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AICN & Twitch Present International Eye Candy! Johnnie To and Soi Cheang's ACCIDENT! ROBOGEISHA! SUCK! & more!
Yes, this is Todd from Twitch and the time has come once again for our regular trawl through the best and brightest that the world has to offer. We’ve got rock and roll vampires! Hit men tracking serial killers! More robotic geisha! Leatherface on a boat! It’s another edition of International Eye Candy and here we go!
Let’s start with Leatherface, shall we? Regular readers of this space should already be familiar with the REYKJAVIK WHALE WATCHING MASSACRE – Iceland’s first attempt at blood-and-gore horror – but for the uninitiated, here are the basics. The original Leatherface – Gunnar Hansen – is a native Icelander and he fills a key role here in the story of a group of international tourists being hunted and killed on a whale-watching pleasure cruise by a group of “fishbillies”. Lots of splatter, lots of blood, more than a few dismemberments. An early teaser turned up a while back but the proper trailer has now followed and this one is much more full-blooded than the first.
Join the MASSACRE here
And now for something completely different, this in the form of the first trailer for Michael Haneke’s THE WHITE RIBBON. Best known for FUNNY GAMES, the Austrian auteur returns here with a period-set thriller all based on repression and retribution and shot in gorgeous black and white. Good? Well, it won the Palme D’Or in Cannes – the biggest prize offered by the biggest fest in the world – so it’s got a point or two in its favor, yeah.
Find the WHITE RIBBON trailer here
Let’s do another Cannes-winner, shall we? This one is UK flick FISH TANK, drom director Andrea Arnold, which took home the jury prize in Cannes this past year. Though she’s only got two features to her name, Arnold is already considered by many to be one the true greats working today. Her stuff is gritty and intense and FISH TANK should push her out to even higher levels of acclaim. And, like THE WHITE RIBBON, it’s about to get a theatrical release at home so the first proper trailer has just arrived.
Swim in the FISH TANK here
We’ll be making a few stops in my home and native land – that’d be Canada – today and our first stop there gives us Winnipeg-based animator Leslie Supnet and her short film FAIR TRADE. How to even begin describing this? It’s like stoner nostalgia, a feedback laced bit of work built around deceptively simple line drawings and a surreal story line about a girl just trying to get rid of all the shit she carries around inside herself. It’s like BEAVIS AND BUTTHEAD except high art and actually really emotionally affecting. A friend introduced my to Supnet’s work just recently and she’s become a new favorite ...
Make a FAIR TRADE here
From central Canada we jump to turn-of-the-century Hong Kong where we find – finally! – the first real, proper trailer for Teddy Chen’s martial arts picture BODYGUARDS AND ASSASSINS. Ignore the bad metal guitar soundtrack on this one – it’s ludicrously out of place given the subject matter – and focus on the screen. Everybody who matters is in this one – the cast is anchored by Donnie Yen – they built a massive standing set, the action looks tense. I’ve been wavering back and forth on this one but this trailer gives me renewed hope.
Are you a BODYGUARD or an ASSASSIN? Choose sides here.
Hungry for a scifi fix? Well, it may come as a surprise but perhaps you should be looking to Switzerland and Ivan Engler’s CARGO. Not a big producer of any sort of film – much less of genre film – Switzerland has been done proud here as Engler looks to have taken a limited budget and built something pretty damn solid out of it. The basic story – the crew of a long haul vessel awake to discover there is something living in the cargo hold – is a little overly familiar but the execution looks to be pretty dead solid.
Find the CARGO trailer here
I may know next to nothing about Bollywood film – there’s no ‘may’ about it, actually – but I know what I like and I love how film makers there will throw absolutely anything in the mix to entertain their audience. And there’s an awful lot stuffed into Boney Kapoor’s WANTED. Flying axes, big explosions, rampant gunplay and – of course- a bit of song and dance. Say it with me now: that’s entertainment! And, no, it’s not a remake of any sort.
Find the WANTED trailer here
At this stage of things fans of crime fiction should need no introduction to Stieg Larsson’s Milennium trilogy of novels. Published posthumously the books have become a huge international sensation with the first two titles – THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO and THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE – already available in North American shops and the third coming soon. And they’re also taking the film world by storm with film versions of all three films already commissioned, the first a big hit and the second about to release. The director on THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE also happens to be the brother of the man responsible for the film version of stunning Swedish vampire film LET THE RIGHT ONE IN and they definitely share a family gift for smart atmosphere and stylish violence.
Play with FIRE here
From a big budget international sensation to something much smaller but no less impressive, we head no to Ireland for Nick Ryan’s THE GERMAN. Produced independently with an effects budget of zero, Ryan’s film casts ROCK N ROLLA’s Toby Kebbell as a WWII flying ace engaged in a dogfight with a German counterpart. And yes, you read that right. Ryan has made an aerial dogfight movie without spending any money on special effects. And it looks amazing, a huge testament to Ryan’s skills.
Find THE GERMAN here
I’m actually a little reluctant to post the new theatrical trailer for Jan Henrik Stahlberg’s SHORT CUT TO HOLLYWOOD because the German satirist’s best work – with which this definitely ranks – is not the sort of stuff that really trailerizes well. You’ve got to live with it a bit for it to really sink in, but that said, the man’s brilliant and I can’t just ignore it.
Stahlberg’s latest tracks a middle ages German man obsessed with celebrity, the leader of a horrible boy-pop band, who packs his belongings and re-christens himself John Salinger before taking his band mates to America to find celebrity. It won’t be easy he knows but he’s got a sure fire gimmick: He will publicly dismember himself for his art. Hilarity ensues?
Take a SHORT CUT TO HOLLYWOOD here
Our second trip to Canada involves a grown man pissing out of the window of a moving car. We’re a sophisticated lot, us Canadians. For the uninitiated, TRAILER PARK BOYS was a huge cult hit here in Canada that traveled some on international cable, albeit in censored form. Shot in moc-doc style, the show ran for seven short seasons, tracking the lives of petty – and incompetent - criminals who living ina trailer park outside of Halifax, they’re goal being to make enough money selling pot to retire by the age of 35. The television series already wrapped up and one unsatisfactory feature film already in the books, the boys are back to end things right – with a new film, subtitled COUNTDOWN TO LIQUOR DAY, to wraps things up in true Trailer Park Boys style.
Find the TRAILER PARK BOYS trailer here
For something a little classier – though no less culty – may I suggest the brand new trailer for LAND OF THE HEADS, an animated short co-produced by the National Film Board of Canada? It’s stop motion death and dismemberment with a smile; a cheery, classic horror influenced bit of work sure to put a smile on the faces of Jack Skellington and co.
Enter the LAND OF THE HEADS here
What’s that? All this EXPENDABLES madness has got you caught up in a fit of nostalgia for a quality – albeit stupid – 80’s style action film? Then may I suggest UK effort THE TOURNAMENT to scratch that particular itch. Set in a town hosting a to-the-death tournament between the world’s greatest assassins the film stars Robert Carlyle as a washed-out priest caught up in the middle of things while Ving Rhames, Kelly Hu and martial artist Scott Adkins do their very best to kill each other and a whole lot of other people. A long and very detailed trailer for this one appeared briefly this week before being yanked back and replaced by a much shorter – but still very fun – teaser. Be warned, though: Trying to make logical sense of the premise will cause your brain to explode.
Join THE TOURNAMENT here
If you’re at all a fan of international horror film then you probably don’t need me to tell you that all the best stuff in Asia has been coming out of Thailand in recent years. And pretty much all the best Thai horror directors work for one production house: GMM Tai Hub. They made SHUTTER, ALONE, DORM, BODY #19 and more. And now the directors of all of those films are contributing to PHOBIA 2, the second installment of a horror anthology project. The first PHOBIA was great fun and loaded up with shocks and this looks to be more of the same. A fully English friendly version of the trailer has just arrived and it looks absolutely fantastic.
Find the PHOBIA 2 trailer here
We’ve got some fans of Johnnie To out there? How about Soi Cheang, director of the gritty crime action flick DOG BITE DOG? How would you feel about the two of them working together? Because that’s what they’re doing with ACCIDENT, the Soi Cheang directed, Johnnie To produced crime thriller. The story follows a hitman who stages his kills as elaborate accidents, the film has just been announced to debut at the big festivals in Venice and Toronto, and the trailer looks like vintage Johnnie To / Milkyway Image stuff.
Have an ACCIDENT here
Because a single trailer just couldn’t contain all the madness of Noboru (MACHINE GIRL) Iguchi’s ROBOGEISHA we’ve got another one! And a music video! Ass swords! Armpit swords! Bleeding buildings! Geisha tanks! Mouth saws! Nipple acid! It’s all in there!
Experience the ROBOGEISHA madness here!
For my final foray into Canada we look to SUCK, Rob Stefaniuk’s rock and roll vampire comedy with a ludicrous cast of guest stars. How ludicrous? How about Iggy Pop, Alice Cooper, Carol Pope, Henry Rollins and Moby? Not crazy enough? How about we take the militant vegan in that group - that’d be Moby – and make him the lead singer of a punk band that gets pelted with raw meat at every live show? And also we throw in Dave Foley and Malcolm McDowell.
Find the SUCK trailer here
And finally, we end back in Thailand with what is now the third collaboration between film makers Wisit Sasanatieng (TEARS OF THE BLACK TIGER) and Kongkiat Komesiri (ART OF THE DEVIL 2). The film is titled SLICE, Komesiri directs from a script by Sasanatieng. The story? The police are unable to bring in a serial killer preying upon the city – he has a fondness for genital mutilation – and so, in desperation, they turn to a former hitman turned informant to do the job for them. With the talent involved expect this one to be smart, gory and impeccably well made.
Find the SLICE trailer here
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Always a pleasure to see you! Thanks for the new Twitch!
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Aug 20, 2009 4:12:47 AM CDT
This is one of the reasons I first started coming here was to fi
by ottomatic
Ain't it cool indeed!
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(Wow, hair trigger enter button or what)
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Since he was one of the topics ending off the last Twitch. How in the heck did they get him looking like he's 30 again in "Suck"? Amazing effect, it looked authentic. Groovy!
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Now them boys are the only game changers in this ad wizards dojo
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pythons reuniting? co-inky-dinkhttp://tinyurl.com/qum22h
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How goes it? I feel sorry for Cleese Chipps, he's being fucked. He worked it out that his stepkids will now inherit more money than his actual children as a direct consequence of this divorce. She was loaded before they got married.
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ranges from Clockwork orange to the extremes of suck with some interesting stuff in the middle.
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cheeky monkey.
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How was your holiday?
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Punisher War Zone. Which was quite good. I know how many runs you scored last summer. Which was shit- just not funny in the slightest. Although enlivened by a totally gratuitous shower scene. The Night Porter. Overrated. JCVD. Excellent.
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Unfortunately, I get back to find the IT monkeys have clamped down on internet access at work. Lots of sun, not a lot of beer, but enough, and I got a lot of stuff done to the place that needed doing.
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First one since I've been back at work. And it's nearly 12.
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how's the belly button lint?
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I prediceted a 2-1 Aussie victory yonks ago. Luckily Johnson is bowling horseshit again. Have you watched any of it? I missed the Edgbasten and Headingly fiascos (phew). It looks set fair for this test, so hopefully it will be a result. I just can't see this England lineup scoring enough runs.
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Now to check out a few more trailers...
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While I have no idea what they are saying, sure, I'd give White Ribbon a shot. And Fish Tank I guess looks okay.
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Either some fun sci-fi goodness...or Sphere type territory.
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And he watched Punisher War Zone and JCVD.Lots of interesting looking titles this week.Todd, if you read this, what did you think of K-20? I noticed the reviews by others on Twitch were less than stellar.
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I bet my fucking library doesn't have it, either. If only I had the time to have kept netflix...
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Besides playing with basically a lineup of scrubs...they throw strings of games together like this:Monday - lose to the Giants 10-1. Ouch.Tuesday - Beat the Braves 9-4, scoring 8 runs in one inning and setting a team record with 10 hits in one inning.Last night - lose 15-2. Yes, 15-2. A day after scoring eight runs themselves in one inning, the Braves match that feat the very next day. Sweetness.
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That movie interests me....
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Wotcha Donor. Hope things have got better. Anyhoo, I really think Harry needs a kick in the bollocks over PWZ (again). Loved the villains, but it just felt a bit lacking to me. JCVD was on british telly last night, and I was genuinly surprised at how good it was. Who would have thought that Van Damme can act?
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That's terrible. Never mind.
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some acting chops that were never used before. I mean, when you're a timecop, who needs to act?Hmmm...I'm a bit surprised that Punisher War Zone seems to be a decent movie.
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Aug 20, 2009 7:24:40 AM CDT
American football is right around the corner Jarv...
by just pillow talk
So my disappointment will be spread out over multiple sports now. Which is nice.
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I saw the UK trailer yesterday and cannot think of one reason to go and see it.
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he acted in Legionnaire. Even if it was a bit meh. PWZ is just a fun, ultra violent action movie with highly entertaining bad guys and a big old school brute in the lead. Well worth a look.
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I've come to not like anything about QT. I'm probably one of the few that did not like Kill Bill. At all. Over-stylized crap is what I see. In fact, I'm sick of how all his fucking characters talk. They are not cool. Now The Expendables...that has me quite giddy. I sure as hell hope it's like Rambo. And Jet Li gets to do some cool shit in it.
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KB2 was festering ass garbage.Tarantino's problem is that he can't write female dialogue. And he's stupid enough to keep putting women in the lead in dialogue heavy borefests. Death Proof was beyond awful and he is not to be forgiven for making Kurt (that's our Kurt, tarantino you FUCKING TWAT) cry.
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this is going horribly wrong. Strauss has gone. I'm glad Droid's away. The gloating would be insufferable.
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I had problems trying to sit through that.Yeah, the ending alone means QT should have been struck down by our lord, 2for2true.
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Aug 20, 2009 8:07:37 AM CDT
I like to rock and roll when time permits, but meat pelting...
by flickapoo
...sounds like salmonella. I like all vomiting to be from alcohol poisoning if possible, not improperly refrigerated meat products.
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Was fucking god awful. So bad. Who finds that funny?
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That "i know" film was staggeringly awful. Hilariously, the woman that played the body double for the naked showering scene had what looked like her entire CV in the credits. That film was ass.
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was once a master assassin.
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Was on Kimmel (or one of them late night shows) he was a good sport about the divorce. Talking about how he likes to marry American girls so he can lose half his money every ten years. Thank allah for that Pink Panther 2 movie money.
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someone is taking MM to task in that hancock thread and has written: "talking as someone that is schizophrenic (and believe me Media Messiah is textbook)" It's funny because it's true.
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It's outrageous what he's got to pay out.
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reason for the payout is to make up for the fact that she won't get to attend Royal garden parties any more. And I'm not joking about that.
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Is up on Apple. I can't watch quick time at work.
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And no AICN news story?
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Till the end of the day. Though it was funny last night on our first date as husband and wife, my wife said that she thinks I should get an IPHONE.
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Anyone heard of this? Looks like a MUST SEE.
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Twitch Film.
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This link works. http://tinyurl.com/nsrjqo
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The aerial battle looks pretty top-notch...but the rest of the CGI (i.e. blue people and some other creatures) doesn't look that good.
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Just whats the point of the movie? Wheel chair best actor nomminie (occording to James) Sam Worthington looks worse then Jean Luc did in X-Men. It looks like the wheel chair man, takes over the mind of a blue guy in order to infiltrate the world of blue people to help out the humans who are trying to take over the blue peoples planet? Did anyone else get that?
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See the DGDB wannabe's? One of them is talking about how much he loves T2.....ummm isn't that how people started to notice DGDB because of how much he hated on T2.
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*Yawn*Nothing about it is grabbing my interest.
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Anthony Hopkins for the win! Actually I am not too impressed by it. It reminds me of Dracula and Frankenstien...but I liked those. I just don't like BDT, he wins an Oscar for Traffic and all of the sudden the nerds love him???? If it weren't for Fear and Loathing most nerds wouldn't care about him.
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http://tinyurl.com/morgm4
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How's the cricket? Seriously did all you people run out of shit to say? Did everyone get new jobs are something? No one is here, no one its on My Mavra, no one is on AIBN? WHERE'D ALL YOU MOTHER FUCKERS GO!
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And get this short edited in time to FedEx is to California overnight. I passed out a short time ago sitting up with my computer in my lap.
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That picture's a beauty.
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But February 12th? What kind of release date is that? I mean, right before Valentine's? And I wonder if they showed too much of the transformation in the trailer.How goes the midnight oil, Vader?
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I'm no more pumped to see that I was GI Joe. Maybe less in fact.
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to care about Avatar. But I'll probably end up seeing it anyway. Eventually, at least.
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Aug 20, 2009 11:52:42 AM CDT
I've loved Bencio del Toro since The Usual Suspects
by hawaiian organ donor
And then again in Snatch. It's not like he hasn't earned his place among the ranks of great actors.
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was also really good in Basquiat. Even if John Lurie called bullshit on that movie.
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But then again, that's a hell of a cast.
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I've never seen Basquiat though...
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Was the Wolfman. Wasn't he in Dracula? I'll just pretend he was in Frankenstien, because that makes it more fun if he was in all these remakes.
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He doesn't even need to be CGI'd to be the Wolfman.
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And diggitally insert Anthony Hopkins from The Edge into Frankenstien. I chose the edge because I'll make Hopkins a townie that it leading the hunt to kill Bobby D, so I can use the line "I'm gonna kill the mother fucker." It'll be great. So Continentalop read what I just wrote and make it happen. I don't work in movies and DV is too busy. Thank you.
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Yeah I don't know why I said that about wishing Antony into the Wolfman.
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But so is Bencio, so I have no problem with the casting.
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Like he is trying to hard to hid his Spainish accent. Also since they are trying to make him and Anthony father and son?
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I like the Avatar trailer more then the Wolfman.
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I like the feel of the period, and the acting will be solid. The werewolf...not so sure about the CGI effort with it. BUT there will be much more to that movie than CGI.I can't say the same about Avatar, which is front and center. I do not like the look and the way the blue aliens move. If it bothers me, it will 'jar' me out of the movie going experience. I just wasn't that impressed with it. But I did like the aerial battle, so we'll see when there is a full trailer out.
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I just can't seem to shave off enough seconds to get this project in under 3 minutes. And I'm losing focus quickly and frequently. And I'm not sure if I'm gonna shave this night-bender beard I've got going on before we meet for drinks tomorrow or not. I'll tell you this, as my gf said this morning when she left for work, "You do NOT look good."
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Get rid of the 30 second shot of: DIRECTED BY D. VADER THE WORLDS GREATEST DIRECTOR EVER. You cocky bastard.
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it could have read: as my gf said this morning when she CAME HOME FROM work, "You do NOT look good." Then you would be dating a lady of the night.
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A Vampire?
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What a piece of sensationalism crap. Yeah, the tale of two people involved in sexual transgressions who are also a SS Officer and a concentration camp survivor is just fucking "brilliant".
Some people think being shocking is being artistic. Nope. Just that you have no ideas and need something to get people to talk about what you are doing.
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Prostitue or stripper, but vampire works as well. Especailly if its at night, you don't want those lame ass Twilight day vampires.
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I had my guys over at IMDB run a search on The Night Porter, and yeah the IMDB site it Not safe for work. And that movie came out before there ever was stuff that was not safe for work.
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It is like a total eclipse, something you don't see often but when you do it is nice.
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Because I once wrote a treatment for a female vampire prostitute called Lady of the Night. It was going to be a homage to the old Hammer films such as The Vampire Lovers and Lust for a Vampire, and other movies based on Carmilla such as Blood and Roses.
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I've got some money, lets get together and hire DV to direct this stat before Eli Roth buys up the rights.
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About those paper thin ad viewers that are going to be shipping out with an issue? I'm getting a little crush on it, I won't to have my way with one this instant.
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Gratuitous lesbo vampire action. Might be the first thing he ever made that I might be able to sit through.
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I should be in Charlotte by 2:30 so just let me know when and where you want to meet. And you should have my number so call or text me. But keep the beard dude. It's already a shame I won't be seeing you with the fu manchu.
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Or they could be the end of the universe. Will have to wait and see.
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of some complete ape shit crazy talkback wars in the upcoming months.*pillow crosses fingers*
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YES. YES. DOUBLE YES! Thats what pisses me off about QT! He fucking sits around in these interviews giving out free handjobs to old movies about how awesome there gore and sex is, yet when he makes a movie he turns away like a morally right christian little girl! SO FUCKING LAME! If language was not a deciding factor I wonder if his movies would even be rated R. The only thing close to nude in QT's films was Bridget Fonda after Bobby D had his way with her. I always forget he was in a movie with QT.
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About the trailer has not been that bad really. The reactions to TDK and Transformer 2: Die Harder were much stronger. I think people are more confussed about the whole thing, especially since Jimmy C is one of the more fan friendly directors and all of the sudden he's no where to be seen about all of this. Did Harry piss him off or something at Comic Con? There was a picture of Harry on his facebook with him and Jim C. He was wearing a fucking fez and looked like a retarded make a wish kid. Maybe Jim saw that and thought, what the fuck am I doing talking to that guy.
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Nudity like a teenager though. He is pretty raw with it. You want example of teenager nudity, check the Friday the 13th reboot. I usually think about it every couple of minutes myself.
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I like Zombie. Between The Devils Rejects and Crank 2 somewhere is the movie RR and QT thought they were making with Grindhouse.
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I have no freaking clue what Avatar is about.
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Here is the plot synopsis: Avatar is a rain-forest, it is home to a race of fairies who have never seen humans and believe Humans don't exist and only exists in stories. That is until the arrival of Batty, a wacky bat who tells the Fairies that he has seen the Humans. Curious, when she sees smoke from Mount Warning, a fairy named Crysta travels beyond Ferngully and discovers a group of humans is destroying the rain-forest. Crysta discovers a human named Zak who is helping destroy the rain-forest and accidentally shrinks him. Once discovering the beauty of Ferngully, Zak and Crysta learn the Fairies and Ferngully itself are in mortal danger, when the humans free Hexxus, a evil oil-like creature who along time ago was turned into a tree when he tried to unleash chaos in Ferngully and has taken over "The Leveler" a logging machine as he begins his evil scheme to destroy Ferngully and only Zak, Crysta, Batty, Pips and The Beetle Boys can defeat Hexxus and save Ferngully from destruction.
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Luckiest mother fucker of 2009. Anyone think he'll be name famouse within five years? Christian Bale certainly isn't yet. Or did James Cameron just create the next Michael Biehn?
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Aug 20, 2009 2:28:30 PM CDT
I don't know if I've even seen a movie with Worthington
by hawaiian organ donor
But judging on what he's been in so far, he's taking the A-train to stardom.
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I'm wondering if I should wait to watch the 16 minute trailer friday before I see a trailer on my computer.
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Global peace would quickly be upon us....
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I would rather see it on the big screen than on the pc.
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The guy at least knows that exploitation films were about sex. Look at WEREWOLF WOMEN OF THE SS - that was a truer exploitation film than anything that RR or QT did in Grindhouse.
I actually haven't seen all of THE DEVIL'S REJECTS, just parts. I have seen HOUSE OF A 1,000 CORPSES and I am still trying to figure out how people can defend that piece of shit. But for DEVIL'S REJECTS, from what I saw, some of it made me say "Wow! He has improved a lot since HOUSE OF A 1,000 TURDS" and some of it makes me go "Nope. He is still the same retard who made HOUSE OF 88 HORRIBLE MINUTES." But I do agree he understands the idea of grindhouse much better that QT and RR did or do. -
I did find myself bored from time to time when I saw it in the theaters. Though I loved the crazy ass ending. I can't defend it, nor will I bother. Read Ebert's review of The Devils Rejects I think he nails why it is so good. I love that movie, that movie had me entertained from start to finish. Though I think Robbie Z peaked with Rejects, with more money comes more problems. Halloween sucked, and not because of the back story. I liked that part, it was the Halloween part that didn't work.
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I just went and took a piss and I as I was standing there with my dick in my hand, I thought about the fact that Ebert himself always wanted to be a exploitation film maker. Even though he is a family friendly name now, I bet he's always wanted to make crazy ass exploitation films. Beyond the Valley is game, set and match for my argument. He knows it sucks, but think about what drove him to write it. Think about how batshit that movie is as well. Here is his review of The Devils Rejects, but remember he's a biased reviewer. http://tinyurl.com/97sbb
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Because it is so been there done that x1000.
Big hulking silent killer? Like we haven't seen that before. And even the back story is a cliche with Rob Zombie.
You know what would have been original? Making the killer a weak loser. A guy who isn't a inhuman killing machine but someone who has to bust his ass to kill someone. Take Hitchcock's old quote about how killing someone is hard, dirty and messy and use that.
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NO BILL PAXTON.
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Aug 20, 2009 2:55:15 PM CDT
I think you could have skipped the "dick in your hand" part
by continentalop
That isn't an image I really needed.
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Have you seen Behind the Mask?
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I know, thats why I put it in there.
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But I hear it is pretty good. My only "problem" with it, and I say this out of my ass because I haven't see it yet, is that it is a mockumentary. For some reason mockumentaries make things seem less real to me and not more real. Maybe it doesn't apply to Behind the Mask; I guess I will have to see for myself.
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Its not a Mockumentary like you think. Its probably the best horror film in years. I could have been a good hit, but it is a tough thing to market. It would have been one of them there word of mouth EW Must list sort of movies.
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Was that it reminded me of an idea I had years ago before even Scream came out. We were talking to some people about how Friday the 13th series was over and I said I could make a F13 movie and they asked how.
I said I would make a movie about a die-hard Jason fan who is a big looser, and he decides to put on a hockey mask and imitate his idol and go on a killing spree. He only kills maybe three or four people and each murder is bloody and hard as hell. I would make a slasher movie into cinema verite.
Of course I was to fucking lazy to finish the script and then Scream came out and then Behind the Mask (plus Columbine) so I always kick myself for being such a lazy fuck.
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Eli Roth just announced that he is making a new vampire movie! About vampires who glitter in sunlight!
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IS the bad guy in Prince of Persia? He almost makes it into my list of cool old guy actors.
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convicted? I missed that, thats funny.
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That is why I hate talking Spider-Man fans on AICN. Whenever you bring up the Vulture they think you are nuts to put him ahead of Carnage as a villain for a Spider-Man movie.
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What are you nuts! Putting the vulture ahead of Carnage or Mesphestoio in the next Spiderman movie! Its gonna be good I heard the guy wrote Zodiac is writing it!
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Who will be in the movie AFTER The Lizard gets his due, right?
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Aug 20, 2009 5:08:37 PM CDT
Actually I could care less about the Spider-Man franchise
by continentalop
Every since they fucked up the death of Gwen Stacy, this series has been dead to me. Dead! Dead! DEAD!!!
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Remember the old Twilight Zone episode where the guy dies and thinks he is in Heaven because he gets everything he wants, but the twist is that he is in hell.
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I've been on a Twilight Zone kick the last few nights. Watched the one, last night, where everyone picks a model to be transformed into. They specifically mention that all public discourse revolves around make up, sports and celebrities, and everyone aspires to cookie cutter good looks and a surgically enhanced physique.
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New York Times reviews Inglourious Basterds! Calls Eli Roth "dreadful"!
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my penis!
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I know you are a big Slumdog Millionaire fan. Here is an interesting article about it.
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Welcome back. You need to do what you do best, and put Twitch back on top.
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I love it.
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Man or man or wo-Man? Just look at the pics and you will know what I mean.http://www.mahalo.com/caster-semenya
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Inhuman speed. I suspect nargles
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Tank girl.
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The high jump - beating Tank girl. Then did a goofy dance. She is very pretty, but Tank Girl looked better
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Well, I finished it, but I almost didn't get it overnighted in time. I finished my DVD around 7 and had to watch both to make sure they were without glitches, especially after some DVDs I burned this week came out missing audio. So 7:30 I get on the road and race down to the last FedEx pickup point. Once there, I have to get to a computer and print out the RULES which this contest makes you mail with 2 copies of your movie. I get to FedEx at 8:15- the truck leaves at 8:30. I still have to writeup the DVD case covers, make the FedEx shipping label, and get to a cpu to print my rules. I get there and realize I can't print bc... dun dun dun, my gf has my debit card bc I had her get dinner for us last night and she didn't give it back. So I have to put cash on a card- just wastes more time. I get to the computer, open up my mail as I make the DVD slipcovers, download the rule form and hit print. Well guess what. Its 6 pages long. My 1 dollar aint gonna cut it. So I have to run back to the cash machine, put 3 more ones on the card, run back, hit print, finish the shpping label, sign the rules, finish the DVDs, and stuff it all into an envelope. Then I wait. And wait. I watch the FedEx truck driver look at me and walk past, unwilling or unwilling to help me bc he's gotta make sure all the packages get on his truck. FINALLY, the one employee comes to me and sets me up. I pull out my money clip, and the one undeniable fact that I have clearly not paid attention to, that I haven't seen despite it being RIGHT in my face all night, is suddenly laid bare before me: I. DON'T. HAVE. MY. DEBIT CARD. And all I have is $20 in my clip. I say "I bet this isn't gonna cover it, is it?" The employee isn't hopeful. I pull out a wad of receipts from my pocket and frantically fish around. I find a $5. Good. $25. I bet its still not enough. The employee tells me: Its gonna be $29 and change. I have $25. And I spent $4 on the computer and print charges. And I've got a ton of change. SO CLOSE I stand there with my hands on my head brainstorming at lightning speed, unwilling to accept defeat despite the fact that its not only staring me in the face, but its also bent me over its knee and has started smacking my ass. I think and think and think... IS there an ATM around here? Knowing that I won't have enough time to get to one, grab cash, and get back before the FedEx truck leaves... But NO, STUPID! YOU STILL DON'T HAVE YOUR DEBIT CARD! USELESS! I stand there repeating "Ummmm" over and over, hoping against hope that this employee will see my panic-stricken face and offer to lend me five dollars. He throws me a bone- "You can still make it to the dropoff at the airport. Picks up at 9:30 but they dont take cash, you need a credit card." "THANK YOU!" I tear outta there and call my gf who answers the phone knowingly- "Lemme guess, I didn't give you your debit card back." I tell her to get in the car and just start driving my way. I jump in my car and suddenly it hits me- I ALWAYS keep extra cash in my glove compartment in case of emergencies. I grab a $20 from the glove box and run back in shouting "I have cash! Is it too late?!" The employee is helping someone else. He looks to me, looks back at the truck driver. The truck driver just stares back at the employee, the coldest non-verbal stare I've ever seen anyone give. The employee turns back... "Yeaaaaah... I don't... I can't... I don't even have the time for one paid by cash, I'm sorry." I just turn around and run. In my frantic fumblings, I accidentally call friends in Austin Texas and my parents. I get my gf on the phone- luckily we didn't pass each other. I get my card, I step on the gas. I barely look at the map to the airport and almost get lost (luckily I didn't). But, happy ending, I get to the airport FedEx station with 20 minutes to spare and thankfully its not busy at all. And allllllll this while running on NO SLEEP at all. I've literally been prepping and shooting and editing nonstop since... what day is this?.... since wednesday morning at 8 am. So I guess I've now been up for...my math is terrible...38 hours now? Wheeeee. And I've still got work to do. Thank goodness I DID get it mailed off, because if all that work went for naught, if I spent all this time on a movie for no reason other than fun and experience... I was going to go to a bar or grocery store and get absolutely shitfaced. Which means I wouldn't have finished my real work and would have risked waking up in time for the camera job tomorrow. And it may have affected my first impression meeting with HOD. But, now I can say I'm relaxing on the couch, recounting my night, drinking a beer, and about to start my work. Ah,... such is life.
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Aug 20, 2009 9:12:33 PM CDT
Ahh, so the White House fabricated terror levels before election
by d.vader
I knew it. I think we ALL knew it. We ALL talked about how before the 2004 election they'd secretly find Obama or release a threat or just raise the general threat level... which is what it sounds like they decided to do. Way to go, Tom Ridge. God bless all you former Bush staff members for coming out of the closet and giving the American public the truth. By the way, anyone see Jon Stewart's 12 minute expose of Republicans and Fox News and their RAMPANT hypocrisy on everything from protests to political disagreements to playing the victim card last night on The Daily Show? It was absolutely BRILLIANT. If you haven't seen it, you must google it. Makes you hate Fox News and all those lying assholes all the more.
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I had fun w/ it and then some. Jest wanted you to know. District Nein is pretty good too, somewhat overrated but it's worthy of seeing. Congrats on your filming there D.Vader. Put in a few more shots of Giant Robots next time please. But I'll let it pass this time. Charlotte needs a good Giant Robot Movie made in it. Johnson C Smith Univ. never had it so bad.
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Did you see District 9 yet? Did that help satiate some of your giant robot tendencies?
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Never thought I would see him cry. You can tell that that old man was the most important thing in his life.
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Composer working in Hollywood today who makes scores worth a damn? Seeing that the Avatar trailer score was from 28 Days Later. Moon had the music from the movie. You think Avatar would have used its own music.
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Closest translation for that would be... BASTERDS. Saw it last weekend and surprisingly was the first bollywood movie where I didn't look at the watch 20 minutes in.
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Uwe Boll already has this film made and in the can? Anyone ever play the game?
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Are you mistaken in thinking that Clint Mansell did the score for 28 Days Later as well? Or are you upset at the Avatar trailer for using 28 Days Later score instead of Mansell's? Also, I haven't seen the Avatar trailer yet, but I immediately assumed you meant Shyamalan's Airbender. I've been watching that show a lot lately.
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Was ok. Nothing great. Unless you are a huge Tyson fan. Pretty much he realizes he was a fuck up.
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I was hoping they would have their own music. Mansell's music is used in tons of trailers, I didn't want it used in Avatar's I wanted Avatar to have its own music. Mansell's music is also used in the scores for the movies they were created for. Now a days musical scores kind of suck so a lot of movies don't even use them in the trailer. I think Airbender had its own music though.
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sorry
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No she isn't. But I did want to give you the heebie jeebies for a second.
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loads of good stuff here.
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While I agree with you that it is a shitty psuedo-exploitation cash in on Last Tango in Paris without being a fraction as good, it is partially redeemed by the performances of Bogarde and Rampling. Not enough to sit through again.
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I'm going to disagree and state that although he does understand grindhouse, his films are so fucking awful that it doesn't matter. 1000 crapses was unwatchable low rent TCM rip off garbage, and Rejects, while a vast improvement, was utter dogshit as well. Less said about Halloween the better.
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Series, it actually isn't that strong. It is NSFW, naturally, as the iconic (for want of a better word) shot is Charlotte Rampling in SS gear with her tits out.
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having to go and get "gender tested". As this is going to take "several weeks", it isn't a case of making her drop her keks. They must be gene testing her. How the fuck is that her fault? she hasn't cheated.
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in South Africa when going to the toilet and the attendant tried to redirect her to the Gents. Whereupon she showed him her vagina.
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and I'm fucking ecstatic there are no Australians here to smack me about with it.
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then I'd be slaughtering them for the atrociously shit "I know" film- which, by the way, did have nudity done in the 13-year-old-boy style.
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It was pretty good.
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See you in a while.
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How're things?
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we were talking about A Clockwork Orange having a glossary. I know where this came from now- when I was away I read a version that had an essay from Burgess in it, and he said that this version (on sale in America for the first time)was the complete and accurate one. The original US version was changed by the publishers who took out the last chapter (not gritty enough for American readers- how times have changed), and added the glossary (too confusing for American readers without- how times haven't fucking changed) against Burgess wishes and contrary to the UK version. Regarding the film- Kubrick refused to read the last chapter (against Burgess wishes) so his film is actually an adaptation of A Clockwork Orange (US). Burgess had grown to hate it by the time he wrote that essay. It was obvious.
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that should have read: "before I went to spain we were talking about A Clockwork Orange having a glossary. "
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http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-august-19-2009/fox-news--the-new-liberals
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And I'm probably the only dude here who finds some of it funny. Yeah, I know it's a glorified chick flick, but, I find Vince funny in it.
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with Marilyn Monroe. I caught about 40 minutes of it, but I didn't catch the end. It was quite boring actually, and she was only in it for a bit, before she got strangled to death. Guess that happens when you try and kill your husband and fail.
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utter shit.
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I'll take the hits for it.Cunt.
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Doesn't make you less wrong though.
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for inflicting Shit and The City on me. So I've got miles to run. Although that piss poor Aussie effort nearly put me back in it.
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When I bring the apocalypse upon the world with my four horsemen...track you down, and force you to watch Wedding Crasher in an endless loop until you pronounce that in fact "pillow was right all those years".
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I cringe at the very thought of watching that one.
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But not on purpose, I don't mind the movie. It went toe to toe with TDK and didn't get destroyed, Meryl Streep is a box office power house.
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I think that Barney Frank video on the right menu was part of it too. It was like 12 minutes of brilliance which started with the town hall meetings and segued into hypocrisy on the Right and within Fox News. Then he went into proving how they're the new liberals. That's it exactly.
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Avoided that like the plague. Wank musical+ Abba= tedium. No thanks.
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was that the one with Glenn Beck (complete and utter cunt) bleating about fox being picked on?
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See Transformers 2. I am very proud of myself for that. Even if it didn't matter I took a personal stance. Transformers 1 took something I loved and destroyed it, and I was big enough to not rush out and see the rapping of Transformers 2 in theaters. I will still rent it, but just because.
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Here is my review. http://tinyurl.com/mx72aa
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Go to IMDB and look it up, that shot is like the poster for the film. Why don't they make posters like that anymore? I will say Hostel 2 had a cool poster like that, but never saw it anywhere.
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" thought it was too reverential. That’s what I really thought it was."Always liked him.
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"then I'd be slaughtering them for the atrociously shit "I know" film- which, by the way, did have nudity done in the 13-year-old-boy style."? Are you talking about I know What you Did Last Summer? There was no nude scene in that, it was PG-13. Or you talking about something else?
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"It was all there. It looked right, but to me it was pace. It didn’t have pace. It needed a bit more quirkiness in there. Dr. Manhatten was getting boring, frankly, and then Ozymandias by the end I thought “Oh, come on!” They lost me by the end, frankly, but it was certainly looking better than what I was going to do! (laughs)"
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That picture on the night porter is the Spanish DVD cover! hilarious. I was referring to "I know how many runs you scored last summer"- which was a festering load of wank.
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The best part is when they show back to back video of them complimenting these rowdy town hall protestors as "ordinary decent hard-working Americans trying to express their viewpoints" and then video of them decrying liberal protestors as "loons" who" can't control their emotions".
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A mini series with Robbin Williams as the comedian, Kevin Costner as Nite Owl, Tommy Lee Jones as the Comedian and Jamie Lee Curtis as Silk Spectre. That would have been awesome. HAhahahahah Jessica Biel turned down the role of Silk Spectra, dumbo now that Malin Akerman is a huge star.
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A horror movie about comedy? What the fuck.
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just for crying crocodlile tears while moaning "I just love my country". Skin crawling twat.
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Is on the morning radio show I listen to. He's a comedian now. He has a funny song about BTTF, I guess its on that tube of yours.
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I watched him a little bit when he was on CNN bc my aunt really liked him and said he was funny. And back then on CNN he attempted to appear to be bipartisan, and sometimes he did funny skits (I seem to remember). But now that he's on Fox, he's fucking lost it. That guy is a psychotic lunatic.
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It's a straight slasher with a touch of Torture Porn. Obvious influence is Friday 13th. Except it's sordid, dull shit. The twist is obvious, the villain shit, the cricket link is that all his tools are made from cricket tools, there's no tension let alone fear, it's full of 1 dimensional characters and shit dialogue. Not to mention that it's badly shot and boring. Only good line- when the army reservist gets a knife through the hand and says "That's just un-Australian". The shower scene is entertaining though.
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It's a straight slasher with a touch of Torture Porn. Obvious influence is Friday 13th. Except it's sordid, dull shit. The twist is obvious, the villain shit, the cricket link is that all his tools are made from cricket tools, there's no tension let alone fear, it's full of 1 dimensional characters and shit dialogue. Not to mention that it's badly shot and boring. Only good line- when the army reservist gets a knife through the hand and says "That's just un-Australian". The shower scene is entertaining though. If you're 13 and can't reach the magazines on the top shelf of the newsagent.
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Why do you bother to give this asshole or OReilly Auto Parts the time of day? I want someone to go on the show and just fucking tear into O'R, and not pussy out to his yelling. Someone like Jesse Ventura, has he been on O'R?
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I only hit that once.
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Actually wait, I did last week when I was working till 4 am. I wanted to see how many outright lies Fox News would spew regarding the town hall meetings.
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do people in America honestly listen to him? He'd be off the airwaves pronto here to howls of derision.
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Did you watch the Avatar trailer?
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there's stuff on AICN that I want to read outside of Twitch.
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He should be stabbed in the mouth with a freshly sharpened #2 pencil.
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It's blocked at work and internets are fucked at home. About the only thing that the IT monkey's haven't blocked nowadays is here.
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Is that its run by a bloody blimy.
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I thought it was an Aussie.
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Hates on Speed Racer without having seen it....I'm pretty sure he is a closet talkbacker now.
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Well then Fox is run by a Prisoner.
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Terrence Malick takes too long to make his fucking movies. Keeps getting over shawdowed by other movies of the same shit.
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Not one of ours. I've always had a sneaking suspicion that he's Blofeld in disguise.
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Sunny, pleasant, warm. The weekend is supposed to be like this too.
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and continued humid as fuck through the weekend.
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all of a sudden I want to gloat at the Aussies. Off for a celebratory fag.
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Fucking lovefilm have sent The Spirit. Oh dear.
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Sounds like a shitty version of Netflix.
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I smell the hand of Mrs. Jarv's idiotic office in that.
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Ok I'm 6'2" (really 6' 1.5" but whats half an inch?), thats like 2 meters something in British. And I walk fast, I just do. But I work in an office that is just a bunch of walk ways of cubeical walls. And everyone here fucking waddles and walks slow as shit. Probably because they are all under 6 foot and fat as shit. So whenever I need to go anywhere in the office they either are too fucking ignorant to realize that their fat ass walking in the middle of the walk way does not give enough space to get around them. Or they are walking with another fat ass taking up the whole walk way. Or they notice that I seem like I'm in a hurry and always give me this exaggerated 'OH YOUR IN A HURRY LET ME GET OUT OF THE WAY' look and little comment. Fuck slow people. God I hope this place never catches fire otherwise I know I'll end up burning up because I'll be stuck behind a sea of lard.
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fuck's sake. Where do you think the name comes from? I'm 6'4" for example and I don't have a clue what that is in Metric.
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It's people driving slow in the fast lane that drives me nuts. Especially when they have ample room to move over to the right lane and let me pass. Fuckers.
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(sidewalk for you lot) getting in the way. Gets right on my nerves.
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I thought you were allowed to do that in America.
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Clearly I want to go faster than you, so pull your fucking slow ass to the right side. It ain't that hard to do.That's all I'm say'in.
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Bad move.
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Also I live in the land where the Truck is a sports car. I have a Saab and its fast as shit, and every fucking asshole F-150 driving faggot thinks they can race me.
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and usually quite shitty ones. heh-heh...while quite shitty, very amusing.
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It's alright.
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whom I can't see around and are always in my way. Fucking Fairfield county.
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since I rated about 1000 movies that I'd seen. we've had far less accidental crap since them. Although, to be fair, The Lives of Others was one of their picks.
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So now I take it you rate each movie you watch from them?
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Where I live, there are fucking hundreds of them. I maintain that anyone that drives an SUV in London rather than a Mini or a Golf or something like that is a cunt. It's totally needless. There's one dickhead that drives a fucking hummer. A fucking hummer. In London. A city of Victorian streets and narrow parking. What a cunt.
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Has a funny as shit stand up routine, its on comedy central from time to time watch it if you can. He mentions driving, how he is ok with people cutting him off as long as they GOOOO. He's like "Oh fucking ass hole...oh he obviously needs to get somewhere fuck'em". Its the ass holes that just cut in front of you and go no where. What is the space in front of my car the magical spot to get to narnia? Its funny because its true. The traffic here isn't bad, its just full of ass holes who think they driving here is bad but have never left this state so have no idea what traffic is.
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works much better now
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I do not get the love for that film. It was like an exercise in bordom for me.
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about how the guy had a shitey Austin from the 70's and used to live to overtake Porche drivers on the motorway. Fucking hilarious.
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really superb. One of the best films I'd seen in yonks.
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She knows that if she wants to see something she has to go through me first. Also my best friends know to ask me first about a movie, or for recomindation. While I am not good at picking out movies for parties that everyone will enjoy I am very good at recomending movies for people I know.
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And old people don't drive fast. Good Nick Swordson routine about that.
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but I generally win nowadays. What put me in charge was when she picked a load of shit in a row.
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I think they're cheaper here than in America. We hardly see any American cars.
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We're handing out a right mauling.
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http://www.popcornindiana.com/ If you live in american hunt this shit down! Fuck smartfood white chedder this shit is AMAZING. I feel sorry for you people not living in America who don't get to snack on this. Plus its not fucking awful for you.
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I'm off. See you next week. HAve a good one. I hope the Spirit doesn't crush my soul too badly- especially seeing as Mrs. Jarv put some mexican drama about Drugs mules as the alternative.
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Usually 10 times out of 10, they never use the tuck aspect of it. I think its just an excuse to sit close to other dudes.
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Says that if Miller ever writes a sequel to 300, there will be a character that is Sam Jackson.
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I thought it was quite good.
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It would have come quite handy a hundred times over consider the shit we've done to the house. But since I'm a commuter, it most definitely does not make sense to own one. Which is a shame.
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Has been popular for a while. I care so little about the next Spiderman I haven't even bothered to read it. I don't get why that character is so popular. I mean I'll probably see it, but with no expectations.
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But no one can give me a fucking reason. It reminded me of the Conversation and Blow Up/Out, none of the three I really liked.
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Thought you knew. Also, I liked Lives of Others. For me, I thought it was one of the most human films I have seen in a while. But, I will admit that if it wasn't about artists I probably would have lost interest. For me the message of the film is that art has the power to change people and even inspire revolutions.
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Aug 21, 2009 12:14:33 PM CDT
much like with The Visitor, which was slow moving too..
by just pillow talk
I *connected* with the characters, meaning I cared how it was going to turn out for them. With The Lives of Others...I liked how he slowly got more and more involved with their lives, and wanted to 'help' them as much as he could.
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Changeling, Brothers Grimm, Octagon, and Rob Roy.I haven't seen The Octagon in soooo long, and with that stupid Ninja Assassin coming out, I figure I'd watch good 'ol Chuck in action. I've never seen all of Rob Roy, which I've been meaning to rectify for a while now. And the other two I haven't seen yet.
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George C. Scott's The Changeling, or Angelina Jolie/Clint Eastwood's The Changeling?
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Hope you picked up a bag of Excedrin on the way home as well. God that movie is awful. Top Ten worst movies of all time.
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I realized I missed a lot of conversations
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You've heard of the Eastwood/Jolie Changeling? But that movie came out after 1979?
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Full scale political TB bloodletting is about to commence in the Mikey Moore Tb! Oh joy!
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No, he understands grindhouse because he is a bad director. I mean, 99.9% of real grindhouse movies are un-watch-able crap.
Which is why I laugh at this trend of lionizing grindhouse movies. If something was good in a grindhouse or exploitation movie, it was good DESPITE the fact it was in those movies, not BECAUSE it was in those movies. The reason we like most grindhouse movies is because of the audaciousness and because we want to laugh at them. Don't tell me that THE RATS ARE COMING, THE WEREWOLVES ARE HERE is some sort of piece of art. The only reason you would watch it is to marvel at what a piece of shit it is. It is the geek show of cinema. -
But it was directed by an old dude.
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Why bother giving him any sort of platform to stand on (NEED REINFORCEMENTS! QUICK ITS NOT GONNA HOLD!!! (that is a fat joke)) can't he just fuck off now with all his 9/11 money. God, him and Tobey Keith need to go on a lecturing tour on how to make money off of a tragedy.
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Damn you got me there.
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Is a hot image. I hope that doesn't make me a Nazi sympathizer.
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I haven't seen George C.'s one in a long, long time.
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damn. *pillow braces himself*
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And I don't blame him for sticking with his version. It was the version he read and the one that had a bigger impact on him. The idea of Alex not being cured and going back to being a pyschopath is just shocking and goes against the norm; him learning to change his ways is the same character arc that hoodlums and young criminals have had in movies and books since forever. I can see why he preferred the American version of the book.
The best analogy I can give is when the released the "director's cut" of Touch of Evil about a decade ago. Everyone loved it and thought it was a great improvement, especially the beginning. Not me. I thought overall it was better, but I thought Henry Mancini's score was just driving in the opening scene and just drew me in.
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Don't Bother to Knock, with Marilyn and Richard Widmark. But in this one Marilyn is the dangerous nut, and she is actually keeping Richard on his toes throughout the movie. She does a great performance as a deranged babysitter who might be a menace to her charges.
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And yeah, I certainly liked the sound of that movie a lot more than Niagara. But alas, I had to bring my ass to work.
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But then again I haven't seen part 1, or GI JOE, or Watchmen, or Star Trek, or pretty much any big movie that has come out this year.
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Thats why I hate going back to movies. Makes me wonder why I even own DVDs. Nothing is as good as your first time.
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Is this on TCM right now? Because if it is I am going to be pissed at Time Warner, my cable has been out all day.
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Aug 21, 2009 1:09:40 PM CDT
Except for Taxi Driver, GoodFellas and Citizen Kane Series
by continentalop
Every time I watch those films I learn something new. Same with Godfather, Casablanca and Psycho.
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You fucking boggle the mind. Are you a grand parent or something? I mean I've seen all those kids movies but I'm only 13.
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Aug 21, 2009 1:13:03 PM CDT
Glen Beck and O'Reilly are Andy Griffith from A FACE IN THE CROW
by continentalop
Fucking co opted, populist demagogues.
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The story of Brandon Lee as a resurrected country singer turned radio and TV show personality.
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Aug 21, 2009 1:15:05 PM CDT
Taxi Driver, GoodFellas, Citizen Kane, Godfather, Casablanca and
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OK every top 10 greatest movie list of all time.
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I just got taste.
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Not my fault they are great.
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But I hope those aren't like your top ten films.
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That makes me worry about you.
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Monsters Vs. Aliens is not taste. Its like eating Ramen, sure its good but its not good for you.
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Mise en scène, shot composition, pacing for editing.
Take the scene were Martin Balsam goes up the stairs. It is pure Eisenstein montage - the editing of separate images to create meaning. He is going up the stairs, we see a CU of a door open, and then Hitch does this great move where he cuts to a high angle shot that hides the killers identity but also is completely jarring, it puts the viewers in a completely new spot so it just throws you for a loop. It is a wonderful way to create suspense and shock.
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Aug 21, 2009 1:31:36 PM CDT
I would also add Chinatown and the 3rd Man on that list
by continentalop
And also Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Targets, Blood Simple and Detour as movies I watch over and over to learn something.
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It changes every day.
And I didn't say I loved Monsters Vs. Aliens. I just thought it was ok. I thought they should have set it in the 50s with all the 50 sci-fi references.
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Why I come to work, fuck knows..
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I prefer the cliff notes version of Psycho. The GVS one.
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Check out Spiral and A Perfect Getaway.
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As soon as I get a check from someone that doesn't bounce.
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Considering the fact I just realized I haven't gotten paid in weeks, and have little work.
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You check out my (500) Days of Summer review? http://tinyurl.com/mx72aa
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I think I like my friends review better. It was just full of snide venom.
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That it is as "good as Annie Hall."
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Yeah the more you click the more cents I get! I'm actually doing pretty good with this one.
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A sequel to Annie Hall, for what ever reason. This is it. Like all sequels some will like the original better, but you can't say that they shit the bed with the sequel. But also, I'm not sure how well this movie will play to the older crowd. Me and my wife couldn't decide if her parents would like it or not. We didn't think so because some of the jokes are childish, and the use of the oh so hip music they wouldn't get.
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So my friends will post on it. I know a lot of chicks who will dig this one.
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He just posted it on his face book page, and since I haven't seen the movie I can't say I agree with it, but here it is:
Much like Garden State, the movie and its characters are too self-absorbed, too privileged, too narcissistic in their quest for love and meaning and happiness and, you know, maybe they should be happy they got jobs.
Everything you need to know about Tom you can learn from his clothes: slouchy blazer over sweater vest, dress shirt unbuttoned at the top with rolled-up cuffs and a loose tie. Khakis, sneakers, a canvas bag slung over his shoulder.
Assembled, these duds constitute the dress code for the adorable creative professional. Indeed Tom, though trained as an architect, writes copy for a greeting-card company, and the rough edges and sloppy details tell us he's a whimsical creature with a touch of the slacker about him, a man self-conscious about his image as a white-collar hipster.
So hip in fact he gets to finally talk with the woman of his dreams, Summer. when they’re in the elevator together and she notices he's listening to The Smiths — cultural shorthand for "I'm the sensitive, imaginative straight guy." (Who could resist?)
As for his palatial Los Angeles apartment, dressed to the hilt with fabulously expensive shabby-chic furnishings, that's par for the course in movie fantasyland, a genre whose flippant dismissals of social and economic realities are ratified here.
This is a movie designed to appeal to those too cool to be caught dead at a Nora Ephron flick, but who crave their corny sentiments all the same. And to protect themselves from the old-fashioned demands of a Hollywood love story, it mixes up the chronology (It’s got to be indie – the studios would never do that!)
After all, the movie might crack under a more conventional telling. Its vision of the sexes, human bonding and the workplace are laughably superficial. Summer embodies woman as titillating enigma: mercurial, unfathomable, covetable. She must be his woman of fate. Why? Why else would she be in the movie.
And Tom is a fantasy, sprung from the teenage mind of a Morrisey fan, obsessing over finding that one true love – talking about, dreaming about, thinking about, crying about it. Characters in Sandra Bullock movies don’t have to man-up this bad.
And Joseph Gordon-Levitt seemed to be channeling the spirit of Keanu Reeves throughout the whole movie. I was on the edge of my seat waiting for him to say “whoa”.
The film really only feels vital when it focuses on the pain of rejection. There's the scene when Summer looks bored by the repetition of their favourite jokes, another when she pulls her hand away from his and suggests ending a date early. Lots of movies are made about people falling in love; these falling-out scenes felt like the smart movie I had come to see. -
He gives it a by because its happy and nice, and you don't see stuff like that often. I think Band Camp was enough nice stuff with the lack of drug use and what not and it was about high school. This is about post graduation from fucking college, which is not a HAPPY time for people. There should be a real bleak look at post graduation, especially right now with the way the economy is. Its fucking sad and pethetic that this shit bitch of a film maker made that crap. I know shes she without seein Post Grad because she fucking had something to with the direction of Shark Tale (again probably one of the top ten worst movies of all time). If this movie becomes some sort of hit, again giving girls fucked up perceptions of college. I think it will tank because girls are smart enough to realize that this shitty ain't life grand approach to life is so fucked.
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That he gives Post Grad a by (which I think has something to do with the fact that he doesn't have kids of his own, so he's got no fucking clue what its like) and allows it to get away with being light and breezy while dealing with one of the hardest times in a persons life. But he fucking rales on X-Games 3-D for not being in depth enough? Since it was a documentary? Obviously he's never sat around and watched skate/snow videos. Thats all they are compilation videos of all the cool shit. I don't think even people who are fans of the X-Games really give a shit about the points in the end.
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About the clothes/music/apartment. Especially the apartment I was like....damn I need to write greeting cards. Which I thought would be a pretty fucking awesome job actually. But unlike Garden state, they didn't go LOOK LOOK!!! We're unique and hip. I think that has a lot to do with the fact they gave Zooey a much smaller part then JGL. She's fucking annoying in the movie, but its also why you buy their relationship. The rejection part does kill and it hurts especially if you've ever known a girl like Summer. Which I have (didn't really want to tell my wife that). But we talked about why it didn't work, they were too similar. You get bored hanging out with people just like you. My wife and I clash over everything, well not everything (that's not good either). Also the thing about the office romance as well, was too much like the office. It should have been some other chick.
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I'm gonna throw this out there, even though I think it's the one movie I think I could possibly make....if I could find the people. I've always wanted to do a documentary about finding a job. This is how I would do it, pick three people or four people. A rich buisness man in his 40's looking for a new job, a laid off blue collar worker in their 40's looking for a job, someone with a GED looking for a job and someone freash out of college looking for a job. Show the difference and contrast between them. Show them going through the different interview process. If you have 4 good subjects it could be really good.
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Coming in at 12 million this weekend? Its barely going to do over 5 I bet.
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What kid really wants to see this? When I was a kid I would have saw this as one of those condescending movies that always make for us.
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Was pretty awesome. 2 and 3 were shit. I think I've seen 2 like 5-10 times. I was on a flight and it played on the flight there and on the return flight and the flight was 5 hours or more. The movie is like an hour and 15 min or something. Fucking wanted to shoot myself. I think I just turned it on and keep falling in and out of consiousness waking up are various parts of the movie.
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It should look childlike. Robert Rodriguez, what's happened to you? Why does Shorts look like nothing except "in your face super cool special effects"?
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Taxidermia looks fucking amazing. It looks like Terry Gilliam and Jean-Pierre Jeunet's love child. And AICN decided to ignore it. You should watch the trailer DV. It looks really cool.
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Aug 21, 2009 4:38:31 PM CDT
And I just got back from having some afternoon beers with HOD
by d.vader
He's a cool cat in person. And Latte Girl is nice and cute too. I couldn't stay long bc I have to get to my AVATAR 16 min. 3D (I hope) screening, but I enjoyed my short time having a few beers with HOD. Nice guy in person. And yes, he was wearing a Hawaiian shirt.
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Two Twitch's have met, IT HAS BEGUN!
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2for2true would be proud.
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LOOK AT THIS BEFORE YOU GO!!! I WANT TO PISS YOU OFF!!! AVATAR IS A CHEAP DELGO RIP OFF!!! http://tinyurl.com/kpwzso
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Also Danny needs to make that movie his next live chat DVD.
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I love his sixties sex comedies. Prudence and the Pill Casino Royale Bedtime Story - which was remade as Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. And moving to seventies, the truly Outstanding - Murder by Death
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I loved that woman! Sexy at every age. Even showed some skin late in career. She was an underrated comic actress as well.
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Have you seen him in Powell and Pressburger's A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH? Good movie.
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It was on TCM a few we My first weeks ago. Truly outstanding flick. Niven was a great a talent, who was also fast on his feet. When he was on-stage at an Oscar ceremony, a streaker ran acoss stage, Niven completely unperturbed said something to the effect, that 'you should not be showing your shortcoming to the world'. Awesome. I gotta look that up I am sure it is on youtube.
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I always loved that one. I had to look the exact quote up: "'Probably the only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping off and showing his shortcomings."
One of my other favorite moments was when Bette Davis was nominated for WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE, Joan Crawford wrote to all the other nominees and said if they couldn't make it she would fill in for them. Sure enough, Anne Bancroft couldn't sow and won. letting Crawford go up there and bask in all the glory why Davis could just sit there and fume.
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Had a Bette Davis bio, it was very good. She was a bit of a slut! I knew she belonged on my list of average looking women who fucked their way to the top! She really hated Crawford. I did not know that oscar story about them That is really funny.
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Aug 21, 2009 8:06:05 PM CDT
I do not think any great feuds exist -bitch or otherwise
by dirk_the_amoeba
Ted Turner and Rupert Murdoch are bitches, and had a great feud, but that probably does not count. Bill Gates and Larry Ellison
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Jon and Kate?
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Clooney and the Italian dude
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Was'up?
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I thought you were listing amazingly passionate couples.
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Have you missed me?
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They were so hot together. Hiya Toad. I'm going in to work a little late tonight, so just goofing here for a few. How are you?
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So much hotter than George or Fabio. Broken any hearts today?
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Conti asked about great bitch rivals.
So I though George and Fabio!
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That I can't type straight. The Dirk/Toad combo here may make my typing completely unintelligible.
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She was wantonly though, and I had to end it. She still stalks me.
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November, but I'm gonna quit talking about it. I think I made ThereWolf mad and I'm feeling really bad about it.
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Great bitch rivalries.
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I don't bare that big of grudge against AsimovLives.
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What does he have that I don't? Mavra, chicky-babe, its' me Dirk, the love amoeba! How many times have I rocked your world?
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I thought you liked that type. You always inspire it in your paramours. It's a gift you leave behind, a result of your quickie romances. You always leave 'em begging for more.
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Mavra, why are you mentioning all these men? Are you trying to make me jealous? Where are you going in November?
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He does not strike me as that kind of guy.
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And also hands. Sorry, Dirk. Toad has you beat with limbs. Not that you don't do fabulously with what you have and are.
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I honestly don't know. I'm sorry for whatever I said that offended him, but he won't talk to me now.
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Asi only bugs me when he starts his condescenidng crap. i do not mind his trollish OCD about starter trek, but his manner sucks. Locke is just a dick
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Why do you think my nickname is Mr. Fanstastic? Mav, baby - you know what I'm talking about! No one can satisfy like a love amoba! Stay away from stinky ol toads - no offense intended toadkillerdog.
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Going to either London or Amsterdam in November. If you can find the last Twitch, I talked to Toad about it.
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He doesn't stink. That's musk. :p
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I am sure he will come around. Hows the donut biz? I saw a travel channel special on voodoo donuts in portland, they have a maple crueller with bacon on it!
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Yeah Toadkiller musk!
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Sounds greasy. Maybe it'll be the next big thing to replace deep fried Oreos.
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Do you remember the time in Elba, when I slithered on my pseudopod up into your Chang and you started singing 'sweet mystery of life at last I found you?' It can be that way again. I promise, I will mend my wandering ways - for a little while at least.
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Love ya, babe, but you broke my heart. There ain't enough superglue to put those pieces back together.
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Can you make me one? Maybe I will just buy a maple crueller and put bacon in it, can't be the same though
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You're going to scare Continentalop away if you keep reminiscing about our trysts. Toad's used to it (since we had some of our own), but others here may not have the stomach for it. Behave! :)
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The love that must proclaim its name! The love of joy and pain! The love of and Amoeba and Chang!
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I bet it would be easy to fix. Gotta get the good maple though, not the cheap stuff. Hey, I even bought bacon this morning! Coming over for breakfast, Toad?
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But you will come back Mavra - they always do. In the middle of the night - your nethers will ache for the feel of pseudopod, and your fingers will not be enough. You will dial that number, but I might not answer.
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That WAS fun.
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You are off the market, do not be waving that maple crueller with bacon under my nose!
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Quentin Tarantino and good movies. ZING!
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I'm going to be frying cruellers for Toad. Ha ha ha. Ciao, Dirk. Kiss, kiss.
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Flipping channels and Silverado is on. Brian Dennehy died really well in that scene. Fell over perfectly
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Fucking great film. Could not believe how thrilling it was. Also the haunting music. You need to see this movie.
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So I can bring home the bacon na na-na na Fry it up in a pan Na na-na na and never, never let you forget you're a man or a Toadkillerdog, but that doesn't quite work with the song.
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Don't forget to tip your waiter.
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I think that is how it is spelled
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I just watched last part of Silverado, Brian Dennehy's death scene is great. He hits the ground perfectly - at least cinematically it is perfect.
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Looks fucking stupid. Save for Eli Kostas.
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Just kidding.
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Shutter Island does look stupid. I see know reason to see it. They must be hoping Leos female audience persuade their boyfriends to go
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So how was it?
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There is a banner ad for H2, in which it starts off with some silly dancing dudes and it looks like a lame ass spam for cheaper insurance. Then Mike Myers comes in a grabs one of the dancers. Pretty funny. Glad to see thing actually doing something different with those annoying banners. I MAY! I JUST MAY! End up seeing this in theaters. Devils Rejects was dark years better then 1,000, so praise Allah this is the same.
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I didn't outright love it, but I liked it a great, great deal. The look of the Avatar's takes some getting used to. When you first see it stand up it does feel a bit Space Jam-ish. I'm not sure I like the big cartoony eyes. But then once you see them in action, moving like a real person, making subtle facial expressions, it all comes together and works. I couldn't see much of Sam Worthington in his Avatar (but then I've never see Sam Worthington act- still haven't seen Terminator), but WOW, once Sigourney Weaver's Avatar shows up, there's no question that it isn't her. It looks JUST like a Sigourney Weaver cat-alien. That's pretty cool.
The footage in the jungle looks great. There's all sorts of insects swarming around and dust swirling and leaves falling in the background and foreground- you really do feel like you're "there" in the footage. What I didn't like about the 16 min. preview is that after every scene they cut to black and then picked up in another scene. It was a bit jarring bc it didn't flow very well. I wish they would have just played it all back to back. Now so far, I'm enjoying it, but I'm not being "blown away", and honestly, we shouldn't expect to be. But then we get to the cliff sequence where Worthington has to tame his dragon rider or whatever, and holy shit was this sequence awesome. The depth of field JC uses with the 3D is quite amazing with the dragons flying all over the place in the background, scared off by all the Navi showing up and Worthington trying to find his, uh, spirit dragon or whatever. Its a pretty thrilling sequence, and the 3D is fantastic. Then we got a collection of quick scenes that felt like they'd be at the end of the teaser, which I still haven't seen. There was one shot of what looked like the entire forest collapsing around Worthington and Zoe Saldana (who is pretty damn hot for a 9 ft tall blue cat alien), and it was fucking EPIC. So, come December 18, I'm in. Definitely in. The look of the Navi takes some getting used to initially, but then you come to accept it and then you enjoy yourelf. -
Yes, the movie James Cameron has been working on for 15 years ripped off a film that came out just last year.
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But there appear to be a contingency of people that are actually serious about it.
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That shot of Worthington-Avatar stumbling in the hospital room looks bad, especially out of context. It does give the hint of bad CGI bc A. its a shot of him stumbling with a jerky camera movement and B. They made it slow-motion for the teaser. That combination gives it the illusion of not having realistic movement. But I can report, after watching that full scene in the 16 minute preview, that they DO have realistic motion. In that scene, he is stumbling around all over the place, knocking shit over. And that grin he gives at the glass- not a fan of that either. I wouldn't have put it in the trailer.
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I'm deadly serious about the Delgo comparison. There is even a character in that movie called Avatar!
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You've got to be joking. That's the most ridiculous comparison I've seen in a long while.
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Compared to The Hurt Locker.
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Tatooed on my stomach last night. Delgo is Avatar I'm starting a gang. We are going to go around and kick the shit out of any nerd that goes to watch Avatar. We're well ard.
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That's a good movie. I need to watch it again. I think it was the last time Steve and Eddie even tried to be funny.
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Tried to pay the director of Delgo 20 million to not release the movie.
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Infomercials.
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But can not find any truth or proof of the matter.
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I really don't buy the whole 12 YEARS THING. Sure maybe he had come up with the idea 12 years ago. And worked on it periodically. But I bet he's only REALLY worked on the movie for the past 3 years. He makes it sound like he's spent like every second since Titanic wrapped working on this film.
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Which one is better?
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He said all this:Regarding Tom Cruise's "Valkyrie" - ""It was a ridiculous movie."
We're not joking.
The Inglourious Basterds star told German magazine Stern "there's no comparison" when it comes to his new film and Cruise's WWII Hitler Assassination movie.
"The second World War could still deliver more stories and films, but I believe Quentin [Tarantino] put a cover on that pot. With Basterds, everything that can be said to this genre has been said. The film destroys every symbol. The work is done, end of story." Brad Pitt, you arrogant asshat. You've just lost me as a fan, to say something so ignorant as that last statement to get pple into theaters. Fuck you. -
Aug 22, 2009 2:51:18 PM CDT
Vader, must've been a glitch or something. Couldn't log in.
by stuntcock mike
I've never been that controversial a character. But I just saw Basterds and it's in my top 3 for the year. That's about as controversial as I get.
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Don't know what Pitt is on about.
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Glad to hear you liked Bastards though. I tried to convince my gf to see it with me yesterday after the AVATAR trailer but alas, I was not successful.
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Good to hear about the Avatar footage.I've watched the trailer about a dozen times now and I'm not into it. I'm getting my head around the fact that it's an 'animated' movie. That's caught me out completely, seeing so much animation when I was expecting actors acting.The Navi design isn't growing on me so far. But the shot of the Navi feet... That's got to be an integrated pair of real feet, not CGI!How does the footage compare to, say, FF: The Spirits Within?
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The problem with the CG in the FF movie is that they moved unrealistically. It was the early stages of mocap (wait, was it mocap?), and the characters didn't seem to have any real weight to them. Unlike what some of the haters are saying, and by haters I mean those who are so vehemently against it that they use lots of hyperbole, the Navi do move realistically. They just don't look 100% realistic, but the movements are fine. It was a bit of a shock for me too at first to discover its more "animated" than I had anticipated, but once you do wrap your head around that concept, things do look better. After watching the teaser a few more times, I'm wondering why some of the more "trailer" esque shots at the end of our 16 minute preview wasn't inclduded. For instance, the shot of the jungle collapsing around the Navi. That was fucking awesome.
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only one "fuckin hell!" moment in Spirits Within - when the black guy takes his helmet off and looks to camera.Likewise, in Two Towers, the first shot of Gollum being dragged over the rocks by Sam. Amazing CG work. I think it's only those two times when my eyes have questioned "am I looking at animation?"Judging from the Avatar trailer, I'm never going to ask that question. But then I haven't seen the 3D presentation. And maybe Cameron's holding something back.Still, I reckon a few arses must be twitching at Fox. I don't think they were expecting to be laughed at.
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When Sam was dragging Gollum over the rocks was the first and only time I thought "uh oh, this isn't looking as good as I hoped". I thought the herky jerky camera movements of those first initial moments of Gollum overacting about the effects of Elven rope did not do justice to the CGI work; the camera movements made his movements look more fake. Interesting that we had completely opposite reactions to that, though.
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I only mean the very first instance of seeing Gollum, just for a few seconds, I thought he blended perfectly into the scene. Seconds later I was like "Oh, dear..." And yeh, the jerky camera didn't help sell the animation.
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Just didn't cast Keith Richards as Gollum. To me it is a no brainer.
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has been pushed back to February? Who did Scorsese piss off? Pushing back to February seems like a pretty big Fuck You.
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Entertaining movie. On the one hand, I probably wouldn't have bothered with it if not for Vader's review. On the other hand, something in Vader's review popped into my head about five minutes in and I realized how it would end. Still glad I watched it though.
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Am I hallucinating or did you mention Bones McCoy starring in a noir in the last Twitch? I am a bit stoned and don't feel like digging up old Twitch.
Oh yeah! And what the fuck is up with the 6-hour-long, James Coburn-starring The Dain Curse miniseries??? I had never heard of it, so I asked a couple of folks who I thought would have seen it, but they'd never heard of it either. -
Invasion of the Body Snatchers the other night (the Philip Kaufman version). I do not ever get sick of that movie. Soooooo good. The ending is still fucked up no matter how many times I see it. And it makes me hate living in SF a tiny bit less. Also really like how at the beginning of the movie, everything Elizabeth is saying (and the way she is reacted to) sounds like an abused wife talking ("he's like a different person!") and trying to convince people of the danger she is in, while people either laugh it off or tell her she's crazy and send her "home to her boyfriend." I'm thinking that is a mark of the time it was made.
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I was going through job ads and there was one for a file clerk with the caveat: please don't be weird and quirky.
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Watch this, it'll change your feelings. http://tinyurl.com/mqvla5
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IG pulled in almost 40 million. But I was right about Shorts it got just 6 million, I was right about that.
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I can't believe HOD didn't say more about this since he saw it like back in 08 or something.
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was fucking great. I keep wanting to make people go see it. And I want to see it again.
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Where is everybody?
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But I'm surprised no one has wanted to discuss Avatar or anything else. Must be a busy weekend.
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You enjoyed it? Good! Though I'm curious as to what it was in my review (or maybe it wasn't mine) that helped you figure out the film.
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I definitely enjoyed it. And thanks for motivating me to see it! So nice to be watching what felt like a movie, rather than a painstakingly assembled EVENT.
[Possible SPOILER if anyone hasn't seen it] When I was watching it, at the beginning, I was thinking that the leads were acting really fake. Then I remembered that you had specifically praised their acting. I figured you know the difference....and then it dawned on me. Milla talking about the dead dog, though, was when I became certain. -
a criticism of your review. Just one of those things when a few thoughts click together.
I also liked how they used the "American Jedi" dude's crazy anecdotes as a source of suspicion. I have had a lot of crazy, disparate shit in my life, and I sometimes wonder if people just think I'm a liar. -
I tried to be as subtle as possible in my review. But I'm glad you enjoyed it! Its a fun flick.
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No apologies! After all, it was because of the review that I saw the movie. It only popped into my head because we've interacted on here and I know that you know what you're talking about.
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His stories just kept getting crazier and crazier and more unbelievable and suspicious as time went on.
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Even if you think you've figured something out, its still suspenseful bc you don't really *know* if you're right or not. I had actually considered the possibility, but then threw out the idea and latched onto another crazy conclusion.
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Have you seen The Hurt Locker yet?
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Of sustaining the tension after the big reveal. I got really nervous when the emergency crew showed up and it seemed like he was going to talk his way out of it. And then even MORE nervous when one of them called him out on it!
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C'mon baby make it hurt so good!
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There have been ZERO tv ads around here. I know it played bc pple I work for saw it (after I mentioned the movie to them), but I think it only played at one theater. Dunno if its still around. I'll have to search the dollar theater in the coming months. Still need to see UP too.
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Yeah I totally loved that scene with the emergency crew and the "crazy eyes". I thought he was going to talk his way out too; I got nervous. But the crowd cheered when the other one came falling down in slow-motion from behind. That part was awesome.
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The Hurt Locker should be playing everywhere. I read that they were trying to go for a Slumdog Millionaire/Gran Torino type word of mouth kind of thing, with an expectation of doing a wide release closer to Oscar season. Don't know if that's changed, but I wish they'd hurry the fuck up. That movie deserves a wide release, far more than most.
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someone said, "Oh. The movie's smart? Well, I guess people won't want to see it then. Let's do a limited release." And if that's the case....What a bunch of fucking SNOBS.
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Aug 23, 2009 6:10:08 PM CDT
Yeah, like they're relying on young people to spread the word
by d.vader
Well, that ONLY works if you ADVERTISE TO THE FUCKING YOUNG PEOPLE!!! Really, I'm annoyed that I haven't seen one commercial. And I watch a lot of damn tv.
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I didn't know that there was no tv advertising. What a fucking shame. The movie is tense from beginning to end. And the end is perfect.
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I think the budget was around 10 million. Surely somebody's got some money to throw behind this movie.
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I was hoping for another private screening like I've gotten in the past couple of weeks. But there were about 10 other people...and they were all fucking old. I was like how did they hear about this? It was such an awesome movie. Also what I love about it is the fact that they didn't throw in a "Welcome to the Hurt Locker" line, like they do for all military flicks. "We've got a Black Hawk Down." "This is Apocolypse Now." "Welcome to Charlie Wilson's War." "This is a Bridge Over The River Kiwi.""We walk the thin red line.""PLLLAAATTTTOOOONNNNN!!!!""Put on your Full Metal Jacket.""We are going to Saving Private Ryan." Sort of thing.
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In the war movies you mentioned (especially "This is Apocalypse Now", I don't think they even use the work "apocalypse" in any of the dialogue).
Plus, before Xiphos shows up, let me just say that Full Metal Jacket refers to a type of ammunition and not a metal jacket. They do say that line though (Vincent D'Onofrio describes his ammunition when he is loading his rifle when he is in the bathroom in his undies, right before he kills the Gunnery Sergeant and commits suicide). -
To nice of day to be inside trying to type anyways.
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As a kid I used to think that referred to a soldier who died in combat, his body riddled with bullets and thus he was wearing a "full metal jacket".
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instantly made me think of tom hanks and co. linked at the elbows, skipping and singing that line a la The Wizard of Oz.
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is a busby berkeley style synchronized dance extravaganza, wherein Matt Damon emerges, dazzles everyone with his teeth and sings a song about his mother.
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Fucking nails the link between trauma and addiction. Or intensity and addiction (anything really fucking intense can be viewed as traumatic, I think, regardless of whether it is experienced as negative). SPOILERS! The kitchen scene, where his wife just doesn't want to hear about it. Perfect. Sure it's tough or maybe impossible to really understand something without having been through it, but more importantly, people who haven't don't even WANT to understand. And the scene at the grocery store? Perfectly captures how regular, banal life can seem pretty fucking unbearable when you are used to having intensity all the time.
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Matt Damon opens wide and sings... "MAAAAAT DAMON!"
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When Hanks was singing about "going saving", it was to the tune of the Internationale (I know, that makes no sense, but it is catchy and it's what popped into my head), a kind of pepped up version of it. But ever since then, a drearier version of lots of people singing the actual song, like the kind they always play over Soviet Union montages in documentaries (not the triumphant-sounding version that plays over labor protest montages), has been fucking looping through my head! I think I'm rid of it, but it just creeps back in...
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I'm positive all those lines are in the movie. I had my team over at IMDB run a check before I put anything in print down. Don't want to be seen as a liar now do I? Found some more: "Fire The Guns of Navarone." "We together are a Band Of Brothers.""I am the Braveheart.""Hitler has become Downfallen.""Over there is Das Boot!""We are all on the Paths To Glory.""That is a Bridge To Far.""Here, these are the Letters From Iwo Jima.""Tora!Tora!Tora I made you out of clay.""Welcome, to another edition of Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome!" There are probably a lot more out there, but you know what I mean.
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I got a buddy that went to somewhere in the Middle East. And toward the end of his first tour he joined the bomb defusing team, because he was bored. When he came back he signed up to become a office. I think he likes it? But he doesn't find REAL life Banal and what not, he isn't Mr. Serious gung HO HOOAH marines. I think he is just good at it. I didn't like the grocery scene, while its one of the better scenes like that. I hate the "YOU JUST DON'T KNOW WHAT ITS LIKE MAN!" crap. But I wanted him to turn out to be just a regular guy. Like one of my favorite scene ever is in Three Kings when Cloondawg is talking up the guys to going on the adventure with him and he says something like "I mean do you want to go back to your day jobs?" It then shows the three guys day jobs. I love that scene I wish they had shown what Cloondawgs was, but I'm not sure if he was a weekend warrior or not. I keep meaning to watch that movie again. I see Cloondawg and I'm like GOD i fucking hate him, what has he done outside of Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, Peacemaker and Batman and Robin that is worth a damn...then I remember Three Kings. Pretty much the highlight for all three of those guys. Luckily Spike Jones has gone on to better things. But Ice Cube and Marky Mark really haven't. And Cloondawg still may make a good movie again.
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Its not in Net Flixs? damnit.
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You guys know where they filmed that, that is just were I was for my honeymoon right? Sorry I just saw a trailer for it and I am putting honeymoon pictures on my facebook right now. And I saw some places that match up with the trailer. Also I'd never seen that trailer before, its longer and its got some NIN in it. Like whenever trailer makers get to use NIN song's they are like...OK so this is going to be easy as shit to make now. Because they always look so fucking bad ass.
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this is fucking winter.
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How's that then chipps?
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This isn't going to be anywhere near as enjoyable without him.
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It's humid and horrible here today
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Drop me a line.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! In the pub last night, the landlord gave an Aussie mate of mine the contents of an ashtray in a pint glass and told him "that's a close as you lot are getting to them".
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I agree. He understands Grindhouse because he's a talentless douchebag and most grindhouse was made by talentless douchebags.
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that would be crossing a line.so it's hot in london is it? did it peak over 28?
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there was no beer in the glass. That would be a disgraceful waste. And he did stand a pint as well in commiseration.
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that's it over with for another 2 years.
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The Octagon - er, not as memorable as I made it out to be in my mind. As a kid, I seemed to like it, but I think it was just the very end I remembered. Not all the awful shit that came before it. I'm pretty sure Van Cleef was already four years dead when they filmed his part.Rob Roy - I had never seen the whole movie, but it's a solid effort. Roth particularly seemed to have a fun time in his role.Changeling (Eastwood's, to deter any confusion) - great movie. I thought all the performances were solid, with Jolie remembering that she can in fact act. The story gave me goosebumps. The shit that the LA police did, what she went through, and what that dude and boy did....fuck.
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bout fucking time.
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in the bottom of the ninth...2 guys on, no out...what happens? Unassisted triple play to end the game.You can't make this shit up.
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I can't stand that film. Aside from Roth and Hurt, who are entertaining. Lange in particular was awful.
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Fucking delicious.
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This is also fucking tasty too.
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Simply the best. Which is why I can barely type today.
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I'm tired of that beer. Its fine and all, but I hate everyone (in America lets say) who talk about HOW great it is. When most of them have probably only had it in a can or bottle. I prefer Carlsburg or Quad X or Tennants if I'm in the motherland.
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One of these days I've got to make my way over to England.
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That's quite uncalled for. You can say "fuck bud" or "fuck miller".
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I'm glad you can appreciate the magnificence of the flying dog! 11.5 % baby!That shit will kill you, bury you, and say a prayer over your grave!
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Its just the ass holes that act like its the end all of beers. Pretty much anyone who acts like their beer is the end all of beers. I mean my all time favorite beer is a Belgium beer called Judas...good luck finding it though.
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I mean you can get Microbrews everywhere. They got something called primium beer and you can get it in like 5%, 8%, 10%, 12% or something like that. And you can buy it in a grocery store in these big ass bottles. Canada was fucking awesome for beer drinking. In Hawaii its all about the Longboard. I drank tons of that on my honeymoon. Also on the cap it gives you Hawaiian words to english!
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Finally sealed the deal with The 5th Element.....guess that means at least 5 more Resident Evil movies.
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Is deadpan. I was gonna watch it last night, but my cable box would not connect to the phone.
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AND you actually think dogs can fly!
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It's probably a longshot, but I'll check out my local package store and see if they carry it.
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I don't even know if they make it any more. Any ever get the Monty Python beer?
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but for whatever reason, I didn't try it. And I don't know anyone who ever has had Monty Python beer.
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Was pretty good actually. They were at the world beer festival as well.
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Gets Criteron?
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Why? Sometimes I don't understand? I guess the first one became a hit on VHS or something.
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Dogs CAN fly!
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and they say "drink more!"
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I liked Hooligans, but sheesh...a sequel that takes place in prison?
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Cause I thought I was the only one who heard the talking dog urging me to drink more!
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he wouldn't lie to us.
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Drink more
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The regular. Every since I went to Munich, once in a while I buy a six pack. I have an awesome glass I nicked from the hotel we stayed at in Munich with the Weihenstephaner logo.
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Munich: It was announced today that the officers of the Munich police force have been investigating the mysterious disappearance of a priceless relic that was on display from one of Munich's most prestigious hotels. The object, an ancient beer mug that was owned by the Weihenstephaner brewery. The only lead police have is a sketchy portrait of a drunken, and possibly disturbed American who was staying at the famed hotel at the time of then incident and was overheard saying 'The talking flying dog told me to drink more beer!'. It was also reported that a large amount of pillows were also stolen from the famed hotel. No link has been established between the two thefts though.
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However, as a precautionary measure, my dog will represent me as my lawyer.
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Says that they would raise the reputation of lawyers to unacceptable levels.
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since dogs are allowed everywhere there. Wait..hold on..what's that boy? Okay...My dog promises to mark his territory on the judge's seat to help keep down the reputation level.
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Aug 24, 2009 2:14:30 PM CDT
Dog pissing on judges chair is upgrade to what most lawyers do
by toadkillerdog
Munich will not be allowed any special exemptions this time.
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My dog doesn't think I will, and I still have more flying dog to drink in the fridge. It's settled, I'm staying put.
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On Pillows incident. Sites national treasure being stolen.
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It was a Christmas gift last year. I don't drink, so it's a novelty item for me. It has never spoken to me, that I recall.
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Proper authorities have been alerted and dispatched.
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complain when it's too hot, complain when it's too cold.still they have the ashes. jarv must almost be disappointed. he dosn't get to complain about them loosing.
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Don't drink? What the WTF? Are you a mormon?
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Mormons want to know
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Aug 24, 2009 4:27:04 PM CDT
Australia launches inquiry: Do the British whine too much?
by toadkillerdog
Canberra: A probe was launched today by authorities into whether or not all residents of the British Isles are whiners and wankers. Said probe was initiated at the behest of one Mr. [First name unpronounceable] Chipps.
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I was too hot before. Now I'm too cold.
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Rabbits rejoice that their nemesis is no more.
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Worship Thighs Forever!
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Typographical errors get in way of ha-ha. Rabbits still rejoice at the demise of their arch-nemesis.
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wouldn't know what to do with a big hairy wolf. Them rabbitsies singing and dancing in the streets of Watership Down be counting their hatches afore they've bin chickened!
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Aug 24, 2009 4:53:44 PM CDT
Hirsute, little people hating Wolf threatens innocent bunnies
by toadkillerdog
Little people and rabbits mobilize and protest the outrageous remarks made by 'herr-wolf'.
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as an "innocent bunny". It's all an act. Neil Marshall had the right idea in Doomsday. Splat!
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"When the mountain turns blue it's cold enough to drink."Bollocks. Them bottles have been in the fridge 2 days and the mountains still hasn't turned blue. White mountains on every one of 'em! Bah!
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Hee hee
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Fred likes the running commentary
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Too much for this humble reporter, must take leave now before the flying talking dog comes back. Goodbye for now
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Sorry can't hang arounf WTF stands for: Where the food?
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How goes it?WTF = Wild Toad Fellates.
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Your nads are in a can next time buddy!
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But otherwise everything is A-OK
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it's only what I've heard, don't shoot the messenger!
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Nowt wrong with Nowhere.Nowhere's kind of peaceful this time of year.
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Aug 24, 2009 5:20:52 PM CDT
Therewolf, Fred can give advice if you are parted from your jewe
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
In a forcible manner. Hee hee
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That is.
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Aug 24, 2009 5:25:04 PM CDT
Have you seen District 9, or GI Joe or Inglorious Basterds?
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
Fred saw D9 and GI Joe. Fred really enjoyed D9. Thought it was quite entertaining and had really good CGI. GI JOE was better than Fred expected, but still a mindless popcorn movie - but Fred not complaining, it served purpose.
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I never mess with those. They're like man-traps, subject lines, just waiting for the unsuspecting verbose poster...
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D9 isn't out yet over here. Am going soon as it is. GI Joe, I'm not bothered about.Basterds... don't know what to make of it. Don't mind a bit of Tarantino but so far have not managed to talk meself into going.
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You seen Moon, Fred? That's a top little flick.
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Fred would like to see both.
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I'm A Cyborg But That's Okay.I'm very perplexed.
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Was good. The Hurt Locker was great. Ponyo was ok.
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Conti, D.Vader and any other pro's reading this, check out the Karate Kid tb at AIBN. A little outing you might like to come along for..
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No,I'm not a Mormon. I just don't like the taste of alcohol.
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Confesses 'alcohol doesn't move me at all'
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Check your archives for the "Purple Passion" story. Alcohol almost got the moves put on me. It was a definite tabloid story.
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Lapsed Methodist prefers Toadkiller Musk to Booze. Places classified ad for specially-trained musk moonshiner.
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Aug 24, 2009 10:31:05 PM CDT
Sweat glands of the rare Toadkiller hot black market item
by toadkillerdog
Lapsed religios at top of list for acquiring the rare item
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Toadkiller musk is acquired through voluntary donations. No Toadkillers are harmed through this method of obtaining, unless they request it.
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After plying the unsuspecting Toadkiller with spirits or hymo-tizin him, she will get him to 'voluntarily' donate his precious bodily fluids.
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But says 'I shall of course await the pleasure of the Chang woman, and will be her obedient servant in all matters, and I trust she will have finished her play time with the amphibious sort'
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TKD and Lord Byron learn to enjoy team sports.
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And on that note, Toadkiller going to bed! G'night Mavs, sweet Toad dreams
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Watch your neck. Mmmmmm!
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Damn I was going to watch it tonight. But I don't have it DVR'd. Gonna watch Bugsy instead.
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My suggestion to help you overcome the trauma Series is to drink more.
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Cant buy alcohol. Bugsy isn't that good.
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It was on AMC yesterday I saw the very end. I guess it was my old DVR that had it. They guy who Ray Liotta's role is based on, was on the morning radio show I listen to and he was drunk as shit and it was funny as hell. Made me realize I need to see that shit.
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It seems like one of those movies from the 70s.
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Goodfellas is on AMC tomorrow....but that breaks my cardinal Series7 rule, don't watch movies on AMC. I don't think i would really see Goodfellas if I saw it with all the cuss words BLEEPED out.
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Its getting better toward the end. Looks like Gangs of New York will be showing towards the end of next month on IFC. So I'll catch that.
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Watching Avatar trailer for the 30th time. I imagine Continentalop doing the same thing with the Shutter Island trailer.
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I've seen the trailer twice and that is all I want to see of it. I like to try and go into a movie knowing as little as possible.
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Tastes like piss. Bitter, much Chipps?
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I watched the Ashes highlights. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Then I ruined it by watching The Spirit which is even shitter than I'd been lead to believe, and Mrs. Jarv got her way with How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days. Which is even worse than The Spirit.
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I'm not a big fan of Bugsy.
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I'm not sure why. It just seemed like a big bloated mess to me.
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I've thought about this, and the reason it is so dreadful is it didn't know what it wanted to be. It desperately tried to be hard-boiled, but missed by so fucking far. This is, obviously, ignoring the dismal writing and acting in it. Offensively bad.
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Part of the blame has to go with St. Martin of Scrosese, but another big part of the blame has to go with the Weinstiens who kept pushing him and forcing him to make it more commercial. I heard they were the ones to get Leo cast as the lead (which Marty probably know likes) and Cameron Diaz. They also told him to cut down the racist implications (if you ever read the book Gangs of New York you'll find out how racist the Draft Riot in NY was).
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That is 30 more minutes than I ever wanted too.
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I still think it is a bad movie, but the scene where we see the woman's POV when she has her head knocked off, it suddenly occurred to me the other day - it was a homage to Sam Fuller's THE NAKE KISS.
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as well, not to mention that the Spirit himself just seemed to be a bit of a prick.
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Funny though- I didn't know that was a homage. Not as dumb as I first thought.
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Yep, Bones is in a film noir. FEAR IN THE NIGHT based on a Cornell Woolrich story (actually credited to his pseudonym William Irish). It is from the late 40s and ultra low-budget, but the good news is that it is public domain. Here is a link:
http://tinyurl.com/l6ogjt
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complete waste of time. Stunt casting.
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It is a very similar shot. Maybe the guy thought of it on his own, but I think I would respect him more if he got it from Sam Fuller (and then added the head flying off part).
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Congrats, Jarv. You bastard. Boy did I not want to come back from holiday. But you fuckers deserved it. I can't think of a south african team that has played better cricket. But in the end, you blokes deserved it more than us. So well done. Cunt.
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Aug 25, 2009 4:12:17 AM CDT
For a guy who rails against the big companies "raping" character
by continentalop
Miller sure fucking deviated from any Spirit I know. I've got almost every Archive they have put out of them, and his Spirit sure as hell isn't Eisner's.
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Only bearable because of Day-Lewis. I think that guys my favorite actor.
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One of the worst movies ever made. Fact.
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Watched it three times, which is three more than I wanted to, but i couldn't resist. Looks pretty amazing.
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Pointless. If it's not actually going to explain what the movie is, or even fucking hint at it, it's pointless. And isn't it still shooting? Di Caprio is still in London shooting it i thought. It's not out for a year. How about waiting a couple of months and get a full trailer and not a jumbled mess of images.
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I read the book back in the early nineties when I heard how Scorsese always wanted to make this as a movie. And I had been pumped as hell to see Scorsese's "Eastern", but man was that thing overall a mess.
My biggest problems were casting (especially Leo, but Cameron doesn't work either) and all this added story elements. Look, I love Scorsese, but I will be the first one to admit he is not good at doing a love story. That isn't his strength (and I know this is one of the elements that the Wiensteins pushed into the script; they actually brought in a bunch of script doctors to add more romance, the fat fucks). -
Aug 25, 2009 4:20:06 AM CDT
Has anyone seen Inglorious Basterds?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I'm interested to see what the general opinion is... I haven't seen it yet.
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I think the THEMES of GONY are still deeper and more adult than most of the academy award winners the last couple of years. Same with Eastwood's films. When people tell me that TDK was a deep, smart movie, all I can think is it is a guy in a bat costume.
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Aug 25, 2009 4:24:34 AM CDT
"he is not good at doing a love story."
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I beg to differ. The Age of Innocence is a brilliant flick.
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And that was a love forbidden. Scorsese is always best when doing stories about how men and women can't relate (TAXI DRIVER, RAGING BULL, GOODFELLAS, CASINO, etc).
AGE OF INNOCENCE was the one exception, and even that had to be the story of two people kept apart by social norms. DDL is to beholden to his peer group to actually seek out true happiness; he sacrifices love for status and peer pressure (which is why I like that film).
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he can't make a "traditional" love story.
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Scorsese could never do TITANIC.
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South Africans? Leave it out. Prior and Strauss are both English and Trott and KP have English parentage. Broad (who you slagged off all summer), the man that destroyed your pathetic resistance at the Oval is as English as fish and Chips, perennial drizzle and overwhelming disappointment.Having said that, I'm stunned. And amazed. Up until Broad ripped you apart, I still had you lot to win. Michell Johnson, Ravi Bopara, Phil Hughes were all useless bags of shit, but it's a bit unfair to single them out from 2 sides that weren't exactly stellar.
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is indeed woeful. It's actually so poor that I can't be arsed to rip it to pieces (no matter how much it deserves it)
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Hmmm, well, hard to disagree with that.
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big thanks to the Australian selectors for basically getting it wrong in 3 tests.
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Aug 25, 2009 5:18:41 AM CDT
I didn't see any of the last test
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
But as far as I know we made a HUGE mistake by not playing Hauritz because of the pitch. When I saw the score at 0-80 I still believed we were going to chase down that 2nd innings total. But alas, it was not to be. Broad still fucking sucks.
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Aug 25, 2009 5:20:22 AM CDT
I've figured out who Broad reminds me of....
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Julian Clary.
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he was fucking awesome in that match. Ripped you apart when you were coasting. Best performance from any bowler in the series- not to mention that he's got the best average from any bowler and a decent batting average. Unlike Michell "shithouse pie chucker" Johnson- the bestest player in the world (TM), or Phil "Wunderkid dropped after 2 tests for being shit" Hughes. But, yes, playing Clark of Hauritz was stupid.
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Strauss, Katich, Ponting, Clarke, North, Prior, Broad, Swann, Flintoff, Siddle, Hilfy. Honourable mention to Haddin, Watson, Onions. Combined failure Ashes side: Hughes, Cook, Bopara, Bell, Collingwood, Manou (bit harsh), Johnson, Anderson, Clark, Panesar, Harmless
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playing 1 test. Panesar gets in despite his batting for his utterly shithouse bowling. If we take this side to SA we're going to get totalled.
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Aug 25, 2009 5:37:28 AM CDT
aaaah... the good ol' english grace upon victory
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Thanks for confirming you have zero tact and are basically a slobbering halfwit getting by on involuntary reflex responses. But not to worry, I only have to wait another year and a half until we play another "forgotton" 5-0 whitewash down under.
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Granted he only played two (or three?) tests, but he was a failure in those. As big a failure as Hughes anyway. Hilarious failure award of the series is a tie between Bopara and Sherminator. Thank fuck Bopara got outed as the mediocre batsmen he is. This humiliation will do him good though. If he has the mental toughness to come back that is. Shermi on the other hand will play the rest of his career in county cricket. If he doesn't the ECB have rocks for in their heads.
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I've been very gracious in victory. If you look, in the failure side I've included more English than Australian players, and in the combined side more Aussies than English. I know centuries of inbreeding has made you dumb, but please do try to pay attention.
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Aug 25, 2009 5:48:04 AM CDT
The biggest thing about this series is...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
the way so many highly rated players got found out. Bopara, Hughes, Johnson. Guys with HUGE wraps failing dismally. Good to see Hilfy come out of nowhere and do well. And Hauritz did well too. Okay, Broad ENDED UP playing a good test or two. But the first three were dismal at best. I'm not sure about Siddle yet. I would've really liked Brett Lee in the side. And despite his century in the second innings, Mr Cricket has got to go.
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Aug 25, 2009 5:49:23 AM CDT
I was referring to your Au Contraire post
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Numbnuts.
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I would have the biggest failure as Johnson. I don't think I've ever seen a reputation as punctured as that in as short a time. He's basically an Australian Harmison (except with a worse action). I wondered at the time if Hughes partially got dropped to cover for Johnson's failures.Sherminator hit a disastrous 72 (when a century was fucking begging) which his idiot apologists will use to justify his fuck ups. Bopara will be back better for the mauling, and Hughes will probably be back. He was just far too inexperienced. KP hit more than Hughes and was injured in the second test (which he shouldn't have played), but is proven world class so will be back.
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yes, he was piss poor. Broad got better with every game. From being a good batsman and a shit bowler in Cardiff and Lords he was lethal from the second innings in Edgbasten onwards. 12 of his wickets came in 3 innings including 2 five-fors. The spell at the Oval was unplayable. Worst thing of the lot though- umpiring. it was uniformly shit for both sides. The luck did even out, eventually, but only because of so many crap calls. Koetzen and Rauf should both be shot and I'm unconvinced by Bowden.
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I think on balance England had a slightly better bowling side. However, really, Anderson was pointless in 3 of the tests (being nice with that one), Flintoff was pointless outside Lords, Harmison was pretty crap as well. Australia's bowling was usually pretty rubbish, props to Hilfenhaus who came from nowhere, and to siddle for managing to cover up a lot of Johnson's failings. Hauritz is never a test spinner.However, individuals in the England side did put in better performances when it mattered. For example, if the positions at Cardiff had been reversed, England would have got your number 10 and 11.
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Koertzen should get Daryl Hare'd for what he did at Lords. Not to mention all the other fuck ups he made. No matter which what the bad decisions go, i fucking hate it when an umpire impacts the result (or potential result) of a game through mistakes. One of Broads 5-fors came from the tail in our innings of the 4th test. Does not count. Cheap wickets. He was getting battered by Stuart Clark for fucks sake.
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and bowled well. He improved over the series and will get better. He was the only bowler on both sides to twig that bowling line and length cutters on that oval pitch would be the way forward. Deserves some props. He fucking needed it as well, because he was only in the side for his fucking batting. England's lower order kept having to prop up the (aside from Strauss) failures of the middle and top order. Prior, Broad, Swann scored a shit load of runs this series for tail enders.
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Aug 25, 2009 6:03:31 AM CDT
If Cardiff had been reversed...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
you would've got our 10 and 11 because you would've bowled bowlers who can intimidate tailenders. North was fucking bowling for fucks sake. Ricky made a number of mistakes throughout this series and should probably consider stepping down so Clarke can take the reigns.
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That's a lot. Point I was making was that you didn't win the key sessions- whereas England did. I would also "Hare" Rauf for that oval performance. Strauss was given out when Hilfy was about 2 feet over the fucking line, then he refused to give an LBW to your openers when both were fucking plumb untold times. To make up for it, though, he gave Clark out caught when he was about a foot from the fucking ball. It was shocking. Ponting is still a great batsman and I don't think he can step down, because I always thought you lot pensioned off captains. I'm not as worried about a 5-0 annihalation next time. You lot aren't anywhere near as good and some players, like North, are obvious stop gaps (as well as North played). There's a lot of rebuilding to be done with both sides. England need to do something about Cook, Whoever goes in to Number 3, Trott should replace colly, Prior is set, Broad replaces Flintoff, Swann is set with Rashid coming through, and the other bowlers need a kicking- hopefully Jones comes back, if not we may have to look at the likes of Plunkett and Mahmood again (shit). Australia need to do something about the openers. Send Hughes off to learn his game properly, Katich is old but go with him and Jacques opening, Hussey needs replacing, Watson plays at 6 but needs to do something about his bowling, the spin needs looking at seriously- and you can't get away with just 4 bowlers any more. Interesting times. England will get thrashed by SA, no doubts at all. I don't expect to see the same England side line up in the next Ashes.
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I saw "I know how many runs you scored last summer" and it's not very good.
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We had that many balls at them and North occupied one end. Unforgivable. Where to send Hughes? You can't send him to county cricket because as Hughes, Bell, Harmy, et al confirm, County Cricket is miles below the standards of international cricket. I would give him a couple of years in Australian state cricket. My preferred team would be. Katich and Jacques (?) to open. Ricky at 3. Drop Hussey. Clarke to 4. North to 5. Watson to 6. Haddin 7. Johnson at 8. Lee at 9. Find a fucking spinner for 10. Hilfy at 11.
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Aug 25, 2009 6:40:48 AM CDT
Look at this same team with 2 changes...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Katich and Jacques (?) to open. Ricky at 3. Drop Hussey. Clarke to 4. North to 5. Watson to 6. Haddin 7. Johnson at 8. Lee at 9. Warne 10. McGrath at 11. HUGE fucking difference.
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Aug 25, 2009 6:46:51 AM CDT
I know how many runs you scored last summer"
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Not very good? Well that sucks. The only thing I've seen recently that I can think of is Last House on the Left, which was quite shit. That rape scene goes on WWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYY too fucking long. And if it wasn't for Goldwyn I think I might have hated it.
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isn't that meant to be good? Not county.
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Your middle order is basically good/ great. It will be interesting also to see how India do with 5 world class retirees coming up.
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fucking awful. Unpleasant TP dreck. I know has the most gratuitous shower scene ever. They body doubled the female lead for Miss Australian Hustler. It's soft porn.
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Should be Strauss, Moore, Cook(He's scored a lot and will come back), KP, Trott, Prior, Broad, Rashid, Swann, Anderson, A.N.Other (possibly Onions or Mahmood). That's a solid, albeit unthreatening lineup, with some good variety in the bowling that bats down to 10. Bopara as an alternative, but if Moore fucks up there's also Denley and a few others around that look tasty. A solid, but not world beating side. The 2 best sides in the world at the moment have to be Sri Lanka and SA. India are 3rd and fading and Australia and England are 4th and 5th in that order a long way behind.
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Aug 25, 2009 7:13:45 AM CDT
Shield cricket is state cricket is Australia
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
It's probably the best 1st class comp in the world. But to be honest I don't know much about the 1st class comps except for australia and england. SA must be pretty good.
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It made me quite uncomfortable watching it. And it wasn't just the content (although that was disturbing). It was the way the camera lingered on the females. As you mentioned, in the shower scene, but the rape scene. Ugh. The more I think about it the more I dislike it. The perfect way to watch LHOTL is to watch the trailer. It goes for about 3 1/2 minutes, has a creepy version of Sweet Child o' Mine on it and really does show the entire film. It's like the extra on Freddy Got Fingered, with the film edited for a PG rating. It goes for about 3 minutes.
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because of quotas. I'm with you though. I don't know a lot beyond England.
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that's the best way to describe it. Nasty.
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by the way
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didn't really get into it. i know everyone seems to like it, but not me.
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I thought consensus of it was that it's TP?
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Hahahahah that was great. I love that film. I wish Tom Green made more stuff, his shit is the best. I love the insert for the film which has all the bad reviews for it and then the one good one which just happened to be from like the NY times or some big paper.
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LHOTL was good. I'd worry about the person that did. Just like I worry about people who like Hostel and Saw.
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I really don't see why is should have gotten best Art Direction Oscar, or best custom. I'm sick of period pieces getting BEST CUSTOM. Like Revolutionary Road was nominated for it...really? Is it that hard to find some old dresses and suits? So was Milk, but at least in Milk they had to do cheesy 70's suits, and t-shirts and shorts. But at the same time, there are fucking pictures of those characters in those same suits...shit like all of last years Oscars for Best Achievement in Costume Design were for period pieces: The Duchess(WIN), Australia, Milk, Rev Road, Ben Button. The one place I feel like TDK should have at least been nominated, or fucking Iron Man which made $300 based on a custom. I mean compare how much time is spent on making customs for TDK, Hellboy and Ironman to that spent on Milk.
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Saw one is a good movie. I like the Saw franchise, though 3 and 4 kind of sucked. 5 brought it back around. 3 had the most brutal killings. That twist in Saw one is just great.
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How imaginitive etc. It can be very hard getting costume right for a period piece.
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Irreversible, which is the GOLD standard in rape scenes.
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1 is OK, 2 is also OK. Beyond that they're shit. Hostel is unforgivably wank.
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And Rev Road and Bugsy have you seen them? 90% of the time they are wearing suits. And unless you go out and get fancy designer suits, suits pretty much haven't changed that much in the past 100 years. All they had to do for Milk is patch on some elbow pads, and they weren't even survivor elbow pads at that.
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difficult to compare as I haven't seen irreversible in years. But Droid is right, there's a very nasty gratuitous mastabatory feel to it. Not like Straw Dogs either.
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Fist off the gore is just bad and cheesy, its like a bad Troma film. Saw 5 was pretty good if you haven't seen it. Its a lot like number 2 and the TWIST is better then 3 and 4. Saw 1-5 are much better then say Jason 1-5
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But i already did before I knew you liked Saw! hehe
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That Nic Cage drunk movie. Ok favorite rape scene go!
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Suits are cut differently and shit comes in and goes out of fashion. It's more getting the detail of the costume period appropriate that is hard. If that's all they did for Milk, then that's shit.
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Never seen it. Straw Dogs I have seen though. Ugh.
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the rest? Not so much. Saw 3 and 4 were such horseshit that I couldn't bring my self to watch 5.
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I could understand if I said I like saw 3 a lot, where its just to showcase fucked up killings. Saw 1 doesn't wallow in the murders. Its a good solid horror movie with an amazing twist. The Collector is another good movie. I blame Hostal for the whole TP label. Because Hostal sucked and there was gratitous nudity so critics just tried to put two and two together with that label. Ruining for good horror films like The Collector.
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That had a brutal rape scene. But the huge difference was that it was brutal and sickening, not brutal, sickening and voyeuristic. Was it The Accused?
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But 3 did have some of the most gut wrentching stuff in it, but it really was only like a 20 minutes movie. Saw 4 makes no fucking sense and the kills are lame. I really didn't want to see Saw 5 I didn't even see it in theater (first one I didn't) but to my surprise it was pretty good.
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is that the film only really exists for the rape scene. There is absolutely no need to watch that film at all, and if you fast-forward the nauseatingly long rape scene then it's just short rubbish. Bad Lieutenant has a fucking horrid rape scene, and obviously The Accused.
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The Accused!
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Rape scene. Poultryguist, raped by giant mutant chicken.
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Albeit it did have a decent twist. But what I hate is the fact that there is now... what... 6 flicks in the series, and the point of each flick is to "one-up" the last flick's death scenes. That's not a movie IMO. Not one I'd want to see anyway. Theres too much shit I haven't seen for me to waste my time on Saw.
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Aug 25, 2009 8:48:31 AM CDT
Deliverence was a particlurly nasty one
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
And American History X.
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no, it's a totally appropriate label. Pornography doesn't necessarily have to be sexual. I'm just going to find the OED definition.
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Don't support shit like saw. Then you get j-horror remake numer 100. Next to Saw, The Unborn and The Collector (which may as well be a Saw spin off) horror is just filled with remakes, reboots, send offs (The Devils Rejects) and Troma. That or you get big budget horror movies that suck like Where the Truth Lies, 1408 and Shutter Island.
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Aug 25, 2009 8:50:03 AM CDT
The sound of that kids teeth scraping on the gutter...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
in American History X is one of the most horrifying sounds I've ever heard. It gives me the willys.
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Hostel and that movie no one saw Captivity. Where at least Saw had some sort of plot, Hostal just exsits to Tortoure. Had Hostal never got made that pharse wouldn't have happened.
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isn't actually that bad and it is a hell of a twist. Ditto Saw 2.It's from 3 onwards where they just seem to up the nastyness without adding anything else. I agree with Droid
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Aug 25, 2009 8:52:00 AM CDT
I'm not really a big fan of horror anyway...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
but I'd prefer to see something like Shutter Island than Saw or Hostel.
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That was a pretty effective horror flick. I do "enjoy" flicks like that.
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Bring it back to its routes. Its not 3/4 flash back movie like 3 and 4. Its a lot like 2 though, a group of people trapped in a building. Also for as conveluted as it is, I give it up to Saw for having follow through from film to film. Unlike horror movies from the 80s where each one was a new film.
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I only saw the orginal version which really wasn't very gory. Just boring.
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Porn= "obscene writings, drawings, photographs, or the like, esp. those having little or no artistic merit." It doesn't have to be sexual. I'm certain the term was around before Hostel, just the high profile of Roth's garbage saw it elevated. I'm pretty certain it was coined to describe unspeakable filth like August Underground or Guinea Pig. My dislike of them is that they aren't Horror films. They aren't scary. They just either induce a squirm reaction or in some sad cases a hard on. Look at it like this- if you remove the masturbating with the crucifix etc from the Exorcist would it still be interesting/ frightening? I think it would. However, if you remove the torture from Hostel, is there anything left? I think not. As for endless J-Horror, I disagree with that as well. Horror is, more than most genres, cyclical. They find something profitable and mine it into the floor. Then move on to the next fad. J-Horror is gone, now it's drecky remakes of Classic Horror or TP. They'll be gone soon for, I don't know, fucking ghosts or something.
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it was coined by Edelstein for Hostel, but he notes earlier films that qualify.
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The mist was good. Horror doesn't have to be Torture based.
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repellent rape scene.
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I'm presuming japanese horror. Which is shit. Well, the remakes are. But I've only seen one or two japanese horrors and i didn't think much of them.
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snowman rapes woman in shower. Unfunny and nasty.
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J-Horror= remake of or original Japanese Horror. I always thought it was down to the aesthetic in those films, but yes, they do tend to the shit.
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There's a torture scene in that shitty Michael Keaton kiddy flick? Damn. Must've missed that part.
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The scene where Arnie rapes Sinbad then steals the toy to give to his kid!!!! Brutal scene!
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no. Although it would have improved it to see Keaton cornholed by a snowman.
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Poor old Alvin.
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Till I see it, because I know Continentalop's already got a reason to put it in his top ten for next year. But shit like 1408 and Gothika just don't work. Ever since The Haunting where studios thought more money into horror films was a good thing.
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That there's nothing scary about those films. See the Collector was actually scary. Another movie thats scary without showing anything gorss or violent is Joshua. But thats pretty much a Omen remake.
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dreadful. Suffers from being far too stupid and obvious. Mrs. Jarv likes 1408.
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You know that rape seen I think is Shannon Elizabeth.
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Is one of Series7 worst movies ever.
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Denzel raped in one of the 10 best movies of all time. Richocet.
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Not to mention unbelievable. First and foremost, Halle Berry married to Charles Dutton? Yeah, right. But the fact that she was put into the prison that she worked at? Fuck off! Just a moronic flick that treated it's audience like they were morons.
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Pretty boring actually.
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I liked that a lot. That's more the type of thing I get into. If you can create atmosphere and tension etc without resorting to gore then you've got my respect.
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I watched that last night. Looks good, but nothing like I thought it would. I didn't think it was a period flick. The trailer was a bit too long though. And it said the release date is February 12. I thought it was November for fucks sake!
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worst, most cretinous twist ever. Crap.
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I rented it back in the day. Feel asleep 10 minutes in, woke up for the end. Decided just to return it instead ot try to watch it. Maybe I should check it out again.
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Never far from the truth. Even though its been a long time since he was in prison for knifing a guy. It was still bad ass enough to keep me from trying to get his autograph when I saw him at the airport.
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Takes place in 2011.
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exercise in mediocrity. The film lost me after he climbed out of the window but ended up in the room again. The end was crap.
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It's a slow film, to be sure. But I got into it and really liked it.
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but that it was fucking obvious.
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Aug 25, 2009 9:53:49 AM CDT
I can't even remember the end of 1408
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
And what was his problem? Was it that his daughter died or some shit like that? All i really remember is that Samuel Motherfucking Jackson is in it and it felt like it was three hours long!
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Hudson and McConoghy (spelling?) singing is far more scary than anything we've mentioned.
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I think SLJ was meant to be Satan or some such nonsense.
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horror flicks using ghostly little kids with nonsensical "messages" from about their killer or some shit.
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Is rainbows and lollypops compared to the McConaghey and Mr Ed paintball scene in Failure to Launch. Now thats a scary fucking movie.
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That Leo's wife is dead before the film starts. And he sees her ghost.
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seriously? what the fuck does he ever bring to a film? He just makes the most offensive crap ever time. To misquote family guy "Dazed and Confused was passable but everything else is just dreadful". And that goes for Hudson too.
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But Ghost of Girlfriends Past was fucking GOD awful. I saw it on the plane which made it bareable. I mean if your stuck being forced to watch a movie, best it be a movie where you don't have to think. Like ever cliche known to man about weddings was in that movie. There was a stretch of about 10 minutes where it was pretty funny, but outside of that it was just so god awful. I could recite and tell you what was going to happen before it happened like I'd seen the movie 100 times before. I probably would have hated it more if I knew more about it going into it. Like I thought it was made by probably the same people behind How to Lose and Failure, but no. It was written by the guys who wrote The Hangover and directed by the guy who did Mean Girls and Spiderwick Chronicles. They must have a bad drug habbit or something to have done that shit of a movie.
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Is good looking, so I can understand why girls would pine over him. But who likes Hudson? She's not gook looking. I guess thats why she is popular amoung girls because they can see movies with her in it and not be jealous.
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I thought you hated Fam Guy?
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Why is Almost Famous considered this amazing movie? Maybe I need to watch it again, but when I saw it I was just like....ok that was it? Except for the plane scene I don't even remember anything from it. Didn't stick with me like Vanilla Sky and Jerry Maguire.
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A blind squirrel finds a nut on some days.
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Your a closet Family Guy lover.
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which is dreadful and an atrocious bastardisation of the original. It's a meh film, nonetheless.
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Mrs. Jarv gets up to use the bathroom or is cooking dinner, when she leaves the room Jarv is flipping through channels comes across Family Guy. Stats laughing really loud, Mrs. Jarv yells "whats so funny?". Jarv fumbles around for the remote to try to change the channel real quick before she gets back, and Jarv plays it off like he was coughing. Or watching some old Benny Hill.
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I've seen Open Your Eyes, but I don't remember it. I think they were so close, but there is a big difference in the end or something.
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I find Stewie and Brian quite funny, but every time Peter, Chris or Lois are on screen I just turn it off. Especially Peter. His voice pisses me off and every joke with him in is unfunny and goes on for too long.
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Please. Only Americans like that.
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Uh Uh noooo. I was... I was just flipping channels and there was this funny thing on the news about our Prime Minister. JARV! Don't lie to me. No I swear, he was caught with a tranny in some woods or something like that. I could hear their voices coming through the wall! NO! NO! I swear is was just an old Cheers episode where Norm was drunk! I thought you said it was the news. Uh uh.... You know what I told you about watching Family Guy Jarv. No pudding for you.
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Found it to be okay, and I agree with droid totally on gore vs. tension/atmosphere. Much like how action movies are filmed now vs. back then. Choppy editing to hide the inability to film good action scenes vs. showing us what the fuck is going on. Same thing applies to horror type films for me. If you can raise the tension in the film by lighting/music etc, I find it much more intriguing than a simple gore flick. I always find those more silly than anything else.
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#2 pencil to the mouth.
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I think was done because action stars now can't fight. Watch Transporter 2, the editing isn't too crazy. Mainly because Jason Statham can fight. Where as Matt Damon can't punch his way out of a paper bag.
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on the Spirit DVD which I did laugh in. But I suspect that's one of those trailers with every funny moment from the film- so when you watch it it's fucking yonks of unfunny tedium with some the occasional laugh.
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but it also seems to be the "in" thing to do nowadays. Take the shitty War movie for instance. That had some shitty editing and look it was in it: Jet Li and Jason.
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no Greengrass did that on purpose because he's a cunt and wanted to give more "immediacy" whatever the fuck that means to the Bourne flicks.
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When I saw A Perfect Getaway I saw the three most generic movie trailers in a row EVER. Love Happens, sappy rom-com with Two Face and Jennifer Aniston. Sorority Row, a slasher flick a girl is killed then a year later people that know about it start dying (I know what you did last summer 5), with Bruce Willis ugly ass daughter. Couples Retreat, I think this is the sequel to Four Christmas, Ironman Director, Jason Bateman, that Asian guy who is in everything all of the sudden and one of the SITC girls and that Verionica Mars girl everyone likes (oh and Jean Reno???). Like they all look like if you looked up the definition of Rom-Com, Horror,Comedy these would be the generic fake trailers they would show you. Whats worse is that they are all directed by first time directors so we get to look forward to nothing from them. Also odd fact Couple Retreat is directed by the little kid from A Christmas Story? I guess the drugs didn't get him.
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Is probably one of the worst movies ever. Save for that random ass shot of that actress. Boring Ultimatium for fucking 3 Oscars. Two for editing........
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Four Christmases two, the director (the kid from A Christmas Story) was fucking in Four Christmases. Also fucking Four Christmases, fucking weak ass follow up to The King Of Kong from that guy. Same guys to the Nanny Diaries directing team.
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And apart from that ginormous steaming turd with Fancy Pants and Dunst about the shoes, I've liked or loved every Cameron Crowe flick. Say Anything is fucking genius.
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Just what did you like so much about it?
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I hate it more than pretty much anything on tv. Mostly because every cunt and his dog tries and fails to quote it. They end up just giggling to themselves. And Peter... yeah... he has an argument with this giant chicken... haha... yeah... and he fights it... yeah... haha... and it just keeps going and going... haha click KAMBOOM!
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Great performances, writing, music, and it actually felt like it knew what it was talking about. Which it did because it was autobiographical.
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makes me want to shoot a puppy.
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Its fucking centuries better then Two and A Half Men, How I meet your mother, The George Lopez show, The Jim Belushi Show, The Big Bang Theory, Surviving Suburbia, and Samatha Who.
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Aug 25, 2009 10:49:21 AM CDT
Bourne did not need "more urgency"
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
The first is so far more superior than the sequels it's ridiculous. Then again I hate the sequels. That editing style worked for United 93. But it failed miserably on the Bourne flicks.
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I've never watched a single one of those shows you mentioned. But I also don't get 18 wankers a day trying to quote me shitty moments from those shows either.
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I just made with some legos is better then all three Boring films combined. I fucking hate those movies. United 93 was pretty damn good though.
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what I don't like about it. It just goes on and on and on. Same for that gag where he fell over and holds his leg hissing through his teeth for about 5 mins.
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fuck no one I know ever watches TV. I don't know how TV is still in buisness save for Greys Anatomy. Like every office I work in I always wonder what the fuck these people do with their free time. Maybe its because they all got kids or something, but like they never know anything about film or tv....wait they watch football all the fucking time. Like these people don't even know about American Idol. I always seem to end up in places where no one gives a fuck about film and TV. So the only place I run into people talking about Fam Guy is at the comic shop, and by then I'm so desperate for people to talk with about TV I enjoy it.
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And the holding his knee are like 5 jokes in the whole show. The knee joke was done twice in one episode then Lousie did it recently with her boob. The chicken thing has only been done like 2-3 times. The chicken thing I don't care for but the holding the knee joke was funny.
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I think I've told that story about those film trailers at least 3 times now and every time I've failed to get a single response. Maybe its because no ones even heard of those films. But still, not even a "never heard of those films" comment was ever made.
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Never heard of those films.
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thank you.
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And now, I'm outta here. Later chaps. Take it easy.
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Is that I went into it expecting it to suck balls and just be a pussy version of The Simpsons. When I found out it was like a Zucker Brothers TV show I fucking loved it. I love the Zucker Brother/Abrahams stuff. Even shit like Baseketball.
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being the sad old fart I am I'm rewatching Jeeves and Wooster (because ITV are repeating it). family guy just doesn't do it for me, but I do give them credit for attempting a huge amount of jokes. Just more don't work than do when I've seen it. For example, if I never saw the Paedo or the hippy teacher again the series would improve. Quagmire is now not funny because they've overdone it. Cleveland was never funny, Joe used to be funny but isn't now. The jokes are just INSERT FEEDER LINE + POP CULTURE REFERENCE.
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have a good night.
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Maybe I should do some fucking work.
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I don't like all Scorsese films. I believe the man is a cinematic genius, but that doesn't mean he always nails it.
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Needs to get out of his Leo-phase. His ratio of hits to misses was much more solid pre-Leo. Still, he's earned the benefit of the doubt with me. If he directs a movie, I will give it a look (except for Shine A Light, which I had no interest in seeing).
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Then give me your best Scorsese HATE! This is going to be like one of those training montages at the begining where they tell the weakling to hit the bag and he does and it barely moves and looks really pathetic. But in words.
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I've hade Tokyo! out for like over a month now. Need to watch that shit. I don't think anyone here has seen it. And you all love that french dude.
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Sooooo tired.
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http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/08/25/meth.ring.arrests/index.html
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Thats rich. I am hoping that I turn out not to be lazy this evening and do a little comic recap. I'm behind but that doesn't matter because you all like my sweet sweet ass.
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Every other meth/comic book dealer i know.
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The cinema (two hours away) is screening Tetro this weekend and doing a live web chat with FFC! Mother fucker. Though they have the shit at 12 in the middle of the fucking day. Fucking fuckinty fuck fuck fuck fu fuck.
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http://tinyurl.com/n8lkr8
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But mostly everything else about that show sucks yes indeedie. I like the Brian and Stewie Yahtzee routine though, that's funny. Benny Hill is a riot. I enjoy. Of Matthew McG's stuff-I like: A Time to Kill, ummmm U-571, Lonestar, and thought even Sahara was okay too. Haven't seen much of the other things he's done.
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Bits of Rod Serling talking to young writers. If you write, you will probably enjoy it. There's 16 of 'em. Too bad there's no footage that isn't cut up into pieces, but still really cool.
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Teach me how to write?
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a bunch of kids (late 60s? early 70s?) pepper him with questions, and he answers them with his awesome voice. He gives some good advice.
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Will definitely be watching that. I love DeForest. But I am much more partial to low-budget noirs than to low-budget westerns.
So what about "The Dain Curse". Do you know anything about if this is good or not? The book is great, but I am wondering how much effort to put into tracking down the miniseries.
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There are some AWESOME insults on this screencap from someone's Facebook page. http://www.thehighdefinite.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/aimee_thread.jpghttp://tinyurl.com/np8rrt
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Your real name is Aimee?
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We've started a trend. Oh well, just saw Adventureland. Kind of Hughes like, but a little more melodramatic. Overall just kind of a ok movie. I would have bought it more if they were right out of high school rather then college. Because some of the people looked too young.
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That the directors that Apatow gave their big breaks to are going to go on and make better movies then him.
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Ted Kennedy is dead
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their insincerity when they mention Ted's death is going to make me want to punch the TV screen.
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Aug 26, 2009 1:31:43 AM CDT
Herc has had some sort of breakdown on the Entertainment Weekly
by odo19
Spread the good word.
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For the Rod Sterling clips. Those were awesome.
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what? Again? hehehe
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Even when he fails at least it is interesting. He is trying to something and makes something to think about. But I can say there are movies I was really disappointed by him:
New York, New York
Color of Money
Casino
Bringing Out the Dead
Gangs of New York
Aviator
Casino I saw as just him repeating himself. I will admit it was better the second time, but I still look at it as him just doing GoodFellas over again. And repeating himself isn't what I want Scorsese to do.
New York, New York was just a bad miscalculation.
Bringing Out the Dead was him and Schrader refusing to accept that times have changed. The gritty slummy NY of Taxi Driver era was gone. It just felt desperate by those two, like they were trying to recapture what made them famous. It felt a little like watching De Palma's Raising Cain - a bad imitation of his superior previous work.
Gangs had moments of pure brilliance, but also hockey, hackneyed shit that Scorsese would never put in his previous films. And I thought those cliched elements undermined what he was trying to accomplish.
And Aviator just felt pedestrian to me. Not the daring work I want out of Scorsese.
I did like Departed a lot. Not his best movie, maybe not even in his top half, but still better than most movies that come out and probably better than most movies that have won the Academy Award this decade (which says less about Scorsese's talent and more about how bad movies are nowadays). -
Aug 26, 2009 4:21:44 AM CDT
One of my fav Scorcese's is...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
The King of Comedy. Brilliant flick. I have to watch that again sometime.
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which is a hopeleslly overrated meh-fest.
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I know Scorsese didn't want to make that movie, but it just shows that sometimes a directors best work isn't always the stuff he is passionate about. FFC with the Godfather and Welles with Touch of Evil come to mind.
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I love that doc by him.
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http://tinyurl.com/l9kcgt
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Aug 26, 2009 4:32:30 AM CDT
There's quite a few I haven't seen
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Like After Hours and Last Temptation.
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Aug 26, 2009 4:34:58 AM CDT
I thought Shutter Island was released this year
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Wiki says Feb 19. And The Wolfman is now Feb 12. Damn it!
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brilliant- was on telly the other week.
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The thing is I just read an article how it was testing in like the 80s and 90s approval rating, which is awesome. But the Paramount and the producers decided to push it to February because they can't afford an award season marketing campaign. They feel that with 10 Best Pictures nominees they won't have to compete as much if they release it in the spring because the movie is good enough that they will remember it.
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annoyingly.
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sad. Are those fuckers trying to be like us? The difference is, we grew organically, whereas they're trying to do it on purpose
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Saw it last year. It's brilliant. I'm looking forward to District 9.
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Aug 26, 2009 5:17:07 AM CDT
I'm considering seeing GI Joe tonight
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Either that or Inglorious Basterds. Decisions... Decisions...
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can't say I'm surprised.
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no interest and everything I've seen about it actually puts me off.
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Aug 26, 2009 5:24:26 AM CDT
I haven't seen the Halloween remake
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Zero interest. I'd rather watch High School Musical.
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I don't really WANT to see it. I'm just intrigued. Like GI Joe.
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Aug 26, 2009 5:26:49 AM CDT
I wonder what happened to Frankie
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
He probably got a job where he actually has to work. Poor bastard.
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internet connections.
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due to advertiser pressure. I don't know if that's a good thing or not. Part of me thinks it is.
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And why the advertiser pressure?
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Hmm. A quandry.
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For spreading "hate" apparently.
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Maria Full of Grace was not the answer.
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Anyone seen this? Supposed to be good.
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and then a meeting and then training. What a shit afternoon.
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Spoke too soon. They're sending Maniac Cop.
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It is good. Very good. Slightly ruined by cack-handed "understand the terrorist" garbage. Well worth watching. A solid 7-8 out of 10.
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This may be the first Robin Williams flick I've looked forward to seeing in.... well... EVER i think!
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Everything he said in the interview about it is pretty much what Jarv and I have been saying about it.
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and I highly doubt I'll go out of my way to catch it too.
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First Come Courage, or something like that. It seemed interesting enough...some Norwegian chick goes undercover and marries a German officer. Some English chap is, I believer, her husband, who helps with this assault of some troops.
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to an email I sent him a month or two ago.He's still a cunt though.
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bullshit remakes.
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It's my understanding that he's still on the air, just losing a ton of advertisers. And that is because he called Obama a racist, or some shit like that.
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Tried to watch it this weekend through PPV, but my DVR box isn't hooked up to a phone line? So I couldn't do it, lame. Really wanted to see it.
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Gonna watch this tonight. My wife really wants to see it. But it looks like a coming of age movie, and going after her pissed off reaction to Adventureland I don't think she really likes coming of age tales. She hated Adventureland. I know they aren't similar, guess we'll see. Anyone seen it?
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I wrote it off when I knew nothing about it as some bullshit Robin Williams Fathers Day type flick. After reading about it and finding out Bobcat Goldthwait directed it I really want to see it.
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Aug 26, 2009 8:32:40 AM CDT
Adventureland was mediocre at best
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
But it shits all over Superbad.
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Sleeping Dogs Lie? Or Windy City Heat? Sleeping Dogs Lie was a pretty funny movie, my friends brother was the cinematographer on the movie (I thought the cinematography wasn't that good though). It was like a sort of wacky 80's comedy. Nothing great, but if you caught it on cable you wouldn't hate yourself in the morning.
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is the only Bobcat flick I've seen. Pretty funny.
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I just looked at my buddys brother resume, he worked on Rise: The Blood Hunter. Which outside of the first 5 minutes is probably one of the worst B movies ever made. SOOOO fucking boring, and its directed by Carla Gugino's husband. Damn Marilyn Manson was in that movie? I don't remember it, it kept putting me to sleep with its tedious bordom.
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And the first thing he said was, Most people think I'm dead.
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Is that the one with Lucy Liu? I've seen the dvd cover and it reminded me of Underworld. Which is not a good thing.
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Just read a fucking review for World's Greatest Dad. DON'T READ ONE fucking ruined what I think was a key point in the movie. Fucking reviewers, can't help themselves can they. God movie reviewers suck balls.
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I read the NY Times one.
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Its god awful. But Lu's got a good make out scene with Cameron Richardson at the begining. She needs to be in more things.
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I'd never read a review their before, now I will never read one again.
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See The Hurt Locker. Do not miss that movie.
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Droid did you get that on the back of the Netfliks slip as well?
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Is only 29 would have thought he was older.
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Has a new sandwhich that has chicken breast instead of bread. YES finally.
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I saw the review on NY Times. It reminded me that I wanted to see it a while ago.
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Aug 26, 2009 9:19:31 AM CDT
Chicken breast instead of bread?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Sounds awesome, even if I don't really eat KFC. Well, I haven't for years. This may get me back in.
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and brilliantly cast. Narrowly misses out on greatness though. Due to the stupid moralising.
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so it's chicken, with some salad, chicken, mayonnaise, and chicken. America: fattest country on the planet. For a reason.
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what is especially impressive about the casting is how much the actors physically look like the real people. The bird from Lives of Others that plays Ulrike Meinhoff in particular. And there's loads of nekkidness and violence to keep the kids interested.
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two chicken breasts, filled with bucketloads of cheese and bacon. America: fattest country on the planet. For a reason. Genius.
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is another one i need to see.
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Chicken with some letteuce and Bacon toped off with another piece of chicken.
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The events are related to the sexual liberation of the seventies. There is nudity everywhere male, female and even kids from every possible angle.
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For a reason - most of the fat asses here don't exercise, no fucking walking, nothing. Sure, we eat a lot of shit, but so does a lot of other countries. At least they fucking MOVE...something Americans have a problem doing.They should fucking tax all sugar drinks. That's how you fund change in healthcare.I'm thinking of In Bruges right now with the fat American tourist...heh-heh-heh...
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But you can only get it in Rhode Island and Nebraska.....hmmmm Nebraska isn't THAT far away.
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You know America, if you just ignor him he'll go away. Just like you get rid of shows on Fox TV, same thing for fox news. I think the thing about ratings for Fox news are so fucked, its that there are millions of places that just turn on fox news and leave it on all day. So then add to the fact the homos out there that actually turn on their own tv to watch that r-tard talk, makes for good ratings. What pisses me off is that more people watch that idiot then probably watch good TV. Fucking pathetic.
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Fuck me I need to see that. Just like Jarv you need to see The Hurt Locker. I really want to know what you thought of it.
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Best flick of 2008.
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Says is a matter of free speech, and thats fine. But the fact that people actually listen to him for news and advice just boggles my mind. But whatever, I really don't care enough to be political (though I would like to do something in politics, but I know I wouldn't be able to deal with the BS). All in all this country is fucked, and its up to people much smarter then me to fix it....if thats possible.
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Speed Racer best flick of 2008. Well let me watch In Bruges. But still Speed Racer was awesome...and I wasn't even stoned.
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Has a good shot of winning a chunk of Oscars, the only thing really holding it back is its lack of screens. Not many people know about it, there's been little to no promotion for it here in the states. Usually by this time of the year, you've heard about the big Oscar contenders. Nothing seems to be popping though. And outside of Avatar there isn't much I've heard about coming out this winter. It would be funny as shit if Transformers 2 of D9 walks away with Visual effect Oscar over Avatar. Even if Avatar ends up being a good movie. Though I doubt it, even if Avatar sucks I think it'll still get that Oscar. Just knowing Jimmy's reputation with the Oscars he's pretty much got it in the bag. Micheal Bay lost win he should have won with Transformers 1, and a new comer coming in and winning the coveted Visual effects...not likely but they do have the Peter Jackson edge.
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Top 5 worst of 2008
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I'll put money on that at least being nominated for a bunch of stuff.
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And where the wild things are, I thought I'd want to see Fantastic Mr. Fox, but the trailer just seemed boring. Like a bad Wallace and Gromit. Nine also looks like it could be good. OH and shit didn't realize it was coming out this year the Clint Eastwood Rugby flick Invictus, never thought I would look forward to a Clint Eastwood film. The Lovely Bones too. Gentlemen Broncos looks ok. And Antichritst and Ong Bak 2 if they come near me. Also I may check out the Micheal Jackson movie as well. A serious man and Stepfather and The Road. Hmmm interesting year. I want that Clint Eastwood movie to be good, but I don't want it to be another awards stealer movie. Do Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman really need more awards? I bet its a joke now for Clint, just to see how many awards for shit he can get before he dies.
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Maybe, but I saw some behind the scenes stuff. And that kid was pretty fucking annoying.
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is the massive weight in America has spun the Earth slightly off it's orbit and we now pass nearer the sun than we used to.
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Then I doubt you'll like Avatar. Speed is one of those movies you either go with it or you don't. If you don't you'll hate it. If there ever was a TURN YOUR BRAIN OFF movie that is it. But not in the fact that its stupid, its actually pretty smart, naratively speaking. It is the ultimate ADD movie if anything. I was amazed that my mom liked it (I think she just liked the colors) because she saw it by herself and loved it. My wife fucking hates it. I fucking hated it for the first 15 minutes, its like my eyes needed to adjust or something. I wouldn't call it the worst. Come on shit like Hancock, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, Sex and the City, Marley and Me, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, Wanted, Four Christmases, Yes Man, What Happens in Vegas, Fool's Gold and The Happening. All of which made more money then Speed. Speed while a falure to most at least tried something different. I think the Brothers W just watched Cashern WAY too many times.
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heated cricket talk.
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of course, it'll be 2010 before I see it...sigh.
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Just did the same shit and ran off of Star power or Name power. Marley and Me is by far the worst movie of 2008. Fucking god awful abortion of a film. And I'm a huge dog lover. That movie is for people who hate dogs, its about a couple that didn't bother to train their dog. So people probably saw that movie saw how happy it was to have a CRAZY dog, went out and bought a dog and found out that its a pain in the ass to have a dog you didn't bother to train. Then dumped the dog when they didn't want to deal with it any more.
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not just the worst film of last year, but a candidate for worst film of the last 5 years. Still, it did give us some epic talkbacks.
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Aug 26, 2009 10:18:32 AM CDT
Four flicks will make up for the absolute shit year
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
WTWTA, Fantastic Mr Fox, The Road and Avatar. All four of those will reignite my interest in movies. It's been fucking beaten to death by the non-stop release of shitfest after shitfest.
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Shit...and I saw some of those horrid films you mentioned Series. Luckily, I avoided Sex and the City, but fucking What Happens in Vegas and Fool's Gold...for all this 2for2true...double pencils to the fucking eyes for those crimes against humanity.
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since your president refused to sign up to the "lose some weight fatso" treaty signed in Wellville, the lard factor has been increasing exponentially with potentially drastic ramifications for the planet.
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Hated pretty much everything about it. But worse flicks last year that I saw were Eagle Eye, The Love Guru and Righteous Kill. My fucking god I loathed every single second of those flicks. Except for ogling Gugino in RK.
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"It's been fucking beaten to death by the non-stop release of shitfest after shitfest." Spot on. Last year was brilliant as well.
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Awful. Just plain awful. But I had to compare it to that mind-bogglingly awful shitfest with Diaz from a few years ago that had Applegate in it. Can't remember the name. So by comparison it was only awful. I fell asleep 8 minutes in to Fools Gold. Never bothered trying to watch it again.
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but they flushed down the pan pretty fast, and nothing else so far has looked worth the cash. It's nearly September FFS.
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the fuck it was called with SNL newscaster chick and chick from 30 Rock...that may have been worse than What Happens in Vegas.
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But in hindsight, I have no justification for those hopes. What on earth was I looking forward to?
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Aug 26, 2009 10:27:06 AM CDT
"mind-bogglingly awful shitfest with Diaz from a few years ago t
by lost jarv
The Sweetest thing. Shit, but slightly better than SATC.
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For some reason my Wife likes it? She doesn't even know why. But luckily missed out on Sex with ugly old ladies and Fools Gold (but I had to watch Ghost Of Girlfriends past on a plane recently).
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We're like 3rd best in the country in terms of percentage of overweight people. Though I guess that's like saying you're not fucking ugly, just real ugly.They should just have a "weight tax"...
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Aug 26, 2009 10:29:05 AM CDT
I'm hoping District 9 is as good as reported
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Because that's out here next week. I need to see some quality ASAP.
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Seriously. This summer was meant to be bookended by uber-classics Watchmen and Avatar. Watchmen set the standard. Tarantino was making the long awaited IB. Etc, ad fucking nauseum.
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Have you seen the trailer for it? It just looks kind of boring. His last movie was pretty awful in my book. I would have much rather watched a movie about that Bill Murray character from the begining then those three annoying ass brothers, plus I hate the Piano guy.
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How can you absoultly hate Speed Racer and still call it one of the worst 5 films of last year, even though we've proved that wrong. But be looking forward to Avatar?
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Aug 26, 2009 10:30:30 AM CDT
And when the fuck is Up coming out?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
It came out in May for fucks sake!
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it will not pass our screen. People, until you've seen SATC you haven't no idea how bad it actually is. It's about 3 hours long. SATC is 3 Hours long. Who on earth could listen to their whinging shit for that time. There's a reason the show was only 45 minutes per story.
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Any summer where there are only two releases during a month sucks. This year was July with Transformers and Harry's Potter. They did it in 07 in May with Spiderman 3 and Pirates 3. Oh and add in a kiddie film for each year, Ice Age 3 and Shrek 3. Seriously at least we got 28 Weeks Later in May 07. July 09 we got fucking nothing.
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And IMO Speed Racer never looked good. Not even in the trailers. And I really like Cameron. The W's have made one great flick (Bound), one good flick (The Matrix) and three awful flicks.
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Did you hate Speed Racer?
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I will never ever see SATC. Fuck that. It's pathetic to say, but I honestly think the best flick I've seen this summer is T4. (Granted I haven't seen HP6 or PE yet)
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Speed one of the worst 5 of last year? Worse then Fools Gold/SATC/Baby Mama/Marley and Me/Hancock? Really?
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but 28 weeks later was shit. Sorry I thought it was atrocious garbage.
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But hated Speed Racer? Your just confusing me now.
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Another movie I want to see thats coming out soon.
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I actually think it looks fun. I loved the book as a kid (not as much as WTWTA though. That was my favorite.) and I'm not sure Anderson got the tone right, but still... it looks fun.
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and others that hate it with a vengeance. It was hideously misconceived.
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Gets a pass from me because of that awesome opening scene. The rest of it was alright. I was really annoyed with the whole way the diesease got spread again.
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Aug 26, 2009 10:39:32 AM CDT
Fools Gold/SATC/Baby Mama/Marley and Me/Hancock
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Only seen Hancock, which was half a good flick. Yes, T4 was miles more enjoyable than Speed Racer.
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continued on from the abysmal misfire of the last 30 minutes of 28 Days Later. It sucked.
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worst months ever.
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Yeah I don't like the tone, and I don't like the fact that the marrienette work doesn't even look half as good as the stuff done on Team America....and Team America was trying to look a little shitty.
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Sure it was fun, but in terms of movie all it was, was a collection of action scenes from other movies. At least Speed Racer was its own beast and that race scene at the end was fucking amazing. T4 was like watching a highlight real of action/sci fi film from the past 20 years.
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the way the disease got spread was one of the worst things about it. The opening was good, but nothing to come in your pants about. Carlyle and his awful spawn were dreadful, as were the American soldiers. It was a woefully bad film.
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Aug 26, 2009 10:43:15 AM CDT
Wait, I have seen Marley and Me
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
It was about the dog. Yes, shit. But better than Speed Racer. Even if it did have Kathleen Turner who looked like she suffers from the same affliction as Michael Rooker in Slither.
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Then I just think you didn't get Speed Racer. Even my wife, who fucking hated Speed Racer, realizes that Marley and Me is worse then Speed Racer. There is nother good about that movie.
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If you didn't like them at all....you may not like The Hurt Locker, because Jeremy Reamer is playing a similar character.
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My wife that you thought Marley and Me was better then Speed Racer, and she just laughed.
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see you tomorrow
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I noted 28 Weeks Later, because at least something came out that could have been really good. What else did we get in July of 09? The worst movie ever made, Year One. Nothing is worse then that film I'm pretty sure, its in the bible.
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Year One came out in June.
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performances, I thought they were rubbish
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Aug 26, 2009 10:48:38 AM CDT
The difference between 28 Weeks Later and THL is...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
28WL sucks and THL is brilliant. And Renner is brilliant in THL and I completely forgot i'd seen him in 28WL. So you can't really compare the two.
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Aug 26, 2009 10:50:37 AM CDT
I'm glad I could make her laugh
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
But I never said M&M was good. It's a turd. Just not a festering turd like SR.
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Similar performence. Just more of him.
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Is so much worse then Speed Racer. Added to the fact that that shitty ass book and that movie made SOOO much money. Its just horrible and shows how stupid people are.
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Aug 26, 2009 10:53:13 AM CDT
It's a better character in a superior flick
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Similar only because he's a soldier.
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I am just pointing out that Remear is playing a military guy, whos ambitious and cares about kids. Also who isn't your typical military figure.
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It really annoys you that I think M&M is less shitty than SR, doesn't it?
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Valid argument. I was just saying that Remear has been playing these similar charcters a lot. He played the same guy in The Unusuals. Just the Hurt Locker is the best version of it.
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Never before had I seen a movie in which the director cared so little for and had zero respect for his characters.
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Worse then anything other then Year One, is pretty fucking stupid. Or has never interacted with a dog.
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On that note.... I'm outta here! Huzzah! Series, I'm considering seeing GI Joe tonight. I'll let you know if it's better than Speed Racer! hehe
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That you liked T4, and are excited to see Avatar. I don't know who you can hate Speed so much. If you were someone who didn't care for big loud films, and worried more about performences then I would understand.
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You'll hate GI Joe. But you think T4 is good, so you'll love GI Joe, you decide.
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While July 09 didn't give us many tent pole movies. It did have Burno and Public Enemies, which may have dissapointed but at were decent. It also gave us (500) Days of Summer and The Collecter which were awesome. And In the Loop from what I hear is good, though the trailer doesn't do much for me. That and Transformers 2 came out in June.
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I said I enjoyed it the most out of all the shit I've seen this summer. Big difference. And Avatar is a different beast entirely. Cameron could film himself taking a shit and make a better flick than SR. Titanic is like fucking Apocolypse Now compared to SR. I won't call you stupid because you like a film I don't. I will respect your opinion. Adios amigos!
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Is that they fucking worked. Harry Poter did as good and Transformers destroyed the original. While movies that pussied out of July and moved their release dates, Fast and Furious ended up being hits as well. So this is going to become more of a trend for bigger franchises to take up a whole fucking month in the summer. I bet Ironman 2 will be that way.
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How you can say its one of the worst films of 08. I can understand you not liking it, but saying its worse then Marley and Me is just unbelievable. I would think that you can understand that Speed Racer just wasn't for you, but Marley and Me is just a shit hateful film. Were Speed Racer failed, at least it wasn't because it was the same thing you'd seen before. I would think that you would give a movie the benefit of the doubt for trying something new.
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A Very Long Engagement (for Mrs. Pillow) and City of God. I'm stoked to see City of God.
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Damn I'm way behind.
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And I'm quite sure you'll see them before me, though I won't catch Speed Racer.
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Awesome. Its like Slumdog Millionaire on steriods! Great fucking movie. A Very Long Engagement is also magnificent. Though City of Lost Children is my number 2 all time favorite film. You should check out that movie Taxidermia.
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Is worth seeing just once just to see how fucking nutty it is. And hey you may end up likeing it. As for T4, have you seen T3? ID4? Transformers? I Robot? Then you've already seen T4 (only T4 is louder).
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Kicking around right now I want to see based off the poster or trailer or title. Paraiso Travel, Import/Export, Taxidermia and How to Be A Serial Killer.
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has City of Lost Children. The thing is Series, the trailers for Speed Racer did nothing for me, nor does the content even interest me. I never watched the show, so for me a movie version of it just doesn't appeal.That being said, if it were on tv one day, I would probably watch it.
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I thought the trailers for the movie sucked hard. I've seen the TV show but really was not a fan. I only went to see the movie because it came out the same day as my birthday and I like going to the movies for my birthday. The only other choice was What Happenes in Vegas and i was totally blown away with the film. As for the content, at the heart of the film its about a Family staying together. John Goodman did an amazing job in what could have been a throw away character. Also I think any showing of it on TV unless its like HD, would suck. You need to see it on a good tv/dvd player.
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Another art house film out somewhere right now I want to see. And Tetro which I could see this Friday if I didn't have a job, and then I could talk with FFC!!! FUCK!
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You know that feeling you get then your car goes over a sharp hill real fast. Like a split second your heart jumps, when you hit some turbulance in an airplane sort of feeling. Well I got that during the final race scene in Speed Racer.
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And Blood: The Last Vampire. Booyah.
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More mucking about with evolution. Have you ever thought, damn, i want to pass on my genes, but my wife's genes suck, wish i could just pass on the good ones and replace the rest with somebody else's? Well, that day may be coming. Because, well, babies at any costs! (It's bad enough that rich couples rent out Indian women's wombs, outsourcing at its finest.) So annoying I had to pass it on.
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Rudo y Cursi
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Sneaked into that after Indy 4. And in my somewhat weakened (and slightly intoxicated) state, I liked it. But it's hard to imagine it being interesting without the benefit of a movie screen.
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I'd been very excited to see that, I love stop-motion, but when I watched the trailer, I was kind of annoyed by all the celebrity voices. I know it's more or less Wes Anderson's usual folks, but it was still really distracting. I'll still end up seeing it though.
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I don't know....I feel like i HAVE to see it. Even though every time I think of that movie, the words "but that joke isn't funny" pop into my head. I read through some of the talkback for it, but none of the posts really addressed what I want to know about it. Guess I'll have to see for myself.
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That similar feeling that I HAVE to see it about Bastards. So is Fantastic Mr. Fox puppets or stop motion? All in all, if its stop motion it looks pretty crappy when you compare it to Ardman.
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it was supposed to be stop motion, with the same guy that did the underwater stop motion on Life Aquatic.
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I like my stop-motion a little rough around the edges. If i wanted texture-less perfection, I'd watch a Pixar movie or something. If anything, I thought the animation looked a little too smooth in the Mr. Fox trailer.
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Maybe it was the trailer, but the voice over work did not match the characters mouths at all, it was like watching a dubbed movie. I know a lot of the talking was just played over stuff happening. Plus the trailer was too damn long and just not funny. It looked like a cartoon, like it was meant for TV. Doesn't look like something I need to see on IMAX digital projection lazar stereo 3-D.
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The Corpse Bride crew is working on Fantastic Mr. Fox?
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Aug 26, 2009 2:52:10 PM CDT
Freddie Mercury: Lover of Life, Singer of Songs -- The Untold St
by series7
Howcome i've never heard of this? Looks good.
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I need to see this and Dog Days.
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There is a new 28 Days Later coming out today. So hold on to your butts.
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You watch Star Trek movies, and Next Gen stuff? You might get a kick out of this: http://tinyurl.com/kjzmsw
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So I guess with Ted gone, Dominick Dunne lost his will to live? That is just too crazy that he's dead now, too.
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Still sounds like punishment to me. I think they're taking ol' Marty for granted and giving him the Zodiac treatment (which I'm still slightly bitter about).
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As you all well know. That's just-me, and that's how it goes. Can't recommend In Bruges enough though-that's a really fucked but good movie. And I enjoyed District Nine too. Good stuff there.
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maybe Benjamin Button wouldn't have been made. Too bad.
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That is a good article, and is does indeed have frightening implications for the future. Next twenty years are gonna be a bumpy ride!
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Better a second time around. Just the whole fact that they never caught the guy leave you feeling unrewarded. Its like a huge LONG ass let down, kind of pisses you off.
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Well... it was loud, I'll give it that. It's bloody stupid, many of the effects are rubbish, the jokes are lame, Quaid was wasted in a nothing role and the villian was pretty shit. But despite all that I kind of almost enjoyed it. Mostly for the accelerator suit chase through Paris. That was good. About on par with The Mummy for entertainment value. Loads better than Speed Racer though.
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Aug 27, 2009 3:47:03 AM CDT
I know it's worthless to query plot points in...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
an flick like GI Joe, but... I've been to Paris four times and never once have I seen a high speed train on any of the streets near the Eiffel Tower.
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Brilliant. Completely underrated.
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I watched that a while back. From the trailer, I thought it was going to be a completely different flick. The trailer totally misrepresents what the final film is. I ended up resenting the flick because I felt they had duped me into watching it.
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"I've been to Paris four times and never once have I seen a high speed train on any of the streets near the Eiffel Tower." 28 Weeks later did a similar thing with London's geography. FUCK OFF.
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Mrs. Jarv inflicted Miss Congeniality 2 on me. Fucking horrible.
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even though I hear it's poo.
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I really wanted to see it for about 10 minutes. Then I lost interest. Still, it's ambitious.
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I'm not a fan of the show and the trailers didn't do anything for me. But I saw it at the cinema anyway. I will usually give anything a chance to work. I came out feeling as though I'd been fucked in the eyeballs by a kaleidescope. I literally had a headache. I found the writing to be hackneyed, shallow and nauseating. The performances were of the Star Wars prequels standard. Actors just can't perform well against nothing but blue screen. The "comic relief" was not funny. That kid and the monkey were incredibly irritating. The villian was ridiculously over the top. The "mysterious Racer X" subplot was so fucking obvious it's not funny. At many times during the races I had no fucking idea what the hell was going on. It was like trying to watch a 200mph race between Times Square and Koshu Kaido. The good quality cast was completely wasted. The editing style annoyed the fuck out of me. Every single shot was wiped into another. (I concede that I loved the Hulk editing style which many people hated) But the worst thing about it is that it is over two fucking hours long. And it felt longer! You do not need over two hours to tell that story. I flat out HATED this flick when I came out of the cinema. Not many flicks do that to me. Only Eagle Eye and Righteous Kill also did that last year. If you enjoyed it, then good for you. I won't judge, because I don't care.
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I don't know how, but I think I've seen that too. Does it end in vegas in the treasure island show? God those flicks are shithouse.
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It's actually on a par with the first one. Which is how bad the first one is. At least they don't try to pretend that Sandra Bullock is a pig at any point in it.
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that made me want to shoot someone. It's shithouse.
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Aug 27, 2009 5:23:41 AM CDT
When was the last time Bullock was "good" in anything?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I'd have to go back to Speed. The only other one I can think of is Demolition Man.
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Speed. Demolition Man. Then fuck all. I'm sure there's something else.
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I just had a look and the only flick I would say I liked (embarrasingly) is The Lake House. She's made a shitload of stinkers though. How is she still considered a big star?
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For Speed 2 and Demolition Man. While I understand Speed 2... Demolition Man!?!?!
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Aug 27, 2009 5:44:30 AM CDT
Bullock has also dated Ryan Gosling
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Who's 17 years younger than her. Fuck I've got to do some work.
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But then again I realized I've seen nothing of hers since Miss Congeniality and that was almost 10 years ago(!)so---
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blows. Really blows.
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Aug 27, 2009 5:52:28 AM CDT
It's hard to dislike Bullock herself...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
but i avoid her flicks like the plague.
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A time to kill, DM, Speed, and The Vanishing are all she's been in that I can stand. She just makes awful shit.
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Aug 27, 2009 5:56:42 AM CDT
I can't justify my opinion of it
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Every fibre of my being tells me I should hate it. But I like it. So fuck it. It's the same as many peoples unexplained love of The Notebook.
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Aug 27, 2009 5:58:45 AM CDT
A Time To Kill and The Vanishing (remake)...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
are steaming piles of shit. "Now imagine.... she's white!" FUCK OFF!!!
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but makes unwatchable crap.
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and that "imagine she's white" thing is entirely Grisham's fault. Granted, he's never been the most talented writer, but it's harsh to blame the film for something that was straight from the book. The Vanishing is a piss poor remake of a classic, but Bridges is watchable and you can't blame her for it as she isn't exactly the star.
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Aug 27, 2009 6:11:08 AM CDT
The book was fucking awful as well
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I read about the first 4 or 5 Grishams and most were mildly entertaining. But ATTK was complete shit. The best book is The Firm and the best film is The Rainmaker.
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The Rainmaker is his best film. ATTK is shit but I can stand it, unlike say, Practical Magic, which makes my brain melt.
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Aug 27, 2009 6:18:28 AM CDT
Also, I don't "blame" her for The Vanishing
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
But I do blame her for A Time To Kill because her role was expanded from a fucking walk on in the book to pretty much equal billing with McC.
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Has Kidman in it who I can't stand. She's like Bullock without the likability. Her CV is full of shit.
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Great flick. I love how the movie was structured with the 'chapters', which I think really worked here. Nice performances and a real interesting story. Tonight I'll check out A Very Long Engagement.
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Haven't seen AVLE.
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no arguments there. I honestly don't think it's that bad. And Jackson is equally culpable- his part was expanded exponentially as well.
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I actually like Forces of Nature. But I think I'm a closet Ben Affleck fan because for some reason I don't hate him.
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They are fucking stupid. They don't try and aren't funny. She probably won for Demolition Man because they've got a hard on for Sly. Like is it STILL funny ribbing on Sly all these years?
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I remember seeing that at the cinema. Fuck me, what a load of shit that is. And I openly admit to liking Ben Affleck. Series, I think you must be a bizarro me... You seem to like everything I hate and vice versa.
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I can totally understand hating it. But calling it the worst film of 2008 I can't get. Sure you hated this and that about it, but at least it aimed for something different, you'd never seen a movie like that before. How you could say its worse then Sex in Old Ladies or Marley and Me? Also it was a huge flop, so its not like its some trash movie like Transformers 2 that just ran away with the box office and you can't see why so many people like it. Speed offered something different, and you just didn't get into it. You hated it, but its not like the makers of it gave you Matrix 4. They made their version of a kids movie. While I'll disagree with you about the acting when it comes to John Goodman, everyone else doesn't bring much. But I think he was pretty amazing. That Ninja fight scene, come on that was pretty cool. Your reaction to the film reminds me of Inland Empire, while I think that is a shit film with a director with his head up his ass. I wouldn't call it the worst movie on that year because their is some merit behind it. Just like their is some merit behind Speed Racer, whether you like it or not. Also for fans of the show, its true to the show without trying to be a copy of the show. I would say that its on par with GI Joe to me. In fact after I saw GI Joe I couldn't believe that it even got made since Speed was such a bomb. It had very similar story telling style with the flash backs, and while it was more loud then bright. And a lot of the action you had no idea what was going on. Also the acting was better in Speed Racer.
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I mean its just odd, because we do have stuff we like.
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Love you some Ice Age don't you? Are Dennis Leary or Ray Ramono some huge star over their? Seriously that movie seems like it would not be that big overseas. But I think its the biggest movie overseas this year.
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Isn't that big overseas?
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Has made more money then fucking Harry's Potter overseas? What the fuck? Pixar may have fucked up bad by not releasing Up over the summer. Seems like European kids had nothing to do this summer.
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Aug 27, 2009 9:12:59 AM CDT
Series... further thoughts on SR...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Warning... Much of this may be incomprehensible... I never saw SATC. But Marley and Me worked as a film the way it was intended. Good, bad, whatever. That's irrelevent. It was what it was and I never once questioned anything about it while I was watching it. During SR I sat there in disbelief at the ineptitude of so-called A-list filmmakers. I don't know who the fuck made M&M but I sure as fuck know who made SR. These guys made Bound (Great) and The Matrix (Good). Despite the shitty sequels (which had moments of quality, particularly the numerous cleavage shots of Belucci) I thought highly enough of them to consider SR worthy of a trip to the cinema (even despite my lack of interest). What I witnessed, IMO is a clusterfuck of biblical proportions. I can be a big kid when it comes to some movies. I'm the guy who likes (the first) Transformers flick. But they have to be one thing. And it's really quite simple. They need to be FUN. SR is not fun. It's painful to watch. And the fact that it's over two hours long just makes it worse. Expectations come into play A LOT. M&M? I expected it to be shit, and it was. No surprises. SR? I expected it to be at the very least a competently made flick that would offer some entertainment value. Which is why I reacted strongly to it when I witnessed 2+ hours of incomprehensible, annoying, boring neon vomit. That said, I hated Righteous Kill more though. For me, Pacino and De Niro are legends, and for them to appear for only the second time onscreen together and for it to be such a rancid load of shit infuriates me even more.
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Aug 27, 2009 9:16:13 AM CDT
We also made Hancock and Angels & Demons...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
massive fucking hits. District 9 isn't out here yet, neither is UP for fucks sake!
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You just didn't dig what Speed Racer was aiming for and I did. I thought Speed was better put together then Matrix 2 and 3. As much as I like Bound, Matrix is a much better film. Though after Speed I would like to see them and make a smaller movie like Bound again. I think the problem with Speed was that on its surface it seems like a movie where you could just not pay attention and everything is spoon fed to you ala GI Joe. But you pretty much have to be paying attention from the get go if you want to be invested in it at all. As for Marley and Me, I went into it thinking that it would be pretty bad and cheesy. But at the end of it I found out that it was a mean lazy film. There is a strech of ten minutes at the end of the movie were they force you to care and feel sad about the dog, and its actually well done. But its just mean manipulative crap, because up until those last 10 minutes you give fuck all about the dog, you just deal with these two god awful annoying self centered reporters. They spend all this time going over how they are both up and coming reporters, yet they just let shit happen to them and never ask questions. Spolier Anniston has a miss carriage and when they are at the hospital the Dr. is like there's a problem. And her and Own just sit there and are like OK. Normally thats fine whatever, but they spead so much time telling you how good of reporters they both are. Also the office, the fucking office. They sit there and point out as time changes so do the office computers. It starts with an office of just Apple 2GS's computers, then moves to some newer computers and at the end they got modern day looking computer with flat screens and all (they may have even been the new Apple looking things)...but fucking Owen and Anniston don't fucking age a bit. Thats like a 25 year time frame. There is no point of reference as to the progession of time. At the end of the movie they have like 10 year old kids, after not having kids for some period of time. So the dog at the end is roughly somewhere between 10 and 25 years old. Also there are scenes in the movie that are like a Life Comes At You Fast visa commercial. It was done by the The Devil Wears Prada guy (never seen it). Like sure you think the movie is going to be crap going into it, but I was hoping for some lame family comedy. But it was so awful and hateful and has complete contempt for the audience. At least Speed Racer set out to entertain, Marley and Me didn't, it set out to show America is stupid.
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I thought you said you hadn't seen Marley and Me. I haven't seen Sex and Old Ladies either. I haven't seen Rightious Kill either. Don't think I will. I mean I am proud to say that I stayed away from Transformers 2 at the theaters because I hated Transformers 1 so much. Because I love the toys and cartoon and original cartoon movie so much. Just to see that crap in theaters pissed me. It was hard not to go see Transformers 2 in theaters, but I'm glad I didn't. I'll probably rent it, just because. But at least I didn't give in and pay to see it.
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Hancock and Angels and Demons didn't make Ice Age money either, not even close.
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I watched Marley and Me, was pretty bored by it, and have never really thought of it again. Sounds like you have spent quite a bit of time thinking about it. Admittedly I watched it within a few days of watching My Dog Skip which is a quality little flick (cheesy for sure, but in a good way) so all the space in my brain reserved for dog movie memories are taken up by Skip.
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Some of these cartoon sequels are making, and kicking themselves for not releasing all their crappy direct to VHS sequels in theaters. They are probably looking at Alladdin 2: Return of Jaffar and thinking, damn had we spent like another month on this, we could have made a shit load of money in theaters with it. Seeing how much money Shrek 3 (which isn't any better then all those direct to VHS disney sequels) I don't know why any cartoon would ever not put a sequel in theaters. Which is really odd, because with how fast kids minds change you think cartoon sequels would not be so big because kids would be bored of it again.
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As previously stated, I liked the first one for what it was. But for me, the second one is the worst flick I've seen so far this year. It's that shit.
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I thought they couldn't get any worse with Shrek 2. They did. I remember Toy Story 2 was going to be DTV, then half way through they decided to release it on big screen. Smart call.
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You watched My Dog Skip and still gave Marley and Me a pass? I only watched Marley and Me once, but me and my wife talked about it the next few days because we were so mad.
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Worse then Speed?
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Aug 27, 2009 9:50:04 AM CDT
I also watched Hotel for Dogs around the same time
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
And all I remember from that are the pugs dressed up in work out gear like sweatbands. My girlfriend loves dog flicks. Obviously.
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Hotel for Dogs. My wife not so much. Plus the main dog in that movie, is the same sort of dog I have.
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I think they're about on par. Both are way too fucking long, and headache inducing. I suppose I'd say Trannyformers 2 is a smidge worse because the "storyline" makes zero fucking sense and for the ridiculous cyborg transformer.
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Aug 27, 2009 10:02:08 AM CDT
Harry Potter 6 has made $886m WW?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I don't know anyone that's seen it!
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Was the number 1 film in 1995, number two worldwide to Die Hard 3: Die Hard With A Vengeance. Remember when everyone thought it would be a huge flop.
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Aug 27, 2009 10:05:06 AM CDT
It's pretty fucking amazing...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
how much The Hangover has made. $268m in the US alone. I saw it, and it really wasn't THAT good. It was okay. Some funny bits, most revolving around the fat bearded bloke. But nowhere near a classic. Just shows you how starved we are for decent comedies.
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For me.
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Has been weak as shit. Last year was good. But with how shitty the economy is, and life in general people are looking for laughs. Though I'm glad the Apatow rein of terror is over, after his two films (Funny People and Year One) flopped hard as shit. And both were his most expensive to date. Hopefully now Ramis will realise that he does not work in comedies the same way Apatow does. If not, lord help us is Ghostbusters 3 ever gets made.
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Thing that we don't know anyone thats seen Harry's Potter or Ice age, because that would mean we are hanging around 12 year olds.
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Is because its simple and ends with a BIG joke. Most comedies fumble around with the last 10-15 minutes trying to wrap up what little plot they had to tie together all the jokes and the endings are boring. Hangover ends with the best jokes in the movie probably. So you leave happy and excited, tell your friends about it right away so it gets great word of mouth. Also you probably think to yourself that you missed some of the pictures so you see it again.
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Aug 27, 2009 10:17:12 AM CDT
I like Apatow... to an extent
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Freaks and Geeks, and 40 Year Old Virgin are great. Knocked Up was okay. Not seen Year One (thankfully it seems) or Funny People. Did he produce Superbad? Cause that was fucking terrible. I did enjoy Zohan, in a guilty pleasure kind of way. The two best comedies I've seen this year are I Love You, Man and Role Models.
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Their are memorable moments. Unlike Apatows movie where its just like ummm yeah that one dick joke was funny. I remember people talking about how EVERY line in Knocked Up was quotable and classic. I left Knocked Up (mad that I paid money to see it) and did not recall a sigular LINE that was funny enough to say outside of the context of the movie. Also how fucking stupid were the people in that movie, they didn't fucking know about Mr. Skin.
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I thought that was very funny and clever.
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Apatow had nothing to do with I Love You Man besides making those guys famous. I am totally with Freaks and Geeks and 40 Year Old Virgin, good stuff. And I like Zohan/Superbad/Pine Apple Express. But Knocked Up was just not funny, and that relationship was just no believable in any way. I have not seen Funny People, but it looks about as laughless as Knocked Up (save for some Aziz time) and Year One makes me want to murder children its so bad. I need to see Role Models, again not Apatow just made Paul Rudd famous.
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Was ok to me. Outside of the songs and the running joke about drugs, there wasn't much there.
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True, but its a spoof. There really is never a decent storyline in a spoof.
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Aug 27, 2009 10:27:47 AM CDT
I know Apatow had nothing to do with...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Role Models and ILYM. Just saying they were my fav comedies of recent times. I liked Forgetting Sarah Marshall as well. Not sure if that was Apatow.
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Was so stupid. It was written by the same guy that wrote Speed 2 and Rush Hour 2. Sure he helped with The Last Shot, The Terminal and Catch Me If you Can. But those were nothing that great. I was thinking how did the guy who wrote Speed 2 still get work, but I guess he didn't get anything between 97 and 2001. So I guess he had to work his way back up. Damn he directed The Last Shot. Overall he's pretty crap.
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Aug 27, 2009 10:29:20 AM CDT
Didn't really love Pineapple Express
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Some funny moments, mainly due to Franco.
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But it was just a Spoof of two movies (Ray and Walk The Line). The category wasn't that good for spoofing.
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So it worked for me.
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Never seen it though. I didn't like Pineapple Express either, a couple of funny moments. I thought it was really funny in theaters but when I rented it again it wasn't that funny. I thought Tropic Thunder was a much funnier movie. Also I only watched Superbad once, I probably wouldn't think its as funny a second time. Also I watch the commentary on Pinapple for the DGDB comment, god what a fucking boring unfunny commentary. Why does EVERY movie need commentary. Year One has fucking commentary! I know this because Jack Black said on a late show he just got back from doing the DVD commentary...before the movie came out. Sooo pretty much that commentary sucks. What would he have to say? Ohh here's that seen where I was stoned and didn't care, oh in this scene I was REALLY high and couldn't give a shit to be funny. For 5 hours.
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Make the only commentaries worth listening too. From a comdey stand point. Maybe some of the bigger directors give out interesting technical crap, but Matt Stone and Trey bring the funny. Though I hear there is a commentary for the Gonnies, where it split screens and its the whole cast sitting around a table, that could be good.
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Aug 27, 2009 10:41:11 AM CDT
I used to listen to commentaries
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Waaay back when I first started collecting dvd's. Now I will ONLY listen to one if it's a retrospective. Like the Cape Fear one (or maybe thats just the documentary on the dvd), but it actually tells you about the details behind making the film. And they usually dish more dirt. The ones that are done before the film is even out are fucking useless and boring.
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Aug 27, 2009 10:44:14 AM CDT
Kevin Smith ones have been pretty good
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Usually has everyone there and is usually pretty funny.
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I thought the Pineapple Express ones would be funny. But it was just them laughing about in jokes from the movie.
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Huzzah! Have a good one.
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FIRE ON THE AMAZON. It was a Roger Corman movie she shot in the 80s but wasn't released until early 90s after she did Speed and became a big star. The movie is absolute shit, but it was what she did while making the movie that was brilliant.
She was contractually obligated to show her breast in the movie, but she knew that would hurt her career (remember, 80s - stars didn't show there tits in b-movies). So she went by the letter of the law, and covered her nipples with black tape. The contract said she had to show her breast, not her nipples. Fucking Corman was pissed, but I had to salute the young woman. Here was an actress who was smart enough to know that they were just exploiting her body, so fuck them. -
How fucking stoked are you for Big Fan? This sounds like the reboot of film you've been clamoring for.
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FUcking MTV covers the new Leprechaun comic, but I can't get a copy at my shop nor does AICN mention this bad boy?
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Big Fan? Is that the one were the guy gets beaten up by his favorite player? I really know nothing about it. Does it look good?
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Stars the bad guy from The Collector. It's gotta be awesome!
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It does look good, there is an interview with Patton on the main page now. And it said that its sort of a throw back character movie like the 70s. And I've seen the trailer a million times and that totally makes sense. Its almost like Taxi Driver 2....sort of. Go watch the trailer.
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You're right. That looks damn good.
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FUCK YES! I love that show. Comedy Central you are the worst channel on TV.
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Read that interview with Patton, its pretty good.
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Pretty good.
And yeah, I have heard that argument about Rocky before, how parts I, II & III reflect Stallone's personal life (Alex Baldwin describes even better when he was the host on TCM one day) and it gives me a new appreciation for them, but I still think Rocky 2 & 3 are just crappy movies. He sold out his own character. -
Rocky three is fucking flawless. Its like a good Scorsese film.
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Just loved it. Still do. 'Hey fool, hey Crreeedd!
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To me all the later movies sum up what is wrong with the Rocky series and a lot of movies in general: Rocky has to win. No matter what, Rocky has to win.
The first Rocky was about a guy proving he wasn't a loser by going the distance. He didn't win the fight but he proved his worth; that is a powerful statement.
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FUCK YES! Where can I find it? Anyone seen his other horror movie?
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Again. Not as good a second time. Its ok. And this movie was pretty close to my real life, so I could relate to a lot of it.
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Can I get a British yey or nay on this one?
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I was really looking forward to seeing 9 on the big screen. But all these TV spots scream rental. Like it just looks like, it well be OK at best. Oh well I'll just go to bed depressed, as my cats sniff each others butts?
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So, the first one I found had fucked up sound and the second one had fucked up aspect ratio. Luckily, third time's the charm.
part 1: http://tinyurl.com/ny896s
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Aug 28, 2009 3:44:01 AM CDT
Rocky is a fucking awesome flick
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
If you don't tear up at the end then you have a heart of fucking stone. Rocky 2 is great as well. Not as good as the first, but still great. Rocky 3-4 are a bit too cartoonish and indulgent but still very enjoyable. But one of the main problems with these two is the simple fact that part of the reason we love Rocky is that he's the underdog. The bum from the slums of philadelphia. In these flicks he's in a fucking mansion playing with fucking robots. We lose our connection to the character. Rocky 5 sucks. Rocky 6 is quality. It's interesting how the Rocky films correspond to Stallones career.
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Aug 28, 2009 3:48:03 AM CDT
Frankie did the definitive analysis of Rocky
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Over at MyMavra.
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But I don't think it deserved Best Picture in 1976. I think three of the other four nominations were much better (ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN, NETWORK and TAXI DRIVER) and were much more deserving of the Oscar.
But think about what a fucking great year in movies 1976 was; you can make a strong argument that the winner didn't deserve it over three other films, and that winner was fuckin' ROCKY! Talk about a great year for movies (and MARATHON MAN, CARRIE, 1900 and THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES couldn't even get nominated). -
Good moments and scenes but bloated as hell.
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Yeah, great year.
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Aug 28, 2009 4:25:12 AM CDT
1973 was pretty fucking awesome as well
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
American Graffiti, Badlands, The Exorcist, Enter the Dragon, Mean Streets, Serpico, The Sting Fuck I LOVE The Sting.
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That was 1973 as well.
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Aug 28, 2009 4:38:49 AM CDT
The older I get though the bigger my appreciation for the 80s
by continentalop
Not the major Hollywood movies and Academy Award stuff. The 80s was pretty much a horrible movie for "great" movies, but the b-films, the lower budget movies and the genre films were pretty good in the 80s the more I think about it.
The 80s never produced master pieces like TAXI DRIVER, GODFATHER, DOG DAY AFTERNOON, FRENCH CONNECTION or NETWORK, but it did produce THE HOWLING, FRIGHT NIGHT, TERMINATOR, ALIENS, BODY HEAT, BLOW OUT, BODY DOUBLE, BLOOD SIMPLE, THIEF, THIS IS SPINAL TAP, VICE SQUAD and Cronenberg's most interesting work IMO (FLY, DEAD ZONE, DEAD RINGERS, SCANNERS and VIDEODROME). -
Aug 28, 2009 4:56:51 AM CDT
For shame, Conti... For shame...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
You failed to mention the greatest flick of all time!!! BACK TO THE FUTURE!!!
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at his peak in the 80's. He may be more acceptable nowadays, but he isn't as good.
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Aug 28, 2009 5:04:28 AM CDT
Rob Zombie to remake 'The Blob'
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
"My intention is not to have a big red blobby thing -- that's the first thing I want to change," Zombie said. "That gigantic Jello-looking thing might have been scary to audiences in the 1950s, but people would laugh now." Sweet jesus. Yet ANOTHER Rob Zombie flick I won't see.
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Flied lice hulk was on telly again when I got in last night, and I watched about 10 minutes. Predictably it was the dogfight. How the fuck you can defend that malignant tumour of a film is beyond me. Brie-and-wife-beating Hulk is utterly average, but there isn't anything as utterly wank in it as that scene. Not to mention that the split screen editing is totally wank as well.
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that's like Eli Roth's funhouse idea. Cunts, the lot of them.
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Aug 28, 2009 5:14:04 AM CDT
I'll put it simply, since you're a...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
shower dodging, toothless, slobbering, inbred mongoloid. Flied lice Hulk = Good Pepe Le Pew Hulk = Bad
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Aug 28, 2009 5:14:33 AM CDT
The problem I had with Ang Lee's split screen in THE HULK
by continentalop
Was that he was trying to imitate comic book panels. Which is a clever idea, except comic book panels don't show the same situation/moment from 3-4 different angles. Comic book panels are jumps in SPACE and TIME, not just different camera angles.
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is an OK film with one fuck of a central performance from Irons. Better than his oscar winning turn in Reversal of Fortune
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But Ang Lee's was just bad. B-A-D. It was like a road map of how NOT to make a super hero movie.
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True enough, but obviously that wouldn't work in film. To have jump cuts between Hulk picking something up, then throwing it, then it crashing into soemthing, then Hulk roaring or whatever just wouldn't work. He was trying to merge the two formats. It worked for me.
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Has gynecological tools for mutant women. That alone makes it memorable.
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I will also put it simply for you: Slave Labour Hulk= dogshit, Dismal personal hygiene and acceptable adultery Hulk= meh.
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Ang Lee's Hulk is how you make a fucking superhero pic. Merd's Hulk is a fucking sub-moronic empty noise and fury show for halfwits like Jarv. As Ebert says... It blows stuff up real good.
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when he tries to use that corpse clamp on the woman.
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Take the helicopter sequence. Instead of showing five or six shots of helicopters flying in split screen, you could show:
1 Split screen showing the Helicopter EXT as it flies over the desert.
2 Another Split screen showing the helicopter INT like the pilot.
3. Another split screen showing General Thunderbolt Ross and the men at Gamma Base talking to the pilots.
4) The Hulk hearing the helicopters approach.
And that is actually still a cheat because it all takes place at the same time. What Ang Lee did was just the same thing they did in Carrie and Junior Bonner and movies in the 70s, nothing new and nothing like comic books.
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Utter bollocks.Pwawn Cwacker Hulk is a superhero movie for pretentious cunts exercising in intellectual onanism that are too ashamed to admit that they're watching a film about a big green mongoloid smashing things.
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Aug 28, 2009 5:29:42 AM CDT
There were moments when he used them that way
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
But they weren't used as much during the action scenes. Like during the scenes when they had Banner in the underground lab and made him turn into Hulk. He showed Hulk in one panel, Ross in another, Betty in another. I suppose it may have been too difficult to follow during action sequences.
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stitched fingers together Hulk? Seriously? This must be about the 10th time it's been on this year. Droid's watched it every time.
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With big father issues and all that shit. Yes, the Hulk is a childish character Lee, that is why he works and that is how you should portray him. The Hulk at his best (even better than Peter David's depiction) has always been about a weak intellectual who becomes a raging child-like monster when he is angry. It is something every kid can relate too, and every adult with childish heart still can relate too.
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Aug 28, 2009 5:33:06 AM CDT
I'm not the one watching it every time, numbnuts
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
You keep watching it, then coming in to work the next day to report back about how much you hate it. You need to start upping your monthly quota from Lovefilm or something. Your "I hate Hulk" schtick is getting tiresome. There's only so much patience I have for the mentally handicapped.
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That's my complaint. The split-screen thing sucks, and I think the worst use of it is in Nolte and Bana's "Actor's studio" scene at the end (one of the worst things ever filmed". Is there any reason at all to do it in what is essentially a two handed wank between 2 self involved cunts taking the whole thing far too seriously? Fuck's sake. Repeat after me "HULK IS NOT A GREEK TRAGEDY, AND ANYONE THAT MAKES SAID COMPARISON IS A CUNT"
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Even my example was a bad one because it takes place all in one time. Which is what Peckinpah and De Palma already did and they were not trying to imitate a comic book.
A better example would be something like:
General Ross talking to his men about how they will hunt the Hulk and Banner and as he talks we see additional split screens of:
Of Helicopters looking for Banner and the Hulk
Foot patrols looking for them.
Banner hiding somewhere, afraid to go out because he might be caught.
And Betty Ross sitting in a room worry about Banner.
All this in a series of split screens. This at least would be like a comic because it would be jumps in SPACE (different locations) and TIME (Ross talking about looking for the Hulk accompanied by that action and Banner hiding).
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I saw 10 minutes of it. Hmph. It's the fact that it keeps being on that reminds me.
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Aug 28, 2009 5:37:40 AM CDT
I liked that there was more depth than I expected
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I knew very little about the character going in to the cinema. I just thought it was a geek who turns into Hulk and starts destroying shit. The fact that it was more than that actually kept me interested. Then frenchies Hulk reverted back to that moronic level of character.
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Aug 28, 2009 5:40:33 AM CDT
THE HULK isn't Greek Tragedy, he is like every other super hero
by continentalop
Child Power Wish Fulfillment. He is also a character that kids and young people could relate too.
He is someone week and easily ignored (as Banner) who when angry turns into someone you can't ignore. That is wish fulfillment.
And people could relate to him because he was angry (kids are angry), he is dumb (inexperienced and uneducated writ large), and he is persecuted because he is different and they fear him (like a generation of kids don't relate to that).
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in the action scenes. I hate to say this, but I've come to the conclusion that I actually don't like Ang Lee films. They either bore me (Lust, Caution or Brokeback Mountain) or actively irritate me (Crouching Tiger, Hulk). With the exception of The Ice Storm. Which is mint.And before you start, Crouching Tiger has the same problem as Hulk- he's trying to do something with it that the subject matter doesn't support. I remember seeing him interviewed at the time and he kept wittering on and on about it being like Jane Austen. It isn't. It's better than that, but attempting to do Austen in the context of a martial arts film is as ridiculous as doing Greek Tragedy in Hulk.
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Aug 28, 2009 5:41:23 AM CDT
Jarv, you're like that fucking annoying kid in school
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
With your hand right up as far as it can go. "ooh! ooh! Guess what I watched again last night! ooh! ooh!" You need new material.
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is the Bixby one with Thor in it. That's hilarious. The rest of them aren't up to much. I think I just don't like Hulk, actually.
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I never read comic books when I was a kid. Well, I read Tintin and Asterix, but no superhero ones. So I never got that wish fulfilment thing. To me, Hulk is a fucking stupid character. Lee's Hulk made it interesting because he actually made the character more than some adolescent wish fulfilment.
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I've moved on to Crouching Tiger and Ang Lee in general now. Do try and keep up or we'll send you back to the naughty chair, and you can put your conical dunce cap on. Anyhow, I've never used some of this material before. It's not my fault that it's on every fucking month and I get reminded.
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I saw it as genre revisionism, like MCCABE AND MRS. MILLER, UNFORGIVEN and LITTLE BIG MAN.
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and also think that Hulk is a fucking stupid character. However, the attempt to add layers that the concept couldn't support infuriated me no end. BTW- Asterix is fucking great.
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He is a guy who turns into a hulking green monster when he is angry. I can't see that as subject matter for a real intelligent movie.
Ang Lee should have done Superman instead. It is much more mythic and deeper than the Hulk. The Hulk is really kids desire to go out and break things. It is the only movie I would be willing to hire Michael Bay to direct. -
Ice Storm is his masterpiece. I haven't seen Brokeback or Lust, Caution. Hulk has been covered. Crouching Tiger I saw at the cinema and quite liked. I've never felt compelled to watch it again. Sense and Sensibility was okay from memory.
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Actually, that's not a bad idea.
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I fucking despise Austen and you could not pay me to watch a film based on one of her mind-numbing, grossly overrated tomes. So I've never seen it. That Western one he did bored me as well. I'm well aware that I'm the only person in the world that doesn't like CTHD.
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I think he could do a good Superman.
He knows action/fantasy (CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRGON) and he is good enough at romance to have two cowboys fall in love and people could buy it. He could do the Lois-Clark relationship justice. -
is such an epically awful film. A UK Critic called it "Boredom Porn" and that's a perfect description of it. Pretentious cunts try to stand up for it (as they do with every Ang Lee film), but there is really no getting round how dull it is and how unsympathetic the central characters are, and how fucking predictable it is. It's truly atrocious and an utter waste of (I think it's Tony Leung) an actor that I usually like who isn't so much as sleepwalking as in some kind of coma.
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Aug 28, 2009 5:57:46 AM CDT
The problem with Superman IMO...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
...and Supes is probably my favorite comic book character... Is that he is a product of a bygone era. There is too much innocent wonder, not enough tortured, disturbed soul for todays audiences. They pose the same difficulty as what faces the Captain America flick. I would personally like to see a period Superman film.
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Yes. I was bored by that as well. And I usually love those western/civil war flicks.
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No seriously. I am so sick of them forcing filmmakers to add bad elements to a movie it is driving me nuts. Every character needs to have some sort of internal conflict or they have to be brooding, whiners like they are when they sit at home or in their cubicles. Sorry, not everyone is like we are - some people behave differently, hence why they act differently than us.
If FRENCH CONNECTION came out this year some studio exec or producer would force Freidkin to make POPEYE DOYLE into this doubting, anguished character. Every character nowadays is from the same cookie cutter soap opera. They are all average joes in hero drag. -
--Losing at Waterloo Hulk vs. Mao's Stretchy Underwear Hulk. I say go w/ the Waterloo Hulk, myself. I had fun w/ it. The Mao Hulk at least you got the great Desert scene-Fuck you, it's good-and a vacant Jenny Connolly being barked at by a 9 foot poodle. Waterloo Hulk you had Tim Roth being kicked around like a football and then hitting Waterloo H right thru a skyscraper. You hadda like That, at least. Neither film is anything you'd wanna watch more than once, though. Crouching Tigger is okay but not my fave. I say go watch In Bruges again. Mikey Bay's Jane Austen Trilogy!!!! I'll watch THAT!
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Aug 28, 2009 6:09:03 AM CDT
I'd like to see a Fincher Superman
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
It would've been interesting if he'd made Spiderman. He met with the studio but ran for the fucking hills when he realised what kind of flicks they wanted to make.
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Or a Bigelow anything really... She needs to work more.
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-Emperor of the North, Scarecrow, and the Snowball Express. Yes. I remember watching the last one a couple times as a kid, we liked it. Yes I know it stars Fred MacMurray and Sherman Potter and (I think) Ruth Gordon. It's still fun.
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You know I'm right. Search your feelings.
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Robert Aldrich did good work in the 70s. Ulzana's Raid before this and The Longest Yard after this were all great movies.
Scarecrow, eh. Good performances but nothing special. Preferred the movie the director did before this, Panic in Needle Park.
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The man who gave us "arrow cam" can give us "Supes cam". Make it so. I'm not kidding.
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I heard he wanted to start right out with the death of Gwen Stacy. Sure, at least he wouldn't have wimp-ed out like Raimi, but where do you go after that?
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Aug 28, 2009 6:18:56 AM CDT
I might go see The Hurt Locker again
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Since I saw it last year and it's only just been released at the cinema here. Fucking great flick.
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He wasn't interested in the origin story. But the studio wanted to start there. Is what I heard.
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And as it went along, the more into it I got. It turned into a mystery, and I liked how it all played out. Nice film. I did a double take though, when Jodie Foster popped up. I was like whaaaa??
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that fucking bypassed the "origin" story.
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And you have to let the series build or else Gwen's death wouldn't have that big of impact. To me just going right to the death of Gwen Stacy is like if someone said I just want to do the Return of the King, forget the first two books. The death of Gollum would hold no meaning, and neither would Frodo's desire to go sail on the White Ship. You need to have people invest in her and Spidey before you have something traumatic happen IMO.
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Then I would say #2...and then after that it doesn't matter.
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with Superman. 1)He's too powerful. Seriously. This has 2 effects- firstly it makes him dull and impossible to empathise with and secondly, or there to be a credible/ interesting threat in the film you have to come up with a villain that can basically bitch slap god. 2)As a direct result of 1) his only weakness is fucking ridiculous lumps of space rock. I saw Smallville for the first time this morning and there seems to be fucking kryptonite everywhere. It's daft.
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which is not what Sammy boy has done.
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That didn't have an origin story. It does mention the history of The Phantom, but no screen time dedicated to it.
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Burton's Batman. Spidey's origin has to be done, because it's such a defining motivation for the character. Everything the cunt does stems from that.
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To me those should be the most interesting part of a heroes life. Going from an average joe into this guy who can fly or lift cars or shoot energy beams or whatever should be like the most life-changing event ever.
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to match up to Supes, then I don't think it's an issue as to the level of power he has. It just has to be a legitimate threat to Supes and the world, and show Supes having to make a sacrifice to save the world that he has grown so connected to.
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how fucking hard can it be. Someone needs to get some kind of impulse control on those films. Who on earth thought it would be a good idea to have 3 fucking villains and Sandman kill uncle ben? Rubbish, says I.
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I'll take your word for it that it's not an origin story.
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but you're right.
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now, call me uninformed but I was always under the delusion that Superman's villain list was pretty wank. Which is why you get shit like 3 kryptonians come to earth. Or they depower him for some daft reason. Or luthor throws rocks at him till he goes away. The point being, though, that for a proper villain they've got to jump through ridiculous narrative hoops.
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Which is what was good about Superman 1 and 2. While they did feature Kryptonite, they also had three badasses that could "bitch-slap god". And they created situations and dilemmas out of Supes (presumed) control. Lois dying, choosing to be mortal etc. Am I mistaken or when Supes was originally created he wasn't so all powerful? Or am I making that up?
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For American power. Before WWII he was powerful, but not God-like and he was worried about serious domestic issues (worker's rights, arms dealers and war mongers, organized crime) but after WWII when we became this super-power, so did Superman.
That is why his great powers never bothered me. Really nothing can "hurt" the US, but a lot of things can annoy us or become moral challenges to us. And just when we do get cocky and think we are invincible, along comes something that knocks us off our perch like a piece of alien rock (or a bunch of Arab zealots flying a plane into our buildings). -
I don't necessarily think the origin of Hank Pym (wasn't that his name?) would be interesting. Just like how much backstory do you show for Steven Rogers before he becomes Capt America? I would think that could be served in flashbacks when he underwent the treatment.
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Or at least explanation why he became Batman. Including screen time dedicated to it.
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I just don't think they work well outside of comics. Bizarro in comics is great, in the movies he would be a retard Frankenstein's Monster in Supe's costume. Mr. Mxyzptlk has the same problem; he is a WB cartoon character in the cartoons and comics who can do anything; how can you do that in a movie (unless maybe you base him on ST:TNG's Q)?
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I assumed that he must have some villains that can give him trouble.Maybe some coked up whore he got pregnant who wants money?
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I have considered checking it out. Is it worth it?
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But I think Hank Pym would have an interesting origin. His first story was "THE MAN WHO FELL INTO THE ANT HILL" and it basically was a horror story. Only later did they bring the character back and make him ANT-MAN.
Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Captain America, a lot of the Golden Age heroes don't need origin stories because they aren't really regular joes who get powers - they are Gods and Demi-Gods and mythic heroes from the beginning.
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don't forget how they resolved the situations: Superman spun the globe backwards to travel back in time (which is inherently ridiculous), and the expanding S thingummyjig. They're good films, though.
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He is the perfect foil for Superman because he really is his opposite. Superman is a God who thinks he isn't above his fellow man; Luthor is a man who thinks he is above his fellow man and should be treated like a God.
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I think Capt America would be interesting, I just doubt it would come off good on screen. I mean, taking it from WWII with the Invaders (Namor would probably come off quite silly though) to 'present' time....
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He flew faster than light and travelled back in time. The reversing of the globe was just a visual clue to the audience to help them understand what was going on.
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totally depends on the origin. Do we need Wolverine's origin, for example? I get that we do, to some extent, "need" Superman/ Spiderman/ Batman's origin, but can anything be gained from Wonder Woman's? Isn't she a greek goddess or some such shit? If they ever do that film, I hope they do it the same way that Burton did Batman. Smallville is shit droid. It's horrid soap-opera wank. That international clagnut Messi (Most Excellent Ninja), thinks it's better than the godfather.
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How would a guy who lives in water, wears just swim trunks and has wings on his ankles be silly?
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a REAL plan, then it could work.Fucking real estate...really?And I only liked the second Superman movie. It bothers me to no end about the "throw the earth's rotation in reverse" bullshit.
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I wasn't thinking straight.
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That's what it looked like to me when I was 9. The fact that I now know it's a visual metaphor isn't the point. Point being, it was a daft resolution to the story. Don't even get me started on the whole fucking around with causality nonsense involved in that.
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Fuck.
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Singer's homofest killed the character dead. Superman Returns is one of the unholy triumvate of assreamingly bad films that I think are the absolute nadir of comic book adaptations (the other 2 being Spiderman 3 and Batman and Robin).
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I think would be handled better by not revealing them completely. Just as flashbacks or quick glimpses.
For Example: Cap could be just a combo of his first appearances on a TIME NEWS ON THE MARCH Newsreel and Top Secret reports to FDR. We don't need anything more than that.
I think Nolan showing Batman's complete origin didn't really add anything to the character. It was interesting, but Batman is a lot like James Bond - and you only know that Bond got his second 0 in the beginning of Casino Royale and it was quite effective. Everything else important about him was just hinted at by Eva Green in the car ride, and it was only hinted at. I will give Burton credit, I think he handled Batman's origin better than Nolan. We just have to know his parent's were murdered and he has trained since to become a crime fighter. I don't need much else in back story, -
Aug 28, 2009 6:47:39 AM CDT
I didn't hate Superman Returns
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
No. It wasn't good. But it wasn't as terrible as some (not looking at anyone in particular, Jarv) make it out to be.
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The reversing globe was, don't you Jarv?
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It is really his only foe who is truly antithetical to Superman. I just think they really have to reboot Luthor; the way Hackman did him is old and how Singer did him with Stacy was just lame.
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Aug 28, 2009 6:51:36 AM CDT
The main problem with Returns is...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
besides the kid, is it's mishandled dedication to Donners flicks. What the world needs is either a period setting reboot or a direct sequel to Returns that pumps up the action and has Supes involved in some building destroying royal rumbles with a villian of equal match.
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you mean he was actually spinning the earth backwards? hmmm, apologies. I seem to have my irony set to low today. Droid, I feel about Superman Returns how you feel about Speed Racer. I consider it to be the worst film of a piss poor year, and think it is so bad that it makes X3 look good.
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Aug 28, 2009 6:54:03 AM CDT
Luthor should be completely amoral
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
He's been used as comic relief. Time for a different take on him.
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If you had to face Superman, what would you do? How can you fight him?
But if you threaten to kill people every time Superman interferes, or if you gave him moral dilemma's, than maybe you could "defeat" him. Superman's greatest weakness is his benevolence. If you are someone who is willing to kill thousands just to hit Superman wear he hurts, you actually are a foe he is going to have trouble with. -
In my defense, Superman sometimes likes to wear his pain.
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That is one of many fucking problems with it. How about the gross mishandling of all the characters? he's meant to be Superman for fuck's sake, not moping, stalking Douchebagman. lois Lane is not meant to be a horrid shrew that treats her new hubby like a chump and may possibly be an anorexic end stage smackhead. Luthor is not some homosexual bumbling clown that cons old women out of inheritance and then comes up with some half-witted real-estate scam. The husband and Kid were disastrously misguided ideas. It looked like shit. There's plot holes you can drive a truck through. It's boring. The dialogue is bad. it's cheesy without being entertaining and totally lacks balls. Why drop "and the American Way" from his saying?I can go on with this all day
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We need the evil Luthor who appeared in the early 40s, parts of the 50s, and in the 80s and 90s.
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Singer's film was all "moral". Especially regarding the kid. (Leaving aside the fact that it is completely immoral to use your super powers to hide in a bush furiously masturbating while your ex makes dinner and talks about what a shithead you are). I think he needs to kick some ass against a proper foe. I keep hearing about Darkseid. What the fuck is a Darkseid and would it be a good idea to film him?
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How the fuck do you deal with the kid? (worst idea for a Superman film, ever). I think you've got 2 options, you either man up and have a super villain (like one of these Darkseid thingys) kill him in the beginning, but I hear that it is unthinkable to kill a kid in a Superman film. Or alternatively, you retcon the whole sorry abortion and pretend it never happened.
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He was made by Jack "The King" Kirby, and part of his Fourth World which is in the DC universe. He is a "New God", a god of Evil who controls the planet Apocalypse and fights the New Gods of New Genesis. Think if we never came up with Christianity and monotheism and we came up with a new mythology and Pantheon of gods and that is the idea.
I love Darkseid, but when you take him out of the New Gods and put him in Superman he just becomes Dr. Doom and Darth Vader. He is only the evil Dark One with no connection to Superman or his mythology. I think people want to see him fight Supes because he is tough and looks cool.
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because I don't read comics, I don't know much about the villians outside of the movies. So Bizarro Superman, Darkseid, whoever... I don't know who these villians are and what they do.
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Aug 28, 2009 7:09:16 AM CDT
That's the problem with a direct sequel
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
And I'd say ditch it and restart it. Or do it period. But I like Routh as Superman. Why can't you kill a kid in a Superman flick? It would certainly set the fucking tone for the flick if they killed that floppy haired muppet in the first five minutes.
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I think they were Soap operas. I think a moral choice is always the most interesting thing in many action movies.
Imagine a war movie where generals and presidents debate the morality of an action, like in Fail Safe. That is the kind of moral decisions I want to see Superman to face. Here is a man with godlike powers - now what is the right way to use them? If you attack or arrest Luthor he will detonate a bomb that will kill hundreds. What is the moral choice: let him continue on plotting something horrible or putting a stop to him now at the expense of innocent life? That is a real moral choice, not narcissistically pining over your ex-girlfriend. -
Braniac? Are you joking? there's a villain called Braniac? I remember someone killed Superman when I was a teenager. What about that cunt?
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I don't know if you are familiar with them, but I think most people couldn't name one Spider-Man villain before the first movie. And the same with Superman foes - as long as you can make them interesting, they could work.
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is the cunt who killed Superman when you were a teenager. He directed Superman IV: The Quest for Peace. Buddum-CHING!
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of him being in the wrong. He made a moral decision to bugger off and this is the consequence. Which is a staggeringly awful premise. I do agree that is potentially interesting, but there needs to be some ass kicking at some point. Cereberal superhero movies are all well and good, but you need some pyrotechnics to keep the kids interested. Aside from that, though I agree about it being kitchen sink morality rather than grand scale ethics. Droid, I keep seeing some cunt called Ultimarex pop up with it, and I assume he knows more than I do. I agree, I don't see any reason why you can't ace the brat.
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I knew about Sandman and Doctor Octopus. I have no idea how.
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And I think Brainaic is a great foe. Yes, he has a corny name (but many comic book writers have rationalized why he has it). He is an alien android - a computer with knowledge from all over the universe who has been programmed to conquer.
Imagine HAL inside the Terminator's body, with elements of Skynet and the computer from the Matrix thrown in.
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The Quest for Peace is better than Returns. Reason being, it was massively shit, but they were able to resusitate the character. Singer killed it dead then arse raped the corpse. Look into your hearts, you know this to be true.
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That was a good one.
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so he's a big lumbering mono-syllabic cunt that bitchslaps superman? No thanks. Why not change Braniac's name to something that isn't daft. Or don't give him a name at all- because that does sound quite good.
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I knew of Doc Octopus, Venom, Sandman, Goblin, and some big daft cunt called something like Rhino. No idea why- but that's more than Superman.
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does Supes ever interact with The Green Lantern/Hornet (whichever one has the ring)? Since ones an alien and one works for an organisation that is made up of aliens. Just randomly wondering.
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Just because that is who he is. How he gets that name or who calls him that I would leave up to some writer.
I would be willing to accept the idea that Superman, Luthor or some army or government official came up with the name - a nickname for an anonymous alien intelligence they are facing. Like I said, they don't have to call him Brainaic often, but for my liking just enough to acknowledge that is who the character is. -
Aug 28, 2009 7:27:15 AM CDT
Batman is the only character I knew a lot about
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Villians-wise, because I saw the tv show. But now I learn theres cunts like Killer Croc or some shit which just doesn't really work in my head as Batman villian.
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Both are members of the Justice League and have teamed up on number of occasions.
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Aug 28, 2009 7:32:11 AM CDT
Okay, one more ignoramous question for the expert
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
What the hell was that Batman vs Superman flick they were considering making a few years ago? How was that going to work?
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You go back to his first couple of appearances. Back then he was just a big, muscle bound (obviously black) guy from Florida who used to wrestle gators (which is an actual side-show attraction in the south, or used to be).
He also suffered from Ichthyosis, a real life skin condition which gives people scaly like skin. He was like a modern Dick Tracy foe.
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If he's a computer... what's his motivation for world domination? Couldn't he just be reprogrammed? Does he have minions? If so, what are they?
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Does the colour Yellow really fuck him up? That's hilarious.
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Oh, I can think of hundreds of those.
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Oh, okay. I saw some pic of him where he actually looked like a huge crocodile.
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Aug 28, 2009 7:37:36 AM CDT
I don't know what the hell is going on with that movie droid
by continentalop
And I for one don't care to see it. Superman vs. batman (Superman always gets top billing) started in The Dark Knight Returns and now has become this stupid meme that they two are always destined to fight. No, the two are destined to team up. World's Finest Comics used to do that every month.
Superman vs. Batman IMO would be a dumb fight - having Bats win or put up a fight would always be a cop out. But having the two team up, where the Man of Steel needs help from the World's Greatest Detective, that I could see. Superman is a lot of things, a master of deductive reason is not one of them. -
Aug 28, 2009 7:40:32 AM CDT
I watched a bit of that GL: First Flight
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
And there is some mystical yellow orb or some shit that is under protection by the green lantern organisation because it's dangerous or whatever. It's like their kryptonite i think.
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He's a giant crocodile. I saw it in a cartoon the other day. I think Ron Perlman voiced him.
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Aug 28, 2009 7:42:58 AM CDT
Since when is Batman the world greatest detective?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Is that what his character is supposed to be? He certainly doesn't come off as that in any of the movies.
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Is a silly name, but he was made in a silly time period. The 50s. I just want them to keep the name because I am a comic book purist in some ways.
Brainiac does talk. Depending on the writer, but usually he sounds like HAL - completely cold and logical.
His motivation depends on the last guy who wrote him. The usual motivation is that he is a computer programmed for conquering - and because of that he follows his program to a t. He can't be reasoned with or pleaded with. The other motivation they have added is that he scours planets for their greatest resource - knowledge. After he steals it all (by downloading info from computers and such) he destroys the worlds because know it is a more precious commodity - he is the only one who possesses it.
Yes he can be reprogrammed. But you have to be damn smart to reprogram an alien computer. Only one man in comics that I know of has been able to do that - Lex Luthor. Guy is smart enough to reprogram Brainiac to serve him.
And yes, he does have minions. Once again, depends on the writer. But usually he has an army of robots and AI controlled vehicles. Think Skynet and the computer in the Matrix with their terminators, flying Hunter-Killers and drones. -
shit idea. It was a shit idea when Miller did it in DKR (Which I've read). He had to depower superman and put Batman in some kind of dopey Bat-robot-suit thing to even pretend it's a contest. And Superman still kicked his ass.
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But when he first appeared he was more like a Dick Tracy foe.
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is just the shittest, gayest, stupidest idea. I'm really sorry, and from what I understand it is superbly written, but a magic fucking ring that he uses to make transparent shapes to clobber opponents with. Not to mention the whole gets fucked up by the colour yellow thing. I freely admit my ignorance of GL, and I'm sure it is epic, but nothing about it strikes me as good.
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Aug 28, 2009 7:47:43 AM CDT
Ask toad about Batman being the World's Greatest Detective
by continentalop
Because that is what he is in the comics. He first appeared in Detective Comics, and basically all his stories are detective stories. For some fucking reason they can never get that angle right in any movie.
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means that I have nothing but admiration for the writers for overcoming the obvious limitations of their subject matter. Kudos. On an additional note, while I'm thinking about it, I heard about other lanterns like blue ones. This is hilarious. It's like superheros on acid.
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If you are a kid. Logic and Green Lantern (and Flash and The Atom and Wonder Woman) are not friends.
Green Lantern's ring is controlled by willpower. You have to be fearless to be a Green Lantern. What is the color of fear? Yellow (yellow belly, yellow stripe down your back). Hence Green Lantern's rings don't effect yellow.
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of fear demon thing. That's silly. I always thought mysticism should be kept out of batman.
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that are too shy to buy porn.
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envy is green. You'd think bravery would be, erm, blue?
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I just fell out of love with them when they kept trying to make them adult. I think comics (or at least super-hero comics) should be for kids or people who want to read something childish once-in-awhile. The more you try and make super-heroes serious and adult, the harder time I have taking them seriously.
Like THE DARK KNIGHT. All these people talking about how realistic it is. It is about a guy fighting crime in a bat costume without guns - how fucking realistic is that? -
I consider that to be a lazy label bandied about by half wits. The word I would use is plausible. Or at least as plausible as a mentally unblanced billionaire fighting crime dressed as a bat can be.
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reason. He is based on an earlier hero called Green Lantern, who had the same powers but was very different. Think Nosferatu vs Bela Lugosi's Dracula.
So they took the name Green Lantern, changed real name (Alan Scott to Hal Jordan), his origin (it went from magic fantasy to sci-fi) and changed his weakness (went from wood to the color Yellow). They stayed with Green because the original character was called Green Lantern. Plus the color green is the sign for safety - the green light or arrow here in the states for traffic. -
I always liked to say they had the "illusion of realism". They made it seem realistic if you didn't think to much.
I think people who view Batman as "realistic" are people who would love an ongoing Watchmen series. They don't seem to get that Alan Moore was saying super-heroes could never exist in the real world. -
are actors who act like they are serious in the movie. Forget about the character of Batman himself...the actors didn't ham it up or wear ghoulish clothes...It made it seem, stealing Jarv's word here, plausible.
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Halloween II is shit.Wow, caught me off guard with that one!
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One problem with TDK for me though is they treat it way to serious, in tone and theme. Nolan acts like he is trying to say something incredibly poignant or important. That is one thing that drives me nuts about the film.
End of the day, it is about a man dressed as a bat who doesn't use a gun fighting a man in clown makeup who can intimidate actual mobsters and criminals. Whatever serious subtext you had is now lost on me. -
Aug 28, 2009 8:07:56 AM CDT
Nolans Batmans aren't "realistic"...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
it's more that they're "plausible". Particularly Begins, where everything seemed plausible because you actually saw Wayne figuring it out as he went along. He didn't all of a sudden have a million cool gadgets. When he realised there was a need for them he acquired them. And you saw him testing them etc.
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I'm 5 minutes late to the "plausible" party!
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Aug 28, 2009 8:09:27 AM CDT
And despite the fact that we have been talking super-hero movies
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I could live without another one for a couple of years. They make way to many of them IMO.
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It never crossed my mind that Nolan was trying to get something important across though.I just saw it as the stakes had gone up against Batman, and that he actually could lose something (which he did in Rachel, Harvey to the dark side, mansion burned down in the first one)....
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then we would have an outstanding Western every year.
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Aug 28, 2009 8:12:07 AM CDT
it's okay droid...it's BYOP party, so you're in luck
by just pillow talk
The dip and chips are in the corner.
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One thing they were missing in TDK and should add in a sequel is show Batman WORK OUT. To be as good as he is, and to stay top notch he has to have a grueling workout schedule. Think how much working and training the SOF doe, or a pro-boxer or MMA fighter does. I know Randy Couture works out 6 days a week for 8 hours a day when readying for a fight. Well Batman has a potential fight every night.
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Too many superhero flicks. I need more flicks like The Hurt Locker and In Bruges. Well written, well acted, well directed. Just some fucking quality for once. I'm not "looking forward" to a single superhero flick. Not one. I don't care. Westerns in particular have been sparse recently. And by recently I mean the past 20+ fucking years. The last great one I can think of was Open Range. And before that? Unforgiven? Surely there was something in between.
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AND they could resurrect John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, Gary Gooper, Charles Bronson and Randolph Scott and Hollywood still wouldn't make a fucking Western.
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Australian yes, but to me that was a Western. And a fucking brilliant one at that.
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Aug 28, 2009 8:22:01 AM CDT
The Proposition is indeed great
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I'm looking forward to seeing The Road.
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Aug 28, 2009 8:24:55 AM CDT
Everyone google the name Jaycee Lee Dugard in the news section.
by series7
Right now.
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Fart. Not for me sorry. Maybe I'll check it again but it was just boring the first time round.
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Is that the girl who went missing?
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But that doesn't mean that I want to see it moved to other hero films.
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Deadwood.
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Not enough neon?
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Yea.
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But I am also apprehensive. I think they got the right director for it, but the Weinsteins always get me nervous. They are famous for having to put their "touch" upon a movie and make it more commercial - GONY and Cold Mountain are just two cases. From what I have seen of the trailers I worry they have extended Charlize Theron's part in an effort to give the film more "heart".
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Was just boring. And the Ass of Jesse James was another good western.
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Is because Opra told me it was good.
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and Caine making a comment to that effect. I don't especially want to see him working out solidly.
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But hopefully it'll just be the Fucksteins amping up her scenes to sell the audience on a name. Like the fucking news items about natural disasters at the start of the trailer. There better not be a fucking explanation for the disaster.
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Been meaning to.
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So I guess I'll just have to wait for the DVD then.
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disaster or apocalypse movie nowadays. People have seen so many of them and are aware of the genre that they don't need much explanation.
It is like the old days of the Western - the audiences knew enough about the genre that you just had to show a cavalry scout and an indian and that was enough explanation for why they were fighting. -
Aug 28, 2009 8:35:31 AM CDT
I want Billy Bob to release his DC of...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
All The Pretty Horses. Apparantly it's brilliant. Apparantly. But he won't do it without the original score. And the original score is owned by the composer and he won't allow it because he got fucked over in the first place! Fuck it!
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Cold Mountain! Yuck!Horrid Oscar bait shit. Jude Law was diabolically bad in that, and don't get me started on Kidman.
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You got some real screwed up complex about Batman. You want him to be less serious, but you want the Villian to me more real. You want it to be about a guy in a suit, but you want to see him staying in shape. You want him to be a real person, but you never want to see him lose. Pretty much to you Batman is everything...and nothing.
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Yes, Batman is the worlds greatest detective. At least that is what he is billed as in his books for the past fifty years or so - maybe even longer. He started out solving crimes - detecting. Using his genius to track down foes, and to stop huge criminal plots - usually involving the safety of the country, but also in recovering kidnap victims etc. Conti is right, the Adam West Batman was the only one that really tried to utilize those skills - albeit in a campy way. You saw a brief glimpse of it with Keaton, when he solved the Jokers beauty products and deodorizing ploy - when it killed all users and gave them joker death masks. But his detecting skills were abandoned for all subsequent movies. Bale's alluded to it, with the investigation of the Chinese, but it glossed over it so quickly that you would not really know what it meant unless you knew Batmans backstory. Yes, I would love to see that aspect brought out. It might mean less punching though, so producers are wary. I will be very interested in Downey's Holmes, to see how they solve the dilemma. It appears they are going for a more action oriented Holmes, but will they keep his detecting genius intact as well? If they balance it properly, perhaps it could be a blueprint for doing so with Batman.
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Aug 28, 2009 8:37:19 AM CDT
Also, the reason is irrelevant
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
It's not about the disaster. It's about the survival of the father and his son.
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Will ever make it to the big screen. And if they do a Deapool movie, it will be about as good as The Wolverine movie. There is not a good story in Deadpool. At best it will be as good as a Leatheal Weapon film. He pretty much is Riggs on steroids, and he doesn't give a shit about his past.
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FUCK YOU MAN! YOU SON OF A BITCH! You ruined that other TB full of people copying us! Mother fucker! Naw I'm just kidding. I tried to follow what the fuck you and Subs were even fighting about. And I didn't even get it. I just thought it was funny.
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unnecessary. Why? Are audiences too stupid to work out that it's post apocalyptic?
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Aug 28, 2009 8:42:11 AM CDT
I never got that Batman was a detective
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
He seemed to solve things with the use of technology. And that Hing Kong scene was just to get the mobile phone in with the sonar device I thought. Maybe that's what a modern day detective is.
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I want Batman to be a comic book character. That is personally how I would prefer to see him.
HOWEVER, Nolan has taken him in the direction of trying to treat him serious. If they are going to go in that direction than a Batman who works out and a gangster Penguin fits in their milieu. I didn't establish the rules of the Nolan's Batman universe, but since they have been established I am following through with it.
I didn't establish the rules of the Iron Movies either, but in those I would say that you can have the Mandarin but you can't have the him get his technology from Aliens.
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All look boring as shit. Though I want to see English because I liked Talented, but didn't like Breaking and Entering.
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and why are we interested in him getting on screen?
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I think thats it, you've read too many Batman comics that you can't get it staright what sort of Batman you want. I mean he isn't the same from comic to comic, he varies more in the comic world then he does in the movies even.
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Aug 28, 2009 8:44:53 AM CDT
What was the disaster in The Postman?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I've forgotten. Much like 99% of the film.
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Was Ryan Reynolds character in the Wolverine movie. If you ever read my comic reviews on My Mavra, he's huge right now in comics and I usually review a comic with him in it every week.
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Takes place in like 2011 to boot. I think something like Tom Petty took over the world and got ride of the Post Office and the whole world went in to dissarray.
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hated Talented Mr Ripley. Do not like Minghella at all.
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will do.
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Because when I think of Batman loseing I think him not catching the bad guy or him getting away.
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is a really good book. The movie is okay, but was chopped to pieces. Apparently by at least an hour. The English Patient is okay. Ripley is better. B&E is fucking awful. Cold Mountain sucks. It was always fighting a losing battle because it stars two people I can't stand.
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Well then I guess you've got a reason to party on January 6.
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Have I some how accidentally insulted you, because recently you seem to have this weird obsession of bringing up Scorsese or make some condescending comment about something I have written. If it is just you being humorous, that is fine. But it is coming across to me like you have a bone to pick.
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and I wonder if anyone will care. Didn't harry like the second one?
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The Lives of Others re-make probably will never happen.
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Naw not a fight. Just I think you need to put the Batman down and take a step back. I've tried to follow a lot your guys logic and its all very muddled. The Scorsee stuff is just me ribbing you, I will watch Mean Streets this weekend. We can discuss on Monday.
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Because he is a man who is going up against guys with guns and weapons all by himself. He can't afford to get knocked out or else he'll get his throat sliced. And if you want to do a character like that "realistically", I imagine you should show how much training he puts in to avoid that scenario from ever happening.
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I tried to watch Goodfellas on AMC the other day. But I couldn't stand the long silent pauses and gaps where they beeped out cuss words.
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I will fight you. And you will lose.
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But the Riddler somehow, he wouldn't kill him. He would take him back to his winnebago, weight till he comes to before he unmask him. Then when Batman comes too he will escape or something.
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There's potential there. But really, the first two were crap, especially the first one. I did like the Silver Surfer though.
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For Jarv to party about?
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But that is just a lucky scenario, not something Batman (especially Nolan's "plausible" Batman) could count on.
It is hard to imagine a cop acting like that.
"So you're not going to work out or practice self-defense."
"Naw. Way I figure it, some criminal will just knock we out and then plan to hold me hostage and I will just figure out a way to escape."
"But what if they decide to shoot you when you are down instead of taking you hostage?"
"C'mon. How likely is that?" -
Aug 28, 2009 9:00:55 AM CDT
Wow there is a lot of bad spellings in that post about batman
by series7
By not but. wait not weight. That whole things sounds like a 5 year old wrote it.
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The death of Anthony Minghella.
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What's on 6th Jan?
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That is something you do see in the comics. You've seen it. Batman working out is something you see in the comics at least once every couple of months, or at least once a year.
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Harsh, man. I don't wish death on any cunt. No matter how annoying.
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Aug 28, 2009 9:03:51 AM CDT
Would Jarv celebrate someones death?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Apart from Michael Jackson? He's a massive cunt, but he doesn't seem like a total prick.
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Someone like the Riddler would do that. Not The Joker or Meat Hooks. I mean the Riddler's whole thing is that he knows who Batman is. Yeah Batman won't plan to be knocked out, but what about The Riddler getting him in a trap or something.
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See I'm, lost. Too man different Batman conversations and convections going on at once. I wasn't saying anything about his work out habbits. Thats fine, I buy that he works out or takes steroids. I don't need a Rocky IV montage. I was just talking about him getting possibly knocked out or trapped.
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Riddler would capture him and probably put him in a death trap. But like I said Batman should never depend on that. And it would only be luck that he wasn't killed.
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I never said anything about Batman depending on that to happen? I mean I don't think Batman is gonna sit around when working in his workshop and go "Fuck it, Project Runway is on. I'll probably only get captured and escape today." I don't know where you got that from.
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I think you were making a reference to him never losing. Yeah, he could lose to the Riddler because nowadays the Riddler knows he is Bruce Wayne or figure it out and get captured by him.
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Your hopping up with joy. You found out Antony was dead and squeled with joy. Everyone in the office just turned to wonder what the fuck you were so happy about. You then had to lie to them and tell them something stupid like "Ohh I just won a bidding war on E-bay for a nice set of dishes" or something like that.
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are you two rambling on about?
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Its because people are affraid of Saw. Saw has become the most feared name in movies, since Harry's Potter.
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This is the never ending debate about Batman. Its a conversation as old as time.
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when have I ever wished death or celebrated death. I don't even do that with Eli "massive bag of cocks" Roth.
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Was Uwe Boll?
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devalued by Bond films. If you ever use one in any film then your villain instantly looks like a stupid cunt. As a rule, stupid cunts do not make good villains.
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About Saw. Never though about it, but anytime you do a death trap people are going to think you are ripping of those movies.
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Everyone is so touchy today. Its fucking Friday, and I'm getting off early. May see Bastards tonight to boot.
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I think they're talking at cross purposes. Series is talking about KO-ing Bats and Conti is talking about rocky-esque batman montages. I think.
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They are fucking screening one of his films at Fantastic Fest! WHAT THE WTF! Harry's own film festival is going to screen a Dr. Uwe Boll film. I hope we get an interview. We NEED an interview. If this site is going to survive the upcoming cold winter its gonna have to have that interview. With live video feed where fans can ask questions.
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By his very nature. The guy sends clues to the cops - riddles. He is basically trying to get caught.
I never could get why the old Super Friends cartoon had him as a member of the Legion of Doom. In most criminal organizations a guy who alerts people what you plan to do are known as snitches. -
Death traps will never appear in Batman again. It's far too close the the Adam West/ Joel Schumacher Batman iterations and they don't want reminding of that.
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Aug 28, 2009 9:22:16 AM CDT
Ones babbling incoherently about...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Riddler kidnapping Bats and removing his mask so he can sodomize his face but Batman escaping before he can do it, while the other is talking about Bats pumping iron and cage fighting so he never loses... or some such shit. I think.
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I am probably one of the lease knowledgable about him. I gain most my knowledge and love for Batman from the TV and movies. I've barely read any of the comics. I'm so way behind in my DC verse its not funny. DC just does not interest me, its like the same shit OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN. Like this new Last Days of Animal man. I was reading it and really enjoying it till issue 3. I still like it, but Animal man is losing his powers and they brought him back to the Justin Leauges head quarters, and The Flash/Sups/Wonder Women were all just standing around in their customs while he got worked on? It was like a panel from the golden age. While maybe Sups is always in custom the Flash shouldn't be. It just looked really fucking stupid.
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We sat around and listen to you guys babble on and on forever about fucking cricket. So don't act all pissy about use having a convo about Batman.
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A) I mentioned how Batman can never lose and how he would train to avoid it; Series replied that he could see how Batman could get knocked out; I assumed that was in response to my Batman would train so he never lost comment, and replied assuming such
B) I never suggested a rocky-esque montage. I said show Batman working out. Why is it that he is always talking to Alfred during Breakfast or lounging around the mansion/penthouse? They should be talking while he is working out because that is were most of his day would be spent (that and doing detective work). -
In Batman Begins there is a scene where Cain brings Terminator a glass of something that looks like green puke and he hopes out of bed and starts doing push ups while he talks to Get Carter.
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Just giving you a bit of shit, mate.
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Because when cops are on duty meeting aren't they also in uniform? Same with soldier's and pretty much any uniformed profession. They are wearing their work clothes, just like a police officer would.
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How Batman Begins showed him train, but they didn't do that in TDK.
My point was in TDK and in future movies they should show Bale constantly working out because that is what he would be doing. That is if they want to make it "plausible." -
They were standing over Animal man for hours, making sure he came back to life in a hospital. They weren't debriefing or anything.
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Would get annoying. Know one likes that guy who's always working out and worried about what he eats, and telling you how what you do is bad for your body. I mean the only time we really saw Bruce not at a meeting or at dinner was right after his boyfriend died and he was thinking in his room.
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IS making me think of the Human Centipede. And I don't mean that in a glib way; I mean it is like one of those horrific experiences you can't even imagine.
I am totally against the idea of vigilante justice and the use of torture or extreme punishments., but I wouldn't cry if someone killed that couple in a painful manner. -
Aug 28, 2009 9:37:30 AM CDT
Hey Series I am saying if the Nolan's want to make it "realistic
by continentalop
That is what they should do. That would be "realistic".
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And have cain walk up to him asking him about new modifications to the Batpenis or whatever. But I don't need to see Bruce in a meeting, using one of those hand sequeeze things. The dude doesn't need to work out 24/7, Thats why he keeps uping his armor.
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Continentalop's most anticipated movie of 2010? Its gonna give Shutter Island a run for the money in terms of reinventing the horror genre.
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Ok it is bullet proof and knife proof, but the face is revealed. Why don't the bad guys just bum rush him, take him down and slit his throat or shoot him right in the face.
Oh yeah, he can take on half-a-dozen me with out a problem or breaking a sweat. Pretty good for a guy i never see working out or ever practicing in the last movie.
As for why I think showing him working out would be important, what does it show? It shows his character. He is OBSESSED with fighting crime and being the perfect crime fighter. You can have him say it, but it is a 1,000 times more effective to show it. And by showing once in awhile him busting his ass it would let the audience see how serious he is about being the toughest guy on the block.
It would be the super-hero equivalent of showing Travis Bickle practicing in front of the mirror with the guns or Patrick Bateman doing crunches in American Psycho. Character is action, and those are the actions of men who are dedicated (or obsessed in this case). -
Taxi Driver. So you want an Montage, that is pretty much what you need to be satisfied. What I think doesn't make sense is that he does it all himself? What great fighter become that way on his own? He needs a sparring partner. Here how about this, start off Batman 3 with him training in the Battraining room with Alfred (still in his butlers uniform, he's like Superman in that sense) holding a punching/kicking bag/pad while Bruce is wailing on it. End up knocking Alfred down. He looks up at Bruce and says, "Master Bruce. I don't think I can keep up with these intense morning work outs. Your going to need a sparring partner." Then Bruce finds a young runaway wipper snapper and BOOM Robin.
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He is a protege.
Nope. Batman needs the Batmen of Many Nations, aka The Club of Heroes.
Plus, as I said before I don't need a montage. I want Nolan to do what they used to do in movies and scripts - have a characters actions reveal the character instead of just saying it. -
Saw Eli "bag of dicks" Roth on the movie phone minute (probably just trying to bang the host) and he actually had a funny idea. Though he'll never do it. He said that he wanted to actually make Thanksgiving the movie, but make a bunch of them and just release them out of order. Studios these days are too uptight to do something funny like that, but it would be funny if they did.
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Then how are they going to do that, other then the one scene in Begins? Why show it again? We get it, he works out every chance he gets. If they keep showing it it will be annoying. The scene in American Psycho was a montage.
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Start off Batman 3 with him fucking in the Batfucking room with Alfred (still in his butlers uniform) holding his asshole open while Bruce is wailing on it. End up blowing on Alfreds back. He looks up at Bruce and says, "Master Bruce. I don't think I can keep up with these intense morning buttfuckings. Your going to need a new asshole to ruin." Then Bruce finds a young runaway wipper snapper and BOOM Robin. HOWS THAT FOR PLAUSIBLE, FUCKERS!?
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Bruce is more of a internal sort of guy. He doesn't like to waste his seed.
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He practices the withdrawel method.
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Using Con logic, that Batman would not even had a penis. It would distract from his working out, and not be useful in a fight so there fore he wouldn't need one. So he would cut it off. Makes sense I mean he was pining for a tranny in the last film.
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it was Droopy Dog.
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Because you are a brute buttfucker Master Bruce.
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Because Jemaine Clement is funny as balls.
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It's the weekend, bitches! And a long weekend at that! Have a good one.
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The Nolan's have given us the interpretation that Batman is "realistic and plausible"." He is a regular man in a realistic universe who has dedicated his whole life to becoming a crime fighter. How do you show that, VISUALLY? How do you show how dedicated he is and how hard it is to be Batman?
I guess you can say I won't show anything, But my point originally, I think you should show it. Why? Because if you don't Batman just becomes a fanboy in drag. Not very plausible, not very realistic, which is what the Nolan's are not going for. It also doesn't show how much drive he has. Which has been my point, Batman is a hero created by self-direction. So how would you show Batman and let the audience now how serious he takes being Batman and how hard it is to be him.
If I could add one other example: if you were making a movie about a young woman who was hoping to be a singer-songwriter in Nashville, you could JUST show her playing in concerts and talking to her friends about how much she wants to make it, but I would think a more powerful scene yet subtle would be to show her practicing and writing songs all by herself. That would show VISUALLY how much effort she is putting into trying to fulfill her dream.
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You sound like an executive asking for another Superman origin story. You must think the audience is stupid. We know that to be Batman he's got to work out all the time. We don't need to see it, its just fucking waste of film.
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Sounds like a montage again. Look Patton or Beaks brought it up about Rocky Balboa, where it showed that he had a chair stashed in a tree near Adrians grave. That's the sort of character note we need to see. Batman waking up and doing push ups right away is the same thing. We don't need to be beat over the head and show him always running. Maybe do something like show him changing out of a day suit and off comes a weighted vest or something. Small shit like that.
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I did watch "The Shortcut" the other night, though. My, that was terrible.
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Character is action. What type of guy works out constantly? Someone who is dedicated, who is committed, who takes it seriously. All traits that Batman possesses.
You could have a movie about a drunk writer and say - "Ow, we know he is in pain. We don't have to show him drink." But a character who drinks a lot has obvious pains he is trying to numb. That is way more powerful than showing him explaining his pains to a friend (pointless exposition) or even show his abusive father. The alcohol says 'He is trying to numb the pain." That is character.
You just seem to be asking for a super-hero movie with no pain or effort. Which is fine, but that isn't the realism that the Nolans' so far have tried for. Like I said, it is a movie about fanboys in drag. Batman is just a fanboy, he doesn't work at being a hero he just is. He might as well have been bit by a radioactive bat.
You're thinking I am suggesting that they show him workout just for the hell of it or as a rational. Nope. I want him to work out to reveal character. Because that is what it does. Just like a girl slitting her arm to feel something or woman who cries whenever she is alone, Batman working out would actually reveal real character, not characterization. -
But how would you show it in a way that was not a montage? I gave some pointers, show him wearing shit like a weighted vest all day. I just don't get what you want, since you don't want a montage. I mean do you just want when he is not dressed up as the Bat, to be working out all the time? See thats my problem you ask for these things, but then you have no way of expressing what you want to see. The audience understands that he lives in a world of pain (he girlfriend was killed in the last one). I think Nolans film convey that he has to work for it, why do they keep showing him creating shit? Like at what point in time does showing him working out become pointless? You sound like you want to see a 4 hour movie with 2 of those hours being his intese work out rotine (save that for the DVD special features).
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Where someone writes a song, and its not shown as a sort of montage scene? And montage and character are two sepeate ideas. A montage can be used to show a character.
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I know at least Continentalop won't bitch about my bad spelling. Man that always pisses me off when TB'ers are like LEARN TO SPELL.
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How would they do that? Start off the movie showing him bentching only 200, halfway through he's bentching 250 and at the end 300? All the while Rocky is working out in the wilderness moving bolders and trees? I see what you want, but it just seems a little much and pointless. Because at the end of the day, it is someone in a custom. In good cop movies, they don't show them always working out. You've never seen John McClane do anything healthy. Just how far do you want them to go with it? The way you present it, sounds like there is no end. That he works out so much that they should show it during the closing credits and as a bouns scene after the movie.
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One scene can be a powerful moment because it can show a character's habits. If you had a scene where Alfred was bringing Bruce the phone and he took it to him working out on the heavy bags, that alone would say "Hey, this guy is working out so much that when someone calls him they get him when he hitting the bags. How often does this guy work out."
If you showed a character getting a phone call during sex you wouldn't think that girl was a rate occurrence, you would think it was a common occurrence. That one scene would say the guy gets laid so much he has to worry about getting disturbed by the phone during sex. Same thing with Bruce Wayne working out. Two clever scenes of him working out and it says a fucking lot about the character. Not overdone, but it says enough about him.
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A film noir from the 40s.
Plus, yes montage does reveal character, but it has been my experience that montage usually implies passage of time and a string of events, not a routine or pattern by a character (although it can be if it is a recurring montage like All That Jazz). -
at the end of a workout is where a scene picks up, or a scene ends by him walking to the gym. Very simple to show his dedication and what's required from a physical point of view of him maintaining himself, without having to add needless minutes to a movie.
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I mentioned it above, but A Very Long Engagement was good. I got more and more into it as the mystery "unraveled" as to what happened to her fiance.
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In one post you described better what I was trying to get at in like 50 posts.
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I am not trying to be pig-headed or stubborn about this, but it is just one of those things I have noticed in movies I would love to see - a rational for why a character is tough, and also use that rational as an exploration into his character.
Recently I heard an interview with Robert Towne and he was talking about how there is certain things he promised he would put into movies if he got a chance that he never saw in movies: guys counting out their change, looking for a parking spot, etc. And he pretty much put all of those things in Bonnie & Clyde when he did the rewrite.
A tough guy working out to maintain his skill level is something I never see in movies. And I instantly thought of it when I thought of Batman because I also think it shows his character (die hard dedication). -
You never see scenes of people ordering something cheaper or asking what the price of something is in movies anymore. It is like everybody in modern movies has a lot of pocket change and good credit cards.
And you never see a misfire or a jammed gun in an action movie. Never. Just once I would love Bond or Bourne getting a jammed pistol and having to clear it.
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With the morning push up scene. And they can do the thing like I said about wearing a weighted vest all day. Shit like that.
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Surviving the game.
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Not fucking know telephone numbers either. This was even before the cell phone. Like I don't even my own telephone number now. They still have never been able to show what someone working on a computer actually looks like as well. I could understand a while ago when you couldn't film a computer without it looking all fucked up on film. But now you can film a computer just fine. You never see people dealing with their animals. Then again not every movie needs to be some avant garde suckfest.
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I do push ups every morning. I expect Batman to have a little tougher workout than me.
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Even in real life has become a hassle. Store clerks and waiters are all assholes and useless now. They never know shit, and they make you feel like a dick if you ask. Like why don't they ever put the price of beer on resturante menus? Its so fucking annoying.
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To not always do the cliche. That always drives me nuts is every movie has the same scenes as the movie before it and the movie after it.
Once I would like to see some characters live in a shitty apartment because they have bad jobs, Not live in a spacious apartment even though the work as clerks or as low level people at an office. -
I guess you don't like the weight vest idea then.
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There was this funny article about bad apartments, in EW or some shit like that. It was called good paying TV jobs. It went through all these TV characters who have shitty ass jobs but seem to life just fine. One of them was one of the Housewife (Louise are the other famous one), Chuck from Chuck, The girl in Big Bang theory and some others. It was pretty funny.
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But that is a general conditioning and weight loss device. It isn't a high impact, high aerobic device (unless he wore it during high intensity workouts) which is what Batman would be doing to train for fighting.
Just look at the workouts of MMA fighters and Boxers to see what kind of stuff Bruce Wayne would have to do to be Batman. He isn't worried about burning calories all day, he is worried about being able to survive 5-10 minutes of extremely intense physical action. -
Or action movie sequel be something like this. The first movie he become a big star or orgin story of some sort at the end he beats the big bad guy. The sequel takes place 10-15 years later and he's past his prime and his life is a mess and its a drama. He tries to find a friend or family to latch onto in his old age. Do to his job he is in poor health now because he didn't take of himself that well, that or he got badly injured and is semi cripple. In the end he dies lonely and pennyless.
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Might go out and buy a vest. I got to the gym twice a day but otherwise I sit at a desk. I wouldn't mind a vest because I do take the stairs a lot during the day (I refuse to use the elevator if it is less than five stories) so it would probably be good for me.
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I'm just saying, he isn't going to be working out at corporate meetings, but he wears it there to get something out of it. That shows dedication.
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Aug 28, 2009 12:18:07 PM CDT
Superheroes have bad insurance and retirement plans as well
by continentalop
Do you think Spider-Man has a good retirement plan? No. Fuck, I bet you even the FF have shitty plans. Mr. Fantastic might be the world's smartest man, but under his leadership they have bankrupt at least three times - you know he hasn't thought of retirement plans and health insurance at all.
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Gonna do a THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS and Mean Streets double feature this weekend. Kathryn Bigelow put a scene from each in her top ten best action scenes.
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THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS is awesome and so is MEAN STREETS. What are her other top ten action scenes?
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What if they just show Bruce Wayne take a bunch of steroids. I know they don't work that way, but the audience doesn't. So BAM more steroids means less work out.
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thank you very much Conti.
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The Flight of the Valkyrie scene has to be on everyone's top 10.
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The guy is going out and fighting crime almost every night? Do you know how many pulled and bruised muscles he is going to have. He has to be taking steroids, just to heal so quickly from the damage he is taking.
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Aug 28, 2009 12:24:52 PM CDT
so here's the weekend's lineup, courtesy of library
by just pillow talk
Blood Simple (never seen, and I'm mixed with the Coen's), Death Race (I like Statham, and I'm hoping this doesn't suck too much), Australia (for Mrs. Pillow - the "Hugh" factor), and Marley & Me (Mrs. Pillow).
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Here look: http://tinyurl.com/maelog I guess she doesn't hate her EX. I think if I had to make a list I may include a scene from The Hurt Locker.
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Let's hope they don't get tested for roids, otherwise Batman could be suspended.
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Blood Simple. But it is brilliant in my opinion.
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I haven't had time to take it in, and I can't find the warranty (and I am to broke to buy a new one right now). I have two regular DVD players, but both of those broke too, fucking pieces of shit.
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No "this is Apocolypse Now". Full Metal Jacket though.
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Pretty damn good list. Not the same as mine, but pretty damn good.
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Aug 28, 2009 12:32:25 PM CDT
I would have put Apocalypse Now ahead of Full Metal Jacket thoug
by continentalop
Robert Duvall and the Air Cav attack is just great.
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Quick before it burns your retinas throw Marley & Me away. Denie to your death you ever rented it. That movie will make you hate life and everything about it. Such a bad fucking movie. Let me know how Australia is and I felt Death race did not disappoint. It was lots of fun.
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I probably woulnd't have any of those movies.
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Because first off, who the fuck cares if anyone remakes a Corman film. They were fun and silly, shit I bet Corman wishes he could remake half of them. They totally change the premise and its not as interesting. But its stupid, silly and fun. Its well done too. It does suffer a little from the Rollerball remake syndrome in that the race track makes no sense. But who cares. I think its one of my favorite Satham movies. I'd put it under Crank 2 and Transporter 2. Maybe Death Race 2 will be up there with those two.
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I always hated that piece of art. And the reason I hated it was because A) it had Marvel and DC characters together; and B) I always thought, why the hell are they wearing their costumes? they would be retired by now.
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He remade Humanoids from the Deep and Piranha and who knows how many others.
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it shows the ridiculousness of trying to make it very serious and 'true to life'.
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Just curious.
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onto the brightly colored and costumed comic book aspects. When you keep with both, you eventually end up at that picture.
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The action scenes from Pixar movies.
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But my damn serious and logical side prevents me from enjoying it.
I hate when they make comic books and comic book movies to serious, but I am the first to admit I am a hypocrite because I also hate when they make them to frivolous. Probably a side effect of taking comics to serious growing up. -
Write now. And I think I have a damn good idea, but I got no one to draw it. I could draw it, it would take me like 2 years to learn how to draw again, then like 5 more years to do it. Sucks.
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Look like they are from a Corman film.
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You ridicule my love of Scorsese, but you are like the biggest die hard Pixar fan.
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Even you know that you'll never be at peace with your problem with comic book movies.
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I just haven't seen enough Scorsesee. trying to fix that.
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I imagine it is a lot like movies where people who understand comics will be able to tell that it is a good script.
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You know for as much as everyone LOVES UP and how good it was. I am not a huge fan. Mainly because it tackles the biggest issue I have with life, not living your dream. And now that I just got a shitty new job, new house, new wife my dreams now look like they will never happen. Makes me resent the movie even more. But in that sense it may be the best Pixar movie ever, because of how deep it makes you think about life.
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I'm pretty sure Avatar Press accepts script submissions. You don't need to do the art, just roughly indicate what you want in the panel.
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But I admit it. You can't help taking biases into movies, everyone has a million life experiences and previous movies shaping their opinions.
I just hate it when guys like lockes, AsimovLives and others insist they have no biases and that their opinions are flawless. -
Also I need to find the time. Which means I need to stop being lazy. It sucks though because I do my best writing at like 2 in the AM. I'm one of those guys. Like sense I don't have much work right now, I've tried to write at work and just nothing happens.
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Sometimes you just need to agree to disagree. Especially in a forum like this where your limitied to just words.
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...towards failing.
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Fucking Disney, never sent me my pictures from the Christmas Carole train.
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I have been in to many fist fights over movies, whether they are arguments or at movie theaters. I am getting to old for that shit.
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Hmmmmmmmmmmmm. I don't know if what I have in mind though really fits what they want. Image excepts submissions, but you need like 5 complete pages.
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Best action scenes over lunch. But it may not be that good.
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But I have mellowed in my old age and haven't gotten in a fight for years.
But I did get in a fight with a man for putting down Scorsese and I have gotten in a couple of fights in theaters because people wouldn't stop talking. But the last time that happened was almost seven years ago. I have mellowed out a lot since then. -
that is the worst. I've had two jobs where I managed to get shit done, one was only because my boss tolerated my eccentricities as he had just sent a daughter my age off to art school. The other was as a bike messenger, where if you didn't feel like taking jobs, you just didn't call in for a job.
Usually, bosses want you to look like you're working, even when they know you have nothing to do. I guess so as not to annoy the less efficient. -
there are some texters in the audience you could smite these days. God, I hate when people text during movies.
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Have gotten in fights for just as dumb as reasons.
Series has probably gotten in a fist fight in a middle of a comic book store. -
And fucking some girl was sitting near us texting during the movie. It turned out to be Paris Hilton.
She is a dumb tramp on TV, in the tabloids and in person. -
how the movie, the one she wasn't watching, sucks. Major pet peeve: people who DON'T PAY ATTENTION to a movie, and then want to dis the movie once it's done.
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I envy you all the good Scorsese you get to watch for the first time.
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I would get pissed at Danny Boyle for swiping it for Trainspotting but then I have to remember that Scorsese stole it from Hard Day's Night.
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Overrated. Though I haven't seen it since I was a teenager.
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catch y'all later.
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Aug 28, 2009 1:28:43 PM CDT
Trainspotting is ok, but it is a definitely derivative of GoodFe
by continentalop
And Scorsese's movies. So are Menace II Society, Blow, Amongst Friends and even Private Parts.
I would add City of God to that list, but I look at that film as somewhat like Leone and a Fistful of Dollars. He saw Kurasawa's Yojimbo and made it his own.
The pair that directed City of God saw the structure and style of GoodFellas and made it their own. I can see the GoodFellas/Scorsese influence without it seeming that it is just ripping him off (just like I can see the Jules & Jim influence in GoodFellas). -
Plus I'm hoping that it's not THAT bad....(oh holy 2for2true...led me your divine guidance and see me through it...)I'm actually more worried about Australia. 2 1/2 hours...if that's complete shit...yikes!
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One punch each was as long as it lasted.
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Drunken stupor on the walk back, some kid started shit with me (I'm sure I was quite the asshole too), shoved me, me and my friend pounced on him and his friend. Cops came, they scooted away before they made it over to where we were. We started walking away and the Cops rolled down their window and asked if we were causing any trouble. We of course said no, even though we raised our hands up in the air as an act of surrender.
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Aug 28, 2009 1:49:16 PM CDT
Last fight was coincidentally also the last time I got stabbed
by continentalop
So I think that taught me a lesson.
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You make that sound like its a frequent occurrence. Where are you, London?
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Hows that work out?
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Naw I fight more with words. I think people who have to come to blows are stupid. That being said my brother and I used to kick the shit out of each other all the time. Usually when I get close to a situation that may end up being a fight, I'm usually out numbered and have to talk my way out of it. That was all before I started to play Rugby. Playing rugby allowed me to get all the built up nerd rage and leave it all on the field. It was cathartic to just let shit be during the week, then use it for the game on saturday. But even then on the field I would piss people off by playing too aggressively and they'd try to start fights with me, but I wouldn't do it. I'd push them down and tell them to play the fucking game. Then I'd punch them in the noise in a ruck.
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http://tinyurl.com/9g9sld
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Man that hasn't happened in a while.
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I don't have enough time to scroll through it all, but it seems there was a dustup between ToadKillerdog, Conti, Subs, and Six?
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I don't know. And I was there when most of it happened. I think I missed the key thing that started it. It sounds like it started like mine and Cons conversation about Batman above, just a little more angry.
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I feel like I've already seen the mental breakdown of Media Messiah and someone else whose name I've forgotten this month. But both talkbackers proved themselves to be freaking nuts.
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I was all looking forward to going out drinking after work. but now some comic book buddies want to see Bastards at 3:50. Since they are all poor they need to see the matinee showings. Fuck.
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It used to be awesome. Now its just garbage. Sell out mother fucker.
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It was a minor dustup over Batman, I contended that BM is/was psychotic and that his refusal to kill enemies that escape over and over, only to kill thousands of innocents is a dangerous vanity. Subs said otherwise. We went back and forth, but subs is very thin skinned, and stomped off in a huff, swearing never to return.
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And I mean the 70's versions(or Earlier) NOT the later shite. Gimme a break. Buscemi and Jeff Fahey'd do the roles-NICELY. And you could always have a halfways decent Killraven movie if someone w/ half a brain and some money got the rights.
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I'd say the refusal to kill is not Batman's dangerous vanity. I'd argue, rather, that Gotham's inability to keep people locked either in jail or in Arkham is why the city needs Batman at all. If you extend your argument to the real world, it was Powell's (the warrior's) dangerous vanity not to remove from office Bush, Cheney and Rice - by any means necessary. In comics, by your argument, it was not only ethical but required of the main character of Warren Ellis's "Black Summer" to kill those persons in his comic-book world, as that would end the wars in the Gulf states. (Ellis argues successfully against that.) Just a thought.
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Based its structure on GoodFellas. Take away what the plot of the movie is, how did both movies unfold.
As an elliptical, episodic stories, told in flashback with the main character narrating his life. The story unfolds over a number of years, taking him from a child to a young man to his rise in his profession. It is is even cut in similar fashion, with short, fast scene, and uses music of the era as the sound track.
Finally, both films end with protagonist breathing the fourth wall (Henry Hill in court, Stern talks to the audience when he is on the plane) and with an intentionally weak dénouement at the end (Henry bitching about having to live in the suburbs like a nobody; Stern complaining how he can now score with almost any women but has to stay faithful to his wife, that is his "hell.").
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I was being a little glib. I have been stabbed three times: once by my brother by "accident" (I still don't believe him), once by my extremely retarded handicapped cousin, and one by an Armenian gang member who I got in a fight with. That one I would consider a real stabbing, the others just accidents.
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Batman has taken an oath to never kill, no matter what. Joker could put a clicker in his hand, tell him it is connected to a bomb the joker is wearing, then go out and rape and murder hundreds and Batman still wouldn't push it.
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I will disagree with you about your argument based on the fact that we are a nation of laws and order, and despite the fact that Bush & Cheney were tongue cleaners of monstrous proportions, they were lawfully elected by the people and as such anyone who follows the law could only resort to using the law against them. You could also argue that being vigilantes against them would be a greater crime and do more damage than anything they could do. If you have people killing leaders in a democracy because they disagree with them, then democracy is pointless. It is rule of the strongest, not of the will of the people.
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That Hitler hates Avatar thing was funny as shit. The need to do stuff like that to more sub tiled movies.
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While you could be correct, and I would want to agree with you more. The fact that Goodfellas only came out in the 90s makes me skeptical. Plus Marty is known for taking concepts from other movies. So I bet there is some old foreign film that does a similar thing. Let me have my guys over at IMDB run some searches.
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Since when are Bogosian and Goldblum on that show? Is it good?
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On Jules & Jim. So yes, Scorsese was influenced by older movies.
But because GoodFellas came out in the 90s is why I say those movies were influenced by it. Before GoodFellas very few films had that exact same structure and editing tempo, but in the span of a decade Blow, Private Parts, City of God came out with very similar structures. To much of a coincidence.
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I was just about to ask you about the Jules and Jim thing. I haven't seen that movie in a loooong time (I mostly keep it to myself, but I was always more partial to Godard, which tends to get me into annoying arguments) and I was trying to think up the connection. All I was coming up with was that they both cover a lot of time. Now I feel like I should watch that movie again.
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Wowsers. I don't think I've really interacted much some of those guys here-TedKord or SixDemonBagge or AnonyMoose or Subby. So I can't say I had a dog in the fight or not. And I stopped reading Bats some 20 odd years ago, back in the mid-80's. So there ya be. Gimme the 70's Bats era and I'm happy. Conti Pops you were at least trying to be fair if anything. I enjoyed reading the stuff between yourselves and YackBacker and Subby re: all things Nolan. I've said this before and I will say it again: my fave of the Bats films is Bats Forever. Yes it is. No I'm not trying to be Ironic or Weird(er) than usual. That's just the truth. Remember I loved Armageddon, the Mummy and Congo. And Liked Big Robots II this summer, it's just how I'm wired. I watch Shit and sadly like much of it. In Bruges rocked though.
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I never felt like Liotta got the props he deserved for Goodfellas. I think he was really good in it. Instead, everyone fell all over themselves about Pesci. When all Pesci really had to do was be fucking obnoxious. Which, of course, he's great at. But still...
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I am most thankful to him for The 400 Blows, Shoot the Piano Player and for the Hitchcock book. That book is fucking awesome.
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I REALLY love Paul Sorvino in it, esp the few scenes w/ him and Liotta together, Sorvino takes him aside and -after prison-tells him to cut out the drug shit--and Liotta baldface Lies to him about doing any etc. Some of the best scenes in that movie right there. Sorvino as Kissinger though-that was poo poo.
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In "Scorsese on Scorsese" he mentions how he based the opening narration on how they did it in Jules and Jim, and wanted him movie be like Truffaut's and have the film use all the basic tricks of the French New Wave. Both films use a lot of cinematic tricks to show the emotional moments of the character, like freeze frames in mundane moments and slo motion in very subtle ways.
And personally I prefer Truffaut over Goddard. I like Goddard's early stuff, Bande å part is fucking great. But when he started getty more experimental and throw out any sense of film narrative, I just lost interest in him. Truffaut has always been a story teller at least: Day for Night might have flaws, but at least it is viewable and enjoyable; trying watching Goddard's King Leer without wanting to kick the TV in.
And Ray Liotta is the heir apparent of Richard Conte, Dan Duryea, Dana Andrews, John Payne, Van Heflin and Mark Stevens - real good actors who never get the credit they deserve. Plus like them he seems to have been made for B-movies, especially crime pictures. You ever see Liotta in PHOENIX? -
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I can see why someone would prefer that. Actually it almost has the right tone I think Batman should have EXCEPT...
You have a Riddler who doesn't do riddles, a boring love interest (if you can't have an interesting love interest just don't have one - Batman is not dependent on the damsel in distress) and you have a horribly cast Tommy Lee Jones. As one cad described Tommy Lee's Two-Face as a "villain who has one side of his face horribly scarred and ugly; the other side is Two-Face."
You know who should have played him back then? I think Mel GIbson should have (Two-Face was kind of like a Riggs figure in that movie; someone so traumatized he lost all meaning in the world and didn't care if he lived or died) but Gibson did MAN WITHOUT A FACE right before that, so it would probably to similar of role. -
I have seen very little of Godard's stuff in the 70's/80's. The videos can be tough to track down. But the 60's were GREAT. I like his more recent stuff as well (fucking amazing that he's still alive, actually). I appreciate his attempt at leveling a political critique through film. And his movies are always interesting to me, even if some of them aren't necessarily enjoyable. Think I'm going to have to do a J&J/Goodfellas double-feature night sometime soon.
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-save for Mark Stevens(?!) I will have to look him up. You might as well toss in Rory Calhoun, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Hurst, Porter Hall, Turhan Bey and Chick Chandler into the mix just because you know you should. I STILL say: Jeff Fahey as Killer Moth, Buscemi as Clock King. You'd PAY to see it! and so would Nolan, I'm thinking.
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Because he was in MOTEL HELL and ANGEL, AND was the punch line in one of the best Simpsons jokes ever.
And Art Kennedy was always golden. The guy was great in so many movies, even when he had the thankless nice guy role (which is why I like his as the sympathetic villain in THE MAN FROM LARAMIE, different role for him). -
Jim Carrey was kinda funny and I usually hate him, Tommy Lee Jones I just like, so--there ya be. It's not like I can stand Bats and Robin-that's AWFUL. But there's something about Bats Forever I enjoy. The Nolans--well I liked Bats Begins well enough(save the goofy ending) and Bats II last year--overkill but pretty fine. I was let down by my own expectations of Two Face-I expected an all out gang war between him and Joker, didn't get it-and thought that just let the storyline down. What they DID put together was just fine, but I preferred Iron Man to it, so there ya go.
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At least originally. No, it should be Killer Moth and Cluemaster. Steve Buscemi would be a good Cluemaster.
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Just a fantastic performance. The man was born to play noir. That it took a French film maker to show the world his full potential is a shame. Dan Duryea is one of my all time favorites. Right up there with Widmark.
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Tells ya what I know. But it would still be fun! I'm not really in step w/ current Bats trends--I like a little Batmite or '70's Joker w/ the Clown-faced Copter in my Gotham tales myself. I don't remember Cluemaster either.
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Aug 28, 2009 8:13:35 PM CDT
I started to think that TDK should have been two movies
by continentalop
The Nolans had such a grand scope movie for just one movie, yet at the same time they left out stuff that you kind of need for the archs of the Joker and Two-Face.
One thing they didn't explore is the fact that the Joker will always be committed into an insane Asylum and will always be able to escape to kill again. That is the only facet of the Batman/Joker relationship that was not explored in TDK. I guess they could do it in a sequel, but we know that Batman won't kill him because that was the end of their arc in the TDK.
And Two-Face could have been explored more. I liked the idea of changing him from criminal obsessed with the number two into a darker version of Batman: a vigilante who believes in letting a coin determine someone fate, and he is much more brutal than Batman. After the killing spree of the Joker, you could see a guy like that becoming popular in Gotham, or at least accepted. If you want to do the theme of escalation, maybe show the escalation of a vigilante who will do things Batman never would and why that is a dangerous idea.
But what do I know. I am not getting paid millions to write this shit. Obviously Nolan knew what buttons to push because the film made more money than most countries make in a year. -
Heck even something late period for him like Madigan is worthy just to watch him run around in those skinny ties/late sixties cop suits. Plus you have a Don Stroud appearence. That guy was in EVERYTHING back when.
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Aug 28, 2009 8:17:08 PM CDT
Eddie Constantine sucked in THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY though
by continentalop
I like his presence, but his line reading was just horrible. If I remember right they were gonna have one of the guys from the Godfather play the American mob boss, but he had to cancel on them so they had to get Eddie instead.
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Not what I expected at all. I was on a French new wave kick several years ago, and came across that. I then ventured into Louis Malle territory with Murmur of the Heart. That forced me to look at Cathernine Denueve - ok forced is wrong word, she is stunning, and her portrayal of a bored wife who becomes a hooker, is magnifique in Belle du Jour. Cleo from 5 to 7 is also a very good movie, but I like it more for the view of early sixies paris than the actual story. Same goes for Breathless.
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Everybody's Batman-crazy! And I am still trying to figure out what the big deal is about The Dark Knight or Christopher Nolan. It's in the top 10 movies on imdb. I don't understand.
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The guys play the archetype of evil, racist, misogynistic, hateful villains in so many film noirs, yet in real life they were three of the nicest, most socially progressive men in Hollywood.
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I was very disappointed in that performance, actually I was not too chuffed about the movie as a whole. I had heard so much about it. Hoskins hit ny radar in a Masterpiece theater -Flickers. Great turn of century mini about early movie industry in UK.
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I used to love that movie so much. But I find that it interests me a lot less now, than his other movies from around the same time. I'd much rather watch Vivre sa Vie, or A Woman is a Woman, or Alphaville.
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Aug 28, 2009 8:22:39 PM CDT
I would put Sterling Hayden in that group as well Conti
by toadkillerdog
If just for two movies. Strangelove and Godfather.
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But I loved Hoskins in Mona Lisa. Hoskins, Michael Caine. It is GET CARTER meeting THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY. Great movie.
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He was all over TV and in 'Objective Burma' etc. 'Wagon Train'. He was good, too. John Payne isn't a bad comparison actually.
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I did not like it the first time I saw it. Where the hell is the story? But, as a show piece of early sixties France, it is well, breathless.
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I saw it at the Egyptian Theatre a couple of years ago and James Ellroy introduced it. I love what he said about it.
"Who hear liked Russell Crowe as tough cop Bud White in LA Confidential? Well Sterling Hayden makes him look like a Nancy Boy from the Swish Alps in this movie, that is how tough of cop he is." -
Who was a poor man's leading man to begin with. But he was good in a bunch of sub-par movies. He plays a pretty good world weary detective in Dark Corner, although the movie borders on parody.
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Richard Basehart and ok, I forget the dudes name...Scott Brady. That was a fantastic noir. I saw it after seeing Basehart as the noble admiral in Voyage under the sea. Totally changed my perspective of him.
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If you never thought Ryan was an effective baddie--you better check that one out.
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Aug 28, 2009 8:30:55 PM CDT
I always thought Dana Andrews was a poor mans Cornel Wilde
by toadkillerdog
Or a poor mans Glenn Ford
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But he had Bo
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And for that, he will forever be burned into my memory. That was the only movie I have ever seen that has scared me. Ever.
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But he did do some really good movies. He was in Fellini's La Strada, and he did a couple of good b-movies: Fixed Bayonets and Tension, with Audrey Totter.
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Those are the two I really know Andrews from. He was a fine actor. I don't see him as a poor man's anything, really. I'll bring up another guy here who isn't ever mentioned on these boards-Tony Curtis. He can suck, yes--but the Defiant Ones? or the Boston Strangler? he's not bad. He started out doing the Bronx pretty boy routine and actually worked up into being a decent actor. Plus he was on Vegas. He and Will Sampson.
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Robert Ryan is the greatest Heavy in movie history IMO. Because he adds depth to a bad guy - they aren't inhuman killing machines but real characters. He doesn't do comic book villains; he does the evil of real people.
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SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS. People who think he can't act just need to see that and realize they don't know what they are talking about.
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Laura, Fallen Angel, Boomerang, While the City Sleeps, Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, Where the Sidewalks Ends. Don't let anyone tell you the Edge of Doom is good though; that sucked shit.
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As well as Davide Wayne. They made their living off of voice overs later in life. Wayne cracked me up as the smart aleck side kick. ok, Band, Conti, I am drawing a blank on another famous side kick, first name was Oscar. He played a piano. Bando, I love Tony Curtis. He was under rated. And he did Some like it hot, with Lemon.
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It's nothing great, mind-but it's enjoyable for what it is.
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Aug 28, 2009 8:42:25 PM CDT
Conti, I love Ryan, not willing to cede the title though
by toadkillerdog
Little dude named Lee Marvin might give him run for money, and Widmark when he was being really nasty.
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Funny as hell guy and very very much the sarcastic cutting rude drunk w/ the martini in his hand. Wound up getting shock therapy or whatever back when. Sad story. He was a unique persona. David Wayne!! Played 'M' in the fifties re-make, was on a Dr. sitcom about '80 w/ Wayne Rogers and Lynn Redgrave. He was a good good actor, sorta Burgess Meredith to me.
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Ryan, Widmark Duryea, Lee Marvin, Ray Milland, Richard Boone, Richard Conte and Charles McGraw.
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Thanks Bando! It was driving me nuts.
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Shack out on 101. There is a scene where Keenan Wyn and Marvin work out together that is just nuts. You knew they addlibbed it because no way was that in anyone's script ever.
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In Rich Man, Poor man.
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He was one of a kind. It's easy to forget, really, how big a star some of these folks were. When I was a kid, I bet you more people Then could tell you who Bret Sommers was(due to Match Game) over say Tim Roth today just because the nature of the biz back then. Three networks, no cable(or rare), etc. I think the same goes for names like Levant or Conte or Adolph Menjou just because. "Oh yeah, that guy w/ the greased back hair and the 'stache who was in that Deanna Durbin Movie and at the Nixon hearings--"
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Guy was always a big tough guy. Fought Clint in Any Which Way You Can. Had to look him up on wikipedia - Jesus Christ did he live a full life.
http://tinyurl.com/nme4tf
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Tough guy. Was a stunt man ala Robert Tessier. Yes you know him too.
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I never was a big fan of most TV shows - i always tuned into the afternoon matinee or midnight movies and skipped most shows. And back then there was such a wide gap between a TV actor and a movie actor - usually the twain never met (unless the movie actor has fallen on hard times and is forced to do TV back in the 70s).
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Aug 28, 2009 9:00:36 PM CDT
Finniest villain. Raymond Massey in Arsenic and old lace
by toadkillerdog
Which just happens to be in my top five all time favorite films
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Just for Fatso
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Dang typos
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So, he can do the good guy role as well. But he excelled as a heavy. I truly hated him growing up because RM/PM was a very long running maxi-series
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At least twice.
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And JOHNNY GUITAR and EMPEROR OF THE NORTH POLE. Borgnine is a good call toad. He has to be cast in my all Heavies movie.
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When I heard the part was meant for Boris Karloff it made me realize that it was a movie that would never reach it's full potential. Why have someone do a Karloff imitation when they wanted the actual thing? To bad he couldn't get out of his theatre contract.
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When I heard the part was meant for Boris Karloff it made me realize that it was a movie that would never reach it's full potential. Why have someone do a Karloff imitation when they wanted the actual thing? To bad he couldn't get out of his theatre contract.
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Or, at least that is what Dr. Einstein said influenced him when he did his last surgery because * in classic Peter Lorre voice * 'I was a bit inebriated'
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As that ultra-American Patriot from the American Revolution. He was good in that film.
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Just love it. Every frame, every moment. Every actor. Yes, Karloff would have been outstanding, I think he did the b'way show, but I gotta go with what was actually on screen.
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Loved everything he did
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That was a fantastic article! I totally agree about Grant's movement on screen. No one else could move the way he did. You could just see his silhouette and know it was him. Hitchcock really did know how to utilize him. That is a brilliant scene in NbNW.
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Hit and miss. Goldblum hasn't really added much. Bogosian always seems like he's just reading the script. vincent d'onofrio is awesome in it. There was an episode with Roy Scheider (I think his last on screen thing) and it was probably one of the greatest hours of TV ever. Its based off of Ted Bundy, find it if you can.
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Is my favorite Batman. It just came out at the right time. Plus the love story is weak. I think there should not be any love interest in a Batman movie.
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how did the Riddler not do riddles in Batman Forever.
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Is going to be on Heroes. Finally there is going to be a good villain in that show.
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Do have the option of 2-Channel sound. The movies I rented this week only had 5.1 surround sound. I have surround sound speakers just haven't put them up. I need to by wall monts for the new house. But Its annoying for now because the sound it all fucked up.
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Were better and more like the riddles and puzzles the Riddler uses in the comics than the ones in Batman Forever. If I remember right he basically sent hate mail to Bruce Wayne, not challenges or brain teasers to challenge Batman. They had maybe one or two riddles that were challenges for Batman and had something to do with the plot. Everything else was just a little warning to Bruce Wayne. It seems like they only had these Riddles in the movie just so they could justify calling Carrey the Riddler.
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Cool! I hope it's as fun as the norwegian zombie movie Dead Snow. This is the scadinavian invasion of horror movies. Cool!
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Suuuuu-weeeeet!
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And if you haven't voted yet--- well why not?!?
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Ahhh, I love it.
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Series is right; its a very good episode for both the procedural aspect but also for character exploration.
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Which one is yours?Going out now so I'll have a look later.
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Mine is "Garden PArty Massacre", its the one with the green monster in the freeze frame. Its the one Harry said "listen for the first sound effect". Hope you like it! And please vote- the deadline is monday.
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Batman forever, while I think your just taking the aspect to the extreme or nitpicking...to each their own.
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Fucking asshole. Making us all look like lazy fucks. Just kidding man, I'm just jealous. I'll try to vote for yours as much as possible.
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Finally watched it last night. While it was ok, probably the best collection of short films made for a film like this I've seen. I still have yet to be fully satisfied for a series of short films save for Fantaisia's 1 and 2. Eros sucks, Three Extremes was ok I found it a bit tedious though. The Twilight Zone movie would have sucked if it weren't for the Shatner episode. I've seen more just can't think of any. I really like the concept but its never as good as the people involved. Anyone got any better examples?
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Is on Syfy tonight at 9 central time (8 Eastern). Other times for west coast. Hopefully we get a good turn out. I hope to see a bunch of drunks have a laugh.
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In Tokyo! is Merde. Its kind of a spoof of Godzilla. Its fucking weird, and I'm watching the director talk about how he doesn't really like Tokyo! He seems like a weird French ass hole. I need to see more of his work.
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But I find that I'm actually far more into the Hearst Vs. Welles American Masters special they threw into this as the second disc. That's good stuff right there. Kane is great but not nearly as interesting to sit thru say as the Third Man or Johnny Sokko. I know, I know...
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Anyone seen this?
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Features on Tokyo! are pretty cool. There are just 30 minutes and like documentary photos of them trying to film a screen. Not some asshole talking about all the cool shit they did for each scene. It shows them practice it then do it. Kind of mad though, because there is a scene in one of the shorts that giant Times Square looking place in Tokyo! is empty, I wanted to see them talk about that.
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You got me!Mouthful of beer, first sound effect comes in, booze everywhere.Excellent. Can't vote as yet cos I've got to confirm my account - but their e-mail hasn't come through.
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You need to hunt down that Roy Scheider Law and Order: CI episode. I think you'll like it.
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Hehe thanks man. You may have to try to vote for the short before you'll be sent an email confirmation. I remember some pple having trouble too. It seemed like if you try to vote, it'll ask you to hit another button that will then send you the right email.
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When do I get my "I voted" sticker? Will it have a plop of green goo to accentuate it?
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just won't let me vote until I "verify". Keep trying but the e-mail ain't coming through.I'm not seeing another button to hit.
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It took awhile for my verification email to go through also. It's just slow, I believe.
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Slow? Are we talking hours? Days?Mind you, I'm on aol. That should be factored into the equation.
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I thought it wasn't going to work. I haven't heard if that happened to anyone else. How goes it tonight, other than beer spraying? :)
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But I tried again about 15 minutes ago.It goes okay. I've reached for the vodka - less sprayable.How's yourself?
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I found this great ad online and decided that I could probably fit it into my schedule as a second gig. It's a little vague on the financial details, but I'm sure they can be worked out. Check this out: I am looking for my nemesis, my worst enemy, someone who I will hate deeply and with all my heart. Think of Holmes and Moriarty, the Joker and Batman or any other pop culture reference suitable to you.
I realized that in my life there are many people that I love, many that I like, many that I dislike but nobody that I hate with all myself. So I am looking for one, because nobody is truly complete if you don't have a nemesis.
I will consider all applications, but I want someone whose level of dickery is so above any threshold that my faith in humanity will be shaken. I will say to myself "how can there be hope, if we, humans, can produce such idiocity?" and I will shake my fist to the sky and ask for revenge.
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Do you always see yourself as the hero of your life or of the world in general? Of the two examples you chose, villainy is simply a matter of perspective. Holmes was a drug addict, which is generally consider an evil in today's society. Batman is a psychological disaster. Which sort of these warped, addled, consistantly troubled characters do you prefer to identify with? If the act of evil is "idiocity", then why are those who perpetrate it more creative, more clever, and generally happier with their lives than the ones who dedicate their lives to foiling them? If the "heroes" were truly of such high intelligence and diligence, would not their services quickly become obsolete? Why do they continue to fight the same battles with the same foes throughout time without making any progress?
If you feel incomplete without someone to loathe, maybe you are your own nemesis. You are such a beloved and iconic figure that there is no one to dispute your ideals (or more precisely, your ego)? Look around. Your enemies may be closer than you know, laughing at you from behind their curtains as you walk blithely by. It might be something subtle that you don't notice, something you dismiss as chance that is actually a plot against your happiness...anything from a difficult day at work to slow moving traffic to a missing sock when you know that you washed two. If you can't see the signs of impending doom, then you'll have no one but yourself to blame when your run of luck comes to an end and your conspirators come to claim your soul.
Have a nice day. It won't last.
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(blinks through a fog of vodka)... Someone has placed an ad for a nemesis. And you've applied for the position of arch-nemesis.Am I following this correctly or do I need to strat again?
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It seemed to fit in with the recent talks around here, so I thought I'd share. I pretty sure I can be evil enough. What do you think?
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your own nemesis..."That's deep. Haunting, actually.
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Don't want competition. I'm aiming for ultimate evil. Mwa ha ha!
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I would never let some fiend find his arch in you!
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If I'm not hired by this person, maybe someone here could use a nemesis.
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What know you of this dastardly plot to soil my fair Mavra with nemesis?
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can you be evil enough. Why would you want to be evil in the first place?Would you not prefer to be kind to animals and help old people across the street?Do you see evil as a progression?No. It is not. Just be Mavra and leave evil to the evil ones.
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I learned many evil things from you, I admit. Are you looking for a share in this? You should be spreading evil through love. I'm just want to go for the most direct damage.
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I know as much as you. For she has sprung this bombshell upon us in these past few minutes. Tis most distressing.
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I feel the urge to expand my horizons. I'm not going to hurt anyone who isn't asking for it. In fact, by fulfilling this person's need then I am actually doing a good deed. Twisted logic, but I'm sticking to it.
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Zounds! Sounds like a sixties slogan!
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I am not longer the Dirk you once knew. I have been saved!
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So, what are the hours like? Do you get Christmas off?
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Ignoring the two extra letters, you can see how love evolves into evil. Now that's progressive!
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Our work is too much fun. Since evil is mostly mental (and I am mostly mental), it would be 24/7, I suppose. Mind you, I haven't been hired yet. No matter what Dirk says about "being saved", I wouldn't put it past him to be scoping this out for his own nefarious purposes. This ain't the Legion of Doom. It's every villain for themselves.
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Otherwise, what else could have brought on such a change?
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shall not ever kneel at the altar of evil. No. Love is a many splendoured thing. Love is like oxygen. But most of all, love lifts us up where we belong...Where the eagles fly.
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How could you think that an Amoeba of my integrity could every be less than truthful? I suspect that you have been infected with some evil virus that is impairing your judgment. Turm back from the dark side my love, before it is too late. I know the siren song of evil, I have dance many a night to its tune, but I was saved! A humble church dustball - with a sweet ass, pulled me through the darkest times. Give me your hand mavra, walk with me!
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Sounds actually very sinister. Kind of like Nurse Ratched from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. That person who says they are doing everything for you benefit and well-being, but it seems to have a very negative effect on you.
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Knowing that two solid months of non-religious holiday tunes playing all night at work is looming around the corner is enough to push me to the brink, as this will be my 5th year of it. I think I snapped after hearing the Harry Connick Jr. version of "Santa Baby". It did more to turn the tide of evil in me than any amount of dusty popcorn left abandoned in your love-path, Dirk.
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Chose a friend to be your enemy.
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Your love, liftin' me higher
Than I've ever been lifted before
So keep it up, quench my desire
And I'll be at your side forevermore
You know your love (your love keeps liftin' me)
Keeps on liftin' (your love keeps liftin' me)
Higher (liftin' me, liftin' me), higher, and higher (higher)
I said your love (your love keeps liftin' me)
Keeps on (liftin' me, liftin' me)
Liftin' me (liftin' me) higher and higher (higher)
Now once I was downhearted
Disappointment was my closest friend
But then you came and he soon departed
And you know he never showed his face again
That's why your love (your love keeps liftin' me)
Keeps on liftin' (your love keeps liftin' me)
Higher (liftin' me, liftin' me), higher, and higher (higher)
I said your love (your love keeps liftin' me)
Keeps on (liftin' me, liftin' me)
Liftin' me (liftin' me) higher and higher (higher)
Awww
I'm so glad I finally found you
Yes, that one in a million girls
And I wish my lovin' arms around ya
Honey, I can stand up and face the world
Let me tell ya your love (your love keeps liftin' me)
Keeps on liftin' (your love keeps liftin' me)
Higher (liftin' me, liftin' me), higher, and higher (higher)
I said your love (your love keeps liftin' me)
Keeps on (liftin' me, liftin' me)
Liftin' me (liftin' me) higher and higher (higher)
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And not the Long Island variety. Also, stay away from the radio. It's bad for you.
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We can not allow Mavra to slip into the darkside. We must fight, for the right!
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Love Stinks. I Hate Myself For Lovin' You.
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It's just too cool to pass up. My friends should feel safer knowing that I'm turning my dark side away from them. Especially Toad. Unless he placed the ad.
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Going to have to go and find that episode to check out.
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but my baby just wants to dance.Is dancing a form epilepsy?
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That would be prostitution. Evil is legal.;p
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We can dance if we wanna, we can leave this world behind.
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We're all there, waiting for you. Can you see us? Can you hear us, singing songs of love. Evil hath no hold on you. For you are a child of the light. Turn away! Turn away from the dark, where Michael Keaton lurks with arched eyebrows. Listen to our angelic trilling! Love comes quickly, whatever you do, you can't stop falling...
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The power of Amoeba compels you! The power of Amoeba compels you!
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I did not go into the lyrics for "Wake Me Up Before You Go Go".
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Psychologically disturbed, but Batman nevertheless. And he was Beetlejuice, so I feel myself walking towards the darkness with amused curiosity.
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Oh, I see. Stereotyped. Brit = tea dribkingWell, for your information, I... Oh. Yes, I see what you mean. I'm always drinkng tea. I bath in it!
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The scent of stale popcorn wafts through the lit door. Don't make me spit up M&Ms on you, Dirk. My head looks cool when it turns backwards, doesn't it? Want to see me spider-walk upside down on a flight of stairs? Ta da!
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Aug 29, 2009 6:27:11 PM CDT
How big of pushover and nice guy is the person who placed this a
by continentalop
That he can't make enemies, but has to hire one? Man, I make enemies and people who despise me every day. Shit, I make them on this TB at least once a day.
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He was also Mr. MOM! No, Mavra, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
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It's simply too late for coffee and water wouldn't have enough kick to combat the vodka and beer.
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She may start projectile vomiting.Mmmm... perhaps it's for her own good.Mavra! The Power of the Amoeba compels you to vomit!Vomit and be purge-ed!
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Couldn't fit one God damn extra letter the subject line, you cheap site?
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Those morons deserved everything he did to them. There's some serious fiendishness to be learned from Keaton.
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Looking for my sworn enemy In large, bold print. Like I said, I was just planning on squashing the competition from nabbing the job ahead of me.
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Ewwww. You really don't want me to do that. I had rice for supper. Dirk will be saying "Maggots, Michael."
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archeth his eyebrows, all shall quiver and despair!Tis he who placed the ad, Mavra. He who hath poithoned thy mind.Thit. Ny thongue ith thtuck to the rooth oth ny nouth...
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Perhaps you have contacts in the underworld who can find this fiend?
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It was a link to respond. And no, I did not give out any personal info in return. Not even a faux name. A nemesis should retain anonymity in order to be effective.
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Duh.
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Fast.
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Aug 29, 2009 6:41:05 PM CDT
ok...got to go before you start anointing me w/ Amoeba juice
by mavra chang
Have fun and know that somewhere, perhaps right outside of your very door or even close behind you, I am lurking and plotting my first notable act of evil (in case proof of nemesisabiity is required). Have a good night. It might be your last.
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This guy has to hire a nemesis. Hardly fiend material.
Best bet to find him working at an animal shelter or singing to sick children.
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It's no good. You're not evil.
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from Fantastic Fest. I demand to exercise my right to vote on D.Vader's short!
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You might need to click a button there?
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It's got 'In competition' across the voting meter. I can't affect that at all.
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Early and often! Good job, dark heavy breather!
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Probably need to shut down and try again tomorrow.I may be booze impaired. But I don't think so.
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Everyone can vote 'cept me!
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There is a second star meter under te one that says "In Competition", that's the one you vote with. The In Competition is like the voter average which won't be released until after the contest is over.
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If I keep voting? It looks like a one vote per person.
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WHO'S WATCHING THIS! WHO'S WATCHING THIS!
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How much did it cost to make that movie?
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Inglorious Bastards is going to be a glorious let down?
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Fantastic Fest has been kinda slack when it comes to information about rules and whatnot. I had to do a deep search to find out that the last day to vote is Monday by noon; the main site doesn't say shit about it. And who knows if they'll actually follow their own rules about keeping the videos 30 seconds long. Shit! I forgot giant Shark vs Mega Octopus was on tonight! Ah well, I just now got home from work. Loooooong day today.
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I'll give you an estimate in the next few days. Right now my brain is fried and I can't remember.
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You are my Goddess. http://tinyurl.com/nzsww6
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That's what I mean - there's no other meter under the 'in competition' one. There's nothing else for me to click.
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On the 'verify' screen, you clicked where it says "send verification email"? I almost missed that part, as I assumed when I registered that it would automatically send me a registration email. Apparently you have to tell the site to send it to you? My email was there in a minute after that.
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I saw an advanced screening of Gamer. I thought it was horrible.
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Looks like shit. How come you ended up watching that? Would have thought the trailer would be enough to put you off.
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I click 'send verification e-mail' and it tells me 'e-mail sent'. Done it 3 times now - no e-mail forthcoming.
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Too bad. I heard from an early review that it sucked as well. I guess Crank 2 was a fluke. Terry Crews needs more work.
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write a review.
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And they had food and drinks afterwards. So that is my excuse and I am sticking by it.
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It would be slightly "unethical" of me to write a review. I was invited to see it by a friend who worked on the post production end of the movie, so reviewing it would probably considered a breach of trust of some sort.
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Aug 30, 2009 7:51:31 PM CDT
And we are being beaten by TBs with only 24 or 25 post...
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Slow ass weekend. No one got into get drunk and watch Mega Shark Vs. Giant Octopus Saturdays. I think its showing again next weekend. Since no one was around when I found out I went to comic night. So maybe we can get together next week.
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It comes out next week, so I think a breach on trust isn't a big deal. Did your friend think it was going to be a good movie?
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Gamer takes place in the future, a couple of decades from now I guess. In the future this one techno whiz has developed a way for people to control other people's actions, so he has manifactured two games based on controlling other people. One is Society - a kind of Sim City game where you can have people act ridiculously, but most often people just cause their remote controlled puppets to have sex. The other game is Slayer, a kind of real life first person shoot-em-up, where convicted death row and life sentenced inmates can volunteer to go and if they survive 30 fights they are let free.
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I met some guys at comic night, who fucking loved Inland Empire. They saw it in theaters, one of them saw it twice.
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I got too drunk last night. I'm still hungover. Probably gonna see District 9 tonight still.
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And the reason I can't write a review was I was invited as a friend. He knows I do interviews, or I am trying to do interviews, for AIBN. He is actually helping me set some up. It would be a little disingenuous to go as a friend and then prematurely review the movie for a website.
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Looks stupid. Does anyone watch it?
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They set him up like he is going to be Gerard Butler's number one threat, and then he just kind of fades away and barely used.
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Get me a job, running errands for Terry Crews? Be part of his entourage?
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And stupid villain ever. I can't imagine that he is any good in Dexter after seeing this movie.
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Like wasn't Gamer done before Crank 2 even? I remember reading that early review before Crank 2 even came out I think. It looks like a Paul Anderson film. Man I was hoping it was going to be cheesy good fun, like the WWE movie The Condemned.
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My friend is like me, works in post production. He just did sound on the movie. He doesn't know any of the actors. The only ones he does know are some he did ADR with in the past who do a lot of VO work.
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Has a bad southern accent in the movie right? He is good in Dexter, season 1 anyway. I can't speak for the rest. Season 1 is pretty fucking awesome.
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Keith David? Terry Crews biological father.
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Is that it makes absolutely no sense. I was thinking when I was watching this that they could have gone in two direction - make it very "serious" in the sense that it is saying something about our culture, or just make it ridiculous and have it be a live action video game.
The didn't do either. The scenes are just there. They are scenes, but they mean nothing. And things just suddenly happen as if the screenwriters just suddenly said "So how are we gonna get to the next scene?" The idea of foreshadowing does not exist at fucking all.
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And Keith David is in the movie, so I wonder if maybe there might be some truth to that rumor.
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This picture looks stupid for some reason. http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2507376640/nm0005520
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How do you get the Father and Son combo of Terry and Keith and not make them the stars? And make it the best movie ever made?
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You seen this movie Con?
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That actor plays some character called Scotch, who is basically a remote controlled person. His performance is so fucking bad, it goes to funny and then back to shitty.
And they had Xiphos No. 1 requirement for a movie, boobs, but this is so tame of movie. They really should of had cheesy, sleazy sex in this movie. You are talking about perverts controlling hot men and women and can have them do anything. I'm not saying be explicit, but you really could imply some kinky, perverted shit. -
Bare all?
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The one with Robert DeNiro and Depardieu?
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Some minor lesbo tick licking and some boobs, but the movie is tamer than Porkies and Hot Dog: The Movie. Hell, it is less Sleazy than Hardcore or Vice Squad.
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But not for years. I remember being disappointed. For some reason I couldn't get into it. But I do remember thinking Donald Sutherland was awesome in it.
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I wonder why those guys balls were so cut off with this movie. Cause Crank 2 is sleazy as shit and its fucking awesome.
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1900 that is.
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I gotta go to shit mart and get food for the week and eat and District 9. Probably pop in Mean Streets before bed.
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I was just looking it up on IMDB this weekend. Wondering if I should rent it.
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Doc this week.
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Aug 30, 2009 8:22:43 PM CDT
I think the studio Lionsgate wanted it be to be "kid friendly"
by continentalop
And by that I mean that they could get a lot of teenagers whose parents might not be as inclined to let them see it if they heard it was sleazy as hell.
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I saw it in the late 80s/early 90s, so I might have been to young to appreciate it.
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To read this week. Ever read it?
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Its gonna be awhile till I get to it. Fucking its like 4 hours are something.
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1900
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1900
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What high hopes were inspired by Bernardo Bertolucci's "1900" -- and how few of them are realized. This was to be the great epic statement by the young Italian director generally considered to be the greatest since Fellini; the director who made "The Conformist" before he was 30, and whose "Last Tango in Paris" was hailed by Pauline Kael as the most important artistic event since Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring." Bertolucci had his pick of actors a free run with his budget, the freedom to make a personal film. And he blew it.
I remember the excitement before the world premiere of "1900" at the Cannes Film Festival in May, 1976. Tickets and passes were being traded on an impromptu black market, and the crush at the first morning screening was so savage that one man was pushed through a plate-glass door. The atmosphere was totally different by the end of the afternoon, after the dual press screenings for both halves of the (then) 320-minute film. People were quiet and puzzled and dismayed: How had Bertolucci gone so wrong? -
This show looks dumb as shit. How did it get made? Also when did Fox care about Black people?
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Those were pretty whacked out comics back then. Flex was Charles Atlas with powers, but comes back in an obvious homage of Sub-Mariner.
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We are discussing comics in the Batman TB.
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My gf said at work, no one could vote with the star meter I'm referring to. Theirs might not show up either, which means maybe it has something to do with your ISP? Are you doing this from work or school? Or wait, actually... maybe you put in a different email and thats where its being sent to? You could always make a new profile.
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Thanks bud!
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Was fucking amazing. It was better then they said. I was wrong about The Hurt Locker, D9 is better. Like I couldn't believe how awesome that movie was.
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And see that movie again.
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Harry always wearing these half buttoned shirts.....what world does he live in where that is ok?
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Was SOOOO FUCKING GOOD. That would be fucking awesome if it won best picture. Also who said that there was no one in that movie, William Allen Young that guy is in tons of shit. And the head guard is the new Micheal Ironside (remember Ironside is not American either and really got big in a movie with a mech warrior in it). I could see the main guy Sharlto Copley getting nominated for an Oscar as well he fucking carried that movie. It would be so fucking cool if District 9 swept the technical awards as well, like a big fuck you to Avatar. I think at this point, Jackson has just as much Oscar clout as James. But then again he may be too busy pimping his own shit by Oscar season.
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Worth watching anyone?
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Ok my computer is being a bitch. Later.
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Not my favorite Howard Hawkes movies (the Big Sleep), not my favorite Cary Grant movie (Notorious), not even my favorite Grant & Hawkes movie (His Girl Friday) but still a damn good picture. Very much worth watching Series.
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number one at box office? you've got to be shitting me? what is going ON in the us? are you all on acid?
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Bob Evans IS White Vader. "She was looking at me and thinking of McQueen's cock." Bob, you're better off without Ali "quick draw" McGraw, my man.
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Ummmm your talking to the nation that blasted PBMC to become the number 1 Comedy - Bumbling movie of all time. But hey at least we didn't make H2 number one! Final Destinations 1-3 have at least been fun, 4 looked like a direct to VHS film. But also whats very cool is that right now numbers 1-4 are R rated films...whens the last time thats happened?
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Only cost 15 million, the sequel made 17 million...so its already a hit. Final Destination still has a way to go to recoup the cost.
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TAKING WOODSTOCK cost 30 million to make. It'll be lucky if it ends up with 10 million.
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I liked it. Sure, how Joan Allen was all ka-boom was pretty stupid, but I thought it wasn't too bad. That's more of what I want a typical Statham movie to be, not War.
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Fell asleep watching it. Woke up like halfway through I think, popped that baby right outta there and threw it back into the case. I think I'll pass on ever watching it again.
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My daughter really liked it, and I laughed my ass off when they took down Pooh with a tranquilizer.
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So I'll have to go to the library again and take it out. And hope this time I can watch it.
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At least Jerry wrote the movie, to justify his voice acting to it. Rather then Dreamworks just buy big names.
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Maybe it was because I didn't walk away from a lot of films this year blown away.
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Has the whole world gone CRAZY?!
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I really wish I was going to see it on the big screen, but that won't be happening.
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Can now make Marvel movies!
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No impact on me whatsoever.
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The newest member of our team is this annoying ass girl. She has only lived in America for like 10 years are something. But man like no matter what I'm doing when she walks by and is like. Oh my god, what is that? Or what are you doing. Today I have my fan on and she just couldn't believe it because "am I not freezing?" No I'm not but I'm not fucking annoyed. Then she just stands there and I'm like...go away. Fokkin shit I need a new job.
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http://www.avclub.com/articles/taxidermia,31959/
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What type of computers do you have? Do you edit stuff at home? I'm looking into getting a new computer, and I want to do basic movie editing stuff.
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Just to keep you updated, I am still waiting for a response to my Nemesis application. Also, my mother told me to tell you that I am evil and am well-qualified for the job. She should know. ;)
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Slow ass day.
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And yeah I edit at home with Final Cut Express.
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At what point does Mean Streets turn good?
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Yeah I thought you had said that before. I think I'm gonna get the IMAX desktop. Fucking sick of labtops, yeah they've gotten better then this 4 year + one I have. But still. I'm just looking for something to have at home so I can watch Netflixs streaming shit on my tele and edit stupid Frisbee dog videos for my fans.
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DON'T DIE NOW!! Where ever you go! Whatever you do! I will find you! And drink your milk shake.
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Does not cannot be translated from geek to english.
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The same duo thats doing Batman and Robin right now Frank and guy with fake name. It got canceled because Atlas Man sued the SHIT out of Vertigo. My Comic book guy has tried to sell it to me twice. Now I get to read it and keep issue 4. On the cover is says "YOU! BUY THIS COMIC NOW OR THE EARTH IS DOOMED!!"
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Get used in Mean Streets (first time?) then is wasn't until Pi did everyone start using it. I notice a lot of Mean Streets in Pi.
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Brother kill each other.
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Because I think that Johnny Boy is suppose to be a closet gay man. Like the constant music in this thing is fokking annoying.
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There is one song I can't remember the name that is used in something else. Possibly Back To The Future, that slow ass song. I know Con has this movie memorized like the top of the dime hooker at the bus stop down the street's head.
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Sort of cerebral film. But for the most part it just feels like shit happens. I guess there's some deeper anti viet nam meaning to it or something. But to me those characters just come off as fokking annoying as well. Is the story based off of anything real?
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Back to the future, when he's fading away because of the time continuum. HOLLER!
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But I already brought back sexy, what more do you want from me?
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Here's some reading for tomorrow. http://tinyurl.com/hvohw
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I've gotten only a few hours of sleep the past few nights, have been working on a reality show while also editing at night when I get home. And now Im drunk and trying to edit for a separate project thats due in the morning. Wheeeeeeee.... who's coming with me?
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AND here I am by myself, ah ah, talking to myself. That's, that's Chaos Theory...
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I was there on Saturday. But I got a cube job and they get mad at me if I'm 30 seconds late.
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You a fan of Mean Streets?
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HOD (if you're lurking) and TDK, I'm drinking a Magic Hat Roxy Rolles Autumn Seasonal.
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How much did your fantastic feast short cost to make?
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Sep 01, 2009 1:38:21 AM CDT
I'm watching an X-Files episode with the fuckable Shawnee Smith
by d.vader
Though in this episode, her hairdo is shit. Also stars the weasel laugh villain from Billy Madison who was on The West Wing and Studio 60 from the Sunset Strip. And the FUBAR pilot from Saving Private Ryan who was the LUST sinner in Se7en with the razor dick, and the impregnated sap in Alien Resurrection. awesome.
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I never really knew a lot of Scorsese's biography. I knew his filmography, bt not biography or timeline of events. Yesterday during some downtime, I read his entire Wikipedia article. And then I decided I'm going to rewatch his entire catalogue in order when I go back to VisArt the video store. So Ive never seen Mean Streets, but Im interested. Are you a fan or non-fan and where does Conti stand? I know, from glances at the TB, that you two have been having a Marty discussion for awhile.
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I have no idea of what kind of toll its taken on my body. At least it was all sugar-free.
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Is a stalker fan of Marty. I respect his work, I don't worship the ground he walks on. Mean Streets just finished, and I'm starting to realize that QT is just a different less innovative version of Marty. Like Mean Streets got better toward the end, but the meandering just got boring, and me personally I think gangsters and mobsters are some of the most boring people. That's why a lot of Marty's stuff hasn't been must see shit for me. I don't know really in the end. Like I saw a lot of shit in Mean Streets that I've seen a million times before so I know its importance, but I think as a whole it didn't work for me. Parts here and there did. Also I just can't buy De Niro as a tough guy, and in this movie he just came off as a closet gay.
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But I'm out. While I wish I could dick around and chat and drink and watch Delgo. My wrist fokking hurts and I'm ready for nap time.
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Actually, Im wearing a different pair of pants than the one that contains my wad of receipts from all the shorts Ive made this month. Yeah, I prob wash those shorts once a week. Okay, I gave my effects team a budget of $100 to make the monster costume. They told me they only spent $40-$50, but I think they used some of their own material. The body suit was a snuggie of some sort. Anyway, I gave them $150 for all their hardwork (they made the costume in under a week in between their Real Life) and for last year's Zombie Hunters. I also bought lots of water, some snacks, some tapes... Holy shit Im watching a commercial for "Carbonite"?... sorry for the stream-of-consciousness.... also bought some Karo syrup and beer maybe and bug spray... Let's add another 50 biucks and pretend the whole thing cost me $200? When I add up my receipts I'll let you know the real cost. Without factoring in the jobs I refused to take so I could edit.
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So I kept drinking it every few hours when I felt sleepy. I like Monster and Ampd. I felt like I was in a STAKEOUT all weekend. My job was to sit in the RV, watch a tiny monitor, listen in on the headphones, and take all the story notes, recording what happened. So I sat there for 12-14 hours and just watched and recorded and surrounded myself with coffee cups and trash and... yeah. I was like one of those cops in the pedophile vans from the movies.
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Which I guess might have been the first Scorsese movie I ever watched beginning to end? Sneaking in the R rated movie at my great-uncles house with my cousins during family reunions up in Pittsburgh when we all slept in the poolhouse... Ahhh, those were the days. Lemme think... yes, it was my first Scorsese flick.
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And have been editing the past few nights and today during my job. I had the SAME FUCKING ERROR problem as I did a few weeks ago, the same one Conti tried to help me with, so I had to keep starting over this evening. So, my month of shorts hasn't ended yet. Hopefully I'll add up receipts soon.
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I can't remember, did you see it? Or just the teaser? I gotta say, the scarred up drill sergeant, would, I think, make a great older and wiser Captain America. Whatcha think?
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And holy shit was this episode hard-core. Goliath traveled to the future where Broadway had his eyes cut out, we were told other Gargoyles and heroes had been killed, and where Xanatos blew up his son (who we saw explode for a very brief second). Man I miss this show. Cant believe Disney made it.
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I watched this on the weekend. It was okay. Fun, but fairly empty. Too many characters and none of them were particularly developed. It was also too long.
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Speaking of empty, I watched this as well. Wall to wall special effects. It was a mildly entertaining diversion. I did laugh at the part where Darth Vader and Oscar the Grouch apply to join with Azaria's evil plans. Apart from that it was instantly forgettable.
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Night at the Museum 2 just looked plain terrible. Except for a certain appearance by teh Dark Lord of the Sith, I mean. But the trailer DID make me think that someone should do a biopic on Boris Karloff and have Hank Azaria play him.
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Sep 01, 2009 3:57:42 AM CDT
So the poison arrows and bullets work in Night @ the Museum....
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But Darth Vader's Force choke doesn't?
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While it was cleverly put together, I didn't really laugh. It really felt someone had trawled the tb's collecting all the idiotic talkbacker comments and cobbled them together in a fairly lame attempt at satire. Some geeks really do have way too much time on their hands.
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It was a sunday morning, slightly hungover, unchallenging choice. That's the justification for watching it anyway. That and the missus wanted to.
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If not a little disturbing.
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I had a very mixed weekends viewing: OUTLANDER- This is actually better this time round. I find new things to like about it every time. I only watched it because Sophia Myles is in that moonlight rubbish and I had to watch something with her in it that didn't blow. Where the fuck is she from? Day After Tomorrow. Wank. Unforgivably so. Rambo- HUZZAH! It would have been more but we've got another postal strike.
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contender for worst thing on TV. Since when can Vampires go in sunlight?
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To help boost our numbers
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Can't fault you. I just take it that it is a film that you can relate too. Me, I totally relate to that film. I see it as a personal recollection of what life is like for those people (Italian Americans) living in NY at that period of time. And even though I am not Italian, not Catholic, and did not grow up in a big city (Minneapolis is not NY), I felt a deep connection and recognized my self and my friends in those characters.
One of the reasons you might not be able to relate to the film is your age. While I am not Catholic, I grew up around them and have a lot of Catholic relatives, and this film is heavily influenced by the church before Vatican II and their views on sin. This movie is all about sin - and Charlie's attempts at his own personal redemption. You can feel Marty's Catholicism stamped on it frame.
And I didn't see Johnny Boy as gay, but I also didn't see him as a tough guy. He is a fuck up, someone who's very nature is to be chaotic and destructive and can't help but get into bigger and bigger trouble. He is the infected, someone Charlie should completely avoid, but because of his neighborhood mentality and his belief in salvation he can't help but try to save his friend. -
Sucks. Potential for awesomeness. The only good thing about it is the title.
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Sep 01, 2009 4:12:07 AM CDT
Actually Vampires have always been able to go into the sunlight
by continentalop
Even in Bram Stroker's Dracula (the book and the movie) they could walk around in sunlight.
But I know what you mean Jarv. The vampire myths have certainly changed ever since Nosferatu showed him fading away with the rising of the morning sun. I hate when filmmakers just take the aspects of the myths they want and discard the rest because they are lazy or they find them ridiculous, or worse it goes against their attempts to make vampires kewl. Sorry, being a vampire should be a curse not a blessing. -
looks fucking terrible. I can't stand those two Crank cock bags.
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And so far my impression has been "meh."
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fucking sucked as well. Not a single redeeming factor. Made all the worse by featuring a terrible performance by Joan Allen. What the fuck was she thinking taking that role!?
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but Moonlight has totally reinvented it, and not in a good way.
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But I doubt you would need that. Just get a MacBook Pro if you can afford it. They are damn good. But you can get decent, non-professional editing systems for a regular Macbook. iMovie should do all your basic editing stuff.
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so am not impressed by this remake.
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Because until that happens, Twilight still rules as the biggest butchering of the vampire myths.
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so, Mrs Jarv got me a new I-pod shuffle. Huzzah, thinks I. Anyhow, I try to put it in and it tells me I need I tunes 8. Fuck's sake. To remedy this, I get our IT monkey's to download it and save it to disk. I then install it at home. Does it work? Does it fuck.
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No glitter. But he does dehydrate.
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both go in sun. Twilight Glitters, Moonlight dehydrates. Don't know about Stake through the heart in Twilight, but I imagine it's fatal. It isn't in moonlight. It's a butchering.
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I really, really want to see this. Bad Argento= better than practically anything else doing the rounds. I would rather watch Trauma (which is shit) than any recent Horror film.
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Actually quite enjoyable if you can get past the putrid first 40 minutes. That's a big IF though.
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But that is because I use them for 95% of the stuff I do. I barely ever us PC.
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is a terrible film that I really enjoyed and it gets big bonus marks for the most amazingly brazen piece of nekkidness outside of Leprechaun in Space.
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Never heard of it. I'm getting sick to fucking death of vampires. They're done. Move on.
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I'm either going to have to go and buy a new i-tunes (which I don't want to), or fix the internets at home and download the fucker properly. Which I should do.
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fuck's sake.
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is a shit Vampire as Private Eye series currently on Virgin. Only notable feature is OUTLANDER's Sophia Myles as female lead. It's terrible.
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That self destructed exactly a year to the date of purchase. It never showed a sign of it's impending death. One day it just chose not to work. On that day I chose never to pay for anything made by Apple ever again.
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truly fucking diabolically awful. The only sodding reason I watched it was because I thought it was the Anna Paquin one that people keep saying is great. It isn't.
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No zombies, vampires or werewolves.
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while this is quite a good idea, why not just cut out the middle man and adapt American Gods? That would rock. PS- obscure monsters can be great, but we do keep getting lumbered with shit like Wishmaster (Djinn).
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Sep 01, 2009 4:49:36 AM CDT
I've started watching Smallville
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
And have been surprised to find that I'm actually somewhat enjoying it. It's by no means great, but not as terible as I thought it might have been.
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but luckily Rambo was on. I call this a close escape.
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I seem to remember it being OK at the start and then being shit from basically series 2.
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Sep 01, 2009 4:52:48 AM CDT
"the Anna Paquin one that people keep saying is great"
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
True Blood. I got about 6 episodes into that and pulled the pin. I think "people" say it's great because it has sex and nudity in it. It's actually pretty fucking boring.
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Never was into Gaimon's comic books. Couldn't imagine I would be into his novels.
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He's only just learning/discovering some of his powers at the moment.
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sucks. Terrible, terrible flick. You dodged a bullet with that one.
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Best book I've read in ages.
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My only problem is I have a real big problem with any sort of Meta idea, or idea that our imaginations create something. I think Stephen King and comic books killed that idea for my because they overplayed it so much.
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but it was on again on both Sunday and Monday. I didn't watch it, but that's overkill by any definition.
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honestly.
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That is overkill, and exactly why I don't watch tv. I can't remember the last time I actually sat down at a specific time to watch something on tv that wasn't sport.
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maybe it is time to retire vampires for a bit.
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that I think I'm not going to manage. I generally watch whatever's on TV that's a movie. So I flick around trying to find something I can bear to watch. This is why I notice how many times Hulk is on. That's daft. Even if you were the world's biggest fanboy, you wouldn't watch it that often.
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But I didn't think anyone else was watching it. And yes, the sex and nudity is, as Jarv says, "mint", in that show.
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which was better second time and far, far better than Indy 4. How fucking sad is that?
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Have both become almost exclusively metaphors for homosexuality nowadays it seems.
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Why would you not display the names of the directors for your music videos nowadays, even when its 5 am? FUCK YOU, you asshole 12 yr old who chooses to play the Star Wars films. Idle Hands, and episodes of Scrubs in place of music videos, you cocksucking chode. I'm drunk, but still smart enough to realize you're a disrespectful piece of shit.
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IMO. But vampires are really giving me the shits so it may be a biased opinion. I think after Daybreakers there should be a five year (at least) moratorium on vampire movies and tv shows.
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I've got a mate that used to work for MTV in London and he said it's a terrible place to work.
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But I actually thought the trailer for Daybreakers looked good. Normally I don't like the ultra-cool vampires or them as social metaphor, but that actually looked a little interesting.
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Besides the Abonimable Snowmen doing touch down dances, it was the really shitty direction that did my head in. Rob Cohen needs to fuck off and die.
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That's what I mean. I think that will be pretty good, but after that there should be a ban on vampires. Really. What is left to say?
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Sep 01, 2009 5:22:55 AM CDT
ACTUALLY Droid I hope they don't completely ban vampires
by continentalop
I decided to try to get back into screen writing again recently and I think I thought of a new angle for the vampire film, something that hasn't been said yet.
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is that it is now apparent to me that the "Supes as stalker" theme is not exclusive to Returns. Ol' Clarke-y boy spends much of his time peering through his high powered telescope at Lana Langs front porch. I guess once he learns to fly he'll graduate to hovering outside her bedroom window.
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Are they sparkly vampires? Because that's been done.
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I saw two episodes and I immediately tuned out, then checked up on it years later and saw that it got worse.
I didn't mind the Dawson's Creek angle, in fact it makes sense, what I didn't like was the monster of the week, or Kryptonite freak of the weak. That is just boring and unoriginal. In fact, I think a lot of times shows like Smallville work better when they aren't facing some super-threat every week. -
This will make vampires from Twilight and Anne Rice novels say "Holy shit! You guys are gay!"
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There is way too much Kryptonite so far. It's annoying. I'd prefer it to be more about Clarke discovering and dealing with his abilities and maybe how he deals with the temptation to use them to his advantage. They're touching on that a bit, but not enough. There's the opportunity to add some grey areas to a character that's very black and white. The monster of the week is definitely getting tired. The show is actually a clone of the Buffy template.
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Sep 01, 2009 5:35:04 AM CDT
Well, hurry up and sell your...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
super-gay, sparkly vampire script so we can all take a break from vamps!
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...was Veronica Mars to me. In fact, it was a better hard boiled/noir than Brick ever was.
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And doing research. Going to West Hollywood, aka "Boy's Town", ever other night is expensive.
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Riiiiiight.... Never watched Veronica Mars. Just got Brick to watch.
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Who was disappointed in Brick. That is all I am going to say; I will let you come to your own conclusion about it.
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Or Eric Bana Big Gumby Hulk? You know you need to clarify those sorts of things, Jarv.
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is on TV every morning and is surprisingly good. There's a bit of a "monster of the week" idea to it, but an overacrching story that covers the whole series and a bit is revealed every week. Very, very impressed.
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Just commenting that it was on twice in 2 days- which makes it 3 times in a week.
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One reason is that it had something that very few US shows have, especially HS shows, and that was that it was about Social Class. The creators knew that the best detective fiction is about a working class detective navigating the world's of the upper class and the lower class - they are the bridge between those two worlds, and usually they face their greatest challenge from the condescending attitudes of the rich and privileged.
VM also had a rational for her hardboiled attitude, something that Brick didn't. You earn the right to act jaded and cynical in a PI film; in Brick he just is.
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YAAAWN. If Kryptonite was remotely rare in the comics/ films then it would be OK. This isn't the case though, there's fucking tons of it everywhere. I get that he's so powerful you need a good achilles heel, but they just rely on it to much. It could be used better- For example, Luthor busts out of prison and hatches plot to get only known lump of kryptonite by robbing smithsonian thereby getting revenge. First half of film is superman doing super things like stopping avalanches etc, with appearances in Jail from Luthor. Second half= revenge plot.
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But I just heard Scarlett Johanssen's duet with Peter Yorn, "Relator", and I actually dig it.
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Yogi Bear, The Green Hornet and The Smurfs are all scheduled to be released. I think I'm busy that day.
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Very, very fucking true. Even if it is a bit of a trite psych 101 reason.
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But what is worse than having a HS kid acting like Philip Marlowe and Sam Spade. Sorry, I can't believe you've lived life enough to truly earn that cynical attitude. You are just being a young tongue cleaner.
Which was my problem with Brick. I know why Sam Spade and Lew Archer act the way they do, they've seen it all, but you are just some kid in HS. At least Veronica has been through some tough shit. -
This show is officially not about Vince anymore. Every single episode is split between E and Ari. Vince makes a fucking cameo in his own show. Which makes sense because he's always been the least interesting character.
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I think I shall be doing other things. Perhaps in the pub, looking at the date.
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I would buy that if she'd developed the attitude over the series. She didn't. She started out like that, and don't forget that before Lily was murdered her life was pretty fucking cushty. I haven't seen Brick so am not making the comparison- but I remember remarking "fuck's sake she thinks she's Sam Spade" in Episode 1 of VM. Luckily, I perservered, but it was an established character trait from word go. By the end of series one and especially in series 2, she'd earned that attitude.
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Jarv missed the last third of series 1 of Vm because he was in Spain
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Watched it last night, and I was entertained by the silliness. Sure, Nic wasn't "out there" with his performance like I wish he was, but nonetheless, I liked it. At least Alex went with a mixed ending. By this I mean the Sudden Impact vs. Armageddon. I'm not talking about the quality, or lack thereof, rather the disaster impact. Armageddon wussed out and had a very happy ending. At least Sudden Impact, shit went down and people went bye-bye. Same thing with Knowing. Even Nic is not impervious to the sun's touch.
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Mainly because of Joey.
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Lily was murdered, her dad suspected and investigated her bf & his family for Lily's murder, her bf dumbed her, she was ostracized by the popular kids whose click she once was a member of, her dad lost the re-election to be Sheriff, her mom suddenly left her, AND she was date raped and Sheriff Lamb refused to believe her.
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Pass.
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Sep 01, 2009 6:36:03 AM CDT
Are these Veronica Mars spoilers I should be aware of?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Just in case I decide to watch the show?
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My problem with Brick was they had kids acting so hardboiled and so much like characters from a noir detective story, but the problem with that is Hammett's books are full of ADULTS who have lived hard lives and have a lot of stuff at stake. You kids live with mommy and daddy and you have yet to really face the problem's that a Sam Spade or a Philip Marlowe would have faced. You haven't earned the right to be hard-boiled yet. Plus, how the hell was JGL so fucking tough? Seemed out of place as hell for a high schooler to be as cynical and world-weary as him AND also be a tough SOB.
If they had just given JGL some sort of rational involving his family or something, I think that would have solved 90% of my problems with the film. I just couldn't suspend disbelief. -
Love that flick.
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Is pretty much the back story which is revealed in the first two episodes.
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I actually rather liked it. Sure it has quite a conceit to it, but I think the writing and performances are good enough to make it work. And it deliberately undercutts the whole 'hard boiled' thing when JGL breaks down near the end. I'll take HS kids acting smarter than there age over kids acting like annoying fuck tards like they do in most other films.
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Sep 01, 2009 6:47:26 AM CDT
Well, that is why I told Droid I am in the minority savagedave
by continentalop
I just couldn't overcome that hurdle of characters acting, IMO, so ridiculous and artificial. And all the scenes come across to me as bad take offs of classic detective moments, which I know was the intent but these were just painfully obvious and forced.
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Sep 01, 2009 6:48:27 AM CDT
I'm still unsure where all the JGL love has come from
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
The only things I've seen him in other than 3rd Rock is The Lookout and GI Joe. Where has he got these huge wraps from? Is it Brick?
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And I agree. But I found it still entertaining and I liked Levitt in it, so I was willing to forget about how unrealistic it was for these kids to act like life had already beaten them down for years.And savagedave does have a point: at least it wasn't a bunch of "high school" kids who you wanted to stab with a #2 pencil repeatedly.
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bought another DVD player and threw it in the other room so that Mrs. Pillow can watch some of her unbearable movies that I just can't stomach.Mama Mia last night.I'm more than willing to take some hits for the team, but only so far...
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But it reminded me of Cruel Intentions, that took the story of Dangerous Liaisons and transported it into the milieu of high school. But like that movie I don't think the filmmakers realized or ignored how different and distant the subject matter and plot they were imitating was from where they were setting it in. And the pseudo period argot just gets on my nerves, making the thing more and more kids pantomiming at being adult detectives than being real people.
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I disagree with that. I think a bet based on sex is perfectly acceptable high school behaviour. True about VM, but I was under the impression that all took place within the year before episode 1. She's talking and acting like Mike Hammer's precocious kid sister from the word go. Hell, I like the series, but she is a bit too smartarsed for her own good. My favourite thing about it, is that all the characters are rounded and thought out. They all (with the possible exception of Weevil- who is just ridiculous) have proper established motivation for their actions. Especially Duncan and Logan- (who although an asshole, is established as a borderline abuse kid).
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in case that wasn't clear. I thought it was an extremely clever updating. My big objection in it, though, was to the token black kid in that society. That was poor.
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His beloved franchise is being raped!
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got a whole dedicated Talkback? Hype beyond hype.
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My main objection is that no character in that entire flick was believable. Not a single one.
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It sounds right up his alley.
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Sep 01, 2009 7:35:50 AM CDT
Has anyone watched Friday Night Lights?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
The movie was pretty good. I've heard the show is better than average as well. Anyone?
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and I thought Phillipe was highly believable. I knew cocksuckers just like him at University. Gellar is more problematic, and I didn't buy her character. I knew bitches and drug addicts when I was at posh school, but they wouldn't have shagged the geezer she did. Selma Blair was crap, but she always is. Reece Witherspoon was one dimensional. I like that film, and I did used to know assholes like that.
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The original is a story about bored Aristocratic French gits behaving like absolute shit to each other. I think it is meant as satire. Cruel Intentions simply transplanted them to modern upper class. As I say, I like it and think it's clever even if it isn't as smart as it thinks it is. I'd take it over a straight adaptation of the novel every time.
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Sep 01, 2009 7:39:44 AM CDT
Akiva Goldsman has a horrible CV
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Batman Forever, Batman & Robin, A Time to Kill, Lost in Space, Practical Magic, A Beautiful Mind, The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, I Am Legend That's a smorgasbord of horseshit right there.
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Taking Laclos' novel and using it as a template for studying HS sexual morales works fine with me. What didn't work is how the characters didn't feel reel to me, but once again like kids putting on a production of Dangerous Liaisons. And the film isn't about sexual politics and power games at all but just an excuse for sexual hijinks and depravity from teenagers.
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Sep 01, 2009 7:45:23 AM CDT
Cruel Intentions was completely satire-free
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Which renders the story pointless. By updating it the stakes are lowered because the class system isn't the same, or as pronounced as it used to be. Even the change of title seems watered down. Hated it. I'd rather watch the Malkovich/Close one any day of the week.
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I do recognise the characters. Especially Phillipe. I can think of several jaded, cynical, sexually despicable, overly monied cockbags that fit precisely into that character type. Thinking about it, actually, we were a similar age to them when the film came out. I'd tell you where I went to uni and it would be a dead giveaway, but they aren't that unrealistic. I will give you that the argot is annoying, but I can think of several people I knew that were crying out for the guillotine. I expect that they're all probably investment bankers now.
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where that one fell down for me was in that Close is meant to be attractive. Nope. Just can't see it. Maybe I was just unlucky with what I personally saw at school and University. I do agree that they missed the mark by several miles with the lack of satire, but as an exercise in cynicism it works for me.
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The football season is only 3 weeks old and I'm already sick of it. The group of cunts I'm lumbered with keep winning, but I just don't care. If this country was serious about protecting minority sport and improving football, then they would cap the length of time the season can last. It's daft that our main winter sport starts on the first week of fucking August.
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If there were any constituency more obsessed than 18th-century French aristocrats with reputation, it might be American adolescents.
However, the characters he made are neither teens nor adults. They're too experienced and verbal to be plausible adolescents. They don't even seem to be alive. They're just platforms for dialogue.
And like Droid said, this wasn't meant as a satire so you can't look at it and marvel and laugh at teenagers thinking they are as sophisticated and as experienced as adults. Nope, this is a movie that acts like these kids are wiser, more experienced and more savvy than adults. -
but I'm also reading the guardian while posting on here.
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Sep 01, 2009 7:57:04 AM CDT
Close was meant to be an aging beauty
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
And bitter about it. Which was largely the motivation of the character. If you can't see Close as attractive, then fair enough, the suspension of disbelief required would be difficult.
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They're overeducated, jaded, spoilt, cynical fucks. And there's plenty out there just like that.
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Sep 01, 2009 8:00:57 AM CDT
The football season goes for 10 months
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
That's fucked. I honestly feel like the last season only finished a week or two ago. Then you have next summer which is the World Cup. So the season will go for 10 months then the WC will go for 2 then the fucking season will start again.
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aging I totally believe.
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We need one on Super Hero movies.
Do we really need another FF movie? I'm a big FF fan, but do we really need them to be on the big screen? And now that Disney has bought Marvel, do we need a dozen C & D list super-heroes coming to the theaters anytime soon? I think we can live without Deathlok, Nova, Dazzler and Moon Knight movies.
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they should lower the number of teams in each division. Make a Division 3 if necessary to make sure that it does fit between September and April. That would fix it.
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Sep 01, 2009 8:05:55 AM CDT
The problem isn't the Premier League
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
It's the fact that they also have to play the fucking FA Cup, Carling Cup, Europa League and Champions League. Which means there's football on every night of the week.
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intelligently. Like or dislike CI, at least it was something different. I want to see more things like Clueless (only version of Austen that I can stand). And where's my I, Lucifer film that you've been promising for years, you fucks. Having said that- if you bastards cast Ewen McGregor as Declan Gunn then I'm going to have to feed you you're genitals. That goes doubly for Daniel Craig.
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I don't think it will lead to more movies necessarily. I think it will lead to more merchandising, toys and maybe tv shows. Certainly more cartoons. From what I've read, Disney have girls covered with Hannah Montana and the cockbag Jonas Brothers, but they don't have much for boys. Hence the Marvel acquisition.
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the problem with the league is that it's a money dominated joke. Only one of 4 sides can possibly win it. It's a waste of time, especially as the top 4 qualify for CL, automatically netting them more cash then the rest can scrape together. It ensures the perpetual cycle of the same 4 teams winning every year while Sky hysterically proclaim "best thing ever" 1000 times a day. Fuck that. Reduce the number of clubs in it, make them play from september to April, turn the CL and EL back into knockouts. Voila, amount of football reduced by a third.
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Taxi Driver (that is for Series), The Conversation, Network, Chinatown, Rocky, Nashville, Star Wars, Alien - all of those films from the 70s were ORIGINAL. Sure there was a lot of adaptations, but at least they were not only making stuff adapted from a previous source (be it comic, book, old movie, tv show, toy or sequel).
D9 and Taken are the only two truly original studio films I can think of that have been released so far, and Taken was a surprise hit and D9 technically is a remake of a short. -
could not care less. What's a Jonas Brother and how do you avoid them?
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I won't deny that QT is the author of that.
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Sep 01, 2009 8:19:01 AM CDT
Which is why Aussie Rules Football...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
or NFL or any league with a fucking salary cap and draft system is infinitely better than the Premier League. It's actually interesting and you don't get the same four teams competing for first place every year. It's an amazing feat for the same four teams to be on top two years in a row! For example, my footy team won the premiership last year and this year failed to even make the fucking finals! (Mainly because they turned into useless, lazy, arrogant cunts.) But at least it's interesting.
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Totally Original.
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I also want original scripts, but as that isn't going to happen I want to see some non- Superhero/ "classic literature" adapted. Why not adapt something from the last 10 years that was exceptional? Why always return to fucking Austen or whatever? Nowt wrong with adaptations- even Scorcese has done some.
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Original comedy came out in the past two years, no one saw. Buy the guy who wrote Heathers. Funny as shit.
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And maybe that and Gamer should be the argument AGAINST doing original scripts.
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Isn't that from some classic novel?
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all original. There's nothing wrong with an adaptation- just one that hasn't been done to death. Agree about Salary Caps, but I prefer watching Club rugby which has both a cap and playoffs and is much more exciting than the Premier League. Well, before the bloodgate fiasco (which was my lot).
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When that is all they do. To me it is a sign of fear and playing it safe - Hollywood can't imagine a movie unless it already has a track record or success in another medium.
And it isn't just that they only do adaptations, it is that they do the lowest common adaptations. You want American Gods right; well they would rather do Twilight or some other shit like that than any book with substance. -
An original, some Viking land film. Ebert loved it. http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090819/REVIEWS/908199985
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I guess could be said is a FAT remake of Die Hard.
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is from Tristran Shandy which is a classic that was famously unadaptable. However, I don't think you can really call it a straight adaptation as much of it is post-modern stuff with Coogan and Bryden bitching at each other. It's quite a good film. Curtis allegedly writes original stuff, but as they're all basically the same film featuring the same characters, I discount him as well.
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Sep 01, 2009 8:24:23 AM CDT
The Hurt Locker and Knowing were original
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
As was In Bruges. Gran Torino. (I'm just trying to think of my fav recent flicks) I think LTROI was based on a book though.
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It has Winona Ryder in it. I meant to see it but for some reason I let it slip on by.
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Its an expansion of that short story. I mean its the same people.
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http://www.avclub.com/articles /taxidermia,31959/ THIS MOVIE LOOKS FUCKING AWESOME!
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Oringal. And there is nothing to be said against it. "And it isn't just that they only do adaptations, it is that they do the lowest common adaptations. You want American Gods right; well they would rather do Twilight or some other shit like that than any book with substance." I agree with this, my point is that I want books that haven't been adapted or are a bit riskier adapting. I think there is a severe taste deficit in Hollywood at the moment (well, worse than usual).
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Sleeping Dogs Lie, Worlds Greatest Dad. Original comedies.
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adaptation of Beowulf.
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then I'm off for a smoke: Fierce People. Look it up, and cry about what happened to it.
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ANd I didn't say there weren't some original movies. But they are getting farther and fewer between. And are any of them a big studio flick? Nope. Chinatown, Alien, Star Wars, Sting, American Graffiti, Nashville were all put out by the big studios. They only do adaptations now, and those are not the smartest adaptations.
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Purfume. Even Stanley Coobrick couldn't do it.
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Sep 01, 2009 8:29:16 AM CDT
A lot will depend on how certain "difficult" adaptations go
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Such as The Road and WTWTA. If they're successful then it will open up possibilities for more.
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Its not the 70s.
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Now THAT'S original.
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Studio movie adaptation.
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Hmmmmmmm.
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80s and 90s had original scripts as well.
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It was a remake of Blow Up.
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Sep 01, 2009 8:33:46 AM CDT
Because those were the ones at the top of my head Series
by continentalop
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no way. Only similarity is that it has vikings in it.
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BLOW OUT is a remake of Blow UP.
Conversation might be influenced by BLOW UP, but that is like saying Star Wars was influenced by Hidden Fortress, or 'Salem's Lot was influenced by Dracula. Enough differences to still be original. -
Adaptation. Gladiator - Original Body of Lies - Original Blood Dimond - Original Inside Man - Original Revolutionary Road - Adaptation Eagle Eye - Original
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Yeah because Outlander and The Conversations both would have just happened without Blow Up and Beowulf. I've heard both directors say they were there versions of remakes.
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Totally original stuff.
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adaptation. Brilliant one, but an adaptation. NCFOM also an adaptation. It would make a nice change to fucking superheros or shit vampires. Also- how about some proper Sci-fi and not watered down crap. I know Avatar is Sci-Fi and Sunshine ditto, but they aren't exactly 10 a penny.
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Do NOT mention Eagle Eye ever again! And it was a remake of Enemy of the State.
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Coraline, Hotel for Dogs, He's Just Not That Into You, The Time Traveler's Wife, My Sister's Keeper, Confessions of a Shopaholic, The Soloist, Inkheart, Taking Woodstock.
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Sep 01, 2009 8:41:31 AM CDT
Yeah, sci-fi is thin on the ground
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Not enough "big" directors attempting it.
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Proper Sci-fi
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OUTLANDER is nothing like Beowulf. Honestly, it's thematically, structurally and narratively different. It's got different characters, and different monsters. The only similarity I can think of is the descent into the well which was clearly influenced by Beowulf, but it's a stretch to call it an adaptation.I suspect that is the director trying to garner credibility for his story by linking it to Beowulf.
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Another book adaptation.
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I guess you know more then the guy who made the movie.
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Funny People, Year One....this is what counts as original comedy this year.
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is exactly the wrong type of LCD adaptation that shouldn't ideally be done.
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May be considered Sci-Fi? Pandorum also possible Sci-Fi movie coming out soon, more likely to be beast in space movie.
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From what I've heard that its not a straight adaptation as well. I don't know much about it. It didn't look that good.
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Don't be like that. I'm not saying I know more than him, but I do know Beowulf very well. As I said, I suspect he's lying. Either that or he knows fuck all about Beowulf other than it had monsters and Vikings in it. The kindest interpretation I can give to his lie is that he is suffering from a savage dose of the intentional fallacy and as such has become a bit unhinged. My old English professor (if I could have persuaded him to watch OUTLANDER) would not have spotted a link to Beowulf. I'm judging the work not the intention. It may have been influenced by beowulf (Descent into the cave been the example), but that's it and that does not make it an adaptation.
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Original stuff coming out. Could possibly be bad ass, probably showed everything cool in the trailers.
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Count as Sci-Fi?
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Just not very good.
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The death of original horror.
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not seen it. Is it good?
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Beowulf could do with a proper adaptation and not that mo-cap shit.
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What are you a whiney college age bitch whore?
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I really liked that Mo-cap shit stuff. I thought it was fokkin awesome. Much better and more bad ass then 300.
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Yes, there is some original movies coming out. But if you notice the majority of original stuff is lower budget movies, and many of them are independent films. Why because they can't afford to option anyone else's property and then pay a screen writer.
Most bigger Hollywood films are going exclusively the adaptation route, be it adaptation of comic book, novel, older movie, toy, etc. They are making fewer movies, especially higher budget films, with original scripts.
And I am not saying this is a long trend, but just a new one. My problem is that when I see Hollywood searching for properties to adapt other than make original scripts it is a sign to me that they are going to be very risk averse and we won't see anything that great for awhile (except for maybe a book adaptation like the Road or maybe we will luck out with an independent movie). Most adaptations are very predictable - they are just sequels and remakes of the same thing over and over, or dumb books for the masses (Twilight).
Not every filmmaker has the pull of a Cameron or QT, so what we are going to see is Hollywood going for what they think is safe vs. taking risk and going with the unknown commodity.
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Was pretty good. Fun. Just since it didn't blow up, Rami doesn't want to do anything like it again I guess. Fuck Spiderman, I find him the most annoying of all comicbook heroes. He's just such a bitch.
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I was surprised I liked the song as much as I did.
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Because of the strike. So shit just got made to make money.
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I fucking stab a cat. And make sure that it didn't somehow turn my penis into a vagina.
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Thats what I was saying about Inkheart. But I don't know anything about it. Like that whole concept of him bringing the book to life, thats not the book. Inkheart is just the book he's bringing to life. Are some shit like that.
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I hate any movie that makes those GOD damn pop up ads that you can't close and just appear on the screen and follow you as you scroll down.
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Next year or two will suck because of the economy. Hollywood isn't making as many films as they used to, and they are pretty much only greenlighting what they consider "safe" properties. Sure they will still take one or two risks, but not as much as they used to.
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I seem to think this was original. I could be full of shit though.
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Mymavra has been pimping. It sounds pretty cool.
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It is based on a script that has been floating around Hollywood for years called Tonight He Comes.
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Was original. I am Ledgend Book Adaptation.
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How long does it take to get a film from Script to release? Blaming a writers strike that lasted fuck all time from a bit ago is bullshit. This year's release schedule has been soulless wank of the lowest order and it all sounds like it was pre-planned soulless wank. Blaming the recession is also pathetic. The recession should be (as necessity is the mother of invention) a great chance to make films that cost less but look spectacular- Pulp Fiction was made for less than £8m.
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I am curious about it.
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Saw it in 3D at IMAX. I also have nothing against motion capture. I have no idea why every cunt and his dog despises it so much. I thought Beowulf looked great. The only thing I would say is that i don't think it's necessary to have the character look exactly like the actor who's playing him. I think Malkovich and Hopkins in Beowulf could've done with looking different. What it does is accentuate the "dead eyes" and not quite lifelike expressions and mannerisms.
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Or isn't Emmerich blowin shit up a remake? Or just considered a greatest hits clip show?
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Sep 01, 2009 9:20:48 AM CDT
Jarv, how many people do you know investing in movies...
by continentalop
...right now? Investing in movies is a risk, and right now people don't want to risk there money. S8.5 million (the cost of Pulp Fiction) is still a big chunk of change, especially when independent movies haven't been making the type of money the once did.
I know people who are trying to raise just $400,000 dollars and they can't do it. No one wants to invest in something as uncertain as movies. Hell, people don't even trust their money in the banks right now. Better to just keep it under your mattress. -
It strikes me as an odd choice for a blockbuster. I suppose it did make some cash though.
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You can't act like it didn't fuck over some things. Look at what it did to TV.
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Sep 01, 2009 9:23:52 AM CDT
Tonight, He Comes FUCKING SUCKS
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I've ranted about this before, but it's a steaming load of pre-pubescent bullshit. The most overrated fucking script I've ever read. Hancock the movie was shitloads better evern despite it went to shit half way through.
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Sep 01, 2009 9:24:12 AM CDT
Plus a bad economy means that the audience doesn't want
by continentalop
to take risk and see something new. Case in point the Hurt Locker. Every review says it is great, and maybe a couple of years ago this film would have done great, but right now most people are not willing to risk their $14 for a type of movie they can't tell if they will like or not before seeing it. Better to see something you know or have heard of - like a Transformer or Star Trek - than something completely original.
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Thats a good point about Beowulf. I don't know why everyone hates on it either. Sure Mo cap is silly at times, but some of the shit in that movie was fucking bad ass. Also thats funny about the actors looking like the characters, since beowulf was played by Ray Winstone but they used a model for him instead.
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Sep 01, 2009 9:26:34 AM CDT
I don't think the Hurt Locker wasn't a hit because it was someth
by series7
Its that the movie people think that America is on war fatigue with war movies. Also I think Summit hates female directors. Looks what they did to the twilight lady, they fucking fired her.
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But really, America hasn't had that many war movies. And I think people are finally coming to accept that going to Iraq was a mistake.
I think the Hurt Locker is hurt (no pun intended) more by the fact that it is a serious movie instead of shit just blowing up IMO. People don't wanna think right now, or if they do not about something that is really going on. D9 works because at the end of the day it is a Sci-Fi fable. -
Go watch (500) Days of Summer, he'll melt your panties.
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How about something down or something adult?
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Give me a minute to write down all the war movies from last year.
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I agree $8m is a shit load of cash, and I couldn't raise it in a million years. But I'm not a multi billion corporation such as Disney or Time Warner. My point is, every time there is a wanky cash grab remake or drecky soulless load of toss such as date movie the justification is always "the money goes to producing other films". If so, what films? Warner is a prime example of this. This is exactly what the music industry did in the 90's and did more long term damage than piracy.
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Sep 01, 2009 9:33:32 AM CDT
Summit bought The Hurt Locker...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
after the Venice Film Fest. It didn't produce it, so the fact that Bigelow is a woman wouldn't really have anything to do with it. It's the fact that people DO NOT want to see Iraq war flicks. No matter how good they are.
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I can't think of any Iraq War movies that came out last year.
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but that's a different medium. Regarding The Hurt Locker, I've got a theory that it didn't do as well as it should because it's about Iraq which is a national embarrassment and therefore not exactly going to entice audiences in. I base this solely on my own prejudices, but at the same time I struggle to think of an Iraq film that did well.
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And its from the past 2 years Rambo
Body of Lies
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none of them are any good.
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Droid got there first. Iraq is cinematic poison. Maybe 5 years after withdrawal then there may be a surge of great Iraq based films (like with Vietnam).
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SOP, Taxi To The Dark Side, Generation Kill (I don't really know what that is though).
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Sep 01, 2009 9:43:33 AM CDT
How many Vietnam war flicks...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
came out while the war was still going? Off the top of my head I can't think of any. There probably is a couple, but my point is that audiences don't want to see films about current conflicts. It just highlights the fact that they're living in a fucking comfy bubble while all those poor bastards are fighting each other in some shitty dustbowl. They would rather see these flicks after the fact so they can sit around afterwards and tut-tut over their fucking espresso's over what an unfortunate situation it was and how we must learn from it in order to avoid future conflicts, blah fucking blah... That's my theory anyhoo...
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It really isn't trying to say anything about war, besides it sucks. It more of a thriller movie. I mean I don't want to ruin it so don't read this. There is a scene where he tries to be something he's not (a solider) and totally fucks up.
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They have almost all closed down (Warner Independent Pictures and Picturehouse gone) or reduced their independent/niche film divisions, or are having them put out bad b-movies. Fox Searchlight released Miss March for fuck sake, and Lions Gate just puts out Saw, Tyler Perry movies and a bunch of shit.
The big parent companies have learned it is more profitable to focus on the bigger films. And when they do pick or produce a lower-budget independent film, they put all their effort behind just one so they can win awards and make a profit (Juno, Slumdog Millionaire). -
They didn't know how to market it. I think the trailer is fucking amazing. But the average goober American can't seperate War from action. They see the men in uniform and they think war drama. They did a good job I think, but they should have just maned up and given it a full release...no one likes to be held back.
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I feel less stupid now.
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Netflicks movie company, beacuse they made more money just putting shit in my mail box.
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Completely pissed all over my fucking post. Must learn to type faster.
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And now. Then there was a lot of glorification of war. Also war was still a mystery for most people, people saw clips of war but weren't bombarded with 24/7 coverage of war like we are today. Also today's war movies keep trying to make it as REAL as possible, are take some different aspect of war (like Lions For Lambs).
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The audiences never saw those films to begin with.
I think that people can handle Iraq in a film not; after Obama I think we can say the majority of us are willing to admit it was a mistake. HOWEVER, I think the subject matter of a downer story (or the appearance of a downer story) and that it looks very serious has a bigger impact and scares more people away from seeing it than the Iraq setting. -
With Tom Cruise into a money maker....then why bother making more of them.
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This is precisely my point. As the cost of marketing etc spirals (which is a direct consequence of the eggs-in-one-basket theory they operate under) they have to allocate more budget to the big films to compensate. The reason I use Warner as particular villains of this piece is the Dark Knight must be billions in profit now and Harry Potter is just a giant cash machine they can dip into any time they like, but they are producing less by both quantity and quality.This is exactly what music did, and we all know how well that turned out: combined rubbish talent show dreck with ridiculous expenditure on a few guaranteed acts. (EMI being prime example)Short-termist profit driven thinking. They should be re-investing the profit in new product, but they aren't. I expect it's going in dividend payments. The end result of this is stagnation and apathy as the audience gets bored with identikit product and tunes out in droves. Mark my words, unless someone with some vision and some balls comes in Hollywood in 2020 will be in exactly the same shit as the Music Industry was in 2005.
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More war movies
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Is a thing called the draft, and the fact that we were only 25-30 years away from a war so big that basically everyone in America served.
I got to say I disagree with that War is a mystery thing Series - a lot of people back in the 60s & 70s had seen war first hand, unlike now. If anything, during the original invasion most Americans were in bigger denial than the pro-war people were during Viet Nam (I am looking at you Fox News). I think a lot of people here saw war as being like a movie and couldn't grasp why it was being so hard. -
Still trying to make up for lost profits of Speed Racer.
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Knew a lot about war.
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War now we see so much of it, its just boring.
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Much is the same way The War of the Roses is a war flick...
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between the 70's and now. In the 70's there were people like Evans (even though he may have been a cock) as studio heads. People that just wanted to make films. Nowadays there are MBA cockends like Rothman as studio heads and all they give a fuck about is this quarter's bottom line. That is why cinema now is in the shitter and it was in good shape 30 years ago. They've also got ready made excuses for lower annual profits: The internet/ strike/ recession. I physically wanted to punch Eli "bagofcocks" Roth in the neck when he blamed piracy for the failure of Hostal 2. Nothing to do with it being shit then?
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this has been an epic TB.
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Sep 01, 2009 10:01:29 AM CDT
Because the common thing all those war movies had Series
by continentalop
Is they pretty much all sucked. Redacted, Lions for Lambs, In the Valley of Elah and Stop Loss are just bad movies IMO. I didn't see any of them at the theatres because they looked like heavy handed preaching.
The Hurt Locker, which I admit I have not seen yet, looks like it isn't preaching or taking a point of bias point of view - it looks like is just saying "here it is, make up your own mind."
I don't think it is the Iraq thing that scares the audience off, it is the appearance that this is a film that is going to require you to think, and I think a lot of people don't want to think right now. Transformers 2 being my final proof. -
Also took to long to conter shit like Napster. Movies (and books) think they are beyond that. That they won't be effected by it. Thats another huge problem.
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because I'll bet that was more than set off by TDK. And to be honest, that serves them right for not reining in the Wachowski's when it was fucking obvious they were going over the top. That's just a bad business decision.
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Go ask some schmuck on the street, you gotta remember were are not the majority. Also its a war movie with no one famous. The trailer does not make it look like you gotta think. And for the most part, its not really a THINKER. Its just as much a thinker as District 9, probably even less.
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They had husbands, brothers and sons who were off fighting or who had fought. Unlike today were only 2% are active members of the armed forces, and of those active how many are seeing action?
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I don't know, I was making a joke. I've heard it cost up to 300 million to make and market. And it made less then 100 million. I don't think it was a DVD sensation either.
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There's a comforting thing about a book. What will fuck publishing is exactly what will fuck everything else. The pile it high mentality. Napster- interestingly, the first license I ever worked on was to Napster, just after it got clobbered. The industry didn't fail to adapt, but there was a complacent mindset regarding cost. The industry's other problem is the vast difference between retail and dealer price. HMV (in the UK) can basically set their own dealer price with the smaller labels- but as an average it used to be between £7-8 . The retail price was £15. However, teth industry had such bad PR for greed, and the retailers had such power that no-one ever called the retailer for basically doubling the dealer price. It was bullshit.
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You might be right about the war fatigue from the earlier movies, because what those movies did was make everyone see Iraq Wars as just being boring anti-war pieces and pretentious movies.
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But they weren't bombarded with images of WAR on TV all the fucking time. It was still a big mystery to most. Yeah my dad was in the military, but I got no fucking clue what he did. He didn't really talk about shit. So war was still reletively popular on the screen.
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Body of Lies = Mediocrem, Lions for Lambs = Boring, In The Valley Of Ellah = Preachy, heavy handed bullshit (the second Jones mentioned the upside down flag I predicted the ending), The Kingdom = Actually not that bad, except for the worst "clue" since DH3. Haven't seen the others.
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No books may be in trouble. With the increase in sales of that electronic book. Go take a plan flight see how many people whip one out. And the fact that there isn't good pricing on online books, people are turning to illegal sites to get books. Just wait till IPHONE gets a book ap, books will be in trouble.
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they have the perfect example of what not to do right in front of them. And they're following it to the letter. And they want to watch it with the complacency towards the internet. It'll cost them.
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Sep 01, 2009 10:10:24 AM CDT
Superman Return supposedly made $391 million in worldwide BO
by continentalop
With a budget of $209 million. I have a book that has a pretty accurate formula for figuring out the actual amount the film made, but I am to lazy to go looking for it.
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Music to ever turn real profit from online song retail. I bet they are the first to do it with books as well.
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But I've never seen one. I'll look it up.
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Sep 01, 2009 10:15:43 AM CDT
I looked into one of those "readers".
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
They're fucking expensive.
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I don't think you can blame media saturation for the failure of the Iraq films. I think it's a combination of lack of quality, Too soon, and Western embarrassment about it. Three Kings, for example was about the first Iraq war and didn't come out until nearly 10 years after.
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Amazon reader thing? Do you guys not use amazon?
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Is just part of that mix.
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is that we care about the product. We know that, at the end of the day, the studios are businesses but we want to consume the product. However, we don't want to consume the product that's being released at the moment- because it's derivative, predictable, dull, moronic shit. The sad thing is, though, if they keep following this path then the end result will be endless films starring or directed by the winner of some cretinous fat retard that won the equivalent of American Idol.
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I like bookshops and browsing around them. They're comforting.
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That show failed, luckily.
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Much better then in the states. If you want anything thats not popular, they just tell you. OH we can order it! Or did you see if its on our website? And then I'm like fuck it I'll just get it off of amazon, for like $20 cheaper as well.
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Properly- I know that one failed, but technology isn't in place to have the winner bang a film out before the TV audience's goldfishian attention span passes. Maybe they should have done actors rather than directors but the point remains valid.
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Then the industry wants to admit, is not the prices, its the people who go to the movies. Richer people (who are usually smarter) don't want to spend $10 bucks just to be annoyed as shit by rude people. Poor people don't care. Luckily I can work around poor peoples schedule and go to movies on Sundey or Mondey night.
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Since that show was such a HUGE failure and it had the Bearded one involved. Its going to take a while before they come up with another one. I don't think people are going to mess with something not even the Bearded one could turn into a hit.
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Was the first Gulf War flick which was 1996, so five years later. And the difference there is that it's ultimately supposed to be an "uplifting" tale concerning the truth about woman getting honoured for bravery. Every Iraq War flick (apart from THL) has been pretty much condemning Western involvement.
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That since Three Kings was so good, no ones been able to top it. Or have been afraid to.
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Sep 01, 2009 10:29:27 AM CDT
The was an American Idol type show...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
for movies? With The Beard involved? What was it? The only one I remember was projet greenlight.
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About rich people vs. poor people. But I think the bigger factor is age - theaters are now controlled by young people. They determine what type of films play where. So that is why we get a lot of action movies and bawdy comedies and bloody horror movies and less stuff involving characters and plot (for which you have to go to cable shows).
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fucking paying £20 for something that may or may not be garbage? Gettofuck. I suspect the cinemas are behaving exactly like the retailers (no proof whatsoever, it's a cynical hunch)- it's an ever decreasing circle of myopic stupidity. They should ALL be reducing price. Me and Mrs. Jarv pay a bit more (well a lot more) for a comfy sofa in The Everyman so we don't really have that experience. Not to mention that in this country our ratings mean that we'll never see fucking infants in something like the exorcist.
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My wife fell asleep in the movie theater. Also I thought of it almost as a spoof of the whole crime noir genre.
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Are Cinemas controlled by the youth market (hate that expression) because older viewers don't want to see these sort of films or is it that these sort of films are made because cinemas are controlled by the youth market. As I said, it's an ever decreasing circle. HMV said last year that their most important market was now "£50 man". Which is basically people like me that go in, pick up a DVD or 2, a couple of CD's etc and spends about £50. We are out there, just no cunt is bothering with us as a market.
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effortlessly.
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Sep 01, 2009 10:37:51 AM CDT
About 10-12 years ago in Australia...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
cinema prices were getting fucking ridiculous. About 10-11 bucks... So one day, one of the big chains (there's only really 2 big ones) just dropped their price down to $5. No warning. They just dropped it. Every other cinema had to follow suit. That's what cinemas need now. A fucking price war. But unfortunately this has been the highest grossing summer on record (FUCK KNOWS WHY!?) so it won't happen and we'll be getting fucking Trannyformers 3, Star Trek 28, GI Joe 2, Ice Age 4, Hanks' Hairdo 3, Terminator 5, blah blah, so on and so forth...
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How? Fuck's sake. On this note, what's out next summer?
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Called On The Lot or and Steven Spielberg produced it. It was plauged with bad ratings, the host was stupid as shit. Gerry Marshell and Carrie Fisher were the main judges (ELI ROTH WAS A GUEST HOST!). I think it tanked from the get go, because one of the main people involved with the initail elimination round stuff was Bret Ratner. He was gone by the second episode.
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THey are instant gratification audience. They will flock to see something on opening weekend, dictate what film the press talks about and therefore control who will see the movie getting all the buzz. Everything is designed for a film to come out, get a huge opening, then disappear in about three-six weeks. The studios don't have the patients to wait for a movie to build by word of mouth, they want to control all the screens and maximize profits in the first couple of weeks when they have it playing at 6 of the 8 screens at a multiplex. If kids don't see it the first or second weekend, they'll never see it - they got to many things competing for their attention.
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Never saw it, but I do like Feast! Also I heard it was pretty good. Plus it was run by people who know how to make low budget indy movies. Everyone involved with On The Lot has never really dealt with making independent small films (save for Eli Roth?).
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The guy who won, he's shorts were actually cleaver. Nothing amazing, but silly and funny. Lots of slapstick kind of stuff. Also there was a big controversy over how the shorts were made and selected. Like a lot of the stuff was just shorts they already made. And the contestants were pissed and FOX lied to them about a lot of shit. I think the people who got kicked off, went on to make there own contest.
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The show was trying to make a good movie, they were trying to make good television. So they didn't always select the best scripts or the best directors, they selected what they thought would make the most interesting TV show (which usually meant they got an egotistical director with a whacky style connected to a script that would be hell to make with a limited budget - like an 80s period piece on a budget of $2 million).
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I have completely lost all respect for Neil LaBute. He is REMAKING Death at a Funeral. That fucking flick came out in 2007! For fucks sake!
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Mainly because the economy is bad right now. People want escapism, and for cheap. Going to the movies is still cheaper then doing other things.
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With Black People as well. At least the dramatic midget is coming back. I didn't like that movie really so I don't care.
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I just looked it up. How the fuck do you remake something 3 years old?
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Never saw it. But I still like Feast... a lot.
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DUH, since its not in American we gotta translate it for the masses.
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Sep 01, 2009 10:50:22 AM CDT
Summer 2010 looks very ordinary
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
The Expendables, Wall Street 2, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Iron Man 2, Robin Hood, Shrek Forever After, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, Sex and the City 2, The A Team, The Kung Fu Kid, Footloose, Jonah Hex, Toy Story 3, Eclipse (Twilight sequel), The Last Airbender, Predators, Inception, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore, Little Fockers, Resident Evil: Afterlife, Red Dawn
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And set it in California or the East Coast, because the accent is so un-American.
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I read an article about the weekend saying that from now on because of Twitter films had to recoup on the opening weekend. Now, this is a bit of a glass half full situation- the tool from Fox said that it meant that "bad word of mouth" would kill a film stone dead in a day, but he seemed to think that as a consequence they were going to have to be better at marketing and make more disposable entertainment. I would like to naively and optimistically think that this would mean more care would go into making actually good films rather than utter drivel, but I suspect this is a pipe dream.
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Have been moved back to 2010.
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Because if we are talking about kids that have to go to movies with their parents, then we are not talking about shit that just comes and goes. Animated cartoons have some of the longest shelf lives in theaters. If we are talking about kids that need to be drop off by their parents, that propels shit like Twilight and Transformers 2 thats the biggest age bracket. Then you got the kid who can drive - through college, they make movies like The Hangover a hit. So shit like Star Trek, I think was probably just a family hit. GI Joe was not a hit. Terminator was not really a hit either. Both were good enough to make another one, you can blame forign people for making another Terminator. If the forgien market latches on to something, its usually shit and there will be plenty more. Ice Age 3 is the biggest hit overseas right now. Think about that.
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2 are original screenplays.
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The porn world is even doing worse. No money in porn anymore.
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Because it sucks. Same with Wolfman, that trailer really didn't do anything for me, besides prove my point that Anthony Hopkins is always the best thing in a movie.
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Sep 01, 2009 10:55:02 AM CDT
Shutter Island and the Wolfman
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Feb. So I didn't count that as summer.
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Expendables, Predators, and that's it.
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Is gonna mother fuck your eyesockets bitches! Toy Story, number one king at the box office that year (america only, Die Hard 3: Die Hard With A Vengeance was worldwide). Toy Story was a HUGE fucking risk back then. Thats why its the best movie ever.
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Making a comeback through Toy Story 3 next year. I still want to see the Merry Gentleman? You heard of that movie Con? Looks like something you may like.
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The film is supposedly getting high approval ratings from test audiences. . But the Paramount and the producers decided to push it to February because they can't afford an award season marketing campaign. They feel that with 10 Best Pictures nominees they won't have to compete as much if they release it in the spring because the movie is good enough that they will remember it.
They have picked the same release date as Silence of the Lambs.
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Thank you Bruno!
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So hopefully its up to Jarvs liking.
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Yeah I've heard that a million times no. And it doesn't sound any less bullshit the more I hear it. If these TEST screenings have been SOOO great. Then where the fokk are the leaked reviews? Bull shit, it sucks.
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A hitman in a indie movie. I agree with Patton Oswalt about that; one of the biggest cliches in an indie film is the hitman character going through a life crisis.
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Fuck me. It's the apocalypse. I peer into my crystal ball and predict that will be the worst film in the history of cinema. It will be a vortex of suck that will actually cause people to die in the cinema.
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Is just Marty's way of pretending like he is not just going to steal shit right from that movie?
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Look up that German movie about an old hitman that gets alzheimer's. Is that what you guys are talking about?
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Its just because of Gross Pointe Blank, that you guys feel that way.
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the problem is, it's part 3 and there has been a long time since part 2. I predict mediocrity. I said that about Wall-E though, so clearly I'm a cunt.
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On their Oscar list? Really. I guess the same people that already put Ivicitus on their as well. Thats another thing, shit like the academy just keeps giving the same people awards, so GOOD movies become complacent. Unless something else comes out that destroyes it, the academy should man up and give it to District 9.
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GPB is just one- can I give you Hitman itself, Crying Freeman, The Replacement Killers, Leon. There's lots of them.
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There was a five year gap between 1 and 2. I mean so ten years is just doubling it up since its the next sequel! But yeah I worry that it may not be as good....but then I realize I don't have much to worry about. (except for Tim Allen's relapsing!)
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Do those count as Indie movies? Does crying Freeman?
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film? Not a sympathy grab or anything, but the actual correct film.
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Leon does- but I didn't read the original post properly. I am indeed a cunt. Sorry.
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Forrest Gump! Hello! hahahahahah
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worked like that. 3 years between Black Sunday and Red Dragon then 5 Years until Silence of The Lambs then fuck knows how long until Hannibal. Hannibal was shit. Or alternatively, Raiders to Temple was a couple of years, Temple to Crusade was 5ish, Crusade to Skull was 15. The precedent is set, it's up to Pixar to break it. If anyone can, they can.
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Not in a million years.
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4 years working on movies. The only other person who REALLY does that may be Avatar (but I think he is bull shitting). Like I want Avatar to be awesome, but it has to fucking be awesome! Otherwise I want it to suck HARD! If its just medicore I'll be upset.
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the Brosnan one or the early Almodovar erotic drama? The Spanish one was about a psychotic bullfighter and a sex-crazed death deviant and ended in a thunderous fuck culminating in mutual suicide. I don't remember many hitmen.
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I know its about hitman. But I never see it as a "HitMan" film. Just because they sit around talking about wanting to change, but they never do. Johnny Boy just dies.
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Travolta dies on the bog. Like Elvis.
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The Limits of Control. Or Ghost Dog. I've not seen either one though.
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But we never see Samuel Change.
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Just looking at Bruce Willis IMDB or something?
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Though. I think it's fair to say that's a cliche.
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Sex & the City 2? Stick a fork in it's ass, this civilization is done!I'd moan about Red Dawn too but I already vented about that one on another TB.
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Does look different. And that German movie looks pretty good if you've never heard of it.
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It's implied. If you take that bit of it is the mid point of the film, then Samuel L doesn't appear in The Gold Watch which is the last bit, so therefore, arguably, his non-appearance is indicative of change.
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Give the man a break. At least he didn't go on to be in every movie ever made.
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We never went on that journey with Jules. We didn't get to experince the highs and lows of what it takes to change from being a Hitman to being an everyman.
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That most of these movies are not INDIE movies, and that there are a lot worse cliches in indie movies. And that most of those movies don't suck.
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I am just saying it is a cliche and a pet peeve of mine now that so many indie films in the last 20 years has that element. But once in awhile it still works.
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I think of it as a convention. Because a ruthless hitman is a bit uninteresting.
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GPB being a prime example. We don't go through the highs/ lows we just see the crisis. We don't always need to see everything. I was perfectly happy to draw the conclusion that Jules had dropped out from what we did (or rather didn't)see. If he was still a hitman, he'd have been in Bruce's apartment.
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Fuck that shit. It was almost like they set out to make a film especially to irritate me. What a load of septic wank.
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AAAAAAHhhh thats the answer I was looking for.
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For one
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none of these are masterpieces See also Assassins, the Specialist. The 90's were rough on Sly.
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Hitman
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bitches.
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Pop up here, not talking just to steal my fokking sweat ass answer. Piece of shit.
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I can't remember if it is 100% hitman movie, or just a bad gangster movie.
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Well, I was 2000th. Such milestones should be recognised.
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See you tomorrow. Epic Talkbacking.
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Weren't masterpieces. But they were better then probably 75% of indie shit thats put out. I'd take those three over Little Miss Poopshine and Juno any day of the month.
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but I was high as a fucking kite, so that maybe to blame.
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Is family Drama. I just don't think there are enough Hitman, gong through a crisis movies to call it cliche. And act all high minded about why you don't want to see something. If I had known that there was going to be constant music in Mean Streets I don't know if I would've watched it (thats a lie I will watch anything I'm a whore). But thats is one of the most annoying things in a movie. Thats probably why I was able to enjoy it more towards the end, he laid off the music. Last movie I can really think of that had constant music, Dungons and Dragons.
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Fuck pussy ass Clive Owen. Unless looking droopy eyed is a fighting technique.
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But it's Nic Cage so what do you expect?
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category in IMDB. Go tell that to my 12 year old self. Would have saved me some time.
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I liked it, but I know its shit. I've been trained to enjoy all things Sly. Its due to my high midi cloriane count.
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Just a rough guess, but going by Conti's numbers of a 209 million budget, with 391 million world wide BO, I am guessing that it had an advertising budget of around 20-30 million maybe higher. That puts the cost at around 240 million. Throw in misc expenses of around 10 million and you are looking at a 250 million dollar movie cost. Subtract that from 391, leaves 141. But not so fast. the movie chains need their cut. Say half. That leaves 70 million. A profit - maybe, I say maybe because there are accounting fees and other expenses I am not privy to. But lets go worse case. I say it turn a profit of around 25 million. Not lighting up the board, but a modest return.
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But I didn't think that was too bad.
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Involve Hitman, but they are not going through a "life crisis" as in a personal crisis of the conscious or their mental well-being.
All those movies involve them involved in personal danger, not existential dilemma.
That is the indie movie cliche: Serial killer who feels lost and alone and depressed. Suicidal Hitman or depressed hitman is the epitome of that.
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Same guy who did the first Boring movie. Hmmm I notice a lot of the same people are involved with Hitman films.
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Hitman movies that sucked?
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That is the indie movie cliche: Serial killer who feels lost and alone and depressed. Suicidal Hitman or depressed hitman is the epitome of that. The only movie you've been able to label that is Pulp Fiction and possibly Leon (i don't think thats an Indie film). It just seems like a weak thing to graps onto saying why you don't want to see it.
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Another Bruce Willis as a hitman movie. Didn't like it either.
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This movie actually fits into Jarvs pet peeve except that its not an indie.
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Alcoholic hitman falls in love
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He has done one good thing in the world of Hitman movies. The Driver. Though they were just shorts, but they were awesome.
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Sep 01, 2009 11:58:30 AM CDT
Yes, but I was listing specifically the ones with the indie clic
by continentalop
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Then there are actual hitman.
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Hitman movies that DO suck.
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You might want to revise that up a bit. I don't have a source for this but I remember reading that that Emmerichs Godzilla had a $50 million marketing budget, and that was back in 1998.
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But I don't know if its hitman/gangster/Mel Gibson showcase.
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With a budget of 270.
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There has been a bunch of bad crime movies that usually involved bantering hitmen going through some sort of life crisis. It has become a cliche. And a lot of them were direct to video movies during the 90s and early 00s so I can't even list them all.
The Merry Gentleman might be good, but when I see that description of his character I immediately think of 8 Heads in a Dufflebag or some shit like that.
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Sep 01, 2009 12:06:23 PM CDT
Because you were listing independent Hitman movies that
by continentalop
Were good. I added the ones that sucked. I didn't know I had to specifically point out that they were independent movies; I thought you would infer that and realize I was continuing with our discussion.
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God you know I always have the hardest time remebering where he is from. Hopefully they'll do some sort of origin movie next time to help keep it straight.
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Yeah i know. There's that movie called The Savages. That everyone says is good, but I'm like ehhhhhh NO!
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Sep 01, 2009 12:09:25 PM CDT
would infer that and realize I was continuing with our discussio
by series7
No I thought it was just some out of left field HEY LETS DO THIS NOW, comment. Then you listed Things To Do In Denver which I think is a studio film. Any everyone else just starting yelling out shit. Come on this isn't you watching a Scorsesee pic, we aren't going to pick up on little things like that.
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Was a shit film, but that musical number was funny.
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Road to Perdition was mint, Collateral was OK, Long Kiss Goodnight was mint, Smoking Aces was OK, Grosse Point Blank was mint, The Big Hit was goofy fun.I wish I knew why people didn't like Shoot Em Up. It was deliriously insane.Saw Inglorious Basterds on the weekend. It was far better than those putrid trailers led us to believe, namely because the trailers just focused on the action bits which were few and far between. Not every scene of extended dialogue was great but they were certainly the best parts of the film.
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http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2462025984/nm0000151 YEY Aicn lets talk about Avatar some more now!
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Yeah if you are like a old retired person. That movie should've have been fucking crazy, it was slow and boring to me.
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Actually looks like a Rugby player. I can't believe it, there is actually a Clint movie I am looking forward to seeing. I wonder if its gonna be like Rudo y Cursi and just show like 5 seconds of Rugby. Or have the finale be a full on match.
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Pretty decent hitman flick if memory serves correctly.
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User comment in IMDB: The best of the Tarantino rip-offs!
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I thought I liked Long Kiss Goodnight, but I saw part of it on TV the other day. I was watching it and thinking. This HAS to be Long Kiss Goodnight, IT JUST HAS TOO! But it was SOOO fucking bad and cheesy and not cool at all I had to turn it off. Like I always say, some movies are better off left to our memories.
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Can reach 100M.I liked The Matador. Brosnan was aces in that role. And You Kill Me was quite good.Payback is a revenge movie. And it is quite good. Glad Mel and the studio decided to kill the director's version because the theatrical one actually worked much better.
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Sep 01, 2009 12:22:32 PM CDT
I am probably the world's largest fan of Quentin Tarantino's wor
by series7
From that same IMDB user who said that thing about Things To Do In Denver. Isn't that statement really moot to say about anyone these day, unless your willing to stalk them?
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Don't say that about Payback around Conti.
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Both based on the same book, but Point Blank is just so much more ruthless. Plus it has Lee Marvin.
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Sep 01, 2009 12:28:55 PM CDT
Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Fucking sucks. The Matador I liked. The Long Kiss Goodnight is still awesome. Payback was okay. I agree that theatrical was actually better than DC. Shoot Em Up fucking sucks. Collateral was great until the silly "cabbie bests the trained killer" ending. The Big Hit sucks. Grosse Point Blank is gold.
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I didn't care for either version of Payback.
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The only thing that Directors cut may have added, was him punching the girl in the head.
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The story I heard was that Gibson's character was changed to make him more likable, as opposed to the merciless piece of shit he was in Helgelands original draft.
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maybe you just liked it better.
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Yeah something like that. That and Mel went and shot some more stuff and I think he did the editing of it.
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Then Helgelands any day of the week.
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Didn't much care for Payback, as it was. Thought it was too much of Gibson trying to look cool.
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But having Kris K as your bad guy added so much more value. Plus the torture scene with Mel and a sledgehammer was awesome.And Mel makes some stinkers but there's just something about the guy I like and will forgive him for crap like Lethal Weapon 3 and 4, Signs and Forever Young. The man gave me Apocalypto for pete's sake. Lifetime pass.
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What Women Want, and Series7 wants Mel.
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It just kind of ends. The director was trying to get this sort of 70s style character study film out of it. I really like the zanyness of Payback and Conspiracy Theory.
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Sep 01, 2009 12:59:20 PM CDT
When I found out the torture scene was one of Mels additions
by savagedave
I think that pissed me off even more. Got to wonder about the state of that man's brain.I haven't actually scene the DC but from what I've read of it, it seemed harder & less predictable. Liked the idea of a crime film where the protagonist is a genuine bastard, which is really what I'd expect a criminal like Porter to be rather than Gibson's rogue-ish, more likable character. Also having him fail to get his payback would be much more interesting to me.
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I want to see this. Anyone know about it?
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Its worth seeing. Just mainly to see Mel punch the Highlander 3 chick in the head.
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I know they said they reworked the movie to make him less of a bastard but I walked out of the theatrical cut thinking he was still a miserable bastard I'd shoot myself. The big difference to me was the "happier" ending. And the torture scene wasn't handled like torture porn, it was done with class.And I'm a sucker for romcoms so I love What Women Want even though I know it's silly drivel. Mel gave me The Patriot too. Yup, lifetime pass.
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Go to IMDB this movie right now. A nother thriller and the poster looks JUST like the poster for A Perfect Getaway. Silly Zahn.
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But very similar.
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This kids sloppy seconds? http://tinyurl.com/pd8d3
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Whats with riding your younger sisters coattails?
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Sounds like the ending has an, it was all just a dream bull shit ending.
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There is a lot of shit coming on TV this fall. Its like a fucking suenomee of TV shows after there was nothing all summer.
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Since everyone else seems to have done the same.
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With nothing to talk about. Fokk that.
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I can't remember the last time we were on top. Seems like months. Without DGDB, Chitty, Mr. Z or Kungfu coming around anymore, I'm surprised this TB can maintain numbers.If I didn't hate going to the movies by myself so much, I'd go see District 9 tonight. Oh well, maybe I can get Latte Girl to join me on the weekend.
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I'm just polishing off my script for it's umpteenth revision and christ knows what attempt at submission. Can't be stuck in this job forever.And this is a slow news week. Seems all the top stories here have been the same top stories for the past month.
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Soul fucking job.
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Go by yourself. See that fucking movie. Then go again with latte girl. That movie is soo fucking awesome, it doesn't matter if you go with anyone.
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and Road Warrior.
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Are you working on your script at work. Or your script is your work?
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clearly it's more important than wasting time here at my job.
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Like is there some online thing that just takes scripts. I wish I knew how to get my script read.
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*pretend to work**coffee break**wander around building**pretend to work*And repeat.
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Its the most important thing in your life right now. Like I boogles my mind why more people aren't flipping out for this. Its like Robocop good, but better.
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or maybe I'll have to throw in one of my DVD's. Perhaps Daisy or The Warlords...
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My baby pillowette is pretty damn important, plus my other daughter.And beer.But then maybe D9 would be third, so it wins the bronze.
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I have the McFarlane toys 3-D poster hanging in my cube (well I did at my last job, if I did hear I would get a question every time someone saw it, well if I put it on that wall not many people would see it, but then it would seem like I am ashamed of it. I'm not I'm ashamed more people don't embrace it. You know I should actually fucking own Robocop, its in the $5 bin at Wal-Mart). But still District 9 is WAY fokkin better then any thing I've read about it. Also like how Ebert could call it Space Opera at the end, boggles my mind. He is like upset some things aren't explained. I think he needs to see it again.
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That movie holds up extremely well.
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D9 is more important. And you don't need beer to enjoy D9, so it saves you money unlike most films.
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when they say they didn't like a movie because "it didn't explain such-and-such". Fuck that. There are somethings that don't need to be explained and are up to one's own mind.
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After all, my kids will become horsemen and lead the apocalypse down upon thee and all of Earth.
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After all, my kids will become horsemen and lead the apocalypse down upon thee and all of Earth.
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but enough is enough.
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I'm outta here. Almost time to pack up and get my ass to Mars.
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I work on my script at work. It's the only reason I have this crap job that pays almost nothing but places zero demands on me. I can spend entire weeks doing nothing but writing and not a stitch of work.If you want the best collection of places to submit a script go to www.withoutabox.com and you'll find something right for you. For me the hardest part is just getting the damn script finished and then finding the motivation for endless rewrites. The current rewrite took a full year which is about 8 months more than I expected. But I was super distracted this summer.
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A new Twitch should be up by tomorrow. I still have another hour before I can get my ass to Mars.
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But I just can't be creative at work. For me, you know how people get insperation from places. Its when I'm driving. I always get good ideas while driving, but I got like no means to jote then down. I even got a voice recorder, but I always leave it at home or never go back to it.
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Where some real disscussion was held. Con diseapeared to do some blow or something.
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And I've run it by 2 people, so I know its good. And they both loved it. Granted one is my wife. But 10 times out of 10 she hates every idea I have.
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was the comic shop guy at comic night, and we were both pretty drunk so I know that everything said had to be the truth.
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The ideas I have for my amazing twice approved idea....the technology just wouldn't be there to make it happen. I'm just gonna have to wait for technology to catch up to me, it'll probably be about 12 years.
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Sep 01, 2009 3:14:44 PM CDT
Do you have a full script written and ready for submission
by hawaiian organ donor
Series? Start storyboarding your ideas, dude. Invest in plenty of corkboard and index cards.I've got plenty of good ideas but just not enough free time to get them all down. I wish I could get paid to do this stuff.
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I just got a bunch of ideas. Like I got all the key points I want to hit, like the parts where people would remember. Now I need an overlaying story for the whole thing. I wrote down all the bullets in word.
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Working for the world championships. I need to do better then this guy: http://tinyurl.com/lshypv
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I don't get the point of fasting. I bet when you die, the guy at the front gate is going to be eating a bucket of KFC and goes...."Still think fasting matters?"
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to the 4-page a day rule, it'll probably take you a good 2 years to get a complete script done what with re-writes. So if you're looking to break out soon, you best get cracking, dude.
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Is doing this whole Ramadan thing. Though I'm not sure if I feel bad or not for bringing food to my cube everyday. We work in cube world, the only religion is work.
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A shit ton of pages in one night. Then edit the shit out of it.
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Who was living in his car, write five pages of a story. Then got a million dollars to make it? Like I want to know that WHOLE story. How did he know and what's not.
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I think Sophia Coppolla did the same with Lost In Translation. Both won Academy Awards. Go figure.
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It gave me my crush on Kristen Bell.
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Mr. Nice Gaius and I have uncovered the biggest fucking loon since AnimalBraneBalls in the Hitler vs Avatar TB. A true maniac. Don't mean to spam y'all's TB but this guy is too good to miss.
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Well thats easy how she got into the biz. Daddy I want to make a movie! Anyone that says their parents didn't give them a leg up in the industry is a liar.
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Its like someone yelling FIGHT! in grade school.
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Turned out alright.
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But original draft of that was written in a couple of weeks. Like Stallone with Rocky, Paul Schrader just locked himself in a room and wrote. Plus he was living on mustard and ketchup packages - literally - and he was doing heavy amounts of coke.
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I actually think Taxi Driver is pretty good. I would love to see a real in depth doc about making of them. No BS or lies, trying to make it cooler then it was or whatever.
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????
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Terrible
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End the day on the high note
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Ready to get some sleep soon
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Cool
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Good thing
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Twitch belongs on top
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And have a better tomorrow.
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Sep 02, 2009 2:21:52 AM CDT
We were talking about making more original scripts last night
by continentalop
I will say I wouldn't mind an adaptation of Caleb Carr's THE ALIENIST. Just started reading it, pretty damn good. I think it would make an interesting movie.
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I know it's not a film, but arguably the most important play of the 20th Century (look back in anger) was written in 14 days, including beer breaks.
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Because of some epic talkbacking yesterday. I suggest we move. Perhaps to the Giallo thread?
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Zfisk, Twattaries of murder, and some other nutjobs.
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Sometimes I should check other threads. I'd have loved that flame war.
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Funniest thing I've read in weeks.
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"Lying, Walking stool sample"; "sewer dwelling cock"; to begin with.
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and I think he's animalstructure back again.
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I'm having that too. It isn't reportabuse it's shogunshin. I'm scared of him, though.
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never mind.
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I've taken the morning shift with that nutter.
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All the soot and ash in the air is giving me a horrible headache, so I am not posting much.
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Bad Luck. Can't you go on holiday for a bit? It's fucking raining here again.
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But I am unfortunately stuck here in LA. Worse places to be stuck in though.
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Could be Wales.
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It produced are Lord and Savior Bale, didn't it?
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Mr Tinfoil hisself. Pretty scary anti-semite.
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Sep 02, 2009 6:34:20 AM CDT
hmm...guess I'll go check out the crazy train thread
by just pillow talk
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Just a strong film. I love how they end it with the 3 characters taking cover from the rain.
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Score one for MNG.
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Just a fluke. And look at the rest of his family. Not to mention that he got out.
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that was a thoroughly entertaining morning. Thankfully new twitch is tomorrow.
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2for2true...cleanup in aisle two. Shitheel needs to be eliminated.
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not just the conspiracy, although that was scary enough, but the level of stupidity inherent in his arguments. I've not seen a TB reaming like that in ages. Holy trinity of Ashburt Truegum needs to step in and fuck him right up. They could send Warwick, the messenger dwarf of destruction. That would do.
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It was under the working name of Delgo, and the human shots weren't done yet. But from what I saw, it was pretty bad. Also the weak temp score wasn't that great either. So maybe with the 3-D it can be watchable, but as of right now I hope they have a big opening day.
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wow.
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Its just some assholes yelling the same shit OVER and OVER again. No one listening to each other. Its like watch Bill O'Reily, just smarter.
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But I'm happy to say I lost to "Dogzilla vs Cathra". No offense to "Ice Cream", but the fact that the contest makers told them its okay to have a video under 45 seconds long, while telling the rest of us that videos have to be 30 seconds or less, *really* leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Dogzilla came in at the 30 second limit and is a fun little video. Congrats to them. Looks like I won't be going to Fantastic Fest this year.
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as one of those assholes, I was listening and replying to the prick based on his last comment.
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I said some shit too. The thread is just a pain to go back and read. Its just like two dogs barking at each other. Sure its fun to throw like a piece of meat inbetween them to see them go at it. But its just two tied up dogs barking and giving me a headache.
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Are they still just talking about how many jews were killed during WW2?
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You can go back and pretty much follow the conversation and get an idea what was being talked about. That Avatar thread is just random ass shit.
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and I was guilty of that. It's more to try to pin the lying cocksucker down. Horrible, extremist dirtbag.
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Why do you want him to give a number of how many people died in the Holocaust? Also the whole Corn syrup thing I don't get what your aruguing either. I've been meaning to see that King Corn doc as well. The dude has a point about lobbiest.
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Its like arguing with Ass/M-o-m. Sure its fun, but I guess when you weren't there from the start its hard to see what people are arguing about and why that one guy is such a cunt who will never give in.
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You aren't in America. You've got NO idea how fat people are. Like that concept of the fat people in Wall-E. You need to work in an cube office in America to see where they came up with that.
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but it's tinfoil hat wearing stupidity to blame one single factor for the massive rise in obesity. Ridiculous. That's what I was trying to do with him- point out that there are plenty of reasons for it, and it isn't down to one single conspiracy.
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I've got a new policy of never addressing M-o-M again. He just gives me a migraine.
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I would say television would be the one single thing to blame. Because it created coolness and ad space all the time. Branding from a young age. Its the thing that collects everything.
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unlucky. Still, it's better than open plan hell.
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There has been virtually ZERO advertising for it.
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Is real.
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Because it sucks balls compared to District 9.
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Corn Syrup, no doubt, being one of them. Sedentary Lifestyle, availability of motorised transport, shit food etc also contributed.It certainly wasn't solely down to some shadowy cabal of evil industrialists.
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The people are so fat here, that if two of them are walking next to each other in the walk way that could easily fit five people, you can't get around them. Plus they are so fat they can't hear you coming to get out of the way. And if they do notice you they are assholes and won't move (you ever notice that about fat people? That they are 90% of the time assholes). So then your stuck behind these fat blobs as they sway their way down the hall and talk about the newest flavor of cheetoe. That and their are a bunch of black dudes here, and not all of them are fat, but we all know they walk slow. SOOO pretty much I just walk back and forth from wall to wall like a fucking ping pong ball all the time whenever I need to take a piss or get my lunch. FUcking annoying I hate my job so much. I worry about turning into one of them.
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Combines ALL those things. Its starts with causing the sedentary lifestyle, which leads into eating bad because you don't want to cook or clean. Then you buy into all the ads on TV and just eat shit. TV doesn't do anything to promote healthy life styles, and you only do what the box says. And with DVR now you never have to watch something you don't want to.
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Lots of people made ads specifically about that Kindle. Surprisingly, my short didn't even make the finalists. I think its because my short went 3 frames over the 30 second time limit. Which is why I was pretty upset that the Fantastic Fest contest was like "Fuck whatever rules we said, we'll actually accept 45 second shorts, but we won't tell anyone unless they ask."
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Keep up the good fight! Don't know if you've ever heard of this, but there is a film festival here thats all about low budget movies. Called the Bare Bones film festival, I think submission are coming up soon.
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And submitting a script or too. They have a script to screen submission thing. I think thats in October.
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Sep 02, 2009 10:00:48 AM CDT
That On the Lot reality show Spielberg produced was bad bc...
by d.vader
Because they had a TERRIBLE format. They never figured out what the hell they were supposed to be doing. They had a hot host, but she was pretty brainless, and you had Carrie Fisher as Paula Abdul and Gary Marshall as Simon Cowell, and each week you had a guess judge as the Black Guy, and those included Eli Roth, The Rat, and Michael Bay. I had no problems with the judges, but I did have problems with the filmmakers they chose. A lot of them just *looked* like pretentious douchebags. One of them looked like a white rapper and it was very hard to take him seriously. He actually just shot his first feature, a horror/thriller in Kentucky, that a friend of mine worked on, and he said the guy really has no clue of what he's doing (I think he mainly shoots industrial videos or something). Anyway, I tried to watch every week, but I hated the format. The show never explained what was going on. One week they played the contestants' movies and showed behind the scenes of them making it... And then it turned out that none of those movies were made for the show- they were all previous shorts the filmmakers had made and used to enter the competition. So basically I watched a show full of shorts that were available on the show's website. There was no equality. What they should have done was said "Here's the same crew, the cast, the budget, the time constraint- now go make a short and let's see whose is best", but unfotunately I don't think they started doing that until the last 3rd of the series.
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That the show never told us that those shorts we were watching were the contestants' submissions. They tried to pawn them off to us as films they made during the competition.
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The Holocaust ever happened. I could believe that they would think that it wasn't as bad as it was. But just to be like, no never happened blah blah. First off, why would you believe that? Like what good does it do to say that it never happened, why would anyone make it up. Secondly, the proof is there, do they think these "survivors" were just paid to make up shit?
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Fucking ridiculous. Channing Tatum is a goddamned waste of space.
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DV explained On The Lot a lot better then I did. At leas the guy who won seemed ok. He wasn't a douchebag looking one. And his stuff made me laugh. He's probably Spielberg's coffee boy now. If you go to their IMDB pages they all post on the threads about what they are doing.
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I thought the male stripper got better as the movie went on.
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Sep 02, 2009 10:12:18 AM CDT
I haven't seen it in years, but I enjoyed 2 Days in the Valley
by d.vader
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And you have to note that I almost never talk about bad acting. Often, pple say "Oh so and so is such a BAD ACTOR, blah blah blah..." and I usually look past it and think, naah, they were okay or they were serviceable or I believed them in this part. And usually when I mention bad acting, its the kind of bad acting you see in low-budget films or in bad horror or indie flicks. But for a big-budget summer blockbuster? Channing Tatum may be the worst actor I've EVER seen in such a film. He never opens his eyes. He never raises his eyebrows. His idea of acting angry and is raising his voice. And that's it. The guy show no emotion at all. I was shocked, and I mean SHOCKED that this guy was just so... blank for the entire film.
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They are seriously crap this week. Fucking they don't make sense. Like its just jibberish.
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I liked him just fine. He seemed very down to earth and humble and I always appreciate that trait. He reminded me of a young Soderbergh in appearance, but without those pretentious glasses.
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He was kind of cute.
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Sep 02, 2009 10:17:39 AM CDT
Here is a link to that film festival I was telling you about
by series7
Low budget horror is a big thing. http://barebonesfilmfest00.tripod.com/
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I had this problem with the late 90's where I expected certain films to be shit bc they looked exactly like a previous film starring the same actor. I expected The Sixth Sense to be bad bc it reminded me of Mercury Rising (a thriller starring Bruce Willis protecting a kid). I expected The Matrix to be bad bc it reminded me of Johnny Nemonic (a dystopian scifi/cyberpunk film starring Keanu Reeves). What's funny is that I never saw Mercury Rising or all of Johnny Nemonic, but did go to the theater to see the latter two films on opening weekends. Can anyone think of other films that apply to this theme? Actors starring in similar films, but one is good and the other is bad?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyuqXTm_qBM
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I thought the opening attack on the convoy was great and made me feel like a kid again. Other parts I enjoyed as my friend and I, the only ones in the theater, MST3K'd a commentary throughout.
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If you're okay with that, I mean.
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And then I have to repeat them to myself over and over again to remember, and when I'm finished I rush out of the shower and write them down or, if I'm dry enough, use the new Voice Recorder app for the iPhone.
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Go fucking see District 9 god damnit! Or I'm gonna slap you. That movie WAS UNFUCKINGBELIEVABLE good.
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And they give out lots of awards too. Awesome.
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Because you'll either laugh at me or steal it for yourself!
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To do only one of those?
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Well first I'd have to actually write a script. I need to do it this week, or my idea is just going to be fucking lost.
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I explained this yesterday. How we have a newish girl in the office and like whenever she walks by she's got to be like OHHH WOW WHATS THAT! And I'm eating goldfish. Well today i have a bag of jack links on my desk and she was like What are those! God I fucking hate annoying ass people.
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I always get Commando and Cobra confussed. And I did think that about Johnny M and The Matrix. But I saw both, saw the Matrix like on Friday and went again on Saturday. Only time I've ever done that. I think I saw Johnny M in theaters as well.
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Has some classic stuff. Henry Rollins as a scientist. A talking dolphin. Some good lines too, Drago saying "Hault Sinners!" Also Drago as a crazy preist. Neo saying "I want room service!". I need to watch that movie again.
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Not 90s but same idea.
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I know they aren't similar. But at the time they looked like the same movie to me.
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Bruce Willis is in WAY too many hitman movies, and all his movies look the same. Go figure.
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it's perfectly healthy to hate your job. I despise mine and only do it because it keeps me in beer. I slack off something chronic though. Once you get out of cubicle/ open plan hell life does get better. Since I left the music industry I've had a variety of jobs and they all without exception blow. Even freelance writing blew because I got stiffed by a client for a shit load of cash (the cunt actually used my work as well). And I worked at that one.
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by their job. There is fucking thousands of the dickheads in London. Is your life really that empty that all you've got is your fucking job? I guarantee that 99% of them have disastrous fucking home lives as well, and when they weep quietly to themselves when alone.
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but people are just so fucking lazy now and it starts at a really young age. I could give you prime examples, but it would expose where I work.
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Whats that? So you have a cube job now or not?
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to help with my slacking. And the occasional nap.
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Its work I leave it at the office. Like I rarely talk about this job mainly because I don't do anything. I only talk about this job because I got nothing to relate to with people at work.
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Maniac cop had better have arrived. Fucklng postal strike.
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It's a comedy so I hope you laugh. And Series, it's OK to let other people read your stuff, just get it registered with the Writers Guild of America like I do with all of mine. That doesn't guarantee anything, but it sure will help in a courtroom.Sorry about not winning DV. I watched everything on the DVD you gave me and there's some awesome stuff there.Channing Tatum was the worst thing about GI Joe. Horribly miscast. But the Paris chase sequence made the rest of the movie worthwhile so I give it a thumbs up.Office life sucks. I can't get my scripts discovered soon enough.I have a fairly hefty commute everyday and I find that's the best source of movie idea inspiration, especially when you have a kickass soundtrack playing the background.
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They losing their jobs there to. Fuck you Postman Pat! You Bitch!
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I've got like 30 minute drive and its good thinking time. But like the second I get home or in the office POOF "Like that, he was gone". GI JOE that Paris chase scene was fucking awesome, I thought it would suck since I saw the trailer so many times. GI Joe one of the few action movies not to be ruined by the trailer. But that scene sucked balls compared to the MNU raid in District 9. SO FUCKING AWESOME I want to go see that movie again NOW!
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I've always wondered how people forget these awesome ideas they have for movies. It's usually set pieces that come to me and then I have to figure out an entire idea around them. But when I come up with a set piece it's usually lengthy and bombastic as hell so the idea sticks in my head for good. Then when I get home I jot the idea down on an index card and toss it up on a story board.
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With my latest idea. I got a bunch of set pieces and main concept/hook, and i just came up with an overlaying story arch on the way home....wish I could remember it though!
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So I could enjoy D9 for the first time again. The first time is always the best.
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Sep 02, 2009 12:14:02 PM CDT
Just live long enough to develop Alzheimers, Series
by hawaiian organ donor
Then you'll even be able to see Star Wars again for the first time.
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But that would mean I have to stop reading.
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After lunch
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Anyone see the trailer for this yet? It looks like it could be fucking awesome. I'm not a big fan of Paul, but he looks cool in this, and I like the guy from Smoking Aces/Lost/Wolverine too, glad to see he's getting work.
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The North American contingent really dies in the afternoon.Another hour and I'm outta here to go have drinks and dinner with Latte Girl.
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Could be good. The trailer gave too much away, I thought. It ran a little long. But, I'm there...Hopefully catching District 9 at weekend. 'Humans Only' ads have started appearing on telephone boxes over here, except they don't look like ads. Quite cool.
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Seeing that he didn't have a cameo in the Hurt Locker, nor is in Avatar. Looks like with Big Love he's finally managed to make it on his owe. Game Over Bill.
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Prepare to have a mind explosion this weekend. Fuck I just realized I never read Harry's review of District 9 because I didn't want to know anything.
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I like him a lot too, as do my friends. And it seems everyone just calls that actor "Keamy" now, like "Oh did you see the trailer for Legion! Keamy is in it as Gabriel, he looks badass!" I hear even Doug Jones at Comic-Con just referred to him as Keamy.
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GENIUS. I was laughing my ass off about what you were doing over there. Good times pallie, good times. You rock.
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Is a gay ass band, and that's what Twitch became today....a gay ass band.
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I was all pumped up to come home and write! Now all I want to do is take a dump read some comics and watch a two hour bio on Freddy from Queen.
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Fuck I need to write...but I didn't poo poo on you poo.
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I'm gonna do it, look out. I'm gonna watch Pootie Tang! Hopefully we'll get a directors cut one day.
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keep it up. that is all.
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I watched this yesterday. While it was incredibly meciocre at best, it's The Godfather compared to The Da Vinci Code. The structure is so idiotically simple. It's essentially 12 Rounds at the Vatican. It's also blatantly obvious who the "mastermind" is. The thing that strikes me about these flicks is that there are no actual "characters". Everyone is a mouthpiece specifically designed to move the plot forward, including Langdon. Watching them, you actually slightly appreciate shit like National Treasure which manage to at least individualise each character so you can tell them apart.
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Also watched this. If a flick is ever to be described as 'too clever by half' this is it. It's overly complicated, bordering on confusing. Which is the idea I suppose, and as a technical achievement in filmmaking it's clever, but as an actual audience member it's annoying to the point of not caring anymore. On the surface, and from the trailer, it looks like a fun flick. But it's too much hard work and none of the characters are interesting enough to keep you going. Weisz's character has a great introduction and first 10-15 minutes then... nothing. The best part was the flashback to when they were kids and their first con.
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Sep 03, 2009 4:23:37 AM CDT
Series is in form in the Cowboys vs Aliens TB
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
lockesbrokenleg by Series7 Sep 2nd, 2009 04:36:40 PM
"See D9. Hopefully you are old enough to see rated R movies by yourself. I went with my mom, but I live with her. Its a fucking great movie. Its Robocop good. Its soo fucking good. Its fucking good." That's some funny shit. -
Sep 03, 2009 4:26:27 AM CDT
And how naive are the dumbfucks in that TB...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
to believe that "boborci" is actually the real bloke? That guy must be laughing his ass off.
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I've been wallowing in the nazi TB arguing with that horrid cunt shogunshin. Series was on great from yesterday.
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"Zombie Hunters" is playing in their Short film festival and will be in competition. So far, we've got 3 screenings throughout the weekend: Friday at 8:30 pm, Saturday night at 1 AM, and Sunday at 10 pm. Wish me luck, I'll see you guys next week!
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I'm bored by those idiots.
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Have a good one.
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that I can't help myself
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And about time too!
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and it's a pain in the ass when it gets to this size
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Sep 03, 2009 5:49:34 AM CDT
So we've lost Jarv and Conti to the Hitler TB
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Series to the boborci TB and Vader is off doing something constructive. I think I just saw a tumbleweed.
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Anything you want me to say to William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Patrick Stewart, Tobe Hooper (wait he cancelled? FUCK), Brad Dourif, Charisma Carpenter (I might hump her leg), Malcolm McDowell, Terry Gilliam, Peter David, Mc Chris, Thomas Dekker, Timothy Zahn, Peter S Beagle, Peter Mayhew, Doug Jones, Doug Bradley, or Eric Roberts? Shoot, I need to clean out my camera memory for this one.
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Tell Shatner he was brilliant in The Intruder.
Figures the only Corman movie to ever lose money is also a truly great film.
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I just so the insanity of that place and had to make one comment. Well actually two.
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just work interfering with my mooching time.
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But I finally finished Race to With Mountain. You know, Dwayne Johnson is a decent actor and he has charisma to spare but he really needs to stop wasting his time with stuff like this.Good luck Vader! Tell The Shat he continues to make Canadians proud.I saw Angels and Demons on the weekend. It was better than the DaVinci Code but Droid nailed it. Every line delivered is done so to get them from point A to point B. There's not even an Emmerich-ish attempt to give any of the characters........character. Still, it was enjoyable for what it was.
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needs a proper vehicle like conan or something. He's got the chops.
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and don't know how I feel about it. It's a weird, fucked up little film that I'm certain is borderline racist.
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Awesome in Tombstone. To name but one.
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Yeah, he needs a franchise. Meathead Diesel will keep his career alive because he's got THREE
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Never seen it.
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Preferably something for the adult crowd.It's been 20 years since I watched Enemy Mine. And it really is an odd movie. Not sure how it was made during the 80s.The exchanges between Kilmer and Michael Biehn in Tombstone were enough to elevate the entire movie to greatness.
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Watched it two nights ago, actually. Its got a kickass soundtrack.
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Sep 03, 2009 7:53:53 AM CDT
Kilmer was fucking genius in Tombstone
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Damn, I gotta watch that flick again. So good.
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"In 1989, Kurt Russell was given the script for Tombstone. At the time, Kevin Jarre and Kevin Costner were going to make the movie together but disagreed over the film's focus. Costner felt that the emphasis should be on Wyatt Earp and decided to make his own movie with Lawrence Kasdan." Russell signed on and made an agreement with producer Andrew G. Vajna to finance it with a budget of $25 million. Originally, Jarre and Russell wanted to cast Willem Dafoe as Doc Holliday but Buena Vista Motion Pictures Group refused to distribute the film if he was cast, due to Dafoe's role in the controversial The Last Temptation of Christ. As Costner was making a competing Wyatt Earp film, he used his then-considerable clout to convince most of the major studios to refuse to distribute Tombstone - Buena Vista was thus the only studio willing to distribute. Jarre and Russell went with their next choice, Val Kilmer. Filming was plagued with several problems. Both Russell and Kilmer have said that the screenplay was too long (Russell estimated by 20 pages). According to Kilmer, "virtually every main character, every cowboy, for example, had a subplot and a story told, and none of them are left in the film." He has said that over 100 people, cast and crew, either quit or were fired over the course of the production. Russell even went so far as to cut down his scenes in order to let other actors have more screen time. Early in the production, screenwriter Jarre was fired as director due to his refusal to cut down the length of his screenplay. Sylvester Stallone recommended George P. Cosmatos to Kurt Russell based on the work he did on Rambo: First Blood Part II. According to Russell, Cosmatos ghost directed the movie for Russell. Every night, Russell would give Cosmatos a shot list for the next day, and developed a "secret sign language" on set to exert influence. Despite the ghost-directing, Cosmatos gave an accurate account of the making of the film on the deluxe DVD release, but he gave this account as if he himself actually directed." "Late in his career, Cosmatos received more praise for Tombstone, a 1993 Western movie about Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp. This film was particularly praised for the exceptional performance of Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday. Following his death, actor Kurt Russell, who starred as Wyatt Earp in Tombstone, claimed that he, and not Cosmatos, was the actual director. Russell claimed that he had Cosmatos hired as the titular director after being assured by Sylvester Stallone that Cosmatos would allow Russell to do the actual directing. Russell also claimed that he promised Cosmatos to remain silent as to this arrangement until Cosmatos's death."
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I kind of like it, and kind of don't. It's odd.
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I listen to that in the car and all I can see is destruction and mayhem around me as the world comes to a fiery end.Tombstone is required annual viewing. Russell, Kilmer, Paxton, Elliot, Biehn, Booth, Church, Delaney and Stephen f-ing Lang. What a great cast.
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Is the greatest man alive.
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Bore me. But work bores me more? So I can't help myself.
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we need more spoken word albums!
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comatose?
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Can't wait. I love Oscar bait movies.
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Comes out this Oct. 31....hmmm. Could be ok.
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Sep 03, 2009 9:10:05 AM CDT
You're trawling Variety, aren't ya Series?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I was doing that earlier.
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It wasn't variety. It was IMDB. http://tinyurl.com/kuoxf2
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Why? I guess he needs money.
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Can't watch it at work. Any good? I guess Woody's been hanging out with RDJ and making a comeback.
http://tinyurl.com/kpj4ad
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Get me some page hits http://tinyurl.com/l3muno
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Beaks or Quint confirmed it in an article over comic-con and Herc tweeted about it.
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Why not. Its more fun that way.
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talkback just gave me a headache.
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I'm a bit late with that...Tell Biehn he's a proper bloke. He needs to be in more movies.In fact, cast him in one of yours, D!
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got sucked into the Hitler Tb.Had to. Couldn't believe what I was reading.I don't like Nazis.
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he's got balls, turning up on that Tb.
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Korean movie, watched it the other night. The FX are a bit shonky but I love a good 'disaster' movie.Could've done without that bloody song parping off when the two leads are saying 'goodbye'. Had me reaching for a bucket, stat.Still, great fun.
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Looks like shit. Will probably get its money back. How the fuck does crap like that get funding? Yet Green Lantern...on the rocks.
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I thought your film was da bomb. Knock 'em dead at Dragon Con!
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I'm half way through this tall boy and I'm pretty tipsy. Didn't realize it was 8%. Nice.
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"I Sell the Dead". It has Angus Scrimm, Ron Perlman, and Dominic Monaghan. It's about Victorian-era grave robbers who accidentally find and begin selling the undead. Schlocky(intentionally), but fun and much, much better than I was expecting. About a million times better than the crapfest that was Halloween II (even Malcolm McDowell couldn't make me enjoy that and I found myself wishing in the first few minutes that the girl would be offed just to shut her up).
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That was a cool movie (Thanks again, HOD!!!). I love disaster flicks. 2012 is one I'm really looking forward to. Massive destruction, no survivors (probably), chaos reigns over all. Bring on the popcorn!
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You had me at Ron Perlman and "selling the undead."
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Duty and donuts call. Have a great night!
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It is well worth the look. I'd watch it again, for sure.
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Was'up?
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I didn't realize it isn't due to be released until November. Seriously, I thought it was from last year. Here's the link if anyone wants to see it before then: http://tinyurl.com/nr62s5 Bye guys!
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Got to go to work. Sorry I missed ya (my aim has been a bit off lately). Have a good night. Stay out of trouble until I get back (wouldn't want to miss any of it). ;)
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Catch ya later, or you can try and catch me!
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Is not even smart enough to be a good bigot or Holocaust denier. The guy can't even construct an argument for fuck's sake.
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I Sell The Dead, is getting the comic treatment soon. I am going to wait for that. Also Die Hard is too and I just finished 28 Days Later the comic and it was pretty good.
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Jesus tittyfucking christ. It's un-fucking-believable that "tweeting" can confirm anything other than you're a pants shitting mongoloid. Okay, if that's the real Robert Orci then fair enough. Good on him coming on the TB's and dealing with the lunatics. If I was him, I wouldn't bother.
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Sep 04, 2009 3:33:18 AM CDT
Didn't watch anything last night
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Was at the pub.
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There's at least three TB's dominated by the same morons, particularly that portuguese twat Asimovlives. He, in particular, is disturbingly one note. He has nothing else to say except pathetic attempts at slating "Jar Jar Abrams", "Bob The Orci" and "The Klutzman". But the most disturbing thing is that he's ALWAYS posting. He never seems to sleep, and never seems to do anything else with his time.
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It's friday and you fucks are off crapping on about the "holyco$t" with a bunch of fuckwits. Return to Twitch and entertain me, bitches!
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I fucking can not deal with guys who say "holyco$t". Fuck, some people are so pathetic it just fucking amazes me.
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Sep 04, 2009 5:01:08 AM CDT
I NEED to see District 9 this weekend
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
It's not a want, it's a need.
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Just finished reading it, good book. It is about the investigation of a serial killer in 1896 and is filled with many historical characters. Kind of like Ragtime, but a murder mystery.
I'm just wish they didn't devout so much to the idea of psychological profiling - I think a lot of that is as credible as a psychic, just a form of cold reading. Not saying it is completely inaccurate - obviously you can predict certain attributes of a killer or criminal based on how he acts, but when ever they come up with his crimes being some sort of psychological metaphor, I always feel we are entering Batman territory with his Rogues Gallery's fetishes and compulsions.
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That is just you being melodramatic.
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That's why I just hadda pile on. PaZoozoo and MrGeyser kinda live for that sorta thing. And you have to read Jarv-Jarv's entries over there on the Hitler/Avatar thread, it's some of the funniest acid-drenched insulting I've seen here in ages. No really it was required reading for the like minded. Mammaries of Mommy/Asslives has this thing against the recent Trek flick. I don't get it. I saw it, liked it (Bring the red Matter!) and that was that. No real reason to see it again save a rental? but it was a good re-boot and far from being a failure or bad entry in the Trekazoid universe. Not sure what Oporto fucktard has against it.
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We're falling off the top 10!
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The first one-dayer is about to start!
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Half of each team i've never heard of before.
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We've fallen off the top 10.
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Sep 04, 2009 7:56:30 AM CDT
So I'm going to take it upon myself...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
and crap on about random shit...
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Sep 04, 2009 8:01:29 AM CDT
Aussies are going well in the cricket
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Except for a stupid run out. It appears the english bowlers are bowling rubbish though.
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Sep 04, 2009 8:04:55 AM CDT
I wonder exactly how many I'll need
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
to get us back.
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Sep 04, 2009 8:06:36 AM CDT
It's been very quiet the last few days
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
So it might be a lot
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You bastards just can't resist the lure of the siren song.
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Sep 04, 2009 8:22:18 AM CDT
Being the cultured intellectual I obviously am...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I'm off to the theatre (pronounced thee-ay-ter) tonight. The stage production of The 39 Steps. Should be grand.
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Not a very good poster. Didn't realize Eve was going to be in this. Doesn't look good last time they were together was Ghost Rider. http://tinyurl.com/l32dh3
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I hope we get an early review.
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Sep 04, 2009 8:27:04 AM CDT
And then probably District 9 over the weekend
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Since Series won't shut up about it.
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Only cost 25 million.
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Sep 04, 2009 8:38:42 AM CDT
The hairpiece Bad Lieutenant...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
looks a bit strange. I think it's the DV that does it. I'm not a fan of flicks shot on video yet. They have this odd look to them.
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Sep 04, 2009 8:40:24 AM CDT
Apparently District 9 only cost $30m
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Goes to show you don't need $200m to make a good flick. I think The Hurt Locker was made for about $8m.
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What is the genre of your script?
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$90 million....and no one has seen it. It made 10, worldwide.
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Written so I wouldn't really call it a script. But if anything, I'd call it a cop drama.
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Then when I got to work I realized I just came up with the Taking of Pelam 123....and I've not even seen either version of it. So maybe mines different. Just replace civil servant with radio DJ.
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is pretty shitty. Just floating heads. It'll be a pretty crazy flick. They're obviously trying to market it as blandly as possible so they can dupe unsuspecting fans of The Piece into the theatre.
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You know I always wonder if these movie site people make enough money to only do shit for their website. I bet the main people here do, I know the main guy at Joblo does but it took him like 5-10 years. Now I don't know much about this site, but it looks pretty professional, so I'm going through their stuff and I come across a thing called their favorite summer of movies. So I'm like this will be cool, but its fucking awful. Most of it is trying to look cool and making excuses for liking dumb films. If you like a shit movie fucking admit it god damnit. No conviction mother fuckers. Also the writing is pretty shit, so I wonder if these people make enough money on their site to only work on their site or what. And if they do...I've done something wrong in my life. http://tinyurl.com/mjmmrb
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Unfortunately. It's fucking awful.
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District 9 is probably the most iconic/cool poster in the past...probably 10 years. Its a memorable one. I'm trying hard to think of anything else and nothing is coming to mind. Like I remember going to the theaters and seeing teaser posters and that shit would STICK in your head. Now I go to theaters see posters and don't fucking remember any of them 20 minutes later.
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But where the special effects amazing?
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Stem's from me hating my job right now.
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Is back in $1 theaters.
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A movie about a man and his Ox. Should I see this this weekend?
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Sep 04, 2009 9:07:10 AM CDT
Yeah, I've thought about doing a website...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
much in the same way as Mavra and AIBN started and getting a few of us to keep it going. It'd be pretty simple. 90% of what gets posted on this site is regurgitated from other websites. So posting those kinds of stories would be easy. Then there's just the reviews, which I'd just have to overcome my overwhelming laziness. I'm not sure how much cash you'd make from it. You'd need a lot of traffic.
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GI Joe and District 9. Hmmmmm that could be awesome. Don't know if the wife is down to see them both again.
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If you want to post shit for AIBN or mavra you can. Just ask.
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Yeah, one of the last cool ones I can think of is a Starship Troopers one I had on my wall that was just the arachnid leg spiked through a soldiers helmet. It looked bloody cool.
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Is that Jo Blo/aicn/CHUD and some other sites have been around for 10 years or more. So they got started before everyone who was on those sites started their own site, or shit like the AV Club an Onion spin off started. So now everyone and their mom has a movie site, so its hard to stick out. Thats what makes me wonder about cinematical, because its not very good, but looks likes its proffessional.
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Sep 04, 2009 9:15:56 AM CDT
I've posted some reviews for Mav
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
A while ago. I was just thinking about my own site. In theme, it would fall between the specialist site that Mavra has going and the kinda anarchic site that AIBN is. A bit more mainstream, at least the stuff that I would post. But right now, I'm too lazy to do all that, and learn how to create a website etc.
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There are only a handful of sites that have "made it". And most of those were in on the ground floor. But then slashfilm and CHUD got quoted in the NY Times article about Spike Jonze, and I know that slashfilm have only been around for a year or so.
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Hrm. I wonder how long Hitflix last.
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What happened to that.
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When I can. I've had a nightmare work day. Very little mooching.
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There's a reason. I can't bear those holocaust denying nazi low life fucks. And twitch is too unweildy at the moment.
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he's my pet hate poster. I now actively avoid threads he is in. I can't stand him.
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I really don't get it. Did that guy say that the holocaust never happen or something?
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Good to see Rashid getting a go. Aside from that, I wouldn't have picked that England side. Mind you, I don't think they should be playing 7 one dayers in September. The chances of full results are minimal. You Aussies haven't scored anywhere near as much as I thought you would.
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Except for the flame war in the Hitler TB.
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without actually having the balls to do it. It's despicable revisionism- and a favourite tactic of the BNP. The idea is, you refuse to name a number of Jews, but you include a list of every cunt that died in WW2, thereby lessening the impact.
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I posted twice this morning, and then been in interminable meetings all day today.
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and got my Pride and Prejudice and Zombies review up on Mavra. It's an OK book.
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better than Sidearse though. Who I wouldn't ever pick for England again.
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this really is a total anticlimax.
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Sidearse has just got Hussey. Still this ferguson cunt looks like a ready made replacement.
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last night there was a trailer for some new series he's producing on telly. Anyway, it said that he wrote TDK. I could have sworn that TDK was written by the Nolan brothers, so why is this goyer cunt taking credit for it. Does he think I've forgotten about Blade 3?
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Sep 04, 2009 10:06:35 AM CDT
White and Ferguson played pretty well
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I don't really know who they are. But they appear to be decent.
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Sep 04, 2009 10:09:54 AM CDT
I think Goyer had story credit for TDK
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
And the Nolans had screenplay. If memory serves. He co-wrote Begins. No one will ever forget Blade 3. Much in the same way that a chick never forgets the first time she got fucked in the ass.
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That the bothers Nolan wrote TDK, but he gets contractual credit. Like I think he helped with the basic story outline. He probably did all the two face stuff, since that was crap.
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Funny as well. I could not care less about this one day lot. It strikes me as the same as after the whitewash, when England beat you lot in the one dayers. Who gives a fuck? The main event is over.
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that's the end of the matter. What was that piss poor horror film he was responsible for recently?
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Fucking terrible. The ONLY reason to see it is for the main chick, who looks like a less whorish Megan Fox.
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But that takes away the point of Megan Fox. 260. That's shit. Mind you England don't look like they give a fuck so you should win. That Ferguson lad looks like the knackers. You probably should have picked him instead of Hughes.
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Not a HUGE score, but very defendable against you lot.
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You should win. We clearly don't give a toss. Looking at that side, England seem to have picked about 9 bowlers for some reason.
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line up you should have had at the oval. This is weird.
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Sep 04, 2009 10:27:28 AM CDT
It's because of that cuntish 2020 tourney
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
If not for that, we would've played the one dayers first, and we would've established who the cunts that could actually play are, and then chosen the right team for the tests. But alas, it was not to be...
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I heard there were some tackles and some touchdowns! AWESOME! FOOTBALL!
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Sep 04, 2009 10:30:23 AM CDT
Has the American Football season started?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Good. I like it.
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Cricket for Americans.
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I'm bored and want to got to the pub.
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I need a fucking good nights sleep for once. I hope I don't fall asleep during this play tonight!
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Fred's beloved SuperBowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers vs The Tennesee Titans. Should be a damn good game - some bad blood there.
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Nothing new there.
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With their ridiculous stadium and it's low hanging screens? Who do they play?
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I commend fighting against revisionist, racist Tongue Cleaners like shogunshit. But the dude has no fight in him. he can not counter any legit arguments. In fact he just ignores any and all arguments and just keeps posting away his hate filled nonsense. You can not argue with a moron. However, I agree that his kind needs to battled because although he will never change, his views can infect some susceptible to easy manipulation. Or those who are pre-disposed to accepting those types of lies such as BSB.
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Not everything he does is shit. Children of Men is awesome of course. I liked The International somewhat. Duplicity sucked. Shoot Em Up was fucking abysmal. That one with Jennifer Aniston was okay.
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NFL screwed up with that video board policy.
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What play you going to see?
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The 39 Steps Hopefully it will be good. The Hitchcock flick is classic.
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Go check out my question to Goyer.
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I just worry that the lights will be a little to neon for you.
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Later people. Keep this Twitch in the Top 10 in my absence. I'll try to handle the neon, Series. Have a good one.
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Sounds good. Let me know if I should look for it ever on tour. My wife loves the Cock.
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Did anyone see this? To think Woody could have had a million $ hit on his hands, if only he was more like max hardcore.
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They are remaking Straw Dogs. I can already tell Con is happy about that one.
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Good fucking The Hornet. I hope Tron tears it apart at the Box Office. Finally a reason to care about Tron. Yeah I know I already really want to see it, but now I have a political reason to.
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opps, It was Harry http://www.aintitcool.com/node/41858
"[..] Bob Orci - who confirmed to me directly that YES, that is him in our Talk Backs."
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That its him.
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If they want to do another adaptation of the book it is based on though, go ahead. Just be sure to use the book title, The Siege of Trencher's Farm, or come up with an original title.
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That's been in the works for awhile hasn't it? Good grief. I checked it out over at imdb...an L.A. screenwriter and his wife relocate to the "Deep South" and blah blah blah.
Straw Dogs was....interesting, and kind of infuriating. But interesting. I find it hard to believe that the remake would be able to hold on to any of what made the first one such a weird mix of compelling and repellent. Nor can I think of any good reason for them to try. -
I am actually not a huge fan of Straw Dogs - it is Peckinpah at his most misogynistic - but I do believe it is HIS movie. He changed it to fit his worldview, his philosophy, and there are parts of the movie I do admire and agree with (such as the fact that we all are killers deep inside).
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Shogunshin is living off being a troll. Time to starve him. Something I should have done since the beginning.
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It's simples. If he answers, he believes the Tb will be over. End of his fun. He doesn't want that. So, he'll continue not to answer. It's hopeless.1am here. Bed time.Have a better one.
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Which is why I say we starve him of our attention.
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but the movie, yeah, definitely seems like Peckinpah making a statement. But that's what makes it interesting! (Regardless of whether I personally agree or disagree with what he's saying). A remake of the movie itself (not simply a new adaptation of the book) just would not have that on their side.
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Where the fuck is Xiphos?
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I got a question about Mean Streets, my boys over at IMDB say that most of the soundtrack was made up of Marty's personal collection. How did he get away with using all that music like that without paying the rights and stuff? Just wondering because you can't get away with stuff like that anymore. Especially Rolling Stones stuff.
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I got a question about Mean Streets, my boys over at IMDB say that most of the soundtrack was made up of Marty's personal collection. How did he get away with using all that music like that without paying the rights and stuff? Just wondering because you can't get away with stuff like that anymore. Especially Rolling Stones stuff.
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Droid Friday Night Lights is one of the best shows on TV. The writing, acting, direction, music choices are all top notch.Here's a link to a review I did of the show at Mavra's. It was the second time I ever reviewed anything so if I wrote the review today it would be differnt but it's sincere and from the heart. http://tinyurl.com/ksvbloContinentalops. I really like the Alienst espceially the "Stevepipe" charater, that kid was great. I look at the book as a sort of slice of a changing society. One still entangled with mystical explanations while in search of modern and scientific answers to the questions the world presents. Excellent, excellent book. Unfortunantly the follow up book wasn't nearly as good.
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Cool a movie about Darwin...wait its directed by the same twat that did The Core.
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http://www.thefilmexperience.net/Awards/2009/actor.html I hope Freeman doesn't win.
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Is QT second best movie in the past 20 years? ok.
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It was ok. Don't know why Ebert liked it so much, it starts off really slow. Gets better toward the end when they have a lot more footage. If they ever make a bio movie, I say the skinny guy from Little Britain should play him.
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Would have much rather just seen Brain May talking for 2 hours, he was the best spoken and had the most interesting stories. He wasn't busy trying to tell me how great Freddie was.
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Mine eyes demand International Candy.
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I still think these idiot hollywood fucks keep blowing it--that reflection in the Fountain?! MAKE IT A FUCKING LION YOU TOOLS. Show us you're In on the Joke. Sheesh. Giant, Robot, Lions. How fucking hard is that?! Cinematic Gold, right there. Kyle Orton-NOT gold. But what kin ya do? Denver's defence is like O'J's-shot full of holes and gettin' worse.
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I was wondering about you. Seemed like it's been awhile.
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I woke up too early, and I'm out of coffee. 8 minutes til the shop next door opens up! And then i can think straight. The time is creeping by. I am really addicted to coffee.
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I saw the trailer and it looks excruciating.
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Wasn't eaten by the fire?
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'Creation'? The one with Bettany & Connolly? The trailer looked earnest... and quite dull.
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Owls aren't scary.The movie might be diverting, though...
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Never heard of this, has it been on AICN? At first I was impressed, put me in mind of 'Something Wicked This Way Comes' crossed with 'Fright Night'. Then it got a bit obvious and slapsticky.Still, it's got John C. Reilly in its favour. Could be good.
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Yeh, free-style jazz, baby!Mary Shelton. Hoooo, boy.
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in the Top 10!Dunno for how long though. I have to step out for awhile in a minute.
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the Jersey Devil is an owl.
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the Jersey Devil is a bat-like creature.
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the making-of 'Silence Of The Lambs' earlier. I've seen the movie I think 4 times in all - and I've never noticed George Romero in it before!My focus in that particular scene is always on Jodie Foster and I never once clocked him.
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'Silence Of The Lambs' at the cinema. The scene near the end with Lector's face filling the whole screen...Didn't need no 3D to push you back in your seat. Scarier than an owl anyway.
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Hitler v Avatar Tb. It's soul destroying.
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Where are you?
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Ninja Fred - don't go in the Hitler v Avatar, it'll even suck the life out of your happy-go-lucky soul.
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It's called 'Woild Moild' - product of the Wolf Brewery. True.Don't like mild usually but this one's quite fruity.
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And they STILL haven't got with the program with the giant robot lions? Fucking idjits.
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That's a top five of the year easy.
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You de man, de myth, de legend. De Marine!
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I agree with Wolf. Stay away from that soul suking Hitler TB.
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His only kryptonite: Scottish sea serpents.
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Fuck you its the best god damn movie since Robocop! And Robocop was like 40 years ago!
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Might just be a fan-made thingie, they're in some park and stuff starts to shake, the camera falls and you see the reflection of Clovie in a water-fountain. It's nothing great. Didn't see any mane on the monster either-
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Right now the only film that tops it for me this year is Hurt Locker
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I need help goofing off with links on the internet that y'all find interesting. Not porn though. Sorry. Stuff I can check while at work, but still have fun. Sci fi, comics, weird news of the world type stuff. Batshit crazy but not get my dumb ass fired -well if you got thise label them and I will look when i get home! Help a bruda out! I am posting this onanother TB as well, whoever has the most winning entries wins the No-Prize!
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http://www.thinkgeek.com/index.shtml
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That shit cracked me up! I think he said she had 'joonk in her troonk' something like that.
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www.awfulplasticsurgery.com. I came across it a few days ago and laughed my ass for about an hour.
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http://lolthulhu.com/ http://tinyurl.com/nq8ay3 http://shitbrix.com/ http://tinyurl.com/nbxeda (This one is probably NSFW, but it is pretty funny) http://tinyurl.com/ml3nek http://tinyurl.com/ko32mw http://museumofhoaxes.com/ http://skepdic.com/ http://wackyuses.com/ http://conspiracybomb.com/ http://www.thememoryhole.org/ http://retrocrush.com/ http://optillusions.com/ http://tekzoned.com/ http://darwinawards.com/ http://tinyurl.com/44snl I have a bunch more if you want 'em. :)
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Sep 06, 2009 8:53:31 PM CDT
Isn't anyone awake and bored enough to give this a boost?
by mavra chang
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Not from us anyhow.
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Just the typical slackers here, such as myself.
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Glad you liked the sites. :)
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Off to work. Have a great night guys.
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http://www.ninjakiwi.com/Games/Bloons-Games/Bloons.html
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Extract failed. Go figure. Looks like Gamer did as well, but All About Steve did ok....fucking sheeple. Oh well Con should be happy Gamer failed. I can't decide if I want to see Extract on the big screen or not. Gonna see the Ox movie tomorrow.
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I want to see the new Bad LT. Though it looks like a renter.
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Final Destination 4: Live Free Or Die Hard was number 1 two weeks in a row. I should have known Gamer would flop because my wife asked what it was and we've seen the trailer like 20 times and just saw the main guy on a late show talking about it. If she doesn't even know what it was I doubt anyone outside of middle nerdverse knows.
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An IMAC today and a Sony Handycam. Though I just read that Sony Handycam is not compatible to IMAC's sooo shit. Hopefully it is. I had to special order the computer so I won't get it for a couple of days. So I hope to edit the shit out of hours and hours of me playing frisbee with the dog.
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I had a mightily impressive weekends film watching. Mostly because 300 was up. Brighton Rock (classic)Godfather (Classic) Godfather 2 (Classic) Godfather 3- shit. Maniac Cop (mint) Crocodile Dundee (meh) Innerspace (I like this, but I don't know why)Whiskey Galore (classic) The Devil's advocate (complete toss).
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Now, this is going to sound weird, but rewatching the trilogy, I finally worked out what bugged me about the second one. Killing Fredo doesn't make narrative sense. Bear with me on this- by the time Fredo is capped he has already been broken and forgiven. Worse than that, though, I think that Fredo's murder had serious plot and character implications for the third one that it just couldn't recover from.
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what a bucket of shit. Andy Garcia is entertaining, but the plot is dull and Sofia Coppola is embarrassing (not to mention pig ugly). The most interesting thing about it is Connie's metamorphosis from Part 1 into cold blooded murderess by part 3. Bullshit. And when Michael dies at the end I started laughing. Rubbish.
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bad idea. It's of it's time and should not be attempted again.
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Sep 07, 2009 3:28:34 AM CDT
The only flick I watched on the weekend was...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Inglorious Basterds. Other than that I finished the first season of Smallville. I have to say I'm somewhat enjoying it.
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That's in my hate pile at the moment.
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I have to say, it's actually dreadful. It's an acting piece and some div cast Keanu Reeves in it. Gratuitous nudity galore, though.
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Once upon a time in revisionist history’s Nazi occupied France. IB is good, and a lot of fun, but has many problems. The biggest is that it goes for 2 ½ hours, which is 30 minutes too long. And it’s structure is that it’s basically a series of self-contained scenes (which is highlighted by the fact that each scene is introduced with a title card Chapter 1, Chapter 2 etc). And each scene goes on way too long. Tarantino's far too in love with his own dialogue (which is old news). A scene that could be 10 minutes long and still have the same impact and effect is at least 20 minutes long. There were certain scenes, particularly the meet in the basement bar, that I actually thought to myself “Hurry the fuck up!”. And I think I know why. Thinking about his earlier flicks, many heavy dialogue scenes are set on the move, mostly in cars. This gives the scenes an automatic energy. Although the dialogue is often about nothing to do with the plot, we still feel as though the plot is moving forward. Here, in IB, each scene is set with characters sitting around a table. Each time it does this, it feels like the flick is pausing to regard itself, and to appreciate the cleverness of it’s own dialogue. The flick is also way too referential. It seems to me that half the shots are specifically designed to reference another obscure film (none of which I got), which wouldn’t be so bad if it wasn’t for the fact that these shots draw so much attention to themselves that they distract and take you out of the movie. I did like the joke that the “film within a film” is Nazi propaganda, when this one is American propaganda. Or at least would’ve been if it had been released during WWII. Which is the joke, I assume. As for the performances, everyone’s fine apart from Christoph Waltz and Eli “Bag of Cocks” Roth, for very different reasons. Waltz is pretty fucking great. Every scene he’s in you kind of perk up a bit. It’s a weird, oddball performance and it’s great fun. Bag of Cocks is fucking awful. He spends the entire flick with a wide, perma-mist eyes expression which I believe is meant to convey a constant inner rage, but just comes across as he’s struggling with a bad case of Delhi Belly. And Pitt is actually very entertaining. The trailers I saw do more harm than good, especially when it comes to Pitt. It’s a flick that is worth seeing. Once. Unlike other QT flicks (for me they’re Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown), this one won’t get any better the second time around.
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If you compare Death Proof to Reservoir Dogs- in Dogs and DP they both talk about movies/ music- except in Dogs it's in a car and feels therefore active, whereas in DP it's around a table.
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It sounds like self-involved Tarantino arse. Again.
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Sep 07, 2009 4:32:22 AM CDT
I have a sneaking suspicion you will Jarv
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
It does have a lot of the same problems as DP.
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Sep 07, 2009 4:36:01 AM CDT
On a weird and irrelevant note
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Every one of QT's flicks (he's directed) has had just two words in the title. Random thought!
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hehehehehehe Aside from splitting Kill Bill, that's true. I think I'm just pissed off because he promised the be all and end all of action films and then delivered a talkathon. Like he did with Grindhouse.
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It even applies to ones he Co-directed or guest directed. Four Rooms and Sin City.
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Sep 07, 2009 4:54:37 AM CDT
There isn't a great deal of action in it
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
It's all short bursts of violence. When did he promise a big action flick? Because if he did he failed miserably.
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it was meant to be some kind of fuck off 80's style reunion. Lying twat
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even. Fuck's sake
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The 80's reunion?
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Sly's flick is cashing in on Tarantino not doing what he said he was going to do.
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Was that on tv over the weekend? It's an old flick with Attenborough isn't it? I spied it when i was flicking channels... So it's good is it?
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Sep 07, 2009 5:34:01 AM CDT
"Innerspace (I like this, but I don't know why)"
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I know why. It's quite simple. Martin Short. The guy is impossible to dislike. I watched Innerspace about a year ago for the first time since I was a kid. I really liked it as a kid, and I still somewhat liked it when I watched it again, but there was all a bit too "zany" towards the end. Like the bad guys getting shrunk to the size of midgets and shit like that. Anyway, it's really fun for the first two-thirds.
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WTF that Rambo V synopsis means? Or that voicemail? So Rambo is going to be taking on some kind of ferocious manimal? Is that what's going on? Very odd indeed.
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Sep 07, 2009 5:48:06 AM CDT
I haven't seen the godfathers in about 10 years
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
But I remember three being quite shitty except for Garcia. Didn't it have that leathery bloke as the advisor?
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Where the fuck is the new one?
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Sep 07, 2009 6:23:25 AM CDT
The most disturbing revelation at MJ's funeral was...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
the disturbing notion that Macauley Culkin is going out with Mila Kunis! I weep for her poor, abused asshole.
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Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan, right? I haven't seen it in ages. Good movie for the most part. Bought two dvds for 2 bucks each here locally-Rambo IV (or whatever) and Journey to the Center of the Earth (w/ Brendan Fraser). Rambo's pretty good, not much of a storyline, the sniper shots and that still-potent TallBoy/Claymore combo kinda makes the film for me. He wants to take on Bigfoot in the next one?! works for me. Journey Center etc... I liked it. It's like one of those older harmless fifties/sixties Disney Flicks from back when, ala Swiss Family Robinson(okay not as good as that...) or the Whiz Kids or Escape to Witch Mtn. It's just a fun roller-coaster ridge, CGI overkill, 1 dimensional characters and total cartoony-ness abounds. I had fun w/ it but can't imagine remembering much of it 2 hours afterwards. It def. wasn't Harold's 'steaming bowl of dicks' that's for sure, if anything it accomplished what it set out to do Better than Hellboy Too just because they set their sights Much lower, and succeeded. Both could have used Giant Robots too.
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has been a grade-A cunt on more than one occasion- Get Over It. Father of The Bride, shit like that. Innerspace kind of lost me with the transferring between meg ryan and short. Other than that, though, it's a perfectly pleasant way to pass a few hours.
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yup, that's the one. It's based on a classic Grahame Greene novel and still holds up. Attenborough is frightening as Pinky.
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Jesus Tittyfucking Christ "I love the universe of WWII." WHAT. THE. FUCK? "At Two and a Half hours, the film feels too brief." WHAT. THE. FUCK? "I love every moment of INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS. Every shot, every scene, every performance, every bit of music. I love it." One of THE most embarrassing things I've ever read. Have some fucking self respect, Harry!
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Sep 07, 2009 8:21:05 AM CDT
Not sure why, but this made me laugh
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
From the Rambo TB Brigitte Nielsen?... by cheyne_stoking_DMS Sep 7th, 2009
08:17:19 AM
I'd rather fuck Leslie Nielsen.
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Sep 07, 2009 8:25:54 AM CDT
See what happens when I'm left alone?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I venture off into other TB's! That kind of stupidity will get me nowhere!
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I'm so bored I've resorted to poking the AsimovLives bear over in the Rambo TB. For shame!
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I'm very busy today. I apologise and promise to slack properly tomorrow.
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Just remind him about him foaming at the crotch over the AvP:rectum preview.
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Saturday. Christ, I don't like football. Rooney fucking dived/ fouled and we got a dubious penalty. Fuck that. And the one-dayers are a fiasco as well.
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I don't know whether Rooney dived. He fouled the defender then landed on his considerable arse. I think he thought a free kick had been given against him, hence the token appeal.
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It wasn't the kick at the defender before falling over like a fat scouse twat and landing, as you say on his considerable arse.
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make fun of Portugal and call him a goat/sheep fucker and move on. That's all he's good for.
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was one of those "Who me?" a player affects after he's just blatantly kicked the shit out of his opponent. But I've just been reading that the referee hadn't blown for a foul before Rooney, errr, fell down.So if Rooney was asking for a penalty, the fat scouse twat, as you say, was indeed cheating.
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It was not good. Especially after that empty headed tool Terry was all over the papers saying shit like "England players never dive". I don't know how he's got the balls to say that considering he's got Gerard, Rooney and that complete cunt Ashley Cole in the same team. Not to mention Owen.
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should keep his trap shut, cos I seem to recall a game against Arsenal (when they were on a long unbeaten run) when he flung himself to the ground theatrically and "won" a penalty.He's just shown himself up to be a lying cunt.
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I've just smashed Asimov Lives as well in the Bad Lieutenant TB.
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Oh my god, that movie is hilariously bad.
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Went to see District 9 today. I thought it was a good flick. Really impressed with the guy who plays Wickus(?).Took me awhile to get into it, then the pace ramps up around the halfway mark and from then on it's a blast.
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--Mammaries of Mommy really deserves all the serious pasting he can handle, it seems.
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voice control. GET TO THE CHOPPER!!
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It'll get his attention.
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v Predator-ish-thingy?As long as it bleeds they should be able to kill it.
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In pushing this TB down the charts
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Has forsaked? Forsooked? Forsoothed? Me. She has moved on from the Love Amoeba to an Amphibian, then to a Limey.
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Limeys are all tea drinking football hooligans. With bad teeth.
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A tea bagger with bad breath and crooked teefis!
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before it's too latte. You might be able to turn her from the Dark Side.
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not 'latte'.Though the latte's quite funny.
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not the 'latte'.All knuckles tonight. Apologies.
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Sep 07, 2009 6:14:57 PM CDT
That Expresso has left the station Wolf who was there
by dirk_the_amoeba
She has jumped the Hooligan
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she's a fast mover. Intimate already...
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But I can vouch for the fact that she moves fast!
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Do you drive a Rolls? I hear all UK dudes drive a Rolls
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Rollers everywhere. But the cobbled roads play hell on the suspension.
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Where's the new International Eye Candy?We demand to be told!
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But I am a tad vertically challenged.
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How does an Amoeba go about working the pedals?
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That is why I am a gigolo
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I should've known that immediately. You're a smooth mover, Roller or no.I'm out. Sleepy time.Ciao, Dirk.
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Making fun of my man behind my back? Tsk, tsk. I never talk down about your flings. Don't make me lose respect for you. Maybe your should work on acquiring a British accent. That's the key, right there.
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I love that movie.
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.....hmmm I may have to make the switch.
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Long live the king!
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I was hurt. I lashed out. If you want a tea baggin, foul smellin, football playin limey, well,so be it.
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Where's the new twitch. Do you cocksuckers not know that we require one every 2 weeks without fail?
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Rambo v Predator Green Hornet 2012Pretty much that whole top 10 list.
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Sep 08, 2009 3:24:30 AM CDT
I watched Kramer vs Kramer last night
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I love that flick. I've only seen it once before. I watched it with the missus, who proceeded to blubber all the way through the second half of the flick. Anyway, great movie, but *SPOILER WARNING IF FOR SOME REASON YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT* I have a problem with the 180 Streep pulls in the last two minutes. It was too perfect. Too neat. But that's a minor quibble.
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Sep 08, 2009 3:35:12 AM CDT
Droids evaluation of the Top 10
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Batman rumour - Don't care. Rambo vs ManBearPig - Don't Care 2012 - Will see the flick, but don't care about "Here's a clip!" The Green Hornet - How did Diaz sink so low. Didn't she learn from those Charlies Angels abortions? Otherwise, don't care. Sly voicemail - Baffling and incomprehensible (hence the faxed synopsis). KUFO's - I have no idea what that is. Soderbergh - DON'T. FUCKING .CARE. TWITCH - Where the fuck is our new TWitch? 9 - Don't care. Bad Lieutenant - Do care. Cage and Kilmer. This looks like crazy fun.
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Rambo5: A Predator really? and what the hell is an elite guard? What are they the Praetorian Guard?2012: Great a movie about a dumb as fuck conspiracy theory. If the Mayans were allegedly that accurate how come they didn't predict their demise? I still might catch it in the theater just to watch the mayhem Green Hornet. Seth Rogan I rest my case.Bad LT. Looks like a rental and some fun to be had at its expense.The rest are as blah as blah can be.Droid KUFO is a radio station in Portland Oregon and one of their DJs sends stuff in to coaxial once in awhile. BTW, way up this TB, I answered your question about Friday Night Lights. Bottom line great show.
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I noted your Friday Night Lights response. Cheers for that. It's now on my radar.
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I happen to enjoy football and a squeeze of limey. I think Dirk's main objection to football is that he lacks both. Touché.
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Funnily enough, I do care about the film, but don't care about the talkback.. That film isn't Bad Lieutenant, though. I don't care about the intellectual dick waving going on in that TB.
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cocksuckers. It's well late now.
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The pilot episode of FNL is entirely set up. You meet the players, coaches, town set up all teh relationships between them. Also an incident happens that launches all the story lines. Unfortunately that incident is very much like the Dawson Creeks version of Friday Night Lights called Varsity Blues(actually not a half bad movie its entertaining). So keep that in mind as you wallow in the hotness of Layla Garrity, Tyra Collette and the Milfilicious Mrs Coach played by the tasty Connie Brittan. It is episode 2 around the 17 minute mark that the TV show comes into its own and never looks back.
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I think we need a temporary home. I'm going to go and look for changian subject matter on the front page (fat fucking chance).
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If we are to depart these shores...
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There's that UK Outlander Blu-Ray story still on the home page. Considering Outlander is what started much of this group in the first place it's sort of fitting.
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Back from Dragon*Con. What's happening?
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Did you drink some Dragons Milk?
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Sep 08, 2009 9:45:53 AM CDT
If Dragon's Milk is code for lots of scotch, rum, and beer...
by d.vader
Then yes I certainly did.
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Is a type of beer.
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That's a good idea. See you there.
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Can't find it. Knackers.
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There were like no reivews for any movie that came out this weekend. I guess Capone may have a life after all.
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Never heard of it. Is it good?
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High Alcohol content.
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Nobody there.
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[REC]2 and Carriers. I want to see both.
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found it: http://www.aintitcool.com/node/42229
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I'm insulting people now.
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grrrrrrr. I saw it in the cinema. Drunk, obviously, but it was ace on a big screen.
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45 more posts needed.
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then move on. Then come back.
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I need help with this.
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Looks like [Rec]2 is getting a release in the states?
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I'm pretty sure he just hates everyone. He makes the idea of smoking seem cool, that teen pregency isn't that bad, now with his new film he has turned firing people into something cool as well. OH BOY! What next, the nifty lives of endangered animal hunters?
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Critics are already eating that shit up.
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To Happiness. Fucking sell out.
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Gotta give it some love....even if home base has moved.
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Always and forever.
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I am going to resurrect this thing
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I have risen a dead TB all by myself.
Go forth from here and prosper my children. My work here is done. -
Bravo! *Applause* *Whistles*
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Did you say all the words?
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2for2true smiles upon you for helping a brother out.
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