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Harry's Day 1 @ Comic Con: Alice, Tron, Dickens, New Moon, Hole, Final Destination, Avatar, District 9, Trick or Treat & more!!
Hey folks, Harry here - what a first day of Comic Con. Fun, Surprising, Blissful, unbelievably kickass, rushed, stressful, panic attacks, addressing 4000 + people... and Brian Cox's tormented kitty cats! Yeah. That sounds like Comic Con to me.
This is the official first day of comic con, but the fact is, PREVIEW NIGHT - found me dropping over a $1500 on the floor on 2 killer t-shirts by WHITE NINJA comics' creator and an awesome tote bag from the QUESTIONABLE CONTENT creator, a killer FEZ for me to disguise myself with - and an original 28" long concept art piece of Malificent as the Dragon from SLEEPING BEAUTY's production. Tis sweet as cupcakes sprinkled with Splenda.
But that's not what you want to hear about - but for me, that's what Comic Con is about. It's about getting Treasures, big and small on the Floor. It's about meeting with fans, awesomely talented folks and clutching an original Frank Frazetta THUNDA page priced $17,500 and wondering if my Fez is enough of a disguise to get away undiscovered with. It's also about washing your hands in the bathroom next to Frank Darabont - and talking about what he's been buying... ORIGINAL Concept Art from the original ROLLERBALL (btw). Frank isn't here to announce anything. He isn't addressing the crowd... He's shopping and apparently stalking me in the potty!
I got wildly drunk last night - seem to remember Garth from DARK HORIZONS and I realizing that we had never actually met till that night, although we've known each other for over 13 years now. Then there were the beautiful ladies from DETROIT that bought me wine and chatted me up till around 2am, then the awesome SIDESHOW sculptor, his model and a burgeoning filmmaker that chatted me up till 3 am. SO - I started Day 1 of Comic Con with 3 hours of sleep. And felt great!
1st thing on the agenda was living in HALL H for 8 hours beginning with DISNEY's 3D panel and exhibition moderated by the amazing Patton Oswalt, which kicked off with Zemeckis and A CHRISTMAS CAROL. I have to say - it is amazing how different things looked after just a short 2 months on the Scrooge and Marley scenes. They're still great, but they're more fleshed out, better lit and rendered - and frankly, the 3D rocks. It reeked of atmosphere and quality. The scene of Marley with the coins upon his eyelids. GREAT. This is looking very good!
Next was ALICE IN WONDERLAND - we just got a look at a different trailer than the one that showed up online, albeit in 3D - This looks so fucking great! Watching Alice shrink into her own dress in 3D just was stunning - and that bastard evil cat... double damn squared! It is just FRIGHTENINGLY FREAKY! We got to see it 3 times - divided up with Q&A with Tim Burton and Patton - Burton's response to being asked if he'd ever direct a HARRY POTTER film was priceless... "You mean, now that they've all been made?" "I suppose we could do a spinoff about Harry's OWL." and many more barbs were just rich. Johnny Depp hitting the stage gave us a preview of the gal heavy audiences vocal abilities - and honestly... it was a crazier reaction than they even did later with Mr Hair & Perfect Skin.
Then the last Disney presentation was both my favorite and my most aggravating. Intellectually I know that they don't have anything solid to really show yet, they JUST WRAPPED photography this past Monday... as in, 3 days prior. But I didn't know that going in - and well - fuck it man, I'll be honest - I was wearing my Adidas TRON shoes I was so damn excited. And when the screenwriting team came up to talk to me... I geeked out pretty hardcore on them, but it was nothing compared to the FLYNN'S ARCADE metal token I was handed when I entered the HALL H. Seriously. Having a token from FLYNN's Arcade... that's a holy geek item - and everyone that entered was handed one. HOW COOL!
Anyway - as you saw in Merrick's posted piece - we got a great atmospheric slide show - but even better we got some footage of stunt performers doing AMAZING acrobatic moves that will be integrated into the DISC games we'll witness in the film. STUNNING stuff captured on a digital camera system that was capturing a thousand frames a second... in 3-D!!! Shit will be mind blowing when complete. But the big deal. Just being in the presence of Jeff Bridges. He just made the room collectively feel legit and cool. So Cool!
After that - we had a potpourri panel that lasted 45 minutes - that comprised of PARTLY CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS - which looked fun as hell in 3D. Then we had Joe Dante come out with his film, THE HOLE. This isn't a giant film. This is Dante's stab at trying to recapture a bit of that 80's Spirit - with a horror film about a hole in the basement that you shouldn't mess with. The initial trailer didn't do much for me, but the scene... well - when a crazy scary marionette is tormenting the shit out of a little kid. That's the sort of joy I love from Dante. Apparently when you look into the abyss, the abyss of that hole looks back at you and conjures your greatest fear to - well, not tell you happy bedtime stories, that's for darn tootin'!!! The last bit was THE FINAL DESTINATION - again in 3D, and the 3D kills were just awesome. It tracked a great response in the Hall - and I have to say. I loved it.
The next panel gave us a break from 3D - and the second the head of programming for Comic Con hit the stage there were screams. A look at Yoko's Twitter phone revealed that Quint's Life Partner was rubbing up against Robert Pats in an elevator somewhere and wishing that he was diamond dusting his chimney no doubt. That's right - this was SUMMIT'S panel - and it kicked off with a nice early look at a not quite finished ASTRO BOY trailer that was quite fun - which was introduced by Freddie Highmore and Kristen Bell. And Freddie towers over Kristen btw. Really freaky to see he's hit his growth spurt. The audience liked it, but wasn't bowled over. As... well... the room was about 75% tweaking TWILIGHT gals.
Next was SORORITY ROW - which was intro'd by Briana Evigan, Leah Pipes, Rumer Willis and two other babes. Feels like a remake of I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER, but with the Sorority setting. I really didn't like much of this. The only blip on any Heart Monitor went off when I saw Carrie Fisher as a shotgun toting Sorority House Mother. But otherwise - Yawn.
Then... NEW MOON.
I would have killed to have seen Patton Oswalt moderating this panel. It would have been GENIUS! In fact - as a rule - COMIC CON needs to pay Patton whatever it would take to just handle all HALL H panels. The first guest to hit the stage to screams was director Chris Weitz, still smarting over idiotic studio re-editing of THE GOLDEN COMPASS, but truly it seemed he was feeling better over this experience. Next came Ashley Greene, the soothsaying vampire Alice Cullen. I have a serious crush on her. Then Kristen Stewart came out - I love her awkward fragile flower routine that she does in front of people. She's just looking like she can barely tolerate this type of experience. Then Taylor Lautner/Teen Wolf Jacob came out to intense screams. Of everyone - Taylor seemed absolutely in his element here. Answering every question to maximize the mania in this audience. It was actually kinda amazing watching him work this audience. He really gets it - and seems to love it. That was so releaving. And lastly - the strutting Pattinson appeared - the screams were the most piercing here. And he seemed to me to reflect a degree of disdain for all this. I believe that outside of the money and the credit to his career that this is doing - he really deep down would admit he regrets being Edward. He doesn't seem comfortable with the screams, the constant following and cult that has really overpowered him.
The footage wasn't really meant for me - both scenes were cut to appeal to the readers and the audience that was here. When Jacob takes his shirt off to wipe blood from Bella's brow... you couldn't have heard an Atomic Blast. Though curiously - Bella has inhuman blood that could not be absorbed or wiped by wolfboy's brown shirt. Wonder if that'll get done in post. Overall - I get the idea that Weitz will make an infinitely superior film to the first, and every member of the cast seemed to vastly prefer him to Katherine. Especially Robert. At least that's how I read them.
After that - the audience went from a female majority to a male majority with the impending awesome that was AVATAR. I do have to say - the snobbery that I've read from some of my fellow online Bloggers - kinda annoyed me, specifically when Devin from CHUD twittered that it was time for REAL GEEKS to get in. I'm sorry. But any film... any audience... that camps out overnight, travels from around the world, to see a glimpse of their Vampire movie stars and a brief glimpse at too short footage. They're REAL GEEKS in my book. They make their own T-shirts, costumes, outfits. They hang on every word, rumor and report. They're real geeks, just excited by the romance of young love and the fantasy of immortality. And that's cool. To see so many truly hot young women at Comic Con... that isn't a shame, that's a goddamn relief! Because at Comic Con - they'll become not real geeks, but BIGGER geeks - and just spending these first several panels with them - well, it was nice. There was a passion and a thrill and energy to the room that was missing when they had gone.
BUT - I have mixed feelings about them leaving before AVATAR's 25 minutes screened. One, I was glad that we wouldn't have screams... But I really wish they had seen AVATAR, because the burgeoning relationship and romantic possibilities between Zoe Saldana's Neytiri and Sam Worthington's Jake Sully. It was so magical, so enticing and so powerful that it would have instantly transformed all of them into campaigners for the film. I honestly believe that.
Before Cameron took the stage - Fox's Tom Rothman took the stage with a prepared monologue delivered with the oddest most aggressive forcefulness that I've ever seen. It kinda came off as though he felt the LOUDER he was, the more awesome everyone would think he was. Instead, it was just sort of... odd.
Jim came out and the room was absolutely intimidated. You could feel everyone just kinda nodding their heads as Jim earnestly and with true conviction showed us what one of the richest true blooded awesome geeks on this planet was like. A small town boy from Canada - whose town was a fraction of the population of the room... that grew up devouring science fiction novels and thinking and dreaming about the possibilities of OUT THERE. And this is his dream of what is out there.
You can see it in every frame of the film. This is Cameron's dream - a dream he wishes to share with all of us. And frankly - it blew me away. Quint did a great job describing the blow by blow of it all, but to me - the magic of Pandora came to life the second that Sam's Jake had his consciousness transferred into his Na'vi body. When I was paralyzed below the waist - I spent 6 months trying to wiggle my toes - and the facial glee that his character has at being able to wiggle his toes. For a signal from his brain to his feet to actually work... and that reaction. I'll never forget the moment when I saw my toes twitch and begin to move. It is... amongst the most amazing moments of my life. And the wonder and awe he has at being able to stand, towering over his fellow humans, to walk, awkwardly at first, but to be able to move... effortlessly. Its a dream I've been working towards the past few years - and I can not wait to get there.
I loved the performance that was coming through in this character as he played with Pandora - but when Zoe's Neytiri became involved. My jaw... dropped. It is seriously one of the most wonderful and awe-inspiring images I've seen in years. I was watching a completely unfettered collective of imaginations realized in such a beautiful, cinematic and thrilling manner that I just was stunned.
This film will be a cultural marker I feel. You'll always have people that feel cooler than anything that others love, but this is pretty stunning work - and in many ways - Jim was showing us the small scenes. The character beats. Not the huge stuff. At least as I know it from the scriptment all those years ago.
After AVATAR - Yoko and I decided to hit the floor for a bit, then head to the screening of DISTRICT 9.
This begins one of the most thrilling and painfully aggravating sequences of events of my day.
I was to host a Panel discussion of TRICK 'R TREAT with Michael Dougherty, Brian Cox and Lauren Lee Smith tonight, but I was assured by Sony that I'd have time to see DISTRICT 9 and get over to my panel. So I went. Unfortunately the event ran about 45 minutes late, which meant that at the tensest most intense points of the film... when everything is getting gi-fucking-normously awesome. I had to get the hell out of dodge.
But before that, I got to see about 4/5ths of a great great great movie! It begins with a bit of doc introductory stuff that coaxed me into a sensation that this was going to be a reflective film. One that was assembled for South African TV, this was funny, horrifying and amazing to watch. The acting was top notch - and not done tongue in cheek. It just felt earnest and real.
Then... BAM! You are in the movie. And holy shit it was great. I'm not even sure where the transition happened between the two formats - but suddenly I became aware that I was in a straight forward narrative - and entranced. The effects work from Weta - and the use of those effects by Neill Blomkamp in the complete service of the story was breathtaking.
I can't completely comment on the film - as I don't know how it ends, and I DO NOT WANT TO KNOW. When Yoko elbowed me and handed me her watch which read 9:05pm... the blood drained from my face. I realized - this was terrifyingly horrible to leave. I have been a champion of TRICK R TREAT for the past two years, but I was six strokes into one of the best cinematic brain fucks I've had in a while - and I had to pull out and run. As I hit the lobby - I saw a concerned Jeff Blake (Vice Chairman of SONY) notice me and Yoko rushing away from the film... way early... and as I passed him, I had to stop to ensure him that I loved what I was seeing, but had to rush to a panel. IT KILLED ME.
Then - Yoko and I catch a cab to dart back to the Convention center - and the driver puts my wheelchair in the trunk of his cab... awkwardly and not secure and then slammed the trunk down upon it 5 times till it shut. Yoko and I look at each other like... "WHAT THE FUCK!" When we arrived at the Convention Center - Yoko gets out to get my chair... and it won't unfold. Seriously. It just. It just was frozen. Both the cabbie and her begin pulling and yanking and trying to get it to work - and NOPE. Finally. As I had reached my breaking point - it finally opened up... but Jesus, Allah and Zeus... PANIC ATTACK. Seriously. Just horrifying. Luckily it is fine and in great shape - but goddamn it. I seriously have to get out of this fucking chair.
And my last event of the evening was TRICK R TREAT panel. It went extremely well. Dougherty and I have been chatting online several times a week since 2002 when he was working on X2. TRICK R TREAT premiered 2 years ago at my BUTT-NUMB-A-THON, which Dougherty has attended like a little school boy on Halloween night. So I had no real fear of him, but Brian Cox... the original Hannibal Lecter... William Wallace's fucking awesome scarred up Uncle... and so much more, well - he's pretty intense on screen, but in person - what a great guy. When he was talking about his lil Sam doll he keeps in the cupboard - and uses to torment his kitty cats. Well, how can you not love this guy? Seriously. So cool. The audience was fired up and rearing to go in the filled to maximum capacity BALLROOM 20.
Afterwards, Yoko was feeling a tad worn out - so we came back to the Hotel for a relaxing moment - which has become a very peaceful writing time for me - as she reads that first book that inspired TRUE BLOOD.
Well, I've got to check out the schedule to see what I'm doing tomorrow.
Good night - and Happy Comic Con!!!
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Jul 24, 2009 3:12:27 AM CDT
$1500 FOR TWO T-SHIRTS? STEPHEN SOMMERS CHECK CLEARED THEN?
by carlthormark1978
First?
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I saw a trailer on it's website and it looks pretty damn awesome.
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Sounds like Moriarty dug the hell out of it too.
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You want a true and beautiful piece of acting to convey a characters delight at being able to do something they weren't able to do? Lost 104. Some of the BEST acting I've ever seen. No dialogue, but TOQ sells the moment like a pro.
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probably a closet homo
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Jul 24, 2009 3:25:55 AM CDT
WILL ALICE IN WONDERLAND BE AS GOOD AS THE 76 VERSION?
by carlthormark1978
Because I doubt that anything in the new version could compare to the awesome beauty and fucking/sucking prowess of Kristine DeBell. That woman was a fucking goddess.
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Im seriously excited for Trick R Treat and Avatar. I wasn't sure about District 9 but now I cant wait.
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Jul 24, 2009 3:32:17 AM CDT
Was the big Star Wars announcement that concert? Hope not
by orionsangels
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Jul 24, 2009 3:32:40 AM CDT
DEVIN FARACI'S A PSEUDO INTELLECTUAL POSER DOUCHEBAG....
by carlthormark1978
The guy is always trying to convey just how above it all he is by dumping on The Dark Knight and yet the fucking moron slobbers over the trailer for Where the Wild Thing’s Are, that’s based on a 48 page book and has been in production for four years, and the reason is because that hipster asswipe David Egger’s wrote it which also explains why the dipshit likes that scum Diablo Cody soo much. He’s a fucking tool who does nothing but ban ANYONE who disagrees with him or his little band of ass kissing sycophants who hang on his every word while they do nothing but trash every other site as being beneath them.
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I wish I could drop a bunch of cash and get crammed into a convention hall for days. Dammit! Maybe I could survive is this was all posted on the internet, with video and detailed description.
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...that harry was in a wheelchair. Has he always been??
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Harry, Bobby Chiu created the concept design for the awesome looking cat in Alice. I am sure he is at Comic Con. If you don't see him there -- or don't know his work -- google him. And check his website and online portfolios. I am sure you love his unique style. And a couple of his cat pieces feature a design that definetly resembles the cat in Alice. Buy some of his work. Mark my words, you will see a lot more of Bobby Chiu.
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Yeah, I'm still liking what I hear about Avatar even if it turns out the unbelievable hype about the visuals might have been a bit of a mistake.
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musta been hard to walk out like that enjoying the movie so much and all before the end... ouch.. one of these days i'll get my ass over to comic-con
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I like Devin. He's a very cool guy, but I really can't abide his statement that denegrates a growing and vital segment of fandom. I may not be a part of the Whedon geeks, but I sure as hell respect their passion. When my nephew fliped for TRANSFORMERS 2 - I refused to talk bad about the film to him, because you allow the young to embrace that which cultivates their passion. Maybe it is because I've been a part of heavy duty Fan Culture since my Father threw those conventions in the early seventies - and I began attending conventions like San Diego and Detroit and New York and Atlanta and Dallas and Houston going back all the way to 1972.
and for the record - this isn't about Yoko loving these books, because she was begging me not to make her sit through the panel cuz she didn't want to be in a room of screaming, though... she did have fun with it (though never screamed) - although I did to the two Cameron questions.
Devin is a real geek. A great guy to talk passionately about film. For me, this is about a single statement that just got under my skin. -
you shouldve stayed in district 9. nobody wouldve been mad at you.
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I had to honor my agreement to moderate an event with a friend - and get to meet Brian Cox backstage. Very cool.
But ya know... as painful as it was to leave a fucking phenomenal film to do this... I LOVE that I'm in this position of knowing that in the not too distant future, I'll get a complete and thoroughly AMAZING experience with the whole thing.
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sorry, I'm an honorable man. When I tell someone I'll be there, I'll be there. There was a room of 4000 Comic Con fans - several fans of mine and readers of this site that went because they've read about TRICK R TREAT here and that I was hosting the panel for it.
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Jul 24, 2009 4:05:44 AM CDT
Im sorry Harry, but this populist bullshit is just that
by industrykiller!
and I'm sorry, I really am, that you can't recognize that. A room full of Twilight fans does not desere to see the Avatar footage over people who have been waiting 12 years for Jim Cameron to make anotehr film and there is no argument tot he otherwise. Oh they would have enjoyed it? Big fucking deal, that isn't what comic con should be about. Comic Con is about the people that built the empire known as "geek culture" and Im sorry but a bunch of fair weather fans of a fake vampire book dont qualify. You can go on your little populist rants but it does NOTHING but hurt the entirety of genre filmmaking and promotes just more bastardization of the art. First of all Devins story about Twilight fans was a lot closer to being pro inclusiveness than you give it credit for, second of all, given what I just said, he didnt go far enough. Oh people unfamiliar with Avatar would have loved it? BIG FUCKING DEAL. Is this event for real fans of cinema or not. Thats a yes or no question, and if you think that Twilight fans are that or even have the potential to be en masse then you are as naive as you are delusional. Call me elitist, but from where Im standing we get maybe one or two decent genre films a year and the rest are pure and utter garbage and thats because the idiot movie going public loves to condone crap. As a so called lover of art and cinema I expect for from you. For shame.
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I really have to stop talkbacking drunk. But the denigration of genre filmmaking by the mass populist is something that needs to be talked about A LOT more and youa rent helping Harry.
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Thought you may have been out of that by now, sad news. Keep on fighting the weight, big guy.I actually liked this article; usually I'm not keen on Harry's stuff, but I'm pretty pumped for a lot of the stuff coming out later this year and he added to that.
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Here's Devin's original article (I suggest you look extra close at the last paragraph): http://www.chud.com/articles/articles/20223/1/COMIC-CON-09-THE-TWILIGHT-LINE/Page1.html
And here's Devin's twitter I'm guessing you were referring to:
"Got a seat for AVATAR. There was a major exodus of TwiHards, so "real" geeks should be able to get in."
See the quotation marks? See what he might be getting at, especially in context with the above article? I think you may actually be agreeing with each other, Harry... -
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!
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You nailed it man,
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only because of his weight? That sucks :( Wasnt he on a diet or something a while back?
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actually - it is a combination of some lower back damage which causes some balance issues that are getting less and less. Then, trying to build up leg strength, flexibility and mobility. I'll get there.
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Really don't get all the disdain for Twilight and its fans. It's kind of pathetic. Pot, kettle, black or glass house comes to mind. More importantly, where's your Inguourious Bastereds review?
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Tell me how the most revered films of geek culture are shallow crap like Twilight. SEriously explain how the work of James Cameron is so terrible if its such a "pot and kettle" situation. Your analogy doesn't stand. MORE snobbishness is in order, unless you prefer more sparkling vampires in name only.
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So is it easy for you to get around, do you get hounded ?
And can we have a Yoko blog or at least some of her comments, would be keen to hear what a geek on a much different level thinks about it all.
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Oh, sorry to hear that Harry... Hang in there and you will overcome it I'm sure.
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between the two alien protagonists.
i wonder how cameron is going to direct it,and what will be the reaction of the audience.
the first 3d photorealistic sex scene between alien forms in movie history,well it will definitely cause talks about it.
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review? whee is it harry?!?!
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I'm sure that Pennsy dude can give you her exact measurements. Rumer Willis look like a "if they mated" mockup come to life. Who'd thunk it? I guess Burton can be an asshole, even if it was a stupid, or just poorly worded question. Diplomat? No.
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"Seriously. It just. It just was frozen. Both the cabbie and her begin pulling and yanking and trying to get it to work - and NOPE."
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can you get someone from aicn to see Mythic Journeys: the Bone Orchard at 12:15 friday, comic con independent film fesitval. they need a distributor and maybe a review would help.
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It seems like it might be about time to rename this thing...just sayin'
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You must come back some time and visit Amsterdam again.I've moved since the last time, so no difficult stairs for you to climb. Remember this? http://www.aintitcool.com/node/4066
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of a movie I wrote. Check it out at
http://www.nos.nl/jeugdjournaal/artikelen/2009/7/11/foeksiademiniheks.html -
Jul 24, 2009 7:29:57 AM CDT
Eyeballs are now saying, "Avatar is a bad lay"
by tell_your_mom_i_said_hi
Figures. This just in: District 9, fucking our eyeballs in 2009.
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You'll get out of that wheel chair yet.
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You must be on a diet if your eating that shit.
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couple of questions, whats the soundtrack like in AVATAR?, and is the apartheid moral in District 9 forced? Because I see people moaning about AVATARs "green agenda" and I always suspected that would be it's only fault. Plus I think it's ironic for people to bash AVATAR about having an agenda, then gush for District 9, which seems to obviously have a point to make too.
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"Fuck Fox!?" I mean you're so passionate about hating Fox yet you sat and listened to the man and THEN watched...*drumroll*...a Fox movie!
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honest to god -- is fucking amazing!! For once we are not force fed another America-saves-the-world alien film.
Joburg is a dirty unforgiving place - and treated as such in the film.
You really feel the plight of these creatures
It has Sci Fi, action and yes folks - a decent amount of splatter.
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I'm looking forward to the post that shows you running up a flight of steps like Rocky Balboa. Eye of the Tiger, my friend.
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These little fucking morons don’t give a shit about vampires the same way that idiot’s who like The Time Traveler’s Wife don’t give a fuck about time travel. Notice how the books and the movies they’re based on always revolve around, not on the fucking cool concepts of vampirism or time travel but, how such things interfere with the main female protagonist’s love for some guy who gets their panties wet. You could get tweens to go see a Friday the 13th if you made Jason a really good looking guy who wears a hockey mask out of shame and the female antagonist loves him except for the whole butchering of camp councilors thing.
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If you don't and you could go about getting a small indoor one about 5 feet deep and 12 feet long. I'd go for something like that to rebuild and strenghten things up in the lower back and legs. Spend a few hours in it every day swiming back and fourth and walking around in it. I have a fucked up knee- every time I jump in some deep water the pain diminshes a great deal and I can really exercise the muscels in that leg out.
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Holy shit, you know what? This is the Harry I remember from old, the guy that got so damn excited about just about every movie coming out, that in turn made other folks excited by visual proxy with his (albeit often misspelled) words of overwhelming enthusiasm.
I know the guy has had (and still has) health issues and those are probably taking a toll on his overall enjoyment of doing what he does. But shit folks, reading this, it's like I just filled my Delorean up with trash and turned back the clock several years.
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OHH MAN CHUCK AND BUCK AND SUCK AND FUCK is such an awesome director! The Polar Compass was the best coke commercial I've ever seen! I can't wait for Twilight 2: New Moon!
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Jesus Christ, Harry, this is not the audience fot that shit.
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I could definitely feel your pain at having to walk out of DISTRICT 9 early. However, it's heartening to hear just how much you were enjoying it up to that point. I'd be curious to know how well you think this film stands up next to CLOVERFIELD, which I loved. And when, oh when, can we expect TRICK 'R TREAT to come out? I've been dying to see that since I first read about it on AICN.
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This is your nerd Utopia and after being exposed to all its geekdom glory, you let Yoko read a book when you get back to the hotel room. I thought the sensory overload would have your juices flowing.
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You'll learn that some girls your age love Twilight and other chick flicks... then you will learn the ways of love between a man and a woman.
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No, not an elitist. Not a supporter of film or art. Just a D E U C H E B A G. Just a first impression.
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Jonas Brothers Moms!
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To make it truly spectacular, let's just focus on the period between 1977 and 1984. Done.
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Jul 24, 2009 9:16:16 AM CDT
Harry, we're all pulling for you. Know that! About Astro-Boy's
by pennsydeux
Curious thing at the end of it. Kristen Bell fielded a question from a fan (tks to SuperheroHype for the transcript) about whether or not there would be any singing in the movie. (!) Here's what she said:
"I don't sing in this movie. It's just not appropriate. Believe me, I tried to slip it in. **But we're currently working on a musical version of 'Heathers'. It's everything you want it to be. Trust me on that. That's supposed to be out sometime in 2010.** So you can spread the love."
She read for the Winona Ryder role this past March, if memory serves. She may have inadvertently let the cat outta the bag that she indeed got it. Bell has the pipes for it (see Showtime's Reefer Madness musical).
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Seriously Harry, why must you pander to them at every turn?! For the record, they're not real geeks. They're following a trend and when that's over they'll be on to the next thing. Will Twilight have the following Star Wars has in 20 years? Or even the following The Giant Spider Invasion has? No. So stop fellating them like they're the new kids on the block. Speaking of which, I bet most of them used to be fans NKOTB (what the cools kids refer to them). Twilight's the boy band craze of this decade.
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and every episode should end with a live web conference talkback. Headgeek, feel free to steal my idea and take it to TLC.
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When do we get any info about this film fellas ?
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Is this still hitting DVD/Blu Ray this Halloween because now that Saw has been greenlit for part 7(gah) that is ANOTHER Halloween that won't have an original horror movie for us. Woo.
And if you attended the New Dawn panel and then LEFT before Avatar, you are NOT a true geek. You are not even a casual geek. You are a Twilight fanboy/girl. Period. End of Line. -
even when it was the Beatles. I wish some psychologist would research this phenomenon. I mean guys think Jessica Alba is hot but they don't scream when they see her.
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Good luck with the recovery, man. Oh, and BRIAN COX FOR THORIN OAKENSHIELD!!!!
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Credit where credit is due. Each and every alien VFX shot and some of the mothership shots were done by Image Engine. All of the exoskeleton shots are done by The Embassy.
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It's funny because he's fat.
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Kick-Ass blew my mind. I sat through every Hall H panel that day and that movie got the longest (and totally deserved) standing ovation out of all of them, from the footage alone. Please tell me you've already gotten to see what it was they showed and that you'll talk about it. This film needs to be distributed NOW.
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from a reader from Argentina.. that´s right!
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why the fuck do people feel sorry for harry?! he's in that wheelchair because he's a morbidly obese lazy bastard. i dont feel sorry for u at all harry. i mean i dont wish u any harm, but ur there through sheer disgusting laziness, overeating and overindulging. you've even had a lapband for fuck sake and ur still obese. that story about lower back damage and balance issues is rubbish. if u exercised and ate healthy for the last ten years you wouldnt be in a wheelchair. u shouldnt have got into the chair in the first place as that just made u even lazier and reluctant to exercise. i feel sorry for people who are disabled or in wheelchairs for severe health problems or disabilities, not for overeating! dont give me that obesity is a disease crap. stop eating so much! exercise! overweight people who are too weak and heavy to move around of their own accord dont warrant sympathy. this sounds really mean and unsympathetic, which im really not, but honestly... what is with some americans these days? alot of the biggest slobs on the planet
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You do have diabetes right?
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I'm not a chubby chaser. It's not Harry's fault he's overweight and in a wheelchair. It's the lack of love he received from his alcoholic mother who had him arrested for molesting his sister, as well as father who was an enabler who passed on his own bad habits of laziness and overindulgence. Also, having a subservient asian wife who is also an enabler doesn't help as well as a career that involves being a couch potato for hours and hours at a time.
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I don't get all the hate for girls who like Twilight. Shouldn't the geek motto be people have the right to like what they want to like? And any genre phenomenon usually becomes a huge thing because WOMEN are excited about it. Teenage guys and men will go see a movie or watch a TV show the first week just so they can be the first one to talk about it. But when a movie or TV show still has legs weeks, months, years, decades later it's because women and young girls have embraced it.Women started Star Trek fandom. Women were the ones crusading to keep it on the air. Women play a major role in supporting genre work that embraces and empowers young girls and women. JK Rowling and Joss Whedon and Neil Gaiman have careers because of women and young girls. Manga and Anime only got bigger in America when the girls got interested in them. Franchises like Highlander have stayed around for over 20 years because women like them as much, if not more, than men do. Geeks who resent romance in their genre works are geeks who have no romance in their lives. Love and Sex SHOULD be more important to you than vampires and time travel. If they aren't, there's something wrong with YOU.
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That's how it was before the internet came along I think.
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"alcoholic mother who had him arrested for molesting his sister"... surely thats bullshit? if its a joke its pretty unsettling
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Harry mentions it every once in a while and apparently it's in his autobiography.
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You can always tell the difference. Guys that quietly tolerate it are at the movies with a female. Guys that bash it are there seeing it anyways, but they're with a fat greasy guy in a Neon Genesis T-shirt and camo shorts with a backwards Batman baseball cap, a long shaggy ponytail, an unkempt goatee, who usually smells of fear, failure and Jergens hand lotion.
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Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! I guess Uhura was the strong female role you speak of. And women are the ones in the majority petitioning for Star Trek to stay on the air. Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
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if I'm not mistaken did the great earlier Iron Man suit shots full CG in that film.
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Anytime someone makes fun of Harry nad his Harry Mobile (wheelchair), I cannot help but laugh. It never gets old. The thing is, it is his own fault, and to read any of his posts here shows that. He clearly states that he has seen the director's cut of Watchmen THREE times in the two weeks he has had it. Who in the world does that? Who has TIME for that? Remember, not only did he watch it three times, he also watched a billion other movies all while, I'm sure, eating food. The past year on this site has been epic in the backlash against Harry with people en masse no longer falling for her bullshit and calling him out on everything. I feel most people no longer come to this site for "gossip" or "information" or anything of the sort but, rather, to see the continued downard spiral of Harold Knowles. I cannot wait for what I'm sure will be an epic post by him when his wife files for divorce. Somehow, in some magical way, he will compare his dying relationship with her to Iron Man 2 and Piper Potts and god knows what else. Still, Harry, please, PLEASE stay in your wheelchair. If not, we would never have gotten one of your finest entries ever when Leonard Nimoy himself appeared on stage, everyone stood up and cheered, and you could hardly see him while you sat in your wheelchair and a tear rolled down your face. THAT was awesome.
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...because I'm seriously already sick of hearing about the fucking franchise, and we're only on the second book.
The funny thing is that, if a movie bought two trailers that consisted solely of a woman stripping down to comic con, there would be mass scorn heaped upon it for pandering... when the gender roles are reversed, and piercing screams erupt from those without a brain in their fluffy little heads... it's genius marketing. WTFever. -
This is why we need a reality show about Harry's life. Because, fat people = funny. And right now is the time for it to happen, because shows about fat people is the big trend in tv like 'So You're Fat and You Think You Can Dance' and 'The Bachelor: Chubby Chaser Edition'.
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as usual, without fail, you just loved everything put in front of you. Seriously Harry, I envy the living fuck out of you. Everyone slams your tastes, but if they're legit, (and I have a feeling they are), to look at the world through your eyes must be pretty cool. oh yeah, you didn't like Sorority Row, but hey, no one will.
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its so easy to forget what you have to go through on a daily basis. For many of us, a cab ride is generally a non-event - for you, its another opportunity to be totally screwed.
You haven't updated in a long time about how you're progressing, and that makes me worry that you've relapsed somewhat. If you have, its cool - almost everyone does. Anyway, hope you are still making progress and look forward to you posting a video someday of you tossing your chair into one of those car crushers. That will be epic. -
Fucked. In. The. Head...
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Friends of mine got in line for Hall H 3 hrs. before the first panel and were denied entry to the hall. Those big ticket Hall H panels really need to be shown via closed circuit television throughout the building just to allow everyone a chance to see the coolness. In the chaos of the event, it's virtually impossible to know where to stand or how to get in to the upper panel discussion rooms. I would have LOVED to have seen either District 9 or Trick-r-Treat, but was shut out both times. It's time to open up these "exclusives" to more of the crowd.
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dude had a spinal cord injury that has made improvements, but he wont ever fully recover.
Did he balloon out while forced to live in a chair? sure - i bet most of us would, too. Prior to the injury he had a diet that his body sustained with regular daily activity. Post-injury, he, like millions of others, failed to realize that without a change in his habits, his body would no longer sustain that level of caloric intake. And it becomes a slippery slope of psychology and habit.
He got much needed surgery (and had to lose a LOT of weight to qualify for it), and is taking the 'baby steps' to reversing his situation. He should be encouraged and supported. Those who see fit to mock his disability are only seeking to find comfort in their own self inflicted obesity. Sad, really.
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a/ Did Harry sit stoic with his arms folded during the TWILIGHT scene when the guy took his shirt off?
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Go back and read up on early TREK fandom and you'll see that women were the prime movers there. Start with Bjo Trimble.
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If you answered 'b' then... you're riiiight!
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I AM a girl and I don't understand the screaming thing. I mean, I'll cheer for a band when they perform and all, but beyond that, it's just annoying and gives our gender a bad name.
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I think it's a primal response, definitely a bonding thing as you say, because if a girl was in a room by herself and the Twilight vampire dude walked in she'd be excited, but I doubt she'd scream. I just wish I knew the official psychological explanation. It always puzzled me. I'll ask my sister. She just got her Masters in psychology and did an internship as a guidance councilor in a high school. Glad to see you feel the same way though.
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congratulations on completely missing devin's point, harry.
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my whole grievence with knowles is that he's NOT putting in hard work. hes terribly overweight pure and simply because hes a slob! he had a lap band, which most people cant afford the luxury of, and he still cant fucking lose the weight! yeah, it takes some time to lose weight after the surgery BUT compared to regulare methods of dieting and exercising, it comes off in a flash without a fraction of the effort. get out of that damn wheelchair and exercise and stop eating crap... dont kid yourself, hes not in there due to spinal injury, hes in there because hes morbidly obese and doesnt exercise. if he really did diet like crazy and work his ass off he'd be one healthy, sprightly mofo... but he really aint. sorry harry but its the truth!
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Has anyone posted scans of the Masters of the Universe art book that had the designs for the new movie yet? I know they sold out fast at the Mattel booth.
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that a handful of women were instrumental in Trekkie fandom, but I do not believe for one minute that the majority of Trekkies are women. You could show me official demographic evidence from the Census Bureau and I still wouldn't believe it.
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BULLSHIT. I don't know why he is in a wheelchair, and I don't care. But don't defend him like he is some champion of the people trying his hardest to turn his life around. He is a fat fucking slob with absolutely no self control. My only question is who takes over this site when he dies?
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first off, why is the physical condition of another human being a 'grievance' for you? What does Harry Knowles' physical condition have to do with your life? Do you wake up in the morning, look at the alarm clock and say "awww FUCK, Harry Knowles is fat!" and then slam the snooze button?
Maybe the real problem here is that you are making his condition a personal source of torment. Is everything in your life REALLY going so amazingly fuckingly perfect, that the only source of grief and misery in your life is whether or not Harry Knowles is still fat?
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he's broadcasting is own self-loathing onto someone else. Why defend him? A guy with a disability being taunted and mocked? Yeah you have a point - there's nothing to stand up for or argue against in that scenario.
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Do you guys really think THE DARK KNIGHT would have been one of the most successful films of all time if there weren't alot of young girls and women out there who like Christian Bale and wanted to see one of Heath Ledger's last performances?Do you really think the LORD OF THE RINGS films would have been so huge without young girls and women wanting to see Viggo Mortensen and Orlando Bloom?I'm not saying you have to target women or cater to them. Women like Star Trek because it's smart. They like the Terminator franchise because of Sarah Connor. They like the Alien franchise because of Ellen Ripley. They also like the scares and the gross outs and the sci fi elements. Putting a strong smart woman at the center of a genre story is ALWAYS a good idea, even if she's just the woman the hero is trying to woo or rescue or get back to at the end. One of the reasons the Star Wars prequels fall flat is because Amidala is not nearly as much fun to watch as the feisty and funny and quirky Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia. We all know Karen Allen had better chemistry with Harrison Ford's Indy than the women in the other sequels.And so on and so on...Whoever the top male box office star is at any given moment, they're always as the cliche says "Someone women want to be with and men want to be". Women like Humphrey Bogart and John Wayne and Sean Connery and Steve Mcqueen and Clint Eastwood as much as we do. They like guys with long hair fighting with swords. They like a scoundrel with a heart, whether it's Han Solo or Mal Reynolds or Captain Jack Sparrow. And God help us, sometimes they like sparkly vampires. Deal with it.
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Not that there's anything wrong with that but was Harry inferring that Quint is gay by mentioning his "life partner" or is this a reference that's just gone over my head?
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"You need to kill yourself and apply for your next life already - you've made a complete failure of this one"... im really quite at a loss for words. i knew basement nerds were hostile and read too far into things, but wanting me to kill myself? good god fella, get out into the world for a bit or something. i think harry's a slob. ummm so how am i making that a personal source of torment?? its nothing of the sort, its just my opinion on harry knowles
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i think the 'life partner' harry keeps refering to is kraken. think they're friends
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Needs to be Thorin Oakenshield, not Brian Cox !!
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If Quint is gay then maybe he wants to wank one off over the face of the TR2N marketing tard?
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frozen01, you're a girl who doesn't understand the screaming thing.
Surely it's an explosion of awesomeness (ie. a girl witnesses something she considers awesome), just like when guys cheer when their team scores at sports.
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"Deuch" isn't a work you mongoloid retard. Learn to spell.And while fanboy elitism sometimes irks me, the rabid idiots who slurp Pattinson's semen off the studio floor are the same people who turned the creators of DISASTER MOVIE etc. into financially successful "artists." They haven't one iota of sense or taste among the lot of them, and the term "hive vagina" (coined by someone on AICN as I recall) is perhaps the best description that comes to mind.
Frankly, Harry Potter is juvenile shit, too. The books, anyway -- but at least they invested a serious amount of money and a hell of a lot of good actors into making movies out of the lacklustre, childish source material. Twilight's film treatment is on par with the books: trashy, cheap, unintelligent, uninteresting. Fuck the pandering to those morons. -
he always looks like he reeks
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I was a teenager in update New York and during a screening of Conan the Barbarian I will never forget that when Arnold got painted up with the black and green warpaint, and started swinging the sword and flexing, some dudes in the audience (not all)screamed like
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first he says this: "my whole grievence with knowles is that he's NOT putting in hard work."
then..."so how am i making that a personal source of torment?? its nothing of the sort, its just my opinion on harry knowles"
lol you couldn't write stuff this good. Even Simple Jack was smarter, and they tried HARD to make him the dumbest thing to ever breathe. -
Ain't it cute?
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You crack me up Harry. Yeah, the man is known for his enthusiasm, but I dig his wacked sense of humor most of all.
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bad economy? what bad economy?
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Who sees ben Lyons and eithe 1) pushes him down 2)Makes fun of him to HIS FACE 3)slaps his freebie bag(anyone) out of his hand 4) pants him. And videos it.
IM NOT KIDDING, do it, post it on any talkback here(and tell me), and I will send you $100 money order -
Jul 24, 2009 3:14:28 PM CDT
If I were Harry's wife I'd be suing the mail order bride service
by indycollector
I'm sure in the brochure she was not told that she would have to partner up with a cab driver and wrestle a busted-ass wheelchair in and out of a trunk. For Christ's sake it's like going on a road trip with fucking Franklin from the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
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Fans pay 1,000's of dollars to sit outside on a floor for 2 hours, while people with passes go right in.
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has started,and we are talking about harrys fat ass.
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Jul 24, 2009 4:02:39 PM CDT
sympathy for obesity does not exist in this kitchen
by jackknifed_juggernaut
--er, dojo. you want to improve your health? PUT DOWN THE GODDAMNED RING DINGS! get your fat ass into a pool and start the lapping. i'm not completely thrilled with waking up at 5:45am for my morning runs, but guess fucking what? i still do it. hell, today is 'cake and icecream' day at work (and people wonder why we have so many health/weight issues in the U.S.). you think i *enjoy* having my coworkers stuff their faces around me while i chew fucking carrots? um, no. but i make the sacrifice. now stop being such a lazy, sloppy bastard and do the same. and if not for yourself, at least for Yoko. you *honestly* think she wanted to go back to the hotel and read about Snookie fucking Stackhouse? i'm guessing she wanted her back blown out while dressed as Princess Toadstool. better get it together, H., before someone comes in and does the job for you... dressed as Luigi.
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Thanks for the report Harry. Great read. Keep doing your thing. Peace.
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C'mon, HK! I liked Trick 'R Treat when I saw it thanks to Mori, who hosted the LA screening. It was a serviceable horror movie with some old-school scares. But it's been 2 years! How much longer can this site pimp that movie? How much longer can Mike D. keep pimping that movie? I agree it deserves to be seen, and preferably released in theaters, but I just don't know how many more TrT-related stories I can read here. It's getting silly. I guess that's WB's fault but still...
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...and Artie Lange were twins separated at birth. Both of them are fat, hairy, douche bags.
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What is wrong with you people?? I've been reading this site for years now, have followed some talk backing, but never paid much attention to it. I'm in a situation now (prison) where I have way too much time on my hands for my own good, so I have been diving into some of these discussions. The hatred of Harry Knowles is beyond me. Whats the fucking point?? The man have a website that have contributed alot to the film comunity. Give the man at least a little respect. Yes it's irritating when he rambles on about personal relationships with Robert Rodrigues etc, but give the man a break about his weight. And mocking him for being in a wheelchair is simply pathetic. Some of you guys are way to personal.
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I MUST BE GREAT BEING A PERFECT BEING, AMIRITE? ASSHOLES
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by a raging mob. He was probably surrounded by heavy security, the turd.
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Ride a mofuckin' BIKE. Seriously. I had extensive knee damage (shredded ACL) and it was throwing my back out of wack real bad. I got two major reconstructive knee surgeries, and my shit is still not up to snuff (not like my other knee, anyway) but riding a bike is low-impact, and it builds up your leg strength something fierce. Most importantly your thighs. I am not the thinnest dude around, so my bad knee couldn't support my pudgy frame without my thighs being in great shape, they kind of "take over" for the knees in supporting the body.
Seriously, I don't know if you already do it, but get a bike, and ride it. Just a little at first. Plus, it's a shitload of fun, too. -
...but comparing him to Devin from CHUD is taking it too far. Artie's still a human being with feelings, after all.
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...looks like a fun Comedy.
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yes i'm a huge dante fan boy
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Find out about Futurama! Ahhhhhh!
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You are a cock that nobody likes because you are spending all day long denigrating the owner/creator of a site you clearly cant tear yourself away from. You're the cock that complains at McDonalds about how shitty the food is. You're the cock who pays to see a shitty movie and tells anybody who will listen just how shitty you think it'll be. Do us a favor. Fuck off. Nobody likes you. Nobody wants to hear from you. Dont come back. Just fuck off.
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these are the same hypersexed teen aged tarts who give boob and Bate shows on Stickum and MSN...whats to hate about that?
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Being a gelatinous gob of shit, a fat piece of lickspittle who can't seem to master the most rudimentary principles of language... well.... well... well... well... it means you're a piece of despicable flatulence, and you shouldn't comment on ANYTHING, least of all that kid's movie, AVATAR.
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During District 9, and I was wondering why you left early. You missed the last 30 minutes of an amazing movie!!
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And 'True Lies' is a stupid, stupid, stupid piece of movie-shit.
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"dumping on The Dark Knight and yet the fucking moron slobbers over the trailer for Where the Wild Thing’s Are"
You think this is a valid complaint about someone? TDK was overrated and overhyped, and Where the Wild Things Are looks f*cking brilliant which is pretty much agreed on by everyone that's not a complete and utter tool. Quit buying the teenage hype machine and start looking forward to the film that's sure to be the best of 09, Where the Wild Things Are. -
lol, I didn't smell anything coming from his way. Though I wasn't sniffing him either, haha.
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Did most of them actually stick around for the rest of the con, or did they just come for the Twilight stuff? That would verify (or nullify) Devin's comment about them being 'real geeks' or not. The fact that they would actually walk out of the presentation before the AVATAR stuff tells you a lot. I mean, hype aside, how can any true geek walk away from that?
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Have a tech-savvy friend hook Harry's blu-ray, dvd, and VCR up to a treadmill. He has to keep walking to keep watching. That would cure him in short order.
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A lot of them left right after Twilight, which was right before avatar. I was able to move almost all the way up for Avatar.
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..I really feel bad for you. Simple as that.
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I have been come to your site almost every day since at least 1998, maybe earlier. As a fellow child of the 70’s, heavily influenced by Starlog and comics of the day, and of course Star Wars/Star trek, I have always loved your reviews. Your enthusiasm, often laced with personal hilarity, and emotional experiences with film is a gift you share brilliantly. I have never laughed harder than I did at your “Easter Monkey” posting some years back. I grew up in north-east Texas, near Tyler and understand where you are coming from.Pay no heed to the haters. What you have created here has filled me with that same feeling each new copy of “Future Life”, or “Cinifantistique” (sp) did in 1979. But, I get it every day and it comes with the most hilarious talkbacks I have ever come across on the net.You are truly the inheritor of Forrest J. Ackerman’s “Famous Monsters of Filmland” mantel for the digital age.Amidst all this talk of your physical problems, I do hope you stay with us for decades to come. I shudder to think what this place would be like in the hands of others. You provide a unique form of entertainment for myself and obviously many, many others . You are a “Geek” icon. You have been portrayed on “Robot Chicken” and other media outlets. Stay proud...If we could ever...Finally... get to the moon, that would be the perfect place for people with your disabilities to heal.
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Jul 25, 2009 2:21:26 AM CDT
Devin Faraci is one of the top three movie news repackagers
by quin the eskimo
on the web right now. Devin, McWeeny, and Beaks. The man knows how to write. I wish he was more tolerant. BUT FUCK DREAMY PATTERSON.
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haha i fail because u say i fail... i really pity losers like you who get a sad sense of self satisfaction and validation by pretending to be tough on internet message boards. i dont know why ur clinging to this notion that by me stating the word 'grievance' somehow means that i'm tormented or obsessed with knowles's weight. i stated it quite simply - its merely my opinion on harry. how can u possibly read into that thats the first thing i think of when i wake up? u really are touched arent u? please get something going in the real world u sad bastard
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hit a nerve did i? u a fat slob in a wheelchair too? and i spend all day giving harry shit do i? cant tear myself away from this site?? ummm, i've posted very few times on this site actually, and twice about harry's weight... sooooo yeah just go have a little lie down, wipe away the tears, you'll get over it, try and be a big boy hey?
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He’s in a wheelchair because he’s a morbidly obese idiot who would rather spend $1500 on two fucking t-shirts then on a treadmill. Reading this site for years it’s obvious that Knowles is Mr. Instant Gratification who overindulges in everything whether it be movies or food and his parents did NOTHING to discourage him from gorging himself rather live by moderation. I’ve seen picture of him throughout his life and he has NEVER been thin. “Oh I guess he’s not perfect like the rest of you” is a really fucking weak argument. When I was a kid I was a fat fuck but when I turned 12, I started working out, and low and behold the weight came off. Now over the years my weight goes up or down but when I see that I’m 15 or 20 pound overweight I cut my calorie intake the fuck down and hit the gym for 2 hours a day, 5 days a week doing an hour of weights and an hour of cardio and, GUESS WHAT, within a month the extra weight is gone. Harry’s been running this site for well over a decade and if he’s got the money to piss away on toys and other stupid shit then he sure as fuck could have bought a home exercise system and got himself down to at least 200 by now. There is no fucking excuse and getting surgery to lose weight is just a pussy’s way out of doing the hard work that it takes to maintain a healthy lifestyle.
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Jul 25, 2009 2:50:53 AM CDT
DEVIN FARACI IS ONE OF THE TOP THREE DOUCHEBAGS ON THE NET....
by carlthormark1978
Actually, there are technically only two as Drew McWeeny is as much of a fucking cocksucker as Faraci while their combined weight equals three regular people. If you have a piece of news and post it on the CHUD message boards, Faraci freaks the fuck out because he didn’t get to slap in on the front page and claim credit for finding it. He’s insufferably pretentious and if you disagree with him in any way he’ll ban you in a fucking second while he acts like he runs CHUD which he technically does since Nunziata’s wife made him get a real job.
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Jul 25, 2009 2:57:09 AM CDT
Honestly, I don't know what this site reports on anymore
by lockesbrokenleg
Most of it is cobbled from other sites, while this site devotes pages and pages to some independent movie about chairs, and maybe on or two reviews of new movies, mostly negative.
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I never knew who he was til the Wolverine debacle.
Now I hate the guy with a passion.
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He's the worst type of brain dead executive scumfuck there is. A completely and totally creatively bankrupt retarded asswipe motherfucker who wouldn't know quality material if it sucked him off and gave him a rimjob. I can't believe Jessica Harper let's that dickless pussyface stab her in the baby wallet with his spam javelin. Cunt.
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YOU MUST CHILL!! YOU MUST CHILL!!!
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It's not like that many people know/care who he is.
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I know it feels weird not being a sarcastic angry old curmudgeon that I usually am, but I actually liked most of this review. I like your strange enthusiasm, your honesty in sharing stuff about your condition and rehab (good luck with that btw Harry) and most of all I liked that you had enough common sense to be nice and polite to the lovely ladies that are into that vampire stuff... Anyway writing all polite like in a talkback feels strange. Being all polite and shit. Fuck. Thats enough of that!
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I like the talkbacker name "dancetothebeatofthelivingdead". Every time I see it I'm struck by how awesome it is. Oh yes, and Harry is quite fat.
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Harry is disgusting. You hit the nail on the head (hell, many of us have hit that same nail directly on the head). This is someone who seems to have no issue posting that he spent $1,500 on two t-shirts. This is the same guy that admits to having watched the director's cut of Watchmen THREE times in two weeks. Again, people simply do NOT do this. He then watches all these premiers, rolls out to different film sets, has his "picks of the month" of which he watches nearly everything. Again, who has the time for this? That's right, someone who quite literally cannot move. Want to get rid of that weight? Eat less and exercise more. The pounds WILL come off. I would also ask those here that question making fun of him to remember that this is what this site is now for. People head to certain sites to see funny videos and make them laugh, people head to other sites to, say, listen to humerous songs to make them laugh, and many others come to this site simply to read what Harry has to say and laugh at it. Those of us that come here for that are NOT in the minority as is clear by the vast majority of talkbacks over the past year or so. The whole "if you don't like it, don't come here!" argument is moot due to the fact that we DO like it, we just like it for completely different reasons than what it began as. Seriously, read his reviews, do some research on him, and you will see that he has become a joke... but, again, most of us like that he has become a joke. I have laughed out loud at more talkbacks than I have at many comedies.
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Jul 25, 2009 4:36:57 PM CDT
$1,500 for two t-shirts and a Fez? Can you pay my electric bill?
by drunken busboy
Damn Harry! Don't you know that there is a killer recession going on? I have 5 kids and no work for the summer! If you really want to blow money, You should do something more useful and geeky like sponsor my stage version of "An American Werewolf In London"! It's a FREE event to the public! Check your facebook dude!
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Last year, just before Chud killed their comments section, I posted a comment on, I believe Alex Rivello's(?) DVD review section suggesting that "Alex's breath probably stinks of Faraci's shitcock" or something to that extent. Anyway, it was picked by Alex as bing one of the top most hateful, but most deserved things said in the comments section that year.
I was so proud. I printed it too, but have since lost the printout. -
http://tinyurl.com/4x9bkk
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..than just 2 t-shirts"$1500 on the floor on 2 killer t-shirts by WHITE NINJA comics' creator and an awesome tote bag from the QUESTIONABLE CONTENT creator, a killer FEZ for me to disguise myself with - and an original 28" long concept art piece of Malificent as the Dragon from SLEEPING BEAUTY's production" I could be wrong though.
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Is he still busy paying IMDB for that overrated Shawshank bullshit?
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a personal trainer, instead of a couple t-shirts, and a big poster of a god damn cartoon dragon.
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Sound like The Gate? Anybody remember that 80s gem?
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Jul 25, 2009 8:59:10 PM CDT
moondoggy2u, I LOVE THE GATE, CLASSIC 80'S HORROR.....
by carlthormark1978
The sequels not bad either.
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He is a lazy man! I have been reading AICN for many years now and everytime I read something that Harry writes it's all about his "hedonistic" lazy lifestyle! Jesus H. Christ, do any of you talkbackers sit and watch movies day and night like this man? I know the guys in a wheelchair, but for the love of God, the man watches more movies in a week than is humanly possible! Top that off, with very little to no exercise and thearapy, eating a very poor diet (see what he has at the Alamo Drafthouse for a menu of his nutrition) -- and the fact that the man doesn't do an iota of work rather than watch movies and write his third rate reviews on this site (if you could even call that work!) He got lucky, real fucking lucky with his "career" and many people hate him for it. Truth be told, many of us are hedoinstic, lazy people at heart -- I myself am not one of them, but I have a streak that shows up every now and then. All I can say is, if Harry really wanted to loose weight, he has the money and the access to do so. The fact that the guy drops $1500 at his first day at a convention is a gross and obtuse fact of purient capitalism that he is mocking the rest of us with. Have fun blowing all your dough Harry, perhaps you could use it on something other than a DVD (oh I forgot, he gets most of these for free!) or some "geek"-dom collectible. Start a Harry Knowles charity group for obese people or those with spinal cord injuries. The man is lazy first and foremost. Who cares wether he is fat, unhealthy or a bad writer. The guy is perhaps the laziest man in Texas (that's saying alot), hell maybe the entire United States!
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"I saw that the guy from Sony was all concerned about my leaving the premiere early."Harry, sorry, but you strongly overestimate the relevance of sites like this any more. The internet used to be a vast confusing wasteland for these people and they looked to people like yourself to figure out what was going on out there. Well, now they know - and they no longer care what AICN thinks. It's not personal to you - they don't care what you think, or Dark Horizons, or CHUD or any of these sites.They don't care. They probably don't know who you even ARE any more, any of you guys - you or Garth or any of you. And you know, the reason I say this is because I honestly think that your site will be better off for not caring about this involvement with the studios - to tell them to screw off the way they've lately told the fanboy crowd to screw off and ignore them the way they now ignore the fan press.
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... is that Harry has also talked about losing weight with this surgery .. and originally spoke of having lost SOME weight ... but did the surgery not take? Why is he not thin?
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It can't be from those 2 buck ads on this site.
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Hm, notice how there is no "day two" post? Harry must know that, really, no one wants to read about his little 'adventures' as much as he thinks they do. Also, ThusSpakeSpymunk is dead on - no one cares what you think, Harry. NO ONE. Believe us, no studio cares if you roll out early from anything. SnakePlissken711 is also correct, as I stated in my first post in this talkback, it is just not possible to watch as many movies as he does. Think about it: if he spent, say, two solid weeks not watching a single film, no television shows, and spent all his available time with a personal trainer, think of what he may be able to accomplish. He won't, though. This is the guy who has, again, watched Watchmen - Director's Cut THREE times in two weeks. Still, some good has come out of all of this: I forget the exact entry, but who can forget, some months ago, the absolute destruction every single Talkbacker unleashed on him for his refusal to 'review' Wolverine? THAT is one of the most epic, classic, and hilarious talkbacks in history.
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fuck this tweeny fucking retarded little girl bullshit...Twilight is an embarrassment, its only a skip and a jump and you might as well be watching Jonas brothers movies. Harry has this flat out wrong.
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Wow. Kind of overkill on the Harry weight issue. It could all be summed up in one sentence. Burn more than you consume.
So get past it folks. It's Harry's life and his own issue. He'll either deal with it or not.
And while he's a huge homer for virtually everything he talks about, so what? What do you expect? He's not a movie reviewer so much as a movie lover. And for him to maintain his status as an insider voicebox for his movie friends, it behooves him to wax excitedly for the films he chooses to talk about.
So, basically, you know what you're getting. I happen to enjoy reading most of his blogs - and appreciate the insights he's able to glean from his movie pals. When I want a quality movie review - I go to Ebert. When I want some excited homeboy chatter, with an occasional scoop, I come here. -
So Harry's fat and in a wheelchair, who gives a fuck?
As for Twilight, I was in that panel. I had to get up at 6 AM because I wanted to see the Tron and Avatar ones, and the only way to guarantee a spot was to get up at that goth-forsaken hour (see what I did there?) because those a-holes had nothing better to do than stay out in their Hot Topic gear all night. I told a friend of mine who loves the books (which I think is cool... not enough people read these days) that my problem's not with the series itself, it's with bad filmmaking, which is exactly what this crap is (I'm basing that solely on the two clips they showed, as I haven't bothered watching the first movie). That panel was less a celebration of geekiness and more like a Jonas Brothers show, and the actors couldnt've been more fakely pensive and actually vapid if they'd tried. Someone should tell that lead actress that furrowing your brow, wearing a Minor Threat t-shirt and constantly running your hands through your hair doesn't make you deep, it makes you affected. Whoever it was earlier in the talkback who said it's porn for teenaged girls is dead on. -
This coverage is worse than Monki's.
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What sad fuck signs up multiple user id's just to mock someones weight? Have you absolutely nothing better to do? Are you some kind of strange stalker?
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Maybe he's lost 100 lbs and still needs that wheelchair, who knows? I'm a little startled at someone spending 15oo smackers on t-shirts or whatever, but hey-it's his money, he can do whatever he wants w/ it.Never did bother w/ Chud all that much, it's a cluttered messed up site and the writers just grated on me. Giant Robots are your friends Harold. Search your feelings. You know it to be true.
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