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AICN & Twitch Present International Eye Candy! VAMPIRE GIRL VERSUS FRANKENSTEIN GIRL, THE HORDE, Jeunet's MICMACS & More!
International Eye Candy
July 9, 2009
Has it been two weeks already? Why yes, yes it has, and that can only mean one thing. Once again, it is time to cull the pages of Twitch for the very best visual treats from around the globe. It's time for International Eye Candy.
The big title over the last couple weeks was, without a doubt, MACHINE GIRL director Noboru Iguchi's latest, ROBOGEISHA, which already received some love on the main page here at AICN on its way to becoming a viral phenomenon but there's plenty more out there. We've got French zombies, Australian cowboys, French diamond thieves, Japanese superheroes and a very foolish Thai man in a pit with a crocodile. Here we go!
Now, you may be thinking to yourself, "I've already seen the teaser for Jean-Pierre Jeunet's MICMACS A TIRE LARIGOT, and boy did it look good", and if you are, then you're only partially correct. You may have seen a teaser for MICMACS – another that has already received some love in these pages – but the day after that first teaser released the French marketers for the film lost their collective minds and released seven more. Yes, there are now eight of them in all, each devoted to a different character, and each of them providing ample proof that Jeunet has hit the sweet spot between DELICATESSEN and AMELIE with this one.
Find all of the MICMACS teasers here
Now, you may be thinking to yourself, "I've already seen the teaser for French blaxploitation throwback BLACK, and boy did it look good", and if you are, then you're only partially correct. You may have seen a teaser for BLACK – a film previously plugged in the ol' IEC column – but there's now a second teaser and the full theatrical trailer to show off.
MC Jean Gab'1 (I don't know how to say it, either) stars as a Senegalese-French thief called back to Africa to pull off a big diamond heist in this one and get used to seeing the charismatic star on screen – he also boasts a major role in the second DISTRICT B13 film. This one hits all the points that you'd want in a blaxploitation film but manages to do it all while also keeping things current. Nice.
Find the BLACK trailers here
Here comes the first of a few Australian entries in the IEC this week, this one being a trailer for Jonathan Nix's animated short THE MISING KEY. Nix has won himself a stack of awards around the globe and it's really not hard to see why. His work is richly detailed and a richly creative, this one set in a world where people have old-fashioned gramophones for heads and the young hero – and his clarinet-playing cat – are scrambling against sinister forces to enter a Venetian music competition. There's a surprising noir tinge to this one that I'm really rather fond of and the animation work is absolutely top notch.
Find THE MISSING KEY here
What the hell, we may as well stay in Australia a little bit longer. The second entry in our Australian trio is LUCKY COUNTRY, a film that starts off looking like a Western period drama of the family friendly type before it takes a turn and gets a whole lot darker. I don't think we're getting quite into PROPOSITION type territory here, but LUCKY COUNTRY definitely has an edge to it. Personally, I'm really loving this wave of Aussie westerns – VAN DIEMEN'S LAND is another recent example – as the history is similar enough to be familiar while different enough to be surprising and it just seems to be a genre that really meshes exceptionally well with the Aussie style of shooting and telling stories.
Visit the LUCKY COUNTRY here
And we finish our Australian trio with COFFIN ROCK, the latest thriller from the producer of WOLF CREEK. This one – about to have it's world premiere at the Frightfest in London – follows a married, childless woman, who has an affair with a strange young man and – whoopsie! – gets pregnant. Worse, the young man turns out to be rather a lot more than just strange and is soon turns obsessive and violent. It's the type of premise we've seen done before but COFFIN ROCK looks to do it exceptionally well.
Find the COFFIN ROCK trailer here
We mentioned MACHINE GIRL and ROBOGEISHA director Noboru Iguchi up above and it just wouldn't be right to go plugging Iguchi's work while overlooking his mad partner in crime, acclaimed effects man Yoshihiro Nishimura – the director of TOKYO GORE POLICE, now about to unleash his sophomore directorial effort, VAMPIRE GIRL VERSUS FRANKENSTEIN GIRL on the world.
I caught the world premiere of this one in New York a little more than a week back and while it's every bit as bloody and outrageous as you'd expect from Nishimura it's also very, very different. How different? This one's got no pretenses of being a horror film. No, it's a comedy. A romantic comedy. A teen, high school romantic comedy. Really. And it's a blast. A blast with a new trailer.
The VAMPIRE GIRL and FRANKENSTEIN GIRL compete for your affections here
Any fans of Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen out there? Yeah, me too. So I was somewhat surprised a few months ago when a visitor from Denmark told me that Mads wasn't the most talented actor in his family, that brother Lars was even better but international audiences had much of a chance to see him because he largely works on television. Well, here's your chance.
Lars is taking a rare theatrical leading role in HEADHUNTER, a new high end thriller set in the upper reaches of the business world. It's got the sort of icy precision and noir leanings that have made the recent wave of Danish crime films so appealing and, yep, Lars is looking rather good.
Find the HEADHUNTER trailer here
I'm not going to say much to lead in to this one, just that it's CG animated, it's horror and it very much lives up to its title of BLOOD TRAIL.
Get on the TRAIL here
A fan of THE NIGHT WATCH with a hankering for more high-concept Russian sci-fi? Here's one for you, the story of a Russian secret agent trained by an angel and following instructions sent back from the future to battle a crime syndicate in the presence. Originally titled SMERSH XXI, the current Russian title translates to FORBIDDEN REALITY and it's being sold internationally as THE INTERCEPTOR. But whatever you call it, they've spent a good amount of money on it, it's based on a novel by one of Russia's most popular scifi authors, it's the first part of a planned trilogy, there are a good number of high profile Russian actors in it and the effects are by the same team that did both THE NIGHT WATCH and THE DAY WATCH. Stuff goes boom.
Find THE INTERCEPTOR trailer here
What do international martial arts fans want? Well, I can't speak for all of us but I know that I've practically been begging for a decent film featuring Brazilian capoeira for years now. And, look! Here one is! It's called BESOURO – which translates to BEETLE – and it looks very, very impressive. Production values are great, using a mix of natural, unassisted fighting and wire rig, supernaturally tinted work.
Frankly, I'm surprised its taken this long for Brazil to produce a fight film of their own. Capoeira looks great on the screen and there is certainly no shortage of practitioners of the art down there. I can't wait to see this one …
Find the BESOURO trailer here
What else to international martial arts fans want? They want to see Tony Jaa get eaten by a crocodile, apparently. How else to explain the popularity of the recent French trailer for ONG BAK 2? No, he doesn't actually get eaten, but I certainly wouldn't have gone along with whatever they had to do to get that shot … shudder …
Find the new ONG BAK 2 trailer here
So, you're the producer of a popular and long running sci-fi action franchise that kind of shot its wad with the last installment by including eight different incarnations of your titular hero in the film. And you have to make a sequel. What do you do? Well, if the franchise is ULTRAMAN – now approaching its thirty eighth installment, a pretty staggering number – you go even bigger!
Bigger? Damn straight! Bad Ultraman incurs the wrath of good Ultramen on the home Ultra-planet, leading to a battle between FIFTY different Ultramen and ONE HUNDRED giant monsters! That's a lot of men in a lot of suits! So many that it could only be a MEGA MONSTER BATTLE!
Find the Ultra-Silliness here
And, finally, we end with the promised French zombies. The film is THE HORDE, an action-horror hybrid produced by FRONTIERE(S) director Xavier Gens that has been turning heads on the market circuit for the past year with a string of impressive promos and behind the scenes images. And, finally, the first teaser has been released to the public. Lots of zombies, that'd for damn sure, but will THE HORDE be able to live up to the expectations of those who have already dubbed it the European genre film of the year?
Find THE HORDE teaser here
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Orcus first?
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A hoy hoy.
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He has claimed first in this Twitch.
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Mayers, while not totally horror, was totally fucked.
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After all these years of posting Last, this is a pleasant change of pace
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My money is on Frankenstein Girl.
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Already bought my ticket. Any news on Twilight Watch ever getting made? Day watch had the some nutty TV spots, American film TV spots just don't try, though I will say the drum beat Ice Age 3 TV spot was pretty awesome.
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and BLACK Dynamite and B-13U placed before my eyeballs now. That would be one hell of a flaming MOOSE triple feature.
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me likey that Ong Bak 2 trailer very, very much! Fighting a croc! Wa-hoo!Not sure what that tear was all about...there's no crying in asskicking!
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Finally. Now I feel fresh.
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Me likey. Me want to see animated horror. Me wish ILM's Frankenstein film would have gotten made.
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Jul 09, 2009 2:59:38 PM CDT
What the fuck is up with that Serenity Better Days broad on the
by stuntcock mike
right side of the screen? Looks like a mashup between Angelina Jolie and Nicholson's Joker.
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I have no clue what the hell that is about but I am there. Any western, even an Australian one, and my ass is the theatre.
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Nice stunts. Plot not so much. End, well ....
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I cannot get the image of Human Centipede out of my freakin' mind. I blame you for me being haunted by it.
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Just in case anyone is interested, London's Frightfest, which takes place between 27th and 31st of August, is screening not only Coffin Rock, but also The Horde, Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl and Black, amongst many other hotly anticipated Genre movies.
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So does Micmacs. Coffin Rock was shown last week at the NIFFF in Neuchatel. Maybe that was its world premiere?! Ong Bak 2 sucks. About MC Jean Gab'1: MC (say it in english), then it's like Jean Gabin only with an "un" ("one" in french) at the end. thx for listening.
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I clicked on that not seeing the HUMAN part and thought it was about a Centipede movie based on that old game.
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I think I am just fried by Zombie movies.
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I should a bunch of people here at the office the damn photos. Now we got a debate going what would be worse, being at the very end or the one in the middle.
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jarv - so you admit - Glamorgan is a draw pitch. sure, there may be a result but english pitches are among the worst in the world if you want a result.
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'Any western, EVEN an Australian one, and my ass is the theatre.'go watch the proposition and get back to me.
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http://tinyurl.com/m5g3d6
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And I love that movie. That is why I am a fan of Aussie's westerns (especially since we don' make them here in the states anymore).
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they kinda became politically incorect, but there are plenty of stories that don't involve indians coming over the hill.
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Meh, I was bored. I was expecting something weird from Nic Cave.
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Might have to give Frankenstein girl the business, just for the novelty of it. They seem more rare than vampire girls. Plus it would be like banging 10 girls at once, cuz of the assembled parts.
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Meh. After Deadwood I just can't care anymore.
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I personally think there are a lot of stories involving Native Americans that would make for great westerns. Same thing with Black or Mexican Cowboys.
And the thing is that not every Western featuring Native Americans has to be Dances With Wolves. While Chato's Land and Ulzana's Raid were flawed, they also fascinating metaphors for Vietnam. I want movies like those again. I want an American remake of the New Zealand film UTU. -
country and western
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That might be the Western for you.
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why not just watch utu?
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Yeah I know I need to see it. That followed by that guys other movies are somewhere in my 400+ net flix queue.
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Posse, I've seen that? Did anyone see Baaaaaaaaadass?
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So do you still buy comics? If so they just put out a The Good The Bad and The Ugly comic yesterday.
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I'm not saying a literal remake. I'm saying something with a similar setup - about a renegade Indian Scout being chased by the US Cavalry. You can go in a different direction from there, but right there you have an interesting setup.
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I still buy some comics, but not many (Bru's Cap, Captain Britain & MI:6, couple of others) but mostly trades and a lot of archives/essentials.
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God Posse sucked. If you want to see a really interesting movie about black people in a Western, see John Ford's Sgt. Rutledge with Woody Strode.
Have you ever seen "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song" Series? -
I'm off to work. have a good one othersideoftheworlders
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Hopefully I'll get to make 'em one day. And I agree, the Proposition was a bit longish. I expected more.
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But than again I do like slow moving Westerns, such as McCabe and Mrs. Miller and The Ballad of Cable Hogue.
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was great. I'd like to see it again. That Nick Cave is just so gosh-darned talented.
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looks good. I loved Delicatessen, but Amelie was just toooo fucking precious for my tastes. There are some good things about it, but on the whole, cutesy saccharine overload.
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Pretty cool Electric Company skit.
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I seem to have fallen into a rut, where I barely even try to watch more recent movies. Every night I try to come up with something to watch, and there's always some really fucking great movie that I haven't watched in way too long.
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You know there is one series that could use a fucking reboot damnit. I wonder how bad this is going to be. 1-3 were all a bunch of fun, but man fucking Endgame was one of the worst movies I've ever seen. So far this looks like the show. How could you ruin a franchise with one of the most bad ass theme songs since ever.
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Lawnmower man and Virtuosity. How come in a world where Denzel doesn't care and will do any movie Tony Scott thinks of remaking, same goes with Ridley and Russell why can't we get those two back together in something good? You think the Scotts got together one night and watching Virtuaosity and called dibs?
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http://is.gd/1sNhS
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lots of good stuff here and, as is getting to be the norm, NONE of it is American
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I used to watch the video archives ALL the time as well. Back when they only had sound and couldn't put the videos on yet. I think my favorite is probably their Silence of the lambs review.
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upon this. http://www.youtub e.com/watch?v=OkwVz_jK3 gA I had no idea they could both be such assholes.
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"Sound a little excited, Gene"
"Sound LESS excited, Robert."
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that would be Roger, of course.
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Getting into the hole should not take a fukken degree in advanced aerodynamics!
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and make sure they star Beatnik Man there from it as the main baddie this time. Unkillable, nasty, evil grinning and able to sport a plastic machine gun w/ the best of them. Good idea for Cokey I think.
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You need those.
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Jul 09, 2009 10:20:11 PM CDT
Indians in 3:10 to Yuma and Appaloosa, do those not count?
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Jul 09, 2009 10:21:23 PM CDT
Has Japan become the Troma Studios of International Cinema?
by pop_aristocrat
I don't see anything from them that's not overthetop batshit crazy from them.
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Some good, old-school fun is being had over in the Superman thread. If you feel like taking lockesbrokenleg to the woodshed, have at it. :)
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Where is everyone today?
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really away from your computers, then I'm jealous.
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dickblood withdrawal since he retired. Let's hope it isn't fatal.
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Not great. I'm not even sure why it's called Ong Bak 2.
It's essentially Apocalypto meets Crouching tiger hidden dragon, with none of the elements that made those good movies.
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what the fuck hollywood? wasn't it obvious???
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I think CUNT CHOCULA is looking for you!
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That's just what I need. Some weird ladyboy stalking me online.
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The worst in the world for results are the West Indies, India and Pakistan. If the weather stays fair (big if)then England is almost always a result country. You know this- it's far better than Australia where at least 3 of your pitches (out of 5)are draws. The problem nowadays is actually endemic across the globe: Money chasing. Almost every board is short of cash, Test match= bumper pay day. Although a result may be better for the spectator, it's a fucking disaster for the ACB, ECB, WICB whatever, as they lose at least 1 if not (in England) 2 days of revenue. The ECB especially are livid about it, because there's a good chance of losing at least a day's receipts due to rain. That's how much of a result country we are- you get more results than draws despite the weather. Glamorgan, and this is no attempt to defend them, were fined earlier in the season for producing a lethal pitch in a county game. All the word in advance was that they would produce a fucking monster of a spinning pitch. This is in no way an attempt to excuse the, frankly, pitiful bowling from both sides or diminsh ponting and katich's excellence.
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It's part of the problem with the modern game: it's unbalanced. Batsmen have too many advantages. I don't particularly like this idea, as I can see it leading to a lot of broken bones, but there is a good case for returning to uncovered pitches.
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do you know?
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Why the fuck I need to put a C in the headline is beyond me, but anyway... Should be a good days cricket methinks. Weather looks good. Aussies in a strong position and England will hopefully step up to the challenge. And I've wrangled myself a half day so I'm off to the pub to watch the afternoon sesh. Genius.
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Two questions in one post to no one in particular.
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Or the Evening Redness in the West, is one of my favorite books of all time and should never, ever, EVER be made into a movie. The book is to literal, to expansive, nihilistic and to violent and bloody. How in hell is anyone ever going to adapt that book? I'm not saying it can't be adapted - I'm saying that when it is it will be a weak and flaccid thing compared to the original.
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Jul 10, 2009 3:57:07 AM CDT
One huge reason why BM should never be made
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Who the fuck could play The Judge?
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CG him.
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I imagine he'd end up looking like that main zombie thing in I Am Legend.
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I did picture the kid looking like Lucas Black though. But yes, it's so bleak, brutal and nihilistic that I don't think it could really be filmed properly.
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to play a character that is supposed to be a 7' tall albino completely devoid of hair?
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He has his own site nowadays so not a surprise--
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I don't need no stink'n plot to ruin my FLAMING LEG KICKS.
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But if we kill all the golfers, they'll lock us up and throw away the key.
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Take any drugs Danny?Everyday.Good, so what's the problem?
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Each Dawn I Die, he's a reporter who gets thrown in prison for a crime he didn't commit, at least that's what he professed. I missed the beginning and end, but it seemed to be a decent movie. The prisoners had just started rioting when I had to come into work.
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that the U.S. men's soccer team can score more goals than the NY Mets can score runs.Fact.
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without going into it it is a very polictical movie. we are soul searching in oz. what are we as a country? are we british? or are we bastard irish convicts? that movie is a manifesto. it is a flag bearer for those of us who say we are what we are. churchill said: 'you can't make a decent race out of convicts and irishmen' some in australia are anglophiles who love churchill. others say: we are not british. we are simular, but we are our own thing. we are different. and we are proud to be convicts, proud to be irish. the proposition is about that. plus it is also about the shameful treatment of aboriganals. it says clearly: we are our own thing: we are still bristish, but we are our own type of british
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is full of self loathing. many are ashamed that we are convicts. me, i'm proud. my ancestors said: we will worship as we see fit, and if people take our food we will take it back. australians hate authority. sometimes the law is wrong. sometimes it sends you across the world for trying to feed your family. that is what the proposition is about.
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the ashes and the origin in the same week. sorry jarv but the origin takes precidence. but not by much. i've got a beer in my hand, the first for a while (i've been saving up) we are four down with 89 to go and the origin is already in the bag. life is good.
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the soup for lunch don't eat dinner decision
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Good Jimmy has shown up today, and Monty seems to have grown a brain. That's 3 of you fuckers down. My money is still on a draw, though, both these sets of bowlers are too shit.
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four x in your hand. i'm in non goon heaven.
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now if we can get rid of these 2 quickly, Australia should finish about 50-ish runs ahead and we may get a game depending on how well/ badly Australia bowl next time out. It turns out it wasn't the pitch, just shit bowling. Which is not good news for the rest of the series aside from headingly. Where it will swing, and swing dangerously.
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that we are three down with 89 to go?
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you are glad me are merely flogging you?
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1-249 is one of the best openings in history. wake up to yourself navel gaser.
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that is exactly what it fucking is. it is non result pitch.
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fantasy
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then yes, I am pleased. Not overly happy as it's due to piss it down tomorrow, so I think this will be drawn, but we've got your biggest scorers out. 249 isn't anwhere near the biggest 2nd wicket partnership in history. You're bowling is shit, and if we keep our shit together should get a good second innings total. No more of that stupidity from the first innings. The pitch is deteriorating, so will be hard to bat last on. Australia are winning, but there's a long way left, and England can only blame themselves for bowling like complete cunts. Honorouble exception to Flintoff. Overconfident Aussie gimp.
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Nothing to do with the absolute crap both sides have bowled then? The pitch is spinning, but all 3 spinners have bowled like cunts on it. It isn't swinging (which is atmospheric and not the pitch), so Anderson and Siddle may as well not turn up, Broad has no excuse, neither does Johnson. Flintoff and Hilfenwhasit were alright. This is not good bowling, by any description- Swann gets a half century, Anderson hits 25 odd should give away what quality of bowling it has been. That said, if anyone deserves to win, Australia do, because Ponting and Katich aside from boring the life out of me, showed those profligate twats in our top order what you do when the other side is bowling puddings at you.
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any century is special. a double century partnership is special. admit it navel gaser
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if both sides don't do something about their bowling lineups then Australia will win, but it will be a shitty, boring series.
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saying you are glad at three fa is a little crazy. methinks you don't stay up and watch the aussie tests, cause our pitches get results. non cricket watchers won't understand, but we are winning here. you can come back, we both know it. but this is heading to a draw. because of the pitch
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agreed
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and I'm not saying that wasn't a great partnership- I've said it repeatedly. You're just full of hyperbole about it.But you can only play what is bowled at you and both sides are bowling like complete cunts. I wonder what England will do for Lords. They may recall Harmison (christ I hope not).
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and only cricket men can love a good draw
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YEAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. As we rot in our graves only harmy we change cricket. more than warnie. australians will always call a wide 'a harmy'
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a double century partnership is rare. admit it.
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absolute bullshit. SCG, Adelaide are both draw tests. McGrath and Warne get results. Entirely different.
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but our pitches do deteriorate on the 4th and fith day, but the moisture in your air keeps yours going. it is the moisture in the air.
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cricet is the hardest of specator sports. it takes training to watch it. i average a carton per day of cricket (when not working, i am currently soft) it goes for five days.
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and that partnership, while a fucking good performance that showed those profligate twats in the england side what to do, is not one of the all time great partnerships. The amount of utter dross bowled at them automatically means it isn't as good as, say, Thorpe and Hussein against Australia or some of the monsters your top order used to score for shits and giggles. I agree, you can love a good draw, but this isn't going to be one. A good heroic draw with the tail clinging on is one thing, a draw where the bowling has been so shite that wickets aren't likely to fall is another. Top marks to Ponting and Katich, but don't pretend this innings is anywhere near some of Australia's best ones.What the fuck is wrong with Hussey at the moment?
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i agree, this won't be an interesting draw. nothing will compare with two ashes ago. but double centries are rare so fuck off. they are only not rare if watch australia play, and we get one every few years. admit it. that is rare. you need to wake up to yourself. australia in my youth had the best team ever. i remember when western australia came third in our local comp and doubled the wi total score with one innings. with no internationals. that time is gone. we merely outclass everyone now. in 150 years of cricket we recently had the best. that is now gone. we are merely beating you now. admit it. that is why 2 ashes ago was so good. you got us at the end of our best. all credit to you. you got us at our best. david won. lets be fair. our back up team. the team that is second string to the best team ever. is still fucking good.
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gayest criceter ever. hay stuart, you have a hair out of place! better wipe your brow!
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I'm at home sinking a beer and watching the cricket. As soon as I stuff my belly full of food I'm off to the pub. How do you like them apples? hehe
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Fell asleep watching it last night. Pretty cool stuff, anyone seen it?
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this is fucking England! We've got nothing but fucking moisture. That's why you get more swing here than anywhere else.It's rain that causes draws in this country. Deary me.....
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but dryness makes cracks in the pitch. you know it's true.
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and your bowling is garbage. Second string? leave it out. You're talking bullish aussie crap. Broad is probably the biggest poseur ever after Dhoni. True. And if he keeps bowling like this, then he's going to get deservedly dropped. He's bowling like a complete cunt.
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Jul 10, 2009 8:14:23 AM CDT
What I like about the australian top order
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
The top 6 is very nicely balanced. 1. Hughes = Doesn't give a fuck. Will play his shots. 2. Katich = Slow, deliberate. An anchor for others to play around. 3. Ponting = Not much needs to be said. 4. Hussey = An accumulator of runs. Forms a bit off lately against quality opposition. My biggest concern of the top order, but proven. 5. Clarke = Has developed into a quality, dependable batsmen. I used to have zero confidence in him. Now I expect him to make some runs. 6. North = Haven't seen much of him, but he seems willing to play the Gilchrist role of throwing the bat at it. I'm happy with this line up.
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give me a good web site to follow from this side. i can see it by the coverage is crap.
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thanks
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Dustbowl draw pitches. Just admit it, you either don't know what you're talking about, or are attempting (very successfuly) to goad me.
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who is this guy? cause i've never seen north play.
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Jul 10, 2009 8:20:08 AM CDT
Aussie bowling on the other hand
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
1. Mitchell Johnson = Only automatic selection. 2. Hilfenhaus and Siddle = Too much like Gillespie and Kasprowicz. Decent enough, but not dangerous. 3. Hauritz = Who?
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"North taps a single into the off side; Clarke cuts a long hop for four." That was panesar. Spinners should not bowl Long Hops. Ever. That's unforgivable. PS- cracks only= result if the bowling isconsistently good enough to exploit them. Yours isn't and ours, judging by this garbage, ours certainly isn't.
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our only realy quality batsman, a man who would get in team three years ago is katich. also clarke obviously hughes is young he'll get there. i have mixed feelings about clarke. he is awesome. without him his spot would be taken by watson. who was one year up on me in school. ispwich has had a bad patch with sportsman (in the 1990s we owned aussie sports) watson is about all we have now
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so clearly isn't a mug. Whether he's the answer is another thing entirely. Of you're top order my only concern (if I was an Aussie) would be that they're getting on and if Hussey keeps up like this then there's a good chance that England will retire him. Like Martyn.
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Not convinced. He's been bounced out 3 times in a row, and if Broad hadn't bowled like such a cunt or Strauss had opened with Flintoff would have been out a lot sooner.
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i have at home a dinged grey nick that watson used to use.
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you may retire him. he knows it. lets see his relpy
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Steve Waugh was tormented by the Windies and their short deliveries for years. He learned to play them. Hughes will too.
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isn't first class. even if warnie plays it. because, when i need to hold on a little longer during sex, i imagine warnie eating a pie.
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I now think that bats need to be regulated. You see some of the fucking trunks that they are weilding and it strikes me as damned unfair on the bowler- you see top edges go for 4.
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Fist class just means level below test. It is dull and attended by 2 men and a dog.
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Jul 10, 2009 8:35:08 AM CDT
Your missus must love warnie then...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
if the image of him eating a pie helps you last a minute and a half other than the usual minute. Next you'll be telling us Mal Meninga eating a hot dog helps you get it up!
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based on the shit England are bowling. Australia to declare on 700 and leave 2 days to bowl us out.
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even if he isn't very bright. He's arguably the greatest spinner ever and managed this while being a fat coke and booze addled cretin with a stripper habit. You don't see too many sportsmen like that any more.
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that warnie eating a pie isn't the least sexy thing you can think of
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owes me a beer
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there is little argument. he is an example as to why women don't get sport. women hate him. i think he is a fucking tool. women dont get why i used to support his inclusion in the team. so he is a tool. so what. he plays cricket. i went to a rugby school. i can supports the firsts one day and fist fight them the next. i don't care about them as people. i assume they are asse holes. but they are my asseholes.
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See you later.
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Along with being the best spin bowler ever, he was actually a brilliant tactician. I'l clarify that. In cricketing terms he was brilliant. And would've been captain if his off-field discretions (of which there were far too many to count) weren't so ridiculous. In life, the guys a fool. On the field he is a genius. And I say that with affection. I think he's fucking hilarious and indeed a legend and a hero.
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See you later. Go aussies.
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or maybe murali. Murali is dubious though, and I'd go with Warne.
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you freaks
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As for the "Are we British or are we Irish convicts" thing, the answer is neither. You're Australian.
Surely you've come to terms with that by now? If you haven't then why do so many smug "My country is better than yours" type Aussies work in English pubs:-)?
The vast majority of convicts were British anyway, not Irish. It's just easy to make stereotypes where Irish people are identifiable, because of American movies. Whereas British people are portrayed as being Royal/Posh/Aristocrats etc, when actually we're all kinda the same for the most part.
It's like "Shit, we need a working class, flat cap wearing, salt of the earth stereotype for a Hollywoood movie & he can't be a Sicilian who becomes a gangster."
"Ok, make him Irish, 'cause we've already made British people look posh to an irredeemable level." It's bullshit.
On a side note, England are shit at cricket because we're a footie country. Not out of choice. Out of the fact that unlike you guys, our sporting infrastructure is rubbish. I only played cricket once at school, because it was an especially sunny day. They used the car park of an old part of the school that was gonne be knocked down, because we didn't have a pitch. You can play footie in a back alley. Anywhere. I'm sure there will be Brits who disagree with me, that wew aren't taught cricket & don't have pitches etc, but they would be the priveleged few & therefore they wouldn't know that most of us aren't taught it & can't get a chance to play it. That's all. I'm drunk & my arms hurt:-).
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Thanks Todd! Always appreciated. And if you haven't seen The Accidental Gangster and the Mistaken Courtesan yet, I recommend it. It's quite entertaining.OK, so on to business.I finally finished watching Street Fighter last night and the sad thing is, there was a decent movie in there somewhere. And by decent I mean a decent b-movie along the lines of Big Trouble in Little China. As has been mentioned, Chris Klein is genius as Nash and combined with Neil McDonough's horrific Irish accent and some truly ridiculous scenes (ripping a live baby out of your wife?), it had all the markings of b-movie immortality. For whatever reason, it was just never able to achieve the peaks of cheese heaven though. Still, a decent effort at schlock. "Nash out!"The Proposition is ace. It took a while to pull me in but that ending was a blinder.Pillow, I feel your pain. The Jays have gone into a tailspin. It really pisses me off because they have one of the best hitting lineups in the league and a bunch of no names at that, but their pitching is in the toilet. With a proper bullpen they could be the best team in the American League.I haven't had a beer all week. I need to dunk some back tonight.
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Fellas, it was announced some time ago that BLOOD MERIDIAN is no longer in Ridley Scott's hands. It is now being written and directed by Todd Field (of IN THE BEDROOM and LITTLE CHILDREN fame).And if AssimovLives actually thinks that BLOOD MERIDIAN is about Native Americans, then he is absolutely full of shit. With the exception of two frightening scenes, their involvement in the story is borderline nil.
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Between Brits and Aussies. We are the world, people. Let's just all get along. Except for the French. I hear they have been rated as the worst tourists on the planet. And to think of all the times I've defended that country. And they repay me by being pricks abroad?
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It's usually just banter. We kinda enjoy it.
But now is the Ashes (it's a cricket thing). I'm not a cricket fan, for reasons I already said, so I'm kinda out of the loop with that. But we're fine mate.
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externals may see it and i agree with you. but here we are undecided. after the rebublic referendem, i, still remember it, someone wrote into the australian and said 'im glad this republican thing has been decided, after all it was just a flash in the plan dreamed up by the comunists'.as a country we don't know what we are. my grand parents generation see themselves as english. truely, we are only just coming to terms with the fact that we are different. like northern ireland, in many ways my grandparents are more british than the british. as i said above, that is what the proposition is about. it is a clear attempt to argue the point.
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So to speak, I can't comment much. In some ways you're right. I did an essay at uni, where I interviewed old soldiers. Some were Aussies, who said how they grew up feeling very British etc.
I suppose that happens to any young nation though. Eventually you work it out. The way I see it, as an ex-pat in Japan, the closest I have to proper mates are all Aussies & New Zealanders, 'cause we can actually talk & have a conversation without having to explain stuff.
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also it is upper class englishmen we hate. i have an english mate i agrue about this with every anzac day. we get the fact that lower class englishmen got fucked over as much as we did. we get that. it is CLASS we hate. i'm told many english hate it too.
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upper class Englishmen. Everyone hates upperclass Englishmen.
The worst part is as I mentioned, about the international image, which is based on Hollywood movies & probably comes from a King George thing. Those guys make up like 1% of the population. & we all hate them. It's just a shame that a lot of people think of Brits & automatically think of them.
But fuck it mate, I'm drunk & having a nice night & as far as I'm concerned, you guys are cool by me. Just don't win at the cricket that I don't care about:-).
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it will pass. a lot of second world war stuff was on 50 year secrecy acts. we are recently learning that the americans and the english, who we put so much faith in, had no intention to help us. they ate out on their aid for 50 years. our new knowlegde helps us as a nation. we are peace keeping in our region. people my age see us as australians. my parents are 50/50, the grandparents see us as bristish. i still remember a joke: a queenslander and a new south welshmen are making fun of each other. in walks a kiwi and they make fun of him. in walks a pom and the three make fun. in walks a kraut and three are best mates. in walkes a frenchmen and they kick the shit out of him. i remember talking to a pom when you went to the common market and he was talking about the bond between our countries. i said, but you have turned your back on us. you give trade concessions to the french that you don't give to us. he was furious he said 'that is the government, the english are still with you'
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But fuck it mate, I'm drunk & having a nice night & as far as I'm concerned, you guys are cool by me. Just don't win at the cricket that I don't care about:-). - dito.don't get me wrong. i think we are kindred sprits. a good mate of mine is a pom whose family were 'over the top types' we hate the people who made us do that (who were english, but of a certain class) not the english. lower class english and aussies have a great deal in common. for one we both hate the cowardly incompentant finger pointers who fucked up and later called us cowards.
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You will have zilch pitching then Hawaiian.
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I'm from a town in the north of england that has no bearing on that stuff.
You see, the power base is still in London & the south & the class system still plays its part (as ridiculous as it is). I'm as stumped as you are. But it isn't so much "The English", as the pwers that be. That's why the world sucks. -
comentator. fuck that cunt off.
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But it isn't so much "The English", as the pwers that be. That's why the world sucks.you guys copped it as much as us.
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http://tinyurl.com/6exrt4
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I'm going to pick up some Arrogant Bastard for tonight.I watched Duplicity this week. Who here said it was garbage? I quite liked it. It wasn't the blow-your-ass-out caper I thought it would be but the cast was excellent and it moved along at a very brisk pace. I recommend it.
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shite commentator. A dick. Dark shite is right, although we're mostly classless now, there's still a breed of upper class toff that we hate. Aussies to declare at 600. Game still to be drawn. England's spinners have been diabolical and I doubt we'll see 2 in the same side again. Pitiful.
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how can you be as shit as those 2. Hauritz was shit, but nobody expected him to be good. Panesar and Swann are meant to be good and have just bowled dreadfully. The fucking pitch is turning as well- you won't see that again this summer. I'm livid.
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cause this is totally a decision pitch. with that i drunkenly stagger to bed. oh the shit i will be in after a night of drunken snoring
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Jul 10, 2009 10:17:44 AM CDT
Well Series, I tried my best to steer the convo back to movies
by hawaiian organ donor
I guess we just can't compete with cricket.I guess I'll just take latte girl out to lunch.
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it kind of appeals to me. I'm toying with going to frightfest as well.
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there may be talk of tities here! they may come back on. i can wait.
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*crosses arms and sulks at state of England team* I'm going to take no end of shit this summer because of those cunts. Half of my mates are fucking convicts.
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Her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite..
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i think it is 'i know who you bowled last summer' is sitting on the shelf of my movie shop, taunting me. i think i'll have to rent it.
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1-2 batsmen worth something, 1 bowler worth something and a whole barrel load of utter shit. Swapp Panesar for Such and Broad for Tudor and it could be 1996. KP= thorpe, Strauss= Atherton. Prior 100%= StewartFuck me. This is horrid- I'd hoped to never see those days again.
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It's what I would define as "Ok shite".
Not good,but with moments that make it interesting. B-movie cheap shit. You either like it or ya don't. It's ok. In two sittings I watched that & Ong Bak 2. Both the same. If it's a DVD, you can't complain, otherwise, you can get at least 2 & a half pints for the price of a ticket. -
my favorite barmy army song (we wish we had of though of that - the closest we have is the fanatics, and lets face it, no one really likes tennis)(hold passport in air and sing)ball and chain, ball and chain,we came here with a passport, you with a ball and chain.gold. keep it up.
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Sounds fucking ace. I may forgive Australia for thrashing us every 2 years if it is.
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Yeah I could talk about the twins all day long. But that would be disrespectful, no?I need to read up on how stuff is scored in cricket. These 299-2 to 435 scores seem outrageous to me.
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That's clearly not worth the entrance money. I'm going to spain for 3 weeks soon and am going to get drunk, avoid the cricket and taunt Droid on here at precisely 11.03am and 4.07pm every day. That'll make me feel better.
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i'm going to bed. enjoy you're barmy english weather. i've heard it's a swealtering 9 degree summer day over there. i suggest you go to one of your pebble beaches and get a two day tan.
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I'm going to go and see it. Despite speaking very little Spanish. I feel that dialogue is not important in the first film. I can always ask Mrs. Jarv afterwards.
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It's a very pleasant 24ish today. Tomorrow will be wet and Sunday too, to enable England to scrape a draw.
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I hope the missus doesn't beat you too hard for coming to bed stinking drunk.
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enjoy this and the next test. England used to be good at Headingly. I'm wondering what to watch tonight. I've got one of the female vigilante films we were talking about that only came yesterday because of the postal strike.
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as you are a newleywed and I've been in a coffin suit for years I feel compelled to give you a piece of advice about lurching into bed plastered: No matter how much of a good idea you think it is, she isn't going to want to have sex. And no, she is not being unreasonable in telling you to fuck off- you'll be asleep in a few seconds anyway. If you press the issue, she may give in, but it won't be worth it. And don't puke on her.
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in a sick way, I kind of admire them. They follow England all around the world, spending fortunes to do it. Get pissed all day every day and sing songs happily. To continue to do this in the face of England's eternal suckitude is really quite stubborn.
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Nothing but beautiful golden sand. Underneath a shitty rainy sky.
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Agreed, bad idea. That's why I just stay on the couch when I'm hammered. Or used to anyway.The women in the office are ordering up Thickburgers for lunch again today. No wonder the South is so friggin fat. You eat that stuff once in a blue moon, not every single day.
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I once crawled into bed demanding sex. The missus wasn't up for it, but eventually gave in (possibly because the weekends (when we're usually both free entail me being pissed as a rat on a pirate ship). She gave in.
Next morning, I was berated for smoking AND drinking from a can on the job. Some men may think they're low & beneath contempt. Me? I only feel like that when someone tells me that's what I did. -
Out. Fucking. Standing. You should have finished the job with a nice donner kebab.
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see you tomorrow.
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warnie?
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Three cheers for steering this back into movie territory!
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I appreciate the effort. You guys have me spending time in other cornholes of talkbacks trying to stir up convo. People just always want to argue. Though the disscussion in the Ghostbusters tb is alright. Some actul helpful people.
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You seen Waltz with Bashir? Its got like the coolest soundtrack in a long time. I can't remember the last time I saw a movie and said I needed that soundtrack. I got Wall-E's it was ok too many just bleeps and sounds stuff to fully enjoy, save for the snubbed Oscar song.
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About how it really does not matter who you cast at a comic book character, as long as they look remotely like the character. Its up to the director, a good look a like/actor does not a good comic book movie make. Look at Fan Four and Wolverine, great casting (save for Alba and Liev) shitty movies. But people there just want to throw in their 2 cents about how they are worried about their feelings for Reynolds/Coopers/JT and not sure if they are secure enough in their manhood to embrace their homosexual feelings.
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You could cast the fucking replica that the comic book character is based on (even though I'm sure some fan boys would complain) and put Sam Jackson in a movie entitled Ultimate Nick Fury, and it could still suck if they end up with Mark Steven Johnson directing and a script written by Skip Woods. Discuss.
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I've look through his IMDB like 20 times, how'd I just find that out now.
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I suck at reading IMDB.
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I was pretty sure it was that guy from here in NC who went on to write and direct Switchback. Forgot his name.
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And some other bloke who did Switchback http://tinyurl.com/n8ttss
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Howz about that.
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Damn. I don't think I knew that. Jeb Stuart came and spoke to my class in college, the same one that the director of Black Dynamite came to as well (they're both UNC alums). I also worked on his film, "Blood Done Signed My Name" a few weeks last summer here in Charlotte.
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Really? I mean...really? Have'nt you milked that concept for all it's worth. And make them Vampires or Vampire hunters to boot? Good Lord, man. Come up with something we have'nt seen done 1000000x before. Oh, and we get the Japenese fixation with little girls in skirts, only here in America that kind of obsession gets you a prison cell in a special wing where the general population cant rip your balls out.
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I brought him up yonks ago in a twitch. What the fuck happened to that bloke? Wrote a couple of classics, previously mentioned. Switchback was good. Where the fuck did he go?
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It was still better to get out of the office and have a few rolling rocks in the park than staying in the office. Quite the beautiful day out.
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Hmm, it is funny you say it as a manifesto on AUstralia. As a non-Aussie, I could care less about the angle. But as an American I saw it as a treaty on how loyalty can only be taken so far and how you have a responsibility to morality over family or other bonds.
Charlie Burns is coerced by Captain Stanley to go kill his own brother, Arthur. Because of the way he is coerced, holding his younger brother hostage, Burns is being forced to try and carry it out and has no heart in doing it. However, only when he realizes what a horrible murderous bastard his brother is and how they both are indirectly responsible for the death of the youngest, does he finally stop Arthur and his comrade from raping and killing Captain Stanley and his wife (crying out "No more!".
The lines that sum up theme theme the most to me are when Arthur Burns says "Why can't you ever just stop me?" Despite being brothers, Charlie has an obligation to stop someone like Arthur, and even Arthur knows this deep down. To me the movie felt like how supposed loyalties (family, religion, race, ethnicity, country) are secondary to our moral obligations. For example, if the US does something horrible, it would be our job to stand up and speak out or stop it, even if we are American citizens.
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Cagney is awesome. I'm not a huge fan of Each Dawn I Die, but any Cagney movie worth watching just for Cagney (except for Yankee Doodle Dandy).
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I'll watch it sooner or later.I would've settled for a few Rolling Rocks over lunch.My lunch ended up sucking.
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Yeah, I'm gonna have to agree with you on that. I've never seen Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye, but I've been really digging all the old movies on AMC I've been checking out early in the morning hours.Definitely more entertaining than the majority of the shit that comes out now.
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Unless Breaking Bad or Mad Men or upcoming Prisoner show are on. <-Period!
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Well they do have vending machines that dispence girls used panties. Go watch Tom Green Monkey Hour Special is the greatest.
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MAN FInally thats the movie I've been trying to figure out what the fuck it was. I kept getting it mixed up with the Pusher movies. Anyone put it before their eyeballs yet?
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Ever notice whenever the considered "funny" person does something ZANY! BOING! and everyone laughs like its the newest Larry the Cable Folk record and you realize that its not that funny and are just standing there not laughing? They look at you and your just like he.....he? fake laughing is hard.
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they're great, we think they're hilarious. of course if we didn't always win there might be fights, but since we do we can take it in our stride and chuckle. they are pretty funny
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that 'i can't get no satisfaction' by the stones poped in my play list (on shuffle) directly after 'rape me' by nirvana? yes i think it's wrong.
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It could have been "Start Me Up."
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dad won a meat tray at a topless bar. since mum is a vegetarian they've invited us over for a roast.
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very true. the movie is certainly about thatthere are two very distinct versions of aussie history. they are known as 'the three cheers' version and 'the black armband' version. (each coined by someone in the opposing camp)to the three cheersers we are a noble democracy who have never had an internal war - they say 'we were found with a vote not a war'. we came to an unoccupied land and promptly set about cultivating it, building a nation for queen and god. When the wars came we signed up and distinguished our self, always working together as mates. our last prime minister strongly supported this view, to the point of cutting funding to schools that did not follow this curriculum. In this version we pretty much don't have a history before 1914the thing about this view is that 1)it was rammed down our throats during the referendum on whether we should be a republic as it is very pro monarchy 2)it asumes that the land was pretty much unoccupied when we got here, and therefore what are the aboriginals complaining about? their quest for land rights is a just a selfish grab for money. 2)we never had any problems here before those bloody immigrants showed up.the truth is that there were pitched battles between various groups and the government, most famously at eurkea. until very recently there was huge animosity between Catholics and Anglicans. and obviously the aboriginals were poorly treatedthe black armbanders see the opposite. we are terrible people. i did a subject at uni that i came to call 'how evil your grandfather was' each week there was a different lecture - your granddad was bad to the environment, he was bad to the aboriginals, he wasn't really a hero in the war after all ect.the truth is of course somewhere between these two.the proposition is definatly a shot across the bow on this. even before the movie starts (you may not have got this overseas) it says 'people of aboriginal or torris strait islander origin note that this film may contain images of deceased persons' it then goes into a haunting song 'come to this happy land' intercut with images of horror in the out back. the burnses are irish: stanly is english and plans to civilise them. they attack the aboriginals - one of my favourite lines is about the aborigianls hiding in the mountain 'theyre not hiding they live there' 'how long have they lived there' 'they always lived there'in fact i think i'm going to watch it today.
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It qualifies as a great movie because everyone can take there own out of it. And the metaphor of Australian history is a damn interesting new twist for me.
As for the Irish being oppressed argument. Actually, yes they were oppressed - not as bad as the Aborigines in Australia or the Blacks and Indians here in the good ol' US. But yes, the Irish were oppressed - it is the old pecking order theory. The guys on top of the pecking treat the guys below them like shit - English where higher on the pecking order than the Irish so they treated them horribly. Shit, I am sure the Anglos and the Saxons treated the Bretons and the Cornish like utter crap when they first showed up.
But I do think the Irish (and I am Scotch-Irish) love to point out how badly they were treated, especially Irish immigrants. Yeah, 100+ years ago we couldn't be served in certain bars but we've had it pretty good since.
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after the Irish became 'establishment' (read: police and priests) they started beating up on the Poles and the Italians (says the gal of Irish, Scotch-Irish and Polish descent).
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Fucking Pollock and WOP Ginny bastards.
But you are right about Irish taking over and becoming the establishment. Besides Police and Priest, for a lot of cities the Fire Department was predominately Irish, as was a lot of construction jobs. And lets not forget that the Irish were pretty powerful political force (Tammany Hall for example). -
up in New England, in some of the old mill towns that are still immigration hubs. I lived for a bit in a town that was predominantly Puerto Rican and Dominican, but when the public access channel showed the city council it was full of the MOST Irish names.
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they did treat the cornish and the britons poorly. they just basically slaughtered them. that is why they are the cornish. the britians retreat away from the saxon toward the west coast, creating wales. in fact 'welsh' is a Saxon word which means slave/foreigner. because to them it was the same word
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the indelible mark left on the irish psyche that not being served alcohol would have had.
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Never seen it before, but they are showing it late at night on Comedy Central tonight.
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AAAAAhahahaha, I had seen that video before. I thought it was fucking crazy flapping in the wind.
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they are funny, but they're no Kids in the Hall...
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July 14,2009. Enjoy
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Watched River's Edge the other night for the first time in almost a decade (so, the first time watching it with some distance from actually being a teenager). And it is still so goddamn good. And really funny in a very dark sort of way. It is definitely one of Keanu's best roles (next to Point Break, naturally). And then there's my beloved Crispin Glover...
I looked up some of the reviews from when it was released. That movie apparently drove the critics insane. Some hated it, some loved it, and I pretty much disagree with the reasoning on both sides. Maybe it just didn't come across as well in 1986? -
batshit insane
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is the BEST thing about Back to the Future.
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but is the best thing about back to the future part 2?
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between the hoverboards (so cool when I was 8) and the egregious mishandling of Jennifer (so hilarious to me now).
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to imitate the inimitable with Mr. Glover. Bad idea.
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shot gun the head.
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he sued Spielberg.
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and Justin.TV isn't working on my PC so I can't watch the cricket. Anyhow, I was reading an article about David Bowie's kid (Zowie) who has now changed himself to "Duncan" and directed a film for £5m called moon. It doesn't sound too bad- even if it is a bit twilight zone-y. I may watch it.
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I'm clearly all by myself. So in that case....
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heheheheheI wonder if I can persuade it to open the bowling for England. It can't be any worse than LIMP WRISTED USELESS TOSSER that's doing it at the moment.
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I watched American Yakuza. Films with "American" in the title are normally schlocky gold. But this one wasn't. It was a total meh-fest and he wasn't a yakuza he was an FBI agent. I feel lied to about this. I wonder how many times Viggo has been an undercover cop in films.
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is excellent.
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"African-American Ninja" I think that could be hilarious. Set it in the 70's and have him talk jive at a ninja training castle. Awesome.
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is garbage. He's just too much of a cunt for it to be enjoyable
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Andy Flower, Stuart Broad, Jimmy Anderson, Monty Panesar and especially Graeme Swann for bowling like complete fucking dickheads. The only consolation I have is that they can't be this bad 2 tests running and Panesar will get dropped.
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Is crazy. He asked for like a shit load of money for BTTF 2 so they were like...umm no thank you.
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You just heard about Moon today??? Where have you been. I'll be seeing it monday, was going to see it friday but the showing was at 5:30 and I thought I would get matinee prices but no that shit ended at 4 and you can't get student discount on Friday and Saturday anymore. Part of the reason I never see movies on those days anymore.
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Jul 11, 2009 4:00:10 PM CDT
Conti, I'd like to sink my teeth into that blonde hottie
by stuntcock mike
Mimi Umidon from the Magic Bullet infomercial. Pink dress and omlettes = Professional. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtpKjgwi4Sc
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or else she'll Magic Bullet your cock into puree.
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Looks good - helium, guaranteed laffs, innit - spoons on the face - human cannonball - stuffed dancing mouse... Can't ask for much more than that. Except maybe chuck a Giant Pig into the equation.Fell out with Jeunet over Alien Resurrection. Bastardo.
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Also looks decent. As does Coffin Rock. How fuckin creepy is that - breathing on the window and drawing a love heart in the condensation...
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VS ENGORGED, TURGID PIG!
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& Frankenstein Girl. Should be fun, but just looks pointless. Mind you, I couldn't get into Gore Police either.
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Martin Sheen is sent deep into the jungle on a search and destroy mission where a renegade Giant Pig has got a bunch of tribal farm animals all riled up and obstreperous.
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A well cut trailer - builds slowly. I started off uninterested then got drawn in. Could be okay.I hardly see any of these buggering Twitch films! I think AntiChrist is playing in a week or so. I'd better make the effort...Moon starts next week.
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Fuck. Gruesome. Dog Soldiers meets cowboys, CG animatedly. I'll have some of that.
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Hmmm... Russkie sci-fi. And it looks okay. Plenty action. Da.Every time I see Russians I think of Arnie in Red Heat saying - "I do not want to touch his ass. I want to make him talk!"
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Antichrist is set for a limited U.S. release, and that's not until the end of fucking October.
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Me, I find martial arts movies quite wearing after awhile. But Ong Bak 2 looks splendid. Especially the crocodile bit.
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Yeh, it's on for a short time here at the local foreign/cult film cinema.October? What's up with that?
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I love zombies. And this looks fuckin mental. Good.
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What's this? Any good? I just noticed a still from it on Twitch.
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Man, I look at her making an omlette and I get all weak in the knees.
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Pretty lame, huh. I don't like limited release....doesn't jibe with my procrastination.
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Final Cut: The Making and Unmaking of Heaven's Gate. Anybody seen it?
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so two double century partnerships. you want to tell me that's not rare? we declared at 6, otherwise we would have gone on the score possibly the biggest total in ashes history.on a positive note that trumpeter is a bloody legend.
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Finally watched the movie that Harry's animation is based on. Weird little film . Can't wait to see the directors next film Splice, I'm sure Harry will pimp the poop out of it. I think GDT has something to do with it. I'm surprised Harry's never said anything about Nothing before.
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strangely silent. We've been arguing over whether or not this is a decision pitch. that argument dosn't count if one team bats twice, and one team bats once.
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Watched it last night. Really fucking good film, can't believe I'd never seen it before.
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I have no idea what they are saying in that trailer, but fuck it looks good. GO go Red Hollywood?!
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Didn't realize Schindler's List and JP came out the same year. JP was screwed not getting a Best Score nom, same with Nightmare Before Christmas not getting a best song nom.
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That IS a travesty.
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Meh. Not that great. The Hangover was funnier, I saw Hangover just last week (whats that like week 5?) and the audience was just as packed as Bruno was tonight and people were laughing harder. Then again I live in one of the states Bruno was making fun of. Its a rental, unless your a huge HUGE fan of Borat.
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My God Man!!!Jurassic Park is 15-16 years old and you've just now watched it! GREAT Action Movie, top of the Line CGI and Spielberg on his game. You should check out the sequels too. The Syfy Channel has been showing The Lost World lately, try to catch it.
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one is not rare- especially with that bowling. 2 is. It was a result pitch, clearly, but the Aussie attack is so shit that you couldn't get Panesar and Anderson out and you had over 11 overs at them. Panesar, for fuck's sake. All in all, I think this series is in deep shit and I've revisd my opinion. Convicts to win 1-0.
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bowling. Someone needs to sit Broad down and show him videos of Ambrose and say "you're 6ft 4 and getting big. You bowl at 90mph. This is what you should be doing." Rather than that insipid shite he was throwing down. PS- what the fuck is wrong with Johnson? Was he overrated to begin with? I thought he looked lethal, but in this game he bowled utter shite. Siddle (who I really don't rate) looked more dangerous.
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at the weekend (aside from Sunday's excitement) I watched Crimes of Passion. And wanted a shower in bleach immediatly afterwards. Dirty, depressing, grimy fucking film. Great performance from Turner and Perkins, though.
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Which was mint. Obviously. And some thing called heatwave. Which was arse.
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which was surprisingly amusing.
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just Australia weren't good enough to get one. England, on the other hand, are complete shit on every level. If KP gets out then that's it for the batting and if it doesn't swing then you can forget the bowling. Bollocks.
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Off ruining the world?
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and a pair of grubby cut off jeans. You think that someone that worked for a bank would get fired for dressing like that. I suppose the hat with the corks on it saves him.
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Seeing as I am alone, I may as well do something constructive.
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Jul 13, 2009 3:52:22 AM CDT
Still baffled by some of Pontings decisions
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Especially bowling North with 6 overs left. Bring on a fucking wicket taker. Fuck the time. Well done to the poms for hanging on, but fuck me it was pathetic the way the crowd cheered wildly when any blocked a fucking delivery. The poms settle for mediocrity so quickly that a fucking draw is deemed a victory. Pathetic. Johnson bowled like shit. Pietersen is a arrogant cunt that honestly couldn't be fucked playing cricket for england. He just doesn't give a shit. And the fucking timewasting tactics were completely unnecessary and put a dampner on the good, resilient efforts for Anderson and Monty. England a fucking toothless in both departments. The aussies are toothless in the bowling department. The aussies will win at Lords, and maybe one more test after that. It will end 2-0.
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Jul 13, 2009 5:14:25 AM CDT
"The poms settle for mediocrity so quickly that a fucking draw i
by lost jarv
Now, now old boy. That was alcohol and Monty as cult hero fuelled giggles. I don't know anyone that is actually happy with that performance. I also think you're overrating them with "mediocre" they've been shit for a while. I said before the series Australia to win 2-1 because I thought both sets of bowlers were mince but your batsmen would carry you through- we'd win the tradional dead rubber at the end. Now I think we'll lose lords, draw the others and only stand a hope in hell at Headingly where it swings. Australia to retain ashes. On another note, Collingwood looks vastly improved since he got dropped. To be fair. He's the only England player (well, maybe Fred and Prior as well) to come out of this test in credit.
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Hughes- not convinced, young lad so will probably come good. Katich- stand corrected. He may be dull, but he's a fucking limpet and vastly improved from being England's bitch. Ponting- World class, shit captain. Hussey- where to begin? Should be dropped. Immediatly. North- Meh, solid pro that England made look like Bradman. Clarke- Good player. Haddin- meh, could be worse. Hauritz- crap. Siddle- meh to crap Hilfenhaus- looked good in parts otherwise meh. Johnson- what the fuck was wrong with him?
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Strauss- OK batsmen, shite captain. Cook- needs dropping badly. Something's not fucking right with him Bopara- classy player, giant balls, young, will come good KP- dickhead, but world class. Needs to apply himself. He isn't god, despite what he thinks. Colly- improved dramatically. Prior- OK batsman, improved to meh from crap as a keeper. Fred- fat degenerate, batted better than he has for years, and bowled OK. The problem is that he can't do more than 5 over spells. Broad- Good lord. Where the fuck to begin- bowled like a cunt, batted ok for a number 8, at this moment in time is only in the side because of undoubted potential. My patience is beginning to snap. Needs a hat-full of wickets at Lords, and I couldn't give a toss about runs. Swann- batted well. Bowled like a complete cunt. Should be dropped, but won't be. Anderson, batted well, bowled like a complete cunt. Another that needs a shit load at Lords. Still looks toothless if it doesn't swing. Panesar- bowled like a cunt, batted like a hero by his dismally low standards. Will be dropped.
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I was embarrassed by that. To be fair so were Jimmy and Monty. There's nowt wrong with patting imaginary divots in the pitch or having a chat between overs, but do not spuriously send on the fucking physio. Awful. Especially considering that it was totally unnecessary and Australia had already bowled more than enough overs.
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How come the Australian side are so fucking pug ugly? Seriously. All of them fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down. Especially siddle. That was Mrs. Jarv's sole contribution when I was watching it.
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she also pointed out the uncanny resemblance between Mitchell Johnson and an ugly Zoolander. Harsh, but fair.
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Easily. Worst England side since Hussein took over the captaincy in 1999. This is every bit as bad as the mid 90's. I see the papers are wanting to recall Harmy and Ian fucking Bell. Dropping Bopara. Why? He's failed to score big in one test, but has just hit 3 centuries in a row. Bullshit.
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The thing about him is that he will never be world class because he doesn't really give a shit. Mentally, he's weak. He doesn't have the competitiveness and resiliency to carry his shitty fucking team. Collingwood (even though I think he's fucking useless) at least has that going for him. He played a good innings and would be the hero if he didn't get out. And it's telling that his 'batting buddy' is monty, who put up a good fight. I wonder who Pietersens 'batting buddy' is. From that effort i'd say it's fucking Bopara. Bopara is useless and even though the aussies bowlers weren't exactly of a high standard, he still looked like a fucking deer in headlights. North is much better than meh. So is Haddin. Hauritz was surprisingly ok. Just unthreatening. Much better than I feared. But the biggest bowler to get found out is Swann. Hilariously overrated coming into the test. If it wasn't for his batting he'd be dropped. And his batting is now suspect because the aussies will not bowl anything full to him anymore because he is quite good on the drive. It'll all be chest high straight at him, where he started shitting himself. Fat alkie bowled one good spell at Hughes. He was shit for the rest. Hughes is young. He's got a lot of work to do, and I'm glad he copped a few from fat alkie. It'll have brought him down to earth a bit. Siddle was ok. Hilfy was the best aussie bowler. Johnson... I don't know whats going on there. Cook and Hussey should be dropped. Cook for who though? Hussey we can bring in Watson if fit, or Lee and promote Clarke to 4 (where he should be anyway) and North to 5.
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When Siddle was bowling. I've never seen him before, and he's got the kind of head that makes me wish this were the 1930's and I was listening to the cricket on the radio.
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When he appeals I keep expecting him to regurgitate a winking Jon Voight.
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The scene of Anthony Perkins playing the piano and singing "Hallelujah, Come on Get Happy" is worth the price of admission alone. Funny and scary.
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Hughes is the second coming of christ after 2 centuries a duck and being found out by Fat alky and Bopara is shit after 3 consecutive centuries, 2 of which were on swinging pitches. Bullshit double standard. Bopara is far better than shite, and has giant balls so will be OK in the end. North is Meh, Haddin is better than I was expecting, but is basically the same as Prior, and Hauritz is garbage. England made North and Hauritz look much better than they actually are. England on the other hand are meh to shite. Pietersen IS a great player. He's got a plus 50 average and hits a century every 6 innings. You're sounding like an English journalist. He's an attacking player and, to be honest, number 2000000000 of England's problems
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has bowled well for a long time. One bad test is not conclusive. If he bowls that cuntishly again at Lords then drop him. Rashid is the long term answer anyway.
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although a good film, actually reminded me why I don't like and don't watch Ken Russel films. I know that's harsh, but his characters are such inexcusable dickheads, and he's so fucking puerile with his choice of imagery. It annoyed me no end.
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I kept wondering when Kathleen turner slept. Perkins on the piano was worth the price of admission by itself, and I wanted to throttle Bobby's wife. What a cow.
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Jul 13, 2009 6:37:27 AM CDT
Pietersen is not a GREAT player
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Half the aussie team have 50 averages and the only one I'd call a GREAT player is Ponting. Pietersens a selfish, arrogant cunt who isn't mentally strong enough to be GREAT. Although I will clarify that based solely on TALENT he is. But there's a huge difference. If an Ponting tried to sweep a delivery from a metre outside off stump, which looped up off his helmet and was caught at silly mid, then defended himself like a fuckwit ("it would've been a good shot if it didn't hit my helmet" or something to that effect) he would be absolutely caned in the media and probably wouldn't last long as captain. The problem is that england know how good Pietersen can be, theres no one even close to replace him, so they won't drop him. Hughes scored two centuries on debut against South Africa. Either the best or the second best (depending on who you talk to) team in the world. Bopara scored centuries against one of the worst teams in the world, who were also playing like cunts because they didn't want to be there. Slight difference.
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Jul 13, 2009 6:42:22 AM CDT
And your obsession with Bopara's balls is disturbing
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
But good luck with that.
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he got a duck in his first innings. And to be honest he's been less than stellar since his second century. 3 in a row is a fucking rare thing, and Fidel Edwards is better than all the English bowlers put together. The 2 in England, especially the first of them, the West Indies were interested, but I forget, it's never as good an achievement when an England player manages something. SA were done by that series- they were knackered, and clearly didn't want to be playing it. Pietersen: An average over 50+ Hundred every 6 innings+ conversion rate of nearly 50%= great player. He's also a cunt, but that's neither here nor there. I'm not denying his cuntishness, but stop behaving like an England journo. Ponting is a great player, the rest of your lineup is very, very good. Ponting is also a cunt.
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nice. This double standard applied to England and English players regardless of the sport fucks me off no end. It's done in every one- and it's almost as if we've got to achieve twice as much and be twice as good as anyone else to even get grudging respect. It's bullshit.
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but who cares? its men in white shirts standing in a field. if there were naked women playing, I could watch a 3 day match.
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Jul 13, 2009 7:46:46 AM CDT
You have toss all to do but talk wickets?
by hey_kobe_tell_me_how_my_ass_tastes
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It was drawn anyway. But I am less than fucking happy about that. I'm not going to try to defend it, because it was fucking embarrasing. At least Jimmy and Monty wanted nothing to do with it. This is going to be a frustrating summer- the reason I've been talking about how bad Australia are is that I knew England were mostly shite with a few points of hope, and I was optimistically holding onto the belief that the Aussie debutants would struggle and we'd sneak one. I didn't take into account that we're worse than I thought initially and I reckon now there's only 1 or 2 at most English players that would get into a combined side. The one dead cert is a complete cunt as well, to make matters worse. How annoying.
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So I went to the dollar theater and watched Wolverine yesterday. It wasn't as bad as I was expecting. In fact it actually entertained me.Series, you're just getting around to Jurassic Park now? Good lord man!
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Match over. Next one isn't until Thursday..... hehehehehe Lucky this is only every few years. Sadly for me it will be a few decades before we don't suck again.
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in 2 weeks I will be sitting on a balcony in Spain in the late evening drinking cold beer, wondering how Droid is coping with the tube into work every day, and if the smell of fat peasant has got better every time.
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to watch in the evening once it starts to get a bit cool. I'm miles behind on the vault, because the post is on strike again, and I still haven't had Basket Case 1 yet.
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I'm really, really looking forward to this.
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I need a job in education. Having time off during the summer is a real bonus.
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Jul 13, 2009 9:43:14 AM CDT
I work with a chap who has not seen The Dark Knight
by hey_kobe_tell_me_how_my_ass_tastes
He just never got around to it.
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that was a joke. I saw it like the second weekend it was out. I've seen it numerous times, but that was probably the first time I've seen it in like 10 years.
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Gonna see it this week. Already seen Quarentine gonna see the differences. Also gonna see the Jason remake as well. Since there is no TV right now been able to see tons of movies. Up to 120 for the year.
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Thats not that big. Old people never seen it. Then again I always seem to be surronded by people who don't give a shit about movies.
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the actual job itself blows, but 4 weeks in summer, 2 at Christmas, 2 at Easter and 2 random weeks really make up for it. Not forgetting reduced hours when the pupils aren't in.
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That Lou Dimond flick? I thought that movie sucked.
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there's a lot that just aren't into it. And hardly anyone has seen Turdmen. The lack of interest in that is amazing.
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Jul 13, 2009 9:52:45 AM CDT
Old people only watch Tom Hanks movies
by hey_kobe_tell_me_how_my_ass_tastes
They don't count
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Seriously- GM bats that a mad scientist thinks he can talk to. How is that not funny? Could have done with some gratuitous titties and a few less obvious Hitchcock rip-offs.
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Jul 13, 2009 9:58:27 AM CDT
How must Tom Hanks feel about that?
by hey_kobe_tell_me_how_my_ass_tastes
Going from TV to teen humor to mid twenties humor to mid thirties humor to heavy drama to mid forties humor to two days from dead humor.
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Basket Case 2. Which is hilarious. And minging. But mostly hilarious
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Jul 13, 2009 10:01:00 AM CDT
'My demographic is two days from dead!'
by hey_kobe_tell_me_how_my_ass_tastes
T. Hanks
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I will never pay to see another film with him in it. He just makes shit.
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So are you talking about the Bats that stars I'm a Celeberty Get Me Out of Here winner Lou Dimond Phillips? From like the late 90s?
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Jul 13, 2009 10:04:27 AM CDT
'My demographic is greasy, pasty, cellar dwelling, wank rats'
by hey_kobe_tell_me_how_my_ass_tastes
M. Fox
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Have you been living on Mars in a cave with your fingers in your ears?
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Found your christmas present. http://tinyurl.com/nbjn32
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Jul 13, 2009 10:12:51 AM CDT
Hanks makes shit that makes money
by hey_kobe_tell_me_how_my_ass_tastes
But he used to be good.
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Har har!
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Har har!
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and I saw about a minute of that and not only was LDP in it, but fat Baldwin was too. I was really upset.
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Just had some cheese crackers and didn't realize I had some cheese still on my hand and just whiped my hadn on my pants, not there is a big cheese stain. FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER!
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Wii game.
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http://tinyurl.com/pwwumj
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French countryside is Fuckin awesome in HD! Can't believe they let the frog nobs get so close to the riders.
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I don't use it, I'm pretty sure the only people that do are entertainment shows, Harry Knowles, any B-C list celeberty (not D list they don't have enough money for a computer), and teenage girls.
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Man what a fucktard of a movie. First off there was the worst cover of a song I've ever heard, the Queen theme song from the show done by a lame ass early 90s post hair band sounding band (think Slaughter). Followed by a nonsense plot, and Steven Segal fighting style on x32 fast foward. I don't know who is in charge of such a bad ass franchise by they have their heads up their asses about 50% of the time. For everything cool they do with Highlander they do about 10 things fucking retarded. If ever there was a series in need of a reboot/remake its that movie. Make it fucking movie just like the first one with Lambert teaching a new Highlander like Bond in the first one, have him die in the end. Get away from Duncan McCloud, something about that actor brings out the shittyness in movies.
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the Highlander re-make I think he do a damn good job. Maybe....hmmm those medevil bits in Doomsday kind of sucked.
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I'd even like to see a direct to DVD highlander directed by Russell Mulcany (he did the original 2). And make Thomas Jane the new Highlander, they just did a movie together I bet they talked about it. He is slowly becoming the next Christopher Lambert anyway.
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Jul 13, 2009 10:55:03 AM CDT
I really can't muster any excitement for the new Harry's Potter'
by series7
I just can't it now all seems just SO childish to me I don't understand it. I am perfectly accepting of a stupid cartoon movie or watching cartoons as a grown up, but liking and enjoying Harry's Pot feels so beneath me. Maybe its because the last 2-3 films have sucked hard. That added to my dismay that Rupert Grit didn’t die of the swine flu just can’t muster up the want to care. I hope when they are done filming all the Harry’s Potter’s films he goes into a huge drug cycle and shots his vein’s to death.
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Where the fuck did everyone go. Unless we are talking Cricket no one cares anymore.
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It should be fucking dark and creepy. I'm pissed at the last commercial I saw for the new Potter, in which they made it look like a stupid teen comedy sex romp.
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Now I know you like Harry Potter. But there is no way it is going to feel Dark and Creepy, maybe if they kept with the same style of directing that Chris Cloumbus did with the first films and have a lot of make up and live action, all this CGI crap in the Harry Potters after 3 just make it look silly. 3 had a good mix of both, but the guy directing them now just fucking sucks, I can't even remember the last two save for that embarrissingly cliche bad dance scene.
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Of the last two Harry films that brought the series down (well not Money wise) but those two directors haven't really done shit and it shows on the screen. They aren't good. One and two were campy and silly fun, three was actually good but 4 and 5 were just complete crap devoid of anything fun imaginative original, and good acting.
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Is being directed by the guy who made the worst Harry Potter film (number 4) so no hope there.
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I watched it again last night. Alfonso Cuaron is sorely missed in the Potter series.
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And it has zombies. FUCKING ZOMBIES in Harry Potter, and the new film is still PG. Something is completely wrong with that.
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Is that it won't be dark and creepy. It'll be PG.
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count me out. Thanks. The book this one is based on may as well be called Harry Potter and the Sordid Wank Fantasy.
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bed, drew the curtains and began frantically polishing his wand. He pictured his mate's younger sister in his mind hitching up her robes, her red hair ablaze in the sunshine. His polishing speed increased with the height of her hemline until in a blaze of light he expelled a shower of golden sparks onto the bedclothes. "Damn," thought Harry, "this one is going to be difficult to explain to the House Elves". "What, precisely, are you fucking playing at, Potter, you turd?" asked his dormitory mates"
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terrible, and yet strangely entertaining. I didn't have a clue what was going on.
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done tomorrow. I may have to do Route 666, then Bats.
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Yeah I can't say I didn't enjoy it. Had it not had the Highlander name attached to it I may have enjoyed it more, it is just a shame what a waste the series has become.
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Poor ol Dobby
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He fluffs Harry and Ron when they're spit roasting hermione and he also supplies the lube for when they feel a need to savagely sodomise a first year. On that note, I'm outta here.
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You still at the same mailing address that you e-mailed to me a couple months ago?The only HP movie I actually enjoyed was the last one. So I'm trying to have high hopes for this one.
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And it seems non-readers like the 5th one most, while readers like it least (or close to least). Also strange, a non-reading friend liked the 5th one least bc he felt it was obvious they left a lot out; he felt there was a lot of stuff in it that made sense if you read the book but didn't if you hadn't.
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Jul 13, 2009 1:00:24 PM CDT
I can't even remember why I liked Order of the Phoenix
by hawaiian organ donor
I just remember it being the most coherent movie in the series to me and having the best pacing.Vader, I'm off to the post office. Finally.Highlander is a series I think could actually use a reboot.
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I can't wait to check out some of those movies! Been wanting to see Red Cliff for a long time. How goes things with LatteGirl?
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I'm not a Bond-phile and I haven't seen every film, so I thought Blofeld was in a couple of movies, always escaping, never getting caught or killed. But here I am watching the beginning of "For Your Eyes Only", and Blofeld has Roger Moore trapped in a remote control helicopter. But Bond, being ever resourceful, regains control of the helicopter and captures Blofeld, who is now in a remote controlled wheelchair, on the landing gear. Blofeld pleads (in a very comedic voice) for "Mr.Bond" to put him down, saying he'll strike a deal with him and buy him a delicatessen made of stainless steel (What the fuck?). After Blofeld again begs to be put down, Bond tilts the copter forward, forcing the wheelchair off the landing gear, plummeting the paralyzed Blofeld into an empty smokestack. Now that's comedy. RIP Donald Pleasance.
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Jul 13, 2009 1:45:24 PM CDT
This seems to be the sports Thread. Arturo Gatti?
by hey_kobe_tell_me_how_my_ass_tastes
How is it fookin possible that his wife strangled him - a former boxing champ, even in his sleep, with a purse strap? Was the bitch on steroids?
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He was just a place holder for too damn long who almost murdered the franchise with his last two movies. He did make two entertaining Bonds, but the rest...garbage. Moore was a light comedian in leading mans clothing. Not an action star.
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Telly Savalas in my opinion. Not accurate to the one in the book, but Savalas' Blofeld radiated real danger.
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Not a caricature like Pleasance.
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Can't wait never seen it, really want to. It seems to be the one they don't show all the time on Spike aka The Bond and Star Trek network. Anyone remember when Spike first came on and acted like it was going to be awesome?
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And I came to the conclusion he is unfairly maligned. I think he was good in Golden Gun, Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker and For Your Eyes Only. Yes, Octopussy and View to a Kill were subpar and I always disliked Live and Let Die but he was the Bond I grew up with.Gatti wasn't strangled by his wife. It was probably her lover built like a brick hithouse that did Arturo in. And Arturo was completely sloshed.
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Jul 13, 2009 2:05:51 PM CDT
In memorium I'll watch the Gatti-Ward trilogy soon
by hawaiian organ donor
Some of the greatest fights in the history of boxing. If you can't appreciate that trilogy you have no pulse.
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Jul 13, 2009 2:09:48 PM CDT
Golden Gun, Live and Let Die , Spy who fucked me
by hey_kobe_tell_me_how_my_ass_tastes
Are his best efforts because they came before he tried to leave his comic 'imprint' on them. Yeah, I totally believe her lover did him in or the bitch was an Amazonian who should be cast as Wonder Woman
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Best Luthor portrayal ever.
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Such a different voice there.
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Savalas' Blofeld and Brown's Luthor:
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Jul 13, 2009 2:57:03 PM CDT
The one bad thing about OHMSS is that
by hey_kobe_tell_me_how_my_ass_tastes
As much as I liked that movie - it is in my top five of Bond movies, I did not quite buy Lazenby being able to take on Savalas if they went toe to toe. And I liked Lazenby's overall performance. But Savalas did appear as if he would bring the crowbar.
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I always thought it was one of the better Bond movies. And poor Lazenby got screwed.It took me a full season to suspect that Clancy Brown was Mr. Krabbs and the guy sings the theme song. I wonder what kind of a living these guys make doing voice work.
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Age difference aside, there's nothing we can't talk about. I just need to take care of the separation first before she and I can go full throttle.
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I would want to do voice work. I worked with a guy whos aunt is Tress Mcneil, she is huge in the voice over world. But he was kind of a digbat, that would have been cool to have an IN to the world of voice acting.
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Here is the exact quotes:
Bruce Timm on Lex Luthor (circa 2005): “[Clancy Brown] was like the perfect Luthor to me. Clancy just had this thing—in my mind, I always saw […] Luthor as being like Telly Savalas [as villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld] in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, one of my favorite James Bond movies, […where he, in essence, portrayed Blofeld as] a cultured thug. He was basically like this bruiser who wanted to be taken seriously and wanted to be […] treated like a baron and I thought that was like a good way to treat Luthor. [Luthor] is rich and powerful and kind of elegant, but at the same time—just barely beneath the surface—he’s a brute. There was something in Clancy’s delivery during his audition that reminded me of Telly, so it was just serendipity; Clancy just nailed it—the voice that I had in my head. It was no contest at that point (courtesy of the Superman: the Animated Series Volume One DVD).”
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But out of all the Bond films I haven't seen, its at the top of my list for being beloved by certain groups of Bond fans and for being Lazenby's only film as Bond.
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Fantastic. Too bad that guy was a dingbat. Voicework would be a fun, easy job.
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He used to be a manager for some up and coming christian punk rock band who's name I can't remember now. They were one of the OK christian bands. Not all in your face about it. Kind of like how Chevelle has been labled a christian band just because someone along the line in an interview it came out that they were christians.
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an episode (so somewhere between $6.6 to $8.8 million a year). And that takes about a days work for each episode.
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I wonder if any shitty b or c list actor who almost got a gig on the Simpsons and decided not to do it is kicking themself all day every day.
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sounds kinda wrong. honestly jarv, you live in a bit of a fantasy land. when you don't get all the way through even ONE of the teams in both innings, that is not a decision pitch. Kudos to the poms, when i went to bed it was 6 for with half a day to go. good effort. but the fucking psysio?
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Jul 13, 2009 3:57:40 PM CDT
Sam Simon, one of the original developers of the SImpsons
by continentalop
Was married to Jennifer Tilly. When he mentioned he might do the show, she told him he was nuts and said he should turn it down.
He did only the first four seasons and makes about over $10 n a year on residuals on those episodes alone and hasn't done anything with the show since 1993.
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AWWWW man I was going to say it was fare because he maybe got to participte in the Bounding experience between Tilly and Gershon. But since he didn't not so much. But then again he did get some rounds in with the ole punching bags.
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Also worked on the Drew Carey show. Thats got to get some money as well.
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it's almost as if we've got to achieve twice as much and be twice as good as anyone else to even get grudging respectbut you got your assess handed to you
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That I made a boxing reference in my post about Sam Simons playing with Tilly's Tillies. This is from his IMDB page Manages WBO world heavyweight boxing champion Lamon Brewster. So I guess he likes boxing in the bed and in the ring.
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But I think my lady would find it a bit odd that I'm gonna come home wanting sex and then throwing that movie in.
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'objects in mirror appear closer than in reality.'when i went to the guniuss factory some idiot left the mic for pa system out in the public area. so i grabbed it and did the 'welcome to jurasic park thing' then hummed the music until my missus freaked and made me stop
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I always thought it would be cool if late night at cool stores they had Stan ups doing routines of the PA systems.
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http://tinyurl.com/m3pzrzhttp://tinyurl.com/m7ws2mhttp://tinyurl.com/m4rtr4
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I would have asked for a copy of the security tapes before I left. For posterity.
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i'm trying to imagine it.
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by opm?
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surly it would be difficult to incorporate both first Corinthians 6.10 and smoking weed into the same verse. do they where 'jesus is my home boy' t-shirts?
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Isn't christian punk.
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Crap like that is christian punk.
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Damn, damn good Bond movie. Epic actually. Lazenby got screwed because he was replacing a living legend. Yes, his acting was a bit shaky at first, but you could actually see him growing into the role as the film progressed. I know films are not shot in sequence, and it may be an editing thing, but he really was getting better. In fact Lazenby was my second favorite Bond until Craig eclipsed him. The story is truly epic, and the romance with Mrs Peel was outstanding. They kept the gadgets to a minimum and really let the story unfold.
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What a crying shame. He was a true warrior. I agree HOD, that trilogy of fights is one for the ages. They left it all in that ring. Crazy ass YOUNG women are killing their husbands/lovers. But no way could she have strangled Gatti. I totally refuse to believe that. Oh, I think she was involved, but, and their is no delicate way to put this, strangling a human being is one of the most brutal ways of killing. It is also not a quick thing. He may have been drunk - but not that drunk. Drugged perhaps? But the strength and will to hold onto a ripe or strap as a person is thrashing -literally for their life, the ability to bear down and keep the pressure on while a man is dying, is not for someone who has never strangled anyone before. It is not quick. It is very messy. She had help. She will be pressured to give up the true killer.
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especially using a wide strap. If you get a good soild clamp on the carotid artery like in a "choke hold", for instance, the unlucky motherfucker on the the recieving end greys out in about 20 to 30 seconds, then he would go unconcious in about 45.With a wide strap you can really ramp up the amount force your applying to the neck so even if Gatti's old lady is fidget like she could take his ass out fairly easy. especially if was loaded.Just a reminder guys DON'T pul a Phil Hartman with your old ladies, drop the bad news and L-E-A-V-E. Hanging around could get your ass fucking killed.
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Not with the mechanics, but with the ability. Yes, graying out happens very quickly. But how many people know enough about strangling to keep the pressure on after the gray out? How many people have what it takes to keep that pressure on and to watch a man die by their hands? No. She could have done it, but I don't buy a first time female murderer strangling a man - let alone a fighter.
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Was he conscious to begin with? I mean, I wonder if they do a toxicology report if maybe he had been drugged or something (like the Mexican Midget Wrestlers).
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Toxicology takes forever even here. Imagine being in Brazil? But no matter, drunk or drugged I just dont see a woman who has never killed before (and this is an assumption on my part) resorting to strangulation as the method. Something is missing, or someone.
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So to begin with Gatti already had decreased reaction time, a depressed central nervous system and decreased respritory effect and that's just on the booze. Add in the possibility of opiods or something like that and it becomes even easier to carry out the murder.Now about his old lady. Since she's Brazillian, I think, who's to say she didn't have a violent past? In many central and south american cities kids come up hard, very hard. She could have possibly witnessed more then one strangulation killing or she could have got the info from somebody, like a drug enforcer, or hell she might have just reserached it on line. I'm just saying it's possible she did the deed herself but I'm not ruling out that she had help.
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He was bombed out of his skull. And though one can not dismiss her background in Brazil- but strangulation? That is a very uncommon way to kill someone. That is what strikes me as very very odd. Yes, she could have done it, but why choose strangulation? Then again, I am unfamiliar with Brazilian culture, maybe that is the thing they do down there.
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Strangulation is a fairly common form of execution in Central and South America. It's one of the ways that organzine crime thugs and Goverment thugs like to use as a way to send a message. They like to choke family members first to show thier power and the bodies go long way for that.
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And no, I am not joking. It would be hard for me to imagine her seeing someone do a rear naked choke hold on someone, maybe someone even smaller than his opponent and getting the idea of strangling someone.
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And it is a brutal thing. My point is that unless you have done it - you do not know how brutal it really is. Drunk or not she would have had to decide 'ok i'm killin this fool, whats handy? Oh, my purse is right here, Ill just strangle him.' Then when his involuntary muscle spasms started, she hung on and kept the pressure on. Not impossible, and I fully admit I could be wrong, but there were easier methods she could have used in even in the heat of the moment.
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Or was this something she was planning? Especially if she spiked his brink with something more than Alcohol?
Personally I think she was dumb, strangled him because she thought no one would notice the ligature marks on his neck and didn't realize that she would get blood on her strap. She thought it would be like a bad, old movie and they wouldn't know how he died. -
I mean she was only 23 and from a third world country, so she may not have been too worldly. But it is the method, not the motive. She would have to think she could really kill a former boxing champ with her bare hands - even though he was bombed out of skull. Even a 23 year old might think a better method would be to poison him, stab him, shoot him, bludgeon him, fake a break in, something, other than using bare hands - and a strap. Now, Xi did point out that strangulation is common in central America, but other methods were available.
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Just got back. Pretty fucking cool, save for a few odd edits I don't know if it was the theater or the film. Also I was wondering why the trailer had such a bad ass score, and wondered what film it was from. It was actual from the movie which was awesome, Clint Mansell is proving yet again that he is the king of trailer scores. This was a pretty awesome sci-fi film score, he is a lot cooler then Ginaccio (the lost/speed racer/brad bird guy) in my book.
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How the fuck do you get spaces in your tiny URL's? Fucking downunder's. Well if those are what the average cricket bloke looks like, which ones their David Beck-Ham.
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Hoping to see it this week. I also need to see Up and Terminator. I'm not seeing Harry Potter for a few weeks bc I don't want it to have a big weekend. I'm protesting the director and producer.
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Anyone else think that's a far creepier and much more effective Predator/Alien hybrid design than the one they used for the AVP: Requiem movie?
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A while back. But I was saying, who out there is looking for AVPR collectibles. Why you hating on David Yates? What he do to you?
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I just watched the short about the killer Christmas trees. The opening shots/credits are very similar to mine, and the first 5 minutes feels like an unofficial sequel to my 30 min STV episode. But once I saw the dirty old Tree Farm owner preparing to have sex with one of the trees, it cemented my fear that someone had totally ripped off my idea. What I first thought was just a very strange coincidence, I now actually suspect might be a product of theft.
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And that guy that directed number 4 suck. What the hell is Treevenge?
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that was in direct response to what Droid said about Pietersen. And it's fucking true in every sport. We did get our asses handed to us by this shitey Australian side. This obviously was a result pitch- South Africa would have cleaned up Monty (for fuck's sake). I'm not defending the physio because I'm disgusted by it. All I'm going to say is that Jimmy and Monty were also less than chuffed about it. The fact that England (especially this England) couldn't take wickets is neither here nor there. They couldn't clean up South Africa at fucking lords (the mother of all results pitches) last year. Because they're shit. Frankly. If I was Australian, I'd be seriously concerned at the state of your current attack. Anyway, there's no point arguing with you about pitches because you think the worst pitch outside of the west indies (Adelaide) is a result pitch.
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oh deary, deary me. Lords..... On one hand, what with England not having beaten Australia there for over 100 years, I think that should be an Aussie win. On the other hand, I hold on to a bit of optimism that as they're novices they'll struggle with the slope. That doesn't change the problem we've got with the lacking a strike bowler and a decent batting lineup. Fat alky is injured so they're going to call up grevious and lengthen the tail. We're in deep shit.
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Australia will win, but I'm not entirely bereft of hope as it's due to rain and Lord's is like nowhere else in the world to bowl at. If you've never bowled there before the slope can cause real problems. I can't believe they're going to bring back Harmy. That's terrible.
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Heatstroke, the piss poor film I watched last night (I tried at the weekend, but fell asleep) has the WORST cgi I've ever seen. It was worse than pre-Jurassic park levels. Hilariously awful.
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craptors if you will. And they couldn't cgi running so they sort of glided across the screen. It was hilarious.
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Jul 14, 2009 3:29:03 AM CDT
The only "good" potter flick is Azkaban
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
The first two were fucking awful and suffered from the same problem as Wankmen. An untalented director that just spewed the source material onto the screen. 4 and 5 were okay, i thought. But I wouldn't call them good. They're easy, unchallenging entertainments that are instantly forgettable. But the end of Azkaban when Harry does the spell (expeliamus or some shit... I watched a bit on tv the other day, thats the only reason i know i swear!) is genuinely exciting. Not one single part of any of the other films ever reaches that level. I will see the rest of the series, because why the fuck not? It's just that I'm not 'excited' to see them.
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Jul 14, 2009 3:34:18 AM CDT
I watched.... '17 Again' last night...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Which actually wasn't too bad purely because of Thomas Lennon. If it wasn't for him it would be very ordinary run of the mill crap. But he made it amusing run of the mill crap. But 'Big' it ain't.
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That's exactly the description of the first 2. How did I not recognise turdmen syndrome. 4 was meh, haven't seen 5 because I loathed the book so much.
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is awful. God had to shoot a puppy to redress some balance in the universe because of that.
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I expected to hate it. I found Lennon amusing so was pleasantly surprised.
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Disagree, totally. I'd rather watch that 13 going on 30 thing with Jennifer garner. Loadashite
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I never knew you were teenage girls?
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Because i fucking hated that 13 going on 30 piece of shit.
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Unfortunately for me I have a girlfriend that likes those types of flicks. I appease her with by watching them with her. Which is why I've seen shit like He's just not that into you and Marley and Me. Sometimes you've got to play the game, my friend.
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I think Jarv saw it because he's sweet on that Zac Efron guy. hehehe
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Efron is dreamy.
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Have you guys seen a show called Being Human? Is it any good or not?
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Couldn't make it. That $800 budget is all on the screen though. I did watch the Last House on the Left remake though, which was surprisingly pretty good. The microwave was stupid though.
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I've been trying to watch that thing since you sent it to me but I haven't been able to get more than 20 minutes into it. I keep telling myself that maybe I should watch it on meth to capture the spirit of the director, but I can't imagine tweaking out while watching that film. I guess we'll just have to wait until Vice Squad.
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I thought the LHOTL remake was utter shit on every level. Torture Porn garbage, not frightening, not involving, not interesting, predictable, dull poorly acted shit. 17again was a Mrs. Jarv special. this is why I have taken control of the Lovefilm List.
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And the movies seem completely disjointed to me. And honestly, there wasn't the sense of wonder I was expecting. Maybe I'll read them to my daughter and I'll see things differently.Seriously, you guys complain about watching chick flicks to keep the better half happy? Call me gay but I like chick flicks. I'm not talking that Sex and the City garbage, but stuff like Definitely Maybe always melts my heart.
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al green, outkast, prince, james brown and nick cave are musicians, who just happen to be Christians. are they Christian musicians? what about Mattisyahu? is he a rapper, or a Hasidic rapper? anyways, I'd recommend disregarding this post, lest a flame war erupt.
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Been watching The State and its ok, not as amazing as everyone hypes it up to be. Typical early 90s sketch comedy show stuff. Started watching Reno 911:Miami last night. That will be far be Lennons greatest contribution to comedy. That scene where Jr. wakes up while driving the car is fucking great no matter how many times I see it.
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I'm with you on the Harry P films. The first 3 there was this sense of Wonder. Then all of the sudden they want to act like its real world Harry and its just boring. As for the books I tried to read the first one, got about 50 pages in put it down and realized that I wasn't dumb enough to enjoy the book.
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one second its a sitcom, next someone has their throat slashed. I thought it would be a bit of a funny stoner show. instead it's got some vampire taking over the world thing happening.
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Are bands that play up the fact that they are CHRISTIAN and religious that their music is religious. Just a lame money grab attempt in my mind. I had a friend that was a nasty good guitar player, but he was retardly religious and in his mind the shittyest christian rock band meant more to him then the music of BB King or Clapton or anyone like that. He would admit that while they are better their music was not as important, I guess he really was not a friend so much a neighbor I had to deal with every morning at the bus stop.
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The Zombie reality tv show damnit. Come on BBC America.
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or, a vampire and a werewolf who play videogames and pointing out that they make no sense, like "know who I know you don't make sense? you should leave hair all over the place, but you don't" "know how I know you don't make sense? sunlight comes from the sun, the sun is a ball of fire, which is reflected by the moon back to earth, so you should die whenever you go out" "know how I know you don't make sense? you drive a blue prius"
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Jul 14, 2009 8:28:33 AM CDT
I wanted spaced, but being human is kinda like torchwood+true bl
by ironic_name
from what I've seen of both shows.
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People watch that? Anna Paquin....no sir, I don't like it.
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dull crap. Christian Music is bad, but the absolute worst is Christian gangsta rap. You'll have to take my word for this.
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Twice in a row, can we add it to our year end list?
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I started watching the first season. Got about 5 or 6 into it. *Snore* Stopped watching. And Anna Paquin is not sexy. At all. I kinda like the title song though.
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Are their any rules about the 300 movies in one year contest?
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I think it's you can't count the same flick twice in the same year. Also, Jarv is going for 500 I believe.
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I am going to strike the 2nd viewing from my list. Damn 500 I won't hit that. I'll be lucky if I get 300. I am going to surge right now while there is no TV. Once TV starts I'll be screwed. Also I am going to be out of it for most of August, with moving and wedding and shit.
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Yeesh. I don't know if she'd stop traffic but I would definitely shag her 8 hours a day for a week given the chance.I can actually deal with Christian bands so long as every verse isn't about God and Jebus. And I'm an atheist so that's pretty goddamn forgiving.
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Everyone should seek this movie out. Its a good indie movie.
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I'd let her floss that gap with my pubes.
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The cool thing about Moon, is that its the sort of rated R film you take your kid to see, it'll get them interested in movies.
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Its becoming fucking difficult to maintain a conversation (unless its about Cricket) these days.
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It's only going to be another month of the cricket talk, then the ashes series will be over. Or learn about cricket and join in!
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I did. I asked about the uniform rule, and cricket board games, or Wii games. You guys don't want to talk to me. Also who's the David Beckham of Cricket. FUCK i've even played Cricket before.
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the advantage is that you see a lot of stuff you wouldn't otherwise, and a lot of it for the first time. As opposed to watching The Descent again. The downside is you watch an awful lot of crap. For example, I inflicted Ali G in Da House on myself. Which has precisely 2 funny jokes in it (Although the blind council worker one is a stormer).
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Good. Because I remember watching it before I even knew who Sacha was. I had heard of Ali G I knew that for some reason people thought his interviews were funny. But I watched the movie and was like, what the fuck is this? Thought it was just lame. I knew it was an act, but I thought it was like a Larry the Cable guy act where this guy really thought he was awesome. I was thinking that now I know about Sacha's schtick that the Ali G movie may be funny. Damn 3 movies from one TV show. SNL actors should be ashamed. Why the fuck hasn't he hosted it yet? Probably because he knows it wouldn't be funny.
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Jul 14, 2009 9:54:06 AM CDT
I've been trying to concentrate on flicks i've never seen
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
But fuck me... it's demoralising sometimes the amount of shit I've watched this year. I need to occasionally pull out a classic to try to re-affirm my faith in movies.
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Even though I didn't know they were a christer band at the time, because who the hell can understand the lyrics in metal, but the music was really good.
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AS I'm about to do 3 weeks without a film, If I'm going to make it I need to be to at least 280 before I go. And spend 3 weeks sitting in spain while droid is sweating at his desk. It's going to be great.
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It may be Hollywood's worst year ever.That's why you mooks need to go foreign. The foreign market is just exploding with awesomeness right now. So while 2009 may be the worst ever for North America, it looks to be one of the best ever for abroad.
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it was hilarious when it first started on the 11 o'clock show, but I'm sick of it. I was sick of it by the time Borat came about. No desire at all to see him do more of the same in Bruno
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Jul 14, 2009 10:09:08 AM CDT
"weeks sitting in spain while droid is sweating at his desk."
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
hehehe Sound like you'll get back right about the same time I piss off to the Greek Islands for two weeks! So while I'm lazing about on the beach drinking beers and ogling women, you'll be back at your desk bitching about IT monkeys and the state of english cricket! hehehehe
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Doesn't count, because they are old. The bad Christian stuff is the stuff that came out of the gates proclaiming their faith and riding it all the way to success. Creed is a good example of this.
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Worst summer ever. I should have known it was going to be wretched when great white hype turdmen stank so much.
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Does it have to be 300 films you have never seen before? Or just 300 films with no repeats.
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But I'm not back into work for a week after I return and then I am on limited hours into september. I shall be either in the pub or the park.
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What movie is that?
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doesn't matter if you've seen them before. I've seen about 150 of the 268. I think.
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Started the summer with a whimper.
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In 07 we only got Shrek 3, Spiderman 3, and Pirates 3. While I enjoyed Pirates 3 the most of the 3 I still hated it. The only good movies that summer were Sunshine/Ratatouille/Die Hard 4.0: Live Free Or Die Hard. Their counterparts this year Up was better then Rat, Sunshine was Better then Moon, Star Trek was better then Die Hard 4.0: Live Free Or Die Hard.
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129 of the films are ones I've seen before. That leaves 137 seen for the first time. Although a lot of those are wank
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Wasn't a summer film. Wolverine was the first summer film, which isn't better.
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which is not a good thing. 2006, 2007 and 2009 have been lousy years.
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Started the summer by taking a giant dump on our heads.
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That's the kick off for the summer film season.
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Droid may be a colonial ignoramus and a primitive screwhead but he's right about this one.
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was 2/3 superb. That last act is a real let down.
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But March does not equal a summer film.
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Opened 3/6/09 in the UK and made $13,610,059.
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I want to get some action down.
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Inbred, toothless bath-dodger.
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I stand corrected. It was still a precurser of things to come.
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Jul 14, 2009 10:44:52 AM CDT
Sunshine was pure Danny Boyle
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
First and second acts = brilliant. Third act = Fucking awful.
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However, if England do what is expected then the lineup will be Strauss, Cook, Bopara, KP, Colly, Prior as Batsmen with Broad, Anderson, Swann, Onions and (AAAAARGHHHH!) Harmison bowling. England haven't beaten Australia in over 100 years at Lords. I'd bet on an Aussie win, but check the weather.
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Jul 14, 2009 10:47:27 AM CDT
The third act of Sunshine reminded me of Event Horizon
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Never a good thing.
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Says the result of cousins marrying.
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Jul 14, 2009 10:49:14 AM CDT
I lost 25 quid on the first test (well, technically a tenner)
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Cause we couldn't get that last fucking wicket. I was gutted.
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Sunshine all the way through. Moon was really good as well, smaller story. Special effects not as good.
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Sorry droid, as your editor I am going to have to correct that. It should have read "Because we were too shit to bowl out the worst batsman in world cricket" And giving an Australian money is a waste of time. You may as well just give it straight to the bookie. or the offie.
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Jul 14, 2009 10:52:48 AM CDT
"I lost 25 quid on the first test (well, technically a tenner)"
by lost jarv
Says the banker. I think now we've established precisely what went wrong.
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sunshine as well. That's twice in a day. Someone ring Rolf and get him a medal.
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Jul 14, 2009 10:59:23 AM CDT
"You may as well just give it straight to the bookie. or the off
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Says the bloke who's most quoted line is "I'm off to the pub." A tenner down to win 25. Quite simple really for anyone who's father isn't his brother.
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I'm fucking off home. Have fun lads.
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Don't make me whip out all the old incest in Australia jokes. There are frigging millions of them. For example, there's no such thing as a virgin wedding in Australia, because if she's not good enough for their family....
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odds on Beating England. Another nail in the financial community's coffin.
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My celtic heritage demands it. You have no such excuse.
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From IMDB:Hollywood director Quentin Tarantino has vowed to leave the movie business by the time he turns 60.
The 46-year-old Oscar winner has been put off by colleagues he's convinced only turn toward filmmaking to pay for their lavish lifestyles.
Tarantino has given himself only another 14 years before he retires to avoid churning out bad movies just to support his expensive tastes.
The Kill Bill director tells America's GQ magazine, "Directors don't get better, they get worse! ...When you gotta go out and make a movie to pay for the kids' private school and for the three ex-wives, don't talk to me about your artistry. It's their job. I don't want to have to watch the movie I made to pay for my pool."Dear Mr. Tarantino,Is there any way you could be persuaded to move the time table up to say this week?Sincerly,XiphosPS: Cokey you're a lying equvication motherfucker. Your shitty fucking ass will hang on making more and more god awful shitfest until you die from a caffine and drug induced penis explosion.
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20 albums ago, about how bands shouldn't do more then four albums. He has since proved himself right numerous times over and still does it to this day.
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No need to wait. Any chance you can persuade Shyalaman to go with you?
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and managed more than one album a year in that time.
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"to avoid churning out bad movies"
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I'm actually interested in what he does with Airbender. If it sucks, then off with his head.
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because they couldn't find 3 wise men let alone a fucking virgin.
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Deluded twat. Everything since Jackie Brown has been degrees of mince. And I include IB in that.
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"When it sucks" I think you meant.
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Because 2for2true said so.
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Jul 14, 2009 12:16:00 PM CDT
hey now jarv, at least we put our incesters on an island
by ironic_name
instead of letting them rule.
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Jul 14, 2009 12:18:25 PM CDT
tasmania: come for the incest, stay because we won't let you bac
by ironic_name
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We'll see. I like to think there is something good inside M Knight, because I think he is perfect for directing The Walking Dead tv show for Showtime.
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It died a very brutal, very public death 1/3 of the way through Signs. Every other movie since then has dug up the rotting coprse of a once promising director and did unspeakable acts to it.Showtime is doing the Walking Dead?
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I just wish they were. I hope they don't just make it into a couple of movies. They need to make it a show, otherwise its just going to be a Dawn of the Dead rip off.
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"thecheesegrommit" I think he's 12.
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Yeah he's a huge Rupert Grint fan, his only fan.
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Yes, Eastwood has made the worst films of his career in the past 10 years. They might not be his best but they're certainly not his worst.
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It's time to start thinking about shutting the fuck up. That was just moronic.
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Bergman
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Jul 14, 2009 2:08:19 PM CDT
Well, my short film isn't on the 1st list of Fantasic Fest films
by d.vader
Here's hoping it makes the next announcement on August 10.
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That would be pretty awesome. You going to come out for it if it does?
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I have two friends, twin brothers, both of whom were in my short, that just moved out to Austin a few weeks ago, so I've got a place to stay. Actually, the way Fantastic Fest goes about their acceptance process is very annoying. They don't tell you when you'll be notified if you got in or not, and that makes planning a trip very difficult. I may just go ahead and buy the tickets now, and if I don't get in... well maybe I'll come anyway. But then I'd need to purchase some tickets for the fest too. Ugh. Too much planning for right now.
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Fan fest. Need to look at my fanantical situation first.
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Jul 14, 2009 3:08:07 PM CDT
Clint Eastwood, Kurasawa, John Huston, Don Siegel, Hitchock
by continentalop
Should have all retired by the time they were 60. We would have been spared such horrible movies as Unforgiven, Million Dollar Baby, Mystic River, Letters from Iwa Jima, Kagemushu, Ran, Fat City, The Man Who Would Be King, Charlie Varick and Escape from Alcatraz. Psycho, The Birds and Frenzy.
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Jul 14, 2009 3:14:59 PM CDT
Sidney Lumey should've retired
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Then we wouldn't have gotten that complete load of shit Before the Devil Knows Your Dead which he directed at fucking 83! Yeah, nice one QT. Shut your fucking coke-addled motormouth.
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My excuse is I was spelling it phonetically for the inbred, kilt wearing bath-dodger. And the y is situated next to the t.
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We wouldn't have Rio Bravo, one of QT's supposedly favorite movies.
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Between 40-50 thats when they usually make their crap.
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To do the prequels, would have been 2004. Maybe that explains why Sith is the best of the three.
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Had taken a break between 40-60 we would only be out JP and Schindler's List. But then again the only thing he's done since he turned 60 is Indy 4.
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we're all counting on you
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Here's a ticket to Andorra, three bags of your last import from Panama and some out-takes of you trying to get Jose Canseco to star as Bane in the next Batman. We'll pay yer cabfare. Moron.
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In select cities, then spreads. Hopefully like the rash I got from the Hawaiian hooker.
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http://tinyurl.com/mq8v3f
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the third state of origin. i am gonna get shitfaced and watch queensland smash those bloody southerners.
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tonight you are not a real australain
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you really don't know shit about cricket pitches. more on that later. adelaide is the worst outside of the windies. start watching some cricket boy.
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I watched the first two episodes of this last night and was incredibly underwhelmed. Not very funny. Not very interesting. A bit of a snorefest really. At least with shit like that Kenny Powers show it's at least mildly interesting because it's a bit of a trainwreck, but this was just so bland. Thomas Jane can do better. Also, I watched the new episode to Entourage and I can almost officially say that I'm over the show. I used to really like it in the first two or three seasons. But they're gradually getting worse. They need to end it. And what the fuck is up with referencing My Name is Earl and appearing on Leno? When the fuck was that episode shot?
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I beg to differ. Real Aussies can spell Australian! Enjoy your sniff bum and run, mate. Look out for the fingers up the bum. And when checking into your hotel room, be sure to watch your step!
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you would not be hung up on details such as spelling and you would realise that are no inappropriate places to shit on in melbourne. it was more of a political statement than anything.
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Jul 15, 2009 3:51:06 AM CDT
If a dog can be toilet trained...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Surely a rugby player can as well.
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it's like when you teach your dog to poo in the neighbors yard.
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which is so close that you can hear the roar from here (when it starts). The only major building between here and lang park is the xxxx brewerY (whose run off waters it). pity all the tickets went to the corporate fucks. of course since the last time i went to lang park i yelled at mal meninga all night (he is the queensland coach) and the time before i broke a petrol browser on the way home i can see why they don't let people like me in.
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Previously a rugby player wouldn't have taken time out from the gang bang to take a squat on the floor. He would've just shit in his hand and flung it at his teammates.
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It's the same here with the cricket. Because the grounds aren't that big, far too many tickets get bought for corporate events and prices are fucking ridiculous. At lords if you managed to get a ticket it was about £100. I haven't been to the cricket in ages in Oz, but at the MCG last time I went I probably paid about $25.
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Jul 15, 2009 4:50:23 AM CDT
Fat Alkie is quitting test cricket
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Too many injuries caused by being a fat alkie is cited as being the reason.
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http://tinyurl.com/nscsnn Jarv you will love this hehehe
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about 10m ago, they said he might play. and yeah i went to the gabba a bit back and it must have been about 15 bucks. can't remember it was next to nothing. and it was packed. and katich got his ton.
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when rugby league players have a gang bang there are chicks involved. even a chick. unlike gay.f.l
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the number of afl players who have been on dancing with the stars to the number of league players. (poofter sons who join the cast of home and away don't count).
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we're all counting on you
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Jul 15, 2009 5:05:10 AM CDT
I'm assuming he's retiring after the ashes
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
And since trying to get an ape to dance would be as easy as getting a pom to shower it wouldn't surprise me if there are more AFL players than rubgy players on a dancing show.
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no ones drugged and unconscious.
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with us the players are drugged, not the women, afl goes the other way. or was it that you were admitting afl players are sober when they fuck each other?
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www.igrab.net Don't think AFL has one of those...
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not to know the difference between union and league.
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i'm halfway through a great game here. it is a grudge match. usually nsw are showy and queensland are brutal. tonight we are trying to out brutal each other. right now they are up, but queenslanders are tougher. first ashore at gallipoli. If you love brutal, bloody sports, i think you can catch it on you tube. you don't need to know the rules to boxing to love its brutality. no helmets. no pads. just people smashing each other.
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Denial is not just a river in Africa Chipps. I still say the worst pitches I've ever seen are those in the Caribbean. They're disgraceful. I know the WICB needs the cash, but that shit will kill the game.
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and she's much better than he is. Not to mention that I bet she's less of a tool. I wanted to punch him when he was having a go at Monty the other day.
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it's impressive how good Australia have been and some of the victories they've got on truly shit pitches everywhere in the world.
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hehehehehe
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worked out the difference between £10 and £25 yet?
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who used to pride himself on sticking his finger up opposition players arses in the ruck. I used to know, but am damned if I can remember now.
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Obviously since you're an inbred ignoramous you can't fathom the fact that if you put a £10 bet on at 2.50/1 then you will stand to get £25 back. Quite fucking simple really. So simple even one of those neanderthal rubgay players could work it out in between taking shits on the floor of his hotel room.
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Pretty much epitomises rubgay players.
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at lang park
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he claimed it was 'the norm' in polynesia. now he is a ultra heavy weight champ. how many heavy weight champs do the afl player have? actually don't answer that, it gives you the right to hold anthony mundine against me.
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and in walked mundine and sat down beside him and ordered a beer (my brother is banned from every bar in west end) so wick say 'you ain't that big' and mundine just looks at him. then he says 'i like you' and he bought him a beer and left.
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Which one said 'I like you' and bought the beer and left?
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I'm a rugby player? What’s the big deal, besides my terrible spelling I turned out ok two concussions later. And my dog is better trained then anyone elses here.
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I wear rugby shirts.
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to give odds on an Australian win. That makes you bankers even dumber.
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dirty bastard.
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Jul 15, 2009 11:00:14 AM CDT
"That makes you bankers even dumber."
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I'll serve as your editor on this one, champ. "That makes my countries bookies even dumber." Jesus tittyfucking christ you really are thick as two planks, aren't you?
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And I wear Man U shirts.
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Ohhhh so true. http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1915202
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That makes my country's bankers, of which you are one, even dumber. Feel better now primitive screwhead? I'm amazed you can walk and chew gum at the same time.
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it was about a kiwi I work with (and said by an Aussie) but clearly applies to you- you're suffering from a massive case of cultural cringe.
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to steal the "editor" bit I did to you earlier. Think up your own stuff, you homunculus.
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not on my watch. Motherfuckers.
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I'm thinking about buying the complete Friday 13th box set. Because it's fuck all cash and 10 movies.
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Then fucking cricket. I want the nightmare on elm street box set.
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a 15 year old intern with Morgan Stanley? Fucking stealing my ideas, I say that shit like 15 times a week. http://tinyurl.com/kqttlc
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I do not like having to dig to find Twitch.
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bought my brother a beer
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sounds good right about now. A raging river of beer.
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I skim Twitch in the mornings and enjoy the jibes. Jarv, droid and chipps give me giggle fits.
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watched much of anything the last few days though.
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I love them.
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to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time. rewatched the proposition the other day. it really stands up.watched 'W.' it was a bit lack luster. it sorta seemed like a 'greatest hits' anthology. there was an attempt to examine the man, but in many ways it was just joining the dots. and we all already knew those dots. and the lines in between were a bit fuzzy and 1984ish. did bush senior really cry? seems suspicious. i can belive that he was living in his fathers shadow and was motivated by this. his epiphany - a heart attack? dick cheney openly saying that they planned to stay in iraq forever BEFORE the invasion? One of the most frustrating things was how he often said his more famous quotes 'he misunderestimated me' at times when we know he didn't say it. that happened a few times. if their aim was to show how he jumbles the english languge they should have made up their own gaffs for him to say in private, it is unlikey that he would repeat the same gaff over and over. as a movie it was mostly just a 'i remember when that happened thing' that was the main point of interest. the actors were fantastic though. it is worth watching for them, but for little else
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I just found out another one of my ideas is now being turned into a movie. The basic idea is the same, the outcome different, but its still enough to piss me off, bc I really believed in this idea and thought it would make for a very entertaining story. Now its gonna be some stupid family film. Fucking shit. I've got terrible luck with this sorta thing.
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What idea?
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Yeah, W. was mostly about playing the game of sorting out dialogue lifted from press conferences vs. dialogue written for the movie. It was okay, I thought, but felt unfinished somehow.
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cause i was sitting there saying, no he didn't say that then, he said it at this other press conference.
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anyway. At least, not so far as the public's concerned. Weird watching a fictionalized biopic of a public fiction. Or something.
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he jumbles all the pieces around, which you'd think would've added up to something more interesting.
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wrong word. Something more substantial?
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would've been sooo fucking depressing. I wouldn't know where to start.
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I know we can't be all that far from the top 10.
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there it is...
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of keeping it going for a little bit.
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to nudge past Harry Potter and Hugh Jackman.
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Fuck I wish I'd seen that in the theater.
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Just finished reading Vol. 1 of The Invisibles. Really enjoying it. Anybody else read through the series?
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I need to get a life!
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inch on up the ladder and then fall back down again.
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that is all.
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Even Keifer was less annoying by at least 60%. I still think it's weird that no one seems to notice the sun doesn't come up.
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I'd rather not say which idea it was. because after reading the story I referenced above, and after seeing the entirety of "Treevenge", I feel like my ideas are in real danger of either being stolen or being made first without me.
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titles for The Happening?
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TCM is showing a lot of classic films this month (shock!), and to celebrate, they redesigned 12 of the films' poster to fit today's aesthetic. The results are very cool. My favorites include the new trailer for "The Magnificent Seven" and "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner". But by far, the best has to the redesigned trailer for "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde". That one is just allll sorts of cool. Check it out here: http://www.tcm.com/2009/summer/index.jsp
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I have been remiss in not supporting my 'Hometown' TB. I have been fighting in the conspiracy wars on Apollo thread. But Twitch and the Mighty Church of Chang will always have my first allegiance.
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Just to help out ol Twitch
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Not that my Balls miss her trying to literally whack them off
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I guess AIBN is taking up time
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Must be hungover from Celebrating all of the sports championships in Pittsburgh!
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Neigh means Neigh!
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Glad to see you ToadKillerDog! Where is everyone? Mavra? Fred? Danny?
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We've been following it for years, and fucking Beaks just casually tells us there's no theatrical release by showing us the DVD cover- without ANY FUCKING EXPLANATION whatsoever. And oh yeah, the 2nd DVD cover is a complete spoiler about what the creepy sack-head kid's face looks like. I swear, Beaks is such a d-bag. Sorry, I meant tongue-cleaner.
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Jul 15, 2009 10:00:07 PM CDT
What's the difference between John Hopoate and a Blow Job?
by ironic_name
One makes your day and the other makes your hole weak.
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They reckon his inspiration is Picasso.
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Jul 15, 2009 10:33:56 PM CDT
Yes! Remember we are replacing douchebag with Tongue Cleaner
by toadkillerdog
I was watching Emmerichs Godzilla - which as much as I enjoyed that flick, it should never be called Godzilla. Gint Tuna eating Monster maybe. Godzilla? Never. But I digress, in that movie I heard the expression douchebag being applied to a human being for the first time.
It is time to move on. Tongue Cleaner is the next insult du jour -
Not Godzilla
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Those things are pretty damn awesome. Yeah, Magnificent Seven is a damn good poster, but I also thing Grapes of Wrath is a very effective one.
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I didn't think it was that bad. A lot better then Halloween.
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If by culture you mean the boring, ugly, fat, sweaty, imbecilic losers that populate this godforsaken rock then I feel I have the right to cringe.
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the cringe is induced because we're all of that and yet somehow you're WORSE. hehehehehehe
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as soon as it's over we can go back to hating the Welsh in my case and Kiwis/ Saffers in droid's case. Every 2 years England gets ritually hammered, and sll I've got to rely on are the old Aussie jokes. Droid is clearly a bit nervous about this one, because he's being more vehement than Aussies usually are. All they used to have to do was point out their team and then laugh as words failed us, but nowadays it's different. It's a crying fucking shame that England are so piss poor because this Aussie side is very beatable.
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it's fucking lovely where I am near Lords. Damn it. England need to bat in this, and then it needs to turn overcast when England are bowling. Else we'll get annihalated. 100 years of defeats at HQ, a shit bowling lineup and a fragile batting one. We need all the help we can get from the man upstairs.
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I'm going to get no end of shit from the Aussie contingent.
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Cunt needs a five-fer. Bopara's got some credit in the bank. KP, Colly and Prior are fine, Swann in last chance saloon, Anderson will be fine but Good Jimmy had better turn up. Strauss is captain and due a score. The batsman I'm really worried about is cook.
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half an hour till it starts. I'm filled with dread.
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I can't decide whether I want England to bowl or bat in this. This is a good toss to lose.
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and aside from Travolta being a crap villain it's really not that bad. I don't get why people hate it. The fight with the Russian is great.
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DOLPH IS YOUR MASTER!
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incorrect. you are landmated to france.
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landmated? What the fuck does that mean? Dolph is Dolph, obviously, and therefore better than anything but the TJ Punisher isn't bad.
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I've never heard an Aussie claim to have culture before. There's more culture in the contents of a toilet bowl than Australia. Other reasons for cringe: secretly wanting to be English and being too ashamed to own up to it.
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there is a reason that the only people immigrating to england are refugees from darfur, nobody wakes up and says "ahh! bizarre sketch comedy, bad teeth and no ability to play cricket! where do I sign?"
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by the boatload. Says a lot for Australia, that. Remind me again where Droid lives and works. Harmless isn't playing. Anyway, I'm scottish today.
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playing for the lions. Except the Lions occasionally win and even then only get humiliated every 4 years rather than 4 times every year.
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This cloud cover had better hold off or a humiliation could be on the cards.
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nearly land locked to france. hang your bloody head in shame. [actually I shouldn't be participating in the sledging, because I'm not really interested in cricket. carry on.]
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Jul 16, 2009 4:40:01 AM CDT
It's embarrasing the way the english cling to their...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
'culture'. "We may be fat, lazy and stupid, but we have culture!" Bull-fucking-shit. You are so moronic that you mistake 'history' for 'culture'. Your 'history' is interesting. But so is every other countries. Your culture is exactly as I described. Wake the fuck up.
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pah. Shit idea.
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Jul 16, 2009 4:41:30 AM CDT
so I went to the discount store to look for some terrible movies
by ironic_name
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Jul 16, 2009 4:41:35 AM CDT
so I went to the discount store to look for some terrible movies
by ironic_name
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Jul 16, 2009 4:41:40 AM CDT
so I went to the discount store to look for some terrible movies
by ironic_name
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Jul 16, 2009 4:41:44 AM CDT
so I went to the discount store to look for some terrible movies
by ironic_name
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I could have sworn it was about Paedo grooming. Droid's the expert in those matters though.
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Jul 16, 2009 4:44:36 AM CDT
To see an Aussie and a Limey battle it out over culture
by continentalop
Is like seeing two mentally handicapped people competing for a medal in the Special Olympics. Personally, I would just prefer not being retarded. ;)
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Vibrant music "scene" (Hate that expression), vibrant writing. And that's current. I can't even be bothered to get into our long and distinguished history in culture. As opposed to Australia. Which is a prison and, as I said earlier but it bears repeating, has less culture than the contents of a toilet bowl
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Jul 16, 2009 4:45:07 AM CDT
so I went to the discount store to look for some terrible movies
by ironic_name
and I found a movie with micheal madsen [actually he is in 80% of them] and mxpx, that band that was mentioned before. it was a sign! 42k!
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Jul 16, 2009 4:45:37 AM CDT
No Harmy? Is Flintoff playing then?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I'm not too worried about this series, Jarv. Feeling confident. But it's true that I don't exactly have the same confidence as before. But our team was pretty much the best team in history for 10 years, so that confidence was justified.
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sorry.
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Dumbest. Idea. Ever.
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Jul 16, 2009 4:48:13 AM CDT
Mate, for someone who's never been to Australia...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
you sure know fuck all about it! Stop living in your little fantasy world where anyone outside of england gives two shits about the english!
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To quote the long good friday (even though he's wrong): "What I'm looking for is someone who can contribute to what England has given to the world: culture, sophistication, genius. A little bit more than an 'ot dog, know what I mean?" Because Hot Dogs are German.
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From the director of Cloverfield. My fucking god. And the new name doesn't really make any sense as well in the context of the film. 'Let me in'. Completely fucked.
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who are clearly desperate to be English. Don't worry though. You're like our mongoloid cousin that we secretly quite like but give loads of shit to. Fat Alky's injured. Why the fuck is he playing. At least he's retiring after this series.
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The sausages where German, but putting it on a bun, that was down by a German immigrant in St. Louis.
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As much as I thought the original was a touch overrated, it's still the most bleak, depressing thing I've seen in ages. I don't think Hollywood (especially not the director of Cloverfield) has the sensibility for it. One of my best mates swears that Cloverfield is the worst film ever made.
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And I heard not to long ago that they are remaking Mona Lisa. WTF? That is a classic British gangster film. One of Bob Hoskins best (stabbing the guy with the broken bottle? Fucking brutal).
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Cloud is closing in. Johnson and Hilfenhaus are going to destroy us. Should have bowled, Strauss you twat.
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what? Horrible. Bastards.
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it's impossible to annoy me today. Term ends in 1 hour and it's our end of year party. Sun's out and I'm on reduced hours for the next week before going to spain. While you sweat and fondle yourself at work.
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man she was stupid. She was from Melbourne though, so I don't know if that makes any difference
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was one of Pierce Brosnan's first roles. I'm not sure though.
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Seriously. Peter Bogdanavich after The Last Picture Show, or Friedkin following The Exorcist, or Ridley Scott after the Duelist and Alien - those guys would of had the right sensibilities. But fucking Matt Reeves? Get-out-of here.
And to quote the producer of the new movie: "I think the original is fascinating in its exposition, but at the same time there is a doggerel element to it in terms of the mood and setting. So I think it takes it out into a more accessible setting. I think perhaps there is a little more characterization in terms of the two central characters. To be perfectly frank with you, this is making an astonishing story – which however hard you might try or I might try to get people to go see the original, they're never going to do it – more accessible to a much larger audience."
Fuck. Thank god this douche wasn't back in the new Hollywood days, telling them to take out the "doggerel elements" of 2001, The Exorcist and Rosemary's Baby, and making it more "accessible to a larger audience." Guys should just admit they are dumbing it down to make a fucking buck. -
This is not good. Not good at all. Droid, ironic and Chipps are going to have a field day over this fiasco in progress. This isn't fair. They're letting me down badly. It had better rain for the next 4 days. Solidly. Without a break.
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He didn't even say one line if I remember right.
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Had limited ability with a very brief moment of dominance then quickly descended into alcoholism, obesity and lack of intelligence. I'm also sure Flintoff, just like England, will promptly ignore the fact that he's a fat, alky loser, but never fail to remind us at every opportunity that he was once dominant.
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Stupid twat throwing words around that he doesn't understand. Tool.
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Flintoff defines England of 10 years ago. Beckham defines England now. Overrated, never achieves what he promises to, and as shallow as a puddle. Get it right. Although why I'm helping you is beyond me. I suppose it's like missionary work helping Australians that struggle. Strauss nearly went in the first over. WHY AREN'T YOU BOWLING YOU STUPID CUNT?
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But if you guys start arguing "culture", just remember Orson Welles immortal words as Harry Lime in The Third Man:
"You know what the fellow said—in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
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Jul 16, 2009 5:07:10 AM CDT
Jarv, i do like how you just put...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
our iconic wildlife next to 'shagger' and call it an insult. Oscar Wilde would be proud.
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I'm sure there must be something else from Switzerland aside from those silly knives.
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Johnson is bowling like a cunt though. Again.
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Do you have it on the tv or anything? I'm stuck with the over by over malarky on The Guardian.
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but it wasn't worth commenting on. Not my best work either.
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They won't let us have sky. I've also got the OBO on as well.
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Chose to ignore it. You've done much better in the past.
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Jul 16, 2009 5:14:57 AM CDT
I think we've alienated the yanks
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
By hijacking Twitch. But it's only for a month. Then it's business as usual.
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It must be because I'm happy. Not even England cricket can ruin my mood. 2 maidens in a row from hilfy. I wonder if the plan is to see of the new ball and then treat Hauritz with the contempt he deserves. That's a bad plan because I'd bet on siddle being able to swing it in this weather at Lords.
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Hopefully one of your useless openers will be gone by the time i return.
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I'm thanking the lord that I'm missing most of it. It would put me in a right shitty mood. There should be tests at Trent Bridge and Old Trafford. We always win those and it would give us a fighting chance. This line up is a guaranteed lose.
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I'm going to do that too. Cook will probably be gone by the time I return.
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that is not good. Cook will be out soon though.
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between 350 and 400 in the first innings. Over 400 would be nice, but I can't see them getting anywhere near that. 80-100 for 0-1 at Lunch would be nice.
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Punter has taken Johnson off. For bowling like a cunt. I'm starting to think he's seriously overrated. Now that prime specimen of ugliness, the man with a face that not even a mother could love, Siddle is bowling.
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Maybe only suited to specific wickets? Bowled like a maniac in Australia and South Africa. Bowling like a complete tool here.
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that's strange. It may be the crap that Johnson was bowling as well.
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surely that's like Aus/ SA Perhaps he's been overbowled this year? This is weird, he's bowling like an England player. I had him down as the best in both sides before the match started, but at the moment I reckon Hilfenhaus is that.
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bowling maidens. Lots of them. That's only good if the other end is also keeping it tight. If England are able to plunder the other end that's just unpenetrative rubbish.
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Got a head on him that if my missus spat out a kid that looked like that, I'd want to know who the english cunt that impregnated her was!
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Jul 16, 2009 5:48:03 AM CDT
I think we'll definitely miss Clark
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
The wicket suits him and he's got great line, length and control. With Hilfy bowling tight at one end, we need that kind of bowler to do the same at the other.
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especially considering England have just whacked 6 off Siddles over. What are you talking about with Siddle. He's stereotypically Australian looking (bowlers) and fits into a long line of ugly bastards like Merv Hughes.
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stupid Guardian. It's Johnson. What the fuck. Did Punter have a shroom omlette for breakfast?
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Are bowlers just naturally ugly. all of them. I'm struggling to think of one that wouldn't look out of place on Crimewatch. Apart from Broad, but he's shit so he doesn't count.
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Jul 16, 2009 5:56:46 AM CDT
Merv Hughes = A beautiful brute of a man.
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Gotta appreciate a good mo'. Flintoff = Got a head that makes potatoes look attractive. Harmison = Got that slightly retarded look, not to mention his heads too small for his body. Broad = Looks like a broad. Name suits. Sidebottom = Looks like Weird Al Yankovic
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the other day: Is it my imagination or is world bowling worse now than it's been for decades? Seriously if you had to pick a "world" 11 and only had 1 spinner (obviously murali) who the fuck would the seamers be? Steyn, I suppose for one of them and Zaheer Khan for another but the rest are all just much of a muchness. In 2005 every country had fucking good fast bowlers. Where have they all gone?
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Am sure that I get the gist, but---wickets? bowling? 450 points? Should I ask if Charlie Zink is gonna become Tim Wakefield Jr. and do you think a knuckleball will work in Cricket? that'd be a riot. Why yes this here TB looks pretty dead compared to most Twitches. Needs some giant Robots beating hell outta Mammaries of Mom I think. Oh well. There's always the sequel--Red Tape for Julia. Kathleen Turner never had it so bad.
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but he was one ugly dude under it. I didn't know that Warne took diuretics to make his face look less fat. That's funny.
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I still remember the days of Marshall, Ambrose, Walsh et al for the Windies. The 80's had some amazing fucking bowlers.
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works. Johnson bowls "scrambled seam". Which is the same thing.
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Australia in the 90's, Windies in the 80's. England and Pakistan briefly. The 80's had all those wonderful all-rounders as well.
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Might actually be more interesting at this point.
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Quelle fucking surprise. Nothing to do with bowling utter shit then, guys?
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You colonial ignoramus. It's only dull for you because Australia are sucking like a dyson. Fucking fair weather fans. We've had decades of the shit you lot are putting down, so know to persevere when times are rough.
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Annoying. I don't like these people and would much rather argue about the cricket with Droid.
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Jul 16, 2009 6:09:48 AM CDT
I still think the 80's had the best cricketers
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Although the Aussies in the 90's had probably the best team all round team. People like Martin Crowe. Richard Hadlee. Imran Kahn. Viv Fucking Richards. Allan Border. Ian Botham. Freakishly good.
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Ugh. Johnsons still fucking bowling and still getting tonked. Wake the fuck up Ricky! I have no problem with watching us get hammered. It's more the fact that both teams don't really inspire me with much excitement or enthusiasm.
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Kapil Dev, Waqar Younis, Craig McDermott, Boon, Gower in his pomp. Fuck the 80's were good. Every team was competitive and all of them had good players. Apart from SA because they weren't allowed.
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Jul 16, 2009 6:14:09 AM CDT
Well, I do have a problem with is getting hammered
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But I can accept it if we play like shit.
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to give him his Sunday name. Yup, neither team are inspiring. The thought of Katich grinding out another 280 ball century makes me want to sleep
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the worst new ball spell I've ever seen at Lords. And I've seen Devon Malcolm.
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Hilfenhaus is bowling nicely, Siddle is bowling OK. It's just Johnson. Punter needs to wake the fuck up and take him off.
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silly cunt. Cook was all over the place recently. He's going to get to fill his boots on crap and get his touch back.
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Jul 16, 2009 6:18:39 AM CDT
I have the dreaded feeling that...
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at 6pm on Monday we'll be ready to shoot ourselves out of boredom as this fucking test grinds to a fucking halt with no result.
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that will be the case. And if England draw Lords, that's a real shock. This is Australia's banker.
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7 overs for 47 runs. That is unmitigated garbage.
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Jul 16, 2009 6:24:17 AM CDT
What we are desperately missing is...
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Watson. A fucking fast bowling all-rounder. We seem to be relying on these three and right now they aren't getting the job done! Particularly Johnson. But it's early days. The first session. So lets not get ahead of ourselves. The Poms are still shit.
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All-star break over.
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and slaughtering Johnson. That looks like the way to go- especially as you've only got 3 seamers so will have to bowl Howshit again. 2 bowlers to plunder 2 to defend.
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So Hilfy is bowling tight. Johnson just doesn't fucking get it. Bowl tight you cunt.
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but we're 80-0 on the first morning. Someone must have given them a bollocking after the last fiasco.
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Jul 16, 2009 6:29:12 AM CDT
And it's like Ricky's too fucking stubborn to take him off
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Like he's going to change and not bowl like shit.
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you can tell- Hilfy and Siddle have good figures. Johnson has already gone for over 50. If he keeps this up England will be on about 600 before declaring. I can't believe I'm about to say this, but I bet you can't wait for Hauritz to come on. PS- Watson isn't the answer. Cunt's always injured.
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Ponting needs to rest hilfy, but he should be bowling some part time crap instead of Johnson. This is a joke.
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That has to be the fastest openers 50 at Lords ever. And it's all down to Johnson bowling filth. I'm off- enjoy yourself.
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Is what I meant. A fast bowling all rounder.
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Enjoy your office party. Sounds painful.
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You know you're not going to do work. *pillow pokes head out window to see if apocalypse is upon us*
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My impressing of Jarv at the party Jarv: The ratio of people to cake is too big. Overweight HR lady named Carley: Now Jarv, don't be greedy, let's pass it along and make sure everyone gets a piece. Jarv: Yeah, but last time I didn't receive a piece. And I was told...
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I had never really seen that many before, but last year I went around and watched a couple and they just didn't stick with me. I watched Mona Lisa, Long Good Friday and Get Carter. Bob Hoskins is one of me favorite actors he needs more work after "get'em" from Danny The Dog I was hoping he'd be put to better use in Doomsday where he was kind of wasted. I liked him in Mona Lisa and Long good Friday but the biggest thing I got from those two were the soundtracks. Long Good had a bad ass score and Mona Lisa had In Too Deep. As for Get Carter I didn't realize Stallone was making British Gangster movies back then.
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Here are a bunch of The Expendables fan made posters that suck balls: http://tinyurl.com/kooam5
http://tinyurl.com/nys52e
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Nominated for best comedy show....eh would have agreed like 2-3 years ago. Last season was weak, I know I'm like the only guy here who likes Family Guy. But you gotta admit it has done miraculous stuff that no other show has been able to do. Speaking technically about its ability to come back and now this. Had South Park been cancelled in season 3 it would not have some back. Also Family Guy has been able to just make fun of people better recently then South Park has.
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So did you get that Ellie is a castrated boy on first viewing? Also you check out Mymavra comic reviews.
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And I think Let Me In will be a lot like Quarentine. I'll have to see [REC] to fully decide if there is even a need for Quarentine, but I think it will be like that. But not as successful as Quarentine was finacially.
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Jarv as an english Milton is genius. hehehehehe Well played, sir.
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I can't stand that fucking show. Oddly, I kind of like American Dad. But I haven't watched that for ages. Only the first season.
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I agree, its one of the better ones too. That atmospheric shot of the long, dusty road communicates so much.
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It reminds me of an 80s action film. I think its unfairly maligned. Love the fight with The Russian. Also, I dig that country funeral song that Man in Black sings for The Punisher at the cafe.
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Is there a way you could post some of those producers' excerpts here? I still haven't seen the film and I noticed there were some in-depth conversations about it in the TB, so I decided I should avoid them. However, I'm always interested in what bullshit producers of remakes spew at us to try and placate us and make us feel like they're going to do a great job. Its why I don't trust anyone from Platinum Dunes- their excuses are always terrible.
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God these editors are so fucking lazy sometimes.
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The rest were cable, 1 from HBO, 1 from FX, 2 from AMC, 1 from Showtime. LOST and House the only network dramas. Maybe these studio heads will pick some better fucking scripts from now on, or give a series time to grow before they cancel it outright.
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fucking MBA's who have turned their deep self-loathing outwards to the world, and have facilitated the exchange of enough money to permit them to run amok in Hollywood.
Remember how everybody would talk about how DV was going to "democratize" filmmaking? They forgot about the distribution end, I guess. Crappy youtube video diaries.
And has anyone actually seen a "mumblecore" movie? You know, the great hip hope of modern filmmaking? This is a serious question, actually. Has anyone seen a movie that is classed as 'mumblecore'? I keep reading about it and that phrase is really fucking annoying! -
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and I've decided that one of the reasons that the old movies are more appealing, is that the characters often seem to genuinely like each other. And the filmmakers didn't tend to treat their characters with contempt, even when they were doing horrible things or having horrible things happen to them.
Like, when I watched Nightmare Alley, and the guy is fucking up his life and being really arrogant and unpleasant. He's headed in a really bad direction, but the movie doesn't invite you to point your finger and laugh, like "look at this stupid asshole and feel superior to him!" the way a lot of new movies do. -
The hope of modern filmmaking? Has anyone actually called it that? Beaks had an interview or story about one of these pretentious Mumblecore directors and his new movie, and he provided no explanation for what it was at all. And the research I did on it sounded terrible. Like some new version of Dogme 95, which is great and all if you're trying to do something "unique" and something a little more "real" and "genuine". But films like that will hardly ever find an audience. And from what I heard about that mumblecore director's films, they were all long and boring. Sorry, but I want to entertain people with my films, not pretend I'm on a higher state because I have long-drawn out conversations that go nowhere, just like in real life. I've got enough real-life as it is.
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brings to mind mealy-mouthed hipsters whining amidst lines of coke and getting laid. And then whining some more.
I don't need a movie like that. I can see that everyday on the sidewalk outside my house.
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Its like "Here's a review about a movie no one has heard of, from a filmmaker no one has heard of, from a movement no one has heard of, but I'm going to review this film as if it was the new flick by PT Anderson." Which left everyone scratching our heads, as there was no backstory or explanation at all. Bleh. http://www.aintitcool.com/talkback_display/40517?q=node/40517
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Uhhh, no. The second you put a camera on something, that very moment makes it *not* real.
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Never heard of it. Sounds fucking moronic. I think the difference between older films (pre visual effects blockbusters i guess) is that they were more often about people in which things happen to, as opposed to now, which is about things that happen to people. In other, less confusing terms, they were more about the characters than the situation or event. Now its the opposite.
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I mean, I like the idea of low budget filmmaking, (and I mean low enough that you don't need to find a huge audience to 'justify' the film's existence). It frees people up to experiment. But enough with the extreme self-absorption. Have something to say besides "look at me and my friends. Here's how we walk, and here's how we talk."
It's kind of funny in a way. Since documentaries these days seem to be suffering from the Discovery Channel syndrome. And that's the area where I'd like to see things be more "real". -
Why? last season was god awful horrible and made me realize what people say about Lost had some truth in it.
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I would completely fuck it up by buying the theater that's down the street from my childhood home (the theater that's been sitting empty and abandoned for the last 5 years) so that people could screen their homemade movies. And show old movies during the day for a dollar for the senior citizens that live across the street. $5 for a week's pass.
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Has anyone seen it? Oddly, I have not.
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HOW DARE YOU BESMIRCH IT!
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That sounds like something they'd do in "Be Kind, Rewind". Great idea.
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Why's everybody dissing on Lost these days? I wish it was starting up again this week!
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Doesn't mean it can't be interesting. Watching two 20-somethings talk about their relationships and then cheat on each other is not interesting to me. Especially when the two characters are unlikeable to begin with.
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Again, I'm treated to enough of that simply walking down the street, San Francisco being the scowling hipster, uh, Tongue Cleaner capital of the U.S.
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Really its weird, but LOST is like comfort food for me sometimes. I'll pop in a DVD or catch a repeat on SciFi and I feel a little bit better.
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Like a corpse left out in the sun.
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when you can get it at the dive bar down the street for free?
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Very interesting. And disturbing. Iron Man is pretty funny. http://unrealitymag.com/index.php/2009/07/15/15-examples-of-replacing-actors-in-movies-withthemselves/
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the careful (read: obsessed) viewer. Comfort food is a good comparison. I feel very accepting toward Lost, sort of like, "this is the direction we're going now? Okay!"
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Meet the Fockers and The Matrix especially.
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in all his movies.
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So just about every episode I get an "ohhh yeaaaah!" type moment or an "ohhh noooo!" when I thin I've figured out what's about to happen or what something means. Its been that way since episode 1.
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for internet research. Looking up little details of references or names and then trying to figure out what's coincidence and what's significant. Or scouring the background for clues! Very good time.
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and yes....it does make you scared of vaginas. I thought it was funny how the movie is pretty much told like a superhero origin story. The main actress discovers she has a unique ability and over the course of the movie learns how to harness her power and in the end use it for good. The movie ends right when it seems like she's going to travel the world biting the penises off of rapists.
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Is called Humpday. I actually just read that today. What the fuck is that? Same shit like Funny HA Ha or something?
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I didn't understand why everyone was talking about that one actress.
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Jul 16, 2009 11:46:05 AM CDT
Yeah the actress was kind of awful...but so was everyone else.
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I like the concept, I just wonder if the movie itself works well as a whole (or should I have said, as a hole? heh heh heh).
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it doesn't really work at all. Some of the abstinence education stuff at the beginning is kind of funny but other than that there isn't much other than the cool concept. You get to see at least 3 penises bitten off over the course of the film as well as some fingers. I guess the movie might be worth watching just for the gynecologist scene. On the whole it isn't that good though.
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I read a really fucking annoying review of that movie, referencing men-are-from-mars, women-are-from-venus bullshit, and praising the (female) director for managing to make a movie about dudes that doesn't have "an axe to grind."
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A great list. I didn't predict the outcome, and there were quite a few on here I had forgotten about. Its categorized by actor, not character. http://www.premiere.com/Feature/The-Baddest-Bad-Guys
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Was ok this season. Probably the best since season 1. I just don't care anymore about Lost, when it feels like homework I just can't get into it like I used to. Plus I probably watch too much TV it all starts to run together, fuck I haven't even watched the season finally of Lost.
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That's what I was afraid of. Too bad they couldn't make it work. I'll probably watch it anyway.
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For this whole Mumble core crap. While I like Clerks everyone thinks there shit is funny like that...and its not.
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You haven't watched the finale?? Damn! I had no idea your growing apathy towards Lost had gotten so far. I'm pretty much addicted to it when it's on. Wednesday rolls around and I start getting anxious for my fix.
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I wonder if he is a cool dude or a douchey old actor. Like Magneto (I can't remember how his name goes together, too many fucking actors with the name Malcolm) seems like a cool old actor. But Lee looks like he could be a dick, even though he's done a bunch of crap. Speaking of old Actors, Harrison Ford (SPOILER) in Bruno. I say it was set up, other people think that is real...thoughts?
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smokes hella weed. So it could go either way. What does he do in Bruno? Spoil away, I don't anticipate paying to see that movie.
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And Chuck. Heroes and Lost just their lack of humor gets fucking boring. The over serious of everyone on that show is lame. Yeah sure maybe Hurly is suppose to be funny, but ever since we found out he was crazy he just became this depressing annoying character to me, and I am more interested in seeing him stand up for himself then be funny. Sawyer used to be funny, but once he became the leader he lost his humor.
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Well Bruno actually rapes Harrison Ford while dressed like Chewbacca.
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While I found it interesting. I fucking hate lazy ass entertainment writers. Just seeing certain actors I am like what about these other 10 movies they were in? Is fucking IMDB just too hard to use?
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That would have made the movie perfect.
Jesus would have voted No on 8. http://tiny.cc/qojfR
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after season 2. I can't even remember if I watched all of season 2. A good measure of its overall shittiness. Which is lame because I really liked season 1 a lot. Made a mild attempt at season 3 after people started talking about how good it was again but got bored during the Halloween homage. I think that was in the first episode.
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then methinks that Harrison was DEFINITELY in on it. And probably stoned out of his mind.
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Need to see that.
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His best villian role....Sin City??? Really???
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You making good money through the examiner?
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Speed 2...really?
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What a weird fucking movie. Like a sword fight with chainsaws.
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Yeah I no. Just I think the last 20 or so minutes got cut because it is more important to fucking show weather updates then TV where I live. Even though the people that the weather effects probably don't have a TV. And my computer is crappy and watching a streaming thing sucks balls. Kind of waiting for the Sci-Fi or G4 repeat.
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Way to take a great concept and run it into the ground with terrible writing and by making all your characters service the plot (and betray how they had previously been written and setup).
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I think they're judging the evilness of the character based on their actions, not necessarily how big the role was or what they did in the movie. For example, Roy Batty did much more evil things in Blade Runner that we could see. But he was also quite human. His character as the Cardinal in Sin City, however, was a fucking cannibal that helped a serial killer murder women so that he too could eat their body parts. And he's a man of the cloth. That's fucking evil.
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And had the end booted for weather updates? I. Fucking. HATE. local news weather updates. They're fucking useless. Show them in between commercials, break for 5 minutes. I understand. But to show the same goddamned radar screen for 30 minutes?! FUCKING POINTLESS.
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I just heard other people talking about it at the LCS. And I guess they reaired it that Saturday at like 1 in the AM. Actually I try to view Heroes as a brand new show with each new season, seeing that is how they write it. And last season was by far their best variation of the show.
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is one crazy fucked up movie. I should watch that again.
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You're in Oklahoma? You guys have the best storms. Your storms are probably more interesting than most tv shows.
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I've made it my god to see a tornado. I saw the forming of one a couple months back. But it was during work and I was driving and I had to go to my next stop.
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how since it's so flat, you can see the storm miles off in the distance before you actually get to it. You can actually make out the edges of the storm from a distance.
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Would make for an awesome villian. If they ever decide to make Batman 3: Die Hard with a Vengeance and they have to have The Joker again I would like to see him do it.
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I'm just getting dumber by the minute here at work. I've got nothing to do!! SOOOO FUCKING BORED. I need a better computer so I can put movies on my Izune.
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They've got a nice review of Bad Boys up in the "I Watched This On Purpose" or whatever section, and a nice breakdown of the drug-deal-gone-wrong scene with Alfred Molina in Boogie Nights. That helped me get through the boredom that was yesterday, waiting on the gasman to come and give me hot water.
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Yeah I think I am going to go and work my way through My Year of Flops.
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If it felt staged it probably was. If it seems real it was probably real.
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Has pants off dance off jeans day friday! Every week. The only hitch is that you gotta fucking pay $3, that 15 quid for you blimys, in order to be involved with jean day friday every week. But they only fucking take cash? Who carrys cash anymore? I play it smart by jumping from credit card to credit card. Fuck even drug dealers take credit cards now. Also they make you feel like a jack hole if you don't pay the $3 (15 quid) because all the money goes to charity. So if you don't do it they look down upon you and make you stand all day. Its all kind of bullshit to me.
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Fuck that list. Ramrod alone is the fucking sleaziest villain ever, and besides that Wings has played shit loads of Tongue Cleaning characters.
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Loved the movie, but me and my friends walked out of the theatre saying "Well, that part seemed to be a little unnecessary."
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In an interview with Hammer Films producer Simon Oakes over at Fearnet, he says that the adaptation will stay relatively close to the original, except that it will be made "very accessible to a wider audience." He goes on to add:
"I think the original is fascinating in its exposition, but at the same time there is a DOGGEREL ELEMENT to it in terms of the mood and setting. So I think it takes it out into a more ACCESSIBLE SETTING. I think perhaps there is a little more characterization in terms of the two central characters. To be perfectly frank with you, this is making an astonishing story – which however hard you might try or I might try to get people to go see the original, they're never going to do it – more ACCESSIBLE TO A MUCH LARGER AUDIENCE. I think perhaps, again, the roughness of the original is great – and when I talk about faithful, I don't want to put words in Matt's mouth, because he is the creative filmmaker here, and we very much protect that with our directors – but I think it'll just have perhaps a LITTLE SHEEN to it that makes it a little more accessible I think." (Emphasis are mine).
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First off, I don't trust any film movement that names itself. Film Noir was named that by the French Critics, and critics named the Italian Neo-Realism, French New Wave and New Hollywood movements. Dogma and Mumblecore aren't movements - they are cults.
Secondly, you are choosing to shoot low-budget films - you just can't get the financing. Don't pretend the reason you shoot the movies the way you do is an aesthetic choice and not an economic one. No shame in low-budget movies, just don't pretend that someone the very nature of them being low budget makes them good.
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Are the sort of people I think about when I punch the wall for 2 hours everynight. These are the sort of people that give art and film a bad name. They act too cool for themselves and bad ass. But I wouldn't expect any of them to be able to win a fight against Dakota Fanning (with one of her arms tied behind her back).
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I totally agree with you about older movies, especially Nightmare Alley. Most movies nowadays seem to relish in watching the protagonist suffer, as if to mock those less fortunate then ourselves. Look at Burn After Reading, you almost feel like the Coen's are laughing at these people's misery and thinking "only an idiot would get them themselves in this situation."
But Nightmare Alley and other old movies (especially the noirs) seem to be saying "There but for the grace of god go I." The films work because they make it seem like it could happen to you if only you had a bad day. -
Is it a full moon tonight? AICN seems to be filled with nuts today, especially the Scarlett Johansson TB and the Apollo 11 TB.
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The trailer for Orca!!!
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a man can dream
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looks like shit. It looks like Downey is standing in front of a cardboard cutout.
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is not the same guy who did the Photoshop for the Apollo 11 moon landing
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Jul 16, 2009 8:52:26 PM CDT
I love the gil elvgren style "oops! my towl came off" look on rd
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Those pics look pretty cool. Fingers crossed on that one. Two of my fav childhood books are shaping up nicely for the end of the year.
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Jul 17, 2009 3:38:58 AM CDT
The test is interestingly poised
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
The poms made a great start courtesy of some shithouse bowling and pretty good batting. But we got a couple of wickets and the house of cards started to tumble. Cook got the first good delivery Johnson had bowled up to that point. Bopara was an epic fail yet again. Pietersen was in all sorts. Collingwood had some sort of brain haemorrhage. Swann got to Johnsons only other good delivery of the day, and it was a fucking doozy. Fat Alky just played a shot that you'd typically associate with a fat alky. Strauss batted very, very well. A couple of loose shots and was lucky to survive off the double blunder of a no ball and dropped catch. But apart from that, it has been an impressive innings. If we can get the poms out for 400 or so, it will be a minor victory for Australia because of the fact that they were 0-200. It'll be an interesting morning session. The rain better fucking stay away!
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again. Not one brain cell between them. Still, strauss is there, and if the tail wags 500 should be on the cards. Johnson is a useless cunt, who is apparently bowling badly because his mother said some mean things about his girlfriend. He's not overhyped and overrated or anythhing. It's all his mum's fault. And go fuck yourself series.
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which means England will be skittled for 430-ish. How the Aussie Batsmen handle the moving ball is key here. Hope good jimmy turns up.
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fucking sky.
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Jul 17, 2009 4:13:42 AM CDT
Johnson bowled two good deliveries
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
And got two wickets. Where did you read that about his mum? News of the World?
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Jul 17, 2009 4:15:58 AM CDT
Shitloads of pubs show the cricket
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
You could always go to the walkabout! hehehe
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Did you get your piece of cake? hehehe
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Oh please, no-one was more surprised than him by the one that got cook. Why on earth would I want to go to the Walkabout. Anyway there isn't one in Camden. I meant, Pubs that I'd actually want to drink in. Pedant.
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called them all cunts and went to the pub to watch the cricket. Thanks for asking, feel better now?
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Jul 17, 2009 4:31:43 AM CDT
Did you take your stapler with you?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
hehehehe
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Jul 17, 2009 4:34:10 AM CDT
Surprised? Probably. Relieved? Yes.
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
He bowled like shit all day, but he got Cook with a great delivery. Even an ignoramus like you can concede that.
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are utter dogshit.
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Jul 17, 2009 4:35:53 AM CDT
I'd pay money to see you in a Walkabout
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Surrounded by drunken Aussies. Priceless. hehehe
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I recognise the shitty bowling of Johnson. Hilfy bowled well. Siddle was ok.
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I'm more than happy to concede that. Bopara fell to good bowling as well. KP, Prior, Collingwood and Fred threw their wicket away. It was a shit bowling display from Australia, but I fear for England because their bowling is no better. I wonder if it was that they'd never played at Lords and couldn't deal with the slope. Siddle bowled OK, as did Hilfenhaus, but Johnson went for over 100 runs on day 1. That's shit by any standard.
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Jul 17, 2009 4:38:39 AM CDT
I'd say you sound more like your sulking
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Because of the shithouse efforts of your middle order. Seriously, remind me again why you think Bopara is good?
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Jul 17, 2009 4:41:05 AM CDT
Bopara almost got out three times
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Slashing away and hitting it near fielders in the air. Shithouse batting on an ordinary day, but fucking dreadful when your openers have worked hard to get you into a dominant position.
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only time I'd go there would be with a shit load of petrol and some matches.
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Jul 17, 2009 4:43:10 AM CDT
Haddin did say that the new guys were overawed
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
But in the end, you should get over that after an hour. 4 hours later they were still playing like shit.
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Jul 17, 2009 4:44:56 AM CDT
"a shit load of petrol and some matches."
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Can you do that on a day the Saffa's play rugby?
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I have faith. I have a sneaking suspicion that I'm overrating him out of desperation not to see that useless cunt Bell in the side.
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I may swing by Weatherspoons on the way back if I've any petrol left.
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You expect it with England.
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and not got a good total with batting to come. It's fucking weird.
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he should just shut his fucking trap. Christ, he's an annoying whiny cunt.
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it will make England go on to 700.
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"how do you explain away the Astro Lesbians then?" Fucking gold.
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"If you are, I will have to hang my head in shame at the association. You massive fucking cretin"
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out loud at that TB. Damn it. I'm going to get busted,
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boils down to "Why haven't we been back since 1972 then, eh? eh?"
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Strauss you massive cunt.
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Swann has gone. All out 390. For the love of god. See what happens when you bowl properly?
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Jul 17, 2009 5:13:35 AM CDT
I go for a smoke, miss the first couple of overs...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
and two wickets already!? Looks like we'll be knocking you over for better than expected. You guys need monty! hehehe
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Jul 17, 2009 5:16:50 AM CDT
But what it does point out is...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
the ball is moving and if you guys bowl well (ie. better than us, which isn't hard) then we'll find it tough.
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now Broad has gone. For the love of god. This means it's swinging like a cunt.
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Onions will last it out.
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This is much better than I had hoped for. I was being optomistic at 400.
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The ball moving. It's going to be an interesting day!
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I think it's going to rain.
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you know he's never had a duck. That's quite amazing for a number 10/11. He holds the record for consecutive scoring innings. However, I think now they should just throw the bat at it and hope to hit a lucky 20.
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Jul 17, 2009 5:33:53 AM CDT
That is pretty impressive, his record
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Looks like Onions is doing just that. 2 fours.
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Jul 17, 2009 5:35:42 AM CDT
Hauritz is injured. Siddle is sick apparently.
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
2 out of our 4 bowlers are incapacitated. Johnson will need to get his shit together in the second innings.
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400. Thank fuck. I always say you need 5 Bowlers. Australia were able to get away with 4 for years because Warne and McGrath were so good. This is exactly why you need 5. Maybe we can put Jimmy in at number 3?
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how fucking embarrasing.
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I'd want to punch Johnson in the face. He's keeping it tight and all his work is being squandered at the other end.
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Yeah right. What a joke.
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He's a disgrace.
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What a clown.
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that's not bad for a number 10.
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Jul 17, 2009 5:51:45 AM CDT
Johnson is bowling like a cockhead
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I'd fucking drop him but who the fuck do we replace him with? This is fucked. Letting these two put on 40 runs. Cunts.
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Bowl Hilfy and one end and North or Clarke at the other. Tie up one end with slow bowler and just tell Hilfy to bowl one of these cunts out. Johnsons a fucking joke right now. He's almost as pitiful as Broad.
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Johnson gets a completely undeserving wicket. What a cunt.
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an entertaining little thrash. Johnson= masive bag of cocks.
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I don't know how he's got the balls to be mouthing off at Jimmy as Jimmy walks off. If I had figures as utterly shit as that I'd keep my fucking trap shut. I hope Broad nails him in the face later.
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by any standard.
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It's swinging, they've basically got 1 bowler. Best hope to bat for 3 days.
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and went for 25 runs. That's disgraceful. And he's got the nerve to be running his mouth off. What a complete cunt.
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If England bowl as badly as they did in Wales Hughes is likely to hit the fucking ball so fucking hard that it is likely to land on my fucking desk.
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Letting those cunts put on 40-odd. But you do amuse me when you say Broad is better. hehehe You're a funny fucker. We will have to bat for two full days, make 700 and hope that Hilfy can take a bag in the second innings.
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at the moment. that's how tripe Johnson is.
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his bird on telly. Poor little diddums. What a cunt.
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Jul 17, 2009 6:19:28 AM CDT
Well... that's a good fucking start then
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Hughes you cunt.
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Jul 17, 2009 6:21:07 AM CDT
The cunt got out to a shithouse delivery...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
down leg side. What a fucking cunt.
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Swinging ball. Hughes= overrated.
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what have we learnt from the Ashes so far? 1)England are still garbage, but seem to have developed some spine. 2)Johnson= overrated. 3)Katich= underrated. 4)Punter still world class 5)Hughes= overrated.
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Fat Alky is opening the bowling. Been a while since I've seen that.
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Good Jimmy rather than evil twin useless Jimmy has turned up today.
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fair enough. If I was Strauss I'd only use him for 5 overs. Any more and he'll break down.
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8)Anderson= underrated with the bat. Fuck knows with the ball.
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I could probably do this all day.
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give it to either Broad or Onions. He's bowling too short.
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1. Monty has a backbone. 2. Strauss has a backbone. 3. Pietersen doesn't give a shit about anyone but himself (we knew that already, but this series has reiterated it) 4. The english can now consider Bopara overrated. No one else rated him, so he remains shithouse to everyone else. 5. Fat Alky made the right decision to retire. He's shit. 6. Swann is overrated. 7. Broad is even worse than first suspected. 8. Hilfy is actually good. 9. Siddle is as ugly as sin.
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Jul 17, 2009 6:36:05 AM CDT
I would feel a whole lot better about things if...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
katich would actually get off the fucking mark!
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thanks for nothing...you dirty bastard of a reliever! And so the second half begins much like the first. Score a few runs early, and then the bats....silent.Ollie actually only gave up 3 runs. But this call to the bullpen...leads to bye-bye tied game, and hello yet another loss.Fuckers.
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Bye bye punter. You're in all sorts of shit here.
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Johnson looks like Zoolander. Good Jimmy is also Lucky Jimmy. Prior actually can bat and isn't a flat track bully. Pity about his keeping.
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hehehehehehe
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This is great. Stay overcast and don't rain fuckers. Are the mets letting you down again Pillows?
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Hussey better fucking fire here. I'm not liking this one fucking bit.
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Aussies still don't like swing. Hauritz isn't actually as bad as first thought. He's still not good.
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TIE ME KANGAROO DOWN. I'd better make the most of this. England are sure to let me down in a bit. This actually shows how badly Johnson was bowling.
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that's fucking hilarious.
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Jul 17, 2009 6:46:05 AM CDT
yes...they continue their downward spiral to oblivion
by just pillow talk
Thanks Bobby Parnell.
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That saffa cunt should be shot. Actually, both those saffa cunts should be shot. Kuertzen for giving him out and Strauss for claiming the catch. Ponting will be SEETHING! I can see a Katich/Hussey go slow here. We're in for a long, frustrating day.
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HahahahahahahaThat was never out. Good. Couldn't happen to a more deserving cunt.
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off swann in Wales and run up to the Umpire brandishing the ball like the holy fucking grail or anything like that. That must have been some other cheating cunt captain of Australia. Couldn't happen to a more deserving cunt. Maybe that will teach him about Fair play.
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every summer. Still at least you've got the NFL to look forward to.
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"This is Edgbasten here" Moron. To begin with, it's lords. Secondly, only 3 of you played at Edgbasten and 2 of them weren't bowlers. Thirdly, Edgbasten was built on a fabulous Bowling performance, not a shit Australian bowling performance. Cretinous twat. The sooner he retires the better
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how funny. Still, this pans out nicely, as England effectively get to start afresh after lunch but with 2 convicts back in the cell.
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Jul 17, 2009 6:55:03 AM CDT
I have the sneaking suspicion..
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Katich and Hussey will grind this score up to 200+. I sense that Hussey's going to get a good score.
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then I would personally skin Johnson alive if I was you droid. It was his utter shithouse bowling that allowed Cook and Strauss to post this total- and it's clearly swinging and the pitch is good. What a waste. Best bowler in the world? Nope.
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Katich, the man with the single figure strike rate batting for that long is suicide inducing stuff.
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Jul 17, 2009 7:00:03 AM CDT
This is what I love about the poms
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
They always get WAY too ahead of themselves. Ooh! Look! We got a couple of wickets! We've got this in the bag! Fuck you convicts! TIE ME KANGAROO DOWN SPORT! WALTZING MATILDA! You hope and hope and hope so that your little dreams get so very big then.... CRASH! The bubble bursts and realisation sets in. Your shit. You have been shit and always will be shit. And at that point we sit back and laugh.
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you see, when you've been lumbered with the England cricket team for as long as I have, you have to learn to live with crushing disappointment. As a consequence of this, you therefore get overexcited when they are doing well for a while, before the inevitable fuck up. And Australians get to laugh at us for it. It's the price of having a shit team that occasionally do OK. It isn't fair.
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Jul 17, 2009 7:05:13 AM CDT
"You hope and hope and hope so that your little dreams get so ve
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That was very nice BTW
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excellent. If you'd offered me 430 for England and 2 Aussie wickets down (including Ponting- the cunt) before Lunch on the second day I'd have snapped your hand off for it.
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I'll be able to watch the Jets implode again this year, or suffer some horrendous defeat that should have never happened.It'll be sweet.
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about that hypocrite cunt Ponting?
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Don't they usually?
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Doesn't happen very often when the ashes is on. When was the Ponting thing?
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You have them confused with good teams like the Phillies, Red Sox, Yankees, Angels..etc.
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Jul 17, 2009 7:17:42 AM CDT
"If you'd offered me 430 for England..."
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
mate, if they offered you a fucking pint and a kebab you'd snap their hand off for it. If they offered you a toothbrush and a shower you'd leg it faster than that Bolt bloke.
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I thought they were sucking as well.
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cheating cunt. Cheeky bastard, my teeth are immaculate, I'll have you know. And I'm clean. You know how you hide a fiver from an Aussie? Put it under a bar of soap.
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How are the Indians doing?
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fucking work interfering.
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Jul 17, 2009 7:22:23 AM CDT
You've used that joke before, to similar effect
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Silence.
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Typical fucking Aussie running and whinging when they aren't doing well.
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Jul 17, 2009 7:23:22 AM CDT
I actually wrote that and thought...
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that a pint and a kebab would actually go down quite nicely right now.
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and it isn't as if you don't recycle material. hehehehehe. What a great day. I'm in a splendid mood.
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I find they're only a good idea when I'm slaughtered at 1 in the morning.
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Typical fucking inbred, halfwit pommy cunt who can't tell the difference between shit and clay. The "More importantly" was in reference to asking about the yankees. Fool.
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Anderson appealed for the LBW which should have been given, but that stupid Saffer cunt thought Ponting had hit it.
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un-huuuuh. Aussies. World's best winners.
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I don't really eat when I get drunk. I just end up drinking more. You can get some decent kebabs that don't make you feel as though you've eaten the ass out of a gorilla. (Which is why at 1am and slaughtered your natural instincts come out! hehehehe)
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you're usually better than that.
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Jul 17, 2009 7:31:13 AM CDT
"Aussies. World's best winners."
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
And world's most gracious losers. Don't forget about that. I'm not really sure how the poms accept winning. Apart from 2005 I've never seen them win. Anything. But from that hysterical display i'd put it down as "World's most embarrasing winners". A fucking OBE for Collingwood!?!?! It's ridiculous for the players that actually played in the series, let alone cameo colly!
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But at least i didn't recycle a joke that wasn't funny in the first place.
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what the fuck? You deluded fool. World's most petulant, moaning whinging, excuse making cunts of losers. Worst in universe outside of kiwis every rugby world cup. 2005 was embarrasing, frankly. It's because we don't get to win very often, and we've forgotten how to do it graciously. We're very gracious losers due to far too much fucking practice.
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Because they have the cricket on.
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my window that is a very, very low cloud layer. Lots of lovely swing this afternoon.
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Jul 17, 2009 7:35:42 AM CDT
I was being ironical, numbskull
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Jeez. Is there anyone home upstairs?
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Lying cunt. You're off to one of those soul destroying corporate cess pools masquerading as pubs stuffed full of suit cunts moaning about "the market" that dominate the docklands.
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Banker.
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no you weren't. Colonial ignoramus, because Australians think that irony is what their mum does to their favourite string vest.
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A horror movie about scary elevators. Started watching it last night, its got Naomi Watts...and its a fucking remake done by the original director.
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I watched Santas Slay last night. Which was mint.
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Jammy bastards
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and it's bright. GET OUT AND PLAY YOU CUNTS.
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In a pub. He's got that text messaging service that text's you stuff to say to make you sound like you know what your talking about when you are talking about sports.
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Need to hunt down.
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No I'm not. I'm at work. I'd much rather be at the pub.
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Where is that primitive screwhead?
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you stupid fucking cunts.
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Broads on. Chalk up those runs, lads.
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Damn it.
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we'll make it to 200 without further loss.
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bowling lots of gash so you cunts can whack 7 an over off him while Jimmy bowls maidens at the other end. Nice of him really. I can't believe it's raining at Lords. It's bright and dry here- and it's close to Lords.
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ballsy. Lots of breaks= destroyed concentration + Fresh bowlers + swing. Hussey will go.
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Why, all of a sudden, have you realised now how fun it is to make fun of the inbred, kilt-wearing, gap-toothed shower-dodger?
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Get the fucking covers off and GET OUT AND PLAY. CUNTS. But someone use this time to slap Broad in the face and tell him to pitch the fucking ball up.
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I feel it in my bones.
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Look, it's very simple: Population 60m= no inbreeding. Population of 16m on a fucking desert in sparsely populated towns that are 1000's of miles apart= lots of inbreeding. I was letting it slide, as it must be hard for you to type, what with having webbed lobster claws on tiny T-rex limbs where the rest of the human race has hands and arms, and being a gentleman (a concept lost on you primitive livestock molestors) I make allowances for your limitations. You grotesque mockery of a human being. Stick to Digeridoo playing.
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Is it that evil cunt Eli Roth? Cause fuck me if I thought I'd live to see the day when Robert De Niro sunk so fucking low as to be in an Eli "Bag of Cocks" Roth flick. This rant is all based on the fact that I'm assuming cuntface is directing Machete btw.
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From that point on your post was very amusing. Well done. But spouting statistics from nigh on 20 years ago, just goes to show how much of a drooling, sibling fucking, faeces throwing imbecile you really are.
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You know, that's rather fitting.
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Get the cricket back on fuckers. Fuck this country and it's shithouse weather.
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It's fucking sunny and there's no rain. GET OUT AND PLAY YOU CUNTS. I'm trying very hard to skive work here, and they're not making it easy. Re inbreeding, looking at the state of the Aussie team, ugly bastards to a man, I reckon a good few of them are (much like droid) from the shallow end of the gene pool.
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Yup. No argument there.
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I just reckon the Australians are taking turns hitting Johnson with a cricket ball in a sock for being such a disgrace.
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are probably doing the same to Broad.
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IMDB reliably informs me that some cunt called Ethan Manquis who fluffed/ edited Rodriguez on that piece of shit Grindhouse is directing.
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Jul 17, 2009 9:36:34 AM CDT
Out of interest (because I'm so bored)
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
And since we have been "discussing" result pitches recently, I looked up the results of all the ashes series to see how many actually achieved a result for every test match in the respecitive series. The results are pretty damning! Australia has hosted the ashes 32 times, and a result was achieved in every test on 20 occasions. The poms have also hosted it 32 times and a result in every test has been achieved 5 times! FIVE FUCKING TIMES! This can be put down to a combination of shithouse weather and shithouse pitches. FIVE FUCKING TIMES!
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What they should do is guarantee 5 days. Therefore if it does rain then there will absolutely be a result and England won't be able to hang on for a draw like in Wales.
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Jul 17, 2009 9:40:08 AM CDT
they'll be making up the lost time tonight
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
which means I'll be high-tailing it home on the stroke of 5 to catch the last hour because all the pubs around here are shithouse.
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and the pressure from broadcasters to guarantee 5 days, scores are now getting bigger. I think the ICC really need to address this- the game is too batsman friendly nowadays.
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full of suit wearing douchebags yattering on about how they really earned their bonus. Banker.
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Jul 17, 2009 9:41:52 AM CDT
Yeah, but then in some cases...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
the game would last a week! And even i'd tire of it after that long.
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Jul 17, 2009 9:43:28 AM CDT
I love those pubs as much as you love the walkabout
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Maybe even moreso. Cunt.
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And Broad is bowling. Good.
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Jul 17, 2009 9:45:05 AM CDT
is this onions bloke any good?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Never actually seen him bowl before.
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I'm reliably informed that he's got a great first class record. I think he's an Anderson-lite though. If it swings he'll take wickets, if it doesn't then he's pointless. I think they may be going for swing at both ends. Which isn't a bad idea.
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don't lie. They're full of your people.
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Strauss you complete cunt.
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very successfully.
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Jul 17, 2009 9:54:49 AM CDT
And I'm not surprised that you're stopping in at a...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Wetherspoons. They're full of sad, old, ugly, smelly, toothlesss, pathetic losers. But the pints are a little cheaper so it's okay!
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I remember when I first came over that they were actually good enough value that you could pop into one for a couple of cheap, sneaky pints and put up with the dero's. Now they're like 50p cheaper than a regular pub so they're not worth it.
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to burn it down, you faeces-lobbing simpleton. Christ you're stupid. I'm not surprised given that cretinism is an Australian hallmark.
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I'm going back to swearing at that massive cock juggling thundercunt Broad.
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this is driving me ballistic. PUT JIMMY BACK ON STRAUSS YOU CUNT.
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he's conceded more runs in in half the overs that Anderson has bowled, Cunt.
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He's trying to bounce Hussey out. What the fuck is wrong with him? Why on earth does he think that's going to work. IT'S FUCKING SWINGING YOU IDIOT. PITCH IT UP.
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He's bought swann on. I may have to punch him. PUT JIMMY ON YOU FUCKING IDIOT.
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Sounds familiar... Oh that's right. I just used it! Sounded better the first time.
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because you lack a proper vocabulary, and like most cretinous Aussies struggle to express yourself. I merely improved upon your sub par original. You should be thanking me, you ungrateful cunt
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Jul 17, 2009 10:29:46 AM CDT
These two are going along quite nicely now
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Two accumulators at the crease. I like it. Katich is ridiculously difficult to get out nowadays and we all know how good The Huss can be. 2-200+ is on the cards by the end of play.
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Cause you guys won't stop talking about fucking cricket. If I wanted sports talk I would pay attention to the 3 guys that hang around the cube behind me and talk about American Football all fucking day.
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Jul 17, 2009 10:33:18 AM CDT
That's the difference between Aussies and Poms
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
We throw like men, you lob like limp-wristed fudge packers.
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We've attempted other talk. But since no ones around to join in we go back to cricket.
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Jul 17, 2009 10:37:56 AM CDT
Plus you guys don't really understand the rivalry
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
And since this happens for 6 weeks every two years, we make the most of it.
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He can bowl all day if he wants.
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Sleepaway Camp 2 review posted. Can you do me a favour droid? I can't tell if the pictures came out. Can you have a look for me?
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But not others. They are marked with a red x. But that is most likely because my work internet blocks most stuff. I'm probably not the best person to ask.
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On that fucked up note, I'm off. 3-103. We've got a lot of work to do and Clarke better get a fucking century. Hussey is assured of one. have a good weekend and this time on monday we will all be celebrating an aussie victory!
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I do indeed suck. I'd better get some other ones. It's hard getting pictures for these sort of films on these computers. I keep getting blocked for Bad Taste, Violence, sex and nudity.
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"We'll make it to 200 without loss" BLAH BLAH BLAH
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Check out my review for Moon. http://tinyurl.com/nkfte4
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Hope so.
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No need to be huffy. I can talk about that and Clarke's bizarre mullet if you want.
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this is now totally England's day.
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What's going on? Oh, fucking cricket again?
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but it's only me and droid here, so we always revert to arguing amongst ourselves. Don't worry it's over soon
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Quoth droid: " 2-200+ is on the cards by the end of play" As opposed to say, 114 for 5. Silly boy. On that hilarious note, I'm off. No more of this on Monday,
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You can check out my Moon review. http://tinyurl.com/nkfte4
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Try to watch The Devil Tomb, [REC], The Shaft and Dragon War this weekend. SyFy has been showing some pretty good stuff recently.
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Only part 1. Didn't they try to pretend that part II and III never happened and one of the latter sequels is the true continuation of the story? I think someone told me that pt II or III exists in a universe where Freddy and Jason are both real killers.
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And bouncy. http://tinyurl.com/lhm265
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And why should I care. I make a better looking girl doing the ole tuck between then she does.
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I hear she's crazy now. Like, certifiable.
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http://tinyurl.com/c7wfpb A company making people join Facebook, then making sure that their facebook profile fits with the companies policys. What is going to happen to people like me who got on facebook before they realized the sort of impact it would have, and their is shit on their that would not be deemed safe for the office? I mean I got pictures I've tried to get rid up but they keep coming up. Nothing bad just me drinking and shooting guns, just not the sort of thing some corporate boss with a stick up his ass would approve of. I think they should sepate social networking sites and hiring/staffing policies like church and state. Its just going to get worse as it goes along. I mean think about kids who will have had Facebook accounts since middle school all the way through college trying to get a job now. Especially now where you CAN'T get rid of shit you put on it. Soon it'll be like Gattaca with the job bar code things or whatever they had in that movies, its been a while.
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Was she the vomit or the ghost I can't tell?
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Well have fun with that suck fest
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And has what I like to call a Stuntcock Mike kind of ass (see his QOTD at AIBN to see what I am talking about).
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That's the way we wish it wasn't. RIP Walter.
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*sniffle*
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it IS true. Damn.
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Crazy in the police are holding her against her will to do psychiatric testing kind of way.
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is that true? What prompted that?
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WOW.....that WWZ TB was a trip. Don't know how you kept your cool w/smegma.
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I don't know about you Vader but that just makes her hotter in my book.
Oh, and Hint of Smegma is a douche. I know you can't read the Let the Right One In TB, but if you did you would see the guy is condescending and has to win every argument. Fuck, I actually had to pull out interviews with the director to prove that he was wrong AND he still wouldn't accept it. -
hmmm...not the movie I would've made on that subject. Got the impression that the director was unsure of anything beyond vag-with-teeth, and didn't really know how to balance horror, drama, and black comedy (which isn't an easy feat I imagine). A lot of mixed messages going on. Not really a good movie, but not terrible either.
My brain is still toggling between a few different interpretations. Haven't decided which one I like best yet. But--no surprise here--that movie really brought out the nutjobs on IMDB boards. What a bunch of tongue cleaners. They keep dropping these bullshit statistics...I oughtta school 'em, but fuck, it's IMDB. What's the point? -
Like what the percentage of women born with vagina dentata really is? Or how the vagina doesn't really exist (I mean, they've never seen it)?
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More about how rape almost never REALLY happens...just bitches telling lies.
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Quick!
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Has anyone seen this show? It is pretty funny, if you enjoy laughing at teenagers. It is a 'reality' show about a teenage group of ghost hunters. It's very stupid but still sort of awesome.
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Ohhhh local news how you entice me with suck awesome titles in your preview commercials.
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Well, I've dealt with a lot of dbags-tongue cleaners- on this site before. Each new one helps me keep my cool with the next one. And to Smegma's credit, he did refrain from insulting most of the time. But he is still very condescending and *does* have to win every argument. And if you see that WWZ talkback, he constantly tries to shift the argument away from the REAL POINT in an attempt to claim victory. Whatever.
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I read a story somewhere yesterday that on Thursday, police were called to Mischa Barton's house for a "medical issue" and then escorted Barton off the premises to an "undisclosed location". I checked back later, yesterday, and they said the police were holding her under a Code 5150, which lets them... well, here's the quote: "Barton has placed under an involuntary psychiatric hold by the LAPD and transferred to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on Wednesday evening.
According to the code, authorities can hold a person involuntarily if they present a danger to themselves or others, are gravely disabled or suffer from a mental disorder. This same code was used to hold Britney Spears twice in Los Angeles in January 2008.
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The Outsiders, well ain't that a poop in the pants.
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Is still up and running? Well ain't that a bigger poop in the pants.
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Why'd he give up on Twitch? I see him else where.
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You are so true. "Ron is gay." That is why The Soup is the best.
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Went to see Moon. Good. Slow to get going, then it got kind of hypnotic. Sam Rockwell is excellent. And the other guy, Sam Rockwell, he's quite good too. When the robot assistant's animated happy/sad mood face shed a tear - I found that oddly moving.Clint Mansell has come up with another top score.
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is old Twitch. Shameful. Off the pace and nearly off the chart.
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The model work was reassuringly old school, I thought. I kept thinking of Space 1999. I don't mean that negatively or anything. Looking forward to the DVD already.
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Mr Cronkite. I've only ever seen the clips of him reacting to the JFK assassination & the moon landing. Always good to see news readers displaying some emotion.
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At the start, when Sam Rockwell's credit comes up, you see an echo of his credit in the background. Quite clever that, considering the premise...
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I know I went out with her.
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She's got that big back fourty so I would throw a hump in her. Plus it doesn't hurt that her buring in hell attorney farther left her mucho dinero that I think I should help her spend....on me.
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I think that will be my next user name.
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Listening to Jarv and Droid rip each other new assholes is fun.
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Will be in trailers all over the place...just like always. Check out my review. http://tinyurl.com/ksc9c8
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For some reason it looks really well done, not low budget at all. But the acting is for shit. I know the director is probably does not have English as his first language, bu the actors all seem like they don't either. Even though they are American.
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What a shitty fucking movie. Like the movie had no sense of style or look, it was just so flat and boring looking. Even the attempts of style didn't look like style. Just a fucking bad movie. What a waste of an interesting cast. Its pretty sad that Henry Rollins give the best performance in the group. Everyone else took the whole thing too seriously. Ron Pearlman was wasted. Its not even a so bad its good movie, its just a bad boring movie. I turned on the commentary between Sean Connerary Jr and Cuba for like 10 minutes. Much better and interesting then the actual movie. It was funny too because they were talking about it like it was getting a full theatrical release. Funny comparing how good David Bowie's son movie was compared to Sean Connerary's.
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Which was better then Quarantine, mainly because the final monster was a lot better. But they are so similar its hard to say ONES BETTER. The main reason I put [REC] above Quarantine is because the girl only gets intolerable about 3/4ths the way in, the Dexter girl you want to punch in the face about 10 minutes into the movie.
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Ron Pearlman is in The Shaft!!!!!!!!!!! Nice.
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Micheal Ironside is in this shit as well. FUCK ME Areosmith on the soundtrack??? What the fuck, how is not some bigger hit?
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Mentioned as well? When the fuck was this made? I may need to buy this.
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Fake news network in the movie.
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American remake or a foreign horror movie. Along with [REC] I've come to the conclusion that horror movies are OK to remake in english. Only for the pure fact that reading shit sometimes takes away from the intensity of whats taking place on the screen. While it is not needed in all cases like Let the Right One In, slow movies like that don't needed it. But I understand a redo of [REC] and respect it for pretty much redoing it. Even though Quarantine did not have the REAL feel to it that [REC] did.
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They show "The President" in the Shaft and I was like MAN THAT GUY SOUND LIKE A KANUCK, sure enough its Michael J. Reynolds, born and raised in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. http://tinyurl.com/llozcp
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For Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy in a way. If I remember right, part of the story about how science advanced started with the creation of smarter elevators. Ones that showed up before you even pushed the button. Something like that. I should read that book again, one of the few books in which I actually LOL'ed (Laughed Out Loud) whilst reading. HAHAHA The chip's used in the elevators, were created at first using cells from Dolphins, then they moved to HUUUUMMMAAANNNSS!!! Spooky elevator.
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Say Hello. Classic line.
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For me, the model work on Space:1999 was the best part. Especially the ships. Eagles and Alien ships alike, very detailed and quite convincing in *flight*.
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Parodied the fucking boot throwing event that happened to Ms George W. Bush.
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That was a fucking intense episode. Fucking can't wait for next week. I know I'm one of 4 people in the world (its popular on Omicron Persei 8 though I hear)......wait it didn't end when I thought it did, these next 15 minutes are getting boring mighty fast. At least NBC had the peacock to finish out the series.
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AKA Dragon War, a movie so nice they named it twice. AHahahah they Jackie Brown feller is in this. This movie better fuck my eyeballs.
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Its fucking bad ass. I guess it won the F-1 Grand Prix or some shit. http://tinyurl.com/cwywdr
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What do Marty and The Pianist have in common, 1st caller with the right answer gets a copy of Akon's new cd, and two VIP passes to his upcoming show in Chinook.
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Let's go bowling, Dude.
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When they just put comic book covers onto T-shirts? Unless its a really cool cover. Trying to find a cool Deadpool t-shirt and Hot Topic has this crappy cover t-shirts. Did find one cool one though.
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But only certain ones. I can't stand it when I see people wearing super insignia t-shirts, like when some adult guy is wearing a t-shirt that shows the chest emblem of Batman, Green Lantern, Flash or Captain Marvel. Of course I also hate it when I see guys wearing NYPD or NYFD hats or sports jerseys.
I'm thinking "You're a forty-year old dude. Face it, you're never going to grow up to be Lebron James or Superman. Time to move on."
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I bought it in high school (i pretty much still wear all the same clothes from high school). But here is the Deadpool t shirt I found. http://tinyurl.com/rchtlf I try not to look like a complete doofus with my clothing, as I say that though I am wearing a Spongebob t-shirt (come on I'm celebrating his anniversary like the rest of America). Plus I'm not grossly overweight so I'm not busting the seems, those guys are the worst.
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Patton Oswald bit about that. About how dads always look like they are wearing the same clothes that they were wearing their last year of being single. Or something like that. Its pretty much true for all guys I am thinking, unless you have a huge weight change.
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Hopefully its as fucked up as they say.
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Check out my review for Moon http://tinyurl.com/ksc9c8
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But it may as well be a posable statuette, its pretty damn detailed.
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I wonder if it holds up. When I saw it as a kid and then in my early twenties I thought it was really f-ed up.
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You have sold me on MOON. It sounds smart (which is rare nowadays). I think I am going to see it this week.
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I forgot to send a card!
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I've got one with 'Nostromo' on it.It's very cool.
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Absolutely, on Space 1999, wasn't dissin it at all. Love that show. Must get the series on DVD...
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Good little review, mate. The same place I saw Moon is also presenting a one-off showing of Sunshine next weekend. Never saw it on the big screen so I'm hoping to make that one.
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I got what you meant about the models. Did you know the story going in? The part with the credits you mentioned, I wondered if I would have caught the inference.Good call on the Nostromo T, I have the Bostromo ball cap w/scrambled eggs on the bill. It's my favorite.
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Pretty slow morning, did you really go bowling? Not much going on in the TB's so I went to the range. Noisy, but haven't gone in a while, good way to relieve some stress.
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Nah, I didn't go bowling. I was quoting John Goodman in "The Big Lebowski". I just moved into a new house with my girlfriend, so I spent the day doing yardwork and mowing the lawn, which I don't think had been done in over a year. But it was beautiful here today. A great day for golfing, that's for sure. Hope you had a good one.
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You should check out Sunshine on the big screen. I mean its a movie about the Sun you need to see it on the biggest screen available.
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THAT IS FUCKING AWESOME! I wonder if they are going to talk about remake. Man I would love to go to that, that is probably one of the coolest screenings I've heard of in a while.
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I feel bad that I let Sunshine slip through the cracks when it was out. Like MOON, only played in one theater, and that's in the "bad" part of town. But I shall brave the elements (and _______) and see it Mon or Tue, then it's off to Comic Con!
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Have a great time at the WARRIORS. I haven't seen it in ages, used to be on TV quite a lot, haven't seen it listed lately. Perhaps a trip to Blockbuster is in order.
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Ever since Walter Cronkite died, I cannot stop thinking about Robert McNamara. Almost sort of obsessively. Weird.
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I got drunk and high at a friend's pool party and wasn't watching the time.
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Conti, you sound like you're confessing a crime. Only, you're confessing to something you DIDN'T do.
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but 20 year old, bikini clad actresses kicks even more ass. Still, the Warriors comes in a sort of, kinda close second. Well not that close really but roughly in the same county. Bikini clad actresses will always win. FACT.
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I really like that film.
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Team America (again), When We Were Kings (great), Motel Hell (I'm writing this one up today) which was all sorts of crap aside from a hilarious last third and something else that I can't think of at the moment. I'm sure it will come back to me.
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"Pride and Prejudice with Zombies"Well, I bought that one, but can't stop giggling at the first page because I hate Jane Austen and it's really funny. I read an Ian Banks book.
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until it looks like Australia are winning then he'll come on full of piss and vinegar. PS- Mitchell Johnson and Phil Hughes= worst 2 players on show.
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aside from that I fell asleep in a mexican horror film because it was on too late. It was a very quiet weekend really.
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Pity I'm skint or I'd go to the pub at lunch on a lovely day like this.
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"with zombies" that's inspired.
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On the weekend I had a few drinks on friday night, went to a festival on saturday and vegetated all day sunday watching the cricket.
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England - swing = Shithouse The only reason you were in a winning position on sunday was because THREE! out of the top FOUR! were incorrectly given out. FUCKING THREE! Imaging the fucking uproar if Strauss, Cook and Pietersen were all given out incorrectly. As soon as the horrendous decisions stopped flowing the game changed. But despite that shit, it's made it quite interesting and if Clarke and Haddin can put on at least 100 runs without loss then we have a very good chance of winning this. Which would be a ridiculous effort due to the decisions of the match and also the no small point that the total is 100 runs higher than the record.
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Jul 20, 2009 3:41:50 AM CDT
Mitchell Johnson has been the worst player
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
But not Hughes. Bopara has been fucking pathetic. Completely out of his depth even against this bowling line up. Hauritz has been surprisingly good. Getting the top 3 is no small effort.
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And bring in Lee if fit.
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real time it looked like a catch, slow motion those always look not out. I wouldn't complain about that one. Any how he'd already been dropped and was playing like utter shit. He'd have gone soon afterwards.
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and Hussey also could have gone either way. He also looked like shit. Bopara has far more runs than Hughes so far.
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one great series "best bowler ever" then utter shit. I'd drop him as well. Personally, I think if England get Clarke early they should win. I can see the Aussies winning it. If we lose then I want to horsewhip Pietersen and Bopara for playing like complete dickheads on Saturday afternoon. It too Prior to come to the rescue, for fuck's sake. And I didn't complain about some of the shit decisions England got in Cardiff.
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you are the ugliest lot in world cricket. It's amazing.
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without swing they're fucking hopeless. Fat Alky looked good, but he can't bowl every over. There's something badly wrong with Broad at the moment- he needs to just bowl line and length and ignore the speed gun. Anderson is Anderson. So fuck knows there.
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Strauss, Katich, Ponting, KP (Just although both those players have been crap), Clarke, Haddin, Freddie, Hauritz (I'm amazed at that), Siddle, Anderson, Hilfenhaus. Prior and Collingwood have been quite good, but Clarke has been excellent and Haddin a worse keeper but more runs. Aside from that the let downs have been Hughes, Broad, Johnson and Swann. Hughes is probably about 5 years short of ready. He'll be good one day, but it's too early at the moment.
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all the bowlers have got worse under his coaching. With the exception of Jimmy, who just ignores him nowadays.
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including that utter toss England bowled at Cardiff. Bopara has more. Both look out of their depth.
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then your entire side should be down on their knees blowing Clarke for a fucking superhuman effort. He was brilliant yesterday.
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pah. Where are the loonies?
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Jul 20, 2009 4:20:09 AM CDT
The catch should have been referred
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
In exactly the same situation the previous day, Hauritz caught Bopara. It was referred and called not out. Why wasn't this one referred? Just need some consitency.
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Jul 20, 2009 4:28:33 AM CDT
Clarke was pretty awesome yesterday
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
What was interesting to watch was the shift in style after he got a sniff. When he came in he was just playing loose. Hussey and North went and I think he just thought 'fuck it' and set about knocking it about a bit. But Haddin stuck with him and they both started to realise they could actually pull this off and their style of play shifted into a safer, knock and run style. Really good to watch.
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but I wouldn't have been upset if it had been called against England. The problem is technology actually clouds the issue with those low catches- you can very rarely tell one way or the other. And the batsman always gets the benefit of the doubt. He'd have gone soon after anyway.
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Because they played well for 3 1/2 days. Australia don't deserve to win. But if they do, then yes, they should be kissing Clarkes feet.
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A bit shakey to begin with, but once he knuckled down he looked unmovable.
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how often do you see the team that played better lose? If that never happened then the All Blacks should always win the Rugby World Cup.
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Jul 20, 2009 4:34:25 AM CDT
"He'd have gone soon after anyway."
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Beside the point and a shit excuse. If one gets referred, then all should get referred. You don't go discuss it with someone who was 20 metres away then give him out. If it clouds the issue, then don't use it.
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Jul 20, 2009 4:36:52 AM CDT
"And the batsman always gets the benefit of the doubt."
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Exactly. The reason fuckhead Koertzen walked over to Doctrove was because there was doubt. If there was doubt then refer it. Don't just give it out and hope that you're right.
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I'm not complaining or arguing. I agree, it should have been referred and he'd have been not out. But if it happened to England then I wouldn't have been upset about it- we aren't talking about a bouncing ball like that cheating cunt De Villiers claimed- it was a fingertip catch that looked legit in real time. Only when you slow it down do you get doubt. I agree, if it clouds the issue then don't use the technology. Strauss will have thought he caught that legitimately and it looked like a fucking good catch.
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Yes, the Warriors is awesome but bikini clad actresses are a little more awesome. And I plan on going tonight, but none of the stars of the movie will be there. So I do feel a little guilty - I can go to a bikini pool party again, but how often am I going to be able to meet James Remar, Deborah Van Valkenburgh and David Harris in person and be able to pitch my script "THE OLD WARRIORS"? It is 30 years later, the Warriors are all grown up and working stiffs and have to travel from the Bronx to Coney Island to escape their creditors...
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Jul 20, 2009 4:39:54 AM CDT
Anyway, it'll be an interesting morning session
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
And as I said, besides the shitty umpiring, England actually do deserve to win. The problem I have always pointed out about England is that they don't seem to KNOW how to win. They know how to hold on for a draw, that's for sure. But I don't reckon they know how to finish off a match.
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in the M Hack Shylaman thread.
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Totally true. No confidence in their abilities when in front.
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bit of wind. Hope good Jimmy turns up. I think Strauss has fucked this up. He should have enforced the follow on.
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I heard the other day that this was being remade. I fucking hope not.
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What the fuck? Who cares. That will be worse than Watchmen.
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Jul 20, 2009 4:49:05 AM CDT
I was very surprised by not enforcing the follow on
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
He had Australia on the ropes. Why not keep at it and at worst chase down a small total. Bad decision.
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That's fucking weird.
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Never seen it. Not sure why. Also heard about a remake yonks ago.
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like I understood the overnight declaration. My logic would be: You always enforce the follow on, because the chances of losing are fucking remote, and if ever there's a team that you need to crush the confidence of it's Australia. However if you don't, then you bat to about 700 and put them out of the game. Bad captaincy all round.
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The whole thing sounds like a clusterfuck. Rogen, Stephen Chow in then out, Gondry (?), multiple scripts. Bleugh. No thanks.
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is very much of it's time. It is cool and everything, but a remake of it makes no fucking sense at all.
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No thank you. Seriously, he's got no superpowers except being a great detective, has shit loads of money and a dopey sidekick. He's fucking Batman in an overcoat. I could live with The Shadow being redone. That would be OK.
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that book is unfilmable. That's got fuck up written all over it. There will be far too much of the American soldier and they'll completely bollocks the Japanese and Chinese sections.
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I expected England to at least get the lead up to 600. It would make it nigh on impossible to win (especially seeing as though 420-odd is the record). But then again, I have to say, 520 is a safe bet. But there was just too much time available for Australia. You have to protect yourself against the loss. Bat a bit longer, and make it a win/draw scenario. I think he accounted for bad weather and made the wrong decision.
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it's a bit damned if you do, damned if you don't. If England win by 100 runs, say, then he'll look like a genius. If England lose he's going to get slaughtered. I agree though, he attempted to second guess British weather. Which is stupid- and the best time to bowl in the last few days was when Bopara and Pietersen were batting. He got it badly wrong.
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I'm still giggling about Pride and Prejudice with Zombies. That shit is funny.
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By Tony Scott. So right there says it will suck (Tony Scott + Remakes = Sucks).
Plus I doubt they will get any of the references right. Everyone always mentions that it is based on Anabasis by Xenophon - that is BS. The BOOK is based on Anabasis, the movie itself is obviously riffing on The Odyssey more than it is Anabasis. In fact, it is a much more faithful version of the Odyssey then Brother Where Art Thou was. -
The Shadow. I'm going to think of some more.
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Haddin's gone. Apparently.
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Fat Alky strikes again. Looking at this makes me a bit sad. He really could have been some fucking player if he hadn't been such a degenerate cunt. Like Symonds.
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Go for a smoke and we lose Haddin. I'm going to have to quit. We always seem to lose wickets when I'm smoking!
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but it could have been great
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Watched it again recently. Awesome flick. Wasn't Raimi going to remake it?
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Jul 20, 2009 5:14:38 AM CDT
Johnson needs to put in a performance that...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
saves his series.
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But because he couldn't get the rights he had to make Dark Man. I could be wrong.
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to justify his existance. What's his defending like?
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and I hope Raimi doesn't remake it. It's a good film, just not what it should have been.
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Hauritz is playing well, and can certainly defend.
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The Philip Wylie novel. With superhero movies so big now, it would the best revisionism version of them (and considering the book was written before Superman ever was made makes it pretty amazing).
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The Ring. The American version is dogshit, and there is enough material for a good translation of it.
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could stand a remake as well.
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goes through with that The Funhouse remake then I'm going to hunt him down and feed him his own entrails
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That's game over if we manage that.
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I mean that is a movie that would be impossible for him to fuck up.
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a better question is why won't he fuck off into obscurity where he belongs?
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Is the ending. I was bored with that movie until the part when the kid sits up in his bed, nose bleeding, and says they weren't supposed to free her. The entire girl coming out of the TV thing was freaky.
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but the end of The Japanese version thrashes it. They cribbed from Ringu and it's sequel for the American version. Kruger is one of the worst hack writers around and should have his fingers smashed.
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so he wasn't out. This is classic England. Get to a position that should be bomb proof and somehow find a way to fuck it up.
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Jul 20, 2009 5:33:13 AM CDT
I quite liked the first Ring remake
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I found it quite effective. I have tried to watch japanese horror and found it boring. And I've stopped watching the remakes after that dreadful Damp Ceiling flick with Connolly and the piece of shit with Gellar.
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The Japanese one was good. The American one was appaling. The less said about The Grudge, the better.
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Jul 20, 2009 5:35:19 AM CDT
I'm not sure Johnson can defend
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I think he'll just play shots and hope it comes off. If it does, great. If it doesn't, then Hauritz can come in and defend. I think it's the right decision to send in Johnson first.
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QT deserves a lot of credit for helping spawn the American Independent movement of the 90s and being the first major new director of the 90s, but he also deserves a lot of blame.
The guy pushes and advocates a lot of bad movies. And he champions a lot of shitty filmmakers.
Me and some friends have a theory about QT - he is only buddies with bad directors because he knows they will never steal his lime light. And the only one of his directing buddies that makes movies that are once-in-awhile hits is Robert Rodriguez and you know he'll never make a movie that will win the Palm d'Or at Caan or an Academy Award. QT's genius credentials are intact as long as he keeps hanging around the filmmakers he does. He is a midget amongst dwarves. -
I'm stealing that.
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it looks like he's trying to hurt him. He's whacked Johnson about 6 times so far.
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twat. Is he trying to lose this game. Just stick it a good way outside off stump you stupid cunt.
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this is like fucking Edgbasten in 2005 when England should never have lost but nearly managed to.
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Off for another smoke to calm me down.
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Jul 20, 2009 5:47:57 AM CDT
"He is a midget amongst dwarves"
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Funny.
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I've been using your "He's so far in the closet he's in Narnia" line for awhile now.
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We will do our job keeping Twitch afloat by bitching about the cricket.
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it's upsetting me.
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Damn. Damn. Damn.
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Jul 20, 2009 6:02:55 AM CDT
Johnson needs to play the innings of his life here
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
And Hauritz as well. England should win this now.
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I'm glad you told me that droid. I was actually working as it was upsetting me.
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fucker had to after the Cardiff fiasco.
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That seemed to work last time.
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Long way to go with only 2 wickets.
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In all honesty, the difference between the 2 sides is going to come down to Johnson's piss poor match figures of 3-200. What a cunt.
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Can't expect Siddle or Hilfy to hang on for another 150 runs. I dare say I'd just tell Johnson to throw the bat at it and see if he can somehow pull off the ridiculous.
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that's ok. Chances are higher getting out doing that.
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Jul 20, 2009 6:29:46 AM CDT
Well it is last roll of the dice time
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
May as well.
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How much the Mets got outscored during their four game series with the Braves, losing three of them.Fuckers.
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to cheer for. I have no fucking idea what that is like.Fuckers.
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That's almost it. Fat Alky has a 5 for. He's bowled magnificently in both innings. Best performance since 2005. What a shame he was a degenerate cunt when he was younger. He could have been incredible.
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I just read yesterday that another author is writing "SENSE AND SENSIBILITY WITH SEA MONSTERS". How bout that.
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apart from a few years between 2001-2005 England have been shit at every sport that I care about.
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Fuckers.
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Seems the second one is infringing mightily on the first's book.
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Have some of that you dirty marsupial shagging convict bastard. Now that's a thrashing.
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"By Jane Austen and extended by..." Then in the bio he's written "Once attended an English Lit class". Funny guy. There's ninjas in P&PWZ as well. That's good on every level.
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the Aussies have run away. They'll return with a full compliment of whinging reasons why they lost, practically none of which will be down to that they were thrashed.
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Ponting must be fuming. Not only is he the man that lost the Ashes after 20 years, but he's also the cunt that lost that 75 year unbeaten record at Lords.
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Johnson gets out flailing wildly. Which is fair enough because that's what he needed to do. England deserve to win because they performed better than Australia. Doctrove and Koertzen should be taken out the back and shot. There were at least 5 fucking decisions that went against Australia. Johnson needs to be dropped. Possibly drop Hussey if Watson is fit. We need options in the bowling dept. Ricky won't be happy. No, he won't be happy at all.
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I still reckon the Aussies will win overall 2-1, but I expect to see Johnson dropped for the next test for Clark.
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you primitive inbred gap-toothed shower dodgingsibling fucker. If your IQ is so low as to think that a 116 run victory when chasing 520-odd is a thrashing then you're even more of a drooling, leg-humping mongoloid than I originally thought. My apologies for giving you too much credit. It won't happen again.
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But would it be too much to ask to include samurai monkeys? Someone's gotta throw them in a book and/or movie. I think them with zombies is gold. Except all the zombies are midgets.
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and it looks now like a mistake not taking Jaques. Hughes is shakey, Hussey looks shot and Johnson is a disgrace to the baggy greens. This is going to be a tight series.
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Jul 20, 2009 6:58:30 AM CDT
Johnson will be dropped for Lee
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
It's Hilfy or Clark. Right now, theres no reason to drop Hilfy. Dickhead.
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I don't think it's ever happened, but no one has ever had a werewolf midget, have they? Correct me if I'm wrong here people.
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Straight away. "It was the umpires, waaaaaaaaaaah". We got our share of shit decisions at Cardiff, you were just too crap to bowl Monty (of all people) out. I shall be magnaminous though. I feel sorry for you, it must smart losing a 75 year record. PS. Did it hurt typing that sentence?
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That is ripe to be remade with midgets.
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Jul 20, 2009 7:00:24 AM CDT
Hussey will get dropped if Watson is fit
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Clarke will move up to 4, North to 5 and Watson at 6.
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you know that was an annihalation. Clarke and Haddin deserve much kudos for getting you up to that level. I appreciate that 200 years of inbreeding for stupidity make this difficult for you to understand (much as you continue to struggle with the difference between £10 and £25- I suppose you'd have been able to grasp it if it had been trade in beads) but you are not the side of old. Don't worry though, I'm always willing to help out those primitive corners of the Empire that are incapable of logical thought.
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Out for Justice, Jurassic Park 3, Lethal Weapon 3, The Fly II, and some war movie that took place during the Korean War. A platoon stayed behind to keep the Koreans busy while the main army retreated.
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Seth Rogan? Really?
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Jul 20, 2009 7:04:28 AM CDT
"We got our share of shit decisions at Cardiff"
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
What decisions were they? You had one bad LBW decision that got out the shithouse Bopara. Apart from that you had decisions go your way, like the plum LBW on Cook (which Australia also got the next day). You're dribbling absolute shit again. Really. Stop trying to justify the umpiring by using incorrect statements. But that's to be expected from an ignoramus. PS. Does it hurt your tiny little brain to type anything?
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And how come Hughes is bomb-proof? 3 scores, the best of which was 30 on 2 good batting pitches, out to shit shots every time. If you'd taken Jaques he'd be dropped.
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So I woke up, and I see that just pillow talk is mentioning the Korean War film Fixed Bayonets by Sam Fuller.
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but that Brain comment was your worst yet. You can have dignity in defeat. Even a moronic Convict dirtbag, the clear product of 200 years of intermarraige between the lowest scum of this country should be able to work that out. You're going to need to practice it as well, this England side is 2-bob and if you just lost to us at Lords (where we can't buy a win) then there are plenty of far better teams out there that will wipe the floor with you.
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Fuck do I feel like shit.
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Man, you really can't grasp the concept of a wager can you? I'm not going to bother trying to explain it to a fucking moron so maybe you can ask the carer at your special needs 'school' to explain it with marshmallows and cookies.
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That they really secretly deep down love each other.
No two people insult each other that much unless they are in denial and trying to hide the fact how much they really want to sleep with that other person.
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A wager is something that takes place between Gentlemen. Something a drooling primitive like yourself cannot understand. You said: "I just lost £25, well technically £10". This suggests that you do not know the difference between your original stake and the potential win. There is nothing technical about it, you lost £10. You stood to win £25. I suggest, sir, that it is you that does not understand the concept of a wager. But then, breeding will out.
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Jul 20, 2009 7:13:48 AM CDT
I'd like to think I'd have taken it this badly if we'd lost
by lost jarv
Mind you, I've had far more practice at that. Droid just isn't used to it. YET.
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Nah, I just dislike people who are obviously stupid, yet pretend to be intelligent.
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hehehehe
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Jul 20, 2009 7:15:47 AM CDT
I haven't actually taken it badly
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I'm just amused by you're imbecilic posturing.
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Jul 20, 2009 7:16:45 AM CDT
"self hatred is a very unnatractive character trait."
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Pathetic. Even by your abysmal standards.
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That be the movie. Unfortunately, I only caught part of it, which I seem to do with every single movie I watch now.
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with some good beer.Good beer makes everything better.It's true, I read it in a book once.
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Jul 20, 2009 7:19:14 AM CDT
"you lost £10. You stood to win £25."
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Numbnuts, I lost a potential £25. It's really quite fucking simple. Even an inbred primate like you could understand.
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I wish my workday was done so that I could down a beer.
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that's sad. Especially after your laughably feeble "brain" comment earlier. Much like the whole Aussie side your report reads "Must do better"Fun over for me as it looks like KP and Fred are going to be out for Edgbasten. England will attempt to shore up the batting and recall Bell and A.N.Other batsman (probably Shah). Which means we will lose and normal service can be resumed.
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You lost £10. You stood to win £25. This is why the economy is broken. You and your suit-clad ilk not understanding gambling properly. As I said, wagers are between gentlemen, something that is singularly beyond you.
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There has to be lots out there that could do with a remake. The problem is that they insist on remaking films that were fine to begin with.
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Jul 20, 2009 7:25:15 AM CDT
"like the whole Aussie side your report reads"
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
"Must do better" HAHAHAHAHAHA Pathetic! I thought you couldn't get worse than that "self-hatred" line, but you've managed to pull it off.
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Along with Steel Helmets, another Sam Fuller movie set in Korea. Both are damn good war movies - no war porn like a certain bearded filmmaker.
Fixed Bayonets! (I think it is one of those movies that is supposed to have an exclamation point at the end) is a film that I have a big soft spot for. Besides being by Sam Fuller, it is a film I watched with my dad and is very reminiscent of his Korean experiences (although admittedly he never saw as much action as the guys in that movie did). It got my dad's seal of approval - making it "authentic" in my book.
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oh dear. Now I feel really bad for you.
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Baked beans, bad beer and cheap wine. Plus very shitty bud.
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I must have. Surely.
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I was a bit disappointed by the cricket earlier, but Jarv has successfully made me feel much better about myself. And on that note, I'm off for lunch.
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He usually has.
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Or maybe not. I doubt they'll let you do the scene where he rips a baby out of a woman's womb and eats it.
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"Waaaaaaah, umpires" "Waaaaaah shit pitches in England" "Waaaaaaaah"
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M*A*S*H was set in Korea. Not an accurate depiction of Korea but it was supposed to be Korea.
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There was that french effort that had something like that in it.
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How did I forget that?
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Warne was great at commentary. Really insightful stuff and he didn't get annoyed by Atherton et al baiting him.
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I'm gonna try and fall back asleep. I've got a busy day tomorrow.
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Finished it last night. It was pretty good. The story didn't make any sense, but some of those Dragon effects were pretty fucking awesome. I went in expecting just crap filled crap like D&D and it was an easy breasy stupid action movie. Much better then the direct to DVD crap and Syfy original schlock. Almost wish I had paid to see it on the big screen...drunk.
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I know I had this disscussion with myself last week about how it would make a sweet username. So I was in Hallmark this weekend, checking out the discounts as I always do, and they fucking had Horse Head Books Ends in the bargin rack! I kept trying to sell the joke to my lady friend, but she's never seen the movie and just thought I was being annoying.
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When they started getting shelled by the Koreans, it reminded me of that episode from Band of Brothers...Bastogne (sp).
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Wasn't that a Korean war movie?
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Sometimes that'll do the trick.
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I wonder how much it cost to make that movie?
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Set in Korea. But it's set pre-American involvement. Good movie. Good book too.
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Not Korean War. I was thinking about this, but the best bit of World War Z (SPOILER AHEAD) is when the South Korean army are looking into North Korea and they've all buggered off and are basically a howling zombie horde living in tunnels beneath the surface. Eerie and Scary at the same time and exactly something that will get fucked up.
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I've seen Hamburger Hill and I'm pretty certain that's vietnam.
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I have not seen it in years, but remember it. There were several really good Korean war movies.
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while I can actually understand the love and want for the Twilight crap, I just don't get the ravenous fandom for that fucking Wizzard? Seeing that the major fanbase of Twilight is tweener girls and their mothers, and dumb girls that didn't go to college. And that shit works for girls, it has all the right stupid plot points for girls to really dig. While Harry Potter spans all fucking age groups, but is made up of mainly nerds and geeks. I don't see how they keep coming back in huge numbers. Its like a series without diminishing returns. Its not like the movies offer anything really different then the movie before it, all the while Harry Potter seems like something that kids would make fun of in school. It just boggles my mind. See crap like Transformers and Pirates crosses all bounderies and age groups, they go see it. But Potter films? I actually don't know anyone outside of myself thats even seen all of them.
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"Set in Korea. But it's set pre-American involvement." But thanks for clarifying that it's "Not Korean War".
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is it relevant? Nice try though.
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and vietnam WAR (I put that in capitals to help droid who's clearly struggling) movies, but there really isn't many korean ones.
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And I shall eat humble pie. It's actually set in South Vietnam, during the First Indochina War.
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Is it a WAR if only the US is involved? Because I'm quite sure the quiet american was set during a WAR. But please explain the requirements of a WAR in order for me to recognise one in the future.
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Firstly, I love the books. Yes, they became progressively less 'magical' in a literary sense(the first two books were filled with exuberant boyhood wonder) even though the amount of magick increased. Yes, they became much darker and moodier, and nowhere near as enjoyable as the first three books in the series. But the continued loyalty derived from the power of the characters and wanting to know what happened to them. Rowling has a fantastic imagination, and does a helluva job with the characters. I do think she went a tad overboard with the teen angst - but she dialed it back in her last two books. Having read all of the books, and knowing what is to come, I still want to see how it comes out on the big screen. The first two movies were painfully scrupulous to source material. I like that the recent directors have allowed their own imagination to take over and to make a movie, and not a filmed page by page version of the book. BTW that is what killed Watchmen, and no directors cut will solve that.
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As I remember. But I will give you that it's been years since I saw it. Don't get grumpy with me, whatever's wrong with you is not my fault.
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He was pretty much trying to make a live action comic book. Zach Synder may as well be saying that when he introduces himself to people. "Hey Zach Synder, Live Action Comic Book Guy. Nice to Meet you." Also I liked Watchmen I thought it worked. As for the Potter's, I get annoyed of people talking about how DARK it is. I don't see it, or the teen agnst, don't see that either. The life that Harry was raised in, he would be doing hard drugs. He would be using his magic to make fucking bad ass coke. You can say Wizzard and DARK when all he does is not listen to his elders.
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But y'all are funny!
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I've read all of them, and only a segment of one of the twilight books. There are 2 big differencea is, I think. Firstly, as obviously flawed as Rowling's writing is, she's a far better writer than Myles, and you can tell. Secondly, Twilight is thinly veiled mormon propaganda. Potter is childish escapism. To be entirely truthful I've not seen Potter 5 and won't see 6 because books 5 and 6 were unmitigated tosh. If they do split 7, then I may miss them as well. There simply isn't enough good stuff in 7 for 2 films worth of adaptation. That decision reeks of money uber-alles.
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So you readily admit to the fact that you think that it's not a WAR unless the US is involved.
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I'll admit, Malfoy and Harry are actually interesting characters. I could see where there would be a want to know what happenes next. But fucking Hermione and Ron? Who gives a fuck about them? Who is clamoring to know more about a book nerd bitch, its all the same. The best version of this character and most interesting ever was Tracy Flick in Election. As for Ron, who wants to learn about what happens to the inbreed ted, probably morman poor ginger. The best version of this story is either Gummo or Julien Donkey-Boy.
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TKD is exactly right, the reason the first two potter films are long and dull is because Columbus just vomited the text onto screen- it's called an adaptation. I thought Watchmen was every bit as bad as them. Adapt the book, don't translate it.
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By a long, long way. And I don't even like the Potters that much.
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I mean I thought Harry Potter was jibberish when I tried to read it. I am talking about the target audience. The shit in Twilight I understand and see its appeal. Look at the tween girl auidence, how do you think Titanic became such a huge hit? It appealed to teenage girls. It would have been a hit either way, but I bet a majority of those tickets where sold to girls from the ages 12-20. Same goes with Twilight. But Potter I just don't see why people keep coming back. The other characters outside of Harry are so grating I can't get past it.
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I've read the Potter books and seen all the movies. I think both are a mixed bag, she tends to wander a wee bit with no bit for stretches of the books, and the movies really miss out, I think, on more Snape. Especially as to what transpires in the half blood prince. And Series, I don't think you can really pigeon hole the group that watches/reads Potter. I mean, aren't you a comic book fan? Can't we say the same thing about "funny books"?
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And the progressive 'darkness' of the Potter books is in contrast to the comparative lightness of first two books. Granted, starting a series about a child whose parents are murdered is not exactly 'light' but the first two books did not dwell on the darker side of magic, as much as it did on the heroics of a child almost alone against overwhelming odds. Jarv, I totally agree about the split. Pure money grab. Just like the final three Jordan book is now being split into three - after the man dies and written by another writer. Pure money grab.
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Watchmen would have worked if you fucked with it. Imagine a Terry Gilliam directed Watchmen starring Robin Williams as Rorshach, Kurt Russell as the comedian and Kevin Costner as the Nite Owl..... it almost happened. While it may have been fucking awesome. It would not have really been Watchmen. Zach was doing it for comic nerds and fans, and they loved it. For better or worse.
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I do consider the Korean War, especially for the purposes of this conversation to have been USA+South Korea+ Other Allies on one side though. Having looked it up, Queit American takes place after US involvment in Korean War begins. So I was wrong. And you were too. I still wouldn't consider it a war film, though.
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tells me that Quiet American is about the precursor to Vietnam and is set in Saigon.
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hit post early. Sorry, I'm a twat.
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It was boring, pointless, tedious. Yes, maybe some hardcore nerds simply appreciated seeing the characters come to life and could care less that the story was fuck all because it was not adapted to the screen. But anyone looking to see a tight, coherent Movie, was disappointed.
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Jul 20, 2009 9:39:38 AM CDT
Wiki says its set at the end of the Indochina War
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
But when I initially brought it up, I did say set during a war. And while it wasn't a war film, one of the two storylines was about the war and the two mens involvement. But really, this is a useless argument.
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Droid is right as well, it isn't that Watchmen didn't work, it worked fine, it's just that by throwing it onto screen without a thought for the differences in media they made something that was essentially boring, and failed to take into account that at the end of the day you can put a book down and return to it when you get a bit tired/ bored. You can't do that if you're in a cinema. That argument about making it for the "fans" actually makes me think that they should perhaps ignore the fans more than they do. For every 1 good idea the fans of something have, and I'm as bad as anyone else, they have 50 bad ones and are more obsessed with minutiae than is necessary. They can't see the wood for the trees.
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Because I finished the book the day before I saw the movie. Which was probably the best way to appreciate the movie, unless you've read it a million times. But every comic nerd I know fucking loved it. But my lady friend didn't know shit about it, saw it hated it, and hated me for making her see it.
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Are the worst films of the year thus far. In my opinion.
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Shall we move on? TKD said exactly what I did, except more concisely. I'm well off form today, but still, I'm only in for another 20 minutes then off home so I don't care.
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Because I thought it was meh, and then the film bored me rigid.
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See its such a fucked up road. Compare Fan Four 1 to X-Men 1 to Spidy 1. Spidy was cloestest to the source material and was the biggest hit. And as X-Men furthered itself from the source material is got worse. Look at Batman, the closer it was to the source material the better it was. I think with comics, it only really works if you stay close to the source matieral, which is what the fans want. Look at 300 and Sin City. Think if they tried to do 300 but set it during the Iraq war? Think of Sin City if they made it an urban gangster film instead.
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2 worst films I've seen so far this year. I've avoided Wolverine, Star Trek, T4 and TF2 so far and will also avoid GI Joe.
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Jul 20, 2009 9:45:28 AM CDT
I also read Watchmen funnybook...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
right before I saw the flick. And I was so underwhelmed by the book it may have influenced my opinion of the film. But I think not.
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and then there's pandering to the fans. I think things go badly wrong when they start trying to pander to the fans. All the really shit decisions/ films that I can think of have some of this in it. With the exception of F4 which is garbage.
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I really enjoyed the first 3/4, the ending did not work. Ozzymandis whole idea would not have worked. And seeing that the book was made before 9-11, maybe it felt like it had more impact. But in a post 9-11 world you can see that it didn't mean shit, the world went on. And I didn't read it until the week before I saw the movie.
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"underwhelmed" is exactly my reaction to the book.
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And it wasn't pandering to the fans.
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Pandering to the fans? Did you hate those two films?
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Actually better than expected because I had such low expectations. Didn't see Star Trek. Might see GI Joe, but I never seem to get to the cinema that often anymore. I still need to see Public Enemies, among others.
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I don't think it influenced me. I think I'd have disliked it for it's obvious pacing issues regardless. However, what I will say is that I would have disliked it for different reasons. For example, the sex scene which I loathed is something I always bring up as an example of regurgitating the book onto the screen (flame spurt) and why they should have adapted it, but if I'd gone in not knowing the comic then I'd have hated the sex scene for being embarrasing soft core porn and using dismally cliched psuedo clever music.
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I hated 300.
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T4 was only going to be good in theaters. Wolverine sucked, moved away from the source material....
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Have you seen D-war? I found this quote about it. Sound right up your alley. for connoisseurs of the 'totally preposterous crap' school of fantasy cinema... You know who you are: You have all the Warlock sequels on Laserdisc [and] the complete Leprechaun series on DVD" and says it's "funnier when it tries to be serious than when it goes for the gag."
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meh. Not great. Sin City- sort of like. There's hardly the same rabid fan base with those 2 as there is with Watchmen, though, is there? You didn't see people post things over-analysing minutiae with those films. You did with Watchmen. What I mean is in Spidey 3 venom was put in to satisfy the fans- and that was a huge mistake. I don't just mean with comic adaptations, I mean with all adaptations, Lara Crofts breast size, for example.
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Jarv, I totally agree. When you pander to the fans, you get shit on your face. Fans by their very nature are too 'into' the work, and freak the fuck out when the slightest change happens. 'OMG! Her hair is Dark Auburn not medium Auburn!' Columbus was scared shitless over Potter. His marching orders were very clear. 'This is a billion dollar franchise, do not fuck it up with any autuer shit.' Snyder, well I have no idea what his marching orders were, but he fucked it up listening to the fans. And I loved the GN. It is in my top ten maybe even top five of all GN's
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Jul 20, 2009 9:53:25 AM CDT
I don't know the source material
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I've only seen the X-Men flicks, which I rate Wolverine on par with 1 and 3. They were just okay. 2 was pretty good.
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I like that kind of sillyness. These things are always funnier when they're doing it straight.
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If that were pandering to the fans. Shouldn't they have been triangles for the first film anyway? You hear Rohna Michele (spelled wrong, chick from Doomsday) who got famous modeling as Lara is in talks to play the role?
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Just out of curiousity. The only other one I may have read is Dark Knight Returns. Which I enjoyed more than Watchmen. I wasn't cock-a-hoop about it either.
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you get snakes on a plane.
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Watchmen would have worked any other way. Though I really would like to see that version I said earlier. Even now I don't care, they are all suppose to be over the hill anyway.
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fuck it. They should let her. The tit size thing was that they actually upped Angelina Jolie's cup size with padding for it as it wasn't the right size for Lara Croft. Which is daft. I don't get how the Tomb Raider films are so bad. It should be Indiana Jones with tits and therefore impossible to cock up.
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I really enjoyed Sin City though. Mickey Rourke was awesome. Xmen 2 is a tremendous movie. It does not stray from source, but it also allowed the director to inject his own vision. I could have done without the damn gay subplot though. Singers deserves all the derision he receives for grafting his gay agenda on his superhero movies.
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Graphic Novels to put a real solid Top Five together. I need to read a few more of the classics, shit like Preacher and the Invisibles. But right now Wanted is my all time favorite, and that movie said fuck the source material and I thought it was fucking horrible. Did anyone like that movie?
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Jul 20, 2009 9:59:22 AM CDT
The Gilliam version with that cast...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
would work better now than in the early 90's. As they would actually be the right age and Ozy might not look like Stuart Broad.
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Where?
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He'd fuck it up.
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Jul 20, 2009 10:01:53 AM CDT
I didn't mind the second Lara Croft flick
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
It was complete shit, but unlike the first one, I wasn't completely bored out of my mind.
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Terry had more backing in the early 90s. I doubt he is going to make anything truely great anymore. He peeked with Brazil, made his most mainstream with The Fisher King, and made an awesome movie with 12 Monkeys. Its been down hill since. Also he wanted to make Watchmen a mini series that is why he didn't do it.
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Jul 20, 2009 10:02:40 AM CDT
Stuart Broad bent over for anal domination
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
More likely.
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But the first one had a sweet soundtrack. And I thank it for introducing the world of action films to NIN.
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I love that flick. 12 Monkeys is awesome as well.
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In no particular order: The Dark Knight Returns Kingdom Come Superman for all seasons The Death of Captain Marvel Marvels
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Gil Kanes Savage. The Rocketeer Star Slammers Watchmen
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I like Leftfield.
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Series is learning
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I didn't know that. Fear and Loathing is ok, but it's another one that could have done with a few departures from the book.
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On some other TB trying to justify Morgan Freeman banging his step daughter, but he said something really funny that I feel I need to share. Trust me on this, if Freeman, considering his level of fame walked into a McDonald's right now, and dropped his pants and said, "Somebody...suck my dick!", there are loyal wives, girlfriends, and daughters of men who are sitting right there, who would stand-up, walk over...and fall to their knees before Freeman to suck his dick...and some of them, with the express encouragement of those men they came to the restaurant with. I think they need to make that happen in his next movie. That would be awesome if he just imbraced what a perve he was and made fucked up shit from here on out.
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Jul 20, 2009 10:08:55 AM CDT
Which one were those cockheads U2 on?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
With that ultra shit song Elevation?
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Freeman was banging his step daughter?
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Is Magneto, and Pyro and how the 'cure' for Mutants is protested 'like the cure' for being gay. The way Magneto and Mystique huddle and giggle like bitches - fucking Magneto! Now, I am going to backtrack slightly, Ian McKellen was a great choice - even though he is openly gay, I do believe that was Singers intention to cast gay actors like McKellen and Spacey
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They should do some documentary, going around interviewing a bunch of under rated directors, and some over rated ones, just not the douchey ones (QT, Roth, Speilberg, Lucas, Scorsess (just because I don't think there is nothing he's said that isn't taped or written about somewhere else)) and listen to all there failed projects. I think that would be cool.
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Some crappy directors, I would like to know the movies Uwe Boll REALLY REALLY! wanted to make, but just couldn't get the ball rolling to make it happen.
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what the fuck?
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But I dig some of their music, Elevation being one of them. Tomb Raider 1. Tomb Raider 2 had a Korn theme song.
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fucking idiot is insane.
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Like for sure? Because he got to bang Roda Mitchelle (Doomsday girl) in a movie? Man who hasn't seen Hallow Man and said...yeah I'd probably do that too.
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Douche is passe.
MoFree was/is banging his step-grand daughter -which is even worse because she was so young at the time they started fooling around. I have lost a helluva lot of respect for Freeman. I do not know if it descends to paedodom, but dude is slurping slime. -
it isn't anywhere near as the daddy therapy session that was Superman Returns (Which makes Turdmen look like Casablanca).
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First off, the dude has been married to ONE lady since the 60's. I expected to go into his IMDB page and see a list longer then Camerons. You know it's always the openly weird masoginistic ones that are usually the most normal.
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he got busted cottaging on Clapham Common. Queer as a 5 legged sheep.
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Secondly I would love to hear about all the movie Paul Verhonvan never made.
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He's just Dutch.
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Thats X-Men though. X-men would have died a long time ago if that was not the main focus of like 50% of all their stories. I never understood why people would freak out if they found out you had a bad ass power. I could understand if you looked like one of the blue X-Men characters. But shit, if I was Iceman/Flamemans friend and I found out they could do that, I would think it would be awesome.
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Yeah I know, but would you expect him to have been married to one lady since the 60's? I also used to have a lot of respect for Robert Rodriguez but then he left his wife and five kids for some skanky actress.
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but for singer that theme= gay. Aside from the Usual Suspects he seems to use films for therapy. I wish he wouldn't. As for the X-Men: 1)Was Meh, 2 opened brilliantly then declined to meh3 sucked ass and also had the fan line "I'm the Juggernaut Bitch" in it.
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but I bet they've had untold wild orgies.
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He thought that an intolerant world would see Mutants 'Homo -Superior' as the replacements for poor ol Sapiens.
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My favorite part about that movie. In fact Juggernaut is the only part of X-3 I liked. Then again I like Vinnie, you don't.
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worst thing on telly. Thank fuck that fucking idiot has finally been prised away from Dr. Who. It got to the stage where I could barely watch it any more. If you want to talk about gay agenda, then Who/ Torchwood is the place. I was waiting for Mrs. Jarv and there was a Torchwood on where they had to hunt down an Alien fuckmonster. That sounds great, but it was actually the most excrutiating 45 minutes of Television- except I couldn't stop watching it. Like people always slow down to rubberneck car crashes.
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Was first created, they would have been seen as that way. Shit back then they couldn't handle people with different colored skin. The problem is, that it never evolved from that. And unlike Star Trek, Stan never infused any sort of Moral Lesson in it. From time to time he did, like someone would hate a mutant for being a mutant and then later on that mutant would save that person's life because of their mutant powers.
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I live near Clapham Common. I need to know what to avoid. Is it like the Hampstead Heath / George Michael type thing?
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Cottaging is a British gay slang term referring to anonymous sex between men in a public lavatory (a cottage or tea-room), and cruising for sexual partners with the intention of having sex elsewhere.[1] The term has its roots in self-contained English toilet blocks resembling small cottages in their appearance; in the English cant language of Polari this became a double entendre by gay men referring to sexual encounters.[2]
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even if it is, but it's just so out of place.
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Why does that not surprise me. Exactly like Hampstead Heath thing except in South London. Spacey was allegedly walking his dog on the common. Apparently he likes to do this with his trousers around his ankles and not a dog in sight.
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First off, I am an unabashed lover of the original Trek. But even at young age I saw the utopianism of Trek as being unworkable. Be that as it may, it did do a great job of presenting some moral plays. The 60's X-Men, also did a credible job of showing how intolerance can lead to bigotry and violence. Stan was not yet ready to take the leap and include minorities in this view, but X-Men helped set the stage.
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With Senator Larry Craig, I don't care if he did it or not. But seeing that it was a STING operation.....who the fuck sets that up? Is there is a head of Gay Sex In Public Places Sqaud, like that is the guys title? Are the Police really in that much need of work? Also can you imagine being the guy that had to set up the sting? Sitting around in a bathroom all day, while people are shitting all around you? I don't get it.
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it was in the Evening Standard
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Jul 20, 2009 10:33:17 AM CDT
"Why does that not surprise me."
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Difficult to be surprised by something you've been told before.
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The whole basis of that, if I remember correctly. Was that they get rid of money once the replicators were made. I mean once you have the ability to create food out of nothing, do you really need money? Well yes there are greedy ass fuck holes out there, but still.
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The Rocketeer was a great GN. Helluva lot of fun and beautiful as well. The movie did an extremely good job of translating it.
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http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article87096.ece
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Rocketeer fans. SOO fucking annoying, your sitting their standing in line to get Dalton's autograph and there is some asshole with a home made flight back buring a hole in your show. And he can't hear you because of his stupid fucking mask. I swear they should not allow them into the conventions.
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How can the Sun get something that important wrong. I thought you lived in Battersea.
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It was the whole 'We work for one another/collective' type of thinking. Utopianism is the ultimate expression of communism.
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Everything south of Charing Cross Road is a fucking mystery to me. Battersea/ Clapham may as well be timbuctoo as far as I'm concerned.
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It's about 15 minutes walk from Clapham Common.
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I'm reading Iain Banks' novel Matter at the moment. Has anyone read any of his Science Fiction? If so, are they all this difficult and inaccessible?
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I'm gonna have to disagree with you Series, about the ending not working post-9/11. There is a big difference between 3 or 4 thousand deaths and 4-5 MILLION deaths. Not to mention that America pretty much did demand that the world stop and rally around America for a couple of wars. So I don't think it's far-fetched to think that if the loss of life were upped exponentially and the threat was perceived as totally external, that the world would come together to some extent. It just doesn't have the same impact without the Soviet Union still around. Nothing to do with 9-11.
Then again, nobody gives a shit about the Cold War anymore and acts like it's ancient history. I actually saw a commercial for the navy the other day that seemed to be playing up how 'cool' it would be to join up because you might get to work with nuclear weapons. That is fucking frightening.
For the record though, I thought the Watchmen movie was not very good. As Jarv said, it missed the forest for the trees. I thought it was a very superficial take on the book, which wasn't surprising, since what made the book interesting was in part determined by the fact that it was a book. -
Anything North of Tottenham Court Road and I'm busting out the A-Z.
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there you go then. Told you it may as well be mars as far as I'm concerned.
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I am reading Matter right now! Banks is one of my favorites. Consider Phlebas is outstanding
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Unless they have pictures!
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nothing screams "Mug Me" as much as some poor American wondering around in Chalk Farm looking for Primrose Hill with the A-Z out.
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I keep getting confused. Does it help to have read the rest of them? I do like the shellworld idea.
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They all suck. The best discription of being in the military these days can be seen in Redacted.
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I am about halfway through it, and I am not overly chuffed by it. I do hope it gets better. But I have my doubts. If I were you, I would read Consider Phlebas. It is a great intro into his 'Culture' civilisation. It is an awesome Space Opera as well
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Shit, I completely forgot about that movie. I heard so much about it, and then once it was out, it just disappeared.
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that is in the back of my copy of Matter because I kept having to look at the fucking glossary. I usually go with the rule that if something has an Appendix/ glossary then it's garbage. Consider Phlebas opened with a bang. Banks is interesting as an author, because his sci-fi has touched on his non sci-fi a lot and his quality of output away from SF seriously declines. I had heard that he was still on Crow Road form in SF, so thought I'd give matter a try. I had read Feersum Enjinn in the past, and not been chuffed by it, but assumed that it was the equivalent of The Bridge or Espedair St. Both of which are lesser works and smell a bit.
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as I thought that Casualties of War was complete bullshit.
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what put me off CP is where the title comes from. I'm pretty certain that's a quote from The Wasteland, and using such a quote is a slappable offence where I'm from.
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Especially anything to do with 'Special Circumstances'. The branch tasked to be the covert/overt agents of change.
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I'll give them a whirl when in Spain from next week onwards.
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Both A Clockwork Orange and Junky had glossaries, and they aren't garbage.
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both of those glossaries were completely unnecessary.
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It was put in later by hack editors attempting to cash in on the film.
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I quite liked it. I enjoyed the use of a myspace like thing and some of the other random things. While its a movie about a minority type of people in the military, its the first movie where they actually speak like real military members sound like. While I was never in middle east, I lived there but not while I was in the military. I've been around them all my life. I don't know why people hated Redacted, I thought it was the best war film that had come out during that time.
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LOTR had both an appendix and a glossary. But that's an academic study first and a fantasy story second. Tolkien hated fans of the fantasy story for being too stupid to understand what he was attempting.
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probably the same. I don't think it was there to begin with either.
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Are two very good Special Circumstances stories. Use of Weapons is probably the better of the two.
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Where in the Middle East did you live?
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Author can't think of how to describe something so makes up a word. Realises he's done this thousands of times so needs a glossary. Lazy writing. Clockwork Orange Argot is basically Russian.
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Bahrain for two years.
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I thought it was brilliant. The language is so perfectly integrated.
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A book like that should either be simplified or have the balls to say "This is what I am, take it or leave it"
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Are your parents military? You seem to have been to a lot of places.
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Causalties of War though. Just like an indie version of that story.
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There is only one end of Clockwork Orange: "It was time for Little Alex to grow up." Unfortunately, Kubrick never read it. This last chapter makes all the difference to the novel, and it was a big omission. It's a story of redemption, and Kubrick lessened it. Clockwork Orange, actually, is a film that could be remade. The confusion comes in that after the film was released, the US printer started to excise Burgess' ending. Burgess despised Kubrick's version and grew to resent the fact that he always had to defend Clockwork Orange. He eventually grew to hate his own book.
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"The film has come under attack for its explicit sexuality, including the opening scene showing a toddler falling to its death while He and She have sex on the bed nearby. The film has also invited controversy for its graphic sexual violence. In one controversial scene, She hits His testicles with a wooden plank so hard that it is implied they are crushed. While He is unconscious, she masturbates him until he ejaculates blood. She then drills a hole through his shin to bolt him onto a grindstone. In a later scene, She cuts off her own clitoris with a pair of rusty scissors.[25]
The ecumenical jury at the Cannes festival gave it a special "anti-award"[26][27] and declared the film to be "the most misogynist movie from the self-proclaimed biggest director in the world". [22] Cannes festival director Thierry Frémaux responded that this was a "ridiculous decision that borders on a call for censorship" and that it was "scandalous coming from an 'ecumenical' jury".No. Thank. You. And with that, I'm off. -
that the structure of Redacted prevents it from fully descending into Casualties of War territory.
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Dad was in the Navy.
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If they used that ending it would just have been pandering to the fans though.
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from me. His movies don't hold up well in synopsis form. Doesn't mean the movie will be shit, though.
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That sounds awesome. I don't care, as long as its not from the director of Hostal. I like Lars Von Trier, he is like a David Lynch I can stand.
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Swabbies are a close second!
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Getting an actual theatrical release? I always find it funny that people who throw protest about films being released in theaters, seem to dissapear when a movie comes out on VHS? More films or viewed on VHS these days then in theater, just shows that protesters have no backbone. If they REALLY REALLY thought the film effected their moral beliefs and view of someone living in the clouds. They would be at Hollywood Video the week before its VHS release.
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In what reference?
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is getting a limited US release in mid/late October.
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From something British?
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Swabbies! Marines hate Navy - just in our DNA.
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Are Coast Guard.
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I just finished vol. 1 of The Invisibles. It is really good!
And you are right about No Hero. I want that to be longer. I am getting sick of these 5/6/7 issue runs. If the story is good enough, why not keep going with it?
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I bring this up because I was reading something about Redacted and they mentioned Snake Eyes. A film I saw in a theater in Bahrain. Is the fact that they cut out ALL sexual scenes from movies. I don't know if they do this anymore or what not, but in Snake Eyes you know that scene that pans over the hotel rooms? There is one room with a girl fooling around in just a bra and panties, I did not know this till I rented it. In the theaters there is a quick jump. What I find some humorous about this, is who decides if the scene is OK for public viewing or not? How come it is ok for this person(s) to sit around and watch everything and say well that is acceptable and that is not. It is pretty much saying that I am better then you. Because I can watch these things and not be harmed but you can.
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Navy = sailors.
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Behind the mini series. Image is doing this crap all the time now, but just with 3 issue runs. From what I gather the whole point is to see if its popular, or if it gets picked up to be turned into a film. If it does they will make more. Kind of bullshit. Sometimes it works, if its a self contained story. But something like No Hero could haved turned into a full series. Its just sad because you got guys like Ellis and Ennis, who know how to do long series. And they are just crapping out these nothing mini seires.
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I really hate the whole RIVERAL aspect of the military. Its just stupid.
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Most of it is bullshit. I was stationed on an Army base in Oklahoma because Ft. Sill is the worlds largest Artillery base. I had some good friends in the Army. The true rivalry is not at the level below flag, but when money and responsibility get involved.
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that is why censorship is hypocritical bullshit. Adults deciding what OTHER adults should be protected from. Ridiculous.
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I haven't read the latest issue yet, but going from the previous one, I felt like the story was just getting started! And now there's only the current issue and the last one left to go.
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That will allow it to end fast. But it kind of pisses me off, because it has been setting up to be this cool world where they live. I wanted to see them in action. Let me know when you read it. Also I didn't think No Hero had a set amount of issues as well, I wonder if it was always planed or what.
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but I was thinking about the supposed Videodrome remake, which is obviously a fucking terrible idea. But then I started thinking that maybe it wouldn't be so bad if they remade The Brood.
It seems like that one could've been more substantial. And in light of all the crazy multiple-births and questionable pop psychology, I think it could be ok.
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Which was set up just to be 8 issues. You think after seeing how popular it was they would make it a series. Its the coolest Wolverine story to come around in a while.
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Jul 20, 2009 11:52:30 AM CDT
"who decides if the scene is OK for public viewing or not?"
by xiphos_2
In middle eastern countries that follow and/or influnced by Wahhabism/Salafism
or its off shoots usually have something called the comittee to promote public virtue and prevent vice. They are the group that filters everything through the prisim of the Koran and the writings of Mohammed. They also are a sort of paramilitary force that enforces doctrin, at night, with knives and torches. -
I had just forgotten about it. I'll probably read it today. Have a lot of comics to catch up on. That, Air, Sherlock Holmes, still haven't read the last issue of Star Trek Crew, Buck Rogers....and I have a pile of Mystery City Hip Flask comics that I've been promised are really fucking good.
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Shit like Videodrone and The Brood (though I haven't seen it)...as long as they let one of those new French Horror directors do it. Not platinum dunes, not fucking Ghosthouse. Fuck make it in France in French with French actors. It could turn out awesome.
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Where you the one telling me about another Star Trek movie comic, besides Countdown?
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and they are lured into service by the promise of getting to partake of all the shit that's denied everybody else. Such bullshit!
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there's gonna be one that shows what Nero was up to in the 25 years between going back in time and meeting up with the Kelvin.
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Was bitching about how we complain about crap here, when we should be worried about crap in the middle East. Well first off those people don't sit around worrying about my problems, why should I care about them? Also I could care less about any conflict that revolves around religion. Or uses religion to control people or issues that are really about greed. Any form of religion is just wrong in my books, group religion that is. I think everyone should just have their one beliefs. Especially now a days.
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So its not out yet. Cool. I'll have to give it the ole looky loo.
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It's not ridiculous to those countries that have always been that way.The free expression of thought is just one of the many things we have the Greeks to thank for. Those wacky bronze clad infantrymen made the western world.
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Hypocrisy always exists at the highest levels of authority. When the proletariat was starving, the commissars at caviar. There are always true believers, but they either become suborned by the proximity of forbidden fruit or marginalized.
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And it has sort of happened, with movies like Watchmen and Friday the 13th, and now Bruno. Is if a movie like Harry Potter has this HUGE HUGE opening weekend, then falls like over 90% next weekend. That would be great.
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and bitching about the Middle East, on the internet, are pretty equally futile. People should admit that they do it because they enjoy the debate, and not act high and mighty as if their opinion on a message board is going to topple governments.
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People who complain that we complain. We should just ignore them.
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But have those countries "always been that way"?
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sociologists are arguing that the internet has become the new "opiate of the masses," in that people vent their frustrations here whereas in the past they would've only had an outlet in action.
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Whiie I want to see it, I just can't stand Zooey Deschanel. I like the use of Gordon Levitt because he is interesting, but god is Zooey so fucking annoying, one note actress. That gets more attention then she should for being QUIRKY!
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The vice types are the true blue believers and think they are doing the work of Mohammed and Allah. They truly believe they are in the right. It's usually everybody else that is operating for themselves.
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All open this week, the more and more I see of G-force the cooler I think it is going to be. It looks like a lot of fun. As for the other two, who the fuck are Katherine Heigl and Vera Farmiga agents? They are making like the same fucking movies. Katherine is redoing Knocked Up pretty much and Vera is doing a fucking sequel to Joshua?? It even co stars an odd actor like Sam Rockwell as her husband. Though Peter Sarsgaard is a lot odder then Rockwell, because he was able to get a dude pregnant. While the Ugly Truth is a smart move for Gerard Butler, get more chicks to like him.
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why this site is slobbering all over that movie. It does not sound good to me. It sounds like typical shit.
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Antichrist, has a penis cutting scene! I just wrote a story last night and the first killer involves a guy getting his penis cut off! FUCK.
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It makes me think of the part in Persepolis where the Revolutionary Guard were recruiting 14 and 15 year old boys for the Iran-Iraq war, promising them riches and virgins in the afterlife, exploiting their adolescent lustfulness. And their mothers were like, "FUCK. How can I compete with the shit they are dangling in front of my little boy?"
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Be ok. I mean quirky romantic comedies only come out like every three years. So when they do its a huge thing. It will be fine, but the use of Zooey. I mean its like SHE HAD to be in that movie, its such an unimspired casting choice. Way to branch out their Zooey, the fact that you were in the Happening prooves you can't pick good other movies.
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After all that penis cutting talk, Detachable Penis comes on the radio.
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what's so notable about it. Nothing about that movie says "fresh! exciting!" to me...But not having seen it, I shouldn't judge too harshly. Because I really am just knee-jerk judging it here.
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Yep most of, if not all of the problems, in the mid east predate the rise of Islam. Church and state intermingled, no free expression of thought, in arabia the wearing of the Burkha and the subjaction of women all were cultrural norms.The funny thing is that the Koran doesn't even mention them, the writtings of Mohammed on the other hand makes sure the cultural norms of preserved and imposed on others.
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the "recruitment" phase of the Iran Iraq war was short, very short because the fools that buy into all that crap are a very small in number. After those cats were exhausted they just rounded up women and children at gun point point and sent them out as foddeer to open up lanes in mine fields and to maybe freeze up gunners on the other side. The last part didn't work well.
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I think its funny how everyone thinks that they just wear that. They don't realize that they are fully dressed underneath it as well. Now think about that physically. The middle east is hot as fuck all the time. While the men get to wear thobes, which are white and with only like a white t-shirt and boxers on underneath. While females have to wear these black drapes ontop of their already conservatively dressed clothing. Like imagine a 1950's house mom sort of clothing. Also some women are suppose to wear cloth covering their WHOLE face. Sometimes I would see this thing in black with glasses, like a fucking childs ghost costume.
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Anyone else watching it?
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Alan Parker’s son. Man its like the European of Orange County.
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chador — a long usually black cloak worn over the head and body, which, covering several layers of clothing, is kept in place by clutching it in one’s hands or holding the loose ends in one’s teeth.
Or she can chose the manteau — a shoulder-padded, dark coloured, shapeless trench coat worn over long pants. Her hair must be entirely covered either with a scarf firmly tied or a maghneh, a hooded head covering, often worn by students. -
Women are not allowed out of the house mostly so color is another layer of control. Think of it like this, If you are sitting in a covered courtyard with a fountain or inside a thick walled house the color doesn't matter.on the other if you are on the sand black makes it harder to run.
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the full face/body covering was relatively (RELATIVELY) rare, and that the head-covering was more standard. The manteau and veil combo being the standard in Iran, with varying levels of hair showing and varying levels of fitted-ness for the manteau.
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I lived in Bahrain, not the strictest of Arabic nations. They were always out and about.
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now. Have fun guys!
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depending on what country you are in. I've seen full body coverings in Africa, Afghanistan and NYC but those are fairly rare. In Arabian towns and cities it's fairly commom. Iran is sort of on the less side of the covering issue because cultrually and historically they didn't wear them to begin with.
Series7 I watched Warehouse 13 a couple of days ago. I was less then whelmed by it.It's nearly after 2 am for me so I'm out. Have a good day/night everybody. -
Maybe I'll do some work this afternoon....maybe I'll get some work this afternoon. I think I'll work on my story some more.
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that's Bahrain and it has always had a differnt view point from Arabia because of it's ports. Plus it tribal foundatons are different from Arabia.There are a few countries in the Mid East that women have differnt levels of freedoms, but even in Bahrain and Quatar and The UAE women are still restricted in thier movements but not as much as say Arabian women.
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Died young.
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Jul 20, 2009 1:31:36 PM CDT
Every major religion has a woman covering her head
by hey_kobe_tell_me_how_my_ass_tastes
At some point. Whether it is because she is in the presence of another man, or a religious authority. Michelle Obama covered her head when meeting the il papa
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Its pretty fucking cool. Just random ass cool CG art. http://www.cgsociety.org/ http://tinyurl.com/qmwkz
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I want to turn it into a movie, using that as my poster. http://tinyurl.com/lynme8
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Makes me pissed that I wasted so much time dicking around with windows paint.
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Wow what a great movie. Saw it Sunday, turned it on expecting just to fall asleep. Nothing about it seemed that interesting. But it was a fun little film. One of those good inspirational stories. Also I would like to amend a statement I have been known to make. I fucking hate old people, will now be changed to, I fucking hate old people...except for Anthony Hopkins. I've heard stories about how nice and cool he was, he is just such a great actor. Anyone else in that role and this movie would have totally blew.
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In case anyone is interested, DISCOVERY CHANNEL will be showing"When We Left Earth"Tonight July 20th @10:00 p.m. PST.Possible New footage of the Lunar Landing.
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40 years later and still nothing new.
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The only thing I knew going in was a bloke is working on the moon when another bloke arrives who looks just like him. I didn't know anything about the circumstances or the set-up.Good flick.
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The cinema it's showing at - Cornerhouse - specialises in foreign/cult films. There's only 3 screens and none of them are particularly huge. It's more like settling down in your own living room to watch a film. I like that though, it's cosy and personal.
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Cripes! Knob lopping? Bollock bashing? I didn't know any of that was going on in Antichrist!Do I still want to see this...?
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for a few days. Back Friday.Have fun.And remember - let's be careful out there.
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MJ thread is full of cunts.
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Don't do anything I wouldn't do. Which is probably just heroin and scat-play.
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Made it 40% through before turning off. Appalling. Will try and finish tomorrow.
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I used to love that comic, but when I try to read it now I find it pointless and too clever for it's own good. Sure Alan Moore loads it with many different references to philosophy and politics, symbolisms, repeating visual motifs, great characterization, but all in all I find the thing absolutely meaningless now. The Watchmen seems to be about nothing. Moore doesn’t even go out of his way to state if he thinks any of his characters viewpoints are wrong. I don’t mind ambiguity but The Watchmen is just like my favorite “Mudding you water to make your pools look deep” expression – Moore just loads so much subtext, imagery, and references to make it seem deep, but never once comes out and presents a stance. Would it kill you to say you think it is wrong to kill five million New Yorkers even if it is for a good cause? Hell, Moore can’t even come out and say that his thing is completely nihilistic and that there is no hope in the world. The thing just looks to me to be an excuse to sound and smart without actually saying anything of importance. One wide but very shallow muddy puddle.
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Your just not smart enough to understand the deepness and trueness, and amazingnees that Watchmen bleeds. It is the most purest form of art ever conceived.
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I'm reading stuff about Lars Von Trier, and things saying how he was depressed. How come you have to be a famous artist to get away with being depressed? If you just a jo schmo like me and your are depressed people just hate you and ignore you. And for depressed artist people always get more drawn to them and want to see what they do. It's kind of annoying. On that note, I don't think Micheal Vick should be allowed to play the kickball anymore.
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My lack of intelligence has never been doubted. And the purest form of art ever conceived is MANOS: The Hands of Fate.
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It's been annoying me also, lately, when I read/watch something that refuses to commit to any position whatsoever, sometimes to the point of 'having one's cake and eating it too.' At least, it seems that way to me.
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You know 1,000 years from now Transformers 2 will be held in the same regard as something like The David, Romeo and Julliet and The Cistine Chapel.
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that is so true. What a crock!
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Read it. Holy shit that was a good issue!
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And lockesbrokenleg and all the Tranny heads will be having the last laugh.
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Yeah, I got in a "discussion" with some people at Mel's dinner last week about the comic. This one guy said he loved it because it was "so deep." My response was "It wasn't deep, it was just wide."
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was referring to your depression post. In the future, I bet Transformers 2 will be used to make sense of how our society came to collapse!
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Before the movie came out, people were constantly saying, "Well, if the movie's not that great, it's not like you won't have the comic anymore..." But ever since the movie came out, I really couldn't give a FUCK about the book. And I didn't even really care for the movie!
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that it's a good example of the flexibility of the medium. And the structure of some sections are genius.
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But at least in the movie Nolan and co. take a stand about what they are saying - and it isn't a simple movie either. There is more than one theme going on in that flick.
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With a real good detective story and 70's style paranoid thriller plot. But I just don't see it as the greatest comic ever. Superman vs. Muhammed Ali will always hold that spot for me.
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to be tricky and say nothing. Irony and nihilism are used to sell fucking cheeseburgers and miracle whip. It's much braver these days to actually have a point (you know, a point besides how pointless everything is).
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where Data is reading his poems and everybody's really fucking bored? He asks Geordi what the problem is, and he tells him that while his poems were very clever and well-structured and formally impeccable, that they had no emotional impact whatsoever. And that was the problem.
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That is a great book. And I am not even joking. Aside from the Adams art which alone is worth the price, the story actually was damned decent considering what they had to work with. I love that book.
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Statements about Gatti's wife killing him after autopsy?
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The OC.
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No I have not. What are they saying?
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I wish I could've wrote that. Kudos sir.
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On Saturday, authorities released an initial autopsy report that said Gatti could have died in an unexplained accident, been murdered, or committed suicide. The report indicated Gatti died of asphyxiation after his body was "suspended and hanged."
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There really hasn't been that many which is truly a shame becasue the Korean War is one of those pivotal moments in history that has been glossed over almost entirely.There has been a few good to decent movies about Korea like Retreat Hell, Bridges at Toko-Ri, Steel Helmets and Take The High Ground. I think Humphry Bogart did a movie about a MASH unit but I'm not to sure on that one and I'm to lazy to go look.On a side note, if anybody ever goes to Washington DC check out the Korean War monument. It's friggin haunting and powerful. Its probably one of the best monuments I've ever seen anywhere.
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In fact it is my favorite of the war memorials. I love how you see the weary men on either on or returning from a mission, and your own reflection from the highly polished wall seems to become part of them. It is magnificent.
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The Vietnam Memorial is also amazing in its simplicity, but the Korean War Memorial just knocked me out. It is non=political and also no judgmental - it doesn't condemn the war nor cheer it on. It just lets you recognize the men (and some women) who served in it and what they had to endure.
Unlike the monstrosity that is the World War II memorial. Inspired by the beards WWII war porn, they decides to make a loud and obvious shout out to "The Greatest Generation". Locating the thing between the Lincoln and Washington Monuments was bad enough, but to build something that looks like it was designed by Albert Speer was an affront to what those men fought for.
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I disagree and agree with you. Moore does render judgment of Ozy's mass murder thru Jon's "Nothing ever ends," line plus mushroom cloud disappearance. To me, that's Moore telling Veidt that he shouldn't have done it b/c it will only delay the inevitable which is hardly an "Attaboy, Veidt." To me it's a reprisal cloaked in, as you say, nihilism.
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If memory servers it was a young Asian woman who created the design, that was not the controversy though. The controversy was because it was not 'Huge' it was not an monument that you could put on a keychain.
But a funny thing happened. When vets or their families saw it, just seeing the names became so powerful that the simplicity of the design allowed the true power of the memorial to emerge. The Korean war - or the forgotten war, really needed something just as wonderful. And it got it. I just love that memorial. Yes, the WWII one is over wrought. Almost as bad as the FDR memorial -what a waste. -
To me that is just more evidence that he is merely pouring mud into his 2" inch deep pool. Doc Manhattan tells Ozy that it doesn't matter, yet he has to make sure Rorschach can't get back to civilization to tell anyone? What is Doc, just a big sadistic asshole or has he been looking for a chance to blow up Rorschach for years?
I just look at it as one more thing Moore threw it to make his plot look deeper and more meaningful. "See, now Doc is saying that is was inevitable and that Ozy shouldn't have tried anyways, making these book even denser and ambiguous." I will say the most brilliant thing in that book is that the lead character is named Rorschach, considering the fact that what the book is about is completely up to the interpretation of the reader.
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Jul 20, 2009 8:06:31 PM CDT
I remember reading someone had a design for the WWII memorial
by continentalop
That wasn't picked. It was going to be a "hole" in the ground and you would walk down a staircase and along the walls would be all of these gold stars for all the men and women who died to represent the gold star families. The idea was you were walking into mass grave of all the people who died during it so you would recognize what was sacrificed.
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A tad bit ghoulish. Like walking into a crypt.
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Kind of like an amphitheater. Only at the bottom when you looked up would you see how deep you were. So not as morbid as I described it.
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Well, I enjoyed it when I first read it. I did not read it during it's initial run -the art held no interest for me at the time so I ignored it. I read the phone book compilation years after the first run, and at the peak of its hype. So, I was prepared to hate it. Surprisingly, I did not. Now. I did not think it was anything ground breaking. To me The Dark Knight Returns was truly ground breaking. But I like the attention to detail that was in Watchmen. I still like it. I re-read it right before the movie. I do agree that it gets too much credit for being 'groundbreaking' - it is not. I do agree that Moore was ot as deep as some believe. But all that being said, I liked the book and still like it. It was well done, if not the groundbreaking masterpiece some think. But it is all subjective.
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I can see that. Ramps going down until you reach the bottom. Lie a spiral Viet Nam wall
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Transformers 2 yet.
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ANYONE ELSE DON'T READ THIS IF YOU WANT TO READ NO HERO! AND YOU SHOULD! Did you read issue 6? Did you like the end? I don't like that he is just going to rampage in the house and kill everyone. I was hoping for him to embrace being a Hero. Just seems like a cop out.
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Anyone seen those pics of her? Saggy skin much?
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I've been there. Got a picture of me riding on the back of one of the soldiers, drinking an Icee.
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Anyone read it? I want to read it before the movie. Looks like the did their own take on the movie. Since the art is very obtuse.
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recession is getting worse. I see something like this: http://petairways.com/ http://tinyurl.com/dmkqa8 HOW THE FUCK DOES SOMETHING LIKE THAT OPEN RIGHT NOW? And from what I gather its fucking doing good? How are other airlines failing, and this is booming? Sometimes I wonder if this recession is just all bullshit.
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Looks like the same movie as Ed Gein: The Butcher of Plainfield. That movie with Kane Hodder. Just had my guys over at IMDB run a check and he was in a string of serial killer movies: Ed Gein: The Butcher of Plainfield (2007) B.T.K. (2008)
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What a lame movie poster tagline. Obvious they didn't want to play the gay card, and wanted to get dumb fans of Pacino into the theaters. This movie looks like it would make a great double feature with Bruno.
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Jul 21, 2009 12:58:00 AM CDT
Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (20
by series7
That movie is still coming out in theaters? I could have sworn it was coming out on DVD soon.
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Fritz Lang Interviewed by William Friedkin.
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Its almost comical seeing Alpa Chino get hit on by guys. Man I want to show this movie to all those loser's who wear Scarface t-shirt that look like dresses.
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One of the neighbors in Cruising was the dad in Boy Meets World.
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Jul 21, 2009 3:18:31 AM CDT
Watched Crossing Over last night
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
And as I sat there watching it unfold, my care factor topped out at the grand total of zero. Really, it's not badly acted, or badly made. I wouldn't ever call it a bad flick. I'd just say it's a nothing flick and there is no point in ever watching it. One of the biggest issues I had with it is that I have no idea what it really wanted to say. Sure, there were a lot of scenes with american flags in the background, and an entire climactic scene set in the naturalisation ceremony complete with oath of allegiance and national anthem, but yeah? And? With one story thread it appears to be telling us that free speech is dead and you will get chucked out if america doesn't like your opinion. At another it says that to become an American you have to whore yourself. There's one storyline about an honour killing that I'm still puzzled at the relevance. The flick wants to be Crash (which I thought was only marginally better than this) and Traffic. But the storylines are so random, and just not that interesting, that it fails miserably. If Harrison Ford wanted to make a flick like this, then he never should have pulled out of Traffic.
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Time to work.
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last night- and me whinging about Clockwork Orange and the end is exactly what I was talking about with fan pandering. If I had my way, I'd have fucked that film right up.
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in all fairness to it, it is clearly important because we're still bitching about it. I happen to think it's the comic equivalent of useless brit art installations- very clever, but ultimately soulless and clever for the sake of being clever. The movie, on the other hand, is not clever. It's stupid, anodyne and dull. Reason being: all the cleverness was already on the page. The film is like an autistic six year old tracing a Dali- you can still see the cleverness underneath, but you know damned well it was nothing to do with the kid, and every time he's deviated from the line he's made a big fucking mess.
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no interest. Why is everyone so full of hate for it. It always struck me as Oscar Bait by numbers.
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no time for them at all. Von Trier/ Dogme= brechtian disciples and I don't like Brecht, his plays or his philosophy of drama. I don't want reminding every 3 seconds that I'm watching a film and I like a bit of production values.
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and I can't stand either of those things.
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I nothing Crash.
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best do some work.
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Jul 21, 2009 4:41:18 AM CDT
I've no sympathy for Jackson and this is making me feel ill
by lost jarv
he was a fucking paedo. Are people going to be shedding crocodile tears when Gary Glitter or Polanski kick it? I don't think so.
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but he's spot on in that MJ thread. This is the Princess Di Syndrome. Bullshit.
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I've heard nothing but "cheating bastards" all day.And you call us whinging.
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Jul 21, 2009 5:31:29 AM CDT
Why are so many fucking movies so fucking long these days?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
All the bloated bullshit blockbusters like Transformers and King Kong is one thing, but I just read that Apatows new flick Funny People runs for 150 minutes! What. The. Fuck. !?!?!? It's getting fucking ridiculous.
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Jul 21, 2009 5:33:50 AM CDT
The main bloke that should feel cheated is Rudi Koertzen
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I thought he was easily the best player england had on the field.
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exactly what I was talking about. Anyway, Mitchell Johnson was comfortably England's best player.
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anything else is self-indulgent toss.
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Sun, Beer, rest, no phone or internets. Can't fucking wait.
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reviews. As I won't be seeing anything in Spain. Except Rec 2 if it's out.
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For you to fuck off. hehehehe
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You know you'll miss me. I keep waiting for one of us to chuck a KFH type huff. I've read through this thread earlier today and we really are very rude to each other.
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Capricorn One, which seemed to be quite interesting. Elliot Gould, James Brolin, even Telly was in it for a bit as a cropduster pilot ("Smartass!"). Then I started watching the beginning of Gung Ho! I don't think I've ever seen that movie before.
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Jul 21, 2009 7:06:00 AM CDT
it's all you foreign bastards who are the rude fuckers
by just pillow talk
Us American folk are fucking princes of good behavior.
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Jul 21, 2009 7:10:05 AM CDT
I take it with a grain of salt
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
As long as we don't get personal, I consider it banter. Really, you just bait me and I respond. And vice versa. Not much to it.
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haven't seen that in years. I remember it being good.
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Jul 21, 2009 7:11:36 AM CDT
And as soon as the Ashes are over...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
and whichever one of us finishes gloating, it'll resume to the usual casual jibe.
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Never seen it. Want to. Sounds good.
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but if you were on the outside looking in it looks harsh. Danny and KFH's spat wasn't as consistently rude for as long as this one. Anyway, it will go away once England surrender the Ashes at Headingly.
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personally nasty than that argument.
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thank fuck. He may have to retire the whole make- people- look- like- cunts- because- they- aren't- aware- that- it's- a- fake- interview thing
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and it's clear to us warciples that it's all related to this made-up-sport called "cricket".
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Jul 21, 2009 7:23:35 AM CDT
You're not getting soft are you?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Well, there won't be much more hostilities since you're away then I'm away and then the ashes will be over. I think I'm away for the last test, which was a rookie mistake if ever I made one. Then again, I was away for the last test in 2005 and it was a blessing in disguise.
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Jul 21, 2009 7:27:52 AM CDT
I find it impossible to take offence to anything said on here
by lost jarv
fuck's sake THIS IS TAAAAAAALKBAAAAACK.
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I'm not offended by you insulting me with {insert australian animal}-fucker, and calling me a convict etc. And I find it hard to believe you're offended by my stock-standard insults. It's all part of the fun. The thing with Danny and KFH was brewing for a while and it was never in jest.
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So I won't even know until I get back. If I get off the plane in Stanstead and see untold ad's for the DVD of "England's Ashes 2009" then I'll know that we are 2 up with one to play.
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This is starting to give my computer headaches. God knows how we used to handle it when it was getting up to 3 or 4000.
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I'll be very depressed because it's a sign that we're about to make twats out of ourselves again. This is what happens when you suck for a long time. You get overexcited.
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So when i leave it's 2-1 and whatever happens we retaing the ashes.
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it's taking far too long to load.
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Fuck this. I'm off for lunch.
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Edgbasten, which seams like a sonofabitch and Headingly, which swings like a fucker. Headingly has a high chance of rain, what with being in the north. Whereas Edgbasten can be downright dangerous. Both result pitches if the weather holds.KP is probably injured for Edgbasten, which means they'll pick Bell-end (and I'd cry if I was here), and Fat alky won't be able to play both. I would rest him for Headingly, as I think we need him where it seams and bounces and play Bresnan. Hopefully KP will be back by the second test, as our batting lineup looks even more fragile without him. Australia, on the other hand, have serious problems. Hughes looks hopelessly overrated, and is liable to struggle even more with the moving ball (which it will be). Unfortunately Australia are out of options with the batting so he plays. The bowling, on the other hand, is in a world of shit. I would seriously think about dropping North (do you really need 6 Batsmen with your lineup) and playing one of Clark or Lee to try to mitigate Johnson having a fiasco at Edgbasten. If he does play like a cunt again, then you have to drop him for Headingly. Control is everything there, and if he can't control it then I pity Haddin behind the stumps.
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I now discover they've relaid edgbasten. If that's the case, then the temptation will be to flatten it out and play for the draw- leaving Headingly (result), and The Oval (too late in the summer, too much chance of rain). Series drawn. Australia retain Ashes.
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Danny was clearly getting to KFH and a lot of it was nasty. There wasn't any real effort put in to be amusing it was just insulting stuff.
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You look up Oscar Bait in the Wikipedia and you will see a poster of Crash (and not the fucked up one where Elias Koteas fucks James Spadar).
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I loved all 3 hours. I totally went in expecting to hate it, because I don't think Naomi Watts and The Peniantist are not good actors, but I totally bought it.
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Somewhere in that bloated, self-indulgent wankfest call King Kong was a great 2 hour (max!) flick crying to get out. 1-20 minutes = Setup, boat to island. 21-80 = Island 81-110 = New York. 111-120 = Credits listing the gazillion cunts who slaved away making the flick.
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Jul 21, 2009 9:10:32 AM CDT
There are some real probs with the Aussie line up
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
When you try to include another bowler. We don't have any alternate openers so Hughes stays. Katich and Ponting stay. Hussey I'd contemplate dropping in favour of Watson. Clarke I'd promote to 4, North to 5 and Watson to 6. Haddin at 7. Johnson at 8. Hauritz (who has been surprisingly okay!), Siddle, Hilfenhaus at 9, 10, 11. Alternatively, I'd drop Hussey and North, bring in Watson and Lee.
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Jul 21, 2009 9:21:17 AM CDT
If KP and Fat Alky are both out
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Your line up looks as weak as piss. One out is bad enough. Both out and Bell coming in and you've got a very weak line up. Not intimidating at all, which could play into Australias hands. Especially the likes of Hughes.
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Jul 21, 2009 9:35:04 AM CDT
Has anyone seen The Forbidden Kingdom?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I've had it to watch for ages, but never brought myself to put it on. Is it any good?
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Jul 21, 2009 9:43:12 AM CDT
Going back to the running time issue
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
A comedy shouldn't be any longer than 100 minutes. An action flick shouldn't be any longer than 120 minutes. Of course, if the flick works these are bendable rules, but these days, I watch a lot of flicks that I think are way too long. Shit like He's Just Not that Into You SHOULD NOT be 130+ minutes. That shit should be 100 minutes max. King Kong should not be over three hours long. Watchmen should not be three hours long. Flicks like JFK, Schindlers List, The Godfather... yes, okay. Three hours long. But fucking Meet Joe Black? Why the fuck should that shit be three hours long!?!?! (That sticks out because I think its one of the worst flicks ever made with one of the worst performances in history. This is from the guy who made Midnight Fucking Run for fucks sake!)
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I might actually kill a person who said they loved if if they were in front of me and I was holding a baseball bat.I got into the most heated arguments about how heavy handed the racism was. Every single person in that movie was a raging racist. Now I realize we're all a little prejudiced but Haggis did nothing but throw every stereotype he could on the page.And all the ridiculous coincidences. Jesus tittyfucking Christ, it was Los Angeles, not Shelbyville. Strangers won't run into each other 5 times a day.I hate Crash almost as much as I do Blindness. Worst Best Picture winner ever.King Kong will be worth watching as soon as something makes a fan edit and removes an hour of fluff.
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But I was a bit let down. The lead kid was annoying.I've actually watched movies where I was so caught up in the characters I could watch them all day.
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Jul 21, 2009 9:55:23 AM CDT
Worst Best Picture winner ever
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I fucking hated Shakespeare in Love. That, for me, is the worst best picture winner. Moreso that Crash, because I didn't really have a reaction to Crash. I didn't like it. But I didn't hate it. I felt nothing towards it. And the only time i ever think about it is when someone brings it up, or I see Crossing Over which is similar.
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Thought it was a lot better then what it was going to be.
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Tied between Julia Roberts and Gwyneth Paltrow. How the fuck Roberts beat Ellen Burstyn I will never fucking know. I hate Julia Roberts.
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I actually enjoyed. Though I was reading Romeo and Julliet at the time in school. Also I saw it in a theater in Bahrain, and it ran shorter for some reason?
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I actually need to watch the extended version I got for my birthday like 2 years ago. I love that movie.
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For instance, when I saw Fellowship of the Ring in the theater, I never wanted that movie to end. I was completely enthralled with what was before my eyes. I was quite giddy while watching that movie, completely realized Tolkien's world.And yes, there are definitely a ton of movies that run way too long. I think a comedy should run at 1 1/2 hours. A pure action movie...yeah, 2 hours sounds about right.
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to see as a longer version. I didn't like enough of what I saw to begin with, no need to see more of it.
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You can tell if someone is an idiot about movies if they tell you how good it is. I remember seeing and didn't really care one way or another about it, then I thought about it. Its probably the most manipulative movie in history. That fucking scene where the little girl almost's gets shot is sooo fucking stupid and ridiculos.
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Nothing whatsoever appealing there. Fucking nada.
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Save for a jealous envy of Lloyd Kaufman. And the three rings movies are my least favorite movies he's done....well he does have a Marky Mark movie coming out, so they way no longer be his worst.
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Hawaiian's points on it are right on the money. Completely over-the-top and ridiculous on how everything transpired in that stupid movie.
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Taste of Tea. I fucking hated the first hour of that movie, I could not wait for it to end. By the end of the third hour I loved it. Great movie, that first hour is really just an introduction to an oddball Asian family. Once you get used to their quirks you find them more endearing.
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Jul 21, 2009 10:08:56 AM CDT
I think I'm too cynical to enjoy films the way I used to
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I honestly used to see fucking everything and more often than not I would find something about a flick to enjoy. It might be one scene. Or one persons performance. But nowadays, I am find myself disliking probably 2/3rds of the flicks I see. It can't just be down to the fact that Hollywood makes utter shit.
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Sucks, but gets a pass for two reasons. Antony Hopkins is flawless, he could be a asleep for an entire movie with no dialog. And it would still probably be one of the best performences of the year. Two awesome death scene, top ten.
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I sometimes think that way. Like I've missed a lot of classics, shit I just saw Jurrassic Park like a couple weeks ago for the first time. So I am constently playing catch up with them, like I need to see these so called Godfather films at some point. But I watched them and I am not impressed at all. But new movies I find myself enjoying them immensely. Movies like Speed Racer and TMNT make me feel like a kid again.
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Jul 21, 2009 10:15:51 AM CDT
Movies like Jurassic Park and The Godfather...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
remind me why I love movies. Movies like Speed Racer and Eagle Eye remind me why I hate new Hollywood movies.
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Take Cruising for example. I watched it last night, there is a scene where a dude is fisting another dude (they don't actually show it, but you can figure out whats going on). A lot of that movie was done to SHOCK! and I finished it not too bothered about it. Probably because when it came out, shit like that couldn't be seen 24 hours a day. While I thought it was an interesting movie, watching old movies like that is almost funny seeing these actors. James Ramer was in it as a over zealous gay guy and his only see he was in a tank top and undies and got into a slapping match with Alpa Chino. Plus I don't believe in holding older movies above newer movies. Sure Citizen Cane is great and all, but fuck me its boring by todays standards. If an old movie is great, you could realse it and it would not feel dated. A good example of this would be The Bridge on the River Kwai. I watched it and thought, wow this could have been made today, I guessed that it came out in the 70s...fucking 1957.
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Jurrassic Park and Speed Racer fit into the same catagory for me, pushing the bounderies of special effects, while not sacrificing story.
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Is finding some old movie I'd never seen before and realizing how many newer movies I loved just flat out copied it.
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Haven't watched that in at least 10 years. I remember it being great though. River Kwai is great as well. I've seen movies like Wizard of Oz, Some Like it Hot and It's a Wonderful Life a zillion times and every single time they're genius.
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All have to have a revote 5-10 years after they are awarded. If the movie wins Best Picture, its a conditional thing, if it wins it again 5-10 years latter, then it stays. That would make the Oscars so much more fun, to see if that movie had what it took to last.
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Jul 21, 2009 10:29:16 AM CDT
I love the writing in older movies
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Especially comedies. The writing in The Thin Man is fucking amazing. And the performances are genius. You see modern comedies just completely fail to capture that type of screwball comedy. Two examples that come to mind are The Ladykillers remake and that Clooney american football flick.
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Made me realize that I have no idea about anything in sports. Save for the fact that I have the exact same name as a popular announcer now. I figured most sports announcing would have become automated computer voice. The only sports announcers I know, is the guy from Baseketball (he just interviewed Obama) and the black guy with glasses on ESPN (because he came to my college to give a speech for some reason?) and even then I don't even fucking know their names. What a sad sad profession really, all you do is talk about stuff people just did on the screen. Its not like movies where you can discuss the depth of it. Its like A did B, B scored, A got a Penalty, C passes to D, F falls.
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Jul 21, 2009 10:31:48 AM CDT
That's an interesting concept
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
So many winners would change. Shit like Shawshank, LA Confidential, whatever was up against Forrest Gump (i think Pulp Fiction was) would definitely be reconsidered because they have become phenomenons. Especially Shawshank.
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Why would movies now a days try to capture that sort of comedy? It just seems stupid, comdies are a product of the era that they come out in. Yes you can make a classic comedy that stands the test of time, but 90% of comedies only work when they were released. I doubt Charlie Chaplin could have a career if he was just getting started now. And vice versa if you transported Seth Rogan back to the 30's. (I'm not comparing the two I just picked names out of the air).
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How women on television are judged for not just what they know but what they look like. This does not hold true for me. Especailly news, I don't care who gives me the news (except for that smug weather man on news 5, I fucking hate him so much I don't know why). It could be a souless robot giving me the news and it would still be the same to me. As for female actesses, seeing that I tend to not watch shows known for having hot chicks on them I don't think it matters to me.
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That's their names.
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Jul 21, 2009 10:42:00 AM CDT
Comedy is pretty awful these days
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
As much as I love some of their flicks, I blame The Farrelly Brothers. They really started this whole trend of mainstream shit, piss and sperm comedy. Now that's pretty much all we get. None of the comedy is based on dialogue.
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Is that the bloke in Baseketball that says... "You're excited? Feel my nipples!"
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Jul 21, 2009 10:48:35 AM CDT
None of the comedy is based on dialogue.
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Or character, is what I meant. Which is why the best character in the American Pie flicks was Eugene Levy. Because He actually made a character and his dialogue was actually funny. It wasn't just "yeah, lets have him drink a beer with sperm in it. That'd be hilarious."
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Comedies based on dialogue alone? I love you Man was a straight up dialogue movie, nothing even fucking happenes in that movie, guys sit around and talk, then end. Your saying you miss screwball comedy, which was based on sight gags, but your mad about todays version of the site gag?
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Jul 21, 2009 10:54:01 AM CDT
Screwball wasn't solely based on sight gags
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
It was based on dialogue, character and situation. Todays comedy is all based on situation.
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Has my absolute favorite line of dialog. After his son fucks the pie and they are just sitting at the table with the pie all mangled. They are both looking real awkward and Levy says, "We'll just tell your mom we ate it." That was comedic gold, just the way he delivered it in light of what just happened. Best part of that movie.
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Jul 21, 2009 10:55:16 AM CDT
I watched Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid recently
by hawaiian organ donor
I was certain it came out in the 70s and imagine my shock to see 1969 on IMDB. Just a great looking movie that's timeless. Could have come out in any decade.
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I'd hope that holds true for a lot of people, Series. Unfortunately, execs think that all of us little people are a bunch of 12 year old's that require pandering.
This is related to Part 2 of why older movies are awesome. They always had lots of normal (for lack of a better word) people in them. Sure, there's always a couple of stars, but they would be surrounded by folks of a variety of ages that look like everyday people. As if the beauty of the movie stars was a way of focusing your attention. Now (& it's been a long now), it often seems like looking somewhat inhuman is a prerequisite for getting onscreen at all. Which to me has a bit of a distancing effect. -
Was dialogue, character, and situation. Look at the scene at the open house when they meet. That's a damn well written scene. That's the type of comedy I enjoy.
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Jul 21, 2009 10:59:20 AM CDT
The Farrelly's get a lifetime pass from me for Kingpin
by hawaiian organ donor
One of the top comedies of all time. Yes, it's nothing more than a gross out comedy but every performance is pitch perfect and the line deliveries from Woody and Randy are on par with anything from the golden age of comedy.
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A good example is the scene in Trannyformers 2 when Le Beef goes nuts in class. Every chick in that class is amazingly hot. Now, I went to Uni and I can tell you this right now. For every one of those chicks, theres at least 10 fugly chicks.
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I love the Farrelly's. Especially Dumb and Dumber, Kingpin and TSAM. Those three are awesome. I just blame them for all the imitators. Much in the same way as we got a lot of QT imitators when he got big.
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I'm outta here. Have a good day/evening, gents.
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totally. When I see shit like that it's a big reminder that what i'm watching is fake. Though Michael Bay's worldview is pretty fucked, so for his movies it might actually be appropriate.
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I thought that issue was great considering that it's leading into the last one. Unfortunately, it needs to be a longer series. They could've stretched just what happened in that issue into several at least. It does seem like the twist came really suddenly. Especially the stuff about his dad/penis? The controlling the world stuff was obvious, but it would've benefited from a more detailed handling. There's so much going on, but not enough room to really get a good sense of what's motivating the individual characters.
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I thought thier best overall movie was Outside Providence which I sometimes think I'm the only person whoever saw it. That was one fine little movie. Thier funniest is Kingpin which holds up well for a comedy which, except for a handful, don't usually age well.
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Charlie Chaplin, Marx Bros., Preston Sturges, early 60's Kubrick (Lolita, dr. Stranglove)...all very reliably funny. Have aged just fine.
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with no respite from the newspaper. Fuck!
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serial. Watched it last night. I think I liked it better than the movie version. Good cliffhangers between installments. And very entertaining!
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The number of comidies that stand the test of time are still relatively small considering film has been around for about 100 years and over the last decade or so the quality of movies have gone right down the shitter.Still you're right in naming most of those movies above. a majority of them are still good.
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It's a small percentage. But I figure I've only seen a small percentage of the older comedies, so I can't say whether or not they still hold up. Since a lot of the ones I've seen do, maybe a lot of the others would seem good to me also.
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They just produced though.
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I watched The Hitler one not to long ago and I was LOLing (laughing aloud). My lady friend thought I was crazy. I had never seen a Chaplin film up to that point.
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why the long necks and downs eyes?
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Great fucking choice. Any movie that makes fun of Hitler that good will make you Chaplin fan for life.
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Is 2 and a half hours long.....thats two and a half hours of Opera Man....Even fucking Paul Thomas Anderson who loves to make 3 hour plus overly long movies, knew that you couldn't put Sandler on the screen longer then an hour and a half. Man Apatow must think every single word that comes out of Sandlers/Rogens mouth most be the funniest thing ever. God that movie is already my worst of 09 and I haven't seen it.
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Gay underground night club movie was Cruising!...Maybe. Though the first gay night club I ever saw was one called Cock Ring in Amsterdam.
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Marx Brothers hold up. So does a lot of screwball comedies (His Girl Friday, Philadelphia Story, The Lady Eve, 20th Century, The Palm Beach Story, Ball of Fire). And a lot of the 70 stuff seems to hold up really well (probably because of the anti-establishment mentality): M*A*S*H, Harold & Maude, Cheech & Chong, Being There, Shampoo, Annie Hall, Sleepers, Where's Poppa, etc.
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The AICN comic crowd is WAY DC heavy. Also was there even a Marvel review in their?
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Knocked Up is categorized as a comedy. Maybe one of these days I will find boring people talking and bitching funny and worth paying for.
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But I am not a big fan of that book. It just doesn't send me.
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I always forget that it is even a Marvel book. It seems like such a DC thing, I always confuse it with JLA.
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Everyone being resurrected by the Black Lanterns is a superhero. No "regular people." That is why I get annoyed with super-hero comics nowadays - they are so exclusives. Super-heroes are like the people who can walk right on by the velvet ropes - they are apparently the only ones that matter.
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In addition to Annie Hall and Sleeper, I would also add Bananas. Those are my three favorites. You know, the early, funny ones. Hah.
Harold & Maude=awesome. M*A*S*H=awesome. Being There is great except for the almost-doin'-it scene which seemed off to me, almost to the point of being mean-spirited. Somehow, I have never seen Shampoo. I should probably remedy that at some point. -
also deserves a shout out. Love that movie.
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Anyone else seen this gem of a film?
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While I enjoyed the prolog issue, and the start of Blackest Night, about half way through when they just started name checking people I kind of hated it. It just pisses me off because how the fuck is someone who has not been reading comics since they were born supose to fully know how important this all is? I didn't fucking even know Aquaman was dead. Thats my problem with DC, Marvel is not as bad about it. But DC expects you to have read everything from Action Comics #1 to the comic that comes out next week to understand fully the comic that is in your hands.
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I haven't seen that yet. I borrowed a friends DVD and instead he had fucking Reindeer Games. Fuck was I disappointed.
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I just want a "I KNOW KUNG FU" needle to the back of my head about comics. Beacause while I would like to go back and read the old stuff I don't have the time or the moneies.
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I truely think GEM OF A MOVIE is the best why to describe it. It was just such a fun easy movie, and I really really liked it. I found my self really routing for the character at the end. Also I loved the ending comments. I don't want to say what they were until you have seen in. Unless you know about the guy in real life.
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What's Up, Tiger Lily? is great; Take the Money and Run is great; Love and Death and Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex are great. Hell, even Play It Again Sam, which he didn't direct but just wrote, is great.
I think it was Stardust Memories on that he really started to loose it. In the 70s he was hitting it like Bird hit free throws - about 90% - but in the eighties he dropped down to field goal percentage level - 50% - and then down to batting average levels - about .300 to .250. He is now down to black jack levels where you have maybe a 3% chance to win a hand. -
Never made a movie with Roman Polanski starring Micheal Jackson with a score by Gary Glitter and Victor Salva as a PA.
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If it is true that he slept with his stepdaughter.
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I knew I was missing one.
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For me I think the most timeless one to come out in recent times will be Election. I love that movie and its funny as shit. It does have pop cultural references either. It will be a classic until they get rid of the whole class president system in schools.
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My buddy was going to high school there while they filmed it, those are real high schoolers walking around.
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It is up there with Fast Times at Ridgemont High for one of the most accurate depictions of High School life. Shit those two comedies are more realistic than most are about high school.
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Peter and Bobby Farrelly are listed as Producers, screen play writers along with the director and the movie is based on a novel by Peter Farelly. If you believe they words on IMDB they also did uncredited director duty.So, to me, they had a lot to do with the movie and it's their best overall work.
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Well then that makes you the only person to have ever seen it. Though I remember seeing the trailers everywhere. I always got it confused with that Adrian Grenier movie, The Adventures of Sebastian Cole. Whatever happened to that guy?
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Um, that's step-GRANDdaughter, actually. So fucked up...
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Gloria Grahame married Nicholas Ray and started having an affair with Ray's 13-year old son, Tony (in fact Nicholas found them in bed together). About 10-years later Tony and Gloria got married.
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Yes, I read that story. She came saying 'what, it was not like I committed incest'
She had issues, especially about her looks. She would stuff cotton in her mouth to make her jaw protrude, but wound up mumbling her lines. She had good on screen sizzle, but was not really a good looking woman, but made up with 'I will fuck you blind' attitude. Sort of like a slightly sexier Ellen Barkin. -
Wife away 'dogs gonna play!
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I think when she was younger in her first couple of movies she was pretty good looking, but by the time she actually became a star I agree, she was no Veronica Lake.
Having said that though the image of Gloria Grahame jumping around in front of Lee Marvin is still one of the sexiest images in film. And I still don't know what the fuck Jimmy Stewart was thinking in It's a Wonderful Life taking Donna Reed over Gloria. -
One of the funniest writers alive at one time, and a helluva directorial talent in the early to late seventies. Also, a truly funny actor. He totally lost his mojo. But for a a stretch of almost thirty years from his days as a writer on Sid Caesar to his books - he wrote a dracula book that killed me when I read it as a child - comedy of course. I was a serious Woody Allen fan. BUt he lost it sometime in early eighties. Anyone remember the movie My Favorite Year? The young writer/gopher was patterned on Woody. That was a great movie. 'I'm a movie star not an actor!'
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Just plain and simple. You got what you saw on the screen and off it from her.
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Gloria probably oozed a lot of things.
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From every hole possible
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Some of Peter O'Tools finest work. Although, I guess, with Mr. O'Tool that's really hard to say. I really liked My Favorite Year back long ago but I haven't seen it in like 15 years.I'm going to go against the grain here and say, outside of a couple of bits, I don't care for Woody Allen. His whole nebbish whiney routine grates on my nerves like nails on a chalk board.
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He is not everyone's cup of mushroom tea as an actor. But he could write!
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I liked it in the 70s, but when you keep watching it and he keeps pulling it out every movie it gets old. Really old. Especially when you see it nowadays.
But fuck I laugh my ass off when I see him in the 70s like in Love and Death.
Diane Keaton: "We are made in God's image."
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Jul 21, 2009 7:40:51 PM CDT
Topic: Actresses who looked liked pants but fuck you blind
by toadkillerdog
Ok, none of the are fugly, in fact quiet attractive at times. But none are beauty queens.
Gloria Grahame
Ellen Barkin
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She wasn't that bad looking in the Last Picture Show and The King of Marvin Gardens and I am sure she likes to "party".
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Yes, and she had history with George Kaufman.
Renee and Ellen. Cool.
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Shelly Winters - before she ate the hindenburg
Nurse Ratchet - cant remember her name -
She scares me.
Shelly Winters is an awesome choice. Cute as a button in A Place in the Sun and that flick she did with John Garfield (He Ran All The Way I believe).
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Nia VardalosPamela ReedMercedes RuehlStifflers MomBeverly D'AngeloGoldie Hawn
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And they do not get skankier that Margot! Yeah Illeana is very sexy in a uneven face way
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Oh yes! She has that Jewish Italian thing rockin!
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But I really think she would be lame in the bed room.
I'm am gonna nominate Liza Minnelli though. There has got to be something about here that made ever major director, actor or singer date her in the 70s. -
You can't include her - Kurt would be pissed
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And that is Barbara Payton. She doesn't qualify for this list (she was actually good looking) but no one in film history was skankier than Barbara Payton. She makes Gloria Grahame look like a virgin.
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But not since Capt Ron. C'mon you have to know Kurt is knocking off hot trim on the side, he's Jack Burton for gods sake.That makes me think of another name, The chick from Sex and the City, the REALLY whorey one and Big Trouble in Little China.
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You know, our guy in the John Lennon specs, the straw hat, hanging off the Clocktower. Am watching a Kino dvd of 4 hours of his stuff esp. Grandma's Boy. He is very, very funny. Benny Hill type stuff w/ car chases and the like. Good shit all the way around. A looker from the 40's? Linda Darnell. Want another? Gail Russell. DAMN and NATION. C'mon you know it's true.
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Porky's and Police Academy. I mean she was smoking hot in those two movies.
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Jul 21, 2009 8:23:23 PM CDT
But I don't think Linda Darnell or Gail Rusell are pants
by continentalop
Or ever were. I mean Darnell died before she got to old to even lose her looks.
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Damn she was a looker. Unfortunantly life on the streets didn't work out to well for her.have you seen the mug shots of her before she died? Yikes I think she was like 40 but looked like 60.
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Still damn funny. Kim Catrall as Lassie was smoking hot. I don't remember her in Police Academy.
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Great ass in Smokey and the Bandit! Darnell was beautiful, does not qualify. Payton, wow, I do remember hearing about an actress who became a pro, did not know the name. She wins Skank
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Meg Foster, Barbara Hershey and Theresa Russell then.
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Does not qualify. But, and I hate to say it, but horseface does qualify. She had an insane body
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This is about actresses who are not exactly beautiful, but made the most of their looks, and they also look like they could fuck you blind.
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-Thelma Hopkins. Why not?
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C'mon Zuniga, Russell and Foster? I always thought they were in the Ellen Barkin territory myself.
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Jennifer Grey and Lea Thompson?
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Ok. Russell, is borderline beauty but has skankitude that Conti would love. She would fuck a telephone pole. Ok. She is in. Zuniga? Why noy. Hopkins - well she did not look like she would be a good fuck
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Get some brat packers in.
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Courtney fucking Love.
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Are the actresses we are listing always been "sub-par"(eye of teh beholder TM Bando) or does "losing" your looks count?
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An Interesting lady indeed.
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One who always were on the left side of 5/10 and ones who just lost their looks
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Meg Foster fits that criteria.
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Maybe not, she was actually kinda hot in seventies, and is still
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Jennifer Tilly.
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But its got to be like lost their looks prematurely. You can't just throw in an ancient Sophia Loren because she is over 60.
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I think she is still on the border of doable or not. You still might need a couple of drinks.
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Jaime Gertz and Ally Sheedy
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She really wasn't bad looking - she was actually kind of hot.
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Gina Gershon. Not by me, I still think she's smoking hot, but I have seen numbnuts ragging on her looks, bunch fairy mommas boys in my opinion.
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She is smoking hot. The only thing I might find off-putting is that she supposedly had an affair with Bill Clinton.
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Does not qualify. Diane Keaton and Bette Midler - basically horsefaces mom with bigger horse tits
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I'm throwing out names as I think of them. Your right though Ally Sheedy is good looking and that was a hack job of casting. I think I read somewhere that Sheedy only wanted the nut job part. I could be misremembering that though.
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Of different ethnicities. Elizabeth Peña & Angela Bassett.
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Sorta in the Jennifer Grey category - but above Lea Thompson
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Basset goes into the Nurse ratchet rip your dick off category after what she did as Tina Turner. How about Linda Hamilton?
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Is Jennifer Grey from Xi's list. But I think there should be a stipulation that it has to be Jennifer Grey before her nose job.
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Jul 21, 2009 9:02:10 PM CDT
Personally I think Linda Hamilton is good enough looking
by continentalop
Not to be included. But what about Juliette Lewis?
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But the Linda of T2 was borderline skank/nut/hot/scary
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At or near the top.
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Natasha Lyonne. She looks like she could be Bette Middler's daughter...
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Well I think so anyways....
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I once spent time with her real life counterpart. Didn't end well.
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Is Christina Ricci. In 1998 she was "doable" (sorry for the sexist term MB) when she was in Opposite of Sex, Buffalo 66 and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, but ever since Black Snake Moan she has been smoking hot and keeps getting better looking.
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She was cute in Skool Daze and the plant movie that escapes me with Audrey II and Levi Stubbs - damn this little brain of mine! Ok, gott look it up.......Little shop of horrors
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She got a *choke* reduction I hear. WHY!!!?????
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Rosie O'Donnell(yes I know), Roseanne BarrNold, Wanda Sykes, CGI Tammy Wynette. *pauses for a drink. They're Black Label Pounders, by the way--we're gettin' into staple gunning your gnads to the shingles territory here* Lesley Stahl, Paula Abdul, Katie Couric(why not, we're talking slurpees here), CGI Isabel Sanford, Flo from Alice and last but CERTAINLY not least--Prunella Scales. Tip yer waiters well and make sure you have yer shots.
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Now, see Bando, I happen to be a Brit-Com freak. Prunella might actually be too hot, but Ill give ya that. Faulty Towers and Black Adder rules. I'll one up ya. Miranda Richardson
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WTF? That is a crime against nature! NATURE I TELL YOU!
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Jul 21, 2009 9:24:48 PM CDT
Case of arrogant bastard ale, and a baseball bat upside skull
by toadkillerdog
Is only way I could include Rosie or Roseanne - even then it might not be enough!
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No doubting that. I always liked Abdul back in the day pre-whackjob era. She was good w/ those Cartoon Kats.
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Half the actresses on y'all's list are the same actresses I have totally had crushes on.
Let's see....Diane Keaton? Check! Ally Sheedy? Check! Gina Gershon, T2 Linda, Margot Kidder, Natasha Lyonne? Check, check, check, check!
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And she tried covering scars with tats! Oh, the humanity!
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Yes and ditto Debi Mazar.
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And Louise Fletcher too!
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Yep, we be buggin
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Something about it just radiates pure frozen vagina.
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That's probably what I find so attractive about her.
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featuring my current lady-crush: Mary Louise Parker.
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and good night....at least until I get bored later!
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Had a fine ass - David Niven was smackin that ass. And it is one pf the funniest movies of all time as well
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And just after toad mentioned Murder By Death. Damn, I could spend an entire TB on that movie.
"You look like number two if you know what I mean." "What does he mean?" "I'll tell you later - it's disgusting." -
Murder by Death is in my pantheon of funniest movies all time.
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You are not Fred in deesguys are you? He always did the hee hee
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Great comedy horror flick
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Whats up with Ben and that sex assault thing? Ok, I don't believe chick one bit - waiting a year, then filing civil suit? Yeah.
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at least i don't remember him ever cutting lose.
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Gotta walk the dog
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I miss seeing him around. Dude was funny as hell - always in a that sly innocent and humble way. No, I do not think I ever saw him swear either.
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You brought up The Last Picture Show and didn't mention CYBILL SHEPHERD! An oversight?
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Do you edit with FCP or Avid?
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Its just sorta average. The best set piece, I think, was when they had the car chase through the (strangely enough) computer controlled trash dump.
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The two most offending examples of Oscar Bait, in my book, are Cold Mountain and Cinderella Man. Both seemed like someone found the formula to win an Oscar and tried to exploit it. "From the Oscar-winning director of _____ comes this stunning film starring the Oscar-winning actor of _____ and the Oscar-winning Supporting Actor of _____ and the Oscar-nominated actor of blah blah blah." Seriously, that's how I felt during the years those films were released. I didn't see Cold Mountain until years later, and it was better than I expected (I kinda protested the film based on its reliance on European locations standing in for NC and British and Aussie actors portraying North Carolinians... a viewpoint I adopted from a friend whose parents went to high school with the author of the book). But really, it was like the director won an Oscar for The English Patient and Nicole Kidman for The Hours (I think) and Renee Zelwegger, who is the link between both those films, being the supposed Academy darling during those years. Bleh. I never saw Cinderella Man. I'd like to, especially now that I know that comic actor Craig Bierko plays the villain.
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He's a UNC alum. He's come to Carolina the past few years to open our Blue and White games (the night that basketball practice is formally allowed).
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I think its obvious I'm just picking and choosing previous topics from the TB tonight, since I've been away a few days... But what about Linda Fiorentino for the aforementioned topic? I've always been attracted to her (and always been attracted to Italian women), and she looked just like a girlfriend I had in highschool/college, though I never got to fuck her. I always thought Linda was hot, but I don't know if she qualifies for a "smokin'" position or a "not quite beautiful" category. Either way, there are quite a few movies I saw where I wanted to do her.
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She is STILL fucking hot.
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She was/is hot. The list was of less then attractive actresses or ones that hit the fugly wall but might rock your world with the horizontal mambo.
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Fuck yes. We talked about this in another talkback last week, and I supplied lots of good links. Which I might go try and find again.
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FCP and Avid - mostly Symphony and DS. I work almost exclusively on FCP nowadays though.
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FCP and Avid - mostly Symphony and DS. I work almost exclusively on FCP nowadays though.
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Glad to hear she makes the "Hot" list. Makes me feel better about that crush I've had on her since The Last Seduction and Men in Black. But my taste is so varied, I never know for sure who's accepted as "hot". I tend to see the hotness latent in a lot of girls who aren't part of that sacred list.
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Glad FCP is beginning to become more of a "norm", considering there's no way for me to learn AVID other than with an internship or apprenticeship.
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Just not a film for everyone. To do that, they would have had to add even more action set pieces in the middle and end of the film.
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I always thought the point was that he DIDN'T take a stance, Conti, and say one viewpoint- blowing up NY to save the world, or protesting it bc it involved killing pple and killing is evil- is right or wrong. I actually think the ambiguity is part of its genius. Not to say that had he chosen a side it would have been better or worse... I just think he presented two ethos very similar in principle- the less people killed, the better- but different in execution- on one hand, kill to save the world, on the other, don't kill but risk even more casualties. I don't think he judged either side. Rorschach was right on one hand, that you shouldn't negotiate with evil and you shouldn't compromise. But on the other hand, Ozy was right- killing people saved even more... but only for a time. Sure, Rorschach was killed, but only because he would have disturbed the temporary peace. Doc Manhattan knew that Rorschach would ruin that peace, but Moore wasn't being ambiguous or cowardly by not taking a stance on whether or not Rorschach's death was right. I believe Doc's point was not that Ozy failed and Rorschach was right, but that humanity, in the end, would still find a reason to kill each other. Much like Southpark's parody in which a future made up of nothing but atheists would still want to kill each other for a disagreement in philosophy. There's no real escaping that need to be better than your fellow man.
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The M4, 870 and 1911.
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The best thing he ever did was the SNL fake commercial for the "Saarsgard SARS Guard".
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Not a fan. So, so bad.
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She was smoking.
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Jul 22, 2009 3:13:38 AM CDT
Eagle Eye is offensively awful
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
In a year of some putrid stinkers, that fucking flick was Top 3 Worst Film for me, along with The Love Guru and Righteous Kill. It actually made me angry it was so insulting.
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I scanned through but didn't see her on anyones list. She's an amazing beauty and still looks good at 50.
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Does anyone actually have any interest in this? I usually don't even know it's on, but I'm aware of Avatar footage and possibly a trailer being screened. That's the only thing that interests me.
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Is you start with two, three and four-perf and you end up with hundred-perf.
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Is it the most popular and the standard? No, Avid is still controls about 70% of all productions, especially a lot of reality shows (but that is down from about five-years ago when it was 80%). Is it the best system? Maybe, maybe not (people like each other for different reasons). But it is way cheaper than Avid and it will probably be the system of the future.
The advantages of FCP is that for a complete online system it cost over $100,000 dollars to outfit an Avid DS, but for $40,000 you can get a FCP system with an Aja Kona card that is a pro level online system, which will do RGB 4:4:4: and 2k better than the Avid system. Even if you just want to get a professional level editing system (forget online) the FCP will be probably half-price compared to the Avid Media Composer and you'll also get Motion and now Shake with it. Sure they are not as good as Adobe AE, but they'll be good enough for most effect shots you want to do and they come with the system. And you also get all the apple tutorials systems.
Avid is still the industry standard but the thing is the systems aren't selected because which one is the best but because it is the one that the editors and assistant editors are comfortable with. All the young kids and low budget films are being cut on FCP nowadays, and when they move up the ranks they are gonna want to use the system they are familiar with. So I imagine in another 5 years that FCP will be 60% of the business and maybe in 10 years over half. After that who knows?
And finally, you want to be a director right? Well learn FCP for now so you can cut your own movies and then when you make it big you won't care what the hell your editor uses. But at least when you are shooting your low-budget film you can use a system you can actually afford.
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Is Black Dynamite. I wanna see how the crowd reacts to it.
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Is that with Michael Jai White?
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The problem with is that for 12 issues he rails and complains about the dark conspiracies and the evil of men in power without offering an ALTERNATIVE. He just says, “The Men Who Watch us hold all the strings, but there is nothing we can do. We can only hope that there plots become known but truthfully there is nothing we can do about them.” It is the ultimate ode to being a pathetic nothing, and I hate to say this but I think that is a major reason it was successful.
The real moral and theme of the Wachmen is that heroes suck; that the idea of superheroes, or even heroes or anyone in authority, is something that should be instantly suspect. Hey, I think a healthy dose of suspicion of power is good, but Moore is going beyond that and is in fact attacking the idea of anyone who is “better” than the rest of us. The more the character is like a super-hero, the more Moore makes him a fucked up mess and a dangerous individual. Moore is saying that anyone who is trying to act “better” than the rest of us, anyone who is in a position of authority or wants to change the world to fit his vision, MUST be a complete dickhead out for selfish reasons or have delusions of grandeur. It is easy to say that anyone in a costume must be nuts, but remember that the heroes in the Watchmen are acting as surrogates for people in the real world. Rorschach, The Comedian, Ozymandias, and Doc Manhattan all represent real forces in our world – the cops, the military, big business and even the government. In fact the two heroes who are the most like “normal people”, Nite Owl and Silk Spectre, are also the most moral – I don’t think it is a coincidence that the ones who want to “change the world” the least are also the ones that he shows as the most redeemable and are given the closest thing to a happy ending. But all other people who would want to change the World or have the power to do so they all have whacked out philosophical beliefs or suffer serious mental problems or are completely cut off from humanity.
Moore doesn’t paint the Watchmen as evil because he doesn’t believe they are all evil or even care if they were – and if they were tyrants they would look even more appealing (because at least the would effectively project power). No, he presents them as obsolete and ineffective – that even Ozy’s master plot might not work. Moore is saying they have no lasting effect on the world, that being “superhuman” is unimportant and in the end a pointless effort because you cannot control human destiny. He just thinks we would be better off as just being kids, newsstand vendors, shrinks and lesbian cab drivers and if we didn’t have these egotistical dickheads trying to control our destiny. But he DOESN’T judge the morality of their plots, just the futility of them.
What Moore trying to do is the same thing that the ancient Roman poet Horace tried to do: change the pecking order. Horace attacked the Cursus Honorum, the “Course of Honors” that a Roman politician had to take to move up the ladder. During the course he would do many services, both military and public as well as charity, but because it was only available for those of noble birth, Horace attacked it. Horace made those who strove to reach the highest for themselves and Rome feel guilty about their ambitions and desires. Horace talks about "the race for wealth and position, the folly of extremes, the desirability of mutual forbearance, and the evils of ambition"; he wrote against everything that the Cursus Honorum stood for. He said people should admire those who were into the arts, who were contemplators and deep thinkers - people like himself. So instead of a system that had rich families spending their own funds on building roads, buildings and other items to benefit the city of Rome, you had a bunch of people decide not to be ambitious and just sit around contemplating shit.
THAT is what Moore is trying to do. He is saying “We shouldn’t idolize heroes” and that super-hero comics are instinctively dumb. Why is he doing this? Because he is not a powerful person and never will be, and that the people like him who never take real stands are the “real” heroes. He wants the social order switched around so guys like him don’t feel inferior anymore, and he wants to change what is considered hip and cool to be changed from hero worship and superhero comics to pretentious, nihilistic graphic novels. Is it any wonder that the comic within the comic is about a non-superhero genre and seems to say that THIS is what we should read be reading instead of stupid stories about guys in costumes?
What Moore isn’t doing is saying what is right or wrong. All that is superfluous to his attack on the idea of people “better” than us.
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I didn't read it. I just saw how long that post was and thought it must be correct. No one dedicates that much effort if their wrong.
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Stripes was on last night, which I still found pretty amusing. Bill Murray used to be solid gold baby...And I always had a thing for Sean Young back then.This morning was Battle of the Bulge. Fucking crazy having infantry facing tiger tanks.
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Second last day. Thank fuck. Excellent shaggable mingers conversation.
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now.
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But I see it as an odd love letter to superhero comics. He's essentially taken all the cliched elements (the goofy costumes, people trying to make a difference, insidious mastermind behind a shadowy plot) and thrown in psychology to try and understand WHY someone would dress up in a costume. Rorschach (i.e. Batman) is a thug who, when push comes to shove, refuses to surrender his morality (all he has left) for a lie; Manhattan (i.e. Superman) is a God who can never connect to humanity in the way he wants - no one who doesn't dig the genre could layer in so many subtle allusions that are barely there. I think what Moore resents is how people tried to ape the darkness he had - it was right for his story, but a character like Spider-Man shouldn't venture into that.
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defending Van Helsing. Fetid load of crap.
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I disagree. I think there's a level of smug know-it-all-ness to the references. It's almost screaming out "look how fucking clever I am".
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I think you're right and wrong with the Horace comparison (I can't believe I'm even talking about Horace on AICN). Horace was a satirist and the goal of satire was to expose shortcomings to provoke change. This is why you're right. However, Horace was (and this is important for this), basically a lucky sonofabitch that had self-esteem problems. His satire is weak. Juvenal, or far more importantly, Swift were worse poets than Horace, but because the times they lived in were more decadent they were far more savage and thus superior satirists. If you read any of Juvenal, or better still Swift's Modest Proposal (one of the funniest and most cutting pieces of literature ever), you'll see a real hatred of the current order and a real desire to shake it up. Watchmen does, in a way, compare to Gulliver's Travels, albeit mostly structure wise with distinct episodes etc. However, it is so far inferior to Swift's masterpiece that the comparison is actually insulting to the great man.
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Reading that thread I can't stop hearing professor frink's voice for every post about "white is actually, NERD NERD NERD"
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I'm interested, but I don't think I'd ever want to go. I'll just check out G4 tonight...maybe I'm moving.
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They are making Lego Toy Story stuff, and I'm in geek heaven.
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I've thought about this a lot these past five minutes. I put together a think tank real quick and we've come to the solution that the final destination of Watchmen is summed up in the fucking tagline, Who Watches the Watchmen. Follow with me if you can I'm hopped up on home made Ice coffee. Pretty much the point of the story is that who Watches the most powerful man in the world? What could be possible if the worlds smartest man was allowed to work unchecked? Along with the worlds strongest man? Would they be right for what they do or not? The power is in your hands. I always feel that all storys can be summed up in one sentence. If not then they haven't done their job, the concept of Philosophy boggles my mind because nothing in life is that fucking deep.
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in the context of a story about a guy with a magic ring? Not to mention that one of them believes in magic (with a k).That's nerdy.
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Do what you like provided it doesn't hurt me.
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a bunch of movies coming out these next few weeks I want to see! And I'm gonna be gone and too broke when I get back to see them. GI Joe, The Collector, Time Travelers Wife (i think it could be good, I'll have to see some reviews), A Perfect Getaway and The Hurt Locker may finally come out wide. Fucking nothing for a whole month now this DAMN YOU HOLLYWOOD! But I am going to see a special super sneek early preview of G-Force this week. Yeah one fucking day early....thats what we get around here.
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Arguing about the point of Green Lantern versus how well a bowler was dressed for the big game?
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Yup, knew it. The Quis costodias quote is taken from Juvenal. That's a pretty clear indicator of what Moore was aiming at and who he wanted to emulate. Pity he didn't have a fraction of Juvenal's genius.
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We've argued about them being fat alky degenerates or overrated and useless. Hmph. Arguing about the physics of colour in the context of magic rings is stupid, redundant, and nerdy. As I said though, nowt wrong with it. As soon as you sign up to AICN you've doomed yourself to terminal geekdom and lost all right to sneer at other geeks obsessions. That's why I don't give those D&D freaks shit.
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Sitting there discussing the greatness achieved by other men doing something that you could easily go out and do, versus talking about different stories. There is just something so lame about caring about sports. Yeah sure they are better then me, but I could fucking go out there and play the fucking sport. Until there is a sport where people die and real life is at steak I just won't care. Yeah maybe I have my favorite teams, really the only one I can think of is The White Sox for some reason I don't know anymore. Also maybe if sports stars weren't paid I would care more. But getting paid that much money and not killing yourself I can't get behind that.
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Like English literature, and you can get a Literature major in college you can't get a Sports Castor major.
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You can get a degree in Journalism, which is akin to your analogy between Comics been Literature. Look, I'm not starting a row over "who's the geekiest" I just found the physics based row over a ridiculously picky level of detail entertaining. I quite often like reading that thread- they're all passionate and, for the most part, articulate so can present a well reasoned argument. Not something you can say for the rest of AICN. It's very often interesting, but occasionally they go to upper-level obsessive and I find it amusing.
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A Perfect Gateway, can't wait to see this. I will check it out right afeter my honeymoon to Hawaii, so it'll be perfect. Also Twohy is one of my favorite directors.
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Which is a more then you can say for you average sports fan.
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Jul 22, 2009 8:56:57 AM CDT
I'm not sure what's going on here
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
It LOOKS like I've just walked in on a "sports vs comic books" validity argument. *Droid eyes both participants and slowly backs out the door*
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The cricket is actually incidental to the Us v Them banter. If the Ashes didn't come around every 2 years then we'd probably find something else. It's one of the world's oldest rivalries, and even people that don't give a fuck about Cricket in both countries want victory.
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I like cricket, and am articulate. Don't throw around vapid generalisations when I've explained three fucking times now what I found amusing about it and how it wasn't in a sneering way. Not to mention that I've just been extremely fucking complimentary about them.
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And how sports people are allowed in society to look down on comic/movie nerds. Just because their is power in numbers. I'm not getting pissy with you, your just a movie nerd like the rest of us.
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Series fucking hates any and all sport. He doesn't get it. He fails to comprehend why anyone watches it. Which is narrow minded, but his prerogative.
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I have no interest in comics. Watchmen is the only funnybook I've read since I was a little kid. They do nothing for me. But I can understand why people like them.
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Jul 22, 2009 9:08:00 AM CDT
Sports look down on comic book nerds?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
How does that work?
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Jul 22, 2009 9:11:41 AM CDT
There is no connection between...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Sports people/fans and comic book nerds. Other than that whole high school jock/geek thing. Other than that they both eek out their own existence in comfort.
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Jul 22, 2009 9:13:10 AM CDT
I mean its perfectly acceptable to sit around for hours on end
by series7
Watching sports and talking about sports, but if you do the same with comics people think you are weird. My thing with sports is that I grew up playing every sport possible all the way through college and even now on the weekends and I just don't get it. When you play sports, who enjoys sitting on the bench? Thats what watching sports on TV is like to me.
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that because you don't understand it, you think everyone who does it is an idiot. I would shoot myself in the fucking head before I sit around and discuss funnybooks for hours. That doesn't mean that I think others are stupid or idiots for doing it.
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I've sat around with ridiculously smart people who was on my Rugby team watching sports all fucking day. I couldn't get how they could do it. And I wouldn't expect you to enjoy talking about funny books all day if you don't like funny books. But if you tell someone you don't like watching sports, they think you are weird. Even if its some fucking huge out of shape fat ass. I mean its like trying to compare people who think they are patrotic because they wave the American Flag all the time, and get made at anything the feel threatens their patriotism. But do nothing really to support America. I mean if I am sitting around with a bunch of guys watching another bunch of guys play a game, I'd rather just go outside and play the fucking game myself.
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but I happen to suck ass heavily and am nowhere near good enough to be a professional. The argument you're making applies exactly to comics as well- anyone can write. No-one should look down on what someone else likes. There's no need unless it directly interferes with your well being.
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Maybe back when sports were just starting and their were actual respectable sports players I could understand liking sports. But sports players now a days are just awful human beings and why would I want to give anyone the time of day to promote them being terrible people. This whole Mike Vick thing, they are really going to allow him to get back in the NFL? If their were some higher standards in sports players I could understand why. But while some basketball player gets paid millions and then fucking bitches because he has to wear a suit when he isn't playing on the sidelines. Then I come to work get paid just enough to get by, but I'm expected to be here by a certain time or I will get in trouble. Dress professionally even though I'm the only person who sees me all day. Then I hear the people around me agreeing with the baseketball players that they should not have to dress in suits. How could you take their side when you have a job where everything you do is watched and you only make 1/100th of what they make.
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Jul 22, 2009 9:31:27 AM CDT
I think that's more representative of America...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
than anywhere else. Sport in Australia is definitely a huge part of everyday life, but I have quite a few mates back home that have no interest in watching or talking about sports. No one makes an issue of it, even in Melbourne, which is fucking sports mad. America might be different, where if you don't watch sport, or support a team, then you are "different". Maybe it's true, I really don't know. If it is, it's representative of America. Not everywhere else.
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Sound extremely cocky, but whatever. I was one of those weird athletes that was into comics and movies more then sports, and no one could get around it. Even people on my team who were worse then me didn't get it. So it may have hurt my position in the team because it didn't seem that my heart was in it as much because I didn't want to watch sports all the time. When I play sports I go all out. I don't know its pretty much a useless discussion that ends up going nowhere. Why can't their be more athletic comic book nerd, and why can't their be more athletes that read.
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Thats probably true. Especially where I live. I forget sometimes where we all live.
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Count me in!I always had a thing for Kilmer's wife from Willow, something Whaley maybe?And I'd do anything to have Jennifer Connelly circa the Career Opportunities days.And Susan Sarandon from the Eastwick and Bull Durham days.
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Jul 22, 2009 9:36:44 AM CDT
But those are the issues surrounding sports...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
not the sports themselves. I know a guy who only watches amatuer sports. Like he goes and watches the local aussie rules football on the weekends because he thinks it represents a "purer" form of the sport. Without the corporate bullshit. Issues like a player wearing a suit isn't about the sport itself.
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Maybe it was the special effects in Speed Racer. But something about her in that movie was just awesome.
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sportsmen, and lake of sense of fair play endemic in modern sport. Alan Moore is a whackjob and a bit of a cunt, you're not going to start disliking comics because of this are you? William Burroughs was a Junky Homosexual that shot his wife in the head, Byron had an affair with (amongst others) his sister, Coleridge was a raving opium addict, Woody Allen fucked his adopted daughter and I've just learnt that Morgan Freeman fucked his step granddaughter. This is before I even get on to MJ kiddy fiddling. People are horrid in every field.
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Never did anything for me. Jennifer Connelly in Career Opportunites on the other hand... Those sweater puppies in that white singlet occupied my spank bank for quite some time afterwards.
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HOT. SMOKING HOT. See Scandal for example. So I don't think she counts.
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Its about the millionaire bitching about how he has to wear the suit. Then some average joe who gets abused day in day out by his shitty job, sitting there agreeing with him. Which just plays into the mind set that sports players are better then you, which I won't believe. Also having gone to a college that thinks that sports beads all, you can see all the special shit they get that the average student does not get.
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only time I've ever wanted to play hide the sausage with her was in Witches of Eastwick. But Cher and Michelle Pfieffer were much hotter than her in that. Droid, KP's out for the summer. Ian bloody Bell will play. Damn it. Ashes to Australia.
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Actors and authors are totally fucked up, probably more so then sports players, they just like to raped people. But I don't agree with you that everyone can write. I think this site is proof of that. But as far as sports go, maybe you won't be that good at a sport, but everyone can play a sport for fun. Not everyone can write something/make a movie that is worth anyone else seeing.
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and if I was American it would piss me off something chronic to see some cretin that can barely count have his way through college eased for him.
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Jul 22, 2009 9:49:02 AM CDT
Which is still the issues surrounding the sport...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
not the sport itself. The nature of the human race is to create a heirarchy in society. Musicians, Actors, Sportspeople. These are the new royalty and aristocrats for common folk to aspire to.
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If you can shoot some hoops or make some down touches then college will probably be easier then high school.
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is that anyone can write- just that it will be shit. Just like anyone can play sport, chances are, though, they'll be shit. There's nothing wrong with taking enjoyment from seeing someone do something at the highest level- far beyond what you can achieve yourself.
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Huzzah! He's a useless cunt anyway.
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I've thought about this. Think about Bill Gates. It is probably the most recent success in a family name. Imagine being a forth or fifth generation Gates, you are still close enough to the first generation that all the money won't be gone, but far enough away that people won't care about what you do. There will be a time in that kids life when they wake up and realize that they won't have to do anything in their life and they will have a better life then 99.9% of the population.
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I'd like to see these pricks do what baseball and hockey players had to do 60 years ago. Work a blue collar job during the day to pay the bills. Anyone who goes from high school to be a multi-millionaire basketball or soccer player will never appreciate jack in life.I love watching sports but I could get by if all professional athletes dropped dead tomorrow.
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unlike that fully fit cunt Hughes that can't make it into the 20's.
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And in chimes HOD with the blood-curdling cry of "Feed all athletes into the chipper"!!! Harsh. But amusing.
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Hod nailed what I was trying to say.
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Nothing would be lost if a chipper, like Hawaiian says, were to be used on all athletes. College basketball and football are greater than the NFL and NBA. Why? Because the loyalty one has to one's colleges teams is far greater than one feels for a professional team, which has greatly lost touch with their fanbases. Add to the fact that one's favorite player more than likely will finish his career somewhere else, well, it ain't the same as it was 30 years ago.
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That's not to say I'm happy to see the back of him. Bell is a welcome addition to your side. hehehehe I have a feeling Hughes will make a huge score in the next test.
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in college...
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Jul 22, 2009 10:07:11 AM CDT
Is college baseball the same as basketball and football?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
You never really see much about it.
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My idea behind that is you should only care about your college...and you should have gone their. I went to two colleges? Also the college right down the street from me, most of their fans never went to college, let alone that college. It is the more popular college in my state. I went to the other college on the other side of the state and my bank card has my college logo on it. So whenever I use my card the people are like OHHH I CAN'T touch this, so I ask them if they went to the other college. 99% of them say no and shut the fuck up.
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Fucking ecstatic I'm away for this inevitable fiasco. Ian "Sherminator" Bell. AAAAAAARGGGGGGGGH Useless cunt. I'd rather they'd picked someone from the Under 19's.
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less then 1 percent of all college atheletes go on to professional careers in sports and by careers I mean Football, Basketball and Baseball the ones that might land you a fat contract(I don't know about Cricket contracts, sorry). Less then 2 percent of those three sports stars are the ones getting payed the big money for being a physically superior breed and having a drive almost everybody else lacks. The rest of the athletes in those sports make some decent money for a few years but not generational cash. It might help the hugh streak of envy you're displaying to know that within five years of retirement around 85% of basketball players and around half of football players are broke. They spend like the money will always be coming in or like they had big money to start with. In most ways its like with anybody who has a superior skill, like the maybe the 1 percent of authors, movie makers or scientiests who make it big. very very few people have the skill, ability and drive to the best at anything. Everyone else falls into the majority catagory, from ok to very good, that's just life.
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but you thought that Hussey was going to get a century in the last test, so don't be offended if I greet your amazing prediction with: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Overrated bag of cocks that's scored a mighty total of 51 in 3 innings. That's worse than Broad.
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makes the batting line-up more threatening. Bell is as weak as piss. Now we just need Freddie to pull out and we'll be a cert.
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Wouldn't that make it hard to watch then?
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I'm taking this really badly.
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I'd buy that for a dollar. I'm now using "Worse than Broad" for totally useless and unnacceptable. Hughes' Batting= Worse than Broad. Johnson's Bowling at Lords= Worse than Broad.
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Hughes will score a century in the next test. And Hussey would've scored a century if he wasn't given out my that most mysterious of catches... The one that doesn't hit the bat!
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Jul 22, 2009 10:27:36 AM CDT
Jarv's sexual orowess = Worse than Broad
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
hehehehehe
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Most of those kids know they aren't going pro and they leave it all out on the field/court/rink.I'm tempted to throw my 2 cents in the ring about The Watchmen conversation above. I can understand why Jarv and Droid hated it but I was thoroughly entertained by it. I didn't even think anyone was miscast. Ozymandias could have used more development but otherwise it was much better than I expected.
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Jul 22, 2009 10:28:16 AM CDT
Jarv's sexual prowess = Worse than Broad
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Damn. Fucked that one up.
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but he didn't did he Koala molestor? So you were, once again, full of shit, weren't you? Mind you, criticising Australians for being full of shit is pointless. It's a national characteristic and if you take the shit out then you've got fuck all else.
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Fucking amazing documentary. And very revealing about the sporting system in america is. Particularly the high school system. Pretty fucked if you ask me.
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you absolute cunt. Bet you feel pretty silly now?
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About them being broke, I was watching something called the Superbowl a couple years back. Don't really know if that’s a yearly thing or what. But that’s beside the point. The announcers were talking about some organization to help old football players out money wise, and how a lot of them are broke and some are almost homeless. I found it appalling trying to get sports fans to donate to this fund while I bet hardly any of the athletes that were playing in the superbowl donated a dime. Its not my fault they can't handle their money. It was like Lee Scott or one of the Waltons to asking Wal Mart employees to donate to the emergency fund to help out fellow Wal Mart employees. While the employees donated something over a million dollars, the Waltons only gave something less then $100,000 combined.
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Fucking brilliant. I'd watch that again.
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But I prefer Stevie.
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and that does take care of old players from the 60's that never made any money. It does happen.
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Dressed properly today? Nothing out of line in their uniforms?
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Jul 22, 2009 10:36:17 AM CDT
I think it was the attempt to write...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
"Jarv's sexual prowess" that caused the error. That statement is so foreign and unnatural that it's impossible to write correctly the first time.
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I'm outta here. Later, Chaps and Jarv the cunt! hehehehe
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Droid finds it hard to type, what with his webbed claws as the direct result of inbreeding/ animal in the genepool. Massive, massive self-pwnage. Mind you, you Aussies aren't big on self awareness.
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Mad Max Dundee.
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I've got to go and buy a copy of the big Issue from that tramp cunt Droid at the tube station. It's good for my Karma.
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What are you talking about?Correct me if I'm wrong but were you referencing the fight going on between the players union and the NFL about medical coverage and benifits to past players?
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Working on my comic reviews since works got me Sooo busy today.
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Read Civil War immediately? It awesomely makes every Marvel character politically orientated and suddenly obsessed by terrorism.
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No I was talking about how some of the old timers, who were around for SuperBowl 1 and such. Ones that were paid millions of dollars and such now live off of welfare. That and there is some charity to help these older players. But I bet that whole medical coverage plays into it somehow.
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Watchmen is at least approachable. V For Vendetta (comic-book) is barely coherent garble. There's a point to that, I've just no fucking idea what it was.
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http://tinyurl.com/n3z93y
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Jul 22, 2009 11:21:09 AM CDT
Okay I'll say it: THE JAPANESE ARE FUCKING CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by crackerfarmboy
Vampire Girl vs. Frankenstein Girl, what on earth is wrong with these people. First the 60 foot robot and now this. Aww...fuck it, you gotta love those sick fucks!
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Julianna Margulies, she's another oddly attractive one not "hot" exactly but real interesting. She did hit the hot MILF button on an episode of Scrubs.Good night I'm going to bed.
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Check out my comic book reviews. And kept your nerdy comic book talk over there! http://tinyurl.com/lqn4ql
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old time players were not payed millions of dollars. In that that statement you are completely wrong.
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So old time players were paid millions of dollars?
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Times were completely different back then, and the NFL has never been on the same level as baseball or basketball in terms of compensation and power of their union. The NFL has always abused their players and not given a shit about them, and bled them dry for every penny that they made off of their TV deals.But yes, they are completely at fault for blowing their millions (I'm talking in the last 25 years the players) and not having any financial sense.
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I'm confused? Old time players did not make a lot of money correct? ...OHHH wait I see my post was crappily worded. I got what I was trying to say confussed. Ones that were not paid millions now live on welfare. Something along those lines. Yeah I know old time players didn't make a lot of money, and new players that make a lot of money don't help them out. Sorry that was a terrible post.
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For those players that did make a lot of money and have now blown it, I can't feel bad for thme.
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Is the same problem with comic book, movies, books, and porno.
What once was a distraction is no an obsession for a lot of people (says the man typing at a geek website who posted imaginary stories about some guy called Joshua Swaney).
I can't remember the exact saying, but their used to be a statement that "Sports was a distraction or prepared you for work or war." The idea being that sports was just this little side thing that you do, something to help get you in shape for work or war (considering that work used to be completely manual labor for most of the country) and that it only occupied a short part of your day. I think now for so many people it is an insane obsession, and that they band around there local sports team in blind loyalty just like the jingoistic nutjobs who can't really tell the difference between patriotism and nationalism. -
The only reason I brought up Horace is because I thought he was the best example of an artist trying to change the social order. He was successful and rich, but because he was born the son of a free slave he was denied any place in public office, the only honor still unavailable to himself.
But if you look at it, all artist attack the social order and try to change it to what would make them the top of the pecking order. John Lennon attacked the forces of conformity advocated peace while putting down military service (such as when he and the other Beatles were knighted, he said they deserved it more than people who killed). Why? Because that way peace-loving musicians like himself would be viewed as being top of the food chain instead of war heroes and things he never could be. Muhammed Ali, Malcolm X and a bunch of other black guys pushed "black is beautiful" and "black power". Why? Because they were black and wanted that to be looked at as desirable and the epitome of good looks. And a bunch of Right Wing radio host always attack Hollywood, not so much for their politics but because people like to emulate Hollywood and these guys would prefer it if you emulated them instead. -
Why the hell are you arguing with Lockesbrokenleg? The guy does this every TB, say some completely dumbshit thing and than goad people into an argument. You can never win in an argument with him because logic doesn't work, and you can't insult him because he has no self-esteem to begin with to take away.
Better to ignore him or kill him with kindness because then he'll get confused, he will furrow his brow in a feeble attempt to understand, and then just wander away bored and bewildered. -
I'm just fucking bored. I swear one of these days I'll stop trying to fight with teenagers and grow up.
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A ton of money back then, but hell, Manny Ramirez makes that in 3 weeks or whatever, you know? Ramirez is the guy who loaned his Benz (or whatever) to a team-mate Manny Alexander when he was on the Red Sox, and once when Alexander opened up the glove box, out came some 80 grand of bills...fucking Manny Ramirez had just kinda cashed it and tossed it into the glove box 'for safe keeping', I guess. Yes indeedie Ladies und Germs it's the American Way(TM). Of course I would be the one to wind up being the comic-strip nerd and baseball junkie here. Not so much comic books, but the old newspapers strips ala Maggie and Jiggs or Wash Tubbs or Thimble Theatre or whatever, that shit I enjoy the heck outta. And I've read more Bill James than is feasibly good for a sentient being in this mortal coil. Sadly. I am STILL waiting to see Harold attempt to interview Herr King Bill James. I think that would be a riot.
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not the rule like it is today where EVERY ballplayer makes good money and plays in MLB.
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