a walk
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except australia
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either you can play or you cant, you don't use it to rest someone. they are on or off. from memory at one point you had twelve guys on the field.
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give me a break, here's two off the top of my head (selected by the fact england thinks they did it) england's soveringty in england and penicillon (any one can make a mistake but it takes a scientist to run with it....look it up)
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the poster child for queensland
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(the scene of symonds major fuck ups) it was a sloppy affair and and i was hoping to see him there so i could fuck with him. my god. that night was like the fall of rome.
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recently went through it. great series (except for any scene with syers - bullpups) did you know the third one was a reject lethal weapon sequal?
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i really wanna see it and it is starting to shit me.
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angels and deamons will be shit. it will have as much going for it as twilight, which it will resemble.
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we get motherfuckers here. the number of fucking times i have gone to 'stand to' in a fucking ants nest. fuck!
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..ITV3 are doing Benny Hill re-runs BUT it doesn't seem to be the crap I saw as a tot in the 80's. 1974 says the info. The drunk MP on the late night talkshow was great"Well I don't want to keep you..""Why, are going then..."Classic.There is always Michaela Strachan who is in very fine form for her age. Wikipedia says she used to be a Kissogram but my mate from work reckons she was a full-on call girl.Only other choices seem to be watching our supposed betters trying to bullshit their way out of the expenses crisis on Andrew Marr show and the ever increasingly incomprehensible Hollyoaks. That programme make me feel about 50....
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he Alchymist's Cat. for kids. good book
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There is a perception here that the fauna down under is basically the same as ours but 10x as big and venomous. We do have ants here but you would probably laugh if I described them....They are a pain though. Normal ants will carry poisonous bait back to the queen and wipe out the nest.Flying ants don't though - they just congregate in their hundreds to eat the stuff and then spend 1/2 doing backflips until they eventually drop dead on the bathroom floor.
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..have just shown clips of all the Eurovision finalists.Thank fuck Terry Wogan quit as there is absolutely no justifiable reason to watch that shit now.Never read TAC Chipps - thanks for the tip
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why were we sent here? two biggest reasons: believing our indigenous land should be our own (ireland). you saxons wouldn't understand this having aquiesed to the normans (the windsor family) centuries ago. we never aquessed. and stealing food or money for our staving families. you may never understand why someone could be proud of these things but the reason is along these lines: democracy was founded by people who question the law, and put themselves on the line for it. for a hundred years the people like that in your country were sent here. which is why we had better enfranshement, better working conditions (the list goes on) than you. women could vote here inexcess of twenty years before they could there. why? we are nation bred to question crazy laws. cause crazy laws have been very unfair to us. we are proud to break crazy laws.
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they bred once and store the sperm them have thousands of babies.
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..and would genuinely like to stay and chat longer but Fiancee did Moonwalk in London last night and have to go and meet her near her Mum's for lunch in Marylebone as she stayed there last night.Dam - just as this TB was getting interesting agin..
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..this place is always interesting.The one TB on the site where it feels like I am actually having a normal conversation/discussionAdios folk!
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you wait clown
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are also getting old
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The worst part of watching Lost every Wednesday is I have to sit through those GOD AWFUL PUNK ASS CORNY AS HELL commercials for that fucking show.
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..from lunch. Walked passed Bill Nighy chatting on his phone while on marylebone high st.I love living in London.
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Stellan Skarsgård said in some interview that Dan Brown was a shitty writer. That is funny, Stellan probably did the movie because he knew it would make bank.
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Almost beat Angels this weekend. Good.
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Were so fucking over-dramatic, I thought for sure it must have been a parody.
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boxing day is typically an epic drinking day for my family. we get drunk and play cricket. a few boxings days ago our game got washed out so me and two mates sat down and started drinking. i'd finished off about a carton of beer when the suggestion was made to start a drinking game. i'd been give a lord of the rings box set for xmass, so i suggest we take a shot everytime someone says the word 'ring'. from memory they say it 7 times in the three minute intro and we had finished the bottle in about 17 minutes. I was not feeling good.
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a bottle each
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solo: the thirst crusher
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Sucked hard for the first hour and 55 minutes, but it had a good twist ending.
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And it was the best episode of the whole damn thing, gives me hope for season two.
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Average. Just couldn't get excited about any of it. Maybe it's one of those movies that'll play better on the small screen. I preferred Da Vinci Code.
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Finally got around to this. Very good. Daniel Day-Lewis is superb.
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Synecdoche New York last night but unfortunately Manchester United won the league and I realised town would be full of shirt-wearers. Wasn't going up there, too fuckin distracting.Twats.
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So you liked Angels and Demons BETTER then Da Vinci Code? What was Angels and Demons then? Just a video of everyone you love being brutally rapped and then painfully murdered? Because it really is hard for me to fathom a movie WORSE then The Da Vinci Code.
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Need to go watch that again.
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Directed some episodes of Fringe? No wonder it got better.
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Shit that walks on two legs and calls itself a Movie is still just shit. This movie wants to Hurt you. It likes to rip off all things 28 Days, I am Legend, all things George Romero, etc. Boys that was PEWTRID. I think Sci Fi Channel should just go right for the juggler next time and put out 'Rabid Butt Blasters vs. Herpes Manchester United' what the FUCK-!?! Not even Cokey would cop to getting anything to steal from THIS! Spew.
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I liked it a bit more than No Country, but both are very good. Daniel Day Lewis is one for the ages.
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You must see that movie! Fuck a goat if you have to, but get your hands on a copy of that movie! No self respecting zombie gore hound movie lover's life is complete unless you see that movie!
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Before then, I'd only seen a few scenes. It really is fantastic, Chipps.
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Oh boy, a LOTR drinking game where you take a shot every time they say the word "Ring"? Sounds terrible. Needless to say, our drinking game for Ransom where we drank at every phone ringing and every variation of "GIVE ME BACK MY SON" went terribly. I was drinking vodka, and by the end of the night I ended up puking up and down the A1A in Ft Lauderdale in front of all the club-hoppers, bar patrons, and people cruising the strip.
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May 17, 2009 10:54:02 PM CDT
I don't know how the hell people can like Dawn remake....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
.....people bitch about Bay's filmmaking for the soulless ADD generation; Snyder's Dawn is far worse in my opinion. There is not one ounce of humanity in that turkey. Just a couple hours of things running around and clawing at people. No scares. No drama. Just movement and shitty source music. To be fair the first 10 minutes are decent. But thats all I got out of it.
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I thought there was plenty in Ving Rhames growing friendship with Andy the gun-owner from across the street, a man he's never met face-to-face or even spoken to.
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Dunno if you realized that or not, Danny.
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Not as much as the original, but I thought it was one of the better attempts of a remake. I've gone back and watched Armageddon once I was older then 20 a couple years back and it was just fucking god awful. The dialog was just terrible I wanted to turn it off, same goes for Con Air.
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Dance with The Devil with Rosie Perez and Javier Bardem?
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morning bitches. Just in case anyone doesn't know this, but I actually do know the history of transportation to Australia, and also some of the shit that could get you transported- stuff like graffiti. So I know it was pretty outrageous.
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I'm going to check this, but I could have sworn that Fleming was scottish. Methinks there's some revisionism going on here. And sovreignty? Nope, that was us before your prison was even discovered.
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I loved Hard Rock Zombies,
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Ponting was in the wrong. Hence that he had to apologise afterwards.
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Symonds of 2 years ago would have. Not now. Katich? Someone I admire, because he has made the most of limited talent, but he's basically strauss- except not as good.
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I like the original, and don't hate the remake, although I do agree with Danny about it being a soulless corporate whore of a film. What I do dislike is- Running Zombies. Fuck that. Zombies are frightening because there are fucking millions of them and you get swamped, it's only the idiocy of the yooooootube generation that thinks they have to run. As soon as you've got running zombies then you've got zombies for the twitter generation. This means that either you're a cretin with no patience or that some marketing whore has told you to amp up the cheap scares for the kids. Give me some atmosphere any day- something Snyder (who I'm starting to think is a hack of the highest order) doesn't understand.
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tries to be too fucking clever for it's own good. Misses greatness by an ace.
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Die You Zombie Bastards is the worst film I've seen in 2009. Crushing disappointment. It's just shite.
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I'm doing a one man stream of consciousness. Except without booze. Which sucks.
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http://tinyurl.com/ofcf6x
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I'm on 190 now. With 7 days to watch 20 movies if I want to make 500. Ain't gonna happen
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You could sneak in movies instead of posting to reach your goal. BTW, I'm the devil sitting on your shoulder.
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Safe for Work?
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I'd get you fired for watching movies, but not by giving you porn.
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i know, i know, i really wanna see it. ive seen the remake. ive seen both 'nights' and video shops have most of the rest of them, but i don't want to watch on till ive seen dawn
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If our site gets it together sometime today, we are having our first contest. The details are posted, but we are having some issues with getting the page to load. Good thing it runs through next week!
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Awesome!
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fleming discovered it by accident. (actually he discovered about as much as columbus discover america - its effects had already been noted but flemming is the most famous person to discover, much like the telephone was invented before bell, it's just that bell took out the patent)it was Flory who studied its effects and made it into medicine. Flemming gave up on his discovery believing that while it killed bacteria, it could not be applied to medicine (he tried)
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he was basically a graffiti artist in a petri dish, and arguably only discovered it through a fluke, but it's till his discovery.Flory developed it. Not the same.
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not possible in UK licensing hours, and the distance travelled is too far. For example, it's a fuck of a distance from Whitechapel to Kings Cross, also there is a severe paucity of decent drinking establishment in a lot of them- Euston, Pall Mall and Whitehall, Mayfair, Trafalgar Square are all lacking in decent boozers.
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though. And I can never work out where you drink in for the Gaol and utility squares.
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didn't they redo the monopoly board for London? It might be easier now.
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lets just say flory discovered its medical use. which is the point really isn't it?
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It's Flemings. Even if he is a tool and it was an accident. Kind of like Columbus and America. Just take solace in the fact that you're going to spend the next 3 months thrashing us at a game we invented
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at every sport. It's a bastard.
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English press in full delusion mode. Apparantly Broad is now the finished article, based on getting Chanderpaul and Sarwan in the first innings, and he's going to run through Australia. I'm cheery in the face of defeat, but this is madness. If we're pinning our hopes on a player 2 years away from being complete then we're well and truly fucked. It's like this constant praying that Freddie will come back in time, or Jones will be fit. Ain't going to happen.
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score since 2006. That can't be right.
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Hows it going? Whats new?
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He came up in '79 and was still pitching in '05 believe it or not. But I don't think you'd need a trowel to kill him.
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not a lot- did you ever finish the 30 days of horror?
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Whoever made Die you Zombie Bastards should pay. Dearly. For wasting away a great title.
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He's actually a zombie broadcaster now, giving in-depth analysis like "Send more brains".
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It was entertaining, but I can't say I cared for any of the characters. If they got eaten, they got eaten.
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and I thoroughly enjoyed it, as it's been a long time since I've seen it. I just loved Stallone's low-key performance. Harvey and Ray were solid in it, and I enjoyed Bobby's performance in this....not too "much". I fucking loved it when Ray jacked up Patrick at the bar and had the dart shoved up his nose.
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they were trying to be funny, and failed. At one point the hero has to penetrate a vagina like opening in a door with a giant plastic phallus. I said to Mrs. Jarv that this looks like it was written by 13 year retards, and then out of curiousity I watched the behind the scenes and a more grimy group of white-trash wannabe frat boys I've never seen. It's complete garbage and pencil jihad on them for wasting such a great title.
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fucking masterpiece. Superb. In fact, I'm going to watch that tonight. Wonder where Droid is.
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There lies the problem. Tis a shame. There should be a rule that one cannot use 'Zombies' in the title of such a movie without achieving "High Schlock" status. There will be a special Schlock division of the MPAA where douches like us will review such movies and give the go-ahead to release upon the masses.
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Copland is the only appearance of Jeananne Garafalo where she isn't annoying.
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it's fucking painful. Even if I did giggle when evil count nefarious had his zombie bitches hammer on his cock (with actual hammers) but it grew very old very fast.
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Were these kids who made the movie Australian by chance?
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I've got six left to do...Just posted another, and will have two more within the hour, hopefullly.
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There's a massive nudity count in it, though.
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you've done a nice job
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they may be a bit backward, but that's not their style.
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Well pardon my arsehole all the way to Crumpsall!I think what did for me with Angels & Demons was the 'Tom Hanks sent by God' cack. I was already quite bored when that pearler fell with a dull clunk at the end. Let me try to re-phrase: I was less bored while watching Da Vinci Cod. I don't know if that helps.
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... to type Cod.
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I'm surprised at these good reviews. It seems like people were expecting the worst after the Davinci Turd and the fact that it wasn't as bad as that is colouring people.
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So does that make the sequel Anglers and Devil-fish?
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Leonardo was more of a fishing fan than J.R. Hartley.
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your review of Frankenfish was delightful Jarv. I played the Frankenfish rap for some friends and they were...spellbound.
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3 days again (due to missing a lot because of rain). Roll on the Aussies. *fingers crossed*
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Some of the worst music ever recorded. And just so wrong- what the fuck does urban rap have to do with that film? Duelling Banjos would have been better.
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For the first time since seeing it in theaters and not as funny as I remember. I didn't like Franco that much in theaters but I really liked him on DVD, who know stoners play better while I'm seated on a couch not doing anything? Also the Ed Beagly part which I thought was the best part of the movie in the theaters was only like 2 minutes. Sometimes it's not always good to watch comedies more then once. Also the DGDB commentary comment was funny.
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Christ, I'm lagging badly, which I shouldn't be given all the xtra time I have.Currently on 162. Seen lately: Eight Legged Freaks, which was good; Ghost Ship, which was boring; and Nacho Libre, which is a film I like but no one else does. I don't know, it's a fat guy doing Mexican wrestling - that's just funny to me, for some reason.
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The first draft is dones and it's unreasonably boring. Not funny at all. I think I love Die Hard a bit too much and a thousand words of me sucking its fat cock is really not much fun to read.The plan to try a re-write and make it better, but if that doesn't work I'll just ditch the whole thing and maybe do an epic Toxic Avenger review instead. I've still not gotten around to watching Part IV, or any of the Toxic Crusader episodes. This could be my first epic review that includes a complete dissection of a children's cartoon.
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depends on what I'm doing after fish- I was thinking about doing Toxie 1 and 2.
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191 I watched Nacho Libre when it was on film Four. How the fuck did I forget to list that.
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If you are, I'll leave it alone. It's a schlock thing, which is more your territory than mine, and I don't want to step on anyone's toes.
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The murderous blonde with the knife in Die Hard With A Vengeance was played by Sam Phillips, who did some of the music for and appeared in an episode of... can you guess?This new information has reivested me in the epic Die Hard review. I will double my efforts!
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over at Mavras. The horror schlock Ikept telling you about. Turns out it was apparently 2005, despite my assurance I saw it in 2004. Either way, go check it out.
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I am wanting to do Troma at some point- and Toxie is the obvious troma. I can always go back to Zombies for a while.
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that don't suck. I'm toying with doing Urban Legend for some reason.
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that don't suck. I'm toying with doing Cherry Falls.
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in a back to back Scream Rip-off.
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They're ace.
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theres a bag of genre worms for you..
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The Legend of Hell House, Lifeforce, Leviathan and Deep Rising, Critters and Critters 2, Ghoulies (only the first one, Surf Nazis must die, Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell, Zombie Strippers, Jack Brooks
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what about stuff like The Funhouse from the 80s...or Hideaway from the 90s...all schlocky, and inicidentally, all Koontzy as well...
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is totally mine. I've already written 1. I don't want to do a whole "athon" for it, because Critters 3 is wank, but I'll gladly do 1, 2 and 4 (Critters in Space).
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I loved Critters when I was about 8, it holds up, but isn't anywhere near as good now.
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It's one of the ones I'm waiting for. Hideaway is wank, and I'm considering it.
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Boy this movie is pretty bad.
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not too shabby. Test average is about 56.
Performance slowly declining after a huge peak in 2003.
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an Australian said his last innings of significance was 2006. I thought it was unlikely, to be honest.
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sucks mightily, but there are some excellent chuckles to be had (microwaved dog).
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I mean, she is, so it works. But that frazzled, frizzy hair and the dark eyes.... yeesh, that girl is nuts. I think she'd kill me while fucking.
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...Ponting scored 101 and 99 in late Dec. 2008 Melbourne Test against SA.
83 and 25 in the Feb. 2009 Johannesburg Test.
9 and 81 in the March 2009 Durban Test.
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but it would probably be worth it.
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it was an aussie commentator bemoaning his continued presence in the side and comparing him to Vaughan. I do agree, though, that he's still world class.
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It'd be a good way to go.
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She's nuts. Actually, that film has an incredibly good cast.
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but she has a new film out next year.
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As one of the sorority girls, along with Portia DiRossi, courting Neve Cambell to join their sisterhood. I believe she was also one of the leads in "Jawbreaker". I remember having a big crush on her back in middle/high school when she first appeared on the scene.
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as sexy nurse. Her finest hour.
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there you go- Australia's contribution to World culture. And it's a cracker.
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stay in non-twitch TB's or I'll be forced to bitchslap you.
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"Darker, grimmer and more stylistically single-minded than its two relatively giddy predecessors, "Terminator Salvation" boasts the kind of singular vision that distinguished the James Cameron original, the full-throttle kinetics of "Speed" and an old-fashioned regard for human (and humanoid) heroics. Only pic's relentlessly doomsday tone -- accessorized by helmer McG's grimy, gun-metal palette -- might keep auds from flocking like lemmings to the apocalypse. The fourth in the celebrated sci-fi series, "Salvation" opens and closes with humanity at war with the machines. In other words, this thing isn't going to end soon. Nor should it, if it keeps on like this.
McG, whose segue from music vids to movies resulted in two "Charlie's Angels" extravaganzas and the woeful "We Are Marshall," exhibits an unexpected flair for the dreadful, abrupt and awesome. What we get here -- which was perhaps missing on the relatively sunny mental landscapes of "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" and "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines" -- is a sense of real horror: When humans are snatched up like Cheez-Doodles by skyscraper-sized Go-bots, there's no slo-mo relief or stalling. Stuff happens as it might were the world actually overtaken by demonic appliances." This worries me, because the implication is that We are Marshall (frequently touted as the only McG thing that doesn't suck) is worse than Charlie's Assholes, which were, despite popular opinion, good. And if this person thinks that, and thinks this is good, then it's guaranteed ass. -
Just look at the moron go.
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Peeeeee-yoosah. I can't believe its written and directed by the same guy who did "Shoot 'Em Up". Unbelievable.
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... another lame Australian director called George Miller) made "Mad Max 1" on the smell of an oily rag. Basically a student film.
"Mad Max 2" (the Road Warrior in the US) was his first serious and professional effort. Still has some great moments - although the "good guys" in white with the guzzoline were pathetic wimps.
"Mad Max 3: Beyond Thunderdome" was a debacle. Mel Gibson was on a permanent bender, and looked like it. Chunks of the script were filched ruthlessly from "Riddley Walker" and the whole exercise looked like a pathetic cash-in (which it was).
Dr G tried hard with "Lorenzo's Oil"- which derived from his medical background but it was aggravatingly earnest and dull. And starred another drunk, Nick Nolte.
He was monstered by Gruber and Evans on "Witches of Eastwick" and swore he'd never work in Hollywood without full control again.
He then made squillions with "Babe" and "Happy Feet"
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I really like Road Warrior, but don't care for the rest of the Mad Max movies. Did he really make Babe and Happy Feet too? I had to sit through Happy Feet with my ex in Alabama. We don't talk anymore.
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He did direct its darker sequel though.
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is magnificent. Still no definitive DVD release, although I believe the blu-ray's got a commentary track at least.Can't make up me mind whether or not to go blu-ray.
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Then I'll make the move to Blu-Ray. Right now, it doesn't make much sense to me.
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and standard DVD's are going for pocket money right now. For example, Mad Max 2 is 4 quid on play.com but the blu-ray is 12 quid.
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The movie does get outstandingly better with the longer cut, as long as you don't mind a LONG-ass movie. Everything just gets fleshed out a little more. Like literally too. There's more violence. Huzzah!
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The Director's Cut, I mean. "The Last Legion" was on HBO this afternoon and Kevin McKidd has a role in it as a badass Goth villain. It reminded me of his role as one of Liam Neeson's badass Crusader heroes in Kingdom of Heaven. Which then made me want to watch the director's cut again.
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Tony Jaa, Iko Uwais, Jackie Chan= Drunken Master 3
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in KOH. What happened to his character? I presume he died in the shipwreck, but it's not clear.
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That was something I never liked about the script, or the finished product. Its like, they got on a ship and then next thing you know, Balian wakes up on a distant shore and everyone else is dead.
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In the making of - I don't think they had the money to shoot the shipwreck so they shot around it and used footage of Balian looking tense taken from another part of the film.It's probably the only unsatisfactory part of KOH. But McKidd's disappearing act really bugs me!
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And just wash up somewhere else?
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they had no shots of Balian on the ship so they used some technical jiggery-pokery to get him in there.
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He's never seen again after chatting with Balian while in port.
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Satan's Black Wedding Son of Ingagi Kronos('58) Frogs I Eat Your Skin I Drink Your Blood Bloodfeast Orifice Space Safe at Home('62-very scary) Only When I Larf Complete King Lionel(and Friends) '78 Bucky Dent Game Notting Hill. All truly horrifying and scary in their own, unique ways.
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May 18, 2009 5:38:58 PM CDT
So is My Mavra strictly a horror site now or something?
by kungfuhustler84
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Hope not.
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We're celebrating Fangoria Magazine's 30th anniverary, so this is our version of Horror Week. We thought about "Shark Week", but someone else had dibs on that.
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It's attention getting, isn't it?
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Maybe our logo could have been "Bite me!"
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What y'all up to?
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No one ever celebrates Toads. Of course I am the Toadkiller, so I would not either
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It would set the Interwebs aflame with the intensity of the passion of the Dawg. My Firefox would be rent asunder.
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Seems to be a quiet start to it, so lots of good numbers left to choose from.
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May 18, 2009 6:39:04 PM CDT
Nay - or should I say Neigh! The very heavens ripped asunder!
by toadkillerdog
Aye verily! Twould be the start of Ragnarok!
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Niffleheim it is!
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Or does the Toadkillerdog have free passage to anywhere he wants to go?
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Hella has been after my carcass for quite a while!
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You be bringin' the heat to Hella!
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I'll bet Tony turns out to be good guy who sacrifices his life to save Kiefers daughter.
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And they are locked and loaded! Speaking of locked and loaded, Has anyone seen Xiphos lately?
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I haven't even watched the Lost finale yet. I haven't used my television since I moved. I hear 24 is a great show. It's right up there with Supernatural on my list of shows to watch.
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May 18, 2009 6:58:02 PM CDT
Well, I have watched exactly two, count em 2 eps of Lost
by toadkillerdog
So no biggie
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I think he was here this weekend and he's been putting some great stories up over at the other site. You really appreciate his Galloglass series.
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oops.
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You could make a fortune renting them out.
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That would explain all of the typos. This is a terrible affect you've had on me.
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Damn, damn, damn! Ha ha.
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Finale on
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I'm falling apart here and you're gaping at Keifer. See how ya are?
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We'll always have Choopy's bar and grill!
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Though Kiefer is cool, he doesn't have the full resume yet. If Donald Sutherland was starring in 24, I probably would have been watching it from the beginning.
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And no one tells the tales. You will always be mine at Choopy's, no matter what's on TV.
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When he was younger he always played the weirdo. Older, he was almost always villain. Gave away the damn plot as soon as he was on screen.
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That is why he is AWOL
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And I like him better now than when he was younger. Of course Chitty hangs at Choopy's. They are co-owners, or so I heard. it's strictly off the record, of course.
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May 18, 2009 7:36:49 PM CDT
Nothing wrong with villains, but hate them being predictable
by toadkillerdog
Just as bad when James Earl Jones always showed up as the head of some agency. Now it's Sam Jackson. Just groan inducing.
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The media has stripped you of your innocence, even before I came along.
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Some one who shocked you out of your BVD's?
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Mavra approved. "hey mikey he likes it"
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old times
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How is that beautiful baby girl?
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He seemed like the weakest of them, so his going against Michael was completely unexpected the first time I saw it.
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Bravo! I really had to ponder on that one. What would your answer be?
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Bishop in Aliens was the one for me. Never saw that coming.
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I can almost hear Dickblood howling out there now!
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I briefly considered Palmer from The Thing, but decided that that didn't count since he was not the real Palmer. If I had tried to go that route, almost any of them could have qualified. Too many choices...
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Could've sworn they were just showing repeats for the over 40 crowd that watched that crap.
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And how had there soul blessed with the greatest thing known to Earth on Friday?
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but thanks for the well wishes. Liv is doing great but growing up way too fast. She's already a daddy's little girl. Once she's Older I'll get her to say a Warciple hello :)
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The videos of her are wonderful.
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But I fell in love last Friday evening...
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Well I was just getting ready to get my hat when she caught my eye and I put it back, and I ordered myself a coupl'a more shots and beer.
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Stay thirsty
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I fell in love with a roller derby queen Round and round Oh round and round The meanest hunk'a woman that anybody ever seen... Down at the arena Uh huh!
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Dr G wrote and produced it and engaged Chris Noonan to direct.
Made Dr G seriously wealthy.
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Kevin Costner in "No Way Out".
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Could not stand Pig in the city. Yeah I know - it was darker. But Babe was sweet, and the movie was a true fantasy.
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See, that is a great question. Everyone should try to come up with an answer.
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Great choice. I never saw that coming either
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she's my little angel
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I'm told they go down well with some Patron
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Just kill the first boy that comes sniffing around, and word will get out!
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A double rim shot!
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Speaking of which, gotta go. Have fun guys!
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Keep it sweet
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is one of only 2 watchable Costner films. The other one being, of course, Sizzle Beach USA. Only joking, he's also got A Perfect World that's alright.
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I watched 2 Days in Paris, and The Warriors, which I'm sorely considering for the vault. I'm just not sure if it qualifies. It's certainly low rent, and absolutely exploitative, but it's just a bit polished. It's also clearly a product of it's time and the inherent ridiculousness of things like The Baseball Furies is clearly because of when it's from.
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don't be fooled by the pedigree. It's a fucking horrible, pretentious load of drivel and I wanted to drown Julie Delphy's annoying slag in the Seine. Not that her tortured boyfriend was not a dick, because he was, but she was ridiculous. Partially redeemed by 2 moments of genius- when he sent a group of fat American Codebreakers off to get mugged because they represented everything that's wrong with America, and when he was in a fast food restaurant that an eco-terrorist burnt down. Aside from that, drivel- and that's without me mentioning the worst, most smug voiceover I've heard in ages. One that actually cut into the key scene in the film.
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I got totally let off the hook for cinematic abortion Die You Zombie Bastards. Huzzah! This means I can get some more schlocky fun in!
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Sharks in Venice Review. It seems I've written 1200 words about why Baldwin is too fat to get in a wetsuit. Needs rethink
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probably hiding after England's awesome crushing of the Windies.
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off to finsih Sharks in Venice. This will be fun.
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Haven't seen it in years, but I really liked it. I thought it was interesting how they made every gang in the city unique. That part of the film was sort of "A Clockwork Orange" lite (slightly less brutal, but with more costume variations).
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Shocking, isn't it? Guess my morning is set. Jarv, did you see my note about the Asian Horror film site? I told Jonah about it last year and he guided me to some of the best movies on it. Other than HOD, it's about the best source I know of for those films.
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... which she wrote, directed and scored.
Ego Unbounded.
She was perfectly cast in "Three Colours: White" about 100,000 cigarettes ago, and was way cute.
Costner was also pretty good in Mike Binder's movie "The Upside of Anger". That was, on the surface, a routine menopausal chick-flick - but the amazing Joan Allen (you know, from the Bourne movies) seemed to inspire everyone, especially Costner, into performances which were well above par. -
"Sex Zombies of the Fourth Reich" out the bottom drawer.
CGI may have advanced sufficiently for what's been festering in my brain pan for the last 10 years.
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See Open Range as proof.
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And here I am at work because this cunt of a project has a deadline. Fuck this.
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Finished season 7 last night. Quite underwhelming. In fact the whole season was underwhelming. And the tranformation of Chesty Freckles: FBI Agent to Chesty Freckles: Madame Bauer was most unconvincing.
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the thing that really got to me, was that she was getting messages from this guy that she was clearly fucking, and then she tries to lie her way out of it. This is fine in itself, if it weren't for the fact that she'd already been lying and viciously insane for the previous hour and a half. I could even have coped with that if the first place she went wasn't round to the guy's house to look at his fucking useless sculpture of her in the buff. And then she's got the fucking temerity to go back to the place, and cut the argument out from the viewer so we can only hear her self serving voiceover which she even owns up to lying to him in. What the fuck? And then she's got the brass neck to dump his ass. I was saying, when she started acting up about 1/4 of the way into the movie, "You taxi now. Destination Charles De Gaulle. Leave the bitch there". Was she meant to be psychotic? because it came across as that.
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what sort of twat shows pictures of their boyfriend/ girlfriend naked to their parents- especially when the picture is copied from a picture she took previously. And what sort of inconsiderate twat makes the poor fucker suffer through an evening surrounded by his/her ex's. Fucking hell- worst film I've seen in ages. Someone should have said to her, "yes, before sunset was good, and you had a hand in writing it, but YOU ARE NOT LINKLATER".
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Only because of Before Sunrise/Sunset. Which are brilliant and I love unconditionally. I tried to watch that 2 days in Paris and got about 15 minutes in. Both main characters were fuckheads. Never seen the Three colours flicks. The only thing I remember her in other than that is An American Werewolf in Paris. Which was abysmal.
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The new Linklater flick 'Me and Orson Welles', which has Zac Efron in it, can't get a US distributor. Surely they can dupe the moron teenagers of america into the cinema by pushing the efron angle.
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With 2 days though, she gets more annoying the longer the film goes on, and it isn't just her- it's her whole family and social group. The dad keys cars, the sister who is meant to be a sociopath is comes across as a non-fuckhead. He's clearly a cunt at the start, what with whinging about allergies, and he stays a twat, but she's so out of order so often that it's her that comes off as the cunt.Not to mention lots of it is severely jarring- when she runs into an ex-boyfriend who she says is a paedo and she turns it into some sort of anti-imperialist rant. Then she gets pissy when they threw her out of the restaurant, and he's sat there bemused and not understanding through the whole row. If she'd said to him at the start (instead of ignoring his presence) "shit my ex is here and he's a filthy fucking paedo" then the poor bastard would have been cool. Instead, she causes a mortifying scene and then gets upset when he clearly doesn't believe her about the paedo thing. It's just poorly written shit. Unless she was meant to be a twat.
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In "2 Days" Julie Delphy was like Stallone at his vomitous self-congratulatory, vainglorious worst.
I felt like shouting at the screen - you know - spiteful life tips.
All that callous, irony-starved vanity.
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May 19, 2009 6:08:29 AM CDT
Sounds like I made the right choice
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
by turning it off after 15 minutes. Sounds like it got even worse.
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May 19, 2009 6:28:24 AM CDT
I watched a lot of flicks over the weekend
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I turned on film4 on sunday afternoon and just sat and watched every flick that they had on. So I saw... Volcano - Worse than I remember. And the annoying as fuck little kid at the end who says some cloyingly sentimental drivel about how everyone looks the same with volcano ash on their face. What a load of shit. Memoirs of an Invisible Man - I remembered this as a comedy. It's obviously been a long time since I've seen it because it wasn't funny and pretty much played as a straight up thriller. With a stupid noir-ish voiceover. Chevy was woefully miscast. My Cousin Vinnie - Pretty funny. Tomei was good, but it's ridiculous that she won an oscar.
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See, I thought last night's episode of 24 was outstanding. And you have a problem with Chesty Freckles' transformation? Dude, all of this shit goes down in 24 hours...the whole thing is implausible. The swings in character arcs and how they feel is pretty extraordinary. Tony's scene at the end was great. "You killed my son!"
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May 19, 2009 6:30:45 AM CDT
fucking 5 errors Mets?!!?!! Five fucking errors!??!!!!
by just pillow talk
FUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCKKKKK!
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and the cold air is blowing in my office. Right.
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Sunset clearly gave her delusions of grandeur. That fucking voiceover drove me potty in it- then Mrs. Jarv points out to me that they hadn't even split up. I was going what the fuck? and just getting more and more demented. I don't care though, because Critters is next (FOR THE WIN!), which is an awesome piece of stupidity and she can't complain about it now.
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Oh dear. That's shit isn't it?
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I reckon this is the start of Carpenter's slide. He's clearly not cut out for mainstream comedy. It isn't terminally crap, but it sure as fuck isn't great.
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http://tinyurl.com /pd8wusIt may have already been posted here but couldn't tell as the search facility here is about as useful as a catflap on a Jumbo Jet.
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I think someone mentioned it in one of the TB's. I've never seen the original, but know it's supposed to be very good.
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I should be anywhere but here at work...
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I've got so much to do and have just had a menial job dumped on me.
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I've mostly been rude about Baldwin's fatness.
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Hehehehehehe. What shall I do? I suppose I could just waffle on like this for 100 posts.
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Why would anyone swoon over that shit unless they were a fucking pedophile? Hi Jarv. :)
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I wonder if Empire need someone who actually knows something about films and doesn't suck corporate cock to write for them. I could do the DTV section. Mind you, seeing as my surname isn't double-barreled and I can't rely on nepotism to get me in the door there, and I hate them, then it's a bit unlikely.
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This will give me something cool to focus on and get my mind off how pissed I am about that other topic.
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I wonder if there is a website on this. I'm going to find out.
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Thank the lord. I hate being all by myself. Which topic is that?
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Just because Harry and Yoko get their rocks off to it doesn't mean that every female does. Disgraceful!
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Now that is something to get excited over, even before I've gone beyond it.
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7 minutes per pint or half if your a big girl. Not possible and a lot of time on Public transport.
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again. Harry needs to stop pushing this shit.
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Some friends are doing it for one's 21st birthday. I was invited, but I don't drink. I don't think it would be quite as much fun for me. On the other hand, maybe that would make it better...
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It isn't worth the nuisance of a new I.D.
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but I've handed out the usual OUTLANDER slap
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May 19, 2009 11:50:12 AM CDT
It's almost like he's trying to start a fight with the articles.
by mavra chang
But is it between him and the TBers or the TBers with each other?
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Where did you find the picture of the diver? I'm trying to find a link to it and am not having any luck so far. I have to use a link to post photos.
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SO fucking sexist I can vomit. If you like Twilight, it doesn't mean you're in touch with your feminine side or anything. It means you're a moron. My girlfriend HATED the movie, probably more than I did.
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Tallyho! (No puns intended)
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The dioxholster kid is not putting up much of a fight.
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What kind of a warciple am I? Fail.
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Don't know who yet, but here's the link: http://tinyurl.com/qsd99j
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AIBN new site comes online Friday to coincide with the glory of Salvation.
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How are you doing? It's exciting, isn't it?
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He's trying to drive hit numbers up because I bet the overall numbers at AICN are in free fall. Look at how small the top 10 numbers are compared to even a year ago. Less numbers mean less ad revenue. So with that in mind that's why every Saturday a new installment of scriptgirl and twilight coverage. All the idjits gravitate to those two, get all blustery, and hit numbers roll up.I find it funny all the alleged "smart people" fall for this every time he does it. Ignore it and it goes away. Pretty simple really.On the other hand, unfortunantly, the tween girls and thier moms are the biggest consumers of this twilight swill. Have you ever been in a Boarders or some such place around the time a new twilight book or the movie came out? I was, and except for two obvious gay dudes, everybody buying the book or movie tie ins were females between the ages of 11 and 40. So on that particular point Harry is technically correct.
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before the new site opens up?
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They were really interested in the genre, but they formed their own sort of mob of book/movie fandom. But it wasn't gender specific. Thus entire Twilight thing is geared to make females look like simpering simpletons and it's being touted by people like Harry that we ALL drool over it. It gets my hackles up in a mjor way! Guess I'm in a rant mood over it, aren't I?
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An official membership. You get the decoder ring in the mail in 4-6 weeks.
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Danny's new site
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The old Bale site?
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That would be the place
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I think on the front page.
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I was talking to a lad at work who watched Twilight with his girlfriend. He hated it and she hated it.Meself, I can't see what there is to hate; it sounds simply delightful. I wish someone had told Christopher Lee he only needed to wear sunglasses to avoid climbing into a coffin before every sunrise.
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Christopher Lee - the actor - doesn't climb into a coffin every sunrise.But who knows, mayhap he does.
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You can only go one of two ways; the classic depiction that's been done (well) a hundred times. Or, you try something different.On this occasion I'm all for the different. The movie looks okay, let's hope there's more to it than what's in the trailer.
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what's in the trailer is at least worth a chuckle. That hammer thing... well, I laughed anyway.
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On Mulberry Street? There's an ad for this 'un at the top of the page. First I've heard of it. Is that Will Smith on the soundtrack going - "Aww, hell no."?
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On Mulberry Street a Billy Joel song?
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the world record for having snails on your face is 25?
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And who thought of making it record worthy in the first place?
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Rebel Yell! Word!
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It's probably best if they go in a new direction with this depiction of the great detective. Although what that is I have no idea since most every permutation of what Holmes could be has been done.
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What's that?
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I've just realised.
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Don't get too worked up over it. ;)
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me brain's slowing down. That's my excuse anyway.
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Something isn't right with that.
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It's night!In the day, I'm a work wolf.
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That might be exceedingly useful information.
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In the blink of an eye, at any moment.
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We could use some war wolfness around here to liven things up. Wake up folks...the war wolf is howling at your door (and he needs more lime!).
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But if there's any going...
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But, listen, Mav... Fred was on t'other day expressing an interest in Skype. Don't know if you've got his e-mail to send him the link, he sounded quite keen. Ish.Have a good 'un.
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I'll see if I can catch him soon.
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Anyone seen it? Is it good or boring?
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It was good, but nothing like I was expecting. Don't be waiting for big action scenes. It's serious drama.
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And ohhh I realized my mistake. It said directed by Damien DANTE Wayans. My first thought was why the fuck are they emphising the middle name of Keenen Wayans. Then I realized that these are two different Wayans's, and also that Keenen IVORY Wayans always put emphesis on his middle name. Silly Wayans clan.
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I thought there was going to be a Streep/PSH 15 minute showdown.
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He looks kind of flabby.
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how is everyone?
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It's quiet around here. Too quiet! See any good movies lately?
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I've been on a Preston Sturges kick. Hilarious stuff, but with just enough bitterness running underneath.
When this modern world gets ya down, retreat into fantasy versions of the past, I say.
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Reviews for Informers?
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Is Drag me to Hell going to be that good? Its got 100% on Rotten Tomatoes and a handful of reviews. I'm sure it'll drop but still that is pretty good for a horror film. It must be good or Spiderman 3 was really that bad.
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In the Mouth of Madness, which was pretty creepy. I also saw The Horsemen, which I thought started off good, but then fell flat. I watched part of Santa's Slay, but haven't gotten back to it. I'm on a schlock kick.
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The opening weekend take for the contest?
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Paris, Texas.....which I'd completely forgotten and which is wonderful. Re-watched Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, which, holy shit, is a fucking GENIUS film. A just-ok Roy Orbison documentary called In Dreams that, unfortunately, features Bono, but no Tom Waits.
I'm certainly open to suggestions, preferably of the "good antidote to depression" variety...
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Over at www.mymavra.com. My Bloody Valentine 3D. It's a pretty easy contest. You just have to guess the opening weekend take for Drag me to Hell (and the tiebreaker is the weekend take of Up).
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Didn't that have a terrible ending? Yes I finally guessed, man you guys were hounding me about that.
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Don't know that Orbison doc, but I really liked that creepy Robert Downy Jr, before he was cool enough for the geeks to let him be known as RDJ, serial killer movie. You know the one with the apples? But Crying Game director. Also Paris, Texas you liked that movie? I own it because my buddy bought two copies, I can't remember anything about that movie except for the fact that it was boring as shit.
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But we wanted to make sure you had your chance, especially since you're one of the moderators and put so much work into the site. The ending of the movie probably could have been better, but Sam Neill had the insane look down pat.
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I still haven't gotten around to registering over there. Though I do pop in for the reviews.
I really like the scope of the site. It feels really human to me, to have as many sections as there are interests of the folks involved. Something that's often lacking when everyone is jumping up and down to do their best impression of corporate bullshit. -
Howcome it took a banner Ad to inform me about a new GDT thing? Isn't this his website?
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That's very kind of you. Lots of people here put their hearts into their writing for it. I can't ever say enough good words about them all.
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I'd completely forgotten that was the name of that movie! That was my first brain wrap experience, while I was playing projectionist for a midnight showing. I'll never forget the feeling of horror as it sunk through my drunkenness that yes, indeed, the film was melting.
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props to you for wading into the twilight tb. harry's post induced in me a sense of disgust only rivaled by my sense of futility. So I didn't bother. I'm so sick of people referring to women as if we were some homogeneous mass of undifferentiated lady stuff, complete with uniform preferences and worth based solely on "fuckability."
I am kind of interested in reading the books though, but only because I want to see for myself how fucked up they are. I read an essay about the last one, where they get married and fuck finally, and I can only hope that the young gals reading it understand that in this case the "horror" extends beyond the genre cliches and applies to EVERYTHING in the damn book. -
I am a big Harry Dean Stanton fan. Also a big Sam Shepard fan. And I really like Wenders and pretty pictures.
Though, I will say that I watched it again because i had seen it about five years ago, and I didn't remember a single thing about it other than that Harry Dean was in it, and that some kid was in it. I didn't even remember that Dean Stockwell was it! And that's a pretty weird thing to forget. -
Like I said, it isn't the books or movies themselves (because I consider them forgettable in the long-term), but the implications that are being attached to them.
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But the cast alone sounds worth the watch. I like Dean Stockwell. here's an oldie from the vault...ever seen "Kim"? One of his early movies. Good stuff.
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Such rigid frameworks for interpretation. And sweeping generalizations that end up as these self-fulfilling prophecies. Soooo lame.
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No, i haven't. Will look for it on youtube.
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It's about a British orphan who's been abandoned in India and has become a street urchin/thief. Dean Stockwell plays him.
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GOD I want to see that movie. So, so badly. So jealous of the Cannes people that got to see it.
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so some REALLY early Stockwell. Sounds good! I do love me some street urchin stories. Same goes for any movie that involves catching a freight into or out of town.
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We like our flames to be personal, not generalized, just like everyone else.
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That looks pretty wicked. I'm looking forward to it.
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fighting the good fight.
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For me, it's all about the stuff that's hittin Cannes.
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Morman propaganda? Isn't she a Morman?
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Were you talking about In Dreams?
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The Osmonds are all very cool, so how bad can they be? I've got to go for awhile. Later folks!
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get it?
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Yeah, In Dreams. Drunken teenager slowly realizing that it wasn't a crazy effect I was seeing up on the screen, but the actual film melting. Whoops! I haven't thought about that in years...
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That gay guy stealing the Donnie Darko version of the Tears For Fears song and then acting like he came up with it is sooo fucking lame. He did the same with Muse with the song Felling Good. Too bad he had no one to copy off of the final song and he showed that he isn't original at all. I hope the guy with the perv stache coming in wins.
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Anybody speak Spanish? Or anybody see the previous film?
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Is getting a lot better. Not Breaking Bad good yet. Man that show (Bad) when it starts slipping into MEH territory they bring it right back into edge of your seat can't miss event shit.
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Because I remember The Butcher Boy being this CRAZY ass movie. But I bought it when it finally came out on the DVD and watched it. Memories smashed, it was a lot more boring then I remember. So I am thinking In Dreams will just be a shitty movie. I saw the Crying Game not to long ago and it wasn't that great either. But I do remember the Good Thief and that was really good, like an indie Oceans 11.
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Breakfast on Pluto/Micheal Collins/The Jodie Forster thing/We're No Angles/The Company of Wolves and Interview With a Vampire. Because I realized that I've seen High Spirits and Mona Lisa recently as well.
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May 19, 2009 10:06:57 PM CDT
Twilight books = Mitt Romney ass fucking propaganda
by dannyglovers_dickblood
"BRING ON THE CHILDREN. BRING ON THE PAIN."
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In Dreams is fucking insane. That movie still scares me.
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That I haven't seen since I was a kid, and I would really like to see again.
I didn't think the Crying Game was all that great the first time around, but haven't seen it since. There's a good chance that In Dreams could come across that way. It's been, what, ten years now? I remembered Ravenous being a lot better than it ended up being when I watched it again recently. Really wished it had been more like my memories of it. -
Hola
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I'm watchin' American Idol West Coast style.
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May 19, 2009 10:14:29 PM CDT
I haven't seen Wolves...but I've seen everything else of his.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
IMO Dreams is his finest achievement.
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Getting ready to take dog out for last pee
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Who do you want to win? The Gay song style stealer, or typical sounding guy with perv stache?
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Anyone watching it? Its no Nip/Tuck.
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Was one of the Malcolm Kids, but I guess this is really his first thing.
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lucky toad, with TCM!
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May 19, 2009 10:25:57 PM CDT
I like Adam better....he seems like a nice guy.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
And I don't get the whole song style stealer thing. In reality they probably have next to nothing to do with the arrangement. They pretend they have a lot more say than they do.
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He's got that date rapist glare in his eyes.
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Gonna be one of the few television shows I check out.
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I am a classics movie freak. This month they are doing Latino flicks. I had no idea John Saxon was Latino!
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I need something to fill the empty space left by Lost. There isn't a single tv show I'm following at this point. At least, there won't be come Thursday, after the season finale of Hell's Kitchen.
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Thanks toad! I've been trying to think of a cheer-up sort of thing to watch and now I know: Mitchell! (MST3K, naturally)
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I don't know. The coolest arrangement I've ever heard on that show was last year with David Cooke and that Mariah Carrey song. Adam did a version of Reign of Fire that was done on that Rock Star Supernova show, Muse's version of Feeling Good and the Donnie Darko version of Mad World (though I prefer the original). And any song that didn't already have a cool arrangement of it he sucked like the final song tonight. As for Kris he had some really cool songs like She Works Hard For the Money and Heartless. Plus he is more wholesome on paper and I think he'll get the wife killers voters. Those good ole christian's won't vote for someone who enjoys it when the Joker pokes the Prince of Persia.
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http://tinyurl.com/cts6xa
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Its like what Sit Down Shut Up should have been. That show sucks.
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...it sounded cool, but it was hardly original according to your logic.
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Are you not watching Breaking Bad? If not shame on you, its the best thing in any form of entertainment right now. Also Rescue Me is on and new. Lost is LOW down on my list of good TV. Shit I haven't even watched the last two episodes, but I'm caught up on pretty much everything else. Lost is just stringing its viewers on its getting stupid now.
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John Saxon was a decent - mid level action duded in early seventies. He starred in a TV show that was a kin to buck rogers, but without the spaceship, and the lasers, and the hawk men, Wilma and being in outer space and stuff - but he was frozen for centuries! He also had a classic turn in Enter the Dragon!
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Well then ok. That's lame. I bet that David Cook version of Mariah Carrey's song is probably someone else then. The thing about Lambert, is that would you want to fucking hear an hour of that screaming? No. If I turned on a song of his in my car girls would tell me to turn it off, but since he is on Idol and he is as unique as every hair metal band from the 80 (BUT AH AH! Its no longer the 80's and The Darkness didn't really stick. SO its different!-Say that like your Jeff Goldblum), but an hour of Kris wouldn't make you wish you were Helen Keller, just that you were a little dumber (or a 12 year old girl/guy (deepening on the growth of creep stache Idol lets Kris grow out).
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I read your Twilight posts! Funny stuff!
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I just listen to that Fray version of Hearless, man Kris is AH AH Heartless for doing that (say it like Jeff Goldblum).
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http://tinyurl.com/cvmt4a
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JEFF GOLDBLUM = CUNT MAGNET
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Was the Billboard Hot 100 Hits to Date. The songs people picked that week were SOO fucking bad.
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May 19, 2009 11:11:02 PM CDT
Yes! Kung went on a crusade against me again....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
....he freaked because I said everyone I know uses the term 'GAY' to mean LAME, having nothing to do with sexual preference. Awwwww its fun arguing with hot headed children.
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May 19, 2009 11:15:14 PM CDT
Danny, he is just trying to make sure you keep it real
by toadkillerdog
So that you don't go all Hollywood. with your new found internetz fame and fortune. Sometimes the smacketh needs to be layeth down!
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That whole TB is filled with over sensitive bullshit. People calling BSB homophobic?! What the fuck? Both he and I were screaming over Prop 8 in November.
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sounds pretty fucked up!
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Ha. My treasure is bitches.
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I remember in high school, were gay was like every 5th word out of my mouth. I was hanging out with this girl who had become bi-sexual after her first year of college and she was in town with her gay friend. And they got so UPSET with me because I would not stop saying the word Gay. So since they got mad of course I used it more, eventual they got so pissed they brought me back home. SOOO fucking gay.
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What TB?
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And now it means LAME. It never once had anything to do with sucking on dicks in my opinion.
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Have to do with sucking on dicks? I thought that was homosexual? When did gay ever mean homosexual?
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Man I love that fucking show. Makes me just want to balloon up to Harry Knowles size and just say fuck it to fitness. How that Guy Guy isn't like a 400 pound Biggest Loser before mess is beyond me.
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I fucking love that show as well......
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To see if he ever comes within 100 miles of me, then I am going to go to that place and have my first heart attack.
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is that fu's for-real girlfriend in the tb? I didn't scroll up very far from the bottom. I also didn't get the part where you made fun of her(?)
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May 20, 2009 12:17:52 AM CDT
I have no idea what that girlfriend business was.....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
.....was that, that Baby Fat girl? Was that what he meant? What the fuck?
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mofreefreckles, maybe? But the "making fun of" part is still unclear.
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None of have girlfriends are even know what girls are.
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Don't you think that the guy that plays Kenny is giving Ron Jeremy's best performance ever?
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if i end up having to go to a doctor i am going to be fucking pissed.
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any thoughts?
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Sucked balls, it was just boring as shit. I actually liked the stupid movie I can't remember the name that Guy did before. Also how fast can Gerard Butler become a poor man's Jason Statham?
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Looks ok, won't be as good as Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and looks like RDJ is playing that version of himself this time. He's only really got two modes, calm collect know it all jerk ladies man or jittery spazy know it all jerk ladies man.
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Mofree's or however it's spelled is Kungfus GF. How you insulted her I'm not sure. Also, how would you know? I don't think you were in the TB when that info came out.
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If you run a sustained temp over 104 go to the doctor ASAP.If you are sick for more then 4 days go to the doctor.showing signs of dehydratin=Doctor ASAP you will need an IV.
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Did you mean Lou because of how he looks or because he might or might not have banged the French broad?
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I am just saying because he looks just like Ron Jeremy sensa 50 pounds.
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http://www.marvel.com/news/vgstories.8069.Marvel_Ultimate_Alliance_2~colon~_Deadpool_Trailer
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Lou does sort of favor Ron Jeremy a bit. More so when he's sporting a 'stache
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And if you've even seen Ron act outside of what he normally does, he sounds and acts just like Lou. They should get him on with a guest spot. The documentary Ron Jeremy: Legend of a Pornstar is one of the sad documentary. It's weird because they make you feel sad about Ron, but at the end of the day that shlub is one of the luckiest fucks on the planet.
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In Las Vegas. He was standing around the Venitian talking to Vince Neil of Motely Crew. Both of them are almost fidgets in size.
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I don't know why you think I get so mad. It's not like typing takes much energy, so it's pretty easy to remain pretty damn calm all the time. Bottom line is I think you're slightly smarter than a thirteen year old raised by cross-bred camels and I have no problem telling you how dumb you are, because we probably will never meet. Even if we did, I'm convinced you're at least a little washed-up right now, probably getting something of a beer gut, and like seven eighths of your brain cells fried away from years of staring at a computer screen and doing who the hell knows what else. Am I even a little bit close?You seem pretty sensitive about me getting "educated" too. If you don't have a degree I would never judge you for it. Some of the best men I know haven't been to college and that's fine. If you do have a degree, then you're a fucking hypocrite and probably need to shut your dumb ass up again.And again dude, these are just empty words in a box. You can take them as hurtful words from some "kid" but I just had some free time after finishing an essay and thought I would check in. Really dude, it's pathetic how anytime you start something you go crying to everybody how mean I am. So stop being a puss Mr. Drama King.
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girlfriend. Woopdy-doo, give the talkbacker the free toaster. Like every other member of the C of C is gettin busy.
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I'm a punk? What are you, the bald guy from the Back to the Future movies? Shine yer 'ead guvnah?!
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..now on limited UK release - saw it at the Renoir Bloomsbury last night and it was amazing.He may be madder than a bag of squirrels INSIDE a bucket of frogs but Werner Herzog manages not just to capture the beauty of the place but also to say a lot about the human condition. Not just from the people there either - 'deranged' penguins also get a look in. Reminded me that we are all doomed anyway so why waste your life following the crowd when you can instead toddle off on your own path and go look at the mountains!I know you guys in the US/larger world probably saw this years ago and I could have imported it on DVD but damm glad I saw it on the big screen. So impressed I just had to get it out there...Oh, and,menstrual_blitz - hope you feel better soon but see a doctor. That is what they are there for.Lost Jarv - quit your fuckin' job mate. Life is too short to spend a 1/3 of your life doing something you hate. If you are in IT and live near London let me know.And John Saxon KICKS ARSE (though not anywhere higher up the body than that judging by ETD)
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this is the Twitch TB- an oasis of calm and niceness in the wretched hive of scum villainy and lameness of AICN.
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6 months and I'm outta here.
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I need to work out how to be an MP.
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Anyway, most of it happened on a Twilight talkback, which is a good place to dump out all the garbage I suppose. The last bit just dribbled in from there.
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and get a grossly overpaid job in the state sector with longer holidays. I've no qualms about mincing taxpayers money.
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I hope working in the Public Sector works out mate - judging by the number of times you post here I can see the one thing you need in your life is more spare time! ;-)
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I work damned hard, Well, I turn up. I've already got loads of holidays. I just would like more! There's plenty of bad films yet to be seen or time to be spent in Spain.
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I'm off next week.
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I should look into that.
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2 day week for me - Bank Holiday and then wedding in Zurich thursday/friday.Does mean I will miss the UK T4 opening but going by early word won't be missing much!I was going to avoid (most of) the TBs here anyway next week to avoid heavy spoilers and keep my expectations in check.
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May 20, 2009 4:10:53 AM CDT
Aussie squad for Ashes announced - No Symonds
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
How I see the first test line up Batting Order
Simon Katich
Phillip Hughes
Ricky Ponting
Michael Clarke
Michael Hussey
Mitchell Johnson
Shane Watson (depending on injury, if not it will be McDonald)
Brad Haddin
Brett Lee
Nathan Hauritz
Peter Siddle -
Mitchell Johnson below Haddin.
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That's a pretty good 11. Not quite the amazing 11 of yesteryear, but it shits all over the Poms. *poke*
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May 20, 2009 6:25:18 AM CDT
There's plenty of bad films yet to be seen or time to be spent i
by just pillow talk
Lucky cunt.
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I've been busy at work all day. That team is garbage, by the way- full of has beens (Ponting, Hussey) and Never Wases (Katich, Watson, Haddin) with a bit of young potential to cover you.
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Too damned expensive and I'm there for a month in the summer instead, as well as a week in October, 2 in March and probably Christmas. I hate the cold and rain.
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Toxie 3 is coming. Critters tonight, then Toxie 3. Excellent.
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Sigh.
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that wasn't me.
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10 shithouse players and a saffa.
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Fred not want to stoke any fires, but Harry has given Outlander a nice review in his DVD TB. Fred remembers how you have taken him to task in the past for not promoting that movie. Well, after you read his blurb about, you might be a bit incredulous. Fire stoking Fred
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thank you very much. If you are going to be rude, please get it right.
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I'm not sure whether I can be arsed to flame him for it.
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That's probably me banned.
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May 20, 2009 8:55:44 AM CDT
Danny and Kung, kiss and make up fer fook's sake
by hawaiian organ donor
I ain't tolerating this crap on my watch.As Jarv says, the Twitch TB is an oasis of calm and tranquility so give each other an awkward hug and move along.I got a lot of crap going on in my life right now folks. I have terminally ill parents, a failing marriage, a stomach bug that won't allow me to keep anything down and a f'n mid-life crisis fast approaching. So if I can keep my shit together than so can the rest of you.As far as the Bale News site goes, that goddamn thing is giving me an ulcer. The host company is giving me grief as I try to transition over to a new host that better meets our needs. So when I'm not on the phone with those Verizon pricks telling them to drop dead because of their miserable f'n service, I'm fighting with some granola asshat at a web hosting company who seems intent that I don't reach 40.So techically the Bale site could be up this week but it'll be bare bones as hell. But i assure you, when that bastard is up, it'll f'n floor each and every one of you. So hold tight and spread the word that the Donor hasn't slept in days because he's working for you.Now excuse me while I get up from my desk and walk off this excruciating pain in my chest.
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I will personally board a plane to England and force you to walk around London wearing nothing but a billboard that says "England isn't fit to a pimple on Australia's arse."
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that sounds terrible. Hope you come out alright at the other end.
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fun way. I'm not joking- if it wasn't for this section, then I wouldn't bother with this place any more.
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Life really decided to screw me this month. I just have a ton of shit I need to sort out.Being away from this place hasn't helped either as the Twitch TB is always the best part of my workday.So we know my life sucks, but how is everyone else doing?
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Respect brother. That show makes me want to eat the WORLD! With cheese. I don't know how he isn't 400 pounds.
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A few weeks ago. He was like "I come here to eat 'cause nobdy bothers me". He looked like he wanted to unscrew Guy's head.
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10 shithouse and a saffa sums up the Pommy cricket team.
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Hope things get better for you, mate. Look forward to checkin out the new site when you finally #2 pencil jihad the IT monkeys.
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been fecking skint for a while so not been able to do anything and my job has leeched my soul for the last few months. Aside from that, I've been alright. And I've got Critters to watch- which I haven't seen in 20 years. I'm really excited.
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The spirit of Bale drives you forward. As it does to us all.
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May 20, 2009 9:27:40 AM CDT
How to be a medical professional - Aussie style
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Absolute genius. This blokes a legend. http://tinyurl.com/o47fbr
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He's encouraging people to keep Twitch out of the top spot. I say we take it to #1.
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Nothing but good thoughts from me, man! Really sorry to hear about the crap raining down on you. You're a good guy and deserve nothing but good things.
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I forget, did you get the Skype information? I've been really bad about keeping up with everything lately, but that means I can only get better about it.
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You say the sweetest things!
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It's called "The Devil's Tomb". It has Ron Perlman and Cuba Gooding Jr. Very bloody, but very entertaining. Anyone else seen it?
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That squad is BOLLOCKS by aussie standards- where's your all rounder? where's your spinner? 3 of your top 6 are out of form and 1 is an unknown quantity. what a farce, it's almost as if you had selectors as useless as ours.
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http://gjk2.com/test/test.swf Maybe you can save it for later.
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I wish you had picked fat alky lunatic brummie symonds (picking English players- what the fuck?). He'd never have been able to stay out of the pub and apparently there's lots of splendid fishing around. Anyway, it would only be fair seeing as we are likely to pick our fat over the hill alky.
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That should be saved for the CoC archives.
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A segment of "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives" was done in my town last year at a place called "The Triple X". They got so excited about the promotion that the big banner with the show info is still hanging above the restaurant.
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Just curious.
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I know who killed me. Bollocks. I think Lohan got her tits oot at the start, but you couldn't tell. And there was a really nasty TP scene in it.
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I get teacher's holidays (roughly 50 days per year) so can go a lot.
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But not really a fan of Lohan.
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Bale is a false God! REPENT sinners! REPENT!
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Must be the golden calf we set up next to The Zone.
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May 20, 2009 10:14:47 AM CDT
Repenting is good for the soul and the pocket book of the pastor
by hey_kobe_tell_me_how_my_ass_tastes
All ye who have sworn fealty to the false God Bale, REPENT! Refuse the lures of Bale and all ancillary products! Repent and KNEEEEL before ZOD! Neal before Zod!
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"Do your duty today and repent tomorrow" Mark Twain Bale will forgive you, or fist you, depending on his mood. He is a loving but wrathful god.
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Got to do something constructive. Ciao
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He is but an agent of the holy trinity. Albeit one well versed in destruction- A demigod if anything.
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... And everyone gets delusions of grandeur. I'm without internets for a few days and this tv is too big to work on my phone . Don't go nuts without me.
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Are up over on Mymavra for all those interested in the world of the super duper.
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'In Bruges' for a penny shy of 4 quid. Not bad, eh (I have to type 'quid' cos the pound sign has disappeared off me keyboard - fook knows why). Hopefully give it a spin this bank holiday weekend.
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Hang in there, mate.
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Was WAY better and much more different than I thought it would be. That ending was a damn tragedy. Still, really solid stuff.
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I only have two words for you: scroll button.
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What and miss all the fun?
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Not till next weekend for us UK'ers. But it's never been on my 'must watch' list anyway. I don't know who the director is. Has he got a name? Putting 'McG' on the credits is the same as putting 'Thomas Lee' on there, for me.Don't be ashamed, fella, put your name to it.
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... peering out from behind a screen name!
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"I'm sorry your brother and his girlfriend emasculated you with their vicious wincing..."Gold. Nearly herniated meself laughing at that one in the Twilight TB.
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Was a good little movie and if anybody says Colin Farrell can't act has not seen it.
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It would a cool tie in if you got AIBN up and running by Friday but all the agina it's causing really isn't worth it. Take some time my man you sound like you need it.
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Best flick of 2008 for me.
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This show has a glimmer of potential. The musical parts were well done and the song choices were interesting. The story line was weak but they pulled it together in the last 10 minutes so it earned another look come September.
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Guy dies, finds himself resurrected, meets others, fights. That lasts for almost two hours. Not exactly a glowing review.
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Was pretty bad.
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or he's watched Jerry Maguire to many times and ate bad pizza. This is pretty funny and so honest It's surprising.tinyurl.com/ok2pcl
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May 20, 2009 10:42:05 PM CDT
To all the gun nuts *raises hand* and cubicle warriors
by toadkillerdog
Check this out
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What boyfriend?
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Gay guy, go figure.
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Gave a better review to Next Day Air then Star Trek. I think the Alzheimer is kicking in.
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Jason Mraz has a gotee! I'm gonna grow a goat now!
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Has a number one hit. We really don't learn anything as a nation do we. God they have not been good since...ever. Like I thought American Idiot was going to be the song that would eventually hunt me down and kill me with how fucking retarded and blad it was, but I was wrong I now know it's what ever the fuck that new song is. Man and I thought the last Foo Fighters song was shit, Green Day didn't even try on that song.
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While funny, is just Kimmel. He is the funniest thing in late night by a long shot. He is funny as fuck and pulls no punches, it sounds just like a typical monologue. Fucking just finally put him in a place people listened.
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Honestly, I didn't think he had the balls. Good on him for growing some though.
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You need to watch Kimmel every night, he is always like that.
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what time?
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Thanks but I'll stick to my 1911, M4, 870 and M40A3.
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at umm 12 Central. So your pacific time right? I guess its just 11 there.
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That it was the Tomb Raider movie to bring NIN into action movies? Now every action movie has to have a NIN song.
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Leftfield rule
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and it was as good as I remembered it being when I was a jarvling. What I find surprising about it is that it isn't a proper gory monster-fest like the other Gremlins rip offs, rather, it's much closer in tone to that film- it's almost playful. I recommend without reservation, but more for a Sunday afternoon hangover film.
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are far "harder". It's hilarious the people that have been in Critters films- Barad Dourif, Billy Zane, Angela Basset, Leonardo DiCaprio... I'm buying a box set if such an animal exists. Critters 3 has to be worth it for Leonardo's first leading role.
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critters is only a 12 in the uk. Iy used to be a 15. Surprising, mind you it isn't gory.
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I love ryhming slang. Where are you, I want to laugh at that dismal aussie selection.
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Used to scare the shit out of me back when I was a wee lass. How many of those things did they make. They need to have a box set of Critters and Attack of the Killer George Cloondawgs.
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Critters and Critters 2 (The Main Course), then Critters 3 (in the city), and Critters 4 (in Space). I remember 3 being shit, but it's 15 years since I saw it, and I'm more sophisticated now.
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It's £25. I'm wondering if I can justify it to Mrs. Jarv
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I remember seeing the first two, but I definitely haven't seen the 3rd and 4th ones. They should have had a Ghoulies vs. Critters movie, or some other cross-over type nonsense, just like they did with AVP shit. At least I think a Ghoulies vs. Critters movie would be much more entertaining and hilarious.
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Anytime someone karate chops a racist drunk dwarf, it's money.
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I will say three "2for2true's" in your name. If that doesn't help you get through your current situation, I will resort to sacrificing my department and the HR department with my bic bright liner.
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May 21, 2009 6:47:37 AM CDT
Mate, you should take a look at your shitty team
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
before you "laugh at that dismal aussie selection". Also, we bat all the way down do 9. You cunts are lucky to get to six, which is Prior. Who is only half decent on dead tracks against rubbish opposition. Example Number One of how we line up Mitchell Johnson - Batting Avg 34 - Top Score 123* -
Bowling Avg 28 Jimmy Anderson - Batting Avg 13 - Top Score 34 - Bowling Avg 35 -
Mrs. Jarv won't have any problem with it. None. Nada. Zilch.Or just play dumb and hope for the best.
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No arguing there. Probably the best film of last year.
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very well... The Mets were 0 - 10 with runners in scoring position.3 -27 for the entire 3 game series with the Dodgers, which of course they dropped all 3.They are now trailing the Phillies by 1 game since they've decided to stop hitting, make double the amount of mistakes.
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Wright and Beltran.Everyone else has decided to hit like my daughter and run like Warwick Davis in Willow.
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Prior has an average of nearly 50. Ergo, you're talking shite. England bat to either 8 or 9 depending on if flintoff is playing. A 6-9 of Prior, Freddie, Broad, Swann is fecking good. Oh I know, it's because you've got to use Watson as an all rounder (HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA). Broad has an average of nearly 40. Nice way to pick the bowler that supports your argument, rather than the other one. Both Broad's and Andersen's bowling average is falling (good), and batting rising.Anyway, this is a year too early for this England side. Australia 2-1, but I've got some hope for the future.
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sadly. I used to like watching it when I had insomnia. Don't worry pillows this is the last time for 7 weeks. The squad was announced yesterday. By the way, haven't the Mets sucked for about, erm, ever?
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May 21, 2009 6:58:26 AM CDT
You're talking absolute shit again
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Because the averages of Broad, Prior et al are against fucking awful opposition. That's all the english ever have. An eternal hope that things will be better in the future. But they never are. You're always shit except for one shining period when the stars aligned and things went your way.
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May 21, 2009 7:01:06 AM CDT
Freddie is a fat cunt who's...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
too busy eating pies, guzzling pints and falling off pedalo's. He's over and if you're pinning your hopes on him making some runs in the lower order you're more delusional than I thought. It's why we left Symonds out of the team.
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They have sucked. It's like their missing a testicle.
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Broad - Batting Avg 29 - Top Score 76 - Bowling Avg - 39
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So that begs the question: why the fuck am I here?
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India (who beat you in Australia) in India. Or SA that you're coming in your pants over beating a knackered and indifferent side that had beaten you previously? Typical, Aussie- you'll still win, but you ain't great any more.
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Fuck cricket.
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Which was good, but not as good as I remembered it being.I think I've gone off Christian Bale. Either it's that rant, or all the fuss about the rant, or possibly the internet in-joke about Bale that doesn't make me laugh... but he annoys me when I look at him these days.
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Which was surprisingly funny. Made me laugh, anyway, which is all I ask of a comedy.
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Excellent, excellent film. Kind of like Rocky Balboa, but possibly better and with wrestling and misery instead of boxing and inspiration.That may be the first Darren Aronofsky film I've seen that I would watch again.
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I would have never thought that.
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Let's talk Gilmore Girls!
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He's a talented guy; but Pi was a good film that left me a litle cold, Requiem was a good film that made me horribly depressed, and Fountain was a good film that made me taste sick in my mouth.
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The little kid in it is pretty classic. "You white, so you Ben Affleck."
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Fuck baseball, too!
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That's out on DVD now, I might give it a go. I like me some comedy, but it's fifty-fifty these days (maybe worse) as to whether you get something kind of funny or utter shit.
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I got a tax rebate yesterday. Eleven hundred quid (and 49p).Everything's coming up Frank!That should extend the loafing a bit. Thanks, revenue types.
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Not funny. At all.
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Doesn't sound great, I think I'm going to give that one a miss at the cinema, maybe check it out on DVD.Which means that after I've seen Drag Me To Hell next week, the summer season is over for me. That's terrible. I hope we get a better line up next year.
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Okay, that's one negative.Any positives?
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It blows like Hurricane Katrina
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"meh" at the moment is Drag me to hell. Beyond that, nothing. That terminator ad with "The End Begins" on it makes me want to kick a puppy. The fucking film is called FUCKING SALVATION. You cretins that implies "survival" or "saving". It does not remotely suggest the fucking end. If the strap was "THE FIGHTBACK BEGINS" then that would be OK, but no-one had the imagination to think of that.Shit, give me 45 minutes and I can give you 10 lines all more appropriate than that one, and all less hackneyed bollocks than that one.
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mind you, I can't say I'm shocked since his last good film was Pulp Fiction.
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fuck me. How did you manage that.
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TERMINATOR: EXANGUINATIONThis summer, the last remaining drops of blood will be squeezed out of a tired franchise. Starring Christian Bale, who just seems like a colossal prick these days, and, um, Helena Bonham Cater.Coming soon to a theatre near you!
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And I choose to believe I managed that through sheer awesomenicity.
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Maybe I'll check it out on DVD, maybe not. I don't hate Tarantino, but I have lost all interest in him.
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Sam Raimi's good, and I like that Alison Lohman, she's a good actress.I've got my fingers crossed for a good one.I hope so, anyway, because the only other film I've seen at the cinema this summer is Watchmen. It's got to be better than Watchmen, surely. Surely.
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Christian Bale, coming off TDK, Jonah Nolan having a hand in writing it, and the last trailer being reasonably good had managed to dis-TRACT us from the fact that the nostral stinging stench of a no talent shithead who sounds like a fucking cheeseburger and the fucker who wrote the last Terminator shitfest were heavily involved. I'll still see it though. But I have to remember to keep my expectations low, like I did with Wolvie. Then I may enjoy it a little.
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No spoilers, but I liked it a lot. The climax of Shane's story was a real punch in the balls, and the rest of it was good, too.Also, a Clark Johnson cameo, which was a nice touch. Did you know he directed the pilots and finales of both The Shield and The Wire? That's pretty good going. It's a shame he makes such mediocre films.
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May 21, 2009 8:24:09 AM CDT
Not that interested in Drag Me To Hell
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I'll no doubt see it but so far nothings grabbed my attention.
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only good in Fight Club. Helped by playing a slut and getting them out. Natch.
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May 21, 2009 8:25:42 AM CDT
Didn't Clark Johnson make SWAT?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I have to admit, I enjoyed that shitfest quite a bit. I have no idea why, because it's an almighty shitfest of biblical proportions.
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I had failed to even notice that that one had come out.This summer is shit.
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SWAT is sort of shitty, and The Sentinel is just incredibly bland.
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talentless hack McG inserts his cock into the arse of beloved nerd franchise. Removes cock uses tears of nerds to wash it clean. Bale sits in background and laughs. Seriously, this summer- No interest in Dork Trek, Watchmen blew, Transformers isn't exactly inspiring, Terminator probably sucks, which leaves Harry Potter which I'm not interested in or Drag Me To Hell, which I'm only slightly interested in. Crap summer. I wonder what the Spanish have.
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It was by no means great, or even that good, but it wasn't the shitfest the geeks were prattling on about. I think it helps to have no idea and very little interest about the X Men funnybooks and their "universe". It's on par with X Men 1 and 3.
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This summer is very shit. Until August, when THE FRENCH WILL GET VERY UPSET!!! hehehehe
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He's not been too happy lately, what with being replaced by the funny one out of Supernatural as my main man-crush.Is Wolverine likely to get him back in my good books?
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I'm off to enjoy the sunshine.
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He's hardly in it. Then reappears at the end looking like he has day old bukkake on his face. Then again, that might just get him back as your numero uno. If that's your thing of course.
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May 21, 2009 8:40:54 AM CDT
Yeah, bugger off ya smarmy bastard
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Bludging bum.
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at least merchant banker droid does occasionally work. It's a lovely fucking day as well.
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Could not care less. That bukkake comment was funny though. Kudos.
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droid does occasional work?
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to catch any summer movies.Pathetic.
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Congrats on all that money and whatnot.Cunt.
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to wreck the world's economy and collect a bonus composed of tax-payer money.
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May 21, 2009 9:25:52 AM CDT
I feel my reputation is being unjustifiably tarnished
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I live to work!
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years of hiding behind a funny accent are now cast asunder.
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there was a one-day on today and I didn't even know. It's been rained off though. Shows how much of a fuck I give about the shorter forms of the game.
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Mate, it gets dark here at 4 in the arvo and light at 8am! I look like that albino bloke from Me, Myself and Irene!
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But you get 50 days of holiday, which is being paid for by tax payers...you're a bastard too.Granted, I'm quite jealous of that ridiculous amount of time off. I get ten holidays. 10. X.And another measly 16 days of vacation time. It's a crime, really.
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We work more days, more hours...yet shitloads of time are wasted away. Time that could be perfectly spent anywhere else but 2for2truesaken work.
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you get paid more for what I do, and you get more time off.
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50 days is fucking ridiculous. I get 25. Half. FUCKING HALF.
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me, I just help to make the world a slightly better place.
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On a lovely spring day like this. Bloody whinging Aussie- anyone would think we'd forced him to come.
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May 21, 2009 10:50:43 AM CDT
"I just help to make the world a slightly better place."
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
You might want to wipe your chin because you're dribbling shit again.
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Later suckers! Have a good one.
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You're just jealous because you're a parasite and I'm paying your salary.
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have fun. Enjoy the sun. Mind you it's payday so I'm off on a drunkening soon.
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Isn't every night a pub night for you?I concur. droid is a bastard.
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May 21, 2009 12:20:15 PM CDT
me thinks I should try and scurry out of here a bit early
by just pillow talk
I got fucking things to do that have no connection to shitty work that are way more important.I take that back droid, you are not a bastard. You are a dirty cunt who has 2 1/2 times more holidays than I do.
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It could not be more beautiful outside.
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I hear them quite often when the soundtrack pops up in my iPod.
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By Andrei Konchalovsky, who was responsible for the great American classic, "Tango and Cash", and also wrote and directed the very-good tv mini-series "The Odyssey" (1997) starring Armand Assante. I had no idea about these things when my girlfriend rented the movie. Its overdue by a week, and I decided to watch it today before I returned the flick. Its a black comedy about the patients of a psychiatric ward on the border of Chechnya who are abandoned during the days of the first Chechnyan War. The main character, a schizophrenic, believes she is engaged to Bryan Adams- yes, *that* Bryan Adams- and the film often segues into her daydreams where Bryan Adams sings to her that song from "Don Juan DeMarco" (that "Tell me if you ever really loved a woman" song some of you may remember playing on the radio back in the day). Eventually, the Chechnyans come and hole up in the hospital for awhile, one who through miscommunication causes that schizo girl to believe they are going to get married (which causes all sorts of feelings of betrayal on her part to Bryan Adams and their relationship). Its a good antiwar film, and there's a beautiful moment where the Chechnyan and Russian commander meet during a truce, where a soldier's body is exchanged for money, and they both realize they fought in Afghanistan together, one commander being part of the paratroopers that bailed out and saved the other group from an ambush. Watching their faces light up with the recognition of a shared experience before melting back into the solemn acceptance of having to fight against former comrades-in-arms was moving.
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'Outpost' today, for a measley 3.99 English pounds. No idea what the movie's like, though I have heard of it. Dead Nazi soldiers? I couldn't resist, not at that price.
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Apparently, another American film that Konchalovsky directed was "Runaway Train" starring Jon Voight, Eric Roberts, and Rebbeca deMornay from a script based on an original screenplay by Akira Kurosawa? I had never heard of such an event in all my research on Kurosawa (wikipedia doesn't even mention it), but apparently this was to be his first American film, 2 convicts and a woman trapped on a train speeding through Alaska, but it fell through in pre-production. Someone resurrected it and wrote a new screenplay based on Kurosawa's and the rest was history. Very interesting.
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But the snowstorms were so bad there that the project was cancelled.
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Is Bryan Adams actually in that movie?
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It is incredibly awesome. Jon Voight and Eric Roberts kill in that movie - forgot the cheesy rolls they did later (especially Roberts) this is the film that reminds you that they were once great actors.
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Was Danny Trejo's first movie, and Edward Bunker was the technical advisor.
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'Runaway Train.' It's quite a few years since I've seen the movie but I recall Voight being a nasty fucker in that.
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I'll be picking that one up (thanks for the recommendations Cont and Wolf) to watch during my dog-sitting trek this weekend.
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He never talks, he only sings that song during those lyrical moments where the girl imagines that the incoming train on a nearby track carries Adams, who walks amidst flamenco dancers and spanish guitarists while trying to find her, his fiancee.
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The 'Runaway Train' trailer uses the theme from 'Lifeforce'!Respect.
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Yeh, I read about this film awhile back and it stuck in my memory about Adams being in something but the name of the movie got away from me.I'll be on the look out for this now I know what it's called again!
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Makes ya wonder about the respective career trajectories of both Rebecca DeMornay and Eric Roberts. I enjoy it just fine. For my money, as a Sawks and Cubs fan-the Mets cannot suck enough. The more years the better. Sad to say but it's true.
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Didn't notice that. Have to check both out again.
While you are getting "Runaway Train" maybe rent "Straight Time" with Dustin Hoffman as well if you haven't seen it. Awesome movie based on Edward Bunker's book "No Beast So Fierce." I've lately been recommending it to all my friends - really damn good movie no one has ever seen. -
....though I barely remember it. I remember loving it.
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VisArt only had VHS (dunno if its been released on DVD?) and I'm not sure if my girlfriend's family has a VCR in their living room, which is important since I'm housesitting all weekend.
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I've been trying to keep a theme, lately, and the recent one has been Asian films. But I'm getting a bit tired of Asian films (not tired per se, just needing a change-up) and didn't feel like starting Clint Eastwood westerns, and I had really run out of ideas once I got to the video store. So, I got an eclectic mix instead: Ichi the Killer, The Proposition, and The Thief of Baghdad.
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But then I thought "I think I still have a free copy sitting on Hawaiian Organ Donor's desk up in Winston-Salem..." I think I'll wait it out. Bought Venture Bros. Season 3 instead, and Spielberg's "1941" for $4.99.
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You would figure a small niche scifi movie like that would get some attention at AICN.
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I'm there.
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Can't be bigger tan The Miley Cyris movie though. Vader, Ichi is a mixed bag, has some arresting visuals, but the story is all over the map.
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The restraining order expired so give me a call.
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I'm not expecting much, but it seems like its got decent robot action. And that Bloodgod chick is pretty hot.
Mostly I'm looking forward to UP in IMAX 3D next week. There's the most likely best cinema experience of the summer. What else is coming out, besides Transformers and G.I.Joe anyway? Pretty much only crap until 9. Not to be confused with Nine starring Daniel Day Lewis, why the hell are two movies named the same, albeit spelled differently, coming out within weeks of each other? -
Even though I had it accidentally spoiled by reading about something unrelated that happened to mention it, after avoiding anything talking about the show like the plague. I'm waiting for the dvd box set to come out so I can finally see the last two seasons back to back!
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Is the last movie he did Solider? I know he was in that cop drama Dark Blue, but I've tried like 10 times to try to watch it and every time I fall asleep. Anyone managed to make it through that thing? Is he going to be in the Expendables. This has been on my mind all day.
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I don't buy it, I think people are being overly hurt by Terminator 4. I may not be great, but better reviews then Dance Flick????? Also how the fuck is Dance Flick getting such great reviews?
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To begin with. Sky High, Poseidon, Death Proof. So I guess he's been working.
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I need to see that.
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As shit as it most likely is, Dance Flick is gonna be a hit, because most of society cant be bothered to have good taste.
Also, look no further than Harry wetting his tampon over anything Twilight. It's like his dick got crushed into a vagina when he got crippled, combined with his intellectual proficiency of a 12 year old results in automatic tweening over Twilight. What a useless embarrassing fat fuck. -
Dance Flick is a fucking Wayans brother film, I mean not even Extreme Movie guys get reviews worth a damn.
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Didnt the Wayans start the 'Movie' trend? Or did they lose the rights to that when the other dipshits took over for them?
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And FUCK! I just realized that the guy who plays Vega also played the native american badass in that piece of shit Karl Urban film "Pathfinder". As soon as he took off his mask and smiled, I knew it was him.
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The crazy injun throwing bayonets into the crowd of Yankee fighters that get stuck in the big pit.
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Fucking great film. Head or gut?
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The word "fuck" is used 102 times. They just don't make them like they used to.
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The guy who plays Zangief is the most recent Leatherface.
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Is on the DVD's I rented it within the last year. Good fucking film. Never really heard of it, until I here Mickey Rourke ramble on about how great of an actor Eric Roberts is and to see Runaway Train for proof. It was originally going to be a Akira Kurosawa film, he wrote the original screenplay. Must see, worth owning.
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Really who wants to see this? I can't find anyone who thought the first one was good, even parents hated it. Hopefully it goes the way of Pink Panther 2 and bombs. Fucking Night could've been a great movie but its just fucking crap and lame. You'd think Stiller makes enough money not to do crap like that. Plus stiller knows funny, you think he would have changed some aspects of it? I don't know. Poopycock.
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I guess there was a lot more hope for this film then I knew. My lady friend who doesn't really give a shit about movies was really upset when I told her that the reviews for T4 were worse then Dance Flick. She was like, but it was such a good idea, and the second one was so good. I find it funny that she may end up being disappointed when we see it.
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shit- I've not seen that in ages, but I rememeber it being fucking seven shades of brilliant.
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also brilliant. Shane Black for the win.
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eeeeeek! Yuck, yuck, yuck. Incomprehensible torture porn. The last third of it is completely incoherent. Fun fact- the semen in the bucket at the beginning was real, and "donated" by miike and the crew.
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so no drunkenings for a few weeks. I watched Behind the Mask again last night. Which was awesome, and I was drunk.
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if anyone can explain the end of Ichi to me then they can have a chocolate sweetie.
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made me happy in the pants in Hand that Rocks The Cradle. She may have been a deranged psycho nutjob, but you would. Even if it would probably be a bad idea.
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made me happy in the pants in Hand that Rocks The Cradle. She may have been a deranged psycho nutjob, but you would. Even if it would probably be a bad idea.
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it's far too early to be double posting.
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is actually really fucking good. Not sure how you could fall asleep 10 times in it.
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in Risky Business makes me tingle in my jiblits. "Sometimes you just gotta say 'What the fuck'."
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Never seen it. Needs to be rectified asap.
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Maybe, and I stress maybe, there is one to many double crosses in it but that's James Ellroy for you, He's never met a double cross he didn't like. Other then that Dark Blue is a really tight, really good movie about a very dirty cop.Are you sure your not confusing Dark Blue with it's ultra dumbed down clone Street Kings?
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May 22, 2009 3:26:20 AM CDT
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Pakistan pulled fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar out of next month's World Twenty20 tournament in England due to him suffering from genital warts. "We have pulled him out of the World Twenty20 on the basis of a medical report given by our doctor which said that Akhtar needs 10 days to recover from groin wounds," the PCB said. FUCKING GENIUS.
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I'm like Danny, I don't remember much about it but I remember I liked it a whole lot.
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I saw it fairly recently and hardly remember it. Dark Blue on the other hand works brilliantly at building the parallel tension of the story and the LA Riots.
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I have never seen Ichi the Killer, but if your description is accurate I know I will hate it. The director Takashi Miike/Miike Takashi (I can never remember which is his first and which is his last) is very hit and miss with me: liked The Audition a lot but Visitor Q was just fucking awful in my opinion. If Ichi is in that mode, I think I will stay away.
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it's a lovely fucking day and I;m stuck looking out of the window.
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This weather even makes the shitful steel and concrete monstrosity of canary wharf look appealing. I do not want to be at work today.
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May 22, 2009 3:36:04 AM CDT
Straight Time doesn't just have young Theresa Russell in it.
by continentalop
It also has Harold Dean King at his best, M. Emmet Walsh (his performance here is what inspired the Cohen bros. to cast him in Blood Simple), pre-insane Gary Busey, and a very young Kathy Bates.
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and worse then that, there was a good movie in that mess that wanted desperately to get out. You could see it in places. I think it got creamed in the rewrites.
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Is one fine looking piece.
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the Ellroy trying to fistfight it's way out. Tried to be too much like Training Day, obviously since Ayer directed it. It didn't help that Kurt fucking Wimmer rewrote it too.
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But she has been letting herself go lately. I know she is older, but she obviously has decided to let herself go and hasn't been taking care of herself lately.
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is fucking horrid. Totally unprofessional. Ichi is nasty, incoherent shit, and it made my brain bleed as the end is totally incomprehensible. But if you want to see someone suspended on fish hooks and getting boiling oil poured on him, while some other self-mutilating cunt cuts a portion of his own tongue off then deafens himself with knitting needles, go ahead. Miike is the most hit and miss director working.
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That didn't help either. If they didn't homoginize the script so much Reeves might not have been as big a liability as he was.What the fuck happened to Wimmer? Maybe he only had one good idea and movie in him? At least that idea was fucking great.I'm out. Got to do some road work now. Have a good day people.
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May 22, 2009 3:59:46 AM CDT
What the fuck is that piece of shit flick?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Whatever that is, I am completely uninterested. I really don't understand the fascination with torture porn.
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Damn that's to bad. I'm not picky though I'd still throw a hump in her.
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Wimmer. Who the fuck knows. I didn't think Equilibrium was particularly great. Way to fucking heavy handed for my liking. It had it's moments and it also had Sean Bean in it which is a major positive for any flick. I guess we'll have to wait and see what his next couple of flicks are like. He wrote that Salt flick which Noyce is directing. I haven't seen Ultraviolet though. Anyone seen it?
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And your ass is catching. It's a life sucking 90 minutes of shit on a stick.I fucking love the gun kata to an absurdly over the top level. Okay now I'm done. Later
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I'm convinced there is good Miike who makes quality films like Audition and Happiness of the Katchakuris and bad Miike that makes horrid shit like Ichi.
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...for the last three or four years. Still have yet to see Street Kings, Ultraviolet, Dark Blue, Behind the Mask, hell I have yet to Taken or Star Trek yet.
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I like Gun Kata. it's funny.
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it's like fucking Bambi compared to Visitor Q- which is 2 hours worth of perversion on screen without a single redeeming feature. I don't especially feel a need to see incest, rape, necrophilia and explosive lactating. Yuck.
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is incredibly good. Brilliant in fact.
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If you hate them. Do you not know that they involve such things or are you a glutton for punishment. I avoid that shit like the fucking plague.
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Is what really crossed the line for me. Just so obviously trying to be shocking for shocking sake.
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Have any of you seen a show called "Is Harry On the Boat"?
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re Miike- I watched them because they are allegedly art and I was on a pretentious phase. I also loved Audition. I will not be revisiting them, and I think twice about anything he does now.
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is one of the most repellent things I've ever seen. You're bang on, nasty for nasty's sake. Nothing big, nothing clever in it.
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Eberts blog entry on it makes it sound pretty bloody full on. Which makes me both certain that and uncertain if I want to see it.
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I'm still trying to figure out how to best explain to people why certain movies that are tasteless or shocking I can call good, but others I would say are just crap/banal.
Clockwork Orange, obviously great. Yes, rape and murder and an immoral protagonist, but I think it is trying to say something profound.
Battle Royale - brilliant and clever satire on the winner-take-all rat race that is Japanese society's school system.
Man Bites Dog tip-toes around being too sadistic/sensationalist but seems to work for me as a parody/commentary piece.
Hostel 1 & 2 - don't see the fucking point of them except for people to get off on the violence.
Visitor Q - like eating a shit on stage and saying that is performance art - as if that says anything.
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May 22, 2009 5:02:20 AM CDT
Out of all those you've mentioned...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
The only one I've seen is A Clockwork Orange. Which is indicative of my opinion on those types of flicks.
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Clockwork Orange is inherently flawed because Kubrick never bothered finishing the novel. Interestingly, Burgess grew to despise the movie for bastardising his work. The final chapter of the novel is probably the most important bit of the book and missing it off is a huge mistake- this is why I could countenance another adaptation- I don't feel that Kubrick's (as good as it is) is definitive. Battle Royale- staggeringly good social satire. Brilliant. Not seen Man Bites Dog. Hostel 1 & 2 are worthless pieces of gratuitous shit without a single redeeming quality. Visitor Q- spot on. Not seen Hoboken Hollow.
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because I hate it. I'll never watch another Rob Zombie or Eli Roth film.
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belong on a list of "shock" movies. Battle Royale, for all intents and purposes is basically lord of the flies- and Clockwork Orange is saying something profound- even if Kubrick did bollocks it.
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May 22, 2009 5:33:35 AM CDT
I've never seen an Eli Roth or Rob Zombie flick
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
So Battle Royal is that good, eh? It's about school kids killing each other in sickeningly violent ways isn't it?
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May 22, 2009 5:38:20 AM CDT
I would be interested to see the...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
re-shot version of Captivity. I saw the original cut that was released in Spain, and although that version sucked mightily, my curiosity in reshot/alternate versions of flicks makes it interesting to me. Especially to see where they've shoehorned torture porn into it. Because as it was orginally, it was a fairly mild thriller.
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May 22, 2009 5:42:20 AM CDT
Re-shoots aren't always a bad thing though.
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I have the dvd of Joy Ride. The released version is actually a very effective thriller. The dvd has two alternate endings, one which is the original ending that is about 20 minutes long. So it's a massive change. The re-shot ending which they released is infinitely better.
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I used to get upset when people said they didn't like Clockwork Orange and thought they didn't know shit. Then I took a girl to see it who happened to have been a rape victim (did not know that at the time) and during the movie fucking douchebag guys were laughing and cracking jokes during the rape scene. That is when I realized that film is really a subjective medium and you can't get upset at anyone for not liking the same thing you do because everyone has their own perspective.
No one has seen Hoboken Hollow. Horrible low-budget movie starring a poor, hungry C. Thomas Howell a bunch of other actors just doing it for a paycheck: Dennis Hopper, Robert Carradine, Deedee Phiefer, Lin Shaye and Michael Madsen.
T cannot begin to tell you how repugnant this film is. It isn't as bloody as Hostel or as taboo breaking or tasteless as Visitor Q but it is just so damn sadistic and dehumanizing. The film is about this group of serial killers who forced homeless guys to work on their farm for free while torturing them until finally killing them. The filmmakers give you the impression that they look at these hobos as only props to be degraded and killed for people's amusement. I imagine if Ian Brady or John Wayne Gacy directed a film this is what they would have made. -
That is what I thought until I saw it. It is really a very clever and intelligent movie that (in my opinion) criticizes the competitive nature of Japanese schools and the fear of the generation gap.
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not seen it. Not going to. Apparently it isn't that different.Battle Royale, despite it's reputation isn't actually that violent- it just hit a nerve because it came out so close to columbine. There's very little blood in it, and most of the deaths are by gunfire. The bit of pure unfettered sadism that could upset people is about half way through when Kiriyama (the psycho)fires on unarmed girls- but even then it's relatively clean. It also features a phenomonal performance from Beat Kitano as the teacher.I'm coming up on my 200th movie and am saving Battle Royale for it. Battle Royale 2, however, is worthless dogshit.
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I know I have heard of it but I can't remember one damn thing about it.
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May 22, 2009 5:55:49 AM CDT
Okay, maybe i will seek it out then
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I will hold both of you responsible though!!! And Jarv, for my 100th flick I watched Hard Rock Fucking Zombies upon your recommendation. I need to rethink your recommendations from now on. Bastard.
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but it misses the point of the book by so fucking far it infuriates me. The film is essentially fucking nihilistic, whereas the story is about human beings capacity for redemption. Kubrick dropped it badly.
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May 22, 2009 5:57:25 AM CDT
Captivity has the chick out of 24 in it
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
It sucks ass and should be forgotten.
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I'll let you have one free kick at Jarv's nuts, that is how confident I am.
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this is the greatest thing ever filmed. I did say the music was shit.
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I'll pretend to hate it. I would relish the chance to free kick Jarv's nuts.
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don't volunteer my gonads. Although I'm confident enough in this one to let it slide. Awesome film. Are we still on for the coke binge for Harry's inevitable Twilight blowing.
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We all have six months to collect a large anthill of white powder and shits loads of booze for the most insane TB ever.
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Particularly the last shot of him slurping the skin off his skull. I didn't hate it. There was plenty to laugh at, it's just that fucking music. And the chick who had two fucking ferrets stapled to her forehead! I also loved the shot of their hands when he gives her his ring or whatever it was. The hands obviously don't belong to the same actors because the blokes hands look like he's the fucking cave troll out of LOTR.
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I would like to reiterate, I am not yet a scrounger. I'm living off my savings, and that tax rebate was the revenue folks kindly returning money I had overpaid.It's my money!I may yet become a scrounger, but now I'm considering doing it just to annoy Jarv.Hello, by the way.
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Mostly, it was just incredibly boring. The only good thing about it is I've already forgotten most of it.
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I can't believe anyone would have trouble getting through that film.Street Kings does suck, though. Could have been better with a non-Keanu in the lead, but it was still pretty much David Ayer ripping himself off.
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I see on Mav's site that you have not seen it. You need to rectify that asap.
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What is wrong with you droid? Is it a banker thing or something?Hard Rock Zombies is nothing less than genius. It has become part of the curriculum in the Harvard Business School.
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and I tend to agree with Xi...there was a good movie somewhere in there just waiting to burst out...but alas it never did.
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I can't think why I never saw it.
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hehehehehe. I love rhyming slang.
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with nasty tween/animal porn postings.
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over the weekend at some point. I've been way too busy with the house to even watch any, though I did catch the last half hour of The Proposition the other night.
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Tuck you Jarv you dock bobbling punt.
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It is under warranty but I can't find the damn thing since I moved. Been watching TMC non-stop while I look around for the friggin' thing.
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Is that TB becomes so debauched and out of control that they are forced to shut us down.
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What plan be afoot?
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sad. See what happens when the frigging convicts butcher our heritage. I'm expecting to see at least one post of:ssssssssssssssasdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfa Where someone's passed out and their forehead has hit the keyboard.
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And now, for some reason, I sort of want to see it. Fuck knows why, though. There's shooting and robots and whatnot, that might make it worthwhile. Or it's possible I'm just bored.
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it would be a terrible shame to be found dead of a coke od with a fucking Twilight TB. I can't think of anything more embarrasing
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That one should be going to Mavra early next week. After that, I'm probably doing the 6 main Batman films.Or maybe a Terminator one? That could work. It would be an excuse to go and see number 4. I could say I'm going for entirely professional reasons and not just boredom.
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These flicks have all recently made close to US$150m with budgets of US£15-33m. Taken. Gran Torino. Slumdog. Paul Blart. Turdmen has made US$107m from a 150m budget.
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and selling the big issue does not count. Scrounging cunt.
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The plan: Me and Stuncock Mike want everyon to invade the Twilight: New Moon TB when the film opens and turn it into a den of sin. That isn't until the 20th of November, so everyone has time to save money and collect a big enough stash.
If you want, go to Harry's Terminator review TB and jump to mine or Stuntcock's post and you'll see what we want to accomplish. -
Don't waste your time watching T4.
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May 22, 2009 7:04:10 AM CDT
I'm still going to do my Droid vs Beastie reviews
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Which i will probably kick off with all four anaconda flicks, then maybe the two Bats flicks.
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Just practising.
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Is that right droid? Fuck.
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If for some reason your pants were off.
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Granted, I've only seen the first, knew there was a second...but two more after that?
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May 22, 2009 7:07:14 AM CDT
That's what boxofficemojo says
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
hehehe Suck it geeks.
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from a $250-300m spend. As much as box office does not equal quality, it's bang on in this case. Excellent, at least that will be the end of "visionary director Zack Snyder" shite that the nerds were boasting about. Who on earth thought Turdmen was worth that amount of cash?
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I like going to see the big blockbusters this time of year, but all I've seen so far is Watchmen. Watchmen! A film about a comic about comics!At least I have liked Terminators in the past. They shoot things and blow stuff up and do nude time travelling. Maybe I would like it.
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May 22, 2009 7:08:42 AM CDT
There are two that have been released STV
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Ribbed, for your pleasure.
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May 22, 2009 7:11:25 AM CDT
Box office doesn't always signify quality
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
But i'm happy to see it occasionally reward smaller flicks. Like Taken and Torino.
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He's doing such a blatant piss take.Haven't seen any of the others, but since I've just learned that the Hoff is in part 3 I now want to see it. Hoff Vs Snake has got to be worth a watch.
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was in it then. Fuck Turdmen, awful, awful shite.
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Whiteploitation. And I don't mean that in a racist or negative way, but I do think they are part of a new trend of films that kind of cater to white people's feelings of disenfranchisement - whether those feelings are legitimate or not I will let others decide,
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Fucking hell. Required viewing.
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Voight is awesome in that. Just sitting there leering at everyone. Hilarious.
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I'm not being entertaining.
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All four films, yours for the low, low price of £15.98.I'm tempted, but maybe I should wait for droid's review before I make a commitment.
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Voight is hilarious in it.
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"a merciless soldier of fortune and snake slayer"I am now desperate to see this film about Hoff The Snake Slayer.
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I wrote the first part of the Die Hard review after I got back from the pub and it went pretty well. I had to re-write it the next to fix the typos and remove the unnecessary and gratuitous over-use of the word 'cunt', but it was a lot funnier than the first version I wrote, where I was also struggling to be entertaining.
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it's something along the lines of "dad's been shredded, mom's got a harpoon in her neck and they just keep getting bigger"
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I already have a bunch of ideas, and I may end up rambling on for even longer than the Rocky-fest.Not everyone will agree with my opinions, but fuck those people.
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A giant gorilla gently stroking Harry's boobs. Blick. There was simply no need for me to see that.
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where the fuck would I get it. IMDB are useless cunts.
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Is it a quote from Critters or something?
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But does he leer and say things like "This weeever can keell you inna fowzand wayz!". I will soon find out.
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one liners. The Krytes themselves get most of them, but that one is a pearler.
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I hope everyone has a great weekend.Cheers, all.
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Enjoy your bumming around doing nothing. Bastard.
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http://tinyurl.com/dhu7dv
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See, now that is a brilliant idea.
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May 22, 2009 8:20:25 AM CDT
The weather has turned rubbish
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
It's bullshit that you have to take an umbrella everywhere you go in this fucking country.
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He's a scrounging cunt.
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Though I believe it's supposed to rain over the weekend, which is less than good. Tis shitty.Then again, I'll be leaving work early today for the long holiday weekend, but I've got to mow the lawn. I hate mowing the fucking lawn.
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May 22, 2009 8:24:16 AM CDT
I've got a long weekend as well
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
And it's supposed to be nice weather. And it bloody better be since i'm hosting a bbq on sunday. This country sucks with how the weather can completely change in a matter of minutes.
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I didn't mind doing it when I was back in Australia though.
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May 22, 2009 8:30:27 AM CDT
I just looked at that Harry animation
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Fucking disturbing. What the fuck does that fat bastard think he's doing?
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May 22, 2009 8:36:08 AM CDT
I wonder where that work dodging...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
bastard Jarv is. He can't be working. Probably on an extended lunch break at the pub. Slack bastard.
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I wouldn't mind mowing quite as much if I didn't have the hills to mow.I must get rid of the grass on those hills at some point.
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Probably gigs when they come up with a really disturbing one. Like now.
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May 22, 2009 9:00:03 AM CDT
Has Harry always been this much of an idiot?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Insane and illogical rants, crap taste in flicks, whoring himself to the highest bidder, pimping utter shite, and posting abysmal trash like Titgirl and Yoko's music clusterfuck. Now the animations!? There's nothing left to smear with your shit, Harry!
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May 22, 2009 9:17:05 AM CDT
not sure...it's been like this since I started posting here
by just pillow talk
and that's been since the Stallone twenty questions...
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I've been working. Cheeky swines, and the weather's lovely.
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Huzzah!
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because Critters is actually a good film, even if it is a cash in. Hmph. Troma next week, that'll be me back in the saddle.
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is that animation about. Fucking hell. If you want to see Harry at his absolute worst, check out that Phantom Menace review "Mesa Luv" Jar Jar.
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go at Judge Dredd. Excellent. I hope they do the Odyssey to Mega City 2. I wouldn't be averse to Stallone taking the role again, but he has to keep his FUCKING HELMET on this time.
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and don't do the Odyssey (mind you, they ruined that by wasting the Angel Family)then I hope they either do Democracy or The Day The Law Died. Preferably the latter- Judge Cal was genius.
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It was news ages ago. I didn't think much of the Stallone Dredd. And I don't know anything about it from the funnybooks. I think Mark Strong should be Dredd. Because they need to cast that bloke in a lead role asap.
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End of!
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I probably did hear about it at the time, and forgot to be reminded today. Or I may just be clueless.
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Is that what it was called?
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is a British comic that ran Dredd and other stuff like the ABC warriors (Hammerstein was in the Dredd movie). I'm not sure if it's still going.
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The only British comic i remember was Viz that ran those Two Fat Slags characters. Oh that British wit! hehehehe
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will it involve shrimps? Bet you didn't see that coming. I've got to traipse to Surrey for a fucking engagement party. This involves the train. I hate the train.
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Its about a zombie outbreak at a prison. Not very good.
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Barry Humphries? Laugh? I nearly started to.
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Sending them some submissions soon, hopefully!
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and yet, it sounds rotten and poo.
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that makes me happy. It's an institution.
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Barry Humphries is a comedy GOD, compared to the collective hilarity of Lenny Henry, Peter Kay and Julian Clary.
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Allah BE PRAISED!!! Man It must be really nice outside over in blimy town today.
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How come I've never really heard of that show before? It looks fucking awesome. It looks like a live action Thunderbirds.
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Was on Aqua Teen.
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about 20 years ago he said something funny. Once.
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Watched it for the first time 2 weeks ago. I'd love to do an American remake.
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Humphries. You know this to be true, that's why you're whinging so much.
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The kids aren't killed in increasingly violent ways. They're just killed by sadistic bullies or vengeful bitches. And usually always gunfire, and almost always CGI blood-letting. Great satire.
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Been spending too much time in other TBs today.
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they aren't dwelt on at all. The best bit is that insane video at the start "This one super lucky"
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A legless lovechild between Harry and TheBates getting lost at the amusement park and ending up in the King Kong ride.
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I think I might actually have to see Twilight that weekend so that I can speak with some authority on why its such a terrible film.
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Reminds me of the police broadcaster in Tokyo Gore Police. Cute little Japanese girl in a weird outfit shouting things in her singsong cutesy voice. Takeshi Beat Kitano is great in it as the teacher. Even if the ending doesn't make any sense.
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she then borrowed the DVD and was severly letdown.
She said the first 30 minutes of the movie tried to cover almost the entire first half of the book.
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But apparently it was. Astronauts on the Space Station just drank their first recycled water- from their own urine and sweat and other water by products on the station- from the first closer loop system. http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/2009/05/22/astronauts-enjoy-recycled-urine/ I wonder how much power it takes. This stuff could be revolutionary when the Water Wars begin during the next few decades of drought.
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Thank you Jarv! And all pics are accounted for, sir.
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Anyone know?
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Holiday weekend + big Summer movie + Thursday release=larger Box Office.
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so more school-age children can stay up and see it and not have to worry about school on Friday.
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I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm just saying its bullshit to say you had a huge opening weekend gross when you open on a thursday. Why not just go the traditional route and release it on a wednesday instead?
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What's up bro? I'd hang out but chow is done and I got to go. Take her easy or any way you can.
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You know, the Cupid Killer or whatever. Never saw it. But it does feature Katherine Heigl and her massive boobs. Before she got all anorexic.
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Those boobs didn't last very long.
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Dancing With the Stars in five or six years.
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"I am thuh lawh!"
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nothing special to see there. Is she some sort of near albino or just light sensitivity? If that's the case some one should introduce her to the concept of the spray on tan.
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The only thing I want to see of her, is my fist her face. I've hated her since My Father the Hero and its never changed.
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I just goggled her - she looks all right!
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trying to type 'google'.
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Stuck up cow.(blows raspberry in general direction of the rotten Ms Heigl)
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*puts out fire w/ big truck driving thru walls by mr. Mikey Bay.* Disgusted by Harold Jurassic_Kong Harry-Toon. HArold you suck.
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May 22, 2009 6:57:56 PM CDT
I want Heigl to smoke a Camel Light as she blows me....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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Sounds like a porn name to me.
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I had to DVR don't forget the lyrics because I saw that he was on it, and I'm a huge Loaf fan. I have the cover to Bat Out of Hell that covers my back, I guess Bat Out of Hell 3 didn't do so hot. Sucks because 2 was known as the Nirvana killer, I guess 3 couldn't beat out whatever crappy rap/shitty college rock band that was popular that month. But it was a damn good cd.
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Didn't realize Don't Forget the Lyrics was still around.
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The first scene of Heath Bar's newest film has him hanging from a bridge with a nose around his neck. I mean what the fuck did they expect. When he died all they could say was what a RISK taker he was.
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I hate people. I feel like I'm too young to be a misanthrope.
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It is a book that states that "evil" (and I would add "stupidity") are part of human evolution. After that I just couldn't get mad at my fellow man - we are all just a bunch of dumb robots doing what we are programmed to do.
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Or have all these great science fiction stories been lying to me?!?
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Ah meatloaf, god bless ya you fat bastard with the magical voice.
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Special note to Danny: Remember the story I told you about my Everclear experience? I think that if the dude who got me drunk had played a ballad from "Bat Out of Hell" instead of "The Lion King", the night would probably have turned out very different. Meatloaf's voice does it to me every time. ;)
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with his Terminator review. He must have seen it while PMSing or something. I saw it today, it's not great, and Bale is pretty bad as Connor, but other than that it's an fine movie with good robot action. Worthington does a great job with what the script gives him, I can see how he could be a big star in the next couple years. It sure doesnt rape the franchise the way some people are claiming, but then again those people said the same thing after T3 came out so they can just fuck off. I'll give Harry the annoying little mute girl tho, I really wanted to see her get blown up or something. A cute puppy would have been less irritating to fill her part of the script.
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Bringing up again our non discussion over Glee as to whether or not its something worth watching or not. You had said Yeah, I had said Nay. I had forgotten to mention the awesome movie Election. The main girl character is the same fucking person Witherspoon played in that movie, something Flick. It pissed me off to no end because it was the exact same character. lame, and the joke turned choir singer was almost the same guy Chris Klein played in American Pie (Oz), but but AHHH (say it like Jeff Goldblum) Chris Klein was ALSO in Election.
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Said Meryl Streep about Amy Adams. I just finished watching Doubt, and I was not impressed. Just a fucking movie that went no where. The acting was fine but I don't understand Amy Adams appeal. She plays the same fucking character every time except for in Psycho Beach Party (never seen it but it looks like its missing a bottom). I just read Capote's review of Museum 2 and he gives this gay love letter about her and how great she is? Fucking I've not seen a different performance out of her since Junebug. Also the director of this film seems like a douchehole.
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I just had my people over at IMDB run a check on the director of Doubt and the mother fucker wrote and directed Joe Versus the Volcano! Also wrote Congo and We're Back A Bad Dinosaur Tale that wasn't a Disney animated film therefore no one remembers it or that John Goodman was in it and I don't remember who else nor have I ever seen it movie. I guess he wrote Moonstruck as well, its on tonight but on fucking PBS didn't want to watch it on that fucking money grabbing whore.
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Won an Oscar for Moonstruck THAT's why he's a douchehole.
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While I've never heard of any form of weed called that and can't imagine why its pretty sweet name for some good bud. Anyone seen that movie?
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Be playing Guitar Hero 3 Wii style. Shoot of holla if your popping in to discuss Doubt or Frozen River (if you've seen it, I've not but I gots it from the netflix shit looks tight!).
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Best drunk loser movie of all time though is Fat City by John Huston.
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The clown movie with BOB Cat is a good drunk movie. Need to see that.
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Is on this. Fucking awesome. Too bad its hard as shit. Is it sad knowing that there are like 8 year olds better at this then I'll ever be?
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by not reporting on this:
http://tinyurl.com/pa96lh
How in the hell is this not worthy of AICN? Harry gushes over a fucking Twilight poster and shits on Terminator but says nothing about this? He really is a fat fuck. -
I read that story, and have no idea what the fuck the point was?
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Deadpool movie in the works. The Gamer trailer.
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???? Anyone see? It was nominated for best makeup against Henry and the Hendersons.
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I didn't say it was good, I said it had some potential to be good. I don't judge pilots to harshly when I watch them, because they are a pilot and pilots exist only to introduce teh characters and basics of teh story. When I watch a pilot i look to to see if there is something in them to get me to watch the next episode.Glee needs work and a lot of polish but under the criteria I outlined above, it got me just interested enough to put it on the TIVO schedule when ever it comes back on in the fall.I agree with you up to a point about the OZ character, I was thinking the same thing, until they introduced the backstory about why he was into Journey and Hair bands. The Tracy Flick character I agree but I think they might have a surprise or two in store with how they are going to show why she's so driven to be a "star". Plus the show has Joselyn Gilsig in it and she is white trash hot.I think if they go balls to the walls with it, unleash Jane Lynch's Nazi Cheerleading coach and ditch some of the red shirts it might be a fun show to watch.This is all conjecture though. We'll have to wait and see come Fall.
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Misses the mark a little bit, but it actually is a pretty satire of the entire stand-up & tv comedy world, with clowns as stand ins for comedians.
Plus any movie with clowns buy coke from rodeo clowns and doing blow has got to be watched.
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Like the new Glee coach who almost quits the band 3/4ths into the show was just sort of a Captain Pike of the whole damn thing and that somehow Jamie Lynch was going to end up being the coach of Glee club. Which I think would make for a better show, Lynch is funny and ripe for more of a starring role. But alas they pussied out and brough that fag back. As for his wife the White Trash hot Gilsig. Not a fan. She was good in Nip/Tuck, but I just didn't buy that she was this huge slutty nipho on it, and her time on Heroes sucked (but I think the same could be said the same for everyone on that show save for Spock and the Cheerleaders fake dad guy). I don't know about Fox next season. Since I don't think TTV will come back (which is good because it sucked balls), Dollhouse had an awesome last two episodes to the rest of the season being shit. House could end right now before getting really stupid, I'm not 40 and I'm no longer in the Military so I don't watch 24 and thank Allah Sit Down Shut Up got trashed. Fox is going to very week next fall. If Glee and Mental are their big hopes. Mental looks like the same shit (oh yeah Lie To me, that show sucks too gave up on it and I don't give up on much). Also I know you don't care for Seth Family Guy but I like him, but the last season of Fam Guy was weak, American Dad like always was better then it get credit for but the Cleveland show looks fucking awful. I never liked Cleveland and to spin off any character from Fam Guy is stupid. I still think they should've made a cheesy cop show with Cleveland and Quagmire with Joe as the evil Bad Guy, sort of rip off of Chips are something. That would be awesome, but a Cleveland show spin off will fail worse then Joey or that Karmer Show or either of the two show's Conan's side kick did. There is one are two cartoon spin off shows that worked but I can't think of them right now. I'm not talking about real show into cartoon, I'm talking about cartoon into another cartoon. Maybe Daria, though I just had my people over at Google run a search and turns out Count Duckula was a spin off of Danger Mouse. I fucking loved both those shows so much I should do a VH1 special about it.
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Drunk?
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May 23, 2009 3:09:50 AM CDT
for anyone interested.....my Salvation review is up....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
....on the IN BALE WE THRUST page.
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Ah please. Ahem. Ahscuse me, make a rule, start with A.
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Too much PBR. Home for the weekend. Dad woke up for work. We are not even in bed yet. Make a rule.
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I was a little drunk when posting that. But the argument and points still stand. Jamie Lynch should be the star of that show, not that guy who never got a part as one of the Malcolm In the Middle kids.
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I remember that because Spielberg produced it, and I wanted to see it because it had dinosaurs (and at the time I was planning to be a paleontologist... or an animator). I never saw it and I've never seen it play on tv.
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And yeah, its hard as shit on Guitar Hero III.
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I commented on how I couldn't figure out how the game works. Do the soldiers have to do everything the player does? Are they mind-controlled? Cause in that case, I don't see why they would be granted freedom if they survive 30 games... afterall, its the player/master that deserves the accolades, not the soldier.
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Cleveland is not remotely one of the more interesting characters on the show, and I imagine his cadence of speech would grate on me pretty quickly. Oh, and in place of a talking dog or talking baby or talking alien or talking goldfish? I hear Cleveland will have a ..... talking bear. Woo-ha. Points for originality!
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The Dane Flick numbers dropped.
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....but for me it hasn't stood the test of time. I was blown away when I first heard it and thought it would be like an immortal Queen anthem sort of thing. But hearing it now sounds bland and boring. I usually turn it off half way through. Thats weird when that happens....
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nor did the story. I just thought a Bazooka Joe movie is such a stupid idea that it seemed like the kind of thing AICN would tell us about. Plus it gave me another reason to say Harry is a fat fuck, which he is.
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Bet Jarv hates it.
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I think its funny that they said there was no reason for the eye patch on Bazoka Joe, they were just like hmmm that seems right.
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According to his twitter, he says he " "woke up to confused, angry, betrayed, embarrassed txt msgs on my phone from McG"" I don't know what's sadder..
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I'm no fan of McG's, and I've yet to see the movie, but damn, Harry is one fat piece of traitorous shit to turn around and insult someone who came to his birthday party and gave him a cool as shit Terminator head as a gift. I don't expect Harry to kiss McG's ass, but if he didn't like the movie, I expect him to say so, not to turn around and bitchslap McG in public.
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Now he says waterboarding IS torture. Boy, I'd like to see those fucking pansies Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity try it. http://tinyurl.com/ojetgz Hannity's a fucking coward, anyway. I hear he said he was going to try waterboarding and then the little chickenshit backed out.
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+1 D.Vader
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The Harry story or Mancow? Which just reminded me of that hilarious The Tick villain, Man-Eating-Cow.
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....that was a slimy traitorous act on his part. Who the fuck would trust this douche bag? I'm not saying lie and giving a glowing review cause McG tried to be cool with you.....go ahead and give a bad review-- but why the fuck are you gonna brag about him sucking your ass and the shit on your dick and all that stupid ass personal shit? Just no fucking respect for anyone that affords that fat fuck the ability to never grow up. As soon as we're back up with our redesign I'm out of here for good. I refuse to continue to finance that horrible human beings career. It gets to a point where enough is enough. He needs to go down.
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May 23, 2009 12:43:19 PM CDT
What big budget theatrical film has Jarv ever liked?
by dannyglovers_dickblood
TDK is the only one I can think of.
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May 23, 2009 12:49:20 PM CDT
I know I've said I've lost respect for Harry on numerous occasio
by d.vader
But I think that sick stunt takes the cake.
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Did you see Jesse the Body on Hannity? I find Jesse to be very overbearing, but I have to give the credit for his recent string of TV appearances where he demolishes the myth that waterboarding isn't torture.
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May 23, 2009 12:57:24 PM CDT
I like Jesse a lot. He's one of the smartest cats in the game...
by dannyglovers_dickblood
....watch the Fox and Friends interview. Its fucking hilarious.
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I am sure someone else brought this up, but why did he let everyone know about the text? I mean, first you rip into a buddies movie, and than you make him look like a crybaby and pussy. I don't know about you, but when friends tell me shit keep it on the QT and don't blare it to hundreds of people on the internet.
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I want to take a wood splitter to
Brian Kilmeade's smug fucking face.
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I'm glad Fox News became a bit more open minded and hired a homosexual. He's so sweet and motherly like Nathan Lane in The Birdcage. I bet he can make a great homemade pie.
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May 23, 2009 1:04:23 PM CDT
Continentalop......easy-- because Harry is a piece of shit.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
Pieces of shit don't have real friends. They just have different groups of people they use in various ways.
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He could have really schooled Brian Kilmeade when the smug little prick was asking if Jesse was still suffering from waterboarding, he should have said "I was waterboarded once, not 183 FUCKING TIMES prick!"
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May 23, 2009 1:30:30 PM CDT
Is waterboarding cool if its consensual for sexual purposes?
by dannyglovers_dickblood
Have a good day people.
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"The Governator". "Wait, which state is he from again? But he's the guy from Predator, right?"
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And yes, he was in Predator. I think his first book was titled "I Don't Have Time to Bleed."
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Quoting the woman like she was confusing him with Arnold.
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You know i am hung over. To damn early for sarcasm.
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I thought it was a *lack* of alcohol that was your problem. Which, in a way it is. Might I suggest a nice cold beer? Or, you might wanna chug the brine out of the pickle jar.
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Explaining why Arnold was the model for all the T-800's? Hiiii-larious! http://tinyurl.com/pxneag "Oh! Its ME!"
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I'll be honest, I don't know how to react to that clip. I am trying to figure out if I think it is funny or cringe inducing.
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Were very helpful, well writen and even handed. Good job gentlemen.
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I wrote this film off as something I wasn't going to see and didn't give a shit about, but damn it, they got me actually thinking about going to see it. I mean, their opinion might be just as off as Harry's in the opposite direction, but one thing they are touching upon that is really connecting to me is the pure escapism element to the film.
The way those guys are describing it makes it sound like the closest thing I will ever see to a cinematic version of "Days of Future Past" from the X-Men or KIllraven. I spent hours as a kid fantasizing about leading an uprising or revolt in those comic book worlds, and God damn it, their reviews make me think Terminator Salvation might actually tap into those fantasies.
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Been to see it, finally. The word 'abstract' was invented for a film like this. Comes across like it was directed by some kind of mutant Woody Allen. Don't know what to think at the moment, Charlie Kaufman has made me feel quite thick cos I can't get me head around the movie. A meditation on getting old, getting sick... dying?That was chilling. The instructive voice speaking in Caden's ear - stand up, do this, say that. And finally, "Die." Raw.
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Of Sly that was on this site a couple of weeks ago? Doesn't it look like he is in the worlds craziest bathroom? Like he is getting blown away why the sink faucet.
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I guess everyone hates their job:
http://tinyurl.com/ptpakn
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May 23, 2009 5:15:36 PM CDT
Man even though I gave on Green Day before I even heard of them
by series 7
I've got to give them props for not succumbing to Wal Marts clean music policy. We'll see if they actually hold out.
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Is dating Jennifer Love Hewitt. Doesn't that just piss you off?
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Is the man, he was on Letterman a couple months back wearing a shirt five sizes to small for him, so I can't call him the body anymore. But that's besides the point. I think it was before the election and he had some crazy ideas but they were good, and Letterman was like why don't you run? And he said that he was too busy living in somewhere like Mexico living it up. Man I wish I had some of that good WWF money.
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The other night, while I wasn't sure if it was him or the ginger guy from the show Life (though I think he's British, well I know he's British he's the lead actor in an American show the HAVE to be British now). Whoever it was they were a douche. I guess Mickey G's has been friends with Carson since Sublime was an up and coming band? You know he gave this list of video directors turned movie directors and how good they were and Joseph Kahn name seemed to be missing from that list???????
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Just fucking shave your head. Seriously if I ever live long enough to go bald, and shaving it all off. Fucking Heisenberg style.
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I've heard that FOX had a news channel but I'm not retarded so I never checked it out. Maybe I should more often that got some FUNNY shit on that thing! Man I was hoping Jesse was just going to fucking beat the crap out of that little piss bag.
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With an open mind. I think its just going to be a loud bang fun. Hopefully it'll actually be fun though rather then Transformers.
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I want to be famous enough to get on one of these fucking fox shows, and just go on and play nice then just get up and beat the living shit out of one of the host. This needs to happen. Non of them can fight.
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to Simon Cowell. Go up on stage and have him go "You are dreadful". Then just walk over and brain the cunt with a guitar.Then reply, Gary Oldman circa 5th Element style - "I know."
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May go and see it next weekend. Between that or 'Drag Me To Hell.' I'm not fussed about T4 to be honest.
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Can't tell if its going to be the next 5th Element of the next 6th day. I need to read the comic.
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http://tinyurl.com/p728ak you might wanna see this. I thought this was great.
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Kinda overkill. The review was a pointless miasma of body functions and Harold being pissy over Lordknowsthefuckwhat. Who can read that shit now? NOT impressed.
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Called "The Lion Has Wings". Its an extra on the "The Thief of Bagdad" Criterion DVD, directed by one of its directors during a break in filming because of WWII. And its pretty damned hilarious. At one point early one, when extolling the virtues of England, they manage to give Scotland a pretty backhanded compliment (or ok, really its an insult) at the same time. And I quote: "Our enemies sneer at us, say we are effete and decadent. An unfortunately characteristic lie they will find at their cost. Though we have our champions, we don't claim to lead the world in athletic records. "We think it more important that people get enjoyment out of their favorite forms of exercise! Rowing. Running. Jumping. Or in Scotland, throwing heavy things about in a way that only Scotsmen can understand." Cue footage of kilt-clad men tossing large handled balls, and hammers, and finally a caber. They continue. "Apart from tossing the caber, there is nothing unusual in all of this." Later, they make a pretty funny edit regarding Nazis: "Are these men? Or is it dipping day on a sheep farm?" Again, later: "Which is your idea of a holiday? This? (footage of kids on a carousel) Or this? (Hitler giving a speech, thousands of people giving the *heil* hand gesture. Then cue the sounds of bleating sheep, baaaaa's and whatnot). Funny stuff, I'm digging it.
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Actually it took me four times to get through it. I am just wondering:
1) Why spend a good five to seven paragraphs laying down your life history and explaining how much you love the franchise? I mean, one paragraph and you are done ("I grew up on Cameron's Terminator movies - had the toys, the comics, everything - so I will be honest and upfront that I came into this movie with a lot of expectations.") Bada-bing, bada-boom, done.
2) And it is alright to hate a movie, but why hold it to extra ridicule just because it has the Terminator name. This isn't Cameron doing it, it is McG doing it; and this isn't a planned sequel, this is purely the studies trying to cash in on something with name recognition. If you want to get upset at the cheapening of a franchise name, where was all the complaining against Sly for bringing back Rambo & Rocky?
3) Plus, why mention that McG contacted you. I have never heard of Roger Ebert saying that a filmmaker he gets along with, say Martin Scorsese, ever texted or e-mailed him to cry about his review. Just smacks of complete unprofessionalism...
4)...plus it doesn't even ring true. It sounds like one of those stories your friends tell you when they say they dumped this one girl to save face because in actuality she dumped him. Or even more apt, like she never went out with him in the first place. -
May 23, 2009 7:40:11 PM CDT
"Lion has Wings" just wondering what Scotsman75 would think
by continentalop
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have people been using the word "scene" as an adjective? As in, "scene hair" or "scene clothes" or "scene boy/girl" I just stumbled onto this today, having pretty much no contact with teenagers, and I find it sort of weird...Is it just a synonym for the word 'emo' (a word which meant something else entirely when I was a teenager, a scant 10-15 years ago...)? What the fuck scene are they talking about?
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.... But set it to the Pixies' "Where Is My Mind?" I just love stuff like that when its well-done.
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But I don't want to delve back into whatever TB that was to bait him with it.
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Have you heard that Fallout Boy song that played on the air last year, "This Ain't a Scene, its a Goddamn Arms Race"? I tried asking my 17 year old cousin the difference between emo and scene, and I believe she tried, but I couldn't figure it out. I think scene kids are less depressed than emo kids, and emo kids are way less depressed than goth kids. Scene kids may have different hairstyles too. Maybe they don't wear their pants so tightly. And maybe scene kids actually dance to their music, rather than swaying back and forth like 90's depressive grunge.
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I like this one from #5.: "Go to shows. Shows are important, and if there is a show playing within a ten mile radius of you, you're there to suck cock. Always know when your favourite bands are playing, and go to a show at least once a week. Bring your other scene friends, and become familiar with the artist as a person. Talk to your friends about how you met them, and be very knowledgable about them." http://www.wikihow.com/Be-a-Scene-Kid
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http://www.yourscenesucks.com/ From the ABOUT section: "someone recently wrote me and complained that my old "how to dress emo" site was incorrect because "that is how normal people dress." for the most part, they are right. the term "emo" has become a thing of the past, now replaced by its the new term, "scene." gone are the days of thick-rimmed glasses, sweaters, and jeans that actually fit. everything is completely androgynous in the myspace age; boys are playing dress up with mommy's makeup; girls are attempting to look more and more like glam rock monsters.
everyone seems to be involved in some sort of strange contest where the winner wears the tightest jeans, puts on the silliest looking makeup, and sports the worst haircut. in the end, everyone loses. you all end up looking the same." -
That list is amazing! And it's really hard to tell how tongue in cheek it is. Such advice, too. "Whatever you do, make sure it works." and "Try something new that you haven't seen before, as long as it looks good." All this super-specific advice and which "scene queens" to emulate, followed by a warning not to copy other people(!)
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Its all so ridiculous, though strangely comforting in how positive and accepting/nonjudgemental they seem to try to be; a result, I suppose, of looking so weird themselves. But you're right, it is a strange combination of amazement, amusement, and horror. The horror...
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geez...the "orgcore punker" is like a lot of the dudes I know. Fuck!
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Way back before the term "scene" was even used popularly too, I bet (I never heard it until that Fallout Boy song a year ago). She was pretty damn hot too. I wish I had pursued it into something a little more serious than the casual thing we had going on for awhile. She was a very cool girl and I miss her. Ah well, that's life.
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is 20/20....rose-colored glasses... etc.
I miss almost everyone I've ever met. Basically, if you are not a total asshole, I will miss you at some point. But I'm also a sucker for nostalgia. It's my curse! -
Dude, I've ALWAYS been that way. When I was in 7th grade and at a completely different middle school than all my 6th grade friends, I missed them. When I was in high school, I missed all of middle school. When I was in college, I missed high school (though not as much as I had the previous years). The alcohol helped. But I get pretty damn nostalgic for a lot of shit. Sometimes to the point where if I see something I haven't seen in yeaaaars, an old favorite movie for instance, and I had probably forgotten it, some old memories and feelings will be stirred in such a way that sometimes a tear or two may be shed. I'm such a damn sucker.
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God-damn I hate the cesspool of shit this fucking network has become. I enjoy the movie, but couldn't they find time to, I dunno, play some FUCKING MUSIC?!
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I'm always on when no one else is????
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Then agaain I have had a fe tonight
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Still having fun with my new stalker in the Avatar talkback.
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What's a "fe"?
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May 23, 2009 10:17:41 PM CDT
Series, thats because the memo said 'lets fuck with series7'
by toadkillerdog
I didnt write it
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Few drinksies, eh? I'm trying, but damnit, those 4 piece of pizza I ate 5 hours ago must have been breadbombs made by the Breadmaster from The Tick, cause my stomach has expanded to the bursting point and doesn't seem to be going down at all. Pouring two beers down my gullet isn't going to help either, I don't think.
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Jusfelling nice
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Fuck it, gonna drink a few more brb
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May 23, 2009 10:22:09 PM CDT
Ifn someunone sees mavra and she is carrying baseball bat and sq
by toadkillerdog
let me know caus it gotta run
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she swings a mean basebal bat
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dude just pulled a ninja fred
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Basd ona shaq song, funny as hell
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I am not fucked uop yetm but tell that to my fingers
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I thought his rap career was before Kobe was even born? And toad, how did you manage to get marginally drunker in the span of 10 minuts?
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Hate that, love that dog but hate that. anyone sles have a dog? my dog loves to taje a dump on frshly mowed lawns. any dfreshly mowed lawn, wlaking him and eh passes up peerfectoy good shitting spots but goes right upo to a lwan were somme dude is still mowing and he wnats to take ashit! i git adrag him away and he is pulling hard cause he wans to shit on frsh mowed grass but the dued who mowed it anit to happey about that and neither would i be but try telling that to a dog who wants ti take a shit!
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But I have to wonder....was I out BEFORE I outed myself? Like a gay dude who only thinks he's in the closet when everybody else totally knows?
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Vader im not really fucked y=up yet still lucid but afetr afew or more than afew my finegrs have life of there own and i just let em roam
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And this malt-poo is annoying the shit outta me, barking all the time, refusing to pee, crawling all over me as I try to type. I think she just got into some sugar because she's been barking and trying to get me to play for the past hour and a half, and its her bedtime.
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No dog, but when I used to have a job that required me to travel a lot, my cat would piss in my suitcase if he saw that I was about to start packing. Clever little bastard! He'd do the same thing to my roommate's clothes. Selective pissing was a talent of his.
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trying ti contriaol my fingers contriola cotrol control maybey im deludeing msklef and I am fucked up. ok, toad fcus focus going to type clear sentence no tyos typos
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hahahaha....right! I forget who I am sometimes...
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Pissed in my wifes bag and shit on my pants heh! Lobve that dog! give me some sugar
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i liked it! it was good enetrtaining fast paced and that wonan was smokin hot. I guesed part of it, but not all, so that really makes it worthwile to me. i recommend it,. better than wiolvie
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Fuck
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O, this is my fifth bottle since i started posting tonight couser i had quite a few before that too heh, life is good
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Yeah I thought the Italian chick was pretty hot too. And definitely underused. She shoulda jumped into the water and gotten a little wet too. I really enjoyed the helicopter scene.
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See i can type without typios!
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You almost made it good buddy. When I got drunk in college, I used to gauge my drunkeness by rubbing my nose and seeing how numb it felt.
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Fuck moust be sibering up cause that had no typos.
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Ok, no typos, gonna fucken erase them
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That merysl sheepo movie looks good witha nmy adams about julia chidl caled julie hulia i think
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meryl streep - sheep is from sesame street. amy adam. julia child movie called julia h[jlie
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God, Hannity is such a fucking douche.
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drink myslef sober or pass outy
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like he is planing on peing ony me
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In the movie did they include the Helicopter, uh let's call it, vertical envelopment scene from the book? The one they forshadowed the living hell out of when the main character was at CERN?
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needas a cobra shoved up his pooper a real cobra too biute his ass from within
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I enjoyed it, but not as much as I thought I would, based on all the good reviews. It was really missing that cerebral aspect present in all the other Trek movies, that aspect that really makes you think instead of just checking your brain in at the door. That was disappointing, that it wasn't about anything more than starship battles and Kirk becoming a leader.
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Uhh.... let's see... the helicopter scene is in there, yes... Was it foreshadowed my a main character at CERN? No... No idea what you're talking about with that one.
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May 23, 2009 11:16:19 PM CDT
i had no idea that night of the living dead was remade in 1990
by toadkillerdog
on encore now
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whas up? Toma Savini directed this verison of the rmake writetn and prodcued ny Romero i had no idea this exiusted. no helicopter nit foreshadowed
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TKD would if he was more, let's call it, alert.
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It was good popcorn check brain at door dont ask for more. but star tek should be aboove that it should be intelligent -oh this chick cant act aa endood until he gets killed tt ll my dgs shit has more talnet and is better looking that she is what wa savini thinking? BUt Tony Todd is in it so that s g
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Which is why no helicipyter resucue on mountaons so going vertical like that not only very diigficult but going up so high would cause chopper to stall, also the airburst shpould have wiped out rome, but that is quibbling
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Before I ever saw the original. At least, I saw parts of the remake when it came on tv one year I was at the beach. I must have been around 11 or 12. Scared the shit out of me. It was towards the end when the girl is out in the fields and comes across an old lady zombie. The old lady snarls at our heroine, and our girl, tears in her eyes, sniffling, blows the zombie's head off.
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Was an intersting failure I thought.
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I don't understand the foreshadowing bit you're coyly referring to. As for helicopters needing air, I get all that. I've seen that footage of the chopper that was hovering near the ground for so long that it pushed all the air out from under it and it crashed. Would that happen the same way if a copter went straight up for awhile? Does it work in reverse? Does that mean the helicopter landing scene in Jurassic Park isn't feasible?
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May 23, 2009 11:30:39 PM CDT
some brit made a 70 dollar zombie flick that is all rage
by toadkillerdog
at cannes
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so blades cant provide lift - fuck im sober again
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Star Trek should be more than that. I'm all for Trek being a crowd-please. I remember years ago, here at AICN, at the original forums, we debated/imagined the myriad ways Trek could be approached by different directors: John Woo would have phaser fights where characters dive sideways in the air, doublefisting the phasers. Fincher's Trek would be dark and take place on rainy planets, etc etc. So, I don't mind a different take on the material; I certainly don;'t mind a blockbuster mentality being applied to it. What I do mind is the lack of an overall question, an overall debate, whether its over ethics or politics or what have you. It just needed something to make you *think*. Trek is better than what we got. An entertaining flick to be sure, but Trek should be better.
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In the book Hank's character survived an incident(I'm trying hard to talk around a spoiler)by doing something he saw at CERN with a towel. It was so mind boggeling stupid that it almost ruined a decent story with super hamfisted forshadowing. I was wondering if they did this in the movie and Langdon ended up in the river.
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Made me upset. I should have sent mine in for contention. Maybe next year. Except next year I'll look like a copycat. Fuck.
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The term I used is a technical name for what I was asking about.
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Nothing like whatever you described ended up in the movie. Sounds like its better for it. And Hanks never visits CERN in the flick. There's no time for it. The clock is ticking down already when we meet him.
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So no, that stipidity did not make it to screen, but the airbust over rome did, which would have been more devastating than ground detonataion
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but nothing like that happened ok need more beer brb
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About Harry mentioning McG in his review and how Ebert never does that. God read his review for Limits of Control. Which he hated, but he did it in a nice way, but he has a cameo in it and mentions it. So Ebert does do shit like that. http://tinyurl.com/r2hr9z
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Did Langdon improvise a field expediant Dash 1 Bravo or T10 Charlie?
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On the couch after I made that post an hour ago. Big Mexican dinner.
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Angels and Demons?? Who the fuck gives a shit about that lame cash in. Da Vinci Code was one of the worst movies I've ever seen, the biggest mystery of the whole damn thing is how it made over 700 million world wide, not whatever the fuck Langdong was looking for.
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I should read the book
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I don't see anyone like me on there? But I saw a dude wearing pretty much the exact same clothes as me as I was leaving the mall today, I think its called the I just don't give a fuck look. T-shirt and shorts with lots of needless pockets.
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Are you saying you liked Angels and Demons better then Star Trek?
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The book is fairly entertaining and a lot better then the Davinci code. Except for what I was referring to above, that almost killed the whole thing.
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Oh my fickin head s pounding
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Not that I know what that is, but I'm pretty sure Langdon never participated in any field strategy.
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Damn! She is ugly but she can pull a trigger!
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No one gave a shit about my end of the world calling last week. So I'm gonna pretend like some did ask what the fuck I was talking about. Well I was talking about the series finale of Prison Break. did any of you mother fuckers watch it?
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Are there still labels for the way you dress and the music you listen to when you're in your late 20's? Like the great Mr. Glover said "I'm too ole' fo' this sheeet."
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I was disappointed by Trek, whereas I was surprised at how much I enjoyed Angels and Demons... so in a way, it was a better theater going experience for me with A&D than it was Trek... Shit, I dunno. The more I think about it, the more some of the shit in Trek pisses me off.
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Same way I felt
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Man I want to see that movie damnit.
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And gets to climax pretty quick too. And is damn vocal about it. Least, that's how mine was.
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Damn it Ebert was that a review or some bizarre stream of consciousness thing like Hunter S. Thompson would have done.
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...I think you need to switch from beer to the tougher stuff.
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May 24, 2009 12:09:24 AM CDT
I might be interested in these 'Scene' bitches....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
.....and good of you to brag about a handjob. I think more grown ups should. Its a delightful thing. Clean, quick, easy, and relatively risk free.
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Did you get to that scene with Barbara that I mentioned up above?
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...I'd watch it on TV. Fuck Trek with a fist. The best thing about that film is the fact that I can honestly say I still hate everything about that franchise.
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She gettin all Punisher like!
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Damnit I miss her.
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Liked Star Trek around here. I thoroughly enjoy the shit out of it.
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Arrogant bastard ale 8% alohol, but my immunity built up to fight mavras chang from gettinm e drubnk and cutin my ballas off - aagion
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It just didn't appeal to it.
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Finale has to be one of the best ever. A series that wraps up everything and with only one crazy thing, with a nice sad end.
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a gas tank witha shotgun because i was trying tio hit the lock on it! got his ass blowed up good
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Was just disappointed is all. I need some more viewings to formulate a better opinion of it. Thought the actors did a great job and Zoe Saldana was fucking hot, as always.
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Why Trek is all of the sudden getting ridiculed for not being smart enough but T4 gets a pass? The Trek movie was just as smart as all the old ones. Trek was the best movie I'd seen in a long time in theaters, it was a movie that after I watched it I knew it was good and other people would like it. Not just a movie I knew I would like and no one else would, like Speed Racer. And not an overly hype up movie that wasn't as good as they said, like TDK. It was great, the acting was solid and the action was good.
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You are just training for Twilight.
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Angels and Demons is any good, must be a miracle. Plus I think Angles and Night at the Museum 2 get a free pass at getting semi decent reviews because the first ones were so fucking terrible they had no where else to go but up.
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I may watch Speed Racer tonight. Man like I'd like to watch more Asian films but I get sick of reading subtitles. Like to watch a foreign film requires that I don't have anything else to do that night. Why can't dubbing be fucking better.
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I have had some classic drunkenings though, this does not even come close, if i could di g oup osome of those TB's you would beleive a man can fly or atleast type while drunk
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Has more balls then McG. And they are huge fucking pussies.
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I am going out to get drunk to celebrate Lyoto Machida's win.
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And it doesn't think it is. Its just a damn fun ass pounding ride. Star Trek is not creative or exciting. It is bland shit populated by pretty people. The end.
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I had a great time seeing it.
They've promised that next time there'll be more in the way of moral and ethical dilemmas. This one was just to re-establish the characters. And they did a really good job of that. Think about how fucking awful it could've been. I had more fun watching it than I've had at most of the movies I've seen recently. -
Star Trek was entertaining bit the whoppers of coincidence and just bad writing ripped you out of the movie moment. the stupidity of the sets i mean come on fuckin 22nd 23rd century and they have indusustrail plumbing ona starship?
it was poor starytelling and direction that was coverd up by non staop action. it was not bad, but it could and shoould have been so much beter . it was the annoying lack of attention to detail that pisses most peple off who dilsike the mobvue, detail that could esily have been added but abrams is noty detail oriented -
Pictures you put on Facebook may never really get deleted and made me think about this site. I wonder what would happen if I ever did anything with my life and then somehow it got found out all the shit I put here. I mean I'm trying to get a job, so much so that it has become my full time job (i'm not very good at it). I really wish I lived in the age before computers and shit now. Because trying to find a job is fucking retarded, companies are so obsessed about nicheing every person into a personality type and if they will be a good "FIT" for their company that they weed out a lot better workers. I wish I could say I lived in the days where people hired other people based on a gut feeling not because of a score on some personality quiz.
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Is ugly now?
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May 24, 2009 12:28:48 AM CDT
and the picking on McG thing is just lame now.....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
....its like Rodney King "Can't we all just get along?" jokes. The guy fucking delivered. I can give a fuck what people think about him or his name.
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That's why I moved on to Thief of Bagdad, Ichi the Killer, and The Proposition. Only seen the first so far.
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Here but you all sound like whiny fanboys upset that Kirk was using a 17S45 Phaser when everyone in the Federation knows that the 17S45 Phaser was only created after Kirk died. Kirk would have been using a 17S39 Phaser DUH!!! God this movie is so full of holes I can't stand it, mommy take me back to the basement.
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Is that good? I just saw some thing about it on Eberts site, I've heard the name before but know nothing about it.
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With the 3 Years Later titlecard? I don't get how people think characters or relationships were established there. People walk in a room say "Meet Sulu" next thing you know they're buddies. Funny 10 seconds is spent on developing relationships in a film that supposedly exists to set up the relationships of these people.
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and Yelchin's in both movies.
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I could give a shit less about what his name is. Fuck I think its mildly cool, I even like the guy who did the Fall Tarseem or some shit. I was making fun of the fact that he made a PG-13 film, while Greenday wouldn't edit their crappy album for content to sell in Wal Mart. T4 should have been an R, fuck even Ben Stiller can still make R rated movies. Seriously this whole rating bullshit depends on your first big hit, if your first hit movie is R rated they are going to let you make R rated movies for the rest of your career. You come out of the gates swinging PG-13 (Charlies Angles) they won't let you touch R.
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as the old characters. That's what I mean by establishing. And they succeeded.
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May 24, 2009 12:37:58 AM CDT
Warner Brothers took a chance with making Watchmen R....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
...no way in hell were they ever going to make another R rated film for over 100 million in the same year. It had nothing to do with McG. And the argument is bullshit. There is not one scene in the film that would have benefited from an R rating. Nothing feels watered down. Sure there is no scene where a Terminator peels the skin off his arm, but I'm not 12 anymore....I don't need shit like that to think a movies cool.
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I've heard you mention it now like 5 times, like one I remember was that his comedy was overly forced. He was in the film like 5 minutes and hard hardly any lines. They weren't buddies, they had one scene where they got each others backs that's all. Kirk realized that he was a stand up guy. The only relationship established was Kirk/Spock and Kirk/Bones. And yes these characters all play off well known characters, so you didn't have to sit there and have them go on their first date scene. Everyone pretty much knows the premise of all of these characters, and if you didn't this movie introduces them nicely. You act like you went in expecting some deep emotional tale about friendship and new beginnings. It was a fun summer movie.
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Terminator 4 script out there that would have worked. And first off I've yet to see T4, so I can't really say anything about it. I will see it I want to see it and I think I'll like it. But to me, Terminator has always been an adult thing, and it should have been R rated. If you are a kid that is too stupid to not be able to sneek into an R rated movie you don't deserve to see that movie.
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But its an old film and suffers from hat Old Film-itis, where there are awkward transitions from scene to scene and... well you know what I mean. But its a beautiful film and has some very cool effects (for its time). Has a good commentary by Coppola and Scorsese (recorded separately) on it too. And it has an evil Grand Vizier named Jaffar and a thief named Abu.
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Its about directors. Name me a director that had a first big hit that was PG or PG-13 that later moved into R rated territory successfully. When you hire a director known for PG-13 stuff, your going to get PG-13 stuff that's why you hire them.
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I think so.
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Made pg and pg-13 then went to R
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....they meet, 3 YEARS LATER title-card, now they're best friends. The douche bags that wrote that shit were terrified of having to deal with actual human relationships.I wasn't expecting anything deep and emotional. I was expecting actual relationships of some kind. This is a crew a lot of people know and love. I would think there would be some sort of real comaradery between real people, but there wasn't jack shit. There were cardboard cutouts of people. There's the cocky charming guy, the serious guy, hot black chick, funny Scottish guy, sword fighting Asian guy, funny Russian guy, and thats about it. Oh yeah-- and there is a villain that sits around jerking off for 20 something years and we're just supposed to ignore that element of the story. I guess there is an instruction manual that comes with shit films these days called comic books. I've been told I have to read that to understand. Please don't make me talk about Star Trek anymore...
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Spiels can do whatever the fuck he wants.
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Is going to beat T4. Go figure. I think all the negative reviews really hurt T4. Probably because people know that Terminator movies are adult movies and adults read reviews and usually listen to them.
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May 24, 2009 12:45:36 AM CDT
Again. I'm not 12. I don't need tits to enjoy a film.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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And midgets.
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Jaws was a PG? Weird I could have sworn it was an R.
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...you suggested it would have been different were it some other director. And it wouldn't. Warners isn't gonna take that gamble on two big budget films in one year.
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So with Kirk and Bones, would it have been better to just pick them up as they're leaving the academy, already as friends? But then you lose that first meeting of theirs? Or do you have them meet first aboard the Starship, like Kirk does with everyone else that isn't Uhuru or Spock? I agree, its sorta clumsy, but they kinda wrote themselves into a corner with wanting Kirk to meet Bones before the Academy while also not wanting to make a film that's strictly about them in school.
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Star Trek 90210. If they had dicked around and shown life at the Academy and how Bones and Kirk did their first panty raid together, or how Kirk helped Sulu get over the loss of a family member during their junior year. Or how Ohora was almost date rapped as a sophomore you would've been pissed because it was just melodramatic teen crap.
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Why bother trying to make an adult film. Lets make a PG-13 film because those make more money. So lets take a franchise known for catering to the adult crowd and make it more for tweens. So lets pick a director that makes midless action look good and throw lots of money at him, hopefully he has a silly name! Like I said its hard for me to argue T4 because I haven't seen it, but I really like all the other ones including T3 (excluding the show). But the movie just looks like Robots and explosions. Also when you watch the trailer back to back with Transformers 2 its like. Ok so in this world machines can get dirty and that world they are mint out of the box even though they just came up from under the sand? Transformers eewwww SHINY!!! WANT TO TOUCH!
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May 24, 2009 12:56:11 AM CDT
I would have made half the film at the academy....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
....and I would have made the story a much smaller scale battle to kick it off. Pike should have been the Captain until the very end, when Kirk takes the helm after Pike is injured or some shit. And none of this bullshit where Kirk sneaks on the ship. What the fuck did any of that stupidity accomplish? Why couldn't he just play a bit more by the book? That stupid bullshit did nothing but create a film full of eye rolling convenient plot points.
. Establish the fucking relationships early. They should have known each other before being on the ship together. The whole crew should have been tight. Starship Troopers set up the relationships in training far better. And none of this stupid fucking promoting everyone on board in one day. If Uhura is the best linguist, then why the fuck isn't she already the communication person on the ship?! What the fuck was the point of having her chase Kirk to the bridge and BAM she's promoted! Shit like that offered nothing. It simply dumbed the story down for cute/humorous moments. -
I guess you have no idea about Krik. That's is the whole concept of Krik, he doesn't play by the book. You need to watch more Generations for that.
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Tremensous action, and great characterization - for an action flick. Star Trek was not bad, just sloppy. I think Fred said it was lazy writing and i would agree and add lazy direction and producing. You got idiots out there who think that because a movie s nothingbut action it is goood! They will grow up someday
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... of Fate or Destiny. Then it would have had something cerebral to "make you think" while also fixing some of the coincidence problems that plague the movie quite a bit. It could be easily fixed too- just a small scene with Spock commenting on how even in this different timeline, everyone still ends up on the bridge and how "Fascinating" that is, and how it must mean they are *meant* to be the Enterprise's crew and do great things. That would explain why Sulu is at the helm, why Uhura gets promoted, why they run into Scotty on the ice planet, etc etc. Honestly, I'm disappointed they didn't even bother touching upon the issue of destiny. Seems like that'd be obvious given the idea of an alternate timeline. You can't escape your fate, etc etc.
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Again, sounds like you were expecting to much. Like why does the bad guy always run out of bullets when the good guy has one left. How come the side kick always comes in at the nick of time. How does Peter North always know the exact moment to pull out and make the money shot? Star Trek wasn't trying to reinvent movies, just make a set of well known great characters known to a whole new generation of people.
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May 24, 2009 1:01:19 AM CDT
Its funny how Trek fans freak out at the notion....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
...of a film set in the Academy. I don't know why. It doesn't have to be like Dawson's Creek. You're just assuming it would be because thats the only sort of scenarios these jerk off writers could handle. And they probably would fill it with dating drama and shit-- why exactly did Uhura and Spock have to be together? Oh yeah-- just to squeeze in a few forced heart felt moments to remind us human beings were responsible for this dogshit.
I'm saying if there were actually competent writers on this project-- they could pull it off. It could be extremely bad ass. It doesn't have to be dating drama. It could be simulations and weapons training and learning of alien cultures, and great shit to expand the world and the culture of the film. All I learned from what I got was that the interior of ships look like Mac stores and that you can skydive perfectly fine from space. -
Some of those scenes were spectacular, particularly when JJ pulled the camera way back to show how little the ships were in scope compared to the vastness of space. That had never been done in a Trek film before, and I was glad to see it.
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Is forced as a mother fucker. And it was suppose to be, that movie is making fun of war movies. Also its a terrible adaptation of the book.
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Even though you've never mentioned it, is JJ's obsession with drilling. Why the fuck was Nero just some driller, just like the guys on Armageddon which JJ helped write??????
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In theory. Course, a reboot didn't appeal to me either, until I saw the trailers.
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And Starship Troopers was fucking awesome. The book was a young adult propoganda piece, and the movie nailed it.
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May 24, 2009 1:06:05 AM CDT
I know Kirk is a rebel....and he could still manuever...
by dannyglovers_dickblood
...his way around authority and rules-- but sneaking onto a ship and ending up the captain in about a day is unforgivable stupid and offered nothing at all to the story. He could have still cheated on the Kobayashi shit and been doing sly shit around his highers ups the whole time. But I don't understand the point of taking his path to captain in that direction. Well I do actually.....it was an easy opportunity for cute scenarios with Bones sneaking him in, swollen hands, etc. The film existed to be cute and cater to 9 year olds. Trek fans can pretend its smart and faithful to their beloved franchise, whatevaaaaaa
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I went to a military academy, nothing cool happens there. And the federation academy is modeled off of west point.
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Interesting connection there Series... I'm surprised there was no magic box in Trek, honestly.
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Going to pretty much mast for cheating on an exam, is a HIGH POINT for something cool to happen at a military academy. I remember when this guy that EVERYONE liked and was a stand up guy, real straight shooter got in trouble and eventually kicked out for cheating is was crazy. Because how could a guy that had been this straight and narrow get kicked out for this while dumb shit cadet A has had two alcohol offenses and an honor offense but still gets to graduate.
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Im going to bed. Dog pissed cause he cant pee ony me while im passed out on floor tonight. poor pooch hel'l get over it. damn near took this tb to top
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I was just fun. You go home from pretty much any film you can blast holes through it. Why all of the sudden does that matter for Trek? Its not like you couldn't blast shit though every thing else its ever done.
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Yeah Vader I agree about that, I would have liked that to.
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That just didn't happen for convince? Like how come Skynet is just going after Kyle and John, and how come they just don't kill them when they have the chance. Also how come the lighting gets all of the sudden a lot better about 1/3 of the way into the film?
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Don't get to drunk you end up fucking the dog.
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We could all say, remember that time toadkillerdog screwed the pooch. Oh man classic TDK.
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May 24, 2009 1:16:19 AM CDT
The plot holes aren't that big of a thing to me....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
.....I was more perplexed by the fact that this is a film meant to set up characters yet there was no fucking setup. People were fine with it because they like the action to start right up...ok-- so why the fuck did I have to see them become a crew for the first time? I understand the desire to start the franchise over and cash in on the same character names, so why the fuck couldn't it just start with them already being a crew on their first mission? Oh yeah...because then we couldn't get Kirk Daddy suicide bomber scene to pull at heart strings, Baby Kirk driving a car off a cliff for Nokia product placement, and Kirk getting in a bar fight-- which supplied several great trailer moments.
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Fucking puppy, I'm gonna have to get up early to make sure it doesn't piss in its crate now. I drank and didn't get drunk either. Disappointing. Night fellas.
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May 24, 2009 1:18:25 AM CDT
Are you quoting what others have said about T4?
by dannyglovers_dickblood
I thought you haven't seen it.
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Really good in T4? I think this guy needs something new and inspirational. While I did really like what he did in Hellboy 2, but it was nothing memorable. I haven't heard a good score in a while, save for Wall-E but I'm gonna say that's just me. Just saying that makes me think Elfman needs to do a Pixar film, maybe its because Hellboy 2 was the best movie he's worked on since before Planet of the Apes probably while it was good. The shit he did in SOP was alright, also Milk was amazing but I don't remember the music. Shit he did Wanted, I don't remember that shit fest, same with Hulk. And Spiderman got plagued down due to the attempt to make hit singles out of the rock songs associated with them.
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And those where from people that liked it.
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Thing is something that's been a hole for the whole series.
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Jim, anyone seen that movie? Looked pretty boring. Well I'll be playing Guitar hero getting my ass kicked by knights of Cydonia, which I do think stand the test of time. And I thought Muse sucked balls when I first heard them back in 98. And man do I want to see them in concert.
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May 24, 2009 1:31:34 AM CDT
The machines don't know Kyle is John's Father.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
They know he is a close ally to John....but they don't know he will eventually Father him. And I also suspect the machine's plan was to either lure John to rescue Kyle, or to scan Kyle's likeness and attempt to make a Terminator Kyle to inflitrate John's base. None of this is clear....its just what I got out of it. And the photography is amazing from beginning to end. Have no idea what they're talking about. Some of the best long uncut action shots are in the first 5 minutes.
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May 24, 2009 1:33:34 AM CDT
Yeah obviously there are always giant holes with time travel.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
No way around that...like how the fuck does John even exist before sending Kyle back?And yeah-- I really really dug Elfman's score. There is a whole new theme with balls. It reminds me of Basil Poleidouris shit....sorta like a manly Conan type theme. It has an 80s vibe. And they also use the famous percussion hits of course. But Elfman's score is damn powerful.
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I like me some powerhouse Elfman, I think that's what has been missing with Elfman's recent stuff. It comes off as background music. Also while I like the new Batman stuff nothing tops Elfman's score.
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There was time travel in Star Trek.
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I don't have a problem with time travel holes. Its inevitable.
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Star Trek It was just a fun summer movie, but it hit all the right notes that the casual viewer of movies will like it. I doubt I'll like it half as much on the small screen, but it was a fun big movie nothing more. All the fan boy masturbation is just typical of fanboys. As for T4, I'm pretty sure I'll love it, but I can tell that it was a movie trying to appeal to teenage boys.
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Elfman is more iconic then Williams. Williams has some good shit, but its a lot of the same. While Elfman does a lot of the same, its so bizarre. Plus both of them worked with great directors in their prime, and then some for better or worse.
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....but its damn close.
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May 24, 2009 1:49:28 AM CDT
Nothing is more iconic than the Star Wars score.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
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Williams is good, but Herman is the king.
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Night At The Museum took #1 on Friday. 15.3 to Terminator's 14.9. If I don't get a fucking sequel I'm gonna spit.
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...but I never understood why people liked the Vertigo score so much. The opening theme is cool, but the rest is dull. Psycho is consistently solid from beginning to end. Even Busta Rhymes agrees.
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JP2 score is under rated. I should watch JP2 again and see if I still like it. I think its kind of funny that Joe Johnston and Jonathan Mostow made T3 and JP3 and I they are almost the same films. Those two directors make solid fun movies, nothing ground breaking. Like they are the best average filmmakers out their. Though U-571 was awesome in theaters and October Sky is the only movie to show why Heath's Bottom should have an acting career and why Chirs Cooper is probably the best unknown actor around. JP3 and T3 are the same movies and are about the same level as entertainment. I'll give T3 the edge because of the coffin scene and flipping the crane truck. But you have the monumental task of being the first new director to the beloved huge financial franchises and they come up with some bland fun good entertaining movie. And from what I gather McG did about the same. I'll judge for myself Monday hopefully.
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While I don't understand why everyone loves that movie so much, that fucking score is bad ass.
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And I don't mean that in a condescending way, but the fact is we are right now going through the shock of an economic down turn and people do not want to see a depressing movie about a robot apocalypse. People want to have fun and laugh.
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Trust me. Downer ending where Batman's girl dies and the White Knight of Gotham, dent dies, and Batman on the run. People would be like, screw that I am going to go see a damn comedy.
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May 24, 2009 1:57:06 AM CDT
I agree. Both those films get get unfairly shit on.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
The coffin scene was probably the baddest set piece in the whole franchise. And I have no problem with Lost World. I don't understand the hate at all. I agree-- that score is overlooked. There is some great tribal sounding safari trek kinda shit in there. Lot more global percussion elements then he's ever done before or since.
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May 24, 2009 1:57:10 AM CDT
Vertigo is a great movie but only if you watch it on...
by continentalop
the big screen. I don't know why, but it only works in a theater. Same with North By Northwest for me. On the big screen I get totally enthralled by them.
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May end up taking the weekend (though T4 has made more because of the day early). Because I was hoping Night 2 would flop hard like Pink Panther 2, because it really seemed like no one wanted this movie. Just like no one wanted Angels and Demons. If Night 2 is a huge hit and T4 flops that would suck, just because I know Night 2 is crap.
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His rotting corpse ain't getting any prettier. Lack of Imaginarium getting picked up case and point.
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May 24, 2009 1:58:50 AM CDT
I'm not surprised. I was telling my friend it would happen...
by dannyglovers_dickblood
....the other day. And those fucking Ben Stiller kid movies are massive. Jesus Christ that shit looks fucking horrid. Its like Indian In the Cupboard for retards.
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May 24, 2009 2:00:27 AM CDT
FUCK. Why the fuck couldn't it go against A&D....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
...its UnFuckingAmerican to put a film up against Bale.
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My JP2 cd I fucking used to listen to that all the time. The big problem with T3 was the weak ending, and JP 3 was the fact that the main dinosaur looked like he was mentally challenged.
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Night would flop. I didn't think America was that stupid. Though see this is my problem with critics, they gave Night 2 a pass but while they hard as shit on T4. I don't care how much you didn't like T4, its better then Night 2.
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A year ago I was assaulted around here for saying shit like that....My favorite joke from them old days:What's the last thing Heath's masseuse said to him? --Lets rub some life into those dead legs!
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But only because of the writers Thomas Lennon & Robert Ben Garant.
Met them while a friend of mine was working an online for Reno 9-11. They were very polite and actually didn't mind as I stood in the room for several minutes like a dipshit talking to them. Plus the episode had a rush on it so my friend had to work insane hours but got it done, so those two were cool enough to buy him a bottle of Johnny Walker Blue Label.
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Is the greatest American actor of my generation.
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I couldn't stop making jokes about him around the office. Shit like, man I think I just pulled a Heath, I mixed my cough drops with my headache pills. Shit like that, good times.
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No matter what....shits gonna go down. You can't change that. I fucking love the voice on the radio asking if there's anyone out there.....and the final image of old John leading the resistance.
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May 24, 2009 2:06:24 AM CDT
You should show some fucking respect Series.....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
...I waited 4 days before I started telling Heath jokes.
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Are cool and seem like nice guys. Thomas looks like Judd Apatow will give him a movie pretty soon. Also their commentary on Night 1 they pretty much state that they do this for the money. I had to listen to that commentary because need to know why. They talked about how easy it is to write scripts like that. I like them but they need to do something else Reno 911 is fucking dead. So is South Park comedy central needs something new and good.
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May 24, 2009 2:07:30 AM CDT
Anyone associated with Night At The Museum....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
......should be waterboarded. They'll live, but it won't be pleasant.
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Watched one episode and didnt laugh once. Gay guys with lisp saying ultra-gay shit is not a joke, just bad stereotyping.
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On the way home. I found out like right as I left the office. I just thought it was funny that Heath all of the sudden became like the greatest living actor ever. When all he'd ever done was what??? Fuck the cuter of the Gyllenhaal brothers? 10 Things I hate about you? Knights dumb and that movie about religion are some shit. And Candy a movie no ones seen but is suppose to be his best movie. Fucking people were acting like we lost a Brando or Selleck.
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But I eventually just deleted them without ever watching them. While I love Little Britain and that was the main reason I wanted to see Krod. The few scenes I saw made me want to fucking pull a Heath and just start mixing my pills.
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May 24, 2009 2:10:44 AM CDT
The sad thing is I would kill for a chance to work on something.
by continentalop
...that crappy right now. 1 Night at the Museum on your resume is worth more than almost any other fucking movie for getting more work.
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....10 Things is a fantastic teen comedy. And I really dig The Order. Its fucking insane and features Peter Weller as an evil bishop.
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Making movies for other people. The mother fucker has to be rich enough to never have to work again. He seriously is the best comedy director around today. Cable Guy/Zoolander/Tropic Thunder fucking nothing outside of Freaks and Geeks has anyone who knows Judd Apatow even gotten close too.
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May 24, 2009 2:12:11 AM CDT
Night At The Museum would put some cash in my pocket.....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
....but my Mother would never respect me. And thats all that matters to me.
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Rebel Without a Cause, East of Eden and Giant are a pretty good triple play to make before passing on. You could see why people were thinking "oh, man, I think we might have lost someone special."
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never seen it. 10 things was good and all. But I've always wanted to know more about that secert world of Alex Mac. Why the fuck did she not get a career out of that, and the fucking other thing did? Also their are two of those fucking things haunting my movies these days, her and Erika Christensen. Intergoddamnchangable. There is no other Alex Mac.
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What the fuck is wrong with the world?
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I wanted her to show me the secret world of her cunt.
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Because he can't play the Joker in a sequel. Lets be honest, a lot of film geeks (including a lot on this site) only care about the fact that their dream series of comic book movies has prematurely been ruined.
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Man I hope that is good. I want that to be SO good. I think its the movie I'm looking forward to most now outside of UP. I fucking love Die Hard 4.0: Live Free of Die Hard, save for the pussified rating.
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Make that Mac show.
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Mumbling motherfucker. I have no idea why he is hailed as a great actor, other than the fact that he slammed his car into a fucking wall going 1,000 fucking miles per hour. Didn't his head pop off?!
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I don't fucking care about Batman. I liked it just fine, but I prefer the Looney Tunes old version. Nothing will top Batman Forever for me. Also did you know that in the comic world Batman is dead for good right now.
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May 24, 2009 2:17:36 AM CDT
Other than you're professional fluffing of Pixar.....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
....what do you find appealing about Up?
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I've only tried to watch this movie once. I was stoned as shit, and man I've seen some crazy shit in that state, but I think that was buy far the most fucked up. It was like they were speaking a whole other language and the smooth black and white was just so wild to look at.
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....but I refuse to give another cent to Bruce Willis. Fuck him.
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The dog killed me when I first saw it. I'm a huge dog person, if you haven't seen my professional disc dog pic over at my mavra you should look. But really up until then there wasn't much that I found that appealing about the movie. First off I fucking hate old people, so a movie starring a cranky old man I was like...no. But I really am just banking on Pixar to do good.
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But he makes damn fun films. Why do you hate him?
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Awwwwwww I'm on the fucking floor about to die laughing.
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But On the Waterfront did. Although I am just not that big into the whole method acting thing - I actually preferred the genre flicks coming out before the "realism" movement of the 50's took over.
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Means fucking huge money. First off there are like 1000 Batman comics, so he is only just dead in the main DC world. But there are countless spin offs and other stand alone series. But him being dead means that they get to capitalize on it with every other story that belongs in the main DC world.
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May 24, 2009 2:23:20 AM CDT
I just hate him cause he's bald and he bores me.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
I'm confident I could kick his fucking ass. Just don't buy his shit anymore.....and his wigs make him look half queer. Whatever. It was fun while it lasted. Moonlighting is the shit.
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Old timely films that I could easily suggest to this generation of kids as something they would like. Metropolis and Bridge of River Kwai. Granter there are about ever movie ever made I still need to watch.
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Pixar a pass because they've earned it. I can go into Up! without having much hope for it. But I will not give Sam Raimi a pass. I am going to have to hear someone I trust tell me Drag me To Hell is worth a damn before I throw down for it.
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But than I realized that he is such a dick. I mean he never kills the Joker, no matter how many people the joker kills or the fact you know he'll escape from Arkham, because that just isn't right and he doesn't want to stoop to his level.
"Hey congratulations on capturing the Joker alive again and shipping him off to the insane asylum he always escapes from for the hundredth time. I'm glad you didn't have to go down to his level and kill him, even though he butchered a hundred more people. I would shake your hand but I am busy right now planning the funeral of my wife and children he just killed. Prick." -
And I just don't fucking care. I think after I watch these last two episodes I am gonna give up and just watch the show before the final show and the final show. This show should have been canceled after the first season. Then it would have been an AMAZING show. There is no way that its going not going to have a Sphere ending, and its not going to wrap up everything nicely and pull at your emotions like the ending to Prison Break.
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But to each their own.
I don't what it is, but something about a lot of old movies I touch me more and connect with me deeper than almost any modern movies. -
Do you watch Breaking Bad? Not enough fucking people here watch that show. It is the best form of entertainment (that is as in books/art/music/movies/dancing/theater/opera/stand-up/poetry reading/improv/orgies) right now.
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But man watching shit from the 60 and older can be a chore. I grew up in a ADD nation and have ADD and those movies where made in a simpler time.
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You should read Kevin Smiths recent 3 issue miniseries of Batman, it address that issue.
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May 24, 2009 2:33:10 AM CDT
I can't commit to tv shows Series.....I just can't do it.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
Don't have the time, focus, or memory to remember when its on. <p
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We hit number 1. That's a first in a while now.
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Though I do say, Breaking Bad season 1 is worth renting. Its only 7 episodes long. But they are the best seven episodes ever.
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Ever since his DD run, which I know was a while ago, but I felt so robbed I just said I can never buy any comic he writes again.
I mean, a villain who is a master of OPTICAL illusions takes on and tricks a BLIND hero. Plot hole maybe? -
And I have only seen the first two episodes. Planning on watching the rest.
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Batman and Joker are on a roof top and something blew up and I think and pretty much Joker is about to die. Gordon is like, just leave him I'll cover for you, but Batman being who he is is like NO and carry's his limp lifeless body to safety. Bruce goes to visit Joker in the hospital, joker tells him that he would prefer it if her wore the costume. Batman goes on saying that they need each other for these silly games they play and that's why Batman couldn't kill the Joker. The Joker says nothing would make me happier then you being dead, and that is all he wants in life. It was pretty good.
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Just wait till Cranston confronts the drug dealers. It is one bad ass scene. Season two, doesn't have the level of believability that season one has. But just as it looks like there is going to be a lull something crazy good happens.
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May 24, 2009 2:42:04 AM CDT
So Batman is willing to jeopardize the lives.....
by dannyglovers_dickblood
....of countless civilians just so he can have a purpose to fucking exist? Thats retarded.
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...of how it normally is presented where here Batman needs the koker for their games and Joker just wants to end it.
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Do you really think Batman gives a shit about civilians? He is a bored billionaire. He does it all for the rush, and pretty much Joker is the only one that's stood the test of time.
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...and stupid and a goody-goody compared to Batman, but you know Captain America would have no problem killing The Red Skull if it came down to it.
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May 24, 2009 2:48:05 AM CDT
Captain America would have no problem waterboarding.
by dannyglovers_dickblood
Professional.
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Matt Damon and Joe Johnston are going to change that opinion of Captain America in their movie.
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Any short little man wearing a tux and a top hat and only armed with an umbrella who continually takes on a crazed martial arts expert/vigilante in a dracula costume gets a salute from me.
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Seriously I was drinking water in bed once, and there was one last ice cube left in my cup of water and I couldn't get it. So I just kept drinking more and more water until I felt like I was drowning...IT IS TORTURE!
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But I think Batman would. He wouldn't kill, but he will throw a gangster off the roof and try and beat up captured crooks.
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I wish I could say it was for something cool like SERE training, but really it was me and a bunch of my friends seeing how it worked.
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Most villains in comic books would destroy the superheros is this was real life. Save for Superman. Superman just has powers up the wazoo and if he were smarter he'd own all of the kryptonite himself.
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Would Waterboard.
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How has no one killed Green Lantern. Just paint a bullet yellow and shoot his ass.
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Only 4 more minutes left in this lost. I really have not been fucking paying attention. This whole episode has just been people talking to each other in hush tones.
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Captain Waterboard. Saving America one pitcher at a time.
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Need to get a boot in the ass, its the American way. Why anyone listens to those people (or far left) is beyond me. America is just so pussified now a days, there is no way we are still going to be the worlds super power still by the time I die.
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Our number one export is luckily pussification. Pretty soon the Chinese will be just as big of lazy consumers as we are.
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Just wrote a comic book that concludes next week. And basing on what I've seen so far, its crap. He had a fucking sweet premise, Hulk Vs. Wolverine. He poops out two good issues of a 6 issue series and then does nothing for fucking two years. Then craps out these last 4 and they have been crap with no actual fighting. So seeing how he ends it, I'm pretty sure Lost will be just as bad.
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Hopefully some righteous nutty Europeans will take over and do it right. Someone like Sweeden or Denmark. Someone we never saw coming, make a sort of end of the world device and hold the world hostage to make a better place, for better or worse.
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You reading it?
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Someone reviewed the most recent issue and said why is it called Hulk vs. Wolverine when they don't fight each other, or in fact fight anyone? it is just talk.
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Did you hear about Wolverine: Old Man Logan? The fucking didn't have issue 72 ready the final in the Old Man Logan arch, so they just released Wolverine 73 which is a whole new story.
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Really want that to come back. That thing was awesome. It was so good. There are some other non Marvel stuff falling behind. Such as A Red Mass For Mars and Rest. But I saw recently Rest is coming out in hard back??
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Peace Series, Danny (if he is still up).
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Lay down and watch crap till I pass out. Peace.
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Want to know more?
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I haven't seen either
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May 24, 2009 4:28:09 AM CDT
The only reason James Dean is...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
as iconic and celebrated as he is, is because he died young. I think River Phoenix and Brad Renfro were greater losses. Those fucking kids could act.
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Completely underrated and unfairly maligned. Other than Dumb and Dumber, Carreys best comedy.
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He found it 'delightful'.
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http://tinyurl.com/pz9vzv I've been up that mtn you can see in the background in one of the pics more times than I can count. Anyways.
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Actually prefer them. I mean pre-sixties stuff. Yes I know. James Dean gets lionized prob. too much for his own good but he did really good work. I like Steve McQueen actually as much as any of that era's stars.
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Dig it.
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Those anorexic actresses bring the pathos and tears. Of course they are so malnourished they can't cry anymore but the viewers they can feel it.
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Sadly, I never *knew* her, if you know what I mean. But out local paper did a story about how damn skinny she was when the show first came on.
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Hulk fucking ripped Wolverine in half and threw his torsos in 2 different directions on the mountain! That said, I've yet to read issues 4 and beyond. Or 3 and beyond. I read whatever Lindleof wrote 2 years ago.
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How the hell does the Hulk rip Wolverine in half? I mean, A) his skeleton is adamantium, making it unbreakable (UNBREAKABLE), and B) Wolverine heals really fast, but I don't think he has ever been shown to regrow lost limbs or reattach limbs (at least up until I stopped really following comics which was the early 90s).
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Wolverine's never been pulled apart before, and it happens in the first issue. He can be torn in half because his ligaments and tendons aren't made of adamantium. And yeah, Wolvie can heal, but I think the tension in the first issue comes from that fact that Logan has to smell out his other half to try and pull himself back together before (I assume) his open ends heal over. I never finished it, I was curious to see what would happen (does he grow legs or reattach like velcro?).
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Cant_Stop_Yawning2 has been banned... again. I guess we'll soon see the appearance of Cant_Stop_Yawning3, like a bad sequel. Ah well, he deserves it; he's a douchebag to pretty much every person on the site.
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Nothing else happens. There is some major international conspiracy to get a leaked copy of Star Trek sold to the black market before its released. Hulks girlfriend injects her self with the serum and a hamster. Wolverine contemplates life with a panda. Its fucking bullshit.
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UVVSUH is pretty damn good. But my god if you thought lindellof was stringing you along with Lost.
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Hell yeah! More Fat guy docs! Every time I read about another Moore documentary I'm like MAYBE this time it'll mean anything. But no he just comes out like an annoying shlub who has a bone to pick with something. May as well just listen to Andy Rooney bitch about it for a couple of minutes. But him attacking rich people sounds like fun. But at the end of the day documentaries do very little, mainly because they are always seen by an indifferent audience. And the things that they go up against are just too big to be stopped. Like that Wal Mart documentary, that's great that the Waltons suck ass and are bat shit crazy about being rich as fuck. What can I do besides just sign up to some site and get annoying e-mails? I mean its not like I can't not shop at Wal Mart, I'm poor as shit, remember I don't even live in a house. I'm squatting in someones house right now while they are on a summer vacation.
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I didn't get into it. I laughed at the Hadron Collider bit and that got me some funny looks. The helicopter bit was ludicrarse. But I don't mind ludicrarsity when I go to the movies.Star Trek was top. I didn't notice any plot holes. Oh! That bit where they beam onto a ship moving at warp. Ridiculous. Something like that can never happen in a sci-fi fantasy.And the captain's chair was too big. And the wrong shape. Don't think it was dark enough in colour, either.The whole movie should've been at the Academy, with the original cast. It was just too new looking.I really wanted to see Insurrection 2.
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Loved it. One of the 'bloopers' is magnificent. Step up, Colin Farrell - "Fuck off. Midgets." Brilliant.
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What with Synecdoche, NY (which is starting to haunt me a little), Control and now In Bruges.Might watch Star Trek Insurrection tomorrow. Proper Star Trek, that.
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Terminator Salvation. I've heard it's fantastic and so much better than anything James Cameron can do/ has done.I don't know who the director is but he sounds Scottish.
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How did they get that horse's head in the bed without the bloke waking up. I mean, come on! Totally ruined the movie for me.
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Seriously, Harry, change it. It's making me feel sick.
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LOVED Roger and Me, but he's never been as on-target since, seems to me.
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I can't even look at it. I feel uncomfortable...
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I might be. A little. So?
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not so drunk that I'm not making any sense.
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That's a red flag right there.
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One word: Heart warming.New Star Trek. Well, it's too... new.
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Rebellious! I can't possibly be expected to imagine young Kirk being rebellious. Terrible writing. Shame on you, Bob Orci. Shame.
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Man that was a good movie. Thats good about the In Brugess bloober. Because when I recorded In Brugess forever ago. I also recorded the Bloobers. May finally watch it tonight.
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I still like First Contact the best, better then the new one as well.
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Never made it all the way through. Have tried several times, mind wanders and I fall asleep. Also I've read this a couple places I don't remember where, but the fact that the Romulans where the bad guys in Nemisis and then used again I wonder who allowed that? I didn't even remember who the bag guys in Nemisis where, neither did probably anyone greenlighting shit.
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I've ruined the blooper for you. They weren't that great, but that one stood out.
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I watched after I'd been to see the new one, that and Undiscovered Country. While I enjoyed UC again, FC didn't engage at all, I was nit-picking at it all the way through. Which is odd cos I usually like FC.Nemesis. Drives me to drink.
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I watched it the day before I saw the new one. I enjoyed it, it put my lady friend to sleep.
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that never occurred to me before is when, basically there's two Shatner's, right. Then the bad guys show up and there's all that "Shoot him!" stuff.Why doesn't she just turn back into herself so there's no confusion?I know it's irrelevant in the end cos they want to get rid of her anyway.
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Got anal cancer? While I find that funny as fuck, and I guess I feel bad for her. I mean its not everyday that someone with cancer gets to go on TV and get public sympathy. But seriously did not know that was a form of cancer, and how to you get it? I mean besides the obvious.
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No I saw UC like over a year ago. I was the Whale one right before I saw the new one. I was watching all the Star Trek in order when I accidentally rented VI instead of IV, fucking Romulan numerials.
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That's funny.Anal cancer. Not so funny.
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Whenever Ebert talks about 3-D movies and how much he hates 3-D. I mean I get what he is saying, but he just sounds like an old person complaining about technology.
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that's the one where Kirk and Spock are in the car with the whale woman specialist - doing the yes - no - yes - no dialogue.The timing on that is quality. Funny as fuck.
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Get beat by Dance Flick. That would have just been sad.
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Voyage Home was very funny.
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I read somewhere that the fiendish Japanese are developing 3D televisions which don't require the wearing of the dreaded glasses.
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by the way. I don't know anyone who's seen it! Don't know if it got a wide release but I'm sorry I didn't see it on the big screen.
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So yesterday I complained MTV was playing Star Wars Ep.II Today it seems they're playing all the movies, maybe. Either way, Ep III is ending right now, and Ep IV is starting after. ANYWAY, the point is this: MTV, a major television network, just completely fucked up their spelling of a major pop culture icon. During the commercial break, they ran some behind the scenes footage of what it was like to bring Darth Vader back into the films with Hayden donning the suit. They titled the piece "The Return of VADAR". VADAR? Really? The guy is perhaps the biggest and well known villain in the history of American film, and you can't spell his name correctly? You're a major network, what you don't have editors and directors to make sure shitty mistakes like that don't go on the air? FUCK MTV. This just makes me believe more and more that some uneducated dipshit rich kid son of an executive is running the network now. "VADAR", what the fuck...
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in the morning and there's a big dog's cock riding a scooter up and down the avenue.If only I had a shotgun.Mind you, I wouldn't be able to aim it after sloshing the Hoegaarden. Well, I had to have Belgium beer to accompany In Bruges.I notice Farrell was sloshing back the Leffe. That's decent tackle as well.
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I wish I had a shotgun - Part 2.
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My +1 was to your waterboarding post.
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Where you the one agreeing with about how hard Knight of C is on Guitar Hero 3?
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Since every one remembers it being an adult oriented franchise, so giving it a PG-13 rating was stupid. The money going public that wanted to see it are older now and care about reviews.
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I couldn't remember what TB it was we were talking about how Aryan Brotherhood prison gang reads Tolkien but I found the article. Here is the excerpt (it is on page 42):
"To join the ranks of the AB, one would have to murder a black inmate; to get out, one would have to be murdered oneself. Black and Hispanic prison gangs always relied on strength in numbers; the AB made up for their lesser ranks with pure ruthlessness and brutality, bestowing selective, Mensa-like membership based on each man’s physical strength and willingness to kill on sight. (Intelligence mattered too: The leaders read Machiavelli and Nietzsche and TOLKIEN and that old standby of self-purpose, Mein Kampf.)
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from seeing Star Trek again. I was kind of surprised at how full the theater was...
Started to watch a shitty cam copy of T4, but the quality was way too bad to continue. Still looked interesting though. With the poor framing, it almost looked like video art or something....like it wouldn't have looked out of place projected silently on a gallery wall. Either way, I had no idea what was going on so I had to turn it off. Would rather see it on a big screen first anyway. -
is truly fucking nauseating. He looks like a double-amputee for fuck's sake. And that facial expression.....the tenderness with which his top's pulled down...
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Knights of Cydonia is hard as shit on GHIII.
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That's just sad.
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What level are you playing Knights on? I can only really play it on medium. I can beat it, and once I did it made everything easier.
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Twice.
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Mother fucking Q! I finally figured out who the dad was on Breaking Bad. It's Q from Star Trek! Fucking nuts. Seriously if you are not watching that show, when you finally do you'll fuck your own ass for how stupid you were being. The ending to this episode fucking nuts!!! WHY ISN'T THERE A TALKBACK ABOUT THIS!!! FUCK. So good.
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But it was hard as shit, like I said. I don't remember if I've gotten that far on expert, but hard took a lot out of me. I've beaten everything on hard but Metallica's One.
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Watched the season finale last week. Anyone want to talk about it?
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I'm on an oldies kick. Always liked this song. Liked it even more when Heroes used it to great effect in an episode a few months ago.
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Just when I have to stay up late doing work too. Ah well. Now I'm here by myself, ah- ah, talking to myself. That's, that's chaos theory.
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I mean the syndrome, not the movie. I've been housesitting and puppysitting for my girlfriend's family while they're on a cruise and my gf is in Charleston, SC for a bachelorette party. Its pretty much kept me confined to the house because the puppy needs to go out around every 3 hours. Which leaves me without much to do other than watch movies, write and edit videos, and well, spend a lot of time here at AICN and at other websites. Well, after 4 nights here doing nothing but the same thing, I think I'm starting to suffer from a bit of cabin fever. I'm starved for interaction, obviously, which is why I'm here reloading the website every 15 minutes. Sad? Perhaps. Funny? To be sure. It makes for an interesting experiment, having to be on my own for a long time with nothing but busywork to do and no human interaction to be found other than messages left on cyberspace. And so tonight, I drink more heavily than I have this week, because a. I feel like I've earned it and b. I've got nothing better to do. Why did I come to that conclusion? Its interesting. I did spend some time today writing a review of "Battle Royale" for my blog. Maybe I'll send it to Mavra and Herb and start sending reviews over there. I've been reviewing a lot of movies for the blog, but they're not horror, so I didn't think they'd fit. And ah, fuck, I'm rambling again. Damnit, I need some video games over here. Now that the dog has finally shut up, and I've still got at least another hour of exporting videos, I need something to take up my time. If I spend anymore time on iTunes transferring my Shazam song tags over into purchases, I'll be broke.
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And thank god its not as disturbing as the last King Kong one was. This one looks to be... "Drag Me to Hell"?
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Wow, who is the modern-day Prometheus that blessed us with this invention? It's fucking fantastic. The first artist I enter is Radiohead, and what's the first artist and song that pops up after that? The Pixies with "Where is My Mind?" That's what I'm fucking talking about.
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They're one of my favorite bands. Thanks to Fight Club for pushing me in their direction. Didn't get into them until the middle of college, when I saw Fight Club and bought "Surfer Rosa" at the local indie-owned college music store. If I was stranded on an island and only allowed 5 albums, this would be one of them.
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This is something we used to do here at AICN back when the Forum was brand new, circa 1997. If you were stranded on a deserted island, what 5 albums would you like to have for the rest of eternity? Off the top of my head:
In no particular order:
1. Radiohead- OK Computer
2. Pixies- Surfer Rosa
3. Led Zeppelin- Led Zeppelin IV (ZOSO) {Though Im quite fond of Led Zeppelin III, I need to hear "Stairway" from time to time to soothe my soul}
4. Cake- Fashion Nugget
5. Pink Floyd- Dark Side of the Moon When I participated 8-9 years ago, I included some Wyclef Jean, due to his takes on "Guantanemera" and "Stayin' Alive", along with the rest of "The Carnival". But, I've never owned that album, and so my excitement about those songs have diminished.
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You guys have rapidly become the AICN: TalkBack Community: The Next Generation. Which is really quite strange, almost 10 years later. I visit the message board where us AICNRefugees have relocated to, and the past year or two has been very slack; we've not been talking about and discussing films and media with the relish we used to. So you guys are like the new vanguard to me, and I really appreciate that. And so, I will treat you as such. Hence, the first TWITCH Poll. Or, as Bubblehead used to say (who you can still find, every once in a blue moon here at AICN at a political talkback, now named as TheOriginalBubblehead), "Trolling for a Polling...."
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In no particular order:
1 - Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
2 - The Stooges - Raw Power
3 - Johnny Cash - Live at Folsom Prison
4 - David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders from Mars
5 - Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
God, I just realized I am a dinosaur in my music taste. Well, that would be expected considering this was the music that I listened to in my formative years. -
Is top five guys (LIVING) you would want to punch in the cock.
General rule is I am going to exclude mass murders, dictators and war criminals, otherwise it would be full of Osama Bin Ladens, Kim Ill, Beltway Snipes, etc. So, no particular order:
1. Dick Cheney
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You ever watch the Venture Bros. on Cartoon Network? Happen to see the episode where Iggy Stooge was a character, more like a body guard to David Bowie, rambling nonsense like "I'm a streetwalking cheetah with a heart full of napalm!"? Needless to say, it was great. Good picks by the way. I wish I was familiar with more of them.
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Never watch the Venture Bros but I might have to start. That sounds hilarious.
I love the Stooges, especially the song Gimme Danger. I don't know why but that seems like to perfect song to strip too. Any strippers reading this should add it to their playlist. -
While I was working today, "The Onion Movie" played in the background on G4. They got Steven Segal to play in a trailer for a fake movie called "CockPuncher", which had the overtly Asian looking symbol of a rooster, while Segal punched enemy combatants in the crotch. Was pretty funny. Wait, how do I apply this to existing stooges?
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PROFESSIONAL And why? Because everyone you mentioned is a total asshat. Now, I pride myself on being an independent, but it shouldnt bother anyone (other than diehard Republicans) when I say that Cheney, Hannity, and Anne Coulter are fucking inhuman scum that pretend to have human qualities in order to gain our trusts and create a following. Those asshole aliens are fucking terrible when it comes to convincing the intelligentsia that they are right or have our best interests in mind. Fucking dickheads. They need to burn in an all consuming fire of ignorant rhetoric.
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I suggested on AIBN that they give you your own column to post your agent +0 stories sometime in the future. Would you even be willing to do that if they agreed? Maybe add a new one each week or something. Something tells me I should just let it die...but....I cannot....I am still a slave to the Swayne.
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Its like the smart man's geek manifestation of an awesome pop culture comic book/scifi sandwich. The incident I spoke of above occurs when it is revealed that David Bowie is the head of the League of Calamitous Intent, a workers' union of sorts for Johhny Quest-style super villains- and Iggy Pop and Klaus Nomi are his possibly traitorous bodyguards. I mean really, David Bowie? There is even a fantastic episode where we see Dr.Venture (a Dr. Quest/Doc Sampson type figure) reacting to a comrade's testing of a new space-rocket, and they recreate the lyrics to "Space Oddity", complete with a character called the "Action Man". Its a great show, I HIGHLY recommend it.
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I am also an Independent. I firmly believe what that wise slave-holder George Washington said about political parties. And I will admit, as I get older I have become more conservative. The funny thing is a lot of my Republican friends always accuse me of being a liberal or a democrat. My response is I am not a liberal, it just that you guys have gone so fucking far Right that anyone less conservative than Mussolinni is accused of being a liberal by you guys.
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But also funny because you think you've become more conservative as time goes by. A cliche of growing old? Or a result of Republican "ideals" from the past 10 years? Interesting...
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But I don't know if I have that many more Joshua Swaney: Agent+0 stories left in me. If you read the last couple, they were getting pretty long winded and strained.
However, I still got one story left, half-written, that I was going to e-mail to Danny and the AIBN guys in honor of them getting their site up. In all humility, it is the greatest, most important Swaney story ever. EVER.
Side note, I was also going to see if I could get AIBN to maybe set up an experimental art project: have all the guys on AIBN participate and write a screenplay, each of us adding a scene and than the next guy adding a scene and so on All submissions excepted - but we the AIBN readers get to decide which scenes work and which direction we want to go in. Kind of like that old game where one person would start a story and someone else would continue, and so on. I figured the theme would be to create the Ultimate Christian Bale vehicle and then send it to him. Pretentious as hell, I know, and most likely we all would just get bored and give up on it after about 20-30 pages but I thought it would be fun try. -
Well, I didn't participate, I mean, but some other AICN Original Forumers did, and they tried to write an adapted screenplay of "Inspector Gadget". Then Di$ney came in and fucked everyone over by a. realizing there was a "market" for the material (because we talked about it so much and made our own screenplay? Maybe. Prob not. Who knows), and b. basically shitting all over what made the idea fun and original in the first place.
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Can't be anybody else's property, and the AIBN team must make sure anyone participates realizes that it is the property of AIBN, and all profits go to charity. The ContinentalOp Needs a Bigger House fund.
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through but that may have been due to an immense lack of sleep during mid-term week. It broke my heart that it ended on a cliffhanger. I NEEDED to know what happened once he got o the theatre. Either way I'm glad that there is one story left. Cant wait to read it. I can honestly say this is the most excited I have ever been for a continuing online serial about some random guy. That sounds like a great idea as long as everyone keeps their enthusiasm for the project. Which isn't so far-fetched if you take into account that the Bale rant was almost a year ago and AIBN is still going.
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...a Joshua Swaney script (Bale as Swaney, of course) about professional thief/robber who operates alone. He is a lonely man, having no connections to the rest of the world (kind of like Robert DeNiro tells everyone in Heat, how you have to be able to walk away) but in the course of the movie he meets this girl and falls in love.
Of course, at the end of the movie tragedy strikes and she either dies or she leaves him all alone again. I can actually see the end of the movie:
Bartender sees Swaney sit down at the end of the bar.
Bartender: You alone tonight, Swaney?
Swaney: Yeah...yeah I am.
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Looked like something Rolfe Kanefsky would have made.
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I forced myself to the movies yesterday and now I'm back to being sick at home. My only memorial day options would've meant being crammed into a car for a two-hour drive and that just seemed irresponsible towards the folks I would've infected. Not to mention, it's the bay area so it's also fucking cold out.
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I'd talk about Heroes finale....if only I could remember it. Seriously that show leave my head faster then it takes for me to change the channel when its done.
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Or the best man Paul Rudd thing at the $1 theater again. Or try to catch up with D Vader in my guitar hero skills.
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We also did something like that like a year ago with 2012. I think Echo still has or script. I think we only wrote like the first couple scenes though.
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My favorite album is Odelay by Beck.
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Is ok I don't love it like everyone else. A lot of the references are from before my parents where born.
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Horror novel wrote on toilet paper. Too bad I don't read that language. http://tinyurl.com/p22f3l
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Had a trailer from T4 cut with the rant Bale gave not to long ago, it was funny.
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is the best cartoon on tv right now. If only Publick and Doc weren't such slackers that it took a year to put out a season!
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Its been a pretty boring weekend for me this year. I was up till 4 am last night exporting video and drinking vodka. Which, by the way, was a terrible idea. But hey, SciFi is having an allday marathon of Land of the Lost. Too bad its not the remake I watched when I was a kid in the 80s and 90s.
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Really wish they'd put out a Venture Bros. comic series to tide us over between seasons.
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Have you made other movies besides the Zombie Hunters one? That shit was hilarious!
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Lot of great tracks on that one. There's some single from his newest album I keep hearing on commercials or trailers or shitty MTV montages... wish I knew what it was.
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The fact that they reference the silly 60s era of SuperScience and 70s icons like David Bowie just makes it all the more fascinating for me.
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I have, but nothing is online, I don't think. Actually, I seem to remember someone from college putting online a short I did the year before (they did this after I graduated). Lemme see if I can still find it.
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Were you in school when you made Z.H.? How long did it take to make? Everybody sounded so natural in it.
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Man, I forgot someone put this one online too... This is the "Christmas Chainsaw Massacre", an episode I wrote and directed for the UNC STV (Student Television) show called "R.A.V.E.", which stood for Random Acts of Violent Entertainment. It was sort of a parody show of sorts; you could pretty much do anything you wanted on the show as long as it was a. violent and b. funny. So, the year I joined, I came up with this idea of killer Christmas trees. I made this back in 2003. Which is why you can see I got upset when those jokers sent the short "Treevenge", about the same thing, to Sundance this past year and got a lot of coverage for it. Anyway, I dunno if it still works, if you can still download the movie (its not streaming, I think you actually have to dl it to your hard drive), but its 30 minutes long. And if nothing else, you can see some stills from it by clicking on the "storyboards" button. http://tinyurl.com/oo8jl4
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I've been out of school since 2004. But thank you! I'm very glad you think it sounded natural. I have to credit my actors, as only one of them is "professional", and only 2 of them knew each other before the shoot. No one had met before we started shooting. I just sorta threw them into it and told them not to worry about getting the lines right because I wanted the delivery to sound natural and not forced. I'm still working on the DVD. No "Making of" featurette, but I will have the unedited "Cow Attack" footage where we kept having to run away from stampeding cows, leaping into the back of the truck for protection.
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Its not great. It was intended as a b-movie parody, and none of us are actors. So... don't expect much =).
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I figured it was either improv or old friends working together. That's crazy that they'd never met before. I guess that style of dude comes second nature. My hometown (in Southern MD) had it's fair share of guys like that.
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My friend and I made a short film entirely revolving around the word "dipshit". Probably the worst movie ever made. And then there's the tale of 'ghostly bill' the lonely goofball ghost who interferes with his roommates' attempts at dating.
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Check it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_Television
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If anything, that's the one thing we're all proud of, that everyone came together and was able to create the illusion that they all knew each other a long time. The only ones that knew each other were Adam and Greg Johnson the youth minister. Everyone used fake accents based on someone they knew. We don't all sound like that in NC =).
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I like that idea.
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Because some of those accents aren't unlike a somewhat drunk (or angry...accents tend to come out when you're mad) Southern Marylander.
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the synopsis: Failed early 80's sitcom pilot in which a magical hippie, a prankster ghost, and a regular joe find love and the meaning of true friendship in a harsh world
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Here you can find some production stills, including many of me (Chris Baker). http://www.uncstv.org/RAVE/index.html In the RAVE Promo Production stills, I'm the bearded priest.
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School looks fun! Real equipment and everything...And people who actually have time to finish things!
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http://tinyurl.com/ocj5w8 Someone put this up long after I left school, so the quality isn't great. But here is an entire episode, on YouTube, in 4 parts. It was called "Salute Your Shorts". My co-producer and I, citing a lack of shootable scripts, decided to do an episode of shorts and encouraged our cast to write some skits. This all came about because one day we were supposed to shoot and only 4 or 5 people showed up. We had just painted a green screen on the wall, and thinking it a waste of a day if we didn't shoot *something* (even if we couldn't work on the current episode), I thought we should experiment. So, I found some objects laying around and made a crappy UFO flying saucer by taping two styrofoam plates together. We then improvised a fake movie trailer for an old black and white science fiction film, inspired by the preview for "The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra" that had just hit the internet (we even stole music from it). We'd brainstorm a shot based on the costumes and props lying around and act accordingly. That short can be found on the PART 4 of this episode. Unfortunately, its missing all its audio for some reason =(. I know someone put the video up somewhere else, but I'm having a hell of a time finding it. It may have finally been taken down. The first skit was written by the girls of RAVE and parodies the show itself: we all play exaggerated versions of ourselves. I am the shorter producer, and the story hinges on the fact that we don't usually have great roles for the females. We also tend to have absurd characters, which my co-producer Dave describes in the beginning (alcoholic superhero, etc). I directed and edited the first short, directed the second one, directed the third... Actually, I directed all four, but only edited the first and last. I think I co-edited the 3rd with Dave my co-producer. We went to a former castmate and asked him to write the intros to each story. He decided he would play Orson Welles, so I brought him in one day and shot him against the greenscreen. So, ah, I think that's all the setup I have. Any questions, I'll be happy to answer them. And yes, part III was written by a huge "Full House" fan.
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It just bores me at times. It feels like the same shit over and over. Its becoming like Arrested Development to me, with everyone loving it WAY too much. I can't say there is a better cartoon on right now, though I would say American Dad is really good at the moment but Family Guy was lacking this season save for the Star Trek episode. As for Adult Swim stuff I like Xavier, but I know its not for everyone. Aqua Teen has been pretty shit since the new stuff as well, though live action comes on next week.
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I find, definitely benefits from repeat viewing....especially lately. An episode that just seems really weird the first time around, winds up being hilarious after a couple watches. Pot helps.
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I liked the full house one actually.
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so lame to be bored
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Harry's animation has changed. That last one was horrid.
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Great summer action flick! I have no clue what some people or critics are whineging about! Yes, it had two whoppers of convenient plot devices one which was very groan inducing and totally unnecessary, but damn this movie delivered. I rank number one summer fave so far ahead of Angels and Demons and Star Trek.
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Just watched your short Vader. I can't help but think this is actually what would happen if zombies came back - while the yuppies, urbanites and Northerners all get butchered, all the "rednecks" in the south and midwest would be having a field day.
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Have you seen Terminator yet?
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Was a fun ride, definantly the best summer movie I've seen this year. Of course it's the only one so far but damn it it was fun.Continentalop, you forgot to mention western rednecks, we're a strong proud bunch.
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Just goes to show that most people are lemmings when it comes to critics. One influential critic hates it -and I do not mean Harry, and then others follow suit, then the mindless dweebs echo. It was fun! Damn, cant wait to buy this sucker when it hits DVD. And Dickblood was damn accurate in his review.
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Haven't seen it yet. Planning sometime this week. Like I mentioned in an earlier post, I really had no interest until these opposing views started coming in and that is what piqued my interest.
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Yeah, western rednecks are a tough bunch, but I prefer to call them Wood or peckerwoods.
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Have you watched any of the new ones that have come on since Feb? They have not been good at all. I think the last classic episode was the dickasode, or hand banana.
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He just pointed out shit he didn't like. I was like what are the positives then?
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Aw, they haven't been horrible or anything. On the whole, with a couple exceptions, I think the season's been alright. It seems similar to the season with Marcula. When I first saw them, I was annoyed by the Teens' absence, but now all those episodes are hilarious to me.
The wookie one was pretty funny, though it started a little bit slow. I didn't like the chick magnet episode at first, but that became a lot funnier after a couple of viewings. Ummm, what else...the dickisode sequel wasn't so hot, a lot of squandered potential there. And the one where shake becomes "black" was so disturbing that it was really hard to tell if it was funny or not, though it definitely had its moments. I watched that one multiple times simply because of how close it came to being horribly offensive.
Oh yeah, the gene-e one definitely could've been better. Time machine ep. and the one with the robotic legs I thought were pretty funny. Same for the She-creature.
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that I can't stand to watch is Frat Aliens, and that's only because I watched it so many times that I eventually became disgusted by it.
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You have convinced me to give it a shot, Series. The revelation that it stars Q sealed the deal. Which is odd, since I used to HATE Q episodes.
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I saw that Aqua Teen.
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"And if you ever LISTENED, you would KNOW that!"
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My girlfriend had never seen the Incredibles though, so I bought it for cheap for her to watch. The action in that movie is still really impressive. Like the finale with the giant robot has about a dozen really good shots where the heroes are running away from and dodging the robot, and he's in the background of the shot the whole time chasing after them. Why they couldn't make action scenes like that for the Fantastic Four movies I will never know.
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He brings up Serenity, which is fucking excellent. Damn I loved that movie. Haven't seen Trek though, nor do I care. And I'm sure T4 is as shitty as people say. Bale has become possible the most boring cookie cutter big budget action actor in a long time. He's the plain oatmeal of Hollywood. Bring on someone with real charisma and emotional range any day of the week and I'm there.
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couldn't get into it. Wanted to, but couldn't.
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Did you ever watch the show Firefly? Not that it should really matter with a standalone movie, but it was a nice swan song for a pretty decent sci-fi TV show.
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I was just about to correct myself. Firefly is what I couldn't get into. Some friends said not to watch the movie without watching the show and then hoisted their dvd's on me. I watched a handful of episodes and that was it.
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Did they end up figuring prominently in the series? Because that's one big reason I stopped watching.
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They are never really seen until the movie. Not a big Reavers fan eh?
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The descriptions people were giving made me think: Nope.
I also have some weird aversion to Joss Whedon that is probably totally undeserved. So the combination turned me off to the show.
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It's become a bit of a comfort movie. I never figured Hellboy would get a sequel, but it ended up being much better. It's like Blade 2 with the camp, and a lot less gore. I turn on both frequently though while doing homework.
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Had it on while I was studying. Love it just as much as I did when I used to pimp it on here all the time, though I am starting to notice things I dont like about it. The editing is kind of awkward at parts(the Scottish cat eating old lady) and all the human characters are very 1 dimensional in their hatred of Hellboy. Other than those minor things it was still the most fun I've had at a theatre since...well...I dont know when. Maybe since MiB when I was 8.
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But I do love interviews with the filmmakers about them, I think the interview with Stephen Norrington (the director) about Blade was way more interesting than the movie.
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But like most comic book movies, I don't like it as much on the home video. I don't have a very big TV or entertainment system though. But then again, I never figured the best ones needed much sound and fury anyway. It usually helps though.
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Here's the good:
Frozen River. Great movie I watched it right before T4, highly recommended. Like you've seen the trailer and you are like EHHH digital indie shit. But I think this is the first time I've ever seen digital that added a lot to the movie. Check it out, much more deserving Oscar nom then Marisa Tomie in the Wrestler, fucking useless role that was. OK The WHY??? DON'T READ THIS IF YOU DON'T WANT ANY T4 SPOLIED! Why was Common in this movie? Fucking just like Wanted he did nothing and then had on aviator sunglasses during a night raid? Did someone tell him they were going to the club? Why the fuck is there such a good dental plan in the post apocalyptic future. Why was everyone using piece of shit transistor radios? At first I thought well maybe in this future Zune's were never made (Zune's have a radio feature I know I have one fuck you). But then fucking Bale wipes out a side kick to disarm the super cycle. Why was Byrce Dallas Howard in this movie, and why was she pregnant? They never mentioned she's pregnant maybe she's just really fat and John likes chubby chicks. I bet she had a contract with the movie and then got preggo's (i know she just had a baby in real life) and the directors she why the fuck not I don't really care about such deep detail. Why does everyone complain about Mrs. Tim Burton? She was in the movie for like 5 minutes and just says some dialog, could've been anyone. Why should I keep going I'm just gonna blow my brain out. -
Spoilers still
I actually liked T4. I really did the action was awesome and you can see the money on the screen. I dug the text at the beginning, I love it when they do that for some reason. My biggest problem with the movie was that you didn't give a fuck about the characters, and there was no MAIN character. Also my REAL big problem with this movie was all the reviews and complaints I read. You were all wrong. The best and fairest review I've seen of this movie was between the two Ben's on At the Movies, they nailed the pros and cons. Also I hate how everyone was all pissed about how wink wink about the Original Star Trek in the new movie, but T4 gets a pass? This movie and Star Trek were almost the same exact movie. Making a dead franchise appeal to a new market and using fun references from the originals for the fans. Except while they did a lot of new stuff in Star Trek, nothing in T4 was that original. The big ass robot attacking the 7-11 was about it, that fucking motorcycle chase was ripped right from T3! Also the air chase scene from ID4 was in here. The scene with Arnold was cool, but why didn't he just kill them with guns? All in all T4 just wasn't as much fun as Star Trek, again it had the same problem as the new series it took it self WAY too fucking seriously. I'm really pissed on how I read like every review bitching about the use of Sabotage while everyone was fine with some Alice in Chains and the best fucking GnR song ever (which just happened to be the theme song from T2). As for Sabotage there is a funny story to it, but I don't know how true it is though. There is no way T4 is better then Star Trek. T4 wins because the action was better and cooler, but non of it was original. Also that machine in the first Kyle Reese scene moved WAY to fucking human. It was a good fun BOOM BANG movie, which I like. And if you like those you will like this, its not a classic. -
Probably better then Star Trek and T4 combined. Love that movie, hated the first one. Better Elfman score in Hellboy 2 as well. While it was fine in T4 I just don't remember anything other then the Terminator theme.
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Why did Micheal Ironside all of the sudden have a Kanuck accent? I mean I know he is from Canadia but I've seen him in coutless films (even early ones) where you would never know dark secret? I mean was that part of MickyG's directing? Ok when you speak make sure your native tongue slips through. Seeing that Batman and Avatar were doing it, why not Scanners? That or Ironside has been doing too many B-movies and just doesn't give a shit anymore abOOt it. Also I swear to allah, I can't remember the line but fucking Common said one of the lines form his Universal Mind Control song. I was hoping they would play it, I love that song. In fact the only person that didn't let their accent slip, even though they get the most complaints...Helena Bottom Carter. Also Sam Worthington Australians answer to Matt Demon???? Moon Bloodgood, because Tia Carrere is dead I guess?
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an episode of Jag. I KNEW I've seen him somewhere else before.
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Is around. Too bad I'm gonna be working for the next tree days. I really want to converse about T4 with peeps. Maybe people will actually show up for the late shift this week. Fucking slackers.
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Was names GQ like 100 movies to see before you die, or before you become a man some shit. They said a movie that shows you what its like to be a mad.
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Though mad is a lot funnier.
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Comes out tomorrow on DVD. That seems like a must buy....FOR SOME REASON????
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GQ knows it is a cartoon, right?
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Was an awesome series. Glad it only got a short run. Wouldn't be so great if it just kept going and going. Great movie too.
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Definitely didn't enjoy it as much this time unfortunately. Of course, I have been writing this whole time, so that's not really fair. Fucking homework stealing my enjoyment of the movie.
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200 was Taxi Driver. Because it's great. 201 was Battle Royale, because we'd been talking about it. It is more gruesome than I remembered it being, and apparently I'm a shitbag for wanting Mitsuko to win.Pity about Little Giants and Dungeons and Dragons 2 or that would have been an awesome weekend's viewing. D&D2 isn't as bad as the first one, but it's still shit.
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I liked almost everything I saw, but even those I didn't like I was indifferent to- HB2 and Indy4. Most summers since 2005 I'm lucky if I see 1 film I like.
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had a severe run in with multiple bottles of Bacardi over the bank holiday weekend. Want to puke.
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the reason it's important, and it is, is that it shows up several character flaws that in a sane world would stop him working: 1)I don't believe the "childhood nickname" story. I think he picked it because he mistakenly thought it sounded call. It doesn't. 2)Even if that's true, who the fuck starts out on a career as an adult and deliberately insists that he's called by his mother's pet name? It shows a lack of professionalism. 3)Once established, why not change it? this means he's either crushingly arrogant in believing that people actually go to see stuff like Terminator because it's directed by McG, or he wanted to, but some studio stool sample told him not to, because it may hurt the bottom line. Which makes him a stooge. If anything T4 was a perfect example to credit himself as Jospeh Nicol. The twat.
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confirms everything that I (prejudiciously) thought it would be. Fucking hate Star Trek, hate loser Trekkies that do shit like learn Klingon. I was already going to avoid it, but I'm doing so for certain now.
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if a bit cack-handed and unsubtle. The end of T3 was the second best thing about that film. Xi is right, Midgets and tits improve anything Night at the Museum? not seen 1, don't care. JP2= awfulA&D- not seeing, don't like Hanks, hate the source material, despised the first film, not a fan of Howard, and it's got shocking reviews over here.
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Fucking masterpiece. And it's really interesting, because of Brando- his influence on Williams was huge. Williams rewrote the Stanley part to suit Brando, and make him more of a focus in the movie. Leigh is awesome as Blanche, even if Blanche is blatantly Scarlett O'Hara in 20 years. Top drawer film.
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I stood corrected on that one.
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Massive Attack- Blue Lines,Portishead- Dummy Stones- Let it Bleed, Smashing Pumpkins- Siamese Dream The Clash- London Calling. If I were to take a Radiohead one I'd take The Bends as they have been shit since then. Even OK computer is the start of the pretension. But I don't particularly like them so I wouldn't take one.
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I'm off to do the Toxie review
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What was the first best thing about T3?? Just out of curiosity.
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Anybody that sounds like a possible order at McDonalds will never be taken seriously.
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Sgt. York (better than I remember it), Kelly's Heroes, Dirty Dozen, etc. All of these war movies reminded me of me and caruso_stalker's dream project, PAVLOV'S HOUSE. If Tarantino wanted to do the most kickass war movie, he should of just made a movie based on a real experience more insane than anything he could ever think of:
http://tinyurl.com/opywms
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Starring you-know-who!
http://tinyurl.com/qywwva
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I'm only half joking with that. I'll grow up one day.
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and therefore it is fair to take the piss for it. That's a good happy meal comment though.
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As The Swayne he should NEVER have the look of fear in his eyes. Thats too much of a stretch for the audience to make.
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May 26, 2009 5:13:40 AM CDT
Never really had a thing for Lokken. Don't see the appeal at all
by odo19
Probably the only male on the planet that didn't let out a sad sigh when they found out she was a lesbian. Better her than BDH.
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What's going on?
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Not great, but I liked it anyway. It made me laugh, and I like some of the people in it. Ryan Reynolds is good, even if he does make mostly shit films. Same goes for Anna Faris.
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I'm ashamed to admit this one. But in the spirit of openness, I choose to confess that I watched The Pacifier again because Lauren Graham is in it.Shit film.Watching it again, I was wondering how many apple boxes they used. My cousin (who lives in LA) met Vin Diesel once and said he was quite a short man. Lauren Graham is around 5 foot 8/5 foot 9, and yet was consistently shown as being shorter than Diesel in this film. So, how many apple boxes? Or did they dig Lauren a hole to stand in for her scenes with Diesel?
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This is a deeply stupid film, but I'm conflicted as to whether I like it or not. I normally like stupid, but this film is so plastic and insipid and it didn't really do much for me.Didn't someone say National Treasure 2 is even stupider than this film? I might have to give that one a look.
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I'm off to read that now.
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Nice one, Jarv.
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Did I scare you all off?
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But a big time bitch too. I didn't want her to win.
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I'm disappointed not many other have latched on to that top 5 albums poll.
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due to being written when hungover.
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it depends which version you see- she's clearly had a rotten life and is bullied at school in the Special Edition. No probs with the poll.
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If you have a half hour to fritter away, please give it a read. It came out pretty well, I think.I was possibly angrier than I needed to be about DH4, but when I watched the film again in preparation for the review it really annoyed me for some reason.
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National Treasure 2 is even dumber than one.
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That should be fun.After that I'm doing the Jaws series. They had all four films in Head for less than a tenner, so I couldn't resist - it seemed like a perfect candidate for an epic review. I've never even seen Jaws: The Revenge, so who knows what I'll make of that one. Maybe it's mint, I don't know.
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Glad you liked the critters one- it's hard to write a schlock review of Critters, because despite it being a zero budget rip off of gremlins, it isn't schlock.
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but this caught my eye: "You know what? Fuck this film. Live Free Or Die Hard is not mint. Live Free Or Die Hard does not even know how to spell mint. Live Free Or Die Hard would not be mint even if it fell into a giant vat of mint sauce with a family pack of Tic Tacs shoved up its ass."Angry, but funny.It's a bastard when the last film of a series that you do for an "athon" is wank, that's the painful thing about Lep. Better Series have the wank ones in the middle- like Alien, but even then Resurrection is a bit of a let down
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according to the timeline- start with Predator 1, then go to the 2 shitty AvP movies, then Predator 2, then the Alien films.
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I only sent it an hour ago.Damn, that Mavra does some fast work.Thanks, Mavra.
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Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The MoonNew Order - Power, Corruption & LiesIan McNabb - Head Like A RockRimsky Korsakov - Scheherazade (bet I spelt that wrong)Killing Joke - Killing JokeSoon as I hit 'post' I'll change me mind, guaranteed.
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Her incident as a child was sad. But she didn't get molested, and she *did* kill the guy and didn't seem to be remorseless about it. So my lvels of sympathy for her didn't outweigh her bitchiness or bloodlust. I thought the saddest thing was the basketball game where everyone celebrates and she's left along in the background. Which I didn't totally understand, bc she didn't strike me as an outsider, and the way the scene was shot felt like it was supposed to be a true flashback, not something metaphorical strictly for Mitsuko.
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that's why it's sad. Not to mention her mother being a depressive alky degenerate. She's the most complex character in it.
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Rain Dogs - Tom Waits
Small Change - Tom Waits
Led Zeppelin 4 - Led Zeppelin
Blood On The Tracks - Bob Dylan
Blood Sugar Sex Magic - RHCP
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hmmm. Suspicious.
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there's a serious problem to it- Jaws 2, 3 and The Revenge are all wank, and not just a little bit wank, massively wank.
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The skinny blonde who goes a bit nuts stabbing that guy in the Federal Reserve is played by Sam Phillips, who did the score for every episode of Gilmore Girls and had a cameo as a troubadour in season six (I think in the same episode as that guy out of Rambo).Now I have to find a member of the Batman cast who was on Gilmore Girls.
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I'm actually looking forward to it because A) Jaws is mint, and B) and I haven't seen 2 and 3 in years and don't remember a thing about them.Plus, it's funnier to write about shit films than good ones.
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2 at least has the boat race and Scheider- 2 solid things. The boat race is a great reason for trapping morons on the water. 3 is set in a fucking theme park or some such wankness and blows hairy donkey nob.
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There's no mention of that on the DVD case, which is a shame. Watching people poke stuff into the screen is not as much fun when the film is not actually in 3D.
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3 was in Wank-D, and also in Wankovision. It's one of my most hated sequels
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I'm planning to watch I Know Who Killed Me this afternoon.I heard that one was also made in Wank-D and Wankovision. Should be good.Cheers, all.
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Not much time for flicks over the weekend. Too much bbq'ing and boozing. Watched 3. The International - It was okay. A couple of good set pieces, especially the one in the guggenheim. The main villian was a bank, and the goons that ran it weren't really established enough, so it was a bit of a shrug your shoulders moment when they got their comeuppance. I like Clive Owen though. Even if he was in that Shoot Em Up shitfest. Slightly above average. The Echelon Conspiracy - A bit of a low budget version of Eagle Eye, but far less of an offensively moronic shitfest. It has Ving Rhames, Edward Burns and that guy who was Tom Sawyer in LOEG. Average. He's Just Not That Into You - Forced to watch this my the other half. Nearly all the characters you'd cross the street to avoid. Or you'd at least punch yourself in the cock when you finally realise how much of a dick you were for associating with them. The only character that wasn't a complete idiot or irritating beyond belief was Ben Affleck, who continues his career resurrection. But then they pull this fucking 180 in the last two minutes that completely undermines his character and all that had gone before, which I was actually quite pleased with. The way his storyline played out was well done, and then they completely ass fuck it by making the character reverse all his values for the sake of making the women in the audience moist. Shit. Avoid like the plague. Women will lap that shit up though. My one did.
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it isn't good. It's not fun either. Lohan gets them out though. Or at least I think she does.
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You should see the writer/director's other film "Monster Man". Its absolutely horrid. Says its trying to be a comic-horror, but the whole thing is just shit.
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Ben Affleck wasn't irritating? Really?
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And I like him, despite his many crimes to celluloid.
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Was during the rehash of the T3 scene remixed with Mad Max I thought to myself where was I when I watch T3. Then I realized that I saw T3 fucking loved it, went to the movies the next day and saw Charlie Angles 2, feel asleep by the end of the helicopter air jump scene. I just thought was ironic. I went back and watch CA2 on the DVD and enjoyed it. To note the theater I went to served beer and I was pretty drunk by the time I showed up.
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Being annoying, personnally I don't know of a situation where you would be in where they are bothering you unless you put your self there. But Star Trek was awesome and a lot of fun. And I think that's the consensus of people here, they think they are cooler then Star Trek so they act like they didn't enjoy the movie. Star Trek was a lot better then T4.
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but as a rule, I never see them. I just think there's something intrinsically sad about dressing up like a character from a Sci-Fi series and learning imaginary languages. I don't think I'm too cool for Star Trek. I'm just not interested in it at all, it bores me and irritates me.
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501 tossers as well. It isn't just Star Trek.
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I am fair.
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I've nothing against Star Trek or their fans. It just bores me to tears, and learning a fake alien language that appears on a tv show seems indicitive of severe mental problems. IMHO. Dressing up should be reserved exclusively for fancy dress parties, halloween or sex with high priced hookers.
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May 26, 2009 9:38:21 AM CDT
Dressing up should be reserved exclusively for fancy dress parti
by lost jarv
Funny.
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huzzah. Thanks Mavra.
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Oh christ, I can't post those here or I'll be laughed off. Rubber Soul and Full Moon Fever are the only ones I can safely mention.Droid, sounds like you are as on top of the tubes as I. Saw The International go up yesterday. Yoink. I really enjoyed it. I agree the bank as a villain was weak but that set piece in the Guggenheim was one of the finest action pieces I've ever seen. Frankenheimer couldn't have done it better.Also watched The Hurt Locker which was outstanding. Just edge of your seat stuff from moment one. That's a movie the whole group would be in agreement over. Bigelow is a hell of a director.And lastly Paul Blart which mercifully I'm already beginning to forget. Good for families, bad for a guy wanting something original.
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Bigelow has never made a flick that I didn't like. And both Strange Days and Point Break are awesome (for different reasons). I've always maintained she should've made the new Terminator flicks.
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Bleh. Haven't subjected myself to that yet. Maybe I'll double bill it one day with that Rogen one.
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Working day over. Ciao motherfuckers. P.S. Near Dark is also excellent.
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fuck that.
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Yeah, that's really good, as is Dark Steel and K19. But not quite awesome for me. Looking at wiki, she also directed a flick called The Weight of Water, which I have never seen nor heard of. Has anyone seen this?
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It's a great movie. And those opening shots were filmed in Halifax Harbor so not only do I recognize the landmarks, we got to see it being filmed and the cast walking around town.
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May 26, 2009 10:39:21 AM CDT
I've seen it once when it first came out
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
And i still remember pretty vivdly those scenes of the men going in one after another to fix the reactor. It's a great flick, but it's incredibly disturbing and I probably won't watch it again.
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In no particular order:Backstreet BoysNew Kids On The BlockWayne NewtonAmy WinehouseSepulturaThe question that needs to be asked is how would you listen to anything on a desert island? Battries have a short life. Will people turn into the Professor from Gilligans Island and fabricate coconut batteries?
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Actually, I do feel sympathy for her; I feel sympathy for all of the characters (except for Kazuo who sounds more interesting from what I have heard about in the book).
That is the thing I love about the movie - it is one of those films that you can actually sit and debate each characters motivation and justify if what they did was acceptable considering the circumstances. I understand why Mitsuko does what she does; her entire life lesson has been you are on your own, no body really cares for anyone else (I mean her own mother was willing to sell her in the director's cut), that sex is what everyone wants out of you, and that the other girls don't like you and are jealous. No wonder she acts the way she does. -
What I really love about the film is that the geekiest, dorkiest kids in the school are the first to go nuts and try to kill other people. Why? Because all their life they have been excluded and made fun by their classmates.
Thats why I could understand why the fat kid who kills first, Yoshio Akamatsu (yes, I had to look him up on Wikipedia) starts to kill right off the bat. He knows when push comes to shove his classmates are going to have no problem killing his out-of-shape ass, and he can't imagine them ever including him in any rescue/escape plans (hell, they probably never have invited him to any of their parties or went out with any of the girls - like he feels included). -
You could A) learn an actual language that people speak in the real world so you could visit there and maybe use it as a markable skill to make more money; or B) learn a made up language that is only spoken on a TV show and movies, and just have women stare at you with unease when you start talking in Klingon to them.
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As the weakest link. I wrote a review of "Battle Royale" on my blog the other day, and I mentioned how interesting the idea is and how it made me think of my own high school senior class. I wasn't sure if I could try and survive with one of my groups or cliques knowing the trust between us would only be as strong as the weakest one in the group. Because that person, all self-conscious and unsure of his/herself, would project those feelings and attitudes onto the friends and might become fearful, suspecting they'll kill him/her. So instead, that person would strike first, out of fear. I have a feeling I'd tell my friends to stay the hell away from me bc I don't want to have to feel like I need to defend myself from them. I'd rather like to think we could stick together and defend as a group while trying to find a way off the Island... I'm optimistic like that. But deep down, I don't know if I could trust anyone when the chips are down.
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I have to admit, I would gladly trade both of those movies for the combination. Definitely greater than the sum of its parts. And so entertaining!
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YOU FUCKING SAW The Hurt Locker!!!! OHHHH MAN PLEASE SEND ME A COPY!!! I Am dying to see that movie SO BAD! IS IT GOOD? Where you been man. How the fuck do you all see these things.
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I actually saw it in the $1 theater, it became this joke between me and my lady friend. And it finally reached the $1 theater and we had to see it. Luckily she helped me sneak beer it, which helped. I like Kevin James a lot, he needs to try harder.
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ooh let's see now.....
Mushroomhead: XIII
Tori Amos: either Under the Pink or From the Choirgirl Hotel
Marilyn Manson: Mechanical Animals damn this is hard......
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Damn. Weird choice. I never liked them sorry.
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I saw it but beyond the Harrison Ford finger of doom(TM)I don't remember a thing about it. Commies right?
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May 27, 2009 3:21:20 AM CDT
"the Harrison Ford finger of doom"
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I have no idea what that is. Please explain.
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Never saw it. Not especially interested
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I finished The Thing video game. Which stacked it by having Mac show up at the end. And watched Class of 1999 which was unexpectedly excellent.
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The Unborn. Shite. I was going with it until it started prattling on about Nazi experiments at Auschwitz and demons from another dimension or some shit like that. The only positive things I can say about it is that it was mercifully short and the chick in it who looks scarily like Megan Fox spends quite a bit of her time in skimpy underwear.
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May 27, 2009 3:35:22 AM CDT
Also, I remembered that I watched...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Pink Panther 2 over the weekend. Not sure why. But I did.
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over the Weekend due to drunkeness. It was shit.
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Pink Panther remakes do not exist for me. Sellers for the win.
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May 27, 2009 3:55:44 AM CDT
I watched about 30 minutes of the first PP remake...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
on a flight. I chose sleep over watching the rest. That's why it's baffling me why I chose to watch the sequel. I've seen the original Sellers PP, which is amusing most of the way then hilarious in the final 15 minutes. Never seen any of Sellers sequels.
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May 27, 2009 3:58:05 AM CDT
Beyond the Valley of The Dolls
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Never seen it.
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May 27, 2009 4:09:44 AM CDT
That TRANSFORMINATORS trailer is pretty funny
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I especially like the "eat all the sand" line.
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May 27, 2009 4:14:17 AM CDT
Richard Dreyfuss is getting back in the water...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
to battle killer fish in Piranha 3D. Genius.
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May 27, 2009 4:16:33 AM CDT
Just as long as the piranha make that...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
high pitched gobble gobble turkey noise i'll be happy.
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basically soft porn. The PP sequels are all OK apart from Son of which is shit. But they're mostly good for Lom losing his marbles.
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is required viewing.
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for me, the strongest section of the film is in the lighthouse. That's fucked up and disturbing and totally summarises what Vader is saying about stregth of group of friends. I've got a yen to watch BR2 again now. Must. Resist. Shit. Sequel.
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learning Klingon or some such bollocks is exactly the same as learning Elvish.
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Even Jarv's MIA.
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On shorter hours this week and a lot of dull IT shit to get done.
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There's some drunken Renny genius in my crystal ball.
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Check out this fan made trailer for Green Lantern, its pretty good actually. http://tinyurl.com/qkycbu
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Good movie to get drunk to. Ight off to work.
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Isn't Drag Me To Hell also out? Although I remain unconvinced about watered down Raimi Horror.
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IT monkeys have done something unspeakable to my database.
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Fred has some rare free and unobserved time to post! Hee hee
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May 27, 2009 8:58:32 AM CDT
Yeah, Drag Me To Hell is out as well
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Damn. I've got to plan a few trips to the cinema. Although I agree about PG-13 horror, in general. I keep watching and they keep sucking.
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Fred really enjoyed that movie. Fred had severe reservations going in to it, but it was very entertaining. Had 'plosions and giant robotses and shoot em ups and all kind of goodies. Fred torn between ranking it either just above Star Trek or even with Star Trek. Both had some 'coincidences; that furthered the plot that are kind of hard to overlook, but still Fred will not quibble too much.
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May 27, 2009 9:07:52 AM CDT
Fred has no interest in seeing Drag me to Hell
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
Will wait until it hits cable.
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And I haven't seen Star Trek. The more I look at this summer, the more it reeks. Up is the only flick I'm genuinely looking forward to and expecting to be good. All the others I expect to be moronically entertaining like Transformers and GI Joe.
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was the only one I was looking forward to, until I found out that it was PG13. Not to mention Raimi's last effort was Spiderturd 3 (Spiderturd, spiderturd, dances like an emo bird)
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Fred will avoid G.I. Joe, but will see Transformers. Going to see taking of Pelham as well.
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no interest in Star Trek or T4. Am also "meh" about Up. This could well be the worst summer in years.
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seriously. I'm not 12.
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PG-13 horror is not worth it, and Spidey 3 was truly awful.
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May 27, 2009 9:27:28 AM CDT
I was sold on GI Joe by the trailer that had...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
the line "The french are very upset". That moment is gold and i'm hoping for Deep Rising type cheese. I'd even settle for The Mummy type cheese. Just not Returns or Van Helsing cheese. They're rubbish.
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May 27, 2009 9:29:22 AM CDT
I've seen all the Potters at the cinema
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
So I'll see the rest. But they really don't do anything for me. I'll see them, enjoy them for the length of the flick, and never think of them again.
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I'm usually interested in Tony Scott flicks, but i have very little interest in it.
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Jarv will resist this at all costs, then one day he will see it and find it "delightful". Of this I am certain.
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May 27, 2009 9:37:31 AM CDT
Droid, Fred suspects same thing about Lost Jarv and Up!
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
Hee hee
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May 27, 2009 9:38:09 AM CDT
Now this is why I like Linklater
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
http://tinyurl.com/ahqphp
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The movies have been hit or miss, but overall Fred has enjoyed them - especially when the Directors do not feel the need to cram everything from the book into the movie. Fred suspects that was downfall of Watchmen - as well as the story being difficult to translate.
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May 27, 2009 9:44:00 AM CDT
The only Potter I've genuinely liked as a flick was...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
the 3rd one. Maybe it was because the first two sucked, but the 3rd one was very good. The last two have been just okay.
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The first two were so intent on being faithful to books that they were very dull. The 'magic' that made the books wonderful was missing. The third movie allowed the Director to bring his own vision and it really worked. The others have been hit or miss
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hmph. Re Potter- the books decline in quality dramatically from 3 onwards, because they desperately need editing, and it would he a ballsy editor to tell JK Rowling this. Therefore, the films are also going to decline in quality. Books 5 and 6 were dogshit on a stick (6 should have been called "Harry Potter and the Sordid Wank Fantasy"), and I know they've written stuff out that turned out to be integral to the plot. This does not make me want to see the later Potter films.
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what I now think of as "Watchmen Syndrome". 3 was good, 4 was OK. Not seen 5.
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Yes we can!
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I'm regretting using the word "delightful" now. Even if it's true.
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May 27, 2009 10:04:21 AM CDT
94 posts of beer on the wall, 96 posts of beeeeer!
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
Only 96 posts to go!
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I got half way through the 4th one and came to the realisation that I really wasn't interested enough to read 800 page books about a fucking teenage wizard.
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May 27, 2009 10:06:06 AM CDT
Susan Boyle - will she win it all? Will Dirk the gigolo amoeba
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
Swindle her out of all her soon to be found riches?
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May 27, 2009 10:07:30 AM CDT
But it's a good way to describe Wall-e
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
And Pixar flicks in general, all of which I've loved apart from Cars.
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About your use of the word 'delightful'
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I may go for a pint. See you tomorrow.
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May 27, 2009 10:12:04 AM CDT
When Jarv first used the word "delightful"...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Frankie and I were convinced it meant "cuntish". Because "cuntish" sounds more like what Jarv would say about a cartoon robot flick.
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We can get near the top! Back wee the CoC belongs!
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May 27, 2009 10:13:45 AM CDT
Have a good one, ya "delightful" bastard
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Jarv going for a pint. Never thought I'd see the day.
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May 27, 2009 10:15:19 AM CDT
I did a Tremors-thon a while back
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
'twas a jolly good time. Although 3 and 4 aren't as good.
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May 27, 2009 10:18:05 AM CDT
I still need to do my Anacondathon
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Giant snakes gobbling stupid people whole and Voight with his crazy accent.
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Giant Crocodiles gobbling stupid people.
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Stupid people being gobbled by lots of small fishies with very sharp teeth
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Giant mutant rabbits gobbling stupid people who stare slack-jawed after mouthing the words 'that's a big-ass rabbit' Therewolves are happy though because they love eating rabbitses
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I grabbed The Hurt Locker off the tubes. There's a screener out that's a perfect DVD rip. I can send it to you and that may just be the motivation I need to grab these other DVD kits off my desk and head to the post office.My f'n ulcer and bronchitis have decided to hit at the same time. I feel like walking death.I'm not sure why everyone here isn't a little excited for the summer. Star Trek was a dud, but I can't help but think GI Joe, Up and Public Enemies will all be at least entertaining. Yes there's a lot of junk like Transformers and Land of the Lost out there but summer isn't what it used to be at the theater.
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This summer has some entertaining movies. As for the movie kits, Fred has lots of patience, so do not worry. And Fred is more than willing to pay for Shipping. Ultraman!
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May 27, 2009 10:47:13 AM CDT
I forgot about Public Enemies
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
because that trailer was very underwhelming. And Christian Bale is starting to irritate me a bit. But it's Mann so I will be seeing it.
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He seems to make every movie offered to him
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May 27, 2009 10:52:09 AM CDT
Yeah, he's got Ben Affleck syndrome
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Back when he got big he was in every second flick. And he got really annoying.
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May 27, 2009 10:54:23 AM CDT
Fred mangled hist name. Sorry Bale-believers
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
Christian Bale dos not need the money, but perhaps he is trying to distance himself from being typecast.
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Between my own health, my parents health, my brother's insane ex-girlfriend and some major issues at the office have me wanting to step in front of a bus.But let me get the stuff for Series done and then I'm off to the post office so you and Vader will finally get your goods.
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May 27, 2009 11:02:38 AM CDT
Right now he's typecast as the bloke that yells a lot
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
And acts angry all the time. The bit in the T4 trailer where he's screaming "WE HAVE TO STAY THE COURSE OR WE'RE ALL DEAD!!!" is really fucking grating and makes me less inclined to see it.
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Things will improve, mate. Hang in there.
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Just watch VH1 classic 80's videos and just try not to laugh or cover your eyes at the hideousness and excess. Fred saw a Billy Ocean video for a song called lover something that had the cast of Star Wars cantina riding horses along a beach and going onto a cave!
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http://tinyurl.com/o73mk4
Awesome title, awesome poster! How can anyone look at this and not want to see the movie right fucking NOW!!!!!!!!
Because I agree that between Up and 9, summer at the cinema will be pretty fucking lame. Other than Transformers and GI Joe for giggles, nothing is interesting.
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Fred thinks Sal Bando might like that too!
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Did you not get your mind blown away by Beyond the Valley of the Dolls?
First off, it isn't basically soft-core porn - it IS soft core porn. Secondly, Z-man/Superwoman alone will have you scratching your head for days after seeing it.
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Tremors is one of those movies that if it is on TV I can't stop watching.
"Eh, I've seen this a hundred time, I'm gonna switch it to the game-oooh, wait, I love this part!" -
Tremors never gets old.
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to mention that little pillowette #2 was born on Sunday night. Mrs. Pillow and baby are doing great.2 of the 4 horsemen spots are now filled...
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That's great news.
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Is just that, his index finger. Sometime in the early 90's, I guess it was, Ford fell in love showing it off. In a critical moment in a movie or during an in impassioned speech he'd whip it out all a quiver with righteouness and then in a angry/pontificating tone deliver his lines.The best part is the look on his face. He trys for this piercing glare of leadership and intense moral conviction but it comes off as he's severly constipated and clenching his ass cheeks tight to prevent the ass butter from leaking out.
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Fred is a great name by the way. Hee hee
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congrats on the next genration pillow arriving.
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Congratulations, sir.
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Fredette is a better name than Madison.2for2true praise ya all!
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Fred just wants to spread the wealth of having such a wonderful name.
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Congratulations, mate. Top news!
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T4 was out this weekend, but it's next. That's pissed on my chips. I've convinced myself I should go and see it.
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I know, PG13 and all that. But it's Sam Raimi. I've got to go and have a look.
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balls in containers and otherwise...
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May 27, 2009 2:29:00 PM CDT
T4 still has me convinced it's no more than a rental
by just pillow talk
at best. Same goes for Drag Me to Hell. Nothing from the previews has inspired me, and I have such a negative vibe with Sammy right now thanks to Spidey 3. Maybe he just needed to focus on what he does best..his roots so to speak.
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and I must say that I love Nolan's Batman. It's the equivalent of Frankie's warmth towards the FF...
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I'm still clinging to the 'Evil Dead' Sam Raimi. But I think he's gone.
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May 27, 2009 3:07:10 PM CDT
I would have to be dragged to hell before I see Drag me to Hell
by liberal_warrior
Looks motarded
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T4 was damn fun and it's a "big screen" type of movie but since you're going to be very busy for a while, rental works.
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Nolan's BB was ok, but two things about it really drove me nuts:
Having Ra's Al Ghul be the villain in the end. I know Nolan doesn't think in sequels, but I think Ra's one of those villains who would work better if you brought him back years later - he it just too "big" of villain in scope and plot to be the first big foe Batman faces. A hero like Batman's progression should be street criminals, organized crime, arch-criminals (like Joker, Two-Face) and finally an actual James Bond-like super-villain.
Secondly, Cillian Murphy is an ok actor, but he was wrong for the Scarecrow. The sad fact was the best guy to be Prof. Crane was in the movie in a thankless role - John Hurt. The guy doesn't even need fear gas to make people shiver; imagine his creepy voice coming from out of that Scarecrow mask. -
...and my damn blue-ray is busted. Been rewatching Unbreakable again on cable - beginning to realize there is a lot more flaws in this movie than I originally thought. I also think it came out way ahead of it's time, before the superhero genre really took off.
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I feel like they crammed every big special fx extravaganza into May instead of spreading it out across the summer (barring Harry Potter and Transformers 2). The rest of the summer films are just actor-driven flicks like Pelham 123 or Public Enemies. Honestly, I don't feel like there's anything else in July or August. Meanwhile, May was crammed chockfull of films.
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Bleeeeeh. The first 15 minutes were boring as shit, until Liv Tyler's panties came off, but then those jerkoffs in masks had to interrupt the scene. The film was very good at establishing a creepy and tense, scary mood. But unfortunately, for a film that seemed to sell itself as a "Smart" horror film and one that was realistic, I found the actions of the characters to be far too unbelievable (no one calls 911, Liv Tyler isn't given a weapon, etc). It also started to get very tedious around the midway point (I remember pausing the film and realizing with fear and anger that I still had 25 minutes to sit through). But I did get to see my friends' names in the credits (they all did props), so that was cool. But really. Overrall. Bleh. I don't need to see that again. And don't get me started on the Masked & Magical Teleporting People that just seemed to disappear and reappear everywhere that was convenient to the plot.
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God, bleh, wretch, etc...
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A little late, but better than never!
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Just thinking that meself! I don't remember him in Batman Begins.
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I had started watching it a month ago on some On Demand channel and used it to fall asleep each night. Aside from the opening, which liberally borrows from both Halloween and Psycho, I found it to be a MUCH more enjoyable film than "The Strangers".
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I could have sworn he was one of the guys sitting on the Wayne Executives, but maybe it is just this damn cold messing with my brain. I would stick in the DVD to find out but the damn thing is broken (Grrrr).
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I think it is an effective little horror movie with a sympathetic but still terrifying "monster". "The Funhouse" is the type of movie I think Rob Zombie wishes he could make.
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Surprisingly effective. Anybody else other than Tobe Hooper at the helm and it probably would have turned into a total stinker.
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But its not him. He's less wrinkly.
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There is a resemblance. I've just had a look!
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I like that the same actor portrayed all the Carny... uh, presenters, catcallers, hosts, etc. And that he's the same actor from one of my favorite Law and Order: CI episodes. I thought the unmasking reveal of the freak was terrifying. *GREAT* makeup design for his mutant face. I half-expected it to be a Jason ripoff and was pleasantly surprised to find that it was something completely different, and yet both horrific *and* believable. And once the 4 witness the murder, the movie completely changed for me, and for the better. I expected this to be a "4 teens stalked in a Funhouse by a Masked Killer" who never has a reason for killing them. But once the father came in and realized his money had been stolen, I suddenly felt extremely fearful. Finally, here's a sick, carny, uneducated redneck type villain that has a *reason* to kill, rather than doing it bc he's a psychopath or bc he's sick in the head. I found that motive to be MUCH more effective, and it too made me think of Rob Zombie. This is the type of situation he should try and mimic. So, we've got some good things going for it : a. Great setting. b. Great monster c. Great motive for our teens to be stalked and killed So, it was an enjoyable horror film that was surprisingly effective and got my heart pumping in quite a few places. That said, watching this reeaaaaaalllly reinforces that old story that Spielberg directed Poltergeist and not Hooper. The films are miles apart in terms of quality.
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Says something like in Bruce's case, the apple fell way far from the tree. I'm guessing that's who Continental was thinking of.
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to hear the line. But he's virtually the first bloke you see and Rutger stands just behind him.
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All this time I was thinking John Hurt did an uncredited cameo.
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That is why I like it. It has this kind of "real world" dirtiness that you would expect without the feeling that Hooper is just throwing it in there to be shocking (like Zombie and Roth do).
The fact that the mutant son pays for sex with the old fortune-teller is just such a realistic scene. It doesn't feel corny, it feels like "shit, figures that old hag was that skanky." -
The make-up was done by Rick Baker, it's pretty good. Poor mutie - wasn't his mother a two-headed cow or something! Never live that down at school...
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he's got a sneering look to him (not much use underneath a sack). But Hurt's got the rattling voice.
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If you are going to have a villain who wears a burlap sack over his head, would you want one who can give you a smug glare or one who's voice makes you want to piss your pants?
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One omore Warciple in the world
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What was wrong with Trek? I actually enjoyed it. Sorry to here about the health that sucks. Whats your take on T4?
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The last one was boring as fuck. I still don't see Harry's appeal, I don't get it.
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Wipeout is back on, the only sport worth watching.
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they never really did anything for me, even when I was younger and really matched the domographic. I liked the books when I was about twelve, but around the time the fifth book came out I just lost interest. ADD or drop in quality?probably a lil bit of both
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I'm still waiting on that Machete movie. I actually am a pretty big Rodriguez fan. He has sme stinkers, sure, but the good stuff is amazing. Desperado and Sin City are both extremely well made movies, in my opinion. It's entertaining and dynamic stuff.
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Any reviews this week????
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In 10th grade and I still watch cartoons to this day, but I read the first 1/3 of that crap and put it down. All I could think of was HOW childish the whole thing was I hated it, I hated how every 5th word was made up.
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I'm really sorry dude. I was out of town all weekend, doing homework on Monday and Tuesday, and on Wednesday my water heater busted and my whole apartment started flooding. And my cat has needed doctoring from some scratches. It has been chaos. I can work on some tonight though. You?
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I can't say which book is best; I liked them all. But the 3rd movie is the best in terms of bein faithful to the book and being a good movie.
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I used to think that too. Than, for one reason or another, researching real historical fantasy or something, I realized that pretty much everything you think is a fake made-up word in Harry Potter is actually real or is based on a real term (be it a magic spell or name of a magical creature). Honestly, I was surprised there were actually such things as Hippogriffs and mandrake roots and Boggarts and Dobbies, etc. You might be surprised too to find some of those made-up words actually have an etymological basis in history, Kungfu
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Just that the terms and names existed.
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Imagine that, guys!
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I hope things work out for you. Not because I want those discs- I mean I do, but not at the sake of hurting your health or relationships- but because I consider us all to be friends, and I'd hate to hear of any more misfortune to visit you or your family.
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Oh yes
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Lets go!
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As a guest host!
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Fred likes that movie too!
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Probably cost more than Fred's car too!
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Go Fred, go!
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TYPING IN ALL CAPS!
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Shane kid on tv looking at a deer
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Almost there
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Kinda beady eyed
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D. Vader, it's not the issue of the fictional origin for me, but the structure and delivery of the story. The books were pretty cool as a little kid, but none of the movies have lived up to the image in m mind. Plus, I think it's kind of lame now because kids don't have to read the book, they just watch the movies, which are made not for the sake of creativity, but to make money. Anyway, the movies are just watered down versions of the stories with lots of shallow spectacle.
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Yes we can!
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Just looked like he was ready for action and dudes backed down
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The first two and the last one are the favorites. The first two because although they were aimed at children, they had a sense of wonder that all ages could cheer and appreciate. The last one wrapped things up very nicely and had great face-offs.
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Do you have any good comics to recommend?
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I've got mine ready to post. I mean if your shit's all wack then no worries, its up to you.
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That's... That's just bizarre. That's like asking rapper Ludacris to host a show on Animal Planet.
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I was the one who said that shit in Harry's Potter was made up. Well whatever it was, it was annoying to read and I just don't dig YOUNG wizzards, that wizzards go to school and learn WIZZARDY like in the same manner i learn Maths (see I said Maths not math because Harry Potter is British). I like the whole wizzardy thing to be dark and secret and evil, I mean if it was just some shit you had to study to be good at fuck that.
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You know that really wouldn't surprise me if it were true. You watch as much TV as me and Mike Teevee you begin to realize there are a lot of random as b-list celebs on random ass shows.
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May 27, 2009 9:39:27 PM CDT
Tiny seems very knowledgeable and good natured
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
Shane is a great movie as well
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Sorry I confused you with Fu. And yeah, I knew about Ludacris' show with Tommy Lee, but I think its actually on a different network. But still, the point is, I've seen some of the cohosts on TCM, and they're usually far more reputable than Tiny Lister. Though I guess The Dark Knight did a lot to turn opinions of him around (it certainly did me). That role was miles away from his part in The Fi5th Element.
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In my book. He's been in so much shit. Him as the President in 5th Element I think is what inspired Barack to actually run.
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May 27, 2009 9:51:39 PM CDT
Just goes to show you can not let a role define a person
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
Far too often we are all guilty of just assuming a person is one way based upon limited and or stereotypical assumptions.
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Some serious doo doo is about to happen
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But some of his lines in Fi5th Element weren't delivered in an entirely believable way, one of the film's only weaknesses, I always thought... But that's okay, the guy's so likable in all his roles. I remember the first time I saw him, in the Sublime video for Satneria, waaay back when...
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Shane. There is some list out there of 100 classic movies you need to watch, I've probably only seen 10 of them.
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Pale Rider is basically a remake of Shane (with biblical allegories thrown in), so which one do you guys prefer? I got to go with Shane just for Van Heflin and Palance, but I do want to slap that kid.
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but I'd had a shit load to drink. I kept thinking I was watching a lame version of valley of the supervixens. I should probably watch it sober. Mrs. Jarv was disgusted at me.
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I can't bear that kid. Last night I watched Toxie 3 when drunk and it's not as good as 1 & 2. This is going to sound stupid, but after all the shenanigans in 2, I couldn't buy that toxie would work for Apocalypse Inc. Not to mention they got rid of the idea of Tromatons and changed how his girlfriend went blind etc. Disappointing.
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May 28, 2009 3:41:52 AM CDT
"Mrs. Jarv was disgusted at me"
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Not an uncommon occurance i'm sure!
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May 28, 2009 3:44:42 AM CDT
I've never seen Shane or Pale Rider
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Last night I watched the champions league and stuffed myself silly with bbq meats and beer. Then half watched American Pie 2 which sucks apart from Stifler and Eugene Levy.
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best Fantasy villain ever.
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She's very tolerant. But draws the line at 60's big boobed porn.
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You ever see Meyer's "Harry, Cherry & Raquel" and "Supervixens"? I always had two questions about those films:
Is Charles Napier playing the same character in both films? Both are cops and both are named Harry? Just wondering.
And how can two movies with so much pointless nudity and whacky editing also have two of the most fucked up awesome action/murder scenes ever? When Charles Napier kills SuperAngel (God, I love Russ Meyer's character's names) by stomping on her in the bathtub; and the shoot out between Charles Napier and Apache. Both are fucking intense. -
May 28, 2009 4:21:21 AM CDT
A line has to be drawn somewhere, i guess
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
It may as well be with big boobed 60's porn.
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...the terrorist win. There I said it.
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I though him and Landau were creepy as hell in it.
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But years ago. All I can really remember is giant boobs and a fucked up incest rape story in Vixen. Oh, and some unsubtle social commentary about racism.
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hehehehehe
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It is about this guy with a huge penis who only wants to have anal sex with his girlfriend, who is a nymph, yes, but not into backdoor action.
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Dirty, fat perv.
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for those that stopped reading- it isn't ADD, it's that they actually deteriorated horribly. Anyone that says either Order or Half-Blood are good books is lying.
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like Superolga and nympho. I remember an Austrian one dressed like Heidi who tried to rape our intrepid hero in a hay loft. I think that's a statement about Britain's relationship with the EU.
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in that steaming pile of rectal discharge "Die You Zombie Bastards". I don't hold it against him though.
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And from the way you describe it, I doubt I ever will.
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May 28, 2009 5:16:36 AM CDT
BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
That trailer is pretty amusing. It looks more like a comedy though. I'm pretty sure the original was not. I've only seen it once, and that was a long long time ago, so I may be mistaken.
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24 has officially gone to shit. That cuntish douchebag twat Freddie Prinze Jr is in the next season.
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and I don't really see how they can make a sequel.
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I thought it was a remake. It might be a reboot. Or a reimagining. Or a reinterpretation.
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believe everyone has the need to be loved unconditionally. Even though Vixen betrays Tom's trust she probably values & needs the love & respect he shows her. Tom's the nicest guy in the film. Some may call Tom bland, but I don't agree. Niceness doesn't always translate into blandness. Tom is very amusing & cute. Throughout everything Tom remains number 1 in Vixen's books. In an unexpectedly poignant moment Tom laments how a visitor to their cabin makes more money than he has in the last 5 years. Vixen doesn't care, Tom pleases her where it counts most. No shock as to what she means by that. Maybe if she'd stop to think, she'd realize that nobody could take Tom's place because she actually loves him & he loves her. People have called Vixen selfish & although I don't condone her racist remarks, I can't totally agree with this view. If she's so selfish how come when Nile's threatens to hurt Tom, she's willing to let everyone aboard the plane including herself die. You don't have to tell me, I know the ending shows no improvement in Vixen's condition, but I was happy to see that the last sex scene in the film is between Tom & Vixen. It was so rewarding to see the right people together.
I think not. -
that's why I think it's strange that Pixar are remaking it.
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that's golden.
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Who, what, where, when and how?
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I'm interested now.
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I'm confused.
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Russ Meyer made a film called Up! about a horny cop and giant boobies. i'm sure it's coincidence. Or maybe not and balloons are a clumsy visual reference to giant boobies.
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good. The Tb is getting unweildy now.
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i don't know anything about russ meyer. never seen any of his flicks.
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Frankly. I've seen most of them, and the 2 I'd suggest would be Vixen and Faster Pussycat. They're all about the titties.
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I'm not that excited about it though.
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I'm looking forward to it a lot, but I don't really know what I'm looking forward to. It's purely based on the fact that it's a James Cameron flick. I need to see a trailer so I can put that in some context.
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May 28, 2009 6:22:33 AM CDT
I'm surprised they haven't released a teaser trailer for it
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I remember seeing the trailer for King Kong a full year before it came out.
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May 28, 2009 6:28:46 AM CDT
They're rebooting Alien, apparently
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
What a load of shit.
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what do we know about it? Nothing, except it's been done with some new technology. Why is anyone interested in that? I can understand tech-nerds, but most people shouldn't give a fuck.
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May 28, 2009 6:49:18 AM CDT
That's it. There is no hype yet.
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Which is why I'm surprised by no trailer. No posters. Nothing. Just a few random articles about the tech and Cameron showing a few directors footage. I know it's still 6 months away, but i would expect them to be trying to make the general public aware of it, because as it stands, no one other than lunatic fanboys know anything about it. And as much as fanboys wish they did, they mean fuck all to the financial success of a flick.
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New Twitch
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That Adolf Hitler gets sodomized.
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Looks pretty good. Any thoughts?
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Looks pretty cool as well. I think its funny all those people who say how great Godfather is wouldn't even touch FFC's new movies. I still need to see Youth Without Youth.
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May 28, 2009 8:07:54 PM CDT
So that fat kid in Up is supposed to be Asian? Really?
by dannyglovers_dickblood
What the fuck kind of Asians have white bread Pixar been looking at? Are they afraid to make an Asian actually look fucking Asian? Jesus Christ.....of course Lasseter pawns the person of color off to the hand-drawn department. He wouldn't dare make a lead character in one of his darlings look ethnic.
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When you get a chance make an appearance in the Twilight TB. Rumors going around you've been banned and everyone is wondering where you have been.
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