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International Eye Candy: VALHALLA RISING, PATIENT X, SERBIAN FILM & much more!!!
International Eye Candy
September 7, 2009
Yes, boys and girls it is once again Todd from Twitch here with a belated edition of the International Eye Candy. We’re coming in late this time out thanks to a massive rebuild of things over at Twitch but that’s all up and running now and, honestly it’s all to your benefit. Because, you see, with the big Toronto International Film Festival just around the corner there has been an absolute flood of good stuff and we’ve got it for you. A superheroic Woody Harrelson? Check. Japanese robot-boys? Check. French cowboys? Charles Manson? Vikings? Check, check and check. It’s a big one, kids, and here we go!
Let’s kick things off in Viking style, shall we? One of the big titles due to take a bow at TIFF is PUSHER director Nicholas Winding Refn’s VALHALLA RISING, a film that stars CASINO ROYALE baddie Mads Mikkelsen as mute Viking warrior One Eye. This one’s been featured in the IEC before but it’s back thanks to a new, leaner and meaner trailer. And if this one doesn’t get you excited, well then, you deserve to killed in a painful was as a sacrifice to Odin.
Find the new VALHALLA trailer here
From Denmark we’re going to head to the Philippines, where SIGAW and THE ECHO director Yam Laranas is currently hard at work on his latest shocker, PATIENT X. This one is built around the legend of the aswang, a creature from Filipino folklore that feeds on the entrails of its human victims. Though it’s still in production they’ve already cut an early teaser for this one and it’s looking good.
Find PATIENT X here
Don’t watch this one near your mother, okay? Or your boss. Or your priest. They’ll all frown upon it. The simply titled SERBIAN FILM takes the whole torture-porn genre a good bit more literally than it ever has been before, casting a former porn star into a snuff film that he can only to emerge from alive. It’s graphic, it’s shocking, it’s sexually explicit, it was made at least partially with government money and it’s also remarkably well made.
Get your fill of sex and violence with the SERBIAN FILM trailer
Well, I know I need a little palette-cleanser after that one and luckily Australia is offering up just the thing: an aboriginal stoner comedy titled – appropriately enough – STONE BROS. Yes, if you’ve seen one stoner comedy you’ve seen them all – with the possible exception of PINEAPPLE EXPRESS – but the Aussie aboriginal angle gives this one just enough of an exotic flavour to make the jokes fresh and funny again.
Find the STONE BROS trailer here
Look out! It’s Woody Harrelson! And he’s got a beating-stick! Now, I’ve actually had the chance to see the made-in-Canada superhero flick DEFENDOR already and while it’s certainly not without a good dose of humor, what’s going to strike people is just how tragic Harrelson’s performance here is. He’s really fantastic in this and the film just refuses to play out quite how you’d expect it to. I’m not one to root for the home team just because they’re the home team, but this is one Canuck film that I truly hope proves to have some serious legs because it’s just really, really solid.
Find the DEFENDOR trailer here
What happens when the directors of MACHINE GIRL, TOKYO GORE POLICE and JUON join forces for Japanese television? You get THE ANCIENT DOGOO GIRL, a ridiculously exploitative cult series about a thousands-of-years-old teen girl revived from some sort of coma to fight an assortment of monsters clad only in a clay bikini, wielding the powers of her glowing breasts.
I’m not making this up.
Find the DOGOO GIRL trailer here
Once again I find myself in need of a palette-cleanser and this time I turn myself to Hong Kong for the answer. And there I find six minutes of ACCIDENT, the new film directed by Soi Cheang (DOG BITE DOG) and produced by Johnnie To. This one is about to screen in Toronto and word from those who have seen it is that the film – which revolves around a group of hitmen who stage their jobs as elaborate accidents – is absolutely stunning.
Find six minutes of ACCIDENT here
For an interesting lesson in international marketing I invite you to step away for a minute and take a look at the US trailer for the upcoming ASTROBOY feature film. Then come back and watch the Japanese one. They could be for entirely different films. Wacky.
Find the Japanese ASTROBOY trailer here
And now for something completely different, we’re back to my home and native land and a big stack of clips from Reg Harkema’s LESLIE, MY NAME IS EVIL. First up, points to anyone who recognizes who he lifted the title from. Second, this one is sure to attract some attention in the ol’ U.S. of A because in it Harkema uses the Charles Manson trial as the central element of a satire of American social structure. The trailer hit Apple a little while back and there are now six additional clips out there in advance of the premiere in Toronto.
Say hello to LESLIE here
Sadly, there is not yet a trailer for Thai kids adventure film THE INTRUDER but I’ll bet you when there is one it’ll have snakes! Lots of them! Crawling in and out of every available bodily orifice! ‘Cause that’s what the posters have! This is probably going to be horrible, but god I love these posters.
Find the INTRUDER posters here
No more quirk! No more indie! No, now we head back to Europe for Alejandro Amenabar’s massive AGORA, the historical epic with Rachel Weisz as famed philosopher, mathematician and teacher Hypatia. Well, fame is a relative thing in the world of ancient math and while I think Amenabar is moderately insane to believe that there’s enough of a market for a film this explicitly about philosophy and religion to actually make back its huge production budget, there’s no doubting he spent every last cent on screen. This thing is gorgeous and there are four new extended clips out there.
Find the AGORA clips here
Has Romero rounded back in to form? With his last two forays into zombie-land having drawn decidedly mixed reviews the old master needs to deliver a real hit, something to keep the fans happy, or he risks being relegated to the scrap heap. And so there’s a bit of anxiety around this first clip from SURVIVAL OF THE DEAD but no worries: I already like it a whole lot better than either of the last two.
Find the SURVIVAL clip here
And should Romero stumble, who will take over the zombie crown? Look to Spain, my friends. Look to Spain. The original [REC] was a huge hit and the original creators are back with [REC]2, looking to up the ante and make this one ALIENS to the original’s ALIEN. The full trailer has finally arrived, following a string of teasers, and it’s looking gooood.
Find the [REC]2 trailer here
I believe readers of this column should be well familiar with Hong Kong martial arts fantasy STORM WARRIORS by this point, but here’s a quick primer for those who may have missed out. A good several years back a heavily CG enhanced fantasy picture titles STORM RIDERS made a big splash on the international scene and eventually became one of the top grossing films in Hong Kong history. The story is a hugely popular one and the sequel was considered inevitable but it took a good long time coming, only now in the works with visual stylists the Pang Brothers now taking the helm and doing things 300 style: lots of green screen, virtually nothing in the film that doesn’t involve digital enhancement. And it looks stunning. There have been a pair of early trailers on this one and now they’ve released two extended sequences from the film to show off the look of things.
Find the STORM WARRIORS clips here
What do cherubim, masked wrestlers, barking dogs and nuns have in common? I have no clue whatsoever, but apparently BIG MAN JAPAN director Hitoshi Matsumoto does because he’s jammed them all in there for his second film, SYMBOL. The man obviously delights in confounding his audience and the entire ad campaign for this one has made no sense at all but I’m totally hooked. The recent TV spot has the most imagery of anything so far.
Find the new SYMBOL clip here
Will THE INTERCEPTOR be the next NIGHT WATCH sized hit in Russia? The producers are certainly hoping so – they’ve hired the NIGHT WATCH effects crew to handle this trilogy of films adapted from the work of popular scifi writer Vasily Golovachev. Secret agents, time jumping, angels, bizarre cable / tentacle / energy weapons ... it’s definitely something unique and some of the visual ideas are unlike anything I’ve ever seen before.
Find THE INTERCEPTOR trailer here
I really wish the trailer for Mamoru Oshii’s ASSAULT GIRLS felt a little more finished than it does, but hey. When you’re talking about the director of GHOST IN THE SHELL making a live action sci-fi feature starring Oscar winner Rinko Kikuchi as some sort of sword-wielding, sandworm-fighting, post-apocalyptic angel, I’ll take what I can get. Yep.
Find the ASSAULT GIRLS trailer here
Who is that old guy there? Could it be one-time John Woo cohort Chow Yun-Fat? Why yes! It is! And while it’s been a good long time since Chow has made anything anyone in North America has given a damn about he still carries enough clout in China to have been cast as Confucius in a bio-pic about the iconic philosopher. It’s an entirely dialogue-free look so far, but a lengthy three minute trailer from the film has now been released to remind you what Chow looks like when he’s actually acting as opposed to whatever it was he was up to in DRAGONBALL.
Find the CONFUCIUS trailer here
I really wish I was the bearer of better news when it comes to Shinya Tsukamoto’s TETSUO THE BULLET MAN but having seen the return to his roots from the iconic director I gotta say that the film just isn’t good. It’s probably the worst of his career, in fact, but still ... a new TETSUO film is a new TETSUO film and the first trailer for this one has just arrived.
Fidn the TETSUO trailer here
Upcoming Russian feature Я is not the sort of thing that summarizes easily so I’ll just say this. The entire film takes place in the mind of a dying man and – as such – doesn’t exactly adhere to the laws of logic and it blends together his memories and feelings of time spent in a mental hospital to avoid military service, what looks like a healthy drug habit, and time spent as a documentary film maker in the midst of the Chechen War. And I’ll also say that the look of this thing is absolutely fantastic ... It’s got a completely unique vision, one killer DP, and a fascinating fusion of images that range from full-on flower children to bursts of horrible violence. I want more.
Find the Я trailer here
We’re almost at the end now but before we get there we pause in Australia where chilling moc-doc LAKE MUNGO has been on the fest circuit so long that it’s frankly shocking that the first trailer is only arriving now. This one has just been announced as one of this year’s After Dark Horrorfest titles and while I think it’s a great film that deserves an audience I really question whether the After Dark audience is the right one. Because, you see, while the moc-doc is the story of a haunting it doesn’t really try for much in the way of scares – instead creating an atmospheric story of grief. I’ve never seen anything quite like this one – make sure to check out the original before the Hollywood remake, already announced and looking to change the material significantly, squeezes the original out of the way.
Find the LAKE MUNGO trailer here
And, finally, we end in France, where the upcoming live action adaptation of Morris and Goscinny’s western hero LUCKY LUKE has just landed itself a pair of new character teasers – one each for Calamity Jane and Billy the Kid. I love everything about this thing, really, from the choice of James Huth to direct and Jean Dujardin to star through to the close translation of comic book physics in to the real world, to the goofy slapstick humor. Yep. This’ll be good.
Find the new LUCKY LUKE teasers here
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Yup, I'm still digging it.
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I do like the looks of this one too.Go Canada!
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And I liked the trailer for Accident before, so I'll skip the 6 minutes now in case I ever do get to see the movie.
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Sep 11, 2009 8:22:33 AM CDT
Wey-hey!!!!! New Twitch finally!!!
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Time to make myself comfortable.
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It's on my to do list.
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Could it be good?
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It was not on my radar at all. Thanks twitch. Does it have a US release date?
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I read about it a week or two ago. I think it was in the NY Times. I like Woody a lot, so this one is definitely on my radar.
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Hopefully I get my new IMAC today! Then I can finally just fucking watch all these trailers in one sitting! Fucking old ass labtop, its not even working right now.
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There was a review on Variety the other day. They were not fans.
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Looks like the sequel to Special.
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Was that a sequel to Radio?
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Sep 11, 2009 8:52:14 AM CDT
Valhalla Rising is at the top of my must see list
by hawaiian organ donor
Although I gotta say Todd from Twitch, this week's assortment looks tasty.And Variety can kiss my arse.
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Didn't that girl just get released?
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God it must be fucking awful then.
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Is my must see movie! That and Big Man Japan damnit.
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...my grandparents came from Norway...it's my RIGHT! We won't mention the fact that they were a long line of ship captains...and my grandfather sailed to the Land of Opportunity and became........a plumber. In Brooklyn. I still get to see then movie...right?...
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My review of Special. http://tinyurl.com/nrmxmp
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You clearly are unaware as to how much as workshy gits rely on this.
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Hey...just watched the trailer, and I was struck at the end by the boy leading a ship of warriors to hell...there's some Sting song, I think on his album Ten Summoner's Tales, called Something the Boy Said - check out the lyrics here. Just wondered if there's some connection.
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Something-The-Boy-Said-lyrics-Sting-Police/0C8E42E6BFB4DA4D4825687400364FE3 -
Saw this last night and it was FUCKING god awful. Oh man how bad was it. First off I have no idea who Debbie Gibson is. This is probably the worst B-Movie I've ever seen. I'm just gonna run down a list of shit of why it sucks: For some reason Debbie Gibson bangs the other Asia scientist? But its G rated. They reuse the same FX shot like 30 times...in a fucking row Renegade? Made me long for the acting abilities of your son 95% of this movie is just close up shots of everyone either in a bad lab or a bad sub set The fake shaking attempts from the cast The CHEESYIER THEN VELVEETA lab working montages, yes there is more then one Debbie Gibson, made me long for the days of Renegade's acting The Asian guy made me long for the days of Debbie Gibson's acting This was by far the DUMBEST movie I've ever seen. But due to the title alone it probably made double what it cost back. I couldn't believe how shit it was, what they say about the trailer is true. That is much more enjoyable then the actual movie. The movie looks like it cost $100 bucks to make. The plot is incoherent and Renegade is pissed off at every mother fucker in the planet. And the love story between Debbie Gibson and that Asian guy was so out of left field and retarded, that or they were trying to say that Debbie is just a HUGE chemist slut, that needs to bang it out after a hard montage of work. If anything you need to see that scene. What happens is they are trying to use chemistry to figure out how to stop the beast. There is like a 3 minute montage of them pouring different colored liquids into other different colored liquids with dramatic music (actually the music was not complete keyboard shit, I think). Then at the end of the montage Debbie and the Asian dude are EXHAUSTED, they look at each other then run to the back room and screw? There was nothing at all leading up to it that either of these two ever had emotions let alone feelings for each other. Just fucking odd.
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While I was dicking around on the interwebs while I watch Say Anything... (which I don't get why its so iconic?). I watched this movie without doing anything else.
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The Special didn't Elias Koteas. He's one of the greats.
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You are complaining that Debbie Gibson was screwing for no reason in a giant shark vs giant octopus movie?
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The whole montage leading into a screw sounds like genius to me.
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Series is correct. It's shit. And worst of all, it's boring. Which is fatal for a z-grade flick.
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I saw first five min of it when octopussy ate the oil rig -that is all I needed to see
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You missed the fact that I put it was G rated (U if your a brit).
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Sep 11, 2009 10:12:18 AM CDT
BBBBOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
www.bagofcocks.com is unavailable!!!!
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What the fuck did she do? Is she a musician. I could google it but this is more fun.
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Sep 11, 2009 10:19:38 AM CDT
Wow there is a The Making of Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus (2009
by series7
Damn now I wish I had rented it.
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80's pop star i believe... Better known for shagging asain dudes after intense lab sessions.
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Thank fuck it's friday.
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www.debbiegibsonshagsanasianbloke.com is available!
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I'm shocked it's still available.
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ie the aforementioned Mega Shark VS. Giant Octopus VS. Debbie Gibson, should be screened beforehand to see if it is deemed worthy of such a great movie title. This is not to be taken lightly.
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www.dannygloversdickblood.com is also available. The interwebs is offering a tantalising array of domain name choices!
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www.averydroidychristmas.com is available, but www.averydroidychristmas.org is not? Bizzare!
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Oh, wait, this is scifi -did she bust out a padded bra?
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Like I said, it was G rated. They could have put the seen in Bambi, and it still probably would have made as much sense as it did in this movie.
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www.thewhorewhisperer.com is unavailable! Waaaaah!!!
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Unless it is sex between the giant shark and octopus. Just think of the mutant spawn they would bring into the world! Could get at four more movies out of that!
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Weekend!!! Later chaps. It's been enlightening.
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How f-ing freaky is that. I watched that with Latte Girl last night. And you don't understand why it's so iconic? Jeeeeeeeezus dude. It's genius.I'm showing the family District 9 tonight. Thank christ for screener copies and the tubes.
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2for2true smiles down upon you for helping out a brother!
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Trust me.
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Figures a new one would pop up in less than 6 hours.
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Dude, Rinko Kikuchi never won the Oscar.
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Lets hide again so he can't find us! How the fires? Also I need to know what you think about the music in Mean Streets and how he got away with some of those tracks? You couldn't pull those tunes today if you were some random ass indie movie.
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Was ok, I don't get why everyone remembers the stereo over the head scene. Also the main girl (who is british) was kind of annoying.
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The idea of a soundtrack was almost alien, and also no thought to be that big of money maker. How many A-List movies had big soundtracks, especially rock or pop music, in their films? Easy Rider, Mean Streets, American Graffiti and others of that period changed all that.
Plus no one realized you could make money off the soundtrack and sell it separately.
Finally, one of the executive producers of Mean Streets was the manager for the Band, so I am sure he used his connections to get those songs into the movie. -
Sep 11, 2009 1:06:12 PM CDT
Series, clearly you like to sell things that are bought or...
by flickapoo
processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career. That's the only explanation for this sudden lapse in taste and judgment.
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Man, there is a dearth of info on the history of music licensing for film available online. Though I did find an article pointing out that after the release of The Big Chill, there was a big push on Madison Ave. to buy up all the 60's and 70's hits in an effort to capitalize on boomer nostalgia for their recently departed decades.
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It just didn't strike me as anything CLASSIC. And that stereo scene had 0 impact on me, I thought it felt out of place. Good song though.
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Finally, one of the executive producers of Mean Streets was the manager for the Band, so I am sure he used his connections to get those songs into the movie.
AHA! really sucks you can't do that shit now. Otherwise my movie would have the most bad ass rocking Johnas Brother soundtrack EVER! -
To get the rights to a song or have a score made for a movie? I remember I was watching something about Bring It On, and they couldn't play Cherry Pie in the special features section about that scene, and how that song took up a lot of their budget.
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Maybe if they had left it in (and I bet Cameron is kicking himself now, probably not he seems like a douche that probably thinks he shits greatness) the scene with creepy ass Homer Simpson as a teach trying to hit on the girl from Four Rooms. Then the movie would be known as the creepy Homer Simpson movie.
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One, you were watching something about BRING IT ON? Specifically a special feature about BRING IT ON? I suppose this isn't really a question, more of a request for confirmation... And two, you mean Cherry Pie the WARRANT song Cherry Pie? And the WARRANT song Cherry Pie was expensive? In U.S. dollars?
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I saw Sugar last night and it was a pretty amazing film. Most of what the critics have said about it is true. Its a odd movie to describe. Its a slow quiet film that kind of sneeks up on you on how engrossed you are with it. Its done by the people who did Helf Nelson, and while I found that movie boring and hated the lead. This is sort of a similar movie, I think the story is better and more effective. But its very simlar in style. There was one scene that just kind of hit me and I started crying, I don't know why. I think because I really felt what the charcter was going through. Plus I have a positive outlook on teachers (since my mom is one) and I don't care for sports. So I think thats why I couldn't get into Helf Nelson more and why I probably liked this. Good film, its a true character study film.
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Yes and Yes. Hey I'm a douche-ku fan so what.
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That really pissed me off though was this scene when one character was like. Hey do you know this band (insert obligitory hipster band of the week). Then they played their song over a montage. Seriously pisses me off, like in Garden State like EWWW look how cool we are with this hip savy new band. Just play the fucking song and make the kids look it up on the internet afterward. I really don't get this trend especially in the internet age where you can find everything you've ever needed to know on IMDB. Onlike before when you either had to buy the sound track or pause during the fucking credits on your shitty ass beta max with all the white lines in the way. That was really my only gripe with the film. I mean you'd never hear Charlie turn to Johnny Boy as they were laying together in bed after some rough sex and go. "Yo! Johnny is this the fucking new Stones record?" "Get the fuck outta here!"
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...ok, and ok then.
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This video is SICKENING. The way they describe him and his films as having "uncompromising vision" and how he was solely responsible for introducing America to Jackie Chan. And the litmus test for what makes Bret Ratner such an artist? His Box Office receipts- that's all. http://tinyurl.com/nmx9na
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But hotter in the bikini montage in "The New Guy". And Im a fan of "Bring it On" bc it was directed by a UNC alum.
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...in Vegas somewhere. I could swear I saw him while flipping past VH1 some years ago...he was all bloated up...looked as though he would give you the rights to Cherry Pie for a mortgage payment and two months worth of diabetes meds...
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This may be good, I don't know found it on IMDB don't want to look at work. I was trying to figure out what movie she shows the mounds in, I think its The Alphebet Killer. http://tinyurl.com/noyljv
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Isn't a terrible movie.
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...to catch a glimpse of a young Seth Green... I mean Jessica Alba!...I mean...
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Sweet! 'Valhalla' and 'Defendor' might be cool. Kinda intrigued by 'Leslie' and that "Lucky Luke" thing looks crazy!..and not in a bad way. ... and, man, I hope that 'Survival' is good. Romero needs a return to form in a bad way. He deserves some late success God bless him.
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Sep 11, 2009 4:54:52 PM CDT
Romero, nobody in Ireland (or Oreland as some call it) ever ..
by famouseccles
"what da devil was dat" - we say "what the fuck was that", or, "did you cunts see somethin' fuckin' outta place out there" or some such - I'm just saying !!
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I think it did all it was meant to, sometimes it didn't make much sense(what exactly did Bana and co DO for all those years--watch Roots or something?!)-but hey, I enjoyed it. "Bring the Red Matter!" etc. pretty good by my book. I think it coulda used more Giant Robots-but it was a good solid movie, and as fine a reboot of that old franchise as you coulda asked for. I understand it's VERY popular in LISBON too.
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I enjoyed! haven't seen it but the one time in the cinema 10 years ago(!) but I do remember enjoying Mssrs Thomas Jane, the skinny French Chick and LLCoolJ doing their thing w/ the CGI Sharks, plus Sammy Jax gets munched outta the blue(HAwhaw) there, not bad. Smart Sharks use Crest.
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2 Twitches and an Outlander on the charts!
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I remember when DEEP BLUE SEA came out, I told friends this is the end of low budget B-movies. Hollywood is now making Roger Corman movies, and the budget he used can't even pay for a day of craft services.
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...a banana dipped in houmous.
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The scene at the Gas-and-Sip is solid gold. I can still recite that entire scene from memory. Lloyd, Lloyd, all null and void...lookin' for the truth...try to fill the void, Lloyd....
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And found a documentary from 1984 called "I'm Almost Not Crazy". If anybody's interested, you can find it here:
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How? It so riCOCKulously over the top that its great fun, I don't understand that at all. It had goofball as hell Mercs, A tricked out PT boat, overacting, a redonkulously contrived plot, Ski Doos, Treat Williams and Famke Jansen in that Red Dress. Its freaking gold and mint.
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But it also had the Sommer's touch, and this is even before I knew who he was. There is something about the way he makes a movie that rubs we the wrong way - maybe it is his inability to get me to care about characters, his ludicrous plots, his 12-year-old humor, or maybe it is that he tried to squeeze in one to many cheesy moments for me to handle. He is like the This is Spinal Tap of directors - he has to take everything to 11 in stupidity.
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That every critic that has their own tv show....is a fucking idiot. I could do those shows better then them. I am going to make it my goal in life to make a good and entertaining critic review show of movies. There's just either too much douchbaggery in film review shows, are too much idiocracy. Knowing that people know that I can recommend the shit out of a movie I think I'm the man for the job.
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I'm watching Sir Richard Roper SLOWLY trying to take over The Big Tease on Reelz Channel. It wasn't a very good show to begin with, in fact Leonard maltin's secret's out is a lot better. But you can tell he's trying to audition for a solo gig. While I don't hate him as much as the cockbag worse then Ben Lyons, Robert Wilonsky. He sat there talking about how 500 Days of summer was the best movie of the year, and how Book Of Eli was a movie he was looking forward to in 2010......i guess people will STILL be excited for The Road about two months after it comes out? I like the Hughes brothers but it doesn't look good.
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That movie didn't do much for me but holy hell was Deep Rising fun. I will always stop and watch it if I come across it on the idiot box and I usually watch the DVD once a year or so.
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Anybody who enjoys the show Supernatural will be pleasantly surprised by the fifth season premier episode. It just kicked the living shit out of everything else on TV. Every returning or new show will have to step their game up to compete if the rest of SN season is nearly as good as the premier.
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It's light years better then Deep Rising.
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So I cannot cast stones at anyone.
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Opener. I watched it, not on purpose. It was ok, didn't really know everything that was going on. But it was ok. It was no Sons of Anarchy opener, it wasn't even better then the Mad Men opener. It was better then Glee though.
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Sometimes I wonder if you've seen movies that were filmed after 1980.
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Has made me want to look into the series. It felt like a good episode of Smallville, hopefully it's not as boring as that show got.
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Neither is Ellen for that matter. Oprah's funnier then both of them.
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Is that the one from the 60's with devil worshipers that live in a cave of something?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=246355
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About other shows better then Supernatural, its written in the Koran that Steven Seagal: Lawman will kick the living shit out of every single TV show that has come before it.
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But I can sit through it every time. It just amazes me with it's audacity and it's amateurism. It is like watching retards perform surgery - so wrong, yet so mesmerizing.
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The invisible because I think I've become it in the TB world.
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Whiteout tomorrow. I think it looks pretty good.
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You just haven't asked me a specific question to reply to or anything I can comment on.
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See Your Last Breath.
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So its was made by officers?
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Couldn't up with something as incompetent as this even if they tried. They would have to issue rifles that shoot the Marine to come close.
To give you an example of it's brilliance, you actually see two frames of a slate in the film. They couldn't even cut out that. And there is another take where a bug is crawling on the lens of the camera. -
http://tinyurl.com/an78ko
And here is the description of the big "world premiere":
On Nov. 15, 1966, Manos: The Hands of Fate made its worldwide debut at the Capri Theater in downtown El Paso. By all accounts, it was a gala affair with spotlights scanning the skies, and the stars of the film all arriving by limousine. Only one problem — it was the same limousine. Strapped for cash, Warren had only enough dough to rent one limo, so the actors were forced to stand out in the street around the corner and wait their turn to be picked up. ''We all waited in our fancy clothes and tuxedos like we were waiting for a bus,'' says Jones. ''And the limousine would pick up a few people, drive them around, drop them off, and then drive around the block and pick up some more people. And even at 7 years old, I remember thinking how silly that was, and at some point that someone was gonna realize it was the same car and driver.'' -
Last time we mentioned Veronica Mars, I mentioned it had some really good villains, including Echolls. You assumed I meant Logan, the son; I actually meant the dad Aaron. He was a great villain.
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I agree old man Echolls was a slimy bitch of a character perfectly suited for the noir sensibility of VM. I just liked the kid that played him and I thought the character was very multilayerd. That actor did a great job as Logan.I would rank VM in my top 5 as well. It was so damn well made those first 2 seasons. Even the second half of season 3 was pretty tight.
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After you posted that bit. I remember reading that somewhere years ago and I saw the movie on one of those late night horror movie shows they used to have on TV. Some local meatball dressed as a crazy scientist acted as the host. Even the host couldn't keep a straight face with that movie on. He turned into some sort of psudocreepy Joe Bob Briggs. Wait that doesn't make any sense Joe Bob Briggs was creepy. you get the idea.
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As bad as Manos did, I've seen it, and I'll see it again probably.
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Favorite Sports movies is the topic because me and another guy were talking about this topic earlier today.Number one, with a bullet, for me is the original Bad New Bears. Walther fucking Matthieu that's all I need to say. Its one of my favorite movies ever. The rest are in no particular order.Rocky 1&6The NaturalField Of Dreams8 SecondsJunior Bonner,The ReplacementsMajor League 1Point Break(Stretch I know)Blue Crush, the surfing scenes were done really well and Kate Bosworth looked great.The Longest Yard(the one with Burt Reynolds)Any Which Way but Loose and Any Which Way You Can.
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Yeah, Old Man Echolls was a bastard, but one thing I liked about that show is even the bad guys had moments when you rooted from them and thought they might be human: Aaron Echolls beating the shit out of his daughter's abusive bf, and then trying to connect with his son after his wife's suicide; Sheriff Lamb letting Veronica and Duncan go after they convince him of the abusive nature of Duncan's ex-gf's parents; and even the Casablancas brothers had a moment - Cassidy before he committed suicide and Dick breaking down from his brothers death in Season 3.
Still, as much as I liked the show it wasn't perfect (few shows if any are). I thought Wallace was a pointless character (hey, token black friend, great), I thought Weevil was a wasted opportunity for a classic character and I thought they made a big mistake getting rid of Duncan the way they did. -
A lot of the same movies on your list our on mine:
Rocky
The Bad News Bears
Junior Bonner
Major League
The Longest Yard
I would add:
Raging Bull
Fat City
The Set Up
The Harder They Fall
Caddy Shack (golf's a sport, right?)
Breaking Away
Death Race 2000
Roller Ball
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Y'all already took the best ones here are a few cleanups.
Brians Song.
Bang the Drum slowly
Damn Yankees
Flash Gordon (He was a NY jet and they played football - until he got knocked the fuck out by *sigh* Melody Anderson)
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And Cockfighter, which is without a doubt the best movie about cockfighting (that I know of).
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Then fine
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Which means I must also pass on those movies about the field kicking donkey (I think it was called "Gus").
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ASPCA notified
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Just not a huge animal fan. Never been much of a pet person.
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Sep 12, 2009 5:39:08 AM CDT
Conit hates all form of life: Suspect he is Thanos in disguise
by toadkillerdog
Warlock notified
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Maybe other people wouldn't like it, but damn I would be happy.
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I hope I see Gamora before it is all over
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Hard to keep track
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I think it was a little like Mad, Mad Monster Party and some people were "overlooked".
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Going for cheap publicity got busted for flashing? All smiles on their police photos. Show must be pure shit in a can to go to that extreme.
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So that She-Hulk would not feel like she was only token green haired chick invited
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Why are vampires always "cool" in TV shows and movies nowadays? I mean, are only cool, good-looking people bitten or does the process of becoming a vampire turn you into a gay-looking male model who can score with chicks?
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I mean a male model Frankie. I can see it coming. Horny made female scientist builds perfect male from spare parts. She fucks him silly for years, keeps him locked up, until one day he see and advertisement in an old magazine for a Jeans model with a nice butt. He looks at his butt in the mirror, and decides he has had enough shagging old saggy tits, and off he goes. An innocent in the land of super horny casting agents. He fucks his way to the top. Thought just occurred, wasn't there a TV movie Frankenstein, that had Michael Sarazin as a good looking frankie back in seventies?
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Damn that is one fine movie. Nice pick up Toad and Conti. Those are all great movies. I should have thought a bit longer before I hit the enter button.
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Cover any male cast on a CW show?
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On CW. So, I don't know. But I suspect you are correct about that.
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Sorta like that actually Toad. Sports movie I liked that will add to the list--the Rookie. Bryan Cox helps put that one over.
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Nobody was all evil or all good everybody had there moments of both.I liked Weevil as a character but you're right they did miss a great opportunity to really do something special with him. I always thought they were trying to something with him but the network undercut them like they did on a lot of things.Damn I forgot Caddyshack, Bang the Drum Slowly, Raging Bull and Slap Shot. I'm fucking slipping.
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Sep 12, 2009 6:22:28 AM CDT
I'm guessing the Mad Scientist grafted a jeans model butt
by toadkillerdog
Onto Frankie, and his Ass is making all the decisions. Leading him back into the life he was best suited for
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I knew I saw it. Michael Sarrazin as The cReature. Jane Seymour as love interest.
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It's just sad but that's Frankie's way.
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From the 70s. It was pretty good if I remember. He starts out good looking, but some sort of flaw in the Doctor's process makes him transform into a monster (I think he starts decaying).
If I remember right, James Mason was the evil scientist and there was a scene where the monster rips the head off of a hot Bride of Frankenstein girl. -
La figlia di Frankenstein (1971) More at IMDbPro »
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When Dr. Frankenstein is killed by a monster he created, his daughter and his lab assistant Marshall continue his experiments. The two fall in love and attempt to transplant Marshall's brain in to the muscular body of a retarded servant Stephen, in order to prolong the aging Marshall's life. Meanwhile, the first monster seeks revenge on the grave robbers who sold the body parts used in its creation to Dr. Frankenstein. Soon it comes after Marshall and the doctor's daughter. -
Where he plays Dr. Frankenstein as the actual monster.
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They wind up in the Arctic or Antarctica. It was a very cool looking movie, it had a more psychological bent to it. Even as a kid I liked it, although I was wishing for more action. But it was damn good
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I would suggest highly investing in Supernatural DVDs. That show rocks and the premier episode just blew the shit out of EVERY show on TV at the moment or coming up in January(yes I'm looking at you Lost you let downing motherfucker after last season). It's not even how much BETTER SN is it's not even close. Its even more impressive considering its on a network TV.
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Frankie had some fun there too. Played a mean set of bones.
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Movies of all time. I grew up watching them on sci-fi theater.
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He was a superhero robot, with a kid riding in his back
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What is it about?
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I don't know why I'm yelling for some reason it seemed appropriate.
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Jordan, Stockton, Sloan, Robinson, Stringer(Rutgers)--I'm impressed.
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Frankenstein, Jr
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I remember watching Countess Dracula on a saturday on regular TV (we didn't have cable then) and I swear it should some nudity.
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A friend loaned me a DVD of Johnny Sokko. You know you get to watch BeatnikMan die a horrible, ludicrous death in each one, only to come back the next time. Good stuff.
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Here's a link to a review I did of SN over at Mavra's. http://tinyurl.com/bhjrhh
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Just break out all Hammer movies all day Saturday. Throw some Fu Manchu in there as well as the Frankie and Drac attack.
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Because you roll like that.
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I am intrigued. I will indeed buy the DVD set of first season
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I used to love that film as a kid, especially the part where the green one (or was it the brown one that was evil? no the green one) eats that girl and then spits out her clothes. Freaked me out as a kid.
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If it does, I, too, may watch SN just because.
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Awesome flick. As well as Frankenstein conquers the world.
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And yes it's as goofy as you remember.
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Mine are Horror of Dracula, The Vampire Lovers and Kronos: Vampire Hunter. I admit, I prefer their vampire films.
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That one is good.
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Someday I'm going to steal Toads idea and do a Hammerfest.
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Especially his Edgar Allen Poe movies. That might be an interesting festival.
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You just have to watch close they are undercover.
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That would be more accurate.
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I'm sure Rothman will have a franchise up and running within the month.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles The Mummy The Gorgon. To my dismay, Face of Fu Manchu - the best of them all, and a great flick, is not Hammer
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I love their version of the Hound of the Baskervilles.
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I liked that version a lot. Basically he is just doing a big terrorist plot threatening to drop chemical weapons in London. I love the scene were they "kill" everyone in that small English town.
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I loved the Quartermass films, should have included them. This is a heavily edited list of Hammer output. I have a few of these, need more. 1955 Quatermass Xperiment
1956 X The Unknown
1957 Quatermass Ii
1957 The Abominable Snowman
1957 The Curse Of Frankenstein
1958 Dracula
1958 The Camp On Blood Island
1958 The Enchanted Island
1958 The Revenge Of Frankenstein
1959 I Only Arsked!
1959 Operation Universe
1959 Ten Seconds To Hell
1959 The Hound Of The Baskervilles
1959 The Man Who Could Cheat Death
1959 The Mummy
1960 The Brides Of Dracula
1960 Never Take Sweets From A Stranger
1960 The Stranglers Of Bombay
1960 The Two Faces Of Dr. Jekyll
1961 A Taste Of Fear
1961 The Curse Of The Werewolf
1961 The Shadow Of The Cat
1961 The Terror Of The Tongs
1962 Land Of The Leprachauns
1962 The Phantom Of The Opera
1962 The Pirates Of Blood River
1963 The Damned
1963 The Scarlet Blade
1964 Nightmare
1964 The Curse Of The Mummy's Tomb
1964 The Devil-ship Pirates
1964 The Evil Of Frankenstein
1964 The Gorgon
1964 The Kiss Of The Vampire
1964 The Old Dark House
1965 Fanatic
1965 Hysteria
1965 She
1965 The Secrets Of Blood Island
1966 Dracula: Prince Of Darkness
1966 One Million Years B.c.
1966 Rasputin - The Mad Monk
1966 The Plague Of The Zombies
1966 The Reptile
1966 The Witches
1967 Frankenstein Created Woman
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1963 Maniac
1963 The Damned
1964 Nightmare
1964 Paranoic
1964 The Curse Of The Mummy's Tomb
1964 The Devil-ship Pirates
1964 The Evil Of Frankenstein
1964 The Gorgon
1964 The Kiss Of The Vampire
1964 The Old Dark House
1965 Fanatic
1965 Hysteria
1965 She
1965 The Secrets Of Blood Island
1966 Dracula: Prince Of Darkness
1966 One Million Years B.c.
1966 Rasputin - The Mad Monk
1966 The Plague Of The Zombies
1966 The Reptile
1966 The Witches
1967 Frankenstein Created Woman
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Great suspense thriller.
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I forgot about that one!
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Whole lot of movies to get! See y'all later
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.. I missed a Hammer/AIP discussion? Gotta give Amicus and Tigon some lovin' too!
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Word.
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Don't know what they really are.
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I can never tell if any of you even watch late night talk shows. But it was like a mini Frost/Nixon! Not really but man Dave's ratings must be skyrocketing because he is getting everyone. Tony Blair, that's a leader I can get behind. I don't remember if Jarv hates him or not.
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But I don't think Wife would be happy if she got home from work and I wasn't here for like 2 hours. But I don't want to go see it at 10AM tomorrow morning, probably will have too though, so I can get my review in for Monday. The Hurt Locker is at the 1 quid theater but not sure if I want to see it again in that shitty thing.
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Has a recap of most of titles.
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Humped anything and everything with a pulse.
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Everyone is begging for a thread in the Smallville thread. They say that there is a Zone place for it. http://tinyurl.com/c5suaw
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I remember when some bio came out about her years back, the writer said she had 'over 400 guys' or 200 or whatever it was, quite high in fact. Not that I'm surprised mind--
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I have chosen to take on the quest of getting AsimovLives to admit that everyone is entitled to their opinion and that it is ok for some people to like Star Trek.
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He hates Blair. All right thinking men must.
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I've tilted that particular windmill in the past but far be for me to warn you off your Quixotic quest.
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For about four hours now. The acoustics are great.
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I'm bored. Who wanna chat?
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http://thesuperficial.com/2009/09/kim_kardashians_new_quick_trim.php
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Not bad. It shows what free time and loads of disposable income can accomplish.
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But these photos, couple with the ones of her on a trampoline last month, have really turned me around. But you're right, just goes to show.
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i tried to vote for your film but my vote wouldn't take. I guess because I'm outside the continental US.
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That sucks! What does the page look like when you load the page and try to vote? Do you at least get all those circles next to the titles? And where are you nowadays?
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But looks are literally a dime a dozen, especially in LA, Miami and NY.
People laugh when I say that, but it is true. Go to any nice restaurant, fancy restaurant, or modeling agency out here and you will see dozens of girls as good-looking as her (or almost as good).
Case in point, I have a friend competing in a modeling contest for a calendar. You can't say that some of the girls are not as hot as Kim is (they might not has a good as photographers and touch up artist though:
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http://tinyurl.com/oboueg
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The page seems to load correctly as far as I can tell. I will state for the record though that my lap top could be the problem. It's circling the drain.
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http://www.amazon.com/Gate-Christa-Denton/dp/B002I41KNC/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1252807203&sr=8-2 http://tinyurl.com/pr92f9 I really like that cover art, only I wish it had more characters and creatures around the kid.
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But those pics of her are mighty fine. And while I won't dispute the fact that there are plenty of better looking girls out there, you don't see them prancing around in bikinis that often. In good lighting, I mean, with oiled up skin and flexed abs.
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It may be your laptop then. What happens when you click the circle next to my short and press VOTE? Anything?
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Siiiiiiiiiigh. Which one is your friend? I'll vote if it helps her become more than a "friend" for you.
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Is one of females pictured your friend? No need to say which one. Also is that like a take out menu and where do I place my order? Does Pink Dot deliver?
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And neither is our friend Kaley Cuoco, Britney clone that she is.
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I vote and nothing happens. I'll try it later on with one of the computers in the computer lab. Maybe that will work.
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Good read.
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Emily is the one. And vote for her because she is a nice girl. Not my type however (not skanky enough).
And no, I am not blaming people for going nuts for Kim, it just annoys me that, like Paris Hilton, she can just use her family money to come in and thrust (he he, thrust) her self in the public spotlight without having to work at it. Her entire thing is that she is 'hot". People hot is like being tall - completely genetic and completely unearned. And like being tall, their will always be a lot of people hotter than you (unless you are the Yao Ming of Hotness). -
So maybe you have popups turned off or something. A popup should come up saying "Thanks for voting!" or something generic like that. So it sounds like you've done the best you could, and I thank you very much for it. Course, if you really wanted to do right, you could convince all your mates to do the same =).
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No kiddin'. Mikey Bay is a Whackjob and a dictator. Again, NO kidding.
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I hate, hate, hate, hate, HATE Paris Hilton and Kim Kardashian for being famous for basically making a sex tape and for being rich. Give me a fucking break. But in Kim's case, at least she's attractive. I also hate, and we've discussed this before, Lindsay Lohan and Amy Winehouse for being talented girls who squander their fame and fortune on booze and drugs (but without restraint). And Lohan just looks like your average crackwhore and is SO obviously desperate for attention and money. And we all know she robbed her own house last month too. (and I never thought KK was hot before last month... I'm a SUCKER for good abs on a girl).
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And we all hate to see someone like a Whitney Houston wind up doing the crack routine, wound up doing this for ages.
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Has a good shot of his adams apple. The rant was funny also.
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The nerve.
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The head shot.
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The way she is headed, two months from now she'll be spending the night at my place just for a couple of lines.
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Amazing how fast that all was.
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I like skanky girls, but Megan Fox does nothing for me. I mean, ignore the fact that she has a penis, she still is a hot piece of skank ho. But she does nothing for me.
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Linday Lohan looks like a crackwhore. Hey, that rhymes!
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I love me a good redhead with freckles.
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Maybe old Angelina?
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Sep 12, 2009 10:18:15 PM CDT
...And Reggie Bush kills himself after seeing those pics
by toadkillerdog
But I do agree with Conti, girls as pretty or much prettier are a dime a dzen in LA. Why? because they come from all over to be seen in LA in hopes of getting noticed. Damn near got whiplash walking down the streets because of the overabundance of mega hot women there.
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What on earth for?
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Megan seems like a true bitch. What else is new in Hoewood? But anonymous crew defending the guy who signs their checks is aint exactly impartial. I am not saying they are lying, but they have extreme self interest in defending Mikey, and their accusations are kinda lame. Megan is a bitch - on that we can all agree, but crew came off as a bit whiny.
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But have been there many many times
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But I'm likely to believe their version of the story just as much. We've all heard Mikey Bay can be a hard guy to work for- very demanding, etc, but I completely believe that he's a taskmaster bc he expects everyone to bring their A game and doesn't want any slouches. I also believe Megan Fox is a bitch, so, take that for what its worth. They're both right.
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Sep 12, 2009 10:41:55 PM CDT
I agree, although I do think Megan is an ungrateful slut
by toadkillerdog
Bay plucked her from obscurity that does not mean she owes him undying fealty, but she owes him some respect. I have said it before, within five years, she will be a has-been
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I forgot just how much fun that movie is. It is on HDNET now
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She's a man.
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Sep 12, 2009 10:56:25 PM CDT
I think both Michael Bay and Megan Fox are tongue cleaners
by continentalop
Michael Bay is a notorious asshole on set. I think he likes to play dictator on set because it gives him a chance to overcompensate for the fact that in Hollywood and the critical world of film he is not respected. The guy has a chip on the chip of his shoulder.
As for Megan Fox, she is the classic opportunist. Sure Bay might be an asshole, but he took a chance with her and gave her a shot. Why is she dissing him now? Because she knows she will never be an A-list star with Bay - the robots and the explosions (and Bay) will always be the biggest names in his movies. So she is trying to distance herself from him and gain points with the rest of the Michael Bay hating Hollywood by putting him down.
She's like the characters in the old film noirs and women's picks back in the 40s & 50s: she uses someone as far as she can, and when that person is no longer any use she discards them or double-crosses them to help herself even more.
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Sam Raimi did Darkman because he couldn't get the rights to the Shadow. That better not be the way he shoots or makes the Shadow, now that he has gotten the rights.
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FUCKING Time Warner sons of bitches removed it completely from their lineup bc the owner (same guy who owns that basketball team) wanted it to be part of the basic cable lineup. GD I hate Time Warner.
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Being held 650 feet up in the air by his ankle, he tells Darkman 'you can't drop me, because then you would be just like me' - yeah, that went over well...*drop* 'ahhhhhhhhhhh!!
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Do wha? When did this happen?
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a director who filmed you washing his car and then posed you provocatively in a couple of movies? So she took it to the bank and trash-talked the whole way home. So what? Honestly, the more I hear her talk shit, the more I like her. In the Jennifer's Body article, it made me laugh that she would be reading Diablo Cody's dialogue, looking at the director, and saying, "What the fuck does this mean?"
The letter seemed silly to me. Soooo, she doesn't hang out with the crew and she doesn't smile. And she looks like a porn star! Have you seen her tattoos?!? Scandalous! Of course she looks like a porn star. That's the shit that sells these days, and I doubt Mikey "Wash my car" Bay would have it any other way. I just hope she invests her money well... -
Darkman had cheesy effects, but they were bearable. That was the first time I saw Liam Neeson
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That big honking huge screwgun they fired at each other at the end. When I was a kid I had no idea such things existed, much less could be used as a weapon. And ever since that movie, I've had a healthy fear of cigar cutters, but at the same time I share a strange obsession with putting my finger into the hole, just to see how it fits, just to scare myself...
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Didn't she also say that off-set Michael Bay is completely awkward and has zero social skills? Why no comment on that in the letter? I thought that was the most interesting part.
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a lot of posts between me typing that and posting it...
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Where Neeson goes nuts and rips that guy's hand off, but not until after the background rips apart like a comic book page.
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Fill it!
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My problem with it is she made a faustian bargain and now is trying to play the victim or pretend she hasn't benefitted from it. It is like Sharon Stone saying she didn't know she was being shot up the skirt - you are now trying to distance yourself from what made you a star.
Sexism and misogyny run rampant in Hollywood, and so does racism, agism and lookism. it is hard for me to feel sympathetic for someone who has actually benefitted from it, and for only having the courage to stand up to it after the fact. Yeah, she wouldn't have gotten the job, but why wait until AFTER Transformers 2 to bring up this dirt on Bay? Seems like someone wanted to make sure her career was safe before she lambasted the Old Boy system. -
I remember a Marvel Comics villain named Steeplejack who fought Power Man and Ms. Marvel who used one of those as a weapon. I wonder if that is where Sam Raimi got the idea.
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She knows she's got limited time to get it, and she knows what she's getting it for. I certainly don't think she's a victim, or noble. It just is hilarious to me that anyone think that she "owes" Bay. Or that she owes Hollywood a smile and polite conversation.
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To bad that movie didn't come out last year or the year before. I think it would have had a bigger impact, because audiences could see the ridiculousness of superheroes "no killing" policy, like Batman.
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I knew it was too big to be a screw but couldn't quite remember what else it was. I remember being captivated by the idea, especially by Darkman getting pinned by one in his hand. And then ripping through it to get to the villain. Yeeeouch.
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Who knows who will 'leave' these boards forever - only to return of course. I do agree though.
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as Megan Fox knows. For another reminder, check this out:
http://tinyurl.com/mwsrtd
Wall Street is looking to replace the securitized sub-prime mortgage industry by bundling life insurance policies. They buy the policy, so that the sooner you die, the more money they make! -
And youth and ignorance trump prudence. Although an asshole is an asshole at any age. Bay may very well be a blue ribbon asshole, but Megan has not really done herself any favors by trashing the director who is responsible for her prominence. I said it earlier, she does not owe him undying fealty, but she does owe her career to him, and hopefully she will be smarter with her money than she is with her mouth, because she has a very limited shelf life. Fan boys have already turned on her, she aint that hot, and is too damn skinny, and caint act. Now she shows she has no loyalty. As long as she can make money, loyalty does not count, but once the other factors start to bring her down, no one will show her any loyalty - as if there was much in Hoewood anyway. Bad, bad recipe for continued stardom.
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But I do think the respectful thing to do, especially in a business like Hollywood, is keep your mouth shut. Especially when you talk all it does is remind a bunch of people that you made it not based on your talent or skill but because of your looks and your willingness to exploit yourself. Good lesson for young actresses.
If you are going to talk, she should just flat-out came out and accused Michael Bay of being a sexist asshole, and admitted that she debased herself to get work and that it was the fact she was willing to do so that got her the job. But no, she is to coy for that. She has to play victim and someone who's talent has gotten them there.
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But I will talk about Lone Ranger. I might be one of the few Tbers who is willing to admit that I think a Lone Ranger movie could work, and it could be good.
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We practically said same thing at same time!
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Then again, I thought that the last time a big budget LR movie came out.
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I didn't really read it as her playing the victim. Nor did I read it as her standing up to sexism or anything like that. I just read it as, Megan's got a big mouth and just says whatever the fuck she wants. She reminds me of girls I grew up with.
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Before the movie came out, *no one* thought Pirates of the Caribbean would work. I think they could do for cowboys what they did for Pirates.
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Unlike a lot of other people here. As you said, she has a mouth on her. I have always had a problem with people who are all mouth. They are bound to say something sooner or later that annoys the fuck out of me.
You can say whatever you want, but that also means we can call you out on it and find it annoying (I am looking at you QT). -
This quote cracked me up!"Okay Megan, you can do whatever you want. I got it." But I 100% disagree with her. Nick Cage wasn't a big actor when I cast him, nor was Ben Affleck before I put him in "Armageddon." Shia LaBeouf wasn't a big movie star before he did "Transformers"-and then he exploded. Not to mention Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, from "Bad Boys." Nobody in the world knew about Megan Fox until I found her and put her in "Transformers." I like to think that I've had some luck in building actors' careers with my films."
Smith was a star on the rise before Bad Boys. Cage -my God he claims cage? Moonstruck, Leaving Las Vegas, Raising Arizona? I am starting to think Megan was right. She is still stupid, and ungrateful, but she may be right - to a point. Never, ever, ever, use Hitler comparison. Never. -
As long as its not tounge in cheek or overly self referential. Play it straight or maybe something like Silvarado it could be cool.
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Second sentence of the last post should have been "But I do find that people are talkers get on my nerve a lot."
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As long as the fun is put back in. By that I mean, the Clayton Moore shows were all about adventure and action. The big budget movie was turgid and waaay to serious. Going the 'Pirates' route is an effective way - if they do that.
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But I also think you could even go a little dark with it (which I know is a costume crime-fighting cliche now). The origin of the Lone Ranger is that he was part of a group of six Texas Rangers who were tricked into a valley and then gunned down by a group of outlaws. Five of the Rangers were killed, including the Lone Rangers brother. The Lone Ranger barely survived, was nursed back to health by an Apache Indian who recognized him as the white man who once saved his life, and then made six graves so the outlaws would think everyone is dead.
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Just nailed every bit of action and adventure and storyline. Yes, if LR can go in that direction, it will be a helluva lot of fun
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You don't want it so light and whimsical that people see it as being ridiculous, but at the same time you don't want the LR to be brooding for 10 minutes straight and filled with Denny O'Neil/Neal Adams' Deadman angst.
Have a dark origin, and then - BAM - you are into TOMBSTONE mode of him going after people. No pointless reflecting on "whoa me" and moral quandries - just a western about a guy out to bring people to justice.
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was waaay to earnest in its approach.
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People want to see the man in the Mask and on the Horse, not recovering from gunshots, and falling in love with an Apache, and eating nuts and berries. That will be deathnell. Do a fast origin, hell do a montage origin a'la Watchmen. Or a flashback a'la Blade. But do not spend 2/3 of movie showing why he became LR. That will kill it, Johhny Depp or no.
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Would be Zorro the Gay Blade route.
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But fuck, sometimes you treat it like you are embarrassed by the source material.
Of course, having said that I am going to sound contrarian and say maybe not use the iconic costume and mask of the LR from the TV show. The old Radio Show, where he first appears, never describes the mask like that. In fact, in the first Serial he wears a full face mask that covers his mouth and everything. Maybe they should do something like that at first, and as the movie progresses more and more of the mask is damaged until he is left with something that resembles the classic mask.
BTW - The mask was made from his dead brother's mask. One of the eye holes should have been made from a bullet hole - I think that would be a cool image. -
And one of the eye holes was a bullet hole? How could a Dark Knight loving audience *not* get behind a concept like that?
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for people feeling suffocated by economic circumstances or crazy shit on the news. Nice open landscape, and mostly straight-forward cause and effect, characters with a firm sense of themselves. Also because people are getting sick of pirates, zombies, superheroes and vampires. As for Megan, Hitler reference is definitely unspeakably lame.
As for Coppola, I'm sure he was a big help to Nic. As he was to the rest of the family. Even Spike Jonze got the helping hand when he was married to Sophia. -
good night!
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Not because he can not be very effective, but because his name overshadows anyone cast as the lead, and thus more focus will have to be on him. Tonto was a great sidekick, but not top kick. Can the script accommodate that while still presenting a hero not overshadowed by his sidekick? I do not think Depp would have any ego issues, but casting him - and paying him, means you damn sure better use him.
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An overlooked comic gem. Why not go the route of the Antonio Banderas Zorro though? That was damned effective albeit leave out Anthony Hopkins -that part always irritated me.
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And that egomaniac Weis and the hypocritcal Domer fans! Ha!
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But mostly because he is NOT an indian. Yeah, he is 1/4th Cherokee, but that makes him 3/4th wrong for the part. And it isn't so much his heritage as the fact he doesn't look like a Native American, especially one that is a rugged warrior.
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I mean, why the fuck would his brother have a mask as well?
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I had a bigger problem with Lou Diamond Phillips portraying a Native American. I do agree he does not have the build for it, but I think he cal pull it off.
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and the rest of the Big 12 except for Michagin Wolverines today.
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It just lets that attention whore asshole Tongue Cleaner extraordinare Shogun have a platform and ego stroke. No one, I mean no one is changing his mind and it had died and was forgotten.
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Oh yeah, I was loving that game
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But I immediately regretted it. Shogunshit feeds off the attention, he'll have a field day with it.
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For all I know, his brother was an Elephant Man type and wore a sack over his head with only one eye hole cut out, the other hole was where the bullet entered. That'd be hardcore.
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Sep 13, 2009 12:33:00 AM CDT
I thought my college betting season was going to tank today
by xiphos_2
Except for Oklahoma state everybody I needed to win pulled it out. Thank god or I would have been way behind the eight ball.
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And let that be a lesson to you whippersnapper.
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Over...oh, never mind. Air Force.
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To me at least. I will say this about ND. They have a monster OL, and Clausen can throw deep. They will still make some noise. Stupid pollsters always give them benefit of doubt too.
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Every year people go nuts for them in the beginning, but they all fall apart in the Bowl Games. A big reason being the lack of real passing attacks amongst Big Ten teams.
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last year we he was spamming the TB with BS Ron Paul crap. Motherfucker couldn't do anything but reply with Paul propaganda. Then motherfucker got fired from teh campaign and won't admit he worked there. Cocksucker.
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Until basketball season that is.
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I need to stop doing two things at time when I can't even do one thing at a time ok.
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Sep 13, 2009 12:43:33 AM CDT
I still say the Wishbone is the prettiest offense I have ever se
by toadkillerdog
When Jemele Holloway(sp?) ran it with Oklahoma(God I hate that fucking state, but I loved me some wishbone)back in the eighties, it was the prettiest, fastest, highest scoring, unstoppable attack I have ever seen. Urban Meyer should integrate his spread with it. The Spreadbone! Copryright Toadkillerdog 2009
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Because of ESPN half the people the work there went to Michigan OSU or Penn State
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Gotta break the bone!
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I am easily distracted by - hey, a blue car.
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"Hail to the victor's valiant......."
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Sater!
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Hail hail to Michigan...
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Make sure you have plenty of whiskey
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And on that, I am out.
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Yay Bruins!!!!
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for the Pac 10
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If you'd like to make a talkback, please log off and die again.
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But she's about as dumb as post, and I do agree w/ Noted_Sages Conti_Pops and Toad_Dogs_Killers: a Pox on BOTH the houses of Mikey Bay and Herself. They DESERVE Incoherent Giant Robots Movies! yes they do. And of course You KNOW I'll watch them. I never saw Darkman, save a bit on TV. Is it worth seeing???
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His films are still dogshit. I found this quote to be quite funny;"Michael wants everybody to bring their A game"Excepting his writers, it would seem.
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Is a fight of lightweights. The only thing Mikey has going for him is that he provides jobs so the people that actually make movies work will come to his defense and the studio will pitch in because Bay's movies makes money for the them.Mark "Megan" Fox on the other hand has a penis.
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They write:
This is an open letter to all Michael Bay fans. We are three crew members that have worked with Michael for the past ten years. Last week we read the terrible article with inflammatory, truly trashing quotes by the Ms. Fox about Michael Bay. This letter is to set a few things straight.
Yes, Megan has great eyes, a tight stomach we spray with glycerin, and an awful silly Marilyn Monroe tattoo plastered on her arm that we cover up to keep the moms happy.
Michael found this shy, inexperienced girl, plucked her out of total obscurity thus giving her the biggest shot of any young actresses' life. He told everyone around to just trust him on his choice. He granted her the starring role in Transformers, a franchise that forever changed her life; she became one of the most googled and oogled women on earth. She was famous! She was the next Angelina Jolie, hooray! Wait a minute, two of us worked with Angelina – second thought – she’s no Angelina. You see, Angelia is a professional.
We know this quite intimately because we’ve had the tedious experience of working with the dumb-as-a-rock Megan Fox on both Transformers movies. We've spent a total of 12 months on set making these two movies.
We are in different departments; we can’t give our names because sadly doing so in Hollywood could lead to being banished from future Paramount work. One of us touches Megan’s panties, the other has the often shitty job of pulling Ms. Sourpants out of her trailer, while another is near the Panaflex camera that helps to memorialize the valley girl on film.
Megan has the press fooled. When we read those magazines we wish we worked with that woman. Megan knows how to work her smile for the press. Those writers should try being on set for two movies, sadly she never smiles. The cast, crew and director make Transformers a really fun and energetic set. We’ve traveled around the world together, so we have never understood why Megan was always such the grump of the set?
When facing the press, Megan is the queen of talking trailer trash and posing like a porn star. And yes we’ve had the unbearable time of watching her try to act on set, and yes, it's very cringe-able. So maybe, being a porn star in the future might be a good career option. But make-up beware, she has a paragraph tattooed to her backside (probably due her rotten childhood) — easily another 45 minutes in the chair!
So when the three of us caught wind of Ms Fox, pontificating yet again in some publication (like she actually has something interesting to say) blabbing her trash mouth about a director whom we three have grown to really like. She compared working with Michael, to “working with Hitler”. We actually don’t think she knows who Hitler is by the way. But we wondered how she doesn’t realize what a disgusting, fully uneducated comment this was? Well, here let’s get some facts straight.
Say what you want about Michael – yes at times he can be hard, but he's also fun, and he challenges everyone for a reason – he simply wants people to bring their ‘A’ game. He comes very prepared, knows exactly what he wants, involves the crew and expects everyone to follow through with his or her best, and that includes the actors. He’s one of the hardest working directors out there.
He gets the best from his crews, many of whom have worked with him for 15 years. And yes, he’s loyal, one of the few directors we’ve encountered who lowered his fee by millions to keep Transformers in the United States and California, so he could work with his own crew.
Megan says that Transformers was an unsafe set? Come on Megan, we know it is a bit more strenuous then the playground at the trailer park, but you don’t insult one of the very best stunt and physical effects teams in the business! Not one person got hurt!
And who is the real Megan Fox? She is very different than the academy nominee and winning actors we’ve all worked around. She’s as about ungracious a person as you can ever fathom. She shows little interest in the crew members around her. We work to make her look good in every way, but she's absolutely never appreciative of anyone’s hard work. Never a thank you. All the crewmembers have stopped saying hi to Ms. Princess because she never says hello back. It gets tiring. Many think she just really hates the process of being an actress.
Megan has been late to the sets many times. She goes through the motions that make her exude this sense of misery. We’ve heard the A.D’s piped over the radio that Megan won’t walk from her trailer until John Turturro walks first! John’s done seventy-five movies and she’s made two!
Never expect Megan to attend any of the 15 or so crew parties like all the other actors have. And then there's the classless night she blew off The Royal Prince of Jordan who made a special dinner for all the actors. She doesn’t know that one of the grips' daughters wanted to visit their daddy’s work to meet Megan, but he wouldn’t let them come because he told them “she is not nice."
The press certainly doesn’t know her most famous line. On our first day in Egypt, the Egyptian government wouldn’t let us shoot because of a permit problem as the actors got ready in make up at the Four Seasons Hotel. Michael tried to make the best of it; he wanted to take the cast and crew on a private tour of the famous Giza pyramids. God hold us witness, Megan said, "I can’t believe Michael is fucking forcing us to go to the fucking pyramids!" I guess this is the “Hitler guy” she is referring to.
So this is the Megan Fox you don’t get to see. Maybe she will learn, but we figure if she can sling insults, then she can take them too. Megan really is a thankless, classless, graceless, and shall we say unfriendly bitch. It's sad how fame can twist people, and even sadder that young girls look up to her. If only they knew who they're really looking up to.
But ‘fame’ is fleeting. We, being behind the scenes, seen em’ come and go. Hopefully Michael will have Megatron squish her character in the first ten minutes of Transformers 3. We can tell you that will make the crew happy!
-Loyal Transformers Crew
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Yeasterday evening Sal Bando posted a link to the letter that Bay's employee's wrote. That started the discussion.
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not yeasterday. WTF is yeasterday? is it a day to make yeast or celebrate yeast?
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Mark Sanchez is pretty good, right?
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Rec was the best horror movie I'd seen in years ! I hope the second one is just as good or better...As for Lucky Luke, I used to watch the cartoons on TV every Saturday morning ! Loved them ! They seem to have nailed it with the actor....and Michael Youn as Billy The Kid is in my opinion a fantastic choice ! Thanks for posting all of this ! I'm all giggity now !
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It was a lot better then I thought it would be.
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I think it's a brilliant idea. We all celebrate as we watch bread rising in the oven while drinking fabulous wine and beer ! I'm in !!!!!
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Yeast is an important part of bread, beer and wine.
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Sep 13, 2009 6:36:12 PM CDT
I'm for trying to picture Mikey Bay's remake of Casablanca.
by sal_bando
You just never know. Think Megan and Buscemi will fit into it?
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heart attack @ 60
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when I was a teenager.
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also dead.
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The writer of the Basetball Diaries? That Jim Carroll kicked? I didn't even know he was still alive. I thought he died years ago.
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Its an oldy but goody.
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He definitely looked as though he were dying for a long time. But that is probably the result of having a compromised circulatory system.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/jersey/8246001.stm
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Sep 13, 2009 9:01:43 PM CDT
Mammaries of Mommy's Trek hatred will prob. outlive us all.
by sal_bando
Sad to say.
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"Apparently there's not too much ill effect to the fish itself except it's lost its tongue."
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But that is one nasty mofo
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Are we sure he isn't actually just a pissy 16 year old? It would account for so much...
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Dude still has the face of hermaphrodite having a really bad day, but he looks like he was hitting the juice big time. Just really weird - even weirder than he was before. I may not eat Burger King again.
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Is supposed to make people want to eat? Yikes. Bad idea.
I love that TNG ep where Data goes onto the holodeck to learn how to be funny, and as soon as you see that the comedian he pulls up is played by Joe Piscopo, you know that he isn't going to succeed. Poor Data. -
Estrada was actually funny. BUt who thought about combining Tony Stewart, Estrada and Carrot top in a BK commercial? Genius? Uh, nope.
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I just looked up that commercial on youtube, and Carrot Top looks realllly crazy.
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Sep 13, 2009 9:50:59 PM CDT
Robert Loggia is Alive! Kim Cljisters still looks like my dogs b
by toadkillerdog
AP: Loggia about 150 years old, was seen doing an Apple computer commercial. Clijsters - she of the enormous thighs, and dog butt ugly face, is having a U.S. Open for the ages. Unfortunately it is broadcast in HD.
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half the comments are people going, "damn, where can i get those glasses?" The other are half are: "damn, carrot top looks like shit"
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for the ladies.
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Sep 13, 2009 9:58:39 PM CDT
Sorry to get back to the subject of the article here...
by charabicharabia
Did anyone think that Defendor could be a complete rip off of Special? That one had Michael Rapaport in it and he was great as the looney superhero... Oh and I do want those Estrada glasses....
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And she just won the Open. I like Cjisters, has a great game and nice personality, just not what she does to my eyes - I feel like what Avatar was supposed to do to my eyes - before we saw the trailer
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nah....you guys are mad your American gal failed to win this year....JEALOUS !!!!
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Dude should put a bag over his face and be the unknown comic.
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Sep 13, 2009 10:07:00 PM CDT
why the hell are you guys talking about the US open?
by charabicharabia
I'm sure sports illustrated has a talkback...I'm out...
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that actually made me laugh out loud.
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Just terrible play. I am glad Cljisters won, I just should have switched to non Hi-Def to see it.
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Not her fault she was born the way she was, but to have your private life and insides splattered across the world, just for winning a race, when you are only 18, is very harsh
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freak out and get fined? What was that about?
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Yeah, that is a terrible situation. But that entire situation was a fucking landmine from the start.
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actually, not "landmine"
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She foot faulted, which is indeed a rarely called penalty (moving foot across baseline before the ball hits racket) she had already been warned for smashing her racket earlier in match, so when she lost her mind on the line judge and ranted, she was deducted a point, when coupled with the foot fault, it meant she lost two points and the match. Game over. Go home.
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That has got to drive you crazy, to lose like that. Not because you fucked up your game, but because you couldn't keep it together.
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So, I think she would have won anyway, but Serena fucked her own self over. It was a childish display. Hey, the Bears Packers got good!
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See ya MB.
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Aren't that good because the layout of thier home page sucks. Of course they are owned by CNN so that's not too surprising. The four letter Network homepage, powered by the Mouse House, has the same problem. The layout is cluttered and hard to read.The quality of the talkback themselves are on par with AICN meaning they are filled with mostly tools.
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three tired old douches.
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good on you for getting out of this shit hole.
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How was everyones weekend?
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Weekend was hot, raining like a mother and humid as hell. As a matter of fact its a lot like right now. How about you? Good times over the weekend?
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I spent pretty much all day in Malibu at the beaches. Made me think I should take up surfing again.
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Sep 14, 2009 4:25:14 AM CDT
On the weekend I watched... Year One
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Which was very nearly devoid of laughs. A few minor chuckles here and there, mostly from Michael Cera's comments, but other than that it just fell flat. Which is pretty damning because most of the actors in it I find amusing. Avoid like the plague.
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to begin with.
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To read all the old classic adventure literature. I have just gotten done reading the first Zorro story ("The Curse of Capistrano"), the Starlet Pimpernel and King Solomon's Mines (with Allan Quartermain). God knows why I am doing this, but they are kind of fun. Dated, but fun.
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Sep 14, 2009 4:28:40 AM CDT
My weekend was kind of a no-show
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Was supposed to go to Brighton for the day on saturday, but it all turning into a balls-up. Plus the missus is ill so I spent it looking after her and watching tv pretty much. Fun times.
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I figured I had lived in LA long enough (excluding the two years I moved back to midwest) that I should be surfing. I did it once in awhile, but I haven't surfed since sometime last summer.
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Sep 14, 2009 4:33:06 AM CDT
"old classic adventure literature"
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I reckon those would be a lot of fun. And as for The Lone Ranger (which I know nothing about)... They just need to use The Mask of Zorro as a template. I fucking LOVE that flick. Great action and characters, and it takes itself fairly seriously but has momoents of humour as well. The sequel sucks though. And guess who it was written by? Orci and Kurtzman.
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Good lord.
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The Mask of Zorro. I am not going to knock anyone who does - they cast was good, the direction and look of the film was great, but the story bothered me. I didn't like it that it was a new generation of Zorro - why not have it be just a new take on the original Zorro? He hadn't been in movies for so long, do we really need a Zorro as legacy character?
Plus, the idea of poor peasant masquerading as caballero bothered me. Maybe they figured Zorro was to much like Batman if he was a rich don who secretly fights crime, but the thing is that is were Batman stole that idea.
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The first 10 minutes is as perfect as an action adventure movie can get. It is up there with the beginning of Raiders of the Lost Ark and Star Wars IMO.
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Didn't do much for me either.Man you got to get out of the LA beaches and head down to Orange County or Dago. That's where the better break is at now. Which is to bad becasue when I was a kid the LA beachs were the shit.
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But I used to go down to Orange County (Huntington Beach and Laguna Beach to be precise) once in awhile and did surf there.
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I've lost two posts, one a lengthy diatribe on Zorro. Some server too busy shit when I hit Post talkback. Cunts.
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Sep 14, 2009 5:06:31 AM CDT
Oh it fucking works now doesn't it!
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Cunts!
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nice big swells. The day I was out they were going like 18 feet I didn't do that, but I got in some nice 12 footers. You know where had some nice break that surprised me? Okinawa. They were kicking up 6-7 feet. Surprised the shit out me when I saw it.
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On the last day. fucking idjit.
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In THE PACIFIC TB. Some guy was criticizing people who don't like WWII entertainment, and for some reason his fucking tone irritated the hell out of me. I basically used you as a trump card, should have asked your permission first.
I don't know what your stance is, but I just have a problem with people who act all macho and manly about shit and criticize people for not being "masculine" enough, when they do so from the safety of their MOVIE THEATERS and TVS! -
Server still fucking with you?
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Clijsters just looks like a blocky, average, athletic Dutch gal. So? Carrot top on the other hand is pretty scary. Mask of Zorro is great: The pointy end goes into the other man?! Banderas never had it so good. I'm still laughing my ass off about how Denver swiped that game in Cinci. Good times, good times-
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Absolutely nothing.I've never understood what exactly "manly" means. I realize "technically" I could figure in that macho/manly catagory but to me the most manly people around here are guys like Pillow, HOD, Jarv* and Droid that show up every day to jobs they hate because they have families to support. They do what they have to because its the right thing to do, even if it crushes thier will to live they still do it. That's "manly" because sure as shit I couldn't do it.Then there are guys like you and Vader working hard trying to realize thier dream toilling away an scrapping that's "manly". You get what I'm saying?* Where is Jarv? don't tell me he's on Holiday again. What does he get like 367 days off a year?
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What is it, a bad translation or something? Who came up with titles like this, anyway? Is this some randon title generator software? Am I the only one who is getting a bit tired of this "Something Raising" or "Rise Of That" movie titles? When they make the next Arthurian movie, they will call it Arthur Rising or Rise of Excalibur?I think a viking movie deserves a better title. I just hope this is a bad title on a good viking movie. Certainly a good viking movie would be very welcome, to take off the bitter taste left from Pathfinder.
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In that one, but I did rather enjoy it. Thought the bad guy was a little weak though.
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They are not man enough to admit their own feelings towards each other.
But I do hate when guys challenge other people's "manliness" (implying toughness) when it comes to fucking movies. It-is-a-movie, it-is-not-the-real-world. To mock someone for not being "man" enough to like war movies is laughable, especially coming from someone who isn't really putting his ass on the line doing the real thing. Nothing is more pathetic than the fucking need to thumb your chest on an internet TB. -
Held a 10 - 0 lead going into the fourth, which of course they let go bye-bye and the score is tied late in the fourth. So what happens? Uconn, backed up at their endzone, gets called for a holding penalty in the endzone resulting in a safety. 12-10 final score.Theyfuckingloseonasafety.CUNTS!
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but there are some great ones out there. I tend to like the ones from the 60's and 70's more but Band of Brothers is great.I'm hoping this Pacific mini-series throws MacArthur under the bus.Bando hit on what would be a great miniseries Korea. That thing was savage.
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Sure, he got away with a couple bad throws, but hell, he was money on third down throws. And he had some nice zip and placement on some of them.I'll take a 24-7 win any week.
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Pork Chop Hill? Pusan Perimeter? Inchon? Lordie.
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but not because things go boom.I like them for several reasons: seeing the shit that they went through and how they made it out, and from a strategic point of view, how decisions made effected the outcomes of battles and/or the pure dumb luck of it all.
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Sep 14, 2009 6:09:03 AM CDT
AsimovLives is a rather stupid cunt
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Am I the only one who is getting a bit tired of this "AsimovLives" talkbacker? I think this particular talkbacker deserves a better handle. One such as "AsimovGetsHisFingersBrokenAndIsUnableToTypeHisSubMoronicBrainFarts" or "AsimovTriesToFellateOneTooManyGoatsAndGetsStompedToDeath".
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should go play in other threads where he can spout his higher-than-though opinions.
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Those others though, I haven't seen.
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I'd seen that whole thing before too many times, and they shot some of it-obviously Inside ala the Battle of the Bulge--it just took me outta the action. Plus it had MarkyMark's brother and the Friends guy in it--so *Shrug* I liked it OK just nothing seemed that new to me. MacArthur under the bus? GOOD idea. Ridgway and Clark NOT under the bus, please.
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FOOTBALL!
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Is 90% of the time.
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Would be to just follow the 1st Cav.
Yes, I admit I have bias. It was my dad's unit, and I still remember the Bug-Out Ballad he used to sing:
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And the friends guy is barely in it.And MarkyMark's bro is good in it, just like I think everyone's performance is.
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Goat fucker will now fire his weak limp broadside at you that consist of homophobic remarks about Jarv. He really needs to get stomp to death by the goats he buggers.
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But the Vikings looked good. Of course, they were playing the Browns. We'll see what happens when they face a real challenge.
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If it's half as fucked up as the two previous Tetsuo movies, it's another must see for me. Tetsuo: The Iron Man is one of those movies one needs to see to believe.
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As the 1st Sergeant was fucking great. That voice over he did writing a letter to his wife describing how the LT ran across the town square and back under the SS guns was mint.
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You ar enot the only one, the other retards are also tired of me. I take that as a bad of honour.
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I figured you might have been a little worried about Sanchez because you probably never saw him much. Unfortunantly being a Pac 10ite I have no choice but to watch just how god damn good USC is.I mean jesus they ground out a win on the road in a tough stadium with a true Freshman QB. God I hate those fuckers because they are so fucking good.
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Didn't do much for me. That's all. I liked Most of Pvt Ryan, I know Xiphos isn't into that--but then I also found something to like about Johnny Sokko-so you have to bear that in mind, too. Mammaries of Mommy Loved LOVED LOOOOOVVVVVVED THE ABRAMS TREK!!! HE WANTS them to make 5 more!!!! He has it on a 24/7 loop on his DVD player!!!! He has a Blow up Chris Pine Doll at the Ready near his computer! He named his Sister "Bones"
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Proved he is a better actor than his brother - again. Only in the Departed has Marky down better.
Spiers was great, and so was the fucking LT who freezes under fire. I loved the whole "political" element to it how some big officer was pushing this guy even though he was completely unqualified.
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Only a matter of time before you-know-who throws away a game by making bad decisions and forcing the ball into double/triple coverage.
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"They are not man enough to admit their own feelings towards each other." I've admitted my feelings towards Jarv on many occasions. But for the hard of hearing... Jarv's a showerdodging, gap-toothed, inbred, paddington bear molesting, work-shy knob-jockey. In other words, he's a massive cunt.
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I saw him a few times last year play, and I heard enough good things out of training camp/preseason, that I thought he would do okay. Ups and downs, like with any rookie, is what I expect. Just hoping for an upward trend in the "growth" department.
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Hate the cunt. With a vengeance. Useless, corrupt, lying, cheating, arrogant, bent cocksucker. Only redeeming feature: Better than Brown
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display your affections for Jarv.It's a fucking hallmark moment.
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To many back in the Gopher State, land of 10,000 retards are convinced that Favre was the answer. Yes, he is a better quarterback than they had, and he will make teams a little more honest BUT...
He is old and washed up. And he has no receivers to throw to, especially beyond the 10 yard line. The defense will still pack 'em in to stuff Patterson, and blitz constantly to stop the run and pressure Favre.
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Funny thing is, Steve Buscemi for the Peter Lorre role would work.As for Emo Trek, i'll get back at you later, for since you are such a griupie for that movie, i'd like to ask you some question to see what kind of rational you would came up with for some of the movie's most obvious fuck ups. Back at ya later.
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I can't argue that.
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How much they depend on Patterson, I imagine his career will be cut short. No way a running back is going to be used as much as he will be and be around for long. Or at least be as great as he is right now.
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That could be Patterson I suppose.
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I hope it would be Band of Brotherish, but hard to tell from that trailer.
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Just how badly did daddy fiddle with you as a child to develop this wildly over blown self image? What you do is like the rest of us, you state an opinion nothing more. Yet somehow you have this entirely unjustified belief that yours is better. That's among the many failures you show every time you fuck a goat and write a post.Also why do have the pathological need to try and make people you will never meet think you are smarter then you/they are? And then fail utterly every single time you try. Daddy fiddling right?Look I get you have no friends and are burdened by soul crushing lonliness, but have you stopped to think that if you actually had a give and take conversation with somebody, without lecturing them, and losing the intentional psudointellecual posing people would treat you better?No you probably haven't had that thought. It takes more smarts then a paste eating mongoloid like yourself can wrangle up.
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---just didn't trip my trigger the way it did others. I did find it to be honestly told, accurate, ummmmm the Dachau(?) part was something.
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You're just secretly in love with me, but are sulking that I took out that restraining order on you (Which is not, despite what you think, another form of "I love you")
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what the fuck are you doing polluting Twitch again. Tetsuo 2 is unwatchable shit, BTW, and completely redundant. Only you would think it had any value at all. Kindly do fuck off.
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a dim witted, primitive, wife beater clad, fosters swilling, evolutionary dead end animal molesting, deviant fuck nut. Typical Australian, really.
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Sep 14, 2009 6:53:08 AM CDT
"You ar enot the only one, the other retards are also tired of m
by lost jarv
Has anyone tried taking a sentence of normal English then running it into Babelfish in, say, Russian. Then converting the Russian to another language, before converting that back into English. If you were bored enough to do that, you may end up with a sentence that's more coherent than that one.
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Seriously. He doesn't understand that Twitch TB's use the article as a jumping off point to debate many other subjects and discuss whatever we happen to feel like. It is not to pontificate bullshit critical theory (bullshit half understood critical theory) in some kind of intellectual nob-measuring. Especially not when you have mangled your credibility by posting a load of guff about booking a ticket early to see "Mr. Alien, Mr. Predator and lots and lots of Mr. and Mrs. Dead People"
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fucking deadlines.
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Sep 14, 2009 7:00:54 AM CDT
You only took out that restraining order...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
so you can see an official document that states my name written next to yours. Probably so you can fantasise that it's a marriage certificate, therefore deluding yourself to some unrealistic notion that we have anything to do with each other. I'd pity you if you weren't so fucking creepy.
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Pure irony.
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*almost* being the operative word.
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fuck off out of twitch. I can see at least 3 topics on the side where your input might be welcome. This is not one of them. Fuck's sake- it's not as if you are even being remotely entertaining. You just spout eyeball meltingly awful post after eyeball meltingly awful post interspersed with the odd (moronic and unfunny) "fuck off" one-liner.
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this week, and dealing with your useless, greasy, talentless, unfunny, livestock-fucking, inbred self is pissing away my limited time
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Sep 14, 2009 7:51:16 AM CDT
The Thing is on the big screen tomorrow!
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I'm definitely catching that!
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Deep Rising and Deep Blue Sea are mint.Band of Brothers is especially mint. Not a single weekend episode in the series. And Donnie Wahlberg is brilliant in it.The Pacific will own all our asses.First game of the season and my Panthers are already done. Delhomme turned the ball over 6 fucking times. With all the quarterback talent available in the off-season and they stick with this retarded assclown.Someone found a copy of Hero At Large on the interwebs yesterday. John Ritter was actually ripped back them. And Anne Archer was fine as fuck.Also watched Full Metal Jacket. Brilliant stuff. R. Lee Emrey just gives the performance of a lifetime and apparently he ad libbed all his dialogue.Kanye West is a douche.Serena Williams is an unprofessional cunt. Kim Clijsters is ugly as fuck.Only in Sweden would someone legally change their name to Julius Andreas Gimli Arn MacGyver Chewbacka Highlander Elessar-Jankov.
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Quick question, mate. What software did you use when you were revamping AIBN?
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I agree, Donnie Walbergh is mostly a better actor then his brother Mark. But it was Mark which got to be famous and the super-star. While Mark Walberg can be quite very good on occasions, he barely has a career as supporting actor in movies, and has to find stardom in TV.
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I just used Joomla. Not so much software as it is a platform. And we went with a host that already had Joomla pre-loaded so basically all I had to do was install and tweak the template and add-ons. The tweaking is a bitch mind you but there are plenty of good people on the forums to help you out.
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Major League is my favorite. I don't know how many times I've seen it (a lot!) but that ending always gets me nervous and excited. Other than than... 2. Hoop Dreams 3. Rocky 4. White Men Can't Jump 5. Kingpin Now in no particular order Any Given Sunday Bull Durham Field of Dreams Rudy Hoosiers The Last Boy Scout Friday Night Lights Days of Thunder The Sandlot Baseketball The Rookie Teen Wolf The Big Lebowski Crackerjack Caddyshack Tin Cup
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Was the bomb in Dreamcatcher!
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Ping Pong. I can't think of many more. Days of Thunder.
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Cheers, mate.
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You forgot Slapshot.
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The Thing on the big screen.
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A mere oversight!
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I tried to watch it when it was on. I think I saw like 4 episodes, didn't do much for me either.
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Pretty good sports flick as well.
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http://tinyurl.com/mjx9cp
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I'm looking forward to The Pacific.
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That I can become as sweet-tempered, peace-lovin', and, especially, ingeniously verbose as Droid and Jarv.
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Never tried surfering, but I'm pretty sure I'd suck at it. Plus how many good surfing movies are their? Surf Ninjas? Blue Crush? Point Break...ok there are a bunch I guess. Surf Nazi's Must Die. All those docs by the skater guy. Indian Summer (Maybe?). Indian Summer 2 (most likely). For some reason at the start of this post I thought there were a bunch of cool suba movies but out side of 1989, Steve Ziossou, Sphere, The Cuba/DeNiro movie and maybe Deep Blue Sea. There aren't that many cool suba movies, James Bond. Fun Fact: The studio pushed hard for an Academy Award nomination for Michael Biehn as best supporting actor.
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Sep 14, 2009 9:07:26 AM CDT
But Series... If you surfed, you could go...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
SKEET SURFING!
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I'm getting this off of IMDB's genre list. Here are the choices: Sole Black Character Dies Cliche Naked Dead Woman Man Punching A Woman Slime No Opening Credits Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation GO!
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Get to fight Connery bond, surfers get to fight Brosnan bond! Well for most that’s a lost because society has told us that its only publicly acceptable to like Connery bond. I myself am a Brosnan bond.
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Man I love that movie.
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Is going to be a lot like The Abyss.
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It's been a topic I've brought up the past week or so, about if any movie site really does enough to have a staff that only does that. I think if Twitch film has a real staff and that's their only job, I'd like to work there.
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Sep 14, 2009 9:16:08 AM CDT
I don't think you heard me, Series...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
SKEET SURFING! http://tinyurl.com/oosyqg
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And Biehn is brilliant in it. If Avatar is as good as The Abyss I'll be very happy.
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Earns enough to not need a day job.I've always wondered why these guys don't put up more film reviews though. You'd think Harry could post 2-3 reviews a day what with all the free time he has and the free movies he gets.
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Do you earn any revenue from AIBN? When will you be able to retire from all money coming in?
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He is a Very Vey busy man. I man he has to do things like watch TWBB 5 times in a row. Thats important stuff that should not be messed with, with such silly things like work.
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And we plan on keeping it that way. It's a labor of love and we can't see cluttering it up with actual ads.
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The Lords work should not be for financial gain anyway.
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JoBlo like 5 years to make enough money to quit his day job.
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I forgot, not sure if I mentioned it or not. The coolest thing was when he was finished, he walked out of the room in the middle of the crowd without any handlers, just like he was a regular joe fanboy there to enjoy the con. He had a few stories on the Abyss. One was about Jim really being a hardworking director, despite the crap he gets sometimes. Biehn would relate how after a day's work underwater, the actors could always go up to the surface without decompressing, but Jim would often be down there for 16 hours. So Jim would have to decompress at different stages. He also wore the same scuba helmets the cast did so that he could talk to them and give direction, but his didn't fit his shoulders well and always dug into his skin and muscle. So what Jim would do is as he would have to wait at incremental depths to decompress, he would hang upside down to relieve the tension on his shoulders, but he would also be holding an underwater video screen so he could watch the dailies while he was decompressing. Biehn and the other actors could see all this from their observation port above. So Jim would hang upside down for long periods watching dailies while decompressing. Cool.
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but Kayne West hogged up all the bandwidth
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but your not taking into account that Harry is too fat to type now. Or, my preferred theory, he just doesn't give a fuck any more.
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Daybreakers is getting very positive reviews. I've been looking forward to it for ages.
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Cunt. He's completely thrown my twitch timing off. He's off now trying to work out how many olives he can stick up his own arsehole without laughing.
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well, it can't be worse than half the shit thrown on us in 2009. BTW- of the films released this year (that I've seen), I nominate Red Cliff as Film of the Year so far.
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Not seen it yet. My Top 3 so far this year are... The Hurt Locker District 9 Knowing And I honestly don't think there are any other contenders. What a piece of shit year its been so far. I have my fingers crossed for The Road, Mr Fox and WTWTA. I think those three will be good. And Avatar of course. And some 2012 everyone dies stupidity to lighten the mood.
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That would be my pick of the comedies. Which isn't saying much since there are hardly any comedies released and the ones they do make are steaming loads of shit like Year One.
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Sep 14, 2009 10:46:40 AM CDT
And the other one I want to see is...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
The Invention of Lying (shit name. Should've kept Nothing But The Truth). That should be amusing.
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I thought it was going to blow. I think the only movie I saw until the summer was Watchmen, so the first quarter sucked. Then the first half of the summer kind of sucked. But this August has been fucking awesome.
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Hmmmm probably: D9 The Hurt Locker Tetro Sugar The Collector Star Trek (500) Days of Summer Knowing/Drag Me To Hell (tie) I need to go look at my list at home. The Good, The Bad and The Weird is on that list if it counts. Outlander as well, can't remember when I saw it though.
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I saw that in theaters as well, but only cause I got a free pass. It was funny then, but not again at home.
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Sep 14, 2009 11:03:16 AM CDT
What I've seen at the cinema this year
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Watchmen - Shit I Love You, Man - Great Knowing - Brilliant Fast & Furious - Wank State of Play - Okay. Suffers in comparison with the MS. Wolverine - Average Terminator Salvation - Okay. Trannyformers 2 - Absolute wank. GI Joe - Okay. Saved by the paris chase. District 9 - Prettty damn great. Inglourious Basterds - Entertaining but has problems.The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Wank (I fully expected to love this)
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Totally expected to hate it, and I may have not liked it less if the last 20 minutes hadn't saved it. Hopefully David Fincher can stop making 3 hour movies though.
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Year One - This could be an all time worst movie Ghost of Girlfriends Past Duplicity Wolverine/T4 combo for just being so fucking SO/SO I didn't see Trannys 2 so I can't say one way or another.
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we don't like each other much, but i have to agree with you that Carpenter's The Thing on the big screen is indeed sweet. One of my top favorite movies.
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I was seriously disapointed with "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button". And i haven't ever been disapponted with a David Fincher movie before. It's particulary painful because it came after that masterpiece that is Zodiac. I call Benjamim Button as Forest Gump 2. And i really don't like Forest Gump.
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Sep 14, 2009 11:16:40 AM CDT
"if the last 20 minutes hadn't saved it."
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
The last 20 mins was the section that I found the most insufferable wank. It killed any positive feelings I had for it. And I was at a Q&A screening with Fincher. And nearly all the questions were by fuckstick film students enquiring about lenses and shit. Cunts. Sometimes I think I may have disliked it as much as I did because the screening was at noon and I'd only got home at 7:30am and was incredibly hungover. But then I think about the flick itself and reassure myself that it was shit (but technically impressive).
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Only recently, and starting with District 9 and The Hurt Locker, has the good stuff starting to show up.
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So, cocknocker- please tell me: precisely how many olives did it take this time?
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Wanker.
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I hated at first, but I was unemployed at the time and was watching like 3-4 law and order episodes a day. So it just kind of rolled into each other, and it came off as a bad Law and Order episode. The ones where there isn't a real ending, kind of like Zodiac. I've gone back and watched it again while not watching Law and Order all the time. And its pretty good, better then I remembered. I don't think its his masterpiece. I think the acting holds it back, and the non-ending (which is real life) is just such a crappy unsatisfying way to end a movie.
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Sep 14, 2009 11:20:28 AM CDT
Speaking of insufferable wank
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Fuck off AsimovLives.
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I have to say, it looks fucking horrid. My 2009 movies that I thought were good: Red Cliff 1 & 2 OUTLANDER (bitches) Let The Right One In. Then after that.... Nothing- the colossal wank bag that was Turdmen, though, has put me right off going to the cinema. And I sort of liked 300 as well (even though I know it's crap, I can't help laugh at some of the shit they say).
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it isn't even the best film Fincher has done. Only a complete cunt attempting to get his entire cock in their mouth would say such a thing
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Forgot about Up. I think it would be my least favorite, favorite movie of the year.
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I'm now starting to wonder if I'm too harsh on Forrest Gump.
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And Finchers best flick.
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Those 2009 movies are the ones that got a cinema release.
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7 and Fight Club are both better. Zodiac is brilliant- but it's a flabbier movie than both of them. I did like it a lot, but not as much.
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What do you think is Finchers best? 7?
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Which pisses me off no end.
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would you describe it as a "masterpiece"?
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Fight Club is probably Finchers best. Seven is very close though.
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There certainly is a lot of garbage to rummage through, more so than most years it seems. And yet, there have been some real gems released.District 9, The Hurt Locker, I Love You Man, The International, Red Cliff 2, Duplicity, State of Play, Public Enemies, (500) Days of Summer, Inglorious Basterds and GI Joe were all good to perfect movies. And I know it's not a popular opinion round here but I did sort of like Watchmen. And Street Fighter is a new addition to so bad it's good.I forgot to mention that I saw Up on the weekend. I was a bit disappointed with that one. Between Cars, Wall-E and Up, Pixar is on a real slide for me.
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Love for Zodiac, its a pretty standard movie the only big difference is the aspect of the era and the detail. Which I think Dave topped with Button.
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You liked that movie? God I just found it so fucking boring.
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I like in theaters. If I ever watch them again I'll probably be bored. Forgot about Crank 2 as well, thats in my top five of the year.
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are all really good. I'd probably go for Fight Club (hides head in shame). Brad Pitt's overacting at the end of 7 is a right let down for me. None of them are perfect, though. The only "meh" film (let alone bad) that Fincher has done is Panic Room. I don't want to start Alien 3 argument 9 million though.
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Sep 14, 2009 11:31:43 AM CDT
I have a different reaction to Zodiac as I do...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Seven and Fight Club. Both are brilliant, but I think Zodiac is a much more complete flick. To some, like Series the end was "a crappy unsatisfying way to end a movie". But to me, the flick never was about who the killer was. It was about the obsession of knowing, of having an answer to the question (whatever the question may be), the lengths people will go to find out, how they will let it effect their lives. I found that fascinating.
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for me having seen so few films in the cinema. Turdmen was just so fucking boring and horrid, then I followed it with a staggeringly depressing Swedish thinly veiled paedo metaphor. No wonder I haven't seen anything in the cinema since.
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Sep 14, 2009 11:33:53 AM CDT
I'm not sure about masterpiece though
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Now that fuck-knuckle has used it.
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Sep 14, 2009 11:34:41 AM CDT
I don't know who could pick between Seven and Fight Club
by hawaiian organ donor
I'll say both are better by a nose than Zodiac but I'd be hard pressed to name a favorite between the two.I didn't hate Benjamin Button but I was underwhelmed by it. As Droid pointed out though, it's technically an amazing movie.
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I think they are cool looking.
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Sep 14, 2009 11:36:45 AM CDT
Pitts overacting "OH GOD!" in Seven
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
almost sunk the flick. Thats the only mis-step for that flick. The Game is really great, but quite cold. My only issue with Fight Club is that it's got a kind of smugness about it. Like it's very pleased with itself at how clever it is. Panic Room was okay. A decent thriller. Alien3 I like.
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Yeah I know its about that, but still what a fucking unstaisfying way to end a movie. Especially since you know the ending going into it. Its like you just went down that crappy life with them. And like I said the bland acting didn't do much for me. I never bought Heath's Bottom as being REALLY OBSESSIVE about it. Needed a little more manic to it. In that sense it may seem more real and all. But I'd rather watch a Real TV documentary about that guy instead.
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I know they never caught him, but there were bits of that film that were just cock teasing.
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Because its done what few movies have ever done, trancend the book its based on. Its better then the book by a long shot. You can't say that about many movies based on books.
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Sep 14, 2009 11:40:54 AM CDT
On that note... I'm outta here
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Have a good one chaps.
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is the most underwhelming actor around. What has he actually been good/ great in?
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far better than the book. I really want someone to make Survivor, but I imagine it's still too soon in America for that.
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I read Graysmiths book and the cock teasing was based on his actual conclusions.
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I've not seen it. JG that I have seen: Boy in Bubble (shit) Brokeback Cowboy (staggeringly boring) Day After Tomorrow (Shit) Zodiac (good, but he wasn't) I can't think of anything else. Even Jared Leto has been good in a few things.
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I bet Survivor was made after he saw the Fight Club movie, and he tried hard to make Survivor more like the Fight Club movie. Because it was the first Chuck book I read after I saw Club. So I thought Fight Club was like that, and it was like a shitty version of Survivor.
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but it's still there.
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October Sky is actually REALLY good. But that's probably because of Chris Cooper. Jarhead was OK, nothing great but not complete shit.
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Put that down on worst of 09 list for me.
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I like Survivor.
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fucking hate that.
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My favorite book of his. But if they made it a movie it would suffer too much Fight Clubness.
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juvenile, asinine shit. And he was stylistically stale by then
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Anyone else seen it?
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Though ask anyone and they say its their favorite of his.
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to make Survivor though. Admittedly, you do have to keep the "how did we get here" structure, but aside from that, there's a lot of other stuff in it. You could do it without a lot of the pop-reference coolness, simply because Tender is so fucking uncool.
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think it's deep and meaningful with all the Jesus shit in it. It isn't. It's like a sexually retarded sophomore wanked into a lap top. Utter crap. Slightly worse than Lullaby, which at least had an interesting premise.
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Wasn't a good movie, its better then most movies out there. But Choke and Moon only grossed a combined 9 million worldwide. Which is pretty lame considering the fact that Whiteout while a huge flop will still gross more. Moon and Choke should have been small indie hits getting like 15-20 mil each. Especially Choke with the book fan base.
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his worst book that I've read is his new one- the name of which completely slips my mind. Fuck me, that was atrocious mince on every level.
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Fight Club, Choke and Hunted are my least favorites of his. And those are usually everyones favorites. I liked Lullaby and Diary where most people hate them.
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I've got it I tried reading it. I haven't gone back since.
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No- It was an unfilmable book- because it's crap and relies too much on his shite narration.
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The one with the gang bang. You know with "branch bacardi" and all the people queuing up for a go on Asimovlives' mother.
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I never got that one.
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And somehow it made more then 600 million dollars.
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and it's fucking dire.
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I can't help but to think how would Ardman handle that movie instead. It does not look that good.
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wasn't unfilmable. It's a potboiler that reads like a Bay film. It's a wank book worshiped by morons though. I regret reading that book, and doubly regret seeing it on the screen. I even got over my usual "Avoid Tom Hanks films" thing to see it, and I only did that because I was certain that as it was a potboiler it would be exciting on the screen. It wasn't.
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That is possibly the best idea I've heard in ages. What a great shout.
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I'm going to go and post some midget doggy porn in it.
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When I read the book I was like, well there is like an hour of plot and everything else was just the Tom Hanks character giving me a history lesson.
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In my top five worst films of all time. Though Year One may now own all five spots.
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"As bad as the movie is, the book is actualy worse. I had to put it down after two chapters because my eyeballs were trying to roll into my frontal lobe to give me a seizure and end the pain. I'd rather gnaw off my own pustulent testicle than subject myself to ANYTHING even peripherally connected to TWILIGHT ever again."
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Is that 90% of them scream one time only viewing required. Like most of them don't scream, I could probably watch that for the rest of my life whenever its on. I think D9 will be like that, but really nothing else I saw. Some movies may be worth a rental again like Hurt Locker and possibly Tetro but not owning. I'd watch GI Joe again and KNowing even though I saw it twice in one week. Actually though The Collector I think will be an effective thriller for a while. I don't know what I'm getting at really.
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Well they never did. But how funny would it be if they turned Twilight 3 into some zany spoof (good SPOOF) comedy movie. I think that would be great. Just like I think D10 would be awesome if it were all in space dealing with the two aliens and their trip.
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it was just appalling. So much of it was made up (moving Roslyn Chapel to begin with). An utter turd of a book.
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I have little or no desire to watch almost everything I've seen this year again (honourable exception to Red Cliff and Outlander) and most of them I'm actively going to avoid. And I include LTROI, which is great, but I don't feel any overwhelming need to put myself through that again.
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When I say made up, I mean "made up and posing as fact". Like the entirety of U-571.
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I've learned my lesson with Romero. After the utter shitfest of Diary, I will never pay money for another one of his zombie films.
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I'm outta here.
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Very good cast and just makes you feel good to be alive.I don't know why but I had zero issues with the book of the Da Vinci Code, or Angels and Demons for that matter. Movies didn't translate well though.Latte Girl has H1N1 so I've spent the past few days trying to nurture her back to health. I'll be curious to see if experts are right in predicting that this flu season may get so bad as to give us an official pandemic. As I hate the world and want us to come to an apocalyptic end I can only hope so.I've never had a problem watching a movie I liked repeatedly. As I was the first guy to have a movie collection (first on VHS then on DVD) I was always having to show different people movies I'd already seen a few times. And seeing a movie again with someone who is new to it is actually sort of nice.
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I get less friends, let alone friends that actually want to come to someone elses house to watch movies. Pretty much now I'm like movie phone for my friends, they call me/facebook me/Tweet me and ask whats good to watch.
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I wish to you double what you wish for me.
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Sep 14, 2009 2:17:27 PM CDT
I watch movies by myself a lot the first go round
by hawaiian organ donor
And then I'll watch it again with my mom or dad, my brother and what few friends I have. And now of course I'm introducing the g/f to all the classics.When I first got my DVD player in 1998, I think I watched L.A. Confidential and Dark City about 5-6 times each in one week. Everyone was dying to see the new technology.
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Live near my family, but my mom calls me every week asking me what she should get off of PPV. I think I just watch too much TV.
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I'd like to see how you guys would react if you found your girl/wife head in a box. You would all be so cool and calm, wouldn't you? God's sake, man!
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Especially if my gal was Gwyenth Paltow.
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The Twitch TB is a haven of brotherhood and tranquility.
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Anyone else think they're final solution is another monopoly?
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Fucking dill hole douchy douche! Just messing.
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You would be happy if your gal was Gwyenth Paltow.
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The name calling would cease if soem retards like Lost Jarv and his loverboys would disappear from this place.
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Unless she gave me all her money and said I never had to put up with her.
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Sep 14, 2009 3:02:28 PM CDT
Gwyenth Paltow never did a thing for me until Shallow Hal
by hawaiian organ donor
Then there was that one shot of her from behind wearing the thong. I think I rammed my cock into the TV.
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Dude, yes, her acceptance speach was terrible, she admits as much, get over it. she is beautiful (if a bit to thin), and she seems to be a pretty decent gal with a good sense of self-irony and self-mockery. And she is indeed talented. There's far wost actress around for you to hate them, if you ask me.
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Could the issue possibly be - you? By that I mean, you have followed Jarv et al to their homebase TB - where you are certainly free to post, but you must have known that you would face near constant ridicule because of your past run ins. So, one must suppose that contrary to your stated goal of kumbaya and goats and shoats living together in harmony, you are in fact spoiling for a fight. Not that their is anything wrong with that, but admit that, and then have at it, instead of acting like you are surprised by the reception you get in this particular TB.
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I don't like Paltow. In fact for the most part I don't like blondes. She seems like a bitch, she named her kid Apple, she's married to one of the biggest douche's right now. Douche surronders her. What acceptance speach are you even talking about? Did she win an Oscar for Shakespeare? You can argue till the cows come home about movie choices for all I care. But you can't present any logical argument over women, its just stupid. And in the end, what the fuck does it matter? I still watch her movies, in some fantasy world where I would have a chance with Paltow I would decline.
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Here is the proof:
http://www.goop.com/
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Man, that book was terrible. Tired, unfunny, and pointless. Luckily, I read it at the bookstore rather than buying it. It was like a bad parody of the most boring & cliched Chuck Palahniuk novel ever.
Anybody read Pygmy? When I heard the basic idea, it seemed like it might be good. But the more I heard about it, the more annoying it sounded. -
But its written to sound like the guy's third langauge is English and its all broken as shit and annoying to read.
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Do you think the non Serene one would have come back after being down a set?
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I actually prefer J-Lo. And yeah, people are going to laugh at that and say "Oh, Gwyneth is such a better actress and is in such better movies." But so fucking what? She takes it for granted. She has said as much in many interviews. She is the classic case of Hollywood nepotism and entitlement. Her parents were in the business and her Godfather was Steven Spielberg, how hard was it for her to really make it?
Now J-Lo is really this girl from the Bronx. Sure her movies suck, but when she was just this little Puerto Rican girl in NY, do you think her and her friends fantasized about being in a serious drama or a film version of proof? No, they fantasized about being in bad blockbusters and Hollywood movies. So she is making films for that audience, and even though I might not like her movies, i admire the fact that she really busted her beautifully large ass to get where she is today.
J-Lo is the closest thing to a Joan Crawford nowadays - not acting ability, but desire to make it and coming from nowhere to get there. -
Is that Gwyneth's all clothing and accessories label of something?
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about how to "nurture the inner aspect" the Paltrow way. She said she started it because she wanted to share the "privileged" information she has access to in her life. Like cool, expensive hotels/restaurants and weight loss tips.
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And she wonders why people hate her. No, we are not jealous, we are just flabbergasted as how incredibly self-absorbed you can be.
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unless they're fat, in which case, let them eat avocado-pea soup! (And nothing else.....for WEEKS)
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Does it suck? I never saw it. (I didn't really like Lost in Translation)
So far the best thing Sophia has done is get her dad to talk John Malkovich into being in Spike's movie. -
Sep 14, 2009 5:12:39 PM CDT
Marie Antoinette is obviously a very personal film from
by continentalop
Sophia Coppola. I didn't like it, but I can see how it is a story that resonates with her.
It also shows that only a sheltered, spoiled rich girl would identify with Marie Antoinette and make a movie that is so sympathetic to her, instead of maybe showing that she was a little bit wrapped up in herself. -
Funny! Ok, I think KC would have won no matter the outcome. She has always played the Williams sisters tough, is one if the few who can match them in power and speed. Speed and power is not the only way, Hingis had speed and guile, but this ws KC's tournament. She already had the first set and was up in the second, she was not going to be denied. And I am very happy for her
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all-style-no-substance vibe from Marie Antoinette. The costumes, the kissing, the 80's pop songs. It seemed like too much. Like hipster fairy tale fantasy.
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How hard is it to buy an IMAC from fucking best buy god damnit.
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That is what I thought, too. It was Karma, or Dutch water, or the power of Mommyhood. Actually that last one is not a joke. I remember reading that track stars who had babies came back with more energy and were faster. Now if that were entirely true I would expect a baby boom amongst speedy women. Might be good the gigigo Amoeba biz too!
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Those dumb ass bitches I just got off the phone with them they said they had my computer in. I get in the car pull out the drive way and one of them calls me back saying that oops no they don't have it. FUCK!
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By not driving! Look at the positive! You prolly saved a sapling!
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--hmmm can I even Remember?!-lemme think: Watchmen-Zzzzzzzzzz. Good parts but loses it along the way. Won't see it again. Trek X/Abram: Good solid re-boot. "Bring the Red Matter" etc. Make more. I had fun w/ it. Angels and Demons: Forgotten it already. Okay chase film, not worth your time unless you spooged over the first one and like watching Ewan MacGregor flying Airwolf. Up. Loved it. Esp Dug the Dawg. Good times. Pixar's Pixar. Big Robots Hitting Each Other Once Again: I liked it. I had fun w/ it. It made NO sense. I'll prob. get the DVD. I have no shame. As Noted_Sage Jarv-Jarv said about me and this movie-I'm one of the Crazies. Yes. District 9. I liked it! It's great! Basil Fawlty vs. the RoboKop aliens! Worth watching again. I THINK that's about it--I will also once again say the best movie I saw for the first time this year was In Bruges, for what it's worth. You should see that if you haven't.
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Terminator IV: Okay, decent-ish, worth seeing the one time. Public Enemies--Not bad, good flick, doesn't really register, a Thirties version of 'Heat' but nowheres near as good or involving.
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Directed to that Tongue Cleaner, Fight Club in the VMA TB "You sister shagging, grandma AND grandpa fukken, toothless son of a third rate, turd eating trailer-trash dog fukken whore! You have irritated me. "
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he actually died. What the fuck!
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Wolverines!
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Sorry to hear it. I enjoyed Red Dawn, Uncommon Valor and Ghost to name a few. He was good.
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Bodhi!
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The Outsiders. When I was a not-yet-menstrual_blitz, I fucking LOVED that movie.
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You all should watch 11:14, one of his recent ones thats pretty good. He only has a side role.
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http://tinyurl.com/qgj4pt Expendables bootleg trailer.
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I ended up watching "The Outsiders: The Complete Novel" 2005 re-release. It is really goofy and unnecessary, with lots of unnecessary extra scenes and unnecessary music (some of the added music was ok, actually, but a lot of it was silly in how it fit).
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95 year old Norman Borlaug. Who that's you might ask? he was a plant scientiest that saved an estimated 1,000,000,000 lives through his research. Borlaug developed a dwarf wheat crop, known as triticale, which was responsible for a mutli-fold yield increase in production.Borlaug was also the codeveloper of "golden rice" which contained beta carotine a nutient sadly lacking in the diets of the poor and impoverished.And to answer the Trekkies questions yes "triticale' was mentioned in the tribbles episode, it was what they were eating.
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rip your throat out?
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Sounded familiar, I saw that Penn & Teller Bull shit episode with him. That was a goody.
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Can't believe not more has been said about this. Probably one of the few things Ben and Ben brought to my attention. Very good and very solid movie. Between City of God, Slumdog Millionaire and Sin Nombre I think you have the new third (or second world?) country trilogy. All three damn solid films. I think Sin Nombre is the most depressing, but its also the least violent, may be tied with Slumdog. Though at the beginning they kick the shit out of this 10 year old twice and your thinking/hoping this is going to be a continuing thing. Con - too bad he wasn't Robin. Too bad Slumdog got so big last year, that is probably why no one has really said much about this.
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He'll forever be dirty dancing on point break at the road house in the sky.
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Sep 15, 2009 3:25:07 AM CDT
Asimonv, you mormon's violated shit and blood smeared torn rect
by lost jarv
Is that your entire contribution: to tell me to go fuck myself, wish pain on Droid and then state a bullshit opinion that runs contrary to everyone else. Just. Fuck. Off.
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I was unfair- Donnie Darko. Completely forgot about it.
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Utter shit. Dreadful film. Attempting to paint Antoinette as the 18th century equivalent of Paris Hilton. Boring, shallow, vacuous, badly acted tripe. For women only.
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lives near me in North London and is, in fact, a complete twat in person. Her asshole douchebag husband is just as bad, though.
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with not being part of the "primrose hill set" who are all fuckheads.
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Was rubbish.
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Sep 15, 2009 3:33:03 AM CDT
Last night I watched... Gettin' Square
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Which is an Aussie crime/comedy flick with David Wenham, Sam Worthington and Timothy Spall (not Aussie obviously). It was pretty good, with Wenham in particular being very funny as a drugged out moron.
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Is an annoying cunt. As is her fuckstick husband.
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Will pwn you in Prince of Persia! hehe But he was pretty good in Proof. Alongside cuntish Paltrow.
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Sep 15, 2009 3:49:22 AM CDT
Are we all excited for Indy 5?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I know you are, Jarv.
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It's bullshit HoD. Honestly, you'll have to take my word on this, but it isn't even as bad as normal flu. And I mean actual Influenza not "cold elevated to flu status because I can't be arsed to go to work"
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I liked that movie. And I thought Gyllenhaal was better in it than Heath.
Heath was good, but he had a slightly easier part IMO: he was playing a macho guy who just happened to like sleeping with men. Jake was playing a "gay" guy trying his hardest to be a macho man, and failing.
Part of that is Jake's appearance, but part of that was him. His character just couldn't hide the fact that he wasn't as "manly" as the cowboys around him. He was just slightly to effeminate for most people, including his father-in-law. And I thought Jake did a great job of letting that slip out once in awhile (no pun intended). -
the mehfest that was Indy 4, and having learned my lesson with the PT in that going to the second one after the crushing disappointment of the first is not a good idea, I have to say: No. I am not excited.
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fuck knows. It just put me to sleep and I thought Ledger was dire in it.
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Movie experiences in my life.
I told my 75-year-old dad that a new Western was coming out that winter, about a pair of cowboys in Wyoming working for a sheep rancher, and that it was called "Brokeback Mountain." My dad is a huge Western fan, so he was ecstatic as hell, so when it came out I made it sure I was back in the Midwest to take him before the plot was revealed.
Half-way through the movie my dad leaned over to me and "Whispered" (he is hard of hearing, so he is always loud): "I think these guys are gay."
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I've got one like that with Reservoir Dogs- When I was 13, RD was banned in the UK. For some reason our local Odeon was doing a one off afternoon screening. As Dogs was comfortably 18 rated, there was not a chance in hell that I could get a ticket. So, being the rotten little shit that I am, I asked my mother (who only likes "nice" films) to take me. Half way through the film, I looked across and she was gray and looked like she was about to puke. She's never forgiven me.
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I know you're unable to grasp even the simplest concept, but I'll give it a go. You are an absolute cunt, and worst of all you are a fucking bore! You don't EVER have ANYTHING interesting to say. It's plainly obvious that your "opinions" are a melange of other, smarter peoples opinions and things you've read on truck stop toilet walls in between dishing out blowjobs to truckers for €3 a pop. In short, you're an astonishingly dumb cunt. Do everyone a huge favour and FUCK OFF! Sincerely, Droid
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But thats a great story, Conti. Reservoir Dogs was banned in the UK? Why? Sure it was violent, and the ear slicing scene was particularly gruesome, but c'mon. The opening scene of Saving Private Ryan is 10 times more gruesome and violent that RD. Did the UK ban that too?
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My parents were lazy and very unconcerned about what we saw. I remember when I was about 10, me and my brothers went to the theater to see a Midnight double feature of Texas Chain Saw Massacre and something else (can't remember the second movie). The cashier wouldn't let us in because we need a parent's verbal consent.
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They banned a lot exploitation and lower budget movies, but never touch the bigger budget or "art" films.
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I'm currently reading Easy Riders, Raging Bulls and learning about a lot of flicks I've never seen. One in particular that I reckon I NEED to see, as I'm drawn to disastrous failures. The Last Movie. Have you seen this?
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But it has been on my list for years. I am hoping one of the revival theaters out here will play it. Otherwise, hopefully Hopper will do a DVD release.
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But for some reason I really do find failures fascinating, and will seek them out over something that is supposed to be brilliant.
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I've also never seen The Last Picture Show. Which the book describes as being brilliant.
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The UK has a frighteningly right wing self appointed "moral majority" (for short hand shall from now on be referred to as "Daily Mail reading cunts" or "Tory cunts"). Every time something happens in real life they shit one. The government always decides to pander to them, and in the need to be seen "getting something done" some asshole politician comes out with a revolting speech about how films etc are clearly at fault for violence and therefore we must have (ignoring the fact that they've had them for years) new powers to ban these films. The films you are referring to are the Video Nasties, of which Dogs was one of the last. Other films caught include The Exorcist, Straw Dogs, Evil Dead, Driller Killer, TCM and so forth along with some real crap that can stay banned and a shit load of cheesy Italian zombie films. The Child's Play 3 fiasco was the last instance of this bullshit in action and since then censorship has been relaxed and only real filth like the Guinea Pig movies have stayed banned. The watershed moment was probably the re-release of The Exorcist for it's anniversary. They seem to have come out hard and fast since then.
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The ban arguably made the film. Before the BBFC decided to ban it, it wasn't a hit in America, Europe had ignored it and we were also indifferent. But because they turned the dial up to "cretin" and banned it on video it was able to stay in the cinema for over 2 years and was in the end a fairly large hit. So arguably, the BBFC is entirely to blame for Tarantino.
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For a short while Peter Bogdanovich could do not wrong. Then he dumbed his wife Polly Platt, and we learned that she was the real genius behind the pair.
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They've turned on them now. Manhunt and Manhunt 2 are the target. Especially after they were made to look like cunts over GTA and Bully. I think Rockstar do it to piss them off.
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I'm stealing it.
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I need another cup of coffee
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Sep 15, 2009 4:47:51 AM CDT
It appears Bogdonovich was the original QT
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Learnt everything by watching a ridiculous amount of films and basically spewed out versions of other directors. Well, thats the picture the book paints anyway. I know nothing about him.
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He made a pretty good stretch of movies (Targets, Last Picture Show, some would say What's Up Doc (not me), and Paper Moon). After that he had one or two interesting ones - St. Jack, Mask - but nothing as a successful as his earlier films.
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hehehe
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Yuck. Not a great fan of What's Up doc either.
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Who was cheating on his wife.
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Sep 15, 2009 5:07:19 AM CDT
I don't think I've ever seen one of his flicks
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Maybe Mask. From what I understand, Lucas was incredibly shy and introverted.
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he's ridiculous control fetish in everything else screams out that he likes to be tied up and flogged in the bedroom.
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might be one of the most boring experiences on earth. I am still amazed he was able to be outgoing enough to get films made, considering the stories I heard about him (like how he started working with Coppola).
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Sep 15, 2009 5:09:38 AM CDT
Hilarious Bob Evans quote about Ali McGraw
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
"She was looking at me and thinking about Steve McQueens cock." HA!
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Coppola sounds like a complete nutjob flake. Fuck. They all do.
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Is when they get to Paul Schrader. That guy had some issues.
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Which is why I love that period. I think those guys had big appetites and big egos, and because of that they were willing to push the limits of what you were supposed to do on screen.
I also agree with what Margot Kidder says in the book, about why Spielberg lasted and prospered while everyone else fell. Whatever issues he had, he tool care of them when he was making a movie. He didn't have all this psychological baggage that all the other New Hollywood directors seemed to have. He was easily the most sane and mentally stable of them. -
Just finished the Coppola/Godfather section. Now dealing with Chinatown.
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The Stallone story(ies) about him are (semi) priceless. What a bastard. I think it's easy to overhype just how good the pre-StarWars/Jaws '70's were. Personally yeah I know they made several great movies then, but they put out their fair amount of shite, too. My take on it is that the 'Summer blockbuster' mentality that started w/ '75 and Jaws unfortunately took over Hollywood, and what came before then was what we call the 'Fall Season' type movies. I do thank both Spielberg and Lucas for getting us Giant Robot movies(indirectly at least) and for American Graffiti. Whatever else you think of Lucas-you GOTTA like American Graffiti. Paul LeMat's career. Dang what happened?!
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even if Evans is obviously a self serving cunt. He's brilliant about The Cotton Club and how Coppola fucked him, and superb about the sequel to Chinatown. Although he makes out that these aren't his fault, I tend to believe him, because he owns up to so many acts of utter cuntiness that fucked himself up over the course of the book that I find it hard to believe he wouldn't own up to 2 more.
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Evans is as well.
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I always believed that Jaws was the first "summer blockbuster", and it may well be. But apparently the way The Godfather was distributed completely changed the rules of distribution and instead of a slow roll out, it started the trend we now know as the opening weekend wide release.
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Sep 15, 2009 5:37:24 AM CDT
Evans claimed that he saved The Godfather
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
by re-editing it and actually re-inserting scenes that Coppola had cut (apparently because Evans and the studio threatened to take it away from him if he didn't submit a 2hr 15m cut). Coppola never got over that so probably went out of his way to fuck him on TCC.
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because they thought it was going to flop. The idea was to cash in fast before word of mouth got around and killed it. Evans did, to be fair, go into Sales and tell them to take their focus groups etc and fuck off.
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Sep 15, 2009 5:43:25 AM CDT
I think there is conflicting stories
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
The studio definitely didn't want a 3 hour movie, as it fucked the amount of cinema screenings possible each night.
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Sep 15, 2009 5:43:55 AM CDT
"overhype just how good the pre-StarWars/Jaws '70's were"
by continentalop
The only thing is that people got to remember how bad films were before the New Hollywood Movement. Just watch HELLO, DOLLY! released in 1969. It really was the last of the old studio films to see how out of touch and bad the films the released were.
And personally, I think America has never had a string of movies as good as they did from 1970-1976. Sure, there was shitty ones and a lot of bad ones, but the great easily outnumbered the bad. And as Steven Soderbergh said, "At that period in time the most commercially successful films and the most artistically successful films just happened to be one-and-the-same." -
it seems everyone in Hollywood was a degenerate cretin.
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During the 60s and 70s, no one can match them as degenerate cretins.
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that isn't what he said- that's taken out of context. He publishes the letters he wrote to Coppola at the time in TKSITP. That's what Coppola claims he says he did. It's egos run riot, really, and I suspect that the truth lies that they were just a pair of cunts arguing about nothing.
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Sep 15, 2009 5:53:38 AM CDT
The book also claims that Coppola...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
didn't really know what the fuck he was doing on set, and that the DP can be credited as keeping the whole thing afloat.
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3 hours and he did because he believed that they "needed texture" for it to be believable. The argument being that you had to be able to "smell the spaghetti" (cunt).
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I think Gordon Willis did have a big impact on why Godfather I worked. Coppola was still unused to how big studio films worked - he was much more from the experimental and Corman school.
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Sep 15, 2009 5:57:59 AM CDT
On the set of The Godfather that is
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
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This book really highlights how few 60's and 70's flicks I've seen.
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Was getting Fred Roos as his casting director. That guy has found more young talent than Max Hardcore.
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Just for the opening monologue alone, which Coppola wrote.
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Sep 15, 2009 6:02:35 AM CDT
That "smell the spaghetti" line
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
is apparently what Evans used when he was considering Coppola. They looked at the directors of previous gangster flicks and saw that most of them were jewish. So Evans wanted someone who was italian. Someone who could "smell the spaghetti". (Cunt)
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Perfectly describes the whole era.
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Coppola saw MEAN STREETS and thought he would be perfect to replace himself.
Than Paramount wheeled up a huge truckload of money and he decided he would do it after all. The studios were worried (rightly) that Scorsese would not put out a movie the masses would like. I love Scorsese, but him and the Godfather don't go together. -
Sep 15, 2009 6:08:09 AM CDT
The Godfather is too restrained for Scorcese
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
His films have a lot of pace and energy. TG's need to slowly unfold. IMO.
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It was the highest grossing film of all time for a while. No wonder they offered him all that loot.
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Godfather films should be lyrical and epic. Two things that I don't think of when I think of Martin Scorsese.
Scorsese might have been able to do a better early years part, showing the rise of Vito Corleone in the old tenement buildings of NY. But even that would need some romanticism to match the other parts of the series. And the entire film has to big of scope for Scorsese, especially during that period. -
From Paramount. It was after the studio saw the footage and saw how good it looked right? So the Limo was a bet with Coppola that if the film did good they would buy him one.
Is that how the story went droid in ER & RB? -
'Crazy Joe' w/ Peter Boyle and Mikey Gazzo-'74, and 'Kotch' w/ Walter Matthaw, directed by Jack Lemmon(!). Kinda slow moving both of them-then again that's the pace of that era-no MTV quick-cuts for YOU MR. BAY--just watch 'The Seven Ups' for more.
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But I am always partial to films that seem to be forgotten for some reason:
JOE with Peter Boyle
HICKY & BOGGS with Robert Culp and Bill Cosby
THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE
THE LONG GOODBYE
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The bet was if the film went over 50m or something he'd get a limo. When it did, both Coppola and Lucas walked into a Mercedes dealer and demanded one of them and for them to send the bill to Paramount.
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I also remember how Bogdanovich was yelling from his car at Friedkin and Coppola in the limo as each of them were jokingly boasting why their movies were the best.
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Haven't seen it in years. Have to check it our again.
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Sep 15, 2009 6:29:14 AM CDT
I always thought Altman was a relaxed, nice bloke
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
But it seems he was a massive cunt like everyone else.
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One of my all time favorite directors, but also a massive cunt. Wait until the Polly Platt story with him.
But I still prefer Altman to the executives who took over Hollywood in the 80s. I am looking at Don Simpson's bloated corpse. That guy was an asshole of the first degree. -
There is yet no hard evidence that they are as massive of dicks and sleaze balls as Friedkin, Don Simpson or Evans were. Until I hear about them doing casting couches as sick as Simpsons, they are just annoying and not complete pricks.
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fucking fuckers!
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Sep 15, 2009 6:37:33 AM CDT
The Don was also a massive cunt
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I would love to see the deleted scenes from Days of Thunder. It would be hysterical!
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Well, I like Brady.
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I'm fucking stoked. Brilliant idea and probably more brilliance to follow. Maybe they'll have giant blue people in it too. That would be sweet.
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all accounts. The making of the Exorcist has a lot of him boasting about how much of a twat he was. Evans loves him- which is proof.
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tongue cleaner.
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With Downey Jr? What the fuck is going on? Doesn't he have enough ORIGINAL shit in his fucking pile?
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Sep 15, 2009 6:45:15 AM CDT
What? You don't like winners JPT?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Cause Brady seems to know how to win. Gotta respect that.
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He's lost it badly. Leave Harvey alone. Want to bet they CGI the rabbit? And how the fuck is it going to be a patch on the original.
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Pillows supports the Mets, Jets and some other terrible side. I would say that he really doesn't like winners.
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Family Guy really made me laugh yesterday with the real end to Dirty Dancing. It is fucking hit and miss, but when it does get it right (usually bits without peter) then it can be good.
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Sep 15, 2009 6:58:30 AM CDT
Patriots play the Jets on the weekend i think
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Aren't the Jets supposed to be decent this year? At least better than they have been of recent years.
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I don't like "winners" who beat the piss out of my team year after year aka the Jets.
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fuck the Patriots.
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I think it's because they are remaking Red Dawn. Cunts.
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I've not been following.
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Sanchez is the Jets' QB now, a rookie.
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typical post in the Swayze obituary.
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If he's pulling that shit in an obit then he may get the ban hammer.
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he had pancreatic cancer for fuck's sake.
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who has his head up his ass.
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Pity it's an obit. He's just asked who's Kanye West.
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He's a "heroically unpleasant little shit dribble"
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only liked Swayze in 4 movies
by AsimovLives Sep 15th, 2009 04:51:53 AM I found him a very irritating screen presence. but in 4 movie,s i really liked him. Those were The Outsiders, Red Dawn, Point Break and Donnie Darko. The later had his best performance as an actor in his career. You coulkd even see he was having a blast acting in that movie.and he must had loved to stretch a bit his acting chops behind being a dancing or fighting guy.
by Cobra--Kai Sep 15th, 2009
04:58:23 AM Swayze left a note on his deathbed. He said that he only liked AsimovLives in 4 talkbacks. All of them were pre-STAR TREK. Apparently Swayze thinks Asimov's post-STAR TREK output has been 'very irritating'. -
Not to mention that the cunt forgot Roadhouse.
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Maybe i should seek it out.
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it's fun. Not profound and not really worthy of the blowing it gets, but it's still fun
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moronic to me. The russians invading middle america and a high school football team fighting them off. (That's what I understand to be the storyline. I coudl be way off).
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and it is moronic. It's still kind of fun though.Even if it is frighteningly xenophobic. WOLVERIIIIIIIINES
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Sep 15, 2009 7:54:42 AM CDT
I think someone in the Swayze TB thinks...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
that Kurt Russell has died. Going to the Big Little China in the Sky by StarBlitzer Sep 15th, 2009 07:30:31 AM RIP Jack Burton. No horseshit.
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Nobody could possibly be that stupid. Everyone knows Kurt is immortal.
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Don't forget Powers Boothe!
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who will become close friends to a #2 pencil.
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"My Name is Eva" chorus mistaken by director for "My Name is Evil"
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See since I already figured both those two probably played for the other team time to time, I didn't think the acting was all that great. It was just boring.
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Has anyone seen 11:14?
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Probably because the dude wasn't doing blow 24/7. I wouldn't be surprised if he is one of those never tried drugs guys.
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Just sayin'.
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Sep 15, 2009 8:51:00 AM CDT
Spielberg for getting us Giant Robot movies(indirectly at least
by series7
Naw, he's directly to blame, he produced it.
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Didn't Donnie Darko pretty much do that?
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Sep 15, 2009 9:18:53 AM CDT
Jarv and Conti are responsible...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
for that Hitler TB still being in the Top 10 and that cunt shogunwhatever still talking shit. For shame, you two. For shame.
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When you are trying to buy tickets online, and why the fuck is it $20! Such fucking bull shit. For a $20 service charge on my ticket, it better come with a free dinner at Chilis damnit.
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It was that guy that posted about 40 times on the same question. Hmph. I'm being maligned again.
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Here is my review. Make sure to click on the links, you are going to like the way you look in our links. http://tinyurl.com/mqzzl6
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I keep seeing movies I like, I need to see a movie I didn't like.
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I'm off to go see The Thing. Hopefully they still have tickets available. Later.
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Good luck.
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At the movie theater?
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Is a great read, might have to dust that one off again. Lucas and Spielberg don't come off well in it at all either. Not on the sleazy, coke hungry way the others do, but the author paints them as pretty much intellectual pgymies compared to Coppola et al.I get the feeling he'd forgive any amount of horrible behaviour as long as you make good films.
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What about what Landis did?
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Have fun, Droid, you lucky son of a gun!
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Before you even get it home, the back cover is filled with shit-talking, so that you know what you're getting. The title should've been spelled out in lines of cocaine.
I liked when it talked about Spielberg being a little tech-nerd who was obsessed with how to throw cameras off buildings and have the film pop out safe & sound.
And the Bog is nothing but a dweeb in an ascot without Polly P. At least, judging by his post-Polly output. -
but it's in somewhere called fareham. I've no idea where that is.
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Is just east past sussex, near middleshire. Its in the township across from middlesex ajacent to North Hampfordshire. You can't miss it, its home of the Berkhamsted Castle. DUH!
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Since no one else seems to care or know of any I think I finally found a good thread to find advance movie screening places and times. Granted most of them are LA/DC/CA/NY but they got a bunch of random cities in there. Looks like its updated daily. http://tinyurl.com/nxm3bk
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Bring in the most money for films. It would be cool to see a break down of film revenue per state. That will happen one day when i have my own box office web site.
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Most of the dialouge in the opening of Patton was taken from the writings and speeches of the real George S. Patton. Some of it they took and tweaked some is word for word. I think Blumenthal's biography of Patton has all the speeches and letters that they used in the it.
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I saw a thing on TCM called like Spielberg on Spielberg, where he made it sound like he just wondered on to a movie studio and got a job on accident and ended up directing movies shortly afterward. No one will ever tell the truth about how they made it.
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From the guy who made that movie Harry was pimping like it was a fire sale, Hatchet. I hope its true because it makes it that much cooler. The director wrote a fan mail (back when mail was still alive) to Dee Snider about what a big fan he was and everything. I guess they became pen pals and he told Dee that one day he was going to direct a movie. Dee told him that if he did he would show up with him at the preimere. And he did! How cool is that. Its always the people most people hate that are usually the nicest.
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Spielberg made it thanks to Brazil-killer Sid Sheinberg and TV.
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I think he said he was on the tour and wondered off and got on to some back lot and some guy told him to go get stuff. So he just kept coming back.
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And it's not a bad strategy. Hang around somewhere as if you are supposed to be there, and people will treat you as if you're supposed to be there.
I still wouldn't consider that "making it" though, otherwise every underpaid PA in Hollywood has already made it. Getting tapped by Sheinberg, I'm pretty sure, is the point at which he actually got to start working professionally. -
...who could blame Spielberg for playing up such a nice story? Wandering onto the lot and being handed the keys...
Like in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance: When the legend becomes fact, print the legend. -
But I always hate famous people's stories about how they made it. 99% of them come down to pure luck. Bill Hader started as an intern. Like QT could have a really good story, but he's too full of himself to ever tell it straight.
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And this was before security was really that big a deal on the studio lot, I imagine. And somehow he ended up in an editing room next to where Brando was recutting a film, didn't he? I guess in all his wonderings on the studio lot, he eventually found a way to get Sid Sheinberg to watch his film Amblin'.
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Talk about how they got started, and it sounded pretty real. Pretty much Stuck on You is them. I would like to know how the Brothers W got into it, but since they don't talk. I heard Rob Zombie talking about how he got Halloween, how he was taking meetings in a suit. How funny would that be to walk into a office and see Rob Z in a suit in his garbage hair?
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A studio these days, you'd be kicked out and maybe make the evening news.
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About how he was a first time actor and it was this big thing. But it wasn't like Sharto just found him, they've been working together forever. It would be like Farva saying that Jay Chandrasekhar just thought I would be right in the role or something.
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Sep 15, 2009 1:09:59 PM CDT
That's not fair, Rob Z got Halloween bc of his previous films
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I wanna know how he did House of 1000 Corpses. Totally independently financed? With his own money?
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Doesn't really tell you how that guy got notice either. It all seems like they are hiding the one secert thing that it takes to be famous. Like no one wants to admit how many blow jobs they gave to get where they are.
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I had forgotten he directed that Dacing Transformers Car commercial a few years ago.
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Was probably with his own money. He has to be rich. And he's been directing music videos for a while so thats not that far fetched as to how he got started. How he pull together the sequel though?
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Man I want to see that film.
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David Fincher got a job at ILM as a teenager, because he was lucky enough to have George Lucas as a neighbor.
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Me too. I even have a copy saved on my computer. My bf and I have been attempting to hold off and see it in the theater first. Without the annoying timecode at the top of the screen.
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How on earth did he get that job. Is that Fincher story really true?
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What the fuck you got a copy! A good copy?
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Anytime soon, unless you live in LA/NY/DC.
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but it is also true that Fincher had the talent to back up his stroke of luck. I think he was mostly working on matte paintings at ILM. It was when he did the fetus ad and just about every music video you remember from the 80's that he really got going.
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Oh God this is great. http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1920944 Hi-larious.
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Except for the burnt-in timecode irritation, it's a pretty damn good copy. Poke around, it's out there.
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I sorta remember references to it. Bay I hear was an intern at ILM back when he was like, 18 or something. Bc he talks about seeing storyboards for Raiders of the Lost Ark and thinking aloud that it was going to be a shit movie.
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But I'm not caught up yet (getting close, though). It's been taking a while to catch up because I'll watch 4 or 5 episodes and be really into it, and then start feeling like "what's the point of this show?" So I'll take a long break and wait until I'm bored enough to get sucked back in. This process has so far been repeating.
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depicting a fetus smoking a cigarette.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udOSr5VuHKw
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But these new episodes have been really good. So one from like 3 weeks ago I can no say I've seen a 1960's ad exectutive stoner comedy.
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Is there a list of all his videos? I wish IMDB would list directors music videos.
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Homo. I thought he did more NIN videos, looks like he only did..Only, which is probably the greatest song of ever.
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I thought he would mainly do like industrial and rock. Its mainly pop hits of the 80 and early 90s. Fucking Vogue (one of Meat Loafs favorites, Micheal Bay directed I would do anything for love (makes sense)).
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I mean when you come out with Alien3, Seven, The Game and Fight Club. Pop savy doesn't really seem to fit.
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it's got a list. Highlights include Express Yourself, Vogue, Janie's Got a Gun, Cold Hearted Snake, and Cradle of Love.
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Faith if the Gay ass George Micheal video not Freedom. Though niether top this video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2o-xXmPZWs
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Alien3 making-of footage on youtube. You can watch a young Fincher get followed around the set and undermined at every turn until he looks like he's going to have a nervous breakdown.
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But there needs to be a better place for it. I think IMDB should add in a music video section.
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Than Funny People.
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Wham!
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I'm still looking. That sounds very interesting.
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Has anyone seen that movie? It looked painful to me. Like the kind of movie that would be on repeat in my own personal hell.
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Were huge bombs this year. Aren't you?
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Looked sappy. Apatow trying to be James L Brooks. No interest.
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I'm thinking of getting this camera to make my movies. What do you think? http://tinyurl.com/3wvlq
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Donnie Darko is just a mondern day reimagining of Harvey?
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Da da da da... to you!
Da da da da... to you!
Da da da da... dear Mavra!
Da da da da... to you!
Joyeux Anniversaire!!! -
I checked out the link for Stormtroopers 9/11, liked it a lot, thanks.
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Have you checked out my review for Tetro? http://tinyurl.com/mqzzl6
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Orcus would have been here sooner but Kayne West hogged up the Time Machine
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don't tell me Orcus broke down?
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Ocus went to take a leak at a gas station and Kayne jacked my shit. Good thing for theft prevention circuitry! Orcus tried the new hybrid time machines but nothing says pussymobile like the ol' Delorean.
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Happy Birthday Mavra!
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Orcus sends you a HUZZAH!
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If it will stop a pointless remake, than sure, Donnie Darko = modern (postmodern?) Harvey. (Or better yet, Harvey "re-imagined"!) Despite Richard Kelly having claimed not to have seen Harvey before making Donnie Darko. Or maybe he's fibbing about that, who knows.
I read that they wanted Hanks to be in it, but he turned them down. I guess stepping into Jimmy's shoes once was enough. -
Nice review Series, but after reading it I checked the theaters near me (20 mi.radius) and it is not being shown.
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Hold strong. Continue to monitor the Moviephones and one day the eagle shall be in striking distance and on that day you will hunt.
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Good job on the birthday.
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Did you click on the links? Some of them were funny...well ok mainly just one.
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I want to go here:
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I knew some of the stuff was taken from Patton, but I meant the genius Idea of having him address the unseen troops in a monologue in front of a huge American flag. I understand that was completely Coppola's idea.
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Sep 15, 2009 4:39:11 PM CDT
Richard Kelly having claimed not to have seen Harvey before maki
by series7
Fucking liar. Kind of like that guy from the last Bond movie saying he never saw a bond movie before and didn't want to because he wanted to be an original bond villian....well that makes sense because he sucked.
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Stupidity in TBs is like skanky women. I am drawn to both.
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Coppola created the American flag?
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Me, Coppola, deconstructed. http://tinyurl.com/mqzzl6
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What are you thoughts on Anime?
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Which is better. The Thing or It Came From Another Planet?
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1) No, but he had them make a gigantic American Flag for George C. Scott to stand in front of.
2) I will not read your review until I see that movie.
3) Not an Anime fan. I don't mind that people like it, but isn't my think. And cosplay freaks the shit out of me.
4) I personally prefer John Carpenter's THE THING over THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD (I imagine that is what you meant). Scared the crap out of me as a kid. -
Sounds like a good time.
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Over those two.
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While I understand your sentiment, there is nothing stupid about exposing and trouncing lunatics like shogunshit. Granted, it can sometimes feels like a prolonged game of Chicken but sensible Talkbackers need to bring the pain when faced with revisionist cowards like him.Steady on.
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The thing? That review does nothing to spoil the movie, swear to Allah. In fact its gonna make you want to see it ever more.
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I thought I liked it, then I realized I just liked Dragon Ball, then I turned 13. But I watched the Afro Samurai movie last night and thought it was a lot better then what I'd heard about it. I thought you'd like it, once you get past the overly stylized version of it. Its a basic story about a guy earning his pride. Plus the ending was great.
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Happy Birthday to you! May your day be filled with wonder and may you get everything you wish for (as long as they do not belong to me!) HA!
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As someone who openly admits to enjoying a dustup or full scale flame-war in these TB's, I am the last person who can criticize when others do the same. However I will say, that in this particular case, while I do not think you are doing any harm other than giving that blowhard a platform and continued opportunity to spew his hate and ignorance, I think you are playing into his hands. He literally feeds off the attention. Not only does it validate his pathetic existence, and putrid ideas, he gets to 'let it out' so that it is no longer just in his head, but spewed for the whole world to see (at least the AICN viewing world). Yes, his kind must be countered, and I hesitate to say you should refrain from cntinuing to do so because I feel the same disgust and need to just pummel that asshole, but, it will only make him happy that we do so, and only keep his vile message out and about longer than it should ever be. Have no fear, when that TB finally and mercifully dies, he will return to launch another screed, and I will join you to rip him a new one in that TB for a limited time, because dragging out a fight with his kind for too long, is wasted energy. He is not BraneRobot, who was genuinely a threat that needed dealt with in an unrelenting manner, because Brane, say what you will about him, and I/we did, could hold his own in an argument - not just spout the same nonsense over and over, and he could form a genuine counter argument that needed to be vigorously opposed. But this Tongue Cleaner, he has had more than his day in the sun. Let him disappear for now. Let him go back to just frothing within his skull. He will be back.
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Faaaantastic. I hope they don't cut too much out.
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http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/ 09/15/samurai.sword.killing/index.html
Says that when the suspect "lunged" at the 4 students in their garage, the one with the sword defended himself and cut off the suspect's left hand.
BADASS.
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(that's the title I meant to type) http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/ 09/15/samurai.sword.killing/index.html
Says that when the suspect "lunged" at the 4 students in their garage, the one with the sword defended himself and cut off the suspect's left hand.
BADASS.
Let that be a lesson to all idiots who choose to break into someone else's house- you are playing with fire. Potentially extremely sharp, Japanese made fire. -
Ok, it wasn't a samurai sword, but a wiffle bat. And I didn't kill him but I did nail him in the head a couple of times. And it wasn't a burglar but a real annoying neighbor. And he didn't break in, I invited him over.
But otherwise the exact same story. -
But prefer the Howard Hawks flick to the '82 one, just-because.
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I don't see how Rob Zombie can top this movie at all, and I think the idea of a remake is fairly stupid.
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From the X-Men comics to either the new or original Blob movie.
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I have had a wonderful birthday. There is nothing I need to wish for because I already have it, the most amazing, fantastic, and totally rockin' friends anyone could ever have! =0)
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HAW that's funny.
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Fave Quote from Mask of Zorro: The Pointy end goes into the other man?!
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Except for the stupid explanation in the Wolverine movie that he just got depressed and "ate a lot".
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But it fucking looked like it went through the Ace Ventura treatment getting to me. Fuck best buy. I could have made the computer by now if I had any sort of ambition.
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What do you think of this camera. I think I'm gonna get it. http://tinyurl.com/3wvlq
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THAT'S NO EXCUSE TUBBY! That is what they would say if it were the biggest loser.
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Goddamn, it is so annoying that they don't have more video content online. Pretty much every documentary subject search I've done today has eventually yielded a PBS show that is not available anywhere online.
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CNBC plays a lot of good docs, if you hate corporations.
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I'm fascinated by Mormons and actually have been trying to find a particular documentary on fundamentalist Mormons, but haven't looked recently.
No matter what I search for, the internet merely offers up a fucking TON of serial killer docs. What the fuck do serial killers have to do with Tin Pan Alley? Why, when I search for Woody Guthrie or Vaudeville, am I directed to Jeffrey Dahmer?
I bet if I looked for that Mormon documentary right now I'd get the making of Twilight or something about Jack the Ripper. -
I found a Dr. Seuss documentary amidst all the Ed Geins and Green River Killers, so I'm just going to watch that.
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Roger Corman is getting an honorary Oscar this year at the 2010 Academy Awards.
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Are you looking forLifting the Veil of Polygamy A documentary film on Mormon Fundamentalism (Living Hope Utah; viewable online)?
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Have you ever read Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer? It's about fundementalist Mormonism? The book deals with a murder committed by some fundis but that is just the jumping off point. Krakauer explores the history of Mormonism, the "split" that didn't really happen in 1898 and the rise of the fundi enclaves in Canada, Utah, Arizona, Texas and Mexico. excellent book, highly recommend it.Also the Phoenix New Times has a great series of articles about the fundi enclaves and they were one of the prime movers that brought down Warren Jeffs. Google Phoenix Newtimes and Warren Jeffs or FLDS and look for a series of stories from about 2001 to about 2004 I think.
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was the one I've been looking for. But I'll give the other one a look. Have you seen it?
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is the book that kick-started me trying to find that doc in the first place. So good. He is one of those writers that once you start reading a book of his, you really do not want to put it down.
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I just did a google search and hoped it might be the one. I have served with Mormons, as I am sure Xi has. I can not speak about the fundamentals, but the average everyday Mormon, is just a regular guy. Not supposed to drink or swear - but they damn sure do! Can be a helluva lot of fun, and they are very clean too!
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Doesn't that come out today?
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I grew up with Mormons, served with Mormons in both the Army and Marines and by and large don't have a problem with any of them. Like you said most are just "jack" Mormons, you know Mormon on Sunday, pretty much like every other relgion.
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At least on the borders, or is it the fundies on the borders?
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I will let you know how it is.
I had Mormon neighbors growing up. Never saw any alcohol in their house, or caffeine (lots of TAB!). But they were certainly not clean. That had nothing to do with them being Mormon, though, and everything to do with the house being small, the fact that they ran a low-cost daycare out of it and had a few pit bulls running around. That lady had her hands full! -
It came out today? There was a book review in the Sunday paper, so I figured it had just come out.
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I hope it is good. Chat with y'all later.
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There used to be one of the biggest enclaves of Fundis is in way remote Northern AZ right on the border with Utah but a majority of them have fled to Mexico, Canada and Texas. AZ is a heavily Mormon state. Mesa used to have the second largest concentration of Mormons outside of SLC. I don't know if its still true today.
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I visited the great Salt lake as a teen, my God it was horrible! It was dark, muddy and just to get to the water you had to wade through hundreds of millions of midges or sand fleas or dead souls - but it was just total crap. Now that was damn near 30 years ago, so maybe things have changed
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So before he wrote books, Seuss' dad would save beaks and hooves and horns and shells for him, collected from the zoo near where he grew up. And Seuss would use them to sculpt fantasy animals that he sold through the mail during the Depression.
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And will always be that way probably.
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I checked Amazon according to them that Tilman book came out today.
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I remember seeing this from the Beltway as a little kid and I thought it was Oz. Seriously. I wanted to go there so bad...
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Time for a trip to the library! Or maybe one of those fancy Borders with the comfortable chairs...
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That's a good one.
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Nope there are very few people that give up what he had to do the job he took on.One of my favorite stories about him comes from his old coach at ASU, Bruce Snyder(RIP).Tillman told Snyder that he wasn't going to take a red shirt freshman year and that Snyder didn't have to play him. Tillman said wasn't going to hang around ASU for 5 years because he had a life waiting for him to find outside of college. By the middle of Tillmans freshman season he was a valubal star on special teams and was earning his way into a starting job which he held until graduation. RIP Ranger and remember RANGERS LEAD THE WAY!
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What do you know about becoming a medic? How does that work?
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For teh army what happens is that after basic training you head on down to Texas for medic school it last about 4 months I believe.For the Navy/Marine corps it gets a bit more complicated because Corpsman traing is split between being a like hospital corpsman and being a field corpsman that service with Marine forces in the field. Being female you would not be eligiable for field service but could serve in forward medical facilities or a ship.Navy corpsman are, outside of US Army Special Forces medics, the best trained and equipt field service medics in the world. The stuff they carry and what they can do in the field is truly remarkable.
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The training for Navy Corpsman is about 6 months I believe but I'm not sure where that is, because I think they've moved it. For the combat corpsman there is an additional 7 weeks of training at Camp Lejuene NC for field familiarization and intergration into Marine Field forces either MEU or Line units. There is additonal training for medics attached to Marine Corps special operation units.With that I believe I have given you all I know. Why did you want to know? are you thinking about joining up? Because if you are quit the heaters right now. You can start up after boot.
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I smoke a lot. At this point, I'm thinking about thinking about it, but nowhere close to any kind of decision. It seems like good work. And I seem to do better in high-stress environments, as long as there is a point to it. Thanks for the straight-forward info. My mom, who's an icu nurse, talked seriously for awhile about joining the Navy.
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After boot. A lot of people smoke or dip like fiends. If you function well in stressful enviroments you have the potentional to do well because dealing with officers is about the most stressful thing in the world, most of them are asshats.
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If you are considering enlisting try to find out if they are offering bonuses for corpsman enlistment, you can probably look it up on line I would imagine. I seem to remember that at one point they were offering some pretty big cash for that MOS enlistment. Now I'm not sure if it was for field service or hospital service but the number was pretty high from what I can recall.
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I got sucked into a labyrinth of websites and information and requirements and waivers. It says the bonuses fluctuate, I guess depending on what they need at the time(?)
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And maybe eat something. Goodnight!
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I fucking knew it. I knew I would end up getting some beaten up damaged IMAC. I got their they had to dig to find this IMAC even though I was told it was waiting for me. The box was beaten to shit. We opened at the store and it looked fine. So I got started everything worked fine put in all my fucking info messing around with youtube and I notice there is a chip on the side of the computer! Near the CD Drive so who knows how fucked up it is inside. SOOOO any MAC users is it easy to just deleate your personal basic user info? Because I'm gonna take that shit back I want a god damn perfect IMAC.
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Looks like Dennis Hooper from Mario Brothers with that crop circle hairdo.
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http://tinyurl.com/lbfejv Ms. West http://tinyurl.com/c2ghja King Koopa Meh kind of.
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Is like a bad version of California Love.
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If you ever get to the point of pulling the trigger on enlistment remember this one piece of info because its important. Do not trust anything a recruiter tells you. Any promises or guarantees
they make to you get in writing and INTO the contract.Recruiters, especially Navy recruiters, make used car salesmen, lawyers and politicians seem almost human, honest and forthright in comparison. -
Why it is called Vahalla Rising, again? Or maybe it's like this, when you don't know what to call your movie, put rising in the title and you have half the problem solved. Fucking 21th century filmmaking!
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If you could read the attached tinyurl and tell me if its even in the farthest edge of possibility of being true. Also where in England is it happening. Thanks.tinyurl.com/lzep4t
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then gets mounted by horses.
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looking to prove their love of sheep.
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try to fob off the ideas of others as their own and yet fail miserably each and every time.
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http://tinyurl.com/pcaeb7
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people have been seeing imaginary big cats all over the fucking place for yonks. It's absolute crap. Burton is in Derbyshire (not a million miles from where I grew up). A very, very picturesque part of the country. In fact, when you think of stereotype England, Derbyshire comes close. However, it's all piss dull there and they can't stick to scrabble so are forever coming up with shit like this.
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because they just sit round playing pass the goat.
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or maybe Faro Rising. It'll be about one lonely virginal twat that haunts places where he isn't wanted. The first act will have him taunted in the local stables for not being man enough to give the local goat a seeing to. The second act will have him graduating to self harm, before the film climaxes with him reaching nirvana through jamming olives up his ass then savagely cornholing a chihuahua that wasn't quick enough to escape. I'm going to call it "Memories of Asimov" and can guarantee that the whole population of the asshole of Iberia will see it twice.
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Deep Rising, Hannibal Rising, Valhalla Rising, He's just talking complete shit. Deep Rising rocks by the way. Hannibal rising doesn't.
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one scabby little twat's dream of escaping from the shithole that is Lisbon. He handcuffs himself to the underside of a truck for Seville, but the Spanish just point and laugh at him before setting him on fire as an example to the rest of his nation.
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did kill Superman on the big screen. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not.
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also tend to like turdmen. can this be co-incidence?
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Where are you skippy?
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Sep 16, 2009 4:04:43 AM CDT
AsimovLives... A quick question...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Have you finished with Madeleine McCann yet? Her parents miss her, mate.
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How did I not think of that. You know he took her to Austria for his holiday's last year.
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Sep 16, 2009 4:13:44 AM CDT
So, I saw The Thing on the big screen last night
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Fuck it was great. The print quality was amazing for an older flick. And although I only watched it for the first time at the start of this year (!?) I found it much scarier and more gory than I did on dvd. It reminded me of the huge difference between cinema and dvd. I've kinda become blase about seeing films at the cinema, but there really is no comparison. And I love the ending. So fucking bleak. I hope whomever tries to do a sequel or prequel dies a horrible, fiery death. Preferably at the hands of a bearded bloke with a bottle of JB in one hand and a flame thrower in the other.
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but a sequel is a much worse one. The ambiguity of the ending is what makes it great.
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Sep 16, 2009 4:27:43 AM CDT
Yeah, I'd put money on Childs being the alien
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
And that would've been the sequel. A prequel is an awful idea, because it's completely pointless, as all prequels are. My theory with prequels is... If it's such an interesting story, you'd START with the fucking prequel.
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That you just recently got to experience The Thing for the first tiem.
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...if they actually *were* Swedish(loved that running joke, btw) and it was directed by the guy who did "Let the Right One In".
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Sep 16, 2009 4:30:52 AM CDT
To finish an unfinished thought
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Yeah, I'd put money on Childs being the alien. But the great thing about it is there is no way of knowing. And the sequel obviously would be the rescue team discovering them and Childs would end up being the alien. Unnecessary and unwanted.
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Sep 16, 2009 4:33:08 AM CDT
I have no idea why I never watched it
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Especially because I've owned the dvd for YEARS!
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When I should be watching a lot more older stuff. I used to watch nothing but old stuff (5 for $5 at the video store), but nowadays it's down to probably 2 out of every 10 is an older flick.
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What a twat he is.
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god help you all
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What's his AICN screen name going to be?
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Spawny git.
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Sep 16, 2009 5:12:23 AM CDT
Jeez, just what the world needs... Chipps Jr.
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
A goon-swilling, sniff bum and run loving, spawn of ipswich. Just kidding. I'm sure (hope) he/she will be just like mum. Congratulations, mate. Glad to hear the boys can still swim.
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Just don't call him Damien Derek
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Loony twat.
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We could only be so lucky. Jarv-Jarv I've heard about the BIG BrIT CAT sightings(!)--they do the same thing in Maine, usually it's a cougar that's gotten lost and is wandering thru(no not Courtney Cox) the area. I have plenty of relatives that are Mormons, basically it's Ned Flanders time. They're (outwardly) clean-livin' etc but just like youse and me otherwise-for the most part(s). The Pentacostals though-you might wanna make sure the kids are outta the room when that subject is broached.
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-Bronson and all that-
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Just to annoy me even more that the one dayers weren't played before the tests!
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I didn't realize!
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What the hell are you doing back 'round these parts!
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It looks expensive.
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not oporto's finest. 7-0 may well be on. Never mind, I'll have to console myself with the fact that WE WON THE ASHES.
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Congrats Chipps!!!!!
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You lucky sonabitch.
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so i've been busy. still try to drop in from time to time. have a good one all.
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We have bear sightings in CT, but that's only when my bear gets loose and "visits" other neighborhoods. Honestly, they can adopt another dog.
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Tou-fucking-ché...
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It was the same when we got whitewashed in 06-07. Some genius scheduled the one dayers afterwards, which we duly won. And I didn't give a toss then, but every Aussie I knew patronised me with "well done mate, still we've got the Ashes back".
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at AsimovLives belief in his own self-importance. "V For Vendetta is lame, yeah you read it right" He's such a massive cunt, but sometimes his ridiculously OTT rants do amuse me just because I can picture him in his hut, sitting at his computer, frothing at the mouth and madly typing away at a post he believes will matter.
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V for Vendetta is fucking lame. Well, I suppose by the law of averages he had to be right eventually.
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That's the part that amuses me. Like he's making some bold statement or something.
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hopefully he'll melt down again.
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mind you, we've given him such a beating recently, I'm not surprised his self esteem is a bit lower than usual. Doesn't seem to stop him
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Anyone seen this?
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With Pitbulls running around. Sounds like white trash. I've know very clean and very dirty mormans. Usually the dirst ones are the ones that just keep having more and more babies.
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Kids are the greatest thing in the world.What in the hell is Liam Neeson thinking by being involved in an A-Team movie?
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You perv
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Sep 16, 2009 8:36:53 AM CDT
"Kids are the greatest thing in the world."
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Just ask that cretin AsimovLives.
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or Kids as in baby goats- because we all know about his penchant for buggering defenseless animals
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So Disney bought Marvel. Many have wondered what would become of the Marvel Island at Universal's Islands of Adventure now that Disney owns characters that are currently at a theme park in direct competition with their own in Orlando. While this isn't confirmed as being Marvel's replacement, I wonder if this is it? The Magical World of Harry Potter? http://www.collider.com/2009/09/15/tons-of-new-images-and-videos-for-the-wizarding-world-of-harry-potter-at-universals-island-adventure-in-orlando/ The interesting thing here, however, are the roller-coasters. Marvel Island had the Hulk Coaster and Doom's Free Fall and the 3-D Spider-Man ride. Nothing in these descriptions appear to replace the first two. There is a mention of a twin dragon roller-coaster, but Universal already has that in their "Fantasty" Island area. However, there is mention of some sort of immersive Harry Potter attraction- I wonder if that could be the replacement for the 3D Spider-Man ride? Or perhaps they are going to combine both the Marvel Island with the Fantasy Island to make it one big Harry Potter world? Interesting. I've only been once, but I remember Jurassic Park island being my favorite one of all.
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It's money for old rope for disney
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Is that its pretty much a launching point for an homage to that Twilight Zone episode, the one where the two stranded astronauts are the only ones left and can't trust the other, so they sit and stare at each other, afraid to fall asleep, thinking the other will kill him in his slumber. The Simpsons did it with Homer and Burns when they got snowed into that cabin and started imagining the other having ghostly armies backing them up. Burns had NAzi snowmen, of course.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark_episode
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That camera was the one used for Curious Case of Ben Button. I was just messing. I wouldn't know what to do with that thing even if I had the money.
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That one of the guys on my soccer team is like big into making short films and just won some short film festival. He never says anything so I had no idea, need to talk to him to see what he's done.
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Good job on the kid.
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I had no idea it was shot on High-Def. How strange; it doesn't seem to have as many fancy technical terms as I'd imagine a camera comparable to 35 mm film would.
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at the moment. Not for me, there's plenty of good drinking years left in me.
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Or was that just my mother...
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Sep 16, 2009 9:58:18 AM CDT
Please Jarv, I'm begging you...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Do EVERYONE a favour and don't have kids! End the misery in our lifetime! *poke* hehe
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You reading the new Marvel Zombies? Are you reading a lot of comics?
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Doesn't matter, I keep my blood alcohol level too high anyhow.
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true but they take up too much of your free cash.
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Sep 16, 2009 10:14:31 AM CDT
I'm too selfish for kids right now
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I'd have to drastically change my lifestyle if I were to have kids. And I just don't want to do that.
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I keep imaging me and my wife like that smart couple from Idiocracy, being compared to some idiot white trash just keeps having more and more kids. Its pretty much true where I live, everyone stupid I know has a kid or 4.
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Was fucking awful. Now I'm mad at myself for watching it.
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I thought it was hilarious, but the only Zombies story I read was the first one. I need to catch up on that, though I do know that Deadpool's Zombie head is floating around now (and my friend is a huge Deadpool fan. I'm hoping to read the Pirate Deadpool story soon). I kinda stopped reading comics after Civil War ended. I just needed to cut back on my spending money. I tried to get back in with the Secret Invasion stuff, but I bought the first two issues and never read them. That's another problem- I'd buy the comics, get home, get busy with something else, and then forget all about the comic and never read it. So I'll get back in with these Zombie issues at least.
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I may now be able to go to bed at 9 o'clock. Just get in bed and turn that crap on and I'll be out.
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http://www.ticketmaster.com/artist/1344151?tm_link=edp_Artist_Name
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Its fucking awesome. You will find yourself literally lol'ing as the kids say. Its just zany fun. Its what I've been wanting in the Deadpool series this whole time. Me = huge Deadpool fan as well. I got my butt cheeks tatooed to look like his symbol.
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Sep 16, 2009 10:25:49 AM CDT
I thought Leno retired or something
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Does he have another show?
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is because like those 2 weeks I was gone 40-60 comics came out that I wanted. So I am still catching up. I'm still two weeks back. But last week and this week were slow so hopefully by the end of this week or next week I'll be able to write something.
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Leno won't fucking go away. And Conan is slowly becoming Leno.
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I much prefer Letterman. I did go and see Cosby on Leno when I was in LA.
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Doing better then D9 at the box office. I guess no one overseas wants to see D9? Fokkin foreigners.
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How was going to a late show? Like how long were you there?
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270,792 in South Africa. I wonder if thats a lot there or not.
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Transformers 2 made $2,377,411 there. You think they would want to see D9? Well maybe not, its like America not wanting to see W. or Wold Trade Center or good movies.
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Complaining about MM. Media Messiah. Giant cock-head. And showimg impotent rage at the shite job-market.
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Where he COMPLETELY SPOILS THE END of "THE ROAD". That fucking asshat. No spoiler tags whatsoever anywhere. I about lost my shit in that talkback. I guess they've pulled the story so that they can add the tag. Too late for me though.
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And seeking refuge from Herc. He made a post about that chick from Juno who wasn't Ellen Page, and I said she was his beard.
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Who cares about the Road anyway. I'm looking forward to its sequel like America's greatest film critic Richard Roper, The Book of Eli.
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Huh? Ellen Page isn't a 10 year old boy? Wha?
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They have a clip of Amanda Seyfried and Megan Fox from Jennifer's Body... on the one hand, it's fucking ridiculous because it makes the script (which I read) make even less sense - but then, Amanda Seyfried is hot. So it's a toss-up.
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The show is shot live. As in real time. It was interesting. Would've rathered going to Letterman though. I should've tried while I was in NY.
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Never heard of her.
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I said the Olivia chick was Herc's beard. As in he's overcompensating. Mostly because the chick had crazy eyes and looked anorexic, granted.
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Don't they bring out an opening act or something? Also when they cut to commercial break what do they do?
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It was pretty funny.
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Mama mia, Mean girls really dumb girl.
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http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1086543/ She isn't shot mounting a motorbike, but she doesn't require extra strength lens to make her look attractive
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In the Saul Bass style: http://thatandbasketweaving.com/dcpb/II/ Too bad they're sold out, damnit.
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Fucking SNL, Letterman and Conan all on vacation. Sucked.
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Shia LeBeouf was a guest bc of I, Robot. Also it was animal day, which meant lots of exotic animals crawling out onto the stage to piss on Leno's shoulder. During commercials the band plays music and we all chitchat.
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I know someone that worked on a project with her. Said that when the cameras stopped rolling, she would just talk about her dirty sex life, like how she liked going down on guys, sex in cars, and having guys come on her tits. Yowza.
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Olivia over Seyfried anyday. Though Olivia seems like a bitch, Seyfriend looks like she doesn't put out.
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I'm wrong.
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During commercial breaks they pretty much do fuck all. Before the show Leno comes out and talks for a few minutes. "Warms the crowd", explaining how it all works etc.
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hah - awesome.
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Now I want to see Jennifers Body.
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Sep 16, 2009 10:46:53 AM CDT
I was going to say that Seyfried chick does nothing for me
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
But now that Vaders dropped that nugget of info I've decided to give her a second chance. Yowza indeed.
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IMDB says she's friends with Nikki Reed. So yeah that makes sense now.
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I'm feeling ignorant in the hotty department.
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Is in Twilight and wrote the movie 13 and is pretty much her life.
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http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1880888/
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Anyone seen this film? The one with Cuba.
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TWICE! on the wikipedia page for Queen. Its 17 pages. Hopefully no one notices. We aren't suppose to really print shit, going green and all that bs.
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Anyone seen this?
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Well obviously Mrs Chipps is an incredibly strong and tough women so it will be alright. Congrats brother.
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About the tongue cleaner ThusSpakeSpymunk in the Superman TB? The guy is got some fucking bone to pick with me or something, He is being a complete asshole, misrepresenting my comments and lying about what I am saying.
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I've seen those big cat stories for a long time and know theya re BS but I figured it was time to ask somebody that is at least generally familiar(or in your case specifically familiar) with the area. Its a pretty funny story when you think about it. I wonder which pub it was cooked up in?
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The Dinner Game is funny. And I remember liking Brighton Rock a lot (haven't seen it since college).
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If it was Sweedish, it be really easy. Though it pretty much be the exact same movie. Have the sweedish crew discover the "Thing" or spaceship, then pretty much make a different version of The Thing.
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will be the dog running off. You know if done right could be alright.
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It totally destroys the "mystery" of them discovering where the dog came from. I like how the dogs is running from the helicopter, I don't need to see those events leading up to that point in time. Horrible.Just like a sequel would be an awful idea too. You just can't top that ending. Not every movie needs everything to transpire on film. I think the 'great' ones leave a lot of this up to the viewer to decide what happens next.
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they find out where the dog comes from in The Thing, so its not some strech.
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Ruff-ruff.
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the events unfold leading up to that point. The Thing should be a stand alone flick.
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With a completely different type of monster, like how "The Thing" and "The Thing from Another World" had completely different monsters.
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Huzz-fucking-ah. I work so hard goofing off.
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already a remake?But yeah, I guess you could remake it and put a different spin on it like Carpenter did. I think the original and the remake are the only original/remake combo that I love both films.
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The story of Chipps baby.
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any such suggestion is downright hackery.
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tomorrow, bitches.
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Were the best!
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Seeing that it was a remake, why not give some up and coming director a chance. Actually the guy who did Hatchet would do a decent job at it I think. Check out his movie Sprial if you don't think he can handle good acting.
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And if a) a great horror director wanted to remake it; b) he had a great new monster idea and spin on the story; and c) had a different title (maybe WHO GOES THERE, the same as the book, but that would imply a shape-shifting alien), I would not be against it.
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And it is good? I find that very hard to believe. I hated Hatchet.
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Sep 16, 2009 12:27:14 PM CDT
What the fuck is the point of a prequel?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
It would just turn a 2 hour flick into a four hour flick, adding NOTHING except more kills. The only thing I'd be interested in finding out is how the hell that bloke managed to do such a hack job on his own throat! "Don't remake it, Don't prequel it, Don't sequel it. Any such suggestion is downright hackery." Fuckin' A.
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Come on- we were talking about the need for a bit of originality. Don't adapt the thing again (and that goes for The puppet masters too)
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I think that the best case scenario is to leave it alone. There's so much that hasn't been done before so instead they decide to return to classics. The Thing was a flop on release as well. I can see the thinking now (fucking marketing whores) "Philibrick, why wasn't the thing successful, and can we make it so today" "Well sir, we've got an audience, but to connect with today's youth we need some bitchin' CGI 'splosions and a bit more gore" Fuck no.
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Sep 16, 2009 12:33:04 PM CDT
"some bitchin' CGI 'splosions and a bit more gore"
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I can tell you right now, because I just saw it 24 hours ago... The Thing does not need any more fucking explosions and it certainly doesn't need more gore. It has shitloads of both.
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But I think their could be originality if you adapt in an interesting way. You have a certain amount of rules (men in a Arctic research station, trapped, fighting an Alien monster). Now change and shape everything else in the movie to make it original. Think of it as a Haiku.
BTW - When I was in college I wrote a big THE THING rip off. These scientist in the Arctic uncover a frozen giant humaniod and bring it back to the station, where it thaws off and goes on a killing rampage. It turns out to be Frankenstien's Monster, having frozen after leaving Captain Walton at the end of the book Frankenstien (Yes, shitting idea but hey, I was in college at the time and heavily into cheesy ideas). -
Is almost a redo of the Thing. Similar premise and all, but small town not north pole (or was it south pole?)
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You know they'll strip all that "boring character shit" out of it, because "who gives a fuck about some fucking guys chatting" and add some fucking crack whore like Megan Fox "need some T&A" as a geneticist or some shit. By the way, Hollywood, if I see any of this shit that I've just posted (I was taking the piss) in a "new" version of the thing then I'm coming for you.
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crap film.
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Sep 16, 2009 12:39:06 PM CDT
Just watched trailer for PARANORMAL ACTIVITY
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Looks Blair Witch-y, but could be good.
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Called Spiral, its pretty good. Very Hitchcockian. I liked it a lot. Its probably the best performence from the dude from The Hottie and The Nottie, Avatar and Waking Up in Vegas video. Oh and the Matrix nerd from Grandmas boy. I thought Hatchet was ok, Harry over hyped it. I saw like that Behind The Mast, Wrong Turn 2 and Hill Have Eyes 2 which were all a lot better then I thought they would be. Behind the Mask was the best by a long shot though.
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I think we're watching the Wire tonight. I saw all of this series when I had insomnia a few months ago and Mrs. Jarv was sleeping, but she's listed them all and we're getting them fairly regularly now.
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is superb. Fucking brilliant film.
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Everyone makes it sound good. Just hope they don't have that Alice Cooper song on the soundtrack. Ugh.
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Let me have my guys over at IMDB run a check for you real quick.
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Alice Cooper. Praise Allah.
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Don't know what Jarv hated about it. I have that guys other movie sitting at my house right now. Gonna get on that tonight maybe...probably not.
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I never saw the first remake, but I did see this one. Bleh. Not as terrible as some other horror films and remakes I've seen, but it really wasn't that great. But sometimes I can't stop myself from watching it. I just didn't need to see that brutal rape scene. And wtf is up with that final shot?
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Here's an excerpt. I'm interested: http://shelf-life.ew.com/2009/09/04/nick-cave-death-bunny-munro/
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Really don't remember it. What rape scene? the girl tied to the bed I think? Nor do I recall the final shot. I just remember it being better then the first and being a good movie for that genre. Also the por-a-potty monster was pretty nasty.
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We are talking the remake's sequel, not the original Hills Have Eyes 2, right?
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from like a couple years ago. The one thats not directed by the guy who did Haute Tension.
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National Guard, which I thought was a pretty realistic portal of National Guardsmen
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Yeah the female soldier was kidnapped, and I believe we were subjected to a few shots where the massively fat mutant has his way with her, with her bent over the table crying I believe. I did give the movie bonus points for having one of the mutant relatives not be evil; he helps lead the soldiers and shows them the way out of the underground cave system they'd been trapped in. The final shot, as I remember it, was the surviving soldiers making it out of the caves and back up to the surface. Then the camera pulls back, and the frame we'd been watching suddenly becomes a video screen and we pull back behind someone, over the shoulder style, who'd been watching the whole thing surveillance style. Almost like the US Army knew about the mutants the whole time and knowingly put the soldiers out there to see if they'd survive the "test". I know Wes Craven wrote the script, and I think I remember hearing him say it was his commentary on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, but jeebus cristo. I blame the director.
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The mutants having all sorts of up-to-date technology and they'd been watching the soldiers the whole time. It was very ambiguous. There was nothing there to concretely say it was the US Army watching. Coulda been aliens. Kang and Kodos pulling a Twilight Zone spoof.
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http://tinyurl.com/mzdzpThe shared dream of Samurai monkeys is one step closer to happening.Now back to bed.
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Sep 16, 2009 1:49:59 PM CDT
aaarrrggghhh! I can't view it...it's blocked at work
by just pillow talk
Fucking IT maggot muthafucking drippy whores!Samurai monkeys...fucking wa-hoo! The dream is alive!
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Sep 16, 2009 1:50:52 PM CDT
fuck...this is possibly the best movie news I've heard
by just pillow talk
Hollywood can be saved!
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Now I remember that shot now. I thought it was either the mutants have tecnology and maybe there is a brain bug of some sorts. Or its part of some military evil scheme. Do you not remember the topless chick tied to a bed? Wasn't there some nasty birth scene or something at the begining?
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The Superman TB is full of Tongue Cleaners.
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So I don't recall a naked chick tied to a bed.
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Between Hills 2 and Wrong Turn two a return to practical effects. Especially since Wrong Turn 1 was like all digital.
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I saw an interview with Carpenter years ago, I think he said he had a few ideas about where he wants to take it. I've seen a lot of people talk about how Childs must be the alien because his breath doesn't steam in the final shot; Carpenter put this down to the lighting or shot set up, it wasn't deliberate on his part.
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He's just boring at this point. Sure you got some cool things in the comics, but he'll never be cool in theaters.
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http://tinyurl.com/pzptkq Joker GN review. Hope I'm not stepping on any toes, this is my first one and I plan to do them rarely because I can't afford any really new stuff.
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I post movie reviews here: http://tinyurl.com/oa9mom Are you not posting on Mymavra anymore?
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By Frankenhimer. Anyone seen it?
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Or the one with freaky Christopher Walken as a black angel?
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I want to see that.
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I haven't posted on MyMavra for a while, and no-one checked up on me. So I think I'll go it solo.
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Was a good review, Series7. Shame the film will never hit Bucks. We lack art-house cred.
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The theater that gets all the art house films, is in the mall. Mall theaters are usually the worse but this one is pretty nice.
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And Armand Assante. It was bugnuts. There's a great scene where the group crosses a lake to get away from the bear, and the bear follow them, underwater of course. Then it pops up and grabs someone, and you see it, shot from a long shot, a guy in a costume with a dummy for a person, tossing the man around by its jaws. Fantasticly schlocky,
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A mutant bear-fish, if I remember right. Something about how the pollution caused the fish DNA the mama bear ate to pass on to her child, or some shit like that.
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"Something about how the pollution caused the fish DNA the mama bear ate to pass on to her child"
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Fuck, that would be a scary ass movie. The image in my head is just freaking me out. Brrr.
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Its a man-eater!
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Sep 16, 2009 4:31:30 PM CDT
"mama bear eats with her vagina"
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
That is some scary shit... but what about the elephant that devours mens heads with his asshole? http://tinyurl.com/yulszo
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The remake is actually better than the shitty original, IMO.
The sequel to the remake is horrible. The National Guardsmen have to act like complete fucking morons(Hey, I'll go take a piss over here by myself) to get killed by the mutants. I really hate that shit. -
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He was 73. You know-from Laugh In and all over TV etc?
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Fuck. I remember him from movies Sal: The Long Goodbye, Nashville (Haven Hamilton, "We Must Be Doing Something Right to Last 200 Years"), head Illinois Nazi in the Blues Brothers, Monster in the Closet (fucking Paul Dooley was in that as well) and a shit load of other movies.
Celebrity Death is the Juggernaut this year - nothing is stopping him. -
I didn't know he was still alive.
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was GREAT in Nashville. For some reason, I barely remember him in The Long Goodbye (way underrated movie--Gould is awesome and so his cat). I need to watch that one again.
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But R.I.P Henry.
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I just got done reading this:
http://tinyurl.com/normfa
Which is so ridiculous it comes off as satire, but maybe not? And so I was wondering if this jackass is a fairly well-known scourge on British society. Between that and a couple of other links I unwisely clicked on the site, my blood pressure is running a little too high for independent research.
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Damnit =(.
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http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/09/16/obit.henry.gibson/
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Good dry humour, and I remember him as a bad guy on Simon and Simon if I remember right. It was funny.
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I thought the way the National Guardsmen acting pretty much like every National Guardsmen I've ever met.
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arguing that much about a mediocre summer movie is as lame as lame can be. On the other hand AssholeLife gets all the pummeling his masochistic heart desires, so that's good.
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That was in bad taste, there *is* a war going on.
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Finally saw the trailer last night. Looks like it'll get some release in the states.
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Whatever. Not my fault I know a bunch of National Guardsmen.
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Just saw the trailer for Clockwork Orange in HD. They just don't make them like that anymore. While the Brosnon trailer was crazy, but that's fucking insane.
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Ong Bak 2 is coming to theaters next month! I hope it gets a retarded huge release.
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It looks like its trying to hard to be the next Guy Ritchie movie.
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This new Glee show is fucking terrible.
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Sep 17, 2009 2:51:43 AM CDT
"Whatever. Not my fault I know a bunch of National Guardsmen."
by continentalop
Series, if after Katrina we showed a bunch of poor black looters, wouldn't that be in bad taste? Even if you knew some black people in Louisiana and you thought "yes, they act dumb and are uneducated." Isn't it it still being insensitive and unnecessarily offensive?
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Just for the fact I bought my older brother a used copy of his book "Solitary Fitness."
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...you don't even have to draw that parallel, insulting men and women in uniform during a war is in extreme bad taste.
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that's the Daily Heil. The print equivalent of fox news. That guy is a cunt as well- He always makes out he's so anti censorship, but he's always the first cunt manning the barricades to prevent "filth" polluting British society. Twat.
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right wing British Euro-xenophobia: "It doesn't surprise me that Antichrist was heavily subsidised by the Danish Film Institute to the tune of 1.5 million euros." What the fuck has that got to do with the price of onions. I really wanted to avoid Antichrist, but I'm now tempted to see it. Typically the cunt hasn't seen it.
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"As soon as it's released on DVD, Antichrist will harm children anyway, deeply and irrevocably. But when did this principle of protecting only children arise anyway? What about harming adults?" Tell me, dickhead, how precisely will this film "harm children"- how the fuck are you so sure. I bet you almost nobody will watch this, and I can guaran-fucking-tee that it won't be seen in households where parenting is shit enough to let kids get access to 18 material. Wanker- why do they always play the fear card? I've got a clue for you scumbag- violence and depravity have been around as long as the human race. Cinema came around in the 20th century. What caused violence before then? Eh? Cunt.
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look at the comments below it. Fucking hate the Daily Mail. I wouldn't wipe my arse with it.
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MattmanReturns has been doing an honourable job of tormenting AsimovLives. Some choice moments... "Asimov is threatening to murder me" - MattmanReturns" "gramamr is no direct indication of a person's leval of intelligence." - AsimovLives "and now i'm off to watch TOS 3rd season" - AsimovLives
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Sep 17, 2009 3:34:14 AM CDT
What the fuck happened to my choice moments?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
It just decided not to fucking post them? What the fuck?
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Sep 17, 2009 3:38:54 AM CDT
Choice moments... You better work you fucker
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
"And clearly I got to him. Because he's used the term "grammar nazi" about fifty times since." - MattmanReturns "The bullet is waiting you" - AsimovLives "Asimov is threatening to murder me" - MattmanReturns "and now i'm off to watch TOS 3rd season" - AsimovLives
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But I decided it would be a waste of time. What's the point?
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It's so nice to see that you and that bloke in the Superman TB could make up and become BFF's. So sweet.
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is indeed full of tongue cleaners
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but I'm going to read that.
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what the fuck does that mean? What a twat
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Nothing like a fuckstick troll to keep the tb's interesting.
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without me bothering to click into it, what the fuck is going on in that Nolan TB? They're up to 5000 posts!
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which is hilarious, because he's just copying and pasting the original (and worst), but is somehow more coherent.
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Sep 17, 2009 4:21:39 AM CDT
Well this is just embarrassing
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Commandante kwisatzhaderach
by AsimovLives Sep 16th, 2009
12:55:24 PM
May i have your permission to engage? I already set my phasers for FUCKING FUN!
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Sep 17, 2009 4:25:59 AM CDT
What the fuck is a "Pedalbacker"?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Pray tell.
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Sep 17, 2009 4:38:54 AM CDT
The Pedalbackers are the guys who were on the Oldman TB
by continentalop
And got it over 10,000. We then went to the Spider-Man TB and took it around 2 or 3,000 I believe, before jumping to the Nolan TB. It is starting to loose steam now.
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que?
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That I think will completely & forever make him realize taste is subjective and give up on crusading against Star Trek, but I part of me realizes he will just ignore it despite the fact that it is flawless logic on my part.
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They're chagian clones. We use twitch as a site to talk about anything because A)We tend to be interested in the actual topic, and B)All the films are usually a good jump off point. Those cloning tongue cleaners just pick any subject and boost the numbers. Pencil Jihad on them.
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he struggles with English.
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It is more of a goofy hangout for people to get away from all the negativity of the AICN TBs. Normally there isn't any sort of problems or people attacking anyone, except for the fight between toad and subs.
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But it is fucking long. Like over 12-15 paragraphs. I got in a debate with earlier in a different TB, and the thing is a number of other people said my logic and argument was pretty damn solid.
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Sep 17, 2009 4:48:56 AM CDT
"Lots and lots of 70s & 80s comic book talk."
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Isn't that the cure for insomnia?
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what a cunt. If he was British he'd be a daily mail reading tory cunt.
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We can reminiscent about them for hours. And so can a couple of the other guys there.
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I only saw the first one. I stand corrected.
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It would bore me to tears though, because I would have absolutely nothing to add to the convo. I'd be an observer. It's like when I'm in a meeting at work where I don't actually have any input. I literally start nodding off and have to concentrate to keep myself awake.
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Ragging on Coughlin's restaurant.
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Sep 17, 2009 4:55:31 AM CDT
Where's your essay for the goatfucker?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I'd like to read it.
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In the Star Trek TB in a couple of minutes
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did you get through the whole thing without once calling it a goat, sheep, pig or chicken defiler? Also did you refer to it at any point as having been mounted by donkeys and horses? If not I think you might have missed a fine opportunity.
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Sep 17, 2009 5:14:24 AM CDT
It's like when I'm in a meeting at work where I don't actually h
by lost jarv
What's this? Every meeting your in. An Aussie with input. That's as unlikely as a frog doing algebra.
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a showering Brit.
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a physically attractive Brit.
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a Brit not on the paedo register.
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a Brit that doesn't fancy his sister.
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I might have to print that out and read it on the shitter. Epic!
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Plus I don't have the bad blood with him that you guys do.
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But fuck, I know it is a waste. He will come back saying I am wrong and that I am talking about PREFERENCES or something.
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have to be taught how to wipe his own arse.
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We've already done them all. Pointless really, especially when you consider that WE WON THE ASHES.
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That's an epic dissection of him, but it's pointless because his English isn't good enough and he uses farm animals as his aesthetic standard.
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I gave it my best and just have to see how he responds.
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I was just kidding. I wanted to throw out an insulting jab at Portugal in the header. I know that's not how you operate. I just left a tounge in cheek suggestion in that TB. Don't take it seriously it was in jest.Me and Jarv have a long history with asslife, and while I won't speak for Jarv, I will say we have both went down the road trying to talk to the worthless shitbird as if he had two IQ points to rub together. It doesn't work because the walking jizz trap for donkeys is, at its core, a miserable, pendantic, intolerant and stupid fuck hole.
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due to insomnia. Elektra for fuck's sake. What was I thinking? That it would miraculously have stopped sucking?
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Excluding fucking nuts like Shuginshin or Sector (who was banned) or first_rule_of_fight_club (who was banned).
And that is lockes and Media Messiah.
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but other than that, spot on. I was alright with him for a long time, even if he did irk me with his crap about stupidity and stupid films. Then AvP:Rectum came around, and he was frothing at the crotch over it. Much in the same way he does when a sheep's in heat. So I called him on his hypocrisy and it's been downhill since then.
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BRING THE FRED MATTER
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whatever handle known Fascist AnimalStructure is under. Most I don't give a fuck about. Lockes is a tool, sure enough, but he's pretty harmless.
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Because if it did, you are only two more miracles away from being sainted.
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what's Dark Reign?
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He is so fucking far gone he is harmless. He is like a lone Klansman protesting outside a black Baptist church. You are more amazed at his stupidity and worried for his safety than you are annoyed or offended by what he says.
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For some inexplicable reason it still sucked like a black hole. I was surprised, too. There's a glorious piece of dumbhouse hiding in there, but it just gets dragged down through gross incompetence. How hard is it? Hot female ninja assassin fights other ninjas- some of whom have magic powers. That should have been gold.
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""packing some candy" Because thats how he lured Madeleine McCann to his car." That's fucking brilliant.
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Period. He picks these SO easy targets to hate-Mikey Bay?!?! C'mon I at least admit to Liking his movies-well okay Pearl Harbor blew--but know them for what they are. C'mom Mammaries, let's see you get reallll brave--say you think Cokey sucks or Apatow is lame or one of those other sacred cows around here. Sad little Ovine-addicted sap. He liked Aliens Vs Predator???? No shit really Jarv? da nerve.
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I heard a kid in the school talking about it. I may be dim, but I thought Norman Osborne had been dead for 30 years.
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The Kid with the Golden Arm. My favorite Kung Fu movie ever.
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you asked about Brighton Rock- it's superb. A real classic.
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what happened was the Red Band Trailer was released (I was guilty of judging it sight unseen- but it was obviously shit). He jumped up and down like a sugar addled little child about how he had booked a ticket for it. That quote I keep using is genuine- he actually wrote that. Revolting little hypocrite.
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In one of the dumbest fucking ideas ever (The Clone Wars Saga) in the 90s.
You should probably have Series explain it, but basically Dark Reign is a big event where Osborne and a bunch of other Super-Villains (the major ones who all represent some sort of field or some shit) team up and created an alliance to try and help each other in reaching their goals and maintaining power.
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I should have had The ZOmbie Survival Guide and 9 Episodes of The Wire by now, but we're getting fuck all. If I fail to make 500 films, it's because of this.
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Cheers. That sounds terrible.
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Because I firmly believe that out of everbody that posts on TB he is truly mentally ill. He can be annoying true but I really think he's gone around the bend and is heavily medicated. Plus he named himself after a pedo character from Lost so that says something. And no I'm not a doctor but I did stay at a Holiday In Express last night.Damn Jarv you're right I did forget pretentious and I thought about it too and didn't write it down.
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then go for a smoke and lunch. See you in a bit,
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Just read his fucking post. The guy obviously suffers some form of paranoia and schizophrenia.
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Last year when he was working for the Ron Paul campaign and he spamming TBs with god awful lies and bullshit for the 2 months Ron Paul had money. I am well aware of his pernicious brand of asshattery
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It is 4AM here in LA and stayed up way to late again.
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But he exists to keep both The PaZoozoo and MrGeyser in business, so-there's always THAT. ZFisk-Thanos. MrGeyser-Draxx the Destroyer(In dark green and purple motif) and PaZooz-ummmm well Adam Warlock would be prob. fitting but not so sure here...
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Sep 17, 2009 6:29:37 AM CDT
I dont think lockesbrokenleg actually believes what he writes
by d.vader
I get the feeling he does it all to get a rise out of everyone, and I can't recall him ever being insulting or offensive. Media Messiah, on the other hand, is just a fucking looney.
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(from what I've understood based on reading other comics, though not these specifically) During the Marvel Civil War, the US government gave a bunch of super-villains the chance to win their freedom if they would work for them during the Civil War. This group of supervillains became The Thunderbolts. Then came the SEcret Invasion in which we learned the Skrulls had been infiltrating Earth for years. Deadpool found out the weapon that could kill the Skrull queen, but Norman Osborne paid Deadpool a shitload of money for the information. Osborne then killed the Skrull queen and became Earth's Hero for doing so. Somehow he then became head of SHIELD, and once he became head of SHIELD, he either kicked out all the newly registered Avengers, or he replaced them. Either way, the Avengers are now made up of Super-villains, but I don't think the public knows. Osborne is pretending to be Iron Man and is now Iron Patriot. Wolverine's long lost son from Japan is pretending to be Wolverine, Bullseye is pretending to be Hawkeye, the new Venom is posing as Spider-Man, etc etc. Hence the "Dark Reign". Again, I'm not sure if the public knows about all this, but they do look to Osborne as their hero, like Lex Luthor at times.
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So what happened to the Green Goblin? Has the character been retired then?
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why does everything have to be interlinked?
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What the fuck
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So Wolverine has a son? Bad.
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Sep 17, 2009 7:07:12 AM CDT
"Wolverine's long lost son from Japan"
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Um.... okay. THIS is why I don't read comics.
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My bear is very anxious to see that.
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Anyone else want to see this? I think I've seen all of Solondz's flicks. They are pretty fucked.
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but he's soft really. I caught him crying at Winnie the Pooh once.
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Fact. Hehehehehehe
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Sep 17, 2009 7:28:07 AM CDT
Thus far, AsimovLives hasn't addressed Conti's post
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
And he responded to others (he loves you Jarv). Which just goes to show what an ignorant dumbshit he is.
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Does Babelfish translate into goat?
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there's no 2 ways about it.
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about Dark Reign, I'm even more confused. Why did the government pardon the supervillains? That doesn't make sense, except as a shitty plot device to put a group of supervillains in power. Fuck's sake.
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Maybe when you pansied him over there, but now that he's here...he's become quite the bitter angry bear, and he chomps people at the slightest hint of irritation.
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fuck's sake.I'm going to go and read the TB and hope someone explains it.
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How dare you Jarv. As penance, I sentence you to read node 41811 in its entirety.
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apart from the fact that Joenathan is clearly a tool.
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not doing that again. And no, I do not want to read 10,000 odd posts.
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As penance for that less than changian faux pas, I sentence Jarv to year of tending to AsimovLives' goats.
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How did we arrive at the conclusion that Asi fucks goats? Did he let something slip or is it some sort of national characteristic?
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tongue cleaner, don't you savagedave?
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fucking please. So sayeth our lord, 2for2true.
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Camden goths that distressed him. There's only so much depression that one bear can ingest.
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I do enjoy that flick."It's called Kiss of the Dragon"."Kiss my ass!"
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Sep 17, 2009 8:46:48 AM CDT
Great. There's a whole fucking score of Asimovs now
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Each one more retarded than the last. This is like that DGDB fiasco.
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Yes really want to see. Its a sequel to happiness!
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It is actually a direct sequel! I did not know that.
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Fuck if I could explain it to you. DV did a good job. And I agree, does it really all have to be so interconnected. See my biggest problem with the interconnection and history is that say 20 years from now how the fuck is some 8 year old suppose to get ALL that back story unless they fucking teach it in college and he mager's in it in college. Its expecting a lot from casual fans and people just getting into it. And its annoying more then anything.
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different actors. Like Jon Lovits is now Pee Wee Herman. And Philip Seymour Hoffman is a black man, Dylan Baker is Ciarán Hinds and more. But if you've seen Palindromes, Todd messed with this concept before.
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I just remember the shocking parts to that movie.
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Sep 17, 2009 10:11:07 AM CDT
I saw Happiness at the cinema
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
And I still remember it pretty clearly. Like the scene with Lovitz in the restaurant. And Seymour Hoffman wanking onto a postcard and sticking it to his wall. Not to mention Dylan Baker. I don't think I need to see it again.
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I don't really hate anyone. I don't care enough, and I've realized that in a forum like this if someone wants to be an idiot then they are going to be an idiot and nothing you can do about it. Regarding AsimovLives. He reminds me of the Law and Order detectives Vincent D'Onofrio, Chris Noth, Jeff Goldblum, Christopher Meloni and the Lawyer Sam Waterston. Because even though they differ in tactics they usually end up getting the bad guy in the same way by talking them into admiting defeat. Its actually pretty stoopid. Like with Goldblum or Vincent convince a guy that he's the killer because of this fact and that fact, in the guys own apartment. Also like Sam Waterston's character who thinks that he is right no matter what and that someone has to be wrong. Thats Assi. He thinks he is right to the T and thinks he can question you into admiting defeat by bringing up these "facts". And when you don't he resorts to name calling.
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But I don't remember Lovtiz at all. Like when I saw he was in it I went ?, I sort of remember his scene being very against type for him, but I can't remember why.
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Of like an old stereotype asian guy who runs a take out place or dry cleaners. Like when you try to tell him something he doesn't get it and just barks the same stuff back at you.
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Pretty crazy movie (not that its crazy just the idea IS crazy) because it came out in 2000, before all the wave of Superhero movie after Superhero movie. Like you watch it and go, ok this had to have been made last year or something, but they nailed so much about superhero's in general. It was never LOL funny but just humerous. I liked it. Also crazy in that Jamie Kennedy was actually funny, see that's how you know its old.
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Judy Greer and Paget Brewster, which isn't bad. Something about those two I like.
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Is more films about vampires.Also, more television programmes about vampires, more cartoons about vampires, more novels about vampires, more comic strips about vampires, more blogs about vampires, and more twelfth century epic romances about vampires.Really, vampires are just not being paid sufficient attention by every single fucking part of the media recently.(Please feel free to make use of your best sarcastic Homer Simpson voice for all of this post - thank you)
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Pretty good little film. Not likely to knock anyone's socks off, but it's worth a watch if you like offbeat low budget stuff. It's an amazing story - the kind of thing you absolutely would not believe if you didn't know it was true (Well, most of it is true).Also, it has Mena Suvari's boobs, if you like that kind of thing. She has corn-rows, though, and I have always believed that there should be a law against white women having corn-rows. It does not look good.
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Yeah I've seen that scene. She looks like white trash in the movie. Though she kind of does in real life as well.
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I just saw a shooting star and wished that the Shakespeare's of the movie world Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg would write Vampire Movie! OHHH I can't wait.
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She is supposed to look White Trash-y, so the corn rows do their job.
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Good job at totally fucking up your career some how. Same to you Thora Birch, if you even make movies anymore.
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Sep 17, 2009 11:39:55 AM CDT
Seriously, what is up with all this vampire business?
by franklin t marmoset
If this obsession with vampires continues, pretty soon they're going to hire a vampire to read my local news on the telly. She will be all sexy and angst-ridden and also have information about traffic delays on Gloucester Road.Even I'm bored of vampires and I've read five and a half Anne Rice novels.Enough with the fucking vampires already!
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I also saw her recently in that fucking awful Day Of The Dead remake, which made me sad. I'm not her biggest fan or anything, but she's better than that crap. Stuck may be low budget, but it's at least an interesting film. Day Of The Dead is bollocks.
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According to imdb, Mena Suvari is currently filming a comedy with Vinnie Jones and Rob Schneider. That should put her back on the top of the A-List, I reckon.Subject headings from the Mena Suvari imdb discussion board:biggest forehead everUgliest face ever, but ass molded by god himselfI love that Ass!!!Massive Lesbian CrushThat imdb place is even weirder than the Ain't It Cool. They're a right strange bunch over there.
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New Vampires only Talkback on AICN!
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All the best to the CoC faithful (you bunch a cunts).
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AICN is just a place filled with guys who live in their mothers basement, which is true in my case, I don't think its the norm here. AICN is a place filled with a lot of cube workers and college age guys. IMDB is filled with idiot tweens and guys who live in their mothers basement.
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not been in anything good in years.
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and *poof* he's gone...
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Your thinking of Sarvino. We are talking about American Beauty/Pie girl.
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He's Portugese and its the national pass time. It used to be fun to point that out because little missy would go ballistic. Now he just lies there and passivly takes it which is all he's capable of doing.
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Whats wrong with being insensitive and unnecessarily offensive. Being that most of the Guardsmen I know don't care? They know they are stupid and dumb. Its not like I'm picking on a handicap person are something. Also??? Who fucking cares what I put here. I know a guy that got botted out of both the Navy and Airforce reserve. Most of the guardsmen I know use it as an excuse to pretty much never grow up or complete college.
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Go to the imdb message board for any film that we all know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, sucks fetid donkey ass, like Transformers 2 or Pearl Harbour. Then look at the people defending them.If you REALLY want to induce feelings of suicide, do the same thing on youtube.
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Those movies at least have some technical aspect that awesome. Look up Year One, there is not a single good thing about that movie, yet it has its fans. Its SO bad in fact there are threads with its fans crying for haters to stay out.
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no one defends them on technical grounds, really. Listen to this tongue cleaner on TF2"How the hell did this movie got only 6.5? I'd put it up to 8.3 or 8.4! anything above 8. This movie was freakin unbelievable, it had a awesome storyline it was orginial, special effect were jaw dropping, it was heaps like the TV show, great acting, extremely funny, epic action scenes. Everything a transformers fan could want. It completely *beep* all over the first one, the first one was still awesome but this one was a thousand times better. Im stunned at the low rating."
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I enjoyed it. It was as incoherent, gimmicky and filled w/ Mikey Bay explosions as anything you'd ever wanna see. Plus it had Giant Robots. You need those.
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This sums up my feelings about TF2.http://tinyurl.com/kp78xa
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He's passed THAT, w/ flying colors. They don't call him Oporto Otto for nothin' you know.
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As the fonts and graphic titles for pornos and adult movies from the 70s. It is a lost art.
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Sep 17, 2009 6:59:42 PM CDT
Idea for Eli Roth and the other Hollywood guys who steal from he
by continentalop
I notice a plethora of Superhero and vampire movies. That leaves only one obvious option remaining - Vampire Superhero movie. Maybe fighting a Zombie Supervillain.
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Make it a cross-over. There's yer movie.
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We will throw in an army of Ninja Samurai Monkeys to get some of the Kill Bill money, and Hotel for Dogs crowd.
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There is a comc series, maybe a miniseries, about Vampires v Zombies. If I remember right the vamps had to protect the humans from the Zombies or else all thier food goes bye bye. I think there might have even been a zombie vampire in it. I apologize that I can't recall then name of the series. I just read it once but I think it might have either been optioned or is being made into a movie.If you go with glittering teen vampire heros don't they also have to be super pale and uber virgins?C'mon you have to admit Samurai monkeys is a cool idea. Did you catch that video link I posted above? Maybe you could also throw in a couple of giant robot lions for the Transformer crowd?
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It was great! That Chimp could throw down! I think that might have been Lancelot Link Secret Chimp in disguise. He was known to kick major monkey ass. He had skillz.
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2for2true sighting in the coax TB dealing with NBC Thursday night programming.
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Thanks for Lancelot Links name. Its been driving me nuts trying to remember it since I ran across that video the other day.
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My kiddiehood favorite. The Evolution Revolution.
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Amazing, isn't it? Fucking reads like satire, ESPECIALLY the part about not needing to even see the movie. Funny, because I was starting to suffer a little bit of Brit-envy, thanks to all the BBC docs freely circulating online.
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I keep writing posts and then erasing them. And wondering where I can find an etymology dictionary that's chronologically arranged.
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is that it is the first steps towards Planet of the Apes.
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tinyurl.com/mb87vxAlthough I couldn't really blame him, five or so years ago, that is.
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I'm feeling pretty stupid. First how do you open more then one internet box? Also what internet do you use, Safari or Mozilla? And where is the page down button? Thanks. Still getting used to the move.
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Vampire vs. Zombies. Well it looks like Marvel Apes is going to meet Marvel Zombies sometime in the near future. Marvel Apes are vampires.
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how do you copy and pasts using the key board?
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So was sunny. Community was ok and Parks and Rec should be having its best season season 2 of all comedy shows are always the best. I love this key board by the way.
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Who fights zombies. But I like the idea the of the Venture Bros' Blade spoof, Jefferson Twilight, a Fred Williamson/Shaft looking character who only hunts and kills Blaculas, better. Oh my I'm drukn. Been wrewatching LOST and then tried to watch Ed Wood for the first time. So inspiring.
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Tim Blake Nelson in Surrender Monkeys Hulk when he turns into Leader. You could land a fucking plane on that forehead. And apart from American Beauty (where she played a sex object, not exactly challenging), I've not seen her in anything decent.
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... Emperor Zombie. Voiced by DAvid Hyde Pierce. Pretty funny.
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Fuck me. It's Burtons best flick. Back when he was great.
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She was in Mimic, which I love. I think she's retreated to tv obscurity hasn't she?
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The problem with Marvel Apes vampires is they don't glitter and teen girls (and house wives) won't go nuts for them.
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Or a movie BY Ed Wood?
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Are you and AsimovLives BFF's yet?
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I think even he is getting tired of discussing it. Either I am boring even him or he is just getting worn down and sick of it.
I would like to think he is flailing and doesn't know what to answer, but that isn't his style.
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I don't really have anything against him, unlike you guys. I don't have a history of any kind with him. I just don't like his idea that film isn't subjective to a certain degree. I find it very condescending against what I know and believe in.
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Sep 18, 2009 3:55:29 AM CDT
Where's that skiving layabout?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
He's obviously not working. He's obviously not showering. He's obviously not at the dentist. He's probably down Wimbledon Common trying to molest the Wombles again.
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Weak.
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I am going to bed.
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Yes! It's 1985 all over again! Hear's 'Call to your heart' by Giuffria playing in the background. Visions of weird mullets playing TWO(2) not ONE(1) keyboard at the same time arise. Back to the Sokko.
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I was working, I'll have you know.
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Fuck south london.
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although being bin scrounging pikeys they would fit right in to Tropical Paradise Camden.
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Fuck's sake
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Sep 18, 2009 8:17:42 AM CDT
There really is fuck all to see at the cinema right now
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Apart from 500 Days of Summer I have zero interest in anything. To boost our TB numbers (and because I'm bored) I'll go through them one by one.
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Um, no we fucking don't. I'd rather you go. I'll stay here.
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Sep 18, 2009 8:19:14 AM CDT
Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Um, cloudy with absolutely zero fucking chance of me seeing this shit at the cinema.
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The fucking useless twat with the hilariously bad accent from Narnia 2 and that tubby, foppy haired cunt who women inexplicably adore because he's completely unthreatening and he played Mr Darcy on the BBC. Um, no fucking way.
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2 1/2 hours? Fuck off! I'll wait til dvd where i can watch it over 3 or 4 sittings.
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Those two Crank cockmonkeys can go fuck themselves.
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Rumour Willis? Second only to Will Smiths kid in the "I'm only in this flick because of my daddy" stakes. Fuck off you cunt.
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Well, I do like Meryl Streep and kinda like Amy Adams, but a story about two annoying bitches cooking just doesn't do it for me.
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Has to be Edward Scissorhands. Ed Wood is good and fine, but Edward is his best because it's the one the made him TIM BURTON hot topics biggest fan for life. Plus I don't think I could watch Ed Wood over and over again plus it was a sense Elfman Burton film as well. I guess that may only be me because Ed Wood is #218 on IMDB's top 250 and Edward didn't make the list. Then again Big Fish is number 236 and that movie blew.
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I'm hoping a screw falls out of my monitor, rolls across my desk into the outgoing mail tray, where it gets taken down to the post room, then gets taken to the local depot where it ends up in a shipment container headed for LA, where it gets delivered to an office in Hollywood, ends up in the post room where it gets picked up by some brain damaged mongoloid making 4 bucks an hour and taken up to the office of David R. Ellis, where it drops out of the mongloids pile of mail onto the floor, then as the mongo leaves he slips on the screw sending mail everywhere and making Ellis jump out of his seat therefore spilling coffee all over his computer which starts smoking and sparking and sets off the sprinkler system which makes Ellis rush for the big pile of coke that’s sitting on is glass coffee table, but as he's rushing he also slips on the screw and smashes flailing into the coffee table which sends glass flying up in the air, and a large piece of which falls and slams straight into his fucking neck severing the jugular resulting in Ellis bleeding out and dying a horrible death.
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That description of Firth was golden.
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Has been in a few other things as well, The House Bunny is one. Too bad she looks more like Daddy then mommy.
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I fucking hate it. It's the bastard lovechild of Torture Porn and 90's postmodernism. Dreadful shit.
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Like Rick Baker. Yea he's amazing, but does he really need to get a nomination for Norbit. Same with Eastwood all of the sudden. While someone like Elfman has only gotten 4 noms through the years.
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Fuck IMDB. That flick was mediocre at best. Burton was in a purple patch from Beetlejuice to Sleepy Hollow. Then he went and made Planet of the Apes and he's been rubbish ever since. I blame WB. He worked on Superman for a year and a half before it falling through, so he went straight into PotA which was starting immediately. Terrible fucking choice, but he was obviously so pissed off that he just wanted a "go" picture.
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Am I the only guy who loved that book more then Where The Wild Things are as a kid?
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there's fecking loads of them. Kate Hudson for one.
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Was the last watchable Burton movie, because at least you could tell there he was trying. Its a complete fucking mess which is why its fun to watch and has Elfman's last memeorable score (still used in numerous trailers today). After that he's just done boring bland stuff riding on the good will from the past. Also while PotA sucked it still made bank, so Burton realized he can make more and try less.
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fuck that. Pointless exercise. Big Fish is a massive turd of a film. I thought I was the only person in the world that liked Sleepy Hollow. But I think I only like it because Jonny Rico is in it trying to act.
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Yes.
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Is by far worse. Because she just thinks she's better then jesus.
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fucking hate that as well. Christ, it was horrid.
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Sep 18, 2009 8:33:38 AM CDT
Sleepy Hollow is my third fav Burton... Maybe fourth
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
1. Ed Wood 2. Scissorhands 3. Sleepy Hollow or Batman Returns
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6. Beetlejuice 7. Batman Haven't seen the Pee Wee's and none of the others deserve a mention.
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Its Beetlejuice, Edward, Mars Attacks.
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Fuck off slag.
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Sleepy Hollow, Batman Returns, Batman. Mars Attacks is OK and does Nightmare before Christmas count? Everything else is shit.
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Jacksons kids. I say trainwreck for one, early suicide for the other.
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If Corpse Bride never happened. That pretty much proved Selick was the mastermind behind Nightmare.
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Annoying slag. The good thing about Rumour Willis is I reckon she'll be off in obscurity in about two years. Wish I could say the same for Smiths kid.
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Sep 18, 2009 8:44:02 AM CDT
The thing about Mars Attacks is...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
that it has moments of pure genius, but also moments of epic fail. "The international sign of the donut" is one genius moment. Nicholsons Vegas character is a fail.
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There's frigging hundreds of them- Sofia Coppolla. (I'm also alone in the world by hating every film she's made- I blame it entirely on having a functioning set of testicles.
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There's frigging hundreds of them- Sofia Coppolla. (I'm also alone in the world by hating every film she's made- I blame it entirely on having a functioning set of testicles). Not to be forgiven for The Godfather 3, either
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Gets probably 5 movies due to her fame. I'd say most stars kids get 1 to 2 movies and if they suck and bomb then they are done. But double the famous parents double the movies. And movies with your parents don't count. So we are 2 movies down. She's been in others, but unheard of movies don't count, she can live in direct to VHS world the rest of her life and that would be fine.
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Sep 18, 2009 8:46:26 AM CDT
And the score to Mars Attacks is great
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I'm probably the only person in the world that's not that into Nightmare. It's okay, but I don't love it. And Corpse Bride just bored the shit out of me.
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rather than being genuinley good.
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But it's got Tom Jones, so its mint.
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with his arms spread and birds are landing on them... That shits genius.
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She's a bitch yeah, but she's not a complete idiot from what I can tell, just annoying. Boy if she did die from OD could you imagine the pain Bruce will put someone through.
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Where the Alien's are running around with the translator is probably my favorite. Nicholsons Vegas character does fail though.
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Sep 18, 2009 8:52:20 AM CDT
"I predict OD and early death for her"
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Harsh, but fair.
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Sep 18, 2009 8:56:41 AM CDT
There's not one single Demi Moore flick...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I can think of that I consider good. The closest being Ghost.
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Debate yesterday was fucking retarded. The idea that AsimovLives believes that there is always a right and wrong about weather a movie is good or not makes sense, but what he doesn't realize that its only in his mind. I really wonder if he has any real life friends.
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But I forgot she was in that.
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I liked Charlie Angles 2. I don't know why I just do, its like a pregame show for 2 hours.
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Now and Then is a decent chick flick. Though I'm not sure how big her role was.
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That is bad. So I guess it evens out.
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The guys a complete fuckhead and he thrives on the attention of being a complete fuckhead.
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Fuck off!
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And pissed that they are leaving the U2 tour right before they come near me.
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caught the end of it. I had completely forgot about that flick.
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Charlie's Angels 2...awful. I hated the first one too.
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I didn't say it was good, i just like it.
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Sep 18, 2009 9:03:48 AM CDT
"But I can't think of a Bruce Willis movie that is bad"
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I know you're joking, but I'll play along... Color of Night, Last Man Standing, Mercury Rising, Disney's The Kid, Lucky Number Slevin, Perfect Stranger... I could keep going!
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Had no idea what that was.
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Enjoyable.
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I'm seeing them in November.
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The guy who made Batman Deadend has finally made a movie. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1270291/ Is it me or does that look like Boba Fett in the poster?
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the only one that isn't unwatchable is Color of Night. And that's because it's so hilariously bad. It's in Showgirls territory for so bad its good.
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Those bastards come within four hours of me, but on a fucking Monday then go waster their time in Europe where they ARE NOTHING! NOTHING!
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I'm surprised there wasn't a separte story for each of these poster on here. http://tinyurl.com/pbfxsw http://tinyurl.com/q5ucas http://tinyurl.com/org5kj
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This movie sounds awesome.
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http://tinyurl.com/omstjl
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I'd add North, The Whole 9 Yards, Armageddon and others to that list as well. Bruce has his stinkers.
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Sep 18, 2009 9:16:36 AM CDT
Anyone heard of a flick called "Splice"?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
It's by the director of Cube and Cypher. Two young scientists (Brody and Polley) achieve fame by splicing human DNA with the DNA of different animals to create a new creature. In the process they ignore their society's ethical and legal boundaries. The scientists name their creature "Dren", which is initially a deformed female infant, however, rapidly develops into a beautiful but deadly winged human-chimera. Here's a hilarious quote from the director... "This is a serious film and an emotional one. And there's sex... Very unconventional sex." That should get the kids in.
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I'm pretty sure Bruce is flawless.
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She's got two pretty good looking parents and yet she is blossoming into quite an odd looking young woman. She has totally been shafted by her DNA.I saw her recently in The House Bunny (Yeah, I saw The fucking House Bunny - AND IT MADE ME LAUGH!) and she wasn't too bad. Not embarassing, anyway. She'll need to be good if she's going to have a career. You know, to compensate for her weird face.P.S. I feel bad about saying these things.
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I'm looking forward to that. You remember that Harry animation with the half house and the bouncing head, that was another one of his films.
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And yet, somehow, it has not affected his god-like status.
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I feel like I'm the only person I know that's even heard of that book.
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the voices of James Caan, Bruce Campbell and Mr. T.
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Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs by Series7 Sep 18th, 2009
08:28:21 AM
Am I the only guy who loved that book more then Where The Wild Things are as a kid? Series by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looki ng_for Sep 18th, 2009 08:31:27 AM Yes.
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Please Charlie, don't become your brother! http://tinyurl.com/pb36eh
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Oh i thought that was for my POTA rant. its a good book!
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Yup, you were.
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Hollywood is going to rape and pillage the rest of my childhood book collection. Hello Where's Waldo, Goodnight Moon, Everybody Poops, Corduroy, The Berenstain Bears, and all of Shel Silverstein.
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Go figure. http://tinyurl.com/nm6epl
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Sep 18, 2009 9:48:48 AM CDT
Didn't they announce a Where's Waldo flick recently?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I'm sure they did.
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Film
A film based on the "Where's Waldo?" series of books has been pursued by various studios. Nickelodeon was the most recent studio to take an interest in the idea but when the regime at Paramount (Nickelodeon's parent company) changed, the project was cancelled.
In June, 2009, it was announced that Universal Studios and Illumination Entertainment had acquired the rights to turn Where's Waldo? into a live-action film.[1]
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You know Jason Bateman would make a good Waldo. Don't know why I just think so.
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Mr. Beaks get Top Story with his reviews but Capone doesn't?
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I need's to know.
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Sep 18, 2009 9:51:57 AM CDT
What's with Frankie and his drive by postings?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Why aren't you working you bludging bastard!?
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Sep 18, 2009 9:54:03 AM CDT
Batemans in too much shit as it is
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I like him, particularly because of Arrested Development, but he needs to stop being so prolific.
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really
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Sep 18, 2009 9:56:09 AM CDT
I'd say Adrian Brody for Where's Wally, but...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
all you'd have to do is look for that fucking beak of his and you've found him.
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I can't think of a worse idea than that, aside from the board game crap, that I keep waiting for someone to tell me is an April Fool.
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That movie is shit flavored shit.
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Sep 18, 2009 9:59:53 AM CDT
I think Ridley Scott's Monopoly...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
is possibly the most ridiculous thing I've seen.
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Not a big fan of Arrested either. And yeah he's in too much shit but nothing good. Maybe let Andy Samberg make Where's Waldo and make it a stupid comedy. With Magneto as the Wizzard.
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I saw the trailer for that the other day. I nearly threw up. It looks embarrassingly awful.
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Looks like Boba Fett Vs. Sand people or Jawas. It could be awesome...or suck hard.
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That stuntman flick he starred in was fucking ridiculous, and mostly awful. But I couldn't help but laugh at the "punch dancing" sequence. What do you mean Wizzard? Since when does Where's Wally characters other than Wally?
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Sep 18, 2009 10:04:39 AM CDT
Since when does Where's Wally HAVE characters other than Wally?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
That should read.
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The trailers for Sorority Row, Love Happens and Couples Retreat all in a row right before I saw The Perfect Getaway. I'm pretty sure thats the only time I've never wanted to see any of the movies previewed before a movie. They are the three most generic looking trailers ever.
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Love Happens and Couples Retreat together at the cinema. I was close to slitting my wrists.
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that keeps putting Wally into those shitty situations! He's got a dog as well. I'm a big Waldo fan. There used to be a cartoon show that before every commercial break would show a scene and pause so you could find Waldo.
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Sep 18, 2009 10:08:49 AM CDT
I also saw the Avatar trailer before The Thing
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
When I saw the internet trailer I thought it looked good, but I have to say it looks A LOT better on the big screen.
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Was bad, but I was drinking and saw it back to back with The Heartbreak Kid. I laughed more at both then I probably should have.
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"that keeps putting Wally into those shitty situations!" What? Aren't the books just random crown scenes and you have to try to find Wally as quickly as possible? That's what I remember anyway. Can you tell I'm not really a fan?
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I may make a bunch of money, but I bet A Chritsmas Carol makes more, so people will say its a flop. It'll probably make more then D9 but people won't like it as much. I know this because my wife has seen the trailer and she has 0 to no interest in it. She'll give it a go and looks forward to seeing it in theater, but she doesn't really care much for it. I can use her reaction to most movies wheather or not they will be big. And saying she doesn't really care means it won't be epic huge. I could be wrong on this one, but i'm usually right.
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That's just make take. I mean why else would their be a Wizzard following him around? I bet he caught Waldo banging his wife dressed him up in that stupid outfit and put him in these shitty situations where he sticks out like a sore thumb and keeps saving his ass right before he is killed just to do it to him all over again. And his little dog to!
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Totally forgot they call Waldo, Wally over there. Another fun Brit to American converstion. The original GI Joe script had he teaming up with Action Man.
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http://tinyurl.com/poczdj
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You have been waiting their whole lives for a Where's Waldo movie. http://tinyurl.com/pkbe9x
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Actually started as Wally. He is British.
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Was THE worst fucking flick of 2007. I fucking HATED that piece of shit. I did not laugh once and despised every character in it except for Monaghan. I'll never forgive the Farrelly's for that.
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NES game, it was hard as shit because crappy nintendo graphics make all the character indistinguishable.
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And wondered why everyone hated it, I thought it was pretty damn funny.
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Fucking forced the creator to change the name of his creation. "Although Wally is the name used in Handford's home country, and was the first title used, Handford and his publisher refer to the character and franchise in many press releases and interviews as "Waldo". In the publishing world the "Wally" brand has become inferior, dwarfed by merchandising and huge success of "Waldo""
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Wizard Whitebeard, first seen in The Fantastic Journey. In his first appearance, he was responsible for sending Wally on a quest to discover the truth about himself, and he has tagged along on Wally's travels ever since.
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Sep 18, 2009 10:22:41 AM CDT
"I could be wrong on this one, but i'm usually right."
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Talk yourself up, mate! I don't believe Avatar will be HUGE, but it will make a lot of money. The major issue is... the chicks. If you want a massive hit, they are the key. Your missus will give it a go, probably because she's more savvy about flicks than the average chick. But 99% of chicks will see giant blue aliens fighting on winged creatues against marines and say "NO FUCKING WAY!". That's what my missus did. And you need the chicks in to make it a bonafide hit.
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I'm going to books a million at lunch to pick it up!
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I wish I could post more, but I can't. It sucks, much like Crank 2, which I also saw recently (for some reason).Vroooooom, and I'm off again!
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I think I've been hanging around Asi too much lately.
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Sep 18, 2009 10:26:35 AM CDT
Theres a shop called "books a million"?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
That doesn't even make any fucking sense.
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Waldo appears in the cinema version of Apocalypto for just one frame, in a field of corpses. What other random ass things did Mel Gidson do in that movie?
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How come I didn't hear about it On Saturday, September 12, 2009 a recreation took place in downtown Chicago. The recreation featured all of the charcters, Waldo, Wanda, Wizard Whitebeard, Odlaw, & Woof, hiding throughout downtown Chicago and invited others to come and find them. [5] [6]
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Happened back in April, it was a world record attempt.
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Sep 18, 2009 10:29:40 AM CDT
"Waldo appears in the cinema version of Apocalypto for just one
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
in a field of corpses." That's awesome. I haven't actually seen Apocalypto. I now need to watch it ASAP!
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Bodycount: 114 Wow i need to see that movie again.
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At 01:31:34) There is a single frame in which Waldo (from Where's Waldo?) is seen lying on the pile of dead bodies.
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I shall indeed pause then. Mad Mel is a genius.
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When is his new flick coming out?
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Hit APPLE-T for a new tab or APPLE-N for a new window. Or you can do go File and open from there.
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January 29, 2010 That's going to be a good few weeks, with The Wolfman and Shutter Island also coming out.
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thanks man. Do you use Safari or Mozilla though?
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It was like 4:30 in the morning over heaaaaaaaaaa!
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Shutter Island and Wolfman. Especially since i know the twist of Shutter Island and after I heard it I was like, man that is fucking obvious in the trailer. Wolfman will only be good because if Hopkins is a werewolf as well, which I'm pretty sure he is from the trailer. I'm not a big fan of BDT, I don't know why he's so beloved around here.
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I don't have any other internet browsers installed on my computer yet. Though on PC, I prefer Firefox.
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A movie I'd never seen before bc it hardly ever came on television, and I did not rent movies for a good ten years it seems.
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Don't reveal any twists, you bastard! Whatever you do.
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It's 5pm on a fucking friday, suckers! Time to get the fuck outta dodge and get my drink on. Have a good one.
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Sep 18, 2009 11:24:51 AM CDT
I just found out Glenn Beck raped and murdered a girl in 1990
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I think its the most brilliant bit of satire since the creation of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
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I won't tell the twist. And I don't even know if its true I think its the end of the book I was told. But DO NOT READ ANY THREADS about it then if you don't want to know. Because its real simple and someone will give it away in the subject line.
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I've still got 10 minutes to go and you fucked off yonks ago
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It would explain a lot. You know he beats his wife when he gets home.
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News to me!
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Starring Lee Evans, just heard about this and I thought it was just the British rename of The Final Cut. Sounds like the same movie.
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Not a very good review. Just says its amazing and they can't say anything about it without giving it away.
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The vehement hatred and misogyny towards Jennifer's Body in the TB is just mesmerizing.
Yes, I don't like Megan Fox, I don't like Diablo Cody, and I think that movie looks like shit. But fuck! To call the director a "dyke bitch" and every criticism is that they are a bunch of sluts, whores and cunts is pretty fucking loathsome. -
I was just about to say that the Jennifer's Body TB makes me question why I visit this site and makes me think, shit! I do not belong here.
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and it's seriously fucking depressing. I just don't know how to process it. Or to what extent it's symptomatic of widely held beliefs. Fuck.
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I might have a melt-down. And I'd rather not sully my computer with brains when my head explodes. I can't afford a replacement.
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But she is a grade-A bitch from most accounts. So-? So was Bette Davis. And you can watch her movies, too. Yes there's a continents' width of difference in their abilities, mind-but you know my point. Burton flicks. I don't like him that much. I didn't like Mars Attacks, thought Bats I was OK(Jaaack), Bats II sucked, I liked Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow was fine, Planet of the Apes as well. Yeah I know. So? I enjoyed it. Sue me. Never sat thru his stop action movies, but they'd put me off most likely. Bruce Willis certainly has made shite, but I do like 12 Monkeys, Armageddon(YES), the Die Hards, In Country, etc. He's hit and miss no doubting that, but he's fine. Bruce Willis is Bruce Willis. Demi Moore well she was cute back in St Elmo's/About Last Night days, got kinda tired of seeing her shoved into our faces 24/7 back when, and you know she's vanished since GI Jane back in '97 by and large. Odd. I admit to being a fan of Erika Christensen though we know that ship has sailed as far's her being a Star or whatever. 'Parenthood' on TV? okay...
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It would be pointless. I would like to say that it is just like a locker room, but guys in locker rooms usually are somewhat active and in shape, and at least some of them are getting laid.
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What's the hatred for that?! she made a wise-cracking teenage preggers movie. Ummmm so-?? I've little USE for that movie or whatever, but---slagging it 24/7 is kinda strange, sure. If you wanna beat on something Hollywood based, by all means, tackle some sacred cow like Pixar or whatever. Show some balls. Call'em dried up or super-derivative or hacks or whatever(I don't agree, mind-but you see my point...)-the Diablo Cody's of the world seem to be harmless if anything. As for Mammaries of Mommy-just remember, in Oporto-a Goat, is a Goat, is a goat. Words to (not) live by.
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She is part Diablo, the old FF foe, and part Agent Cody Banks.
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Ha HA I remember my old FF comics yes I do. But I couldn't tell you the first thing about what they've done since the mid-80's.
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I really think a lot of those dudes believe that men and women are completely different species.
Pity the girl who relieves any one of those idiots of their virginity, only to find that he thinks porno-sex is the only way to fuck. And pity the guy who is nice underneath but thinks a superficial veneer of macho misogyny is a good way of compensating for his shortcomings. It's pathetic.
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I did not see Juno so I can't comment on its quality or lack there of, if that's the case. The trailers made it look like something I really had no desire to see, same with Jennifers Body. But the slagging off of somebody because she's a girl and worked as stripper at one point is, at best, hypocritical and worst confirms all the sterotypes of the movie geek as a dorito encrusted mammas boy. Thank god I'm not a geek I'm just a dude who likes to watch all sorts of movies.Continentalop is right(as usual*shakes fist at him in frustration*) up to a point about the locker room mentality, I've been guilty of it myself from time to time. BUT a majority of those fucksticks spent high school getting the shit kicked out of them by the chess and AV club and getting blued balled by every XXer in a three state area, so it doesn't relly apply to them. Also most of them are terminal virgins or so far in the closet they are lunching regularly with Travolta and CruiseMegan Fox, that's a man baby! Hehe I never tire of that one.
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I can do that.
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they all are out for one thing to get paid why lose your shit over that?
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Gotta love the hypocrisy of it. They justify their hate by saying that she deserves it for using her looks/body to get ahead. But then scream "ugly bitch" at any actress that they don't find attractive, or, alternately, whine and complain if the "hot" actress doesn't get her tits out. And then scream "whore!" if she does.
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still another week right, untill the new one?
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Twitch is back on top!
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we fell back down again. Damn!
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I should state for the record I'm usually one who wants to see actress whip 'em out but I'm sort of certain I'm not a reactionary puritan.It's a mjor league case of hypocrisy to complain about somebody in HOLLYWOOD getting ahead on thier looks since that was the reason Hollywood was started to begin with and its what it greases the wheels of that industry.
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Well said.
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I think
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It's not reactionary to want to see an actress' tits. It's reactionary to want to see 'em and then think she ought to be punished for showing them.
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since its 1020 hrs saturday morning and raining like god is pissed again
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Damn straight sister. Hallelujah!
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That movie was F-U-N FUN. Stupid as hell and nonsensical and down right impossible but it was still entertaining as hell because it looked like everybody was having fun making it.
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It was allright. I think I'll like it more on subsequent viewings. MY friend thought it was awesome, but about the middle point of the film I started wishing Wes Craven had directed it instead. There are NO scary scenes at all. Its not horror, and that was very disappointing. And I have a problem with Megan's character. She did a great job acting, but she's a bitch the entire movie. There is no emotional arc for her character. Had she been a nice girl before the demonic possession, then we'd be sympathetic toward her and Amanda Seyfried's "Needy" character. But as it stands, Megan is a bitch in the beginning and a bitch at the end. The only difference after the possession is that she now eats boys. But is it the demon eating the boys? Or Megan? Its hard to tell. There's no difference bt the Megans pre and post possession. That also makes it hard to really feel and understand the relationship between the two "best friends". Had Megan been a nice girl at the start, it'd be easier to see why its sad that these two girls are having a falling out. But from the start you wonder why these two are friends, it makes no sense. Great soundtrack though.
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And those people disgust me and make me ashamed.
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here here
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And I can only remember one instance of the F-word being used. Yet it was rated R? Why? I coulda sworn early reviews said Amanda Seyfried had a full frontal. Not anymore, anyway.
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one of those 'for the missus' ones but it was good. maybe a little too sarcastic and pop referency at points but i enjoyed it.
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*Captain America Blew the landing by 26 miles!!!!*
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but no one seems to believe me.
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--YOU ARE SO FUCKING W/ NATIonal security---tomoro yer gonna be workin' security at TOYS R US!--
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riding in cars with boys. surprisingly good.
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--but do you spose we'll get hazard pay for this?--
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-we're sitting on top of something 4000 moving parts, carrying a nuclear warhead and a few 100 thousand pounds of fuel, all buildt by the lowest bidder- pause Makes ya feel Good-doesn't it?!--
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where the fuck are you. it's like 1230 here. how can it be 1020 there. you in new perth or something?
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-a Great big Shiny Diamond-- See the diamond?-- Nods it's Not a diamond. Wanna drink?!
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-I spent a 100 thousand that I got off a loan shark on a stripper named Molly Mounds---
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That's a shame if it isn't even scary. But I'll probably watch it. At least once a screener hits.
Vader...Is it funny at all? -
Phillipines.
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Congrats on the little chip or chippete on the way.
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Chipps!! Congratulations!
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I chuckled at quite a few moments. My friend laughed a lot; he *really* enjoyed it. Sometimes, though, I laughed bc I thought what I was seeing, whether it was a line or a bit of plot progression, was ridiculously stupid. Laughably stupid. Some things are just obviously funny, though, and you have to laugh. Like the ONLY faculty member at the high school, the only teacher, the only adult who ever shows up is JK Simmons. And he's wearing a ridiculous wig. And he's got a ridiculous accent. And for some reason, one of his hands has been replaced with a ridiculous hook. There are some funny lines and some funny situations. But like I said, I was disappointed that it wasn't scary. I chalk that up to being a weakness of the director. In someone else's hands, I could see this film being considered "horrific". The only part that I ever felt any tension with is when Jennifer first shows up after the possession, bloody and vomiting black gunk. Also, the random as hell (though not unwanted) cameo by Lance Henrikssen had us all laughing and cheering.
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are unintentionally hilarious. So long as everyone involved is enthusiastic, committed and clearly oblivious to the hilarity.
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The need to see your Conan story has risen again. If you could see your way to head over to the AIBN to the Martyrs TB and post it there it would be much appreciated. Thank you.
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And I laughed everytime he opened his mouth to lip sync a song. I will say, there is one GREAT sequence involving that Jenny song, 867-5309, or whatever its called. Had us laughing. Intentionally so.
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And that's one of the WORST trailers I've ever seen. And I don't just mean that the movie looks bad, I mean it was a god-awful trailer. That thing was all over the damn place.
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Would have definitely been more interesting and more entertaining had Megan gone all the way with her victims and then started eating them as they had sex. Honestly, I think that's a great missed opportunity. Maybe its too much of an easy gag (I dont think so) to have her bite off her victim's penis as she's going down on the guy, but really that kind of gross humor would have been very welcome, and it would have entertained the horror fans who want some good gore. Shit, thinking back on the whole thing, the movie didn't go for the monkey. It didn't try hard enough. I can think of at least 10 different ways to make this movie better.
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ZING!relax Cameron heads I was kidding I haven't even watched it.
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Honestly, it was one of the worst trailer I've ever seen. I'm not talking about being disappointing or looking bad. I mean, it was total amateur hour there in the editing room.
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She doesn't fuck? So, does she just tease them and then devour them? That's pretty lame...
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The closest she gets to all the victims is a makeout session. The closest she gets to any guy is to put her hand down the guy's shorts before eating him. There's one particularly bloodless scene where we see Megan eating a guy in a silhouette against the wall. But she's taking bites out of his chest. I thought it was a wasted moment. Would have worked better had her head been angled to look like she was ripping chunks out of his crotch. She uses her sexuality to trap the boys, but she never uses it as a weapon. Which is totally disappointing.
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as being sexual, at least have the girl get off. Let her be truly voracious. Not just using her sexuality as a lure.
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It just proves that women are teases that aren't willing to back up their advances. =P
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They wasted their R rating.
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She's not even a "backdoor" virgin since she'd been dating the police cadet.
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For the life of me, I still can't figure out why it was rated as such. No nudity, no sex, no real gore of any kind, just glimpses of mutilated bodies... The only bad language I can recall is when she says the "It smells like Thai food in here. Have you been fucking?" line. Is that enough to warrant an R rating? I thought you were allowed one F-word in a PG-13 film. And if that was the kiss of death, why not just change the line to "screwing" or something? It's like an R rated film from the 80s. But not in the good way.
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The backlash about man on man love.
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Is Megan's character like, "Yeah, fucking...Gave it a shot, but it's not my bag. I just like making out followed with straight killing?" I mean, does she express ambivalence about it or anything? Or is it still a crime to show a teenage girl who likes to fuck because it feels good.
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The flashback scene that HAS to be shot in that wide-open aperture mode so that everything is blurry and herky jerky, the same thing you see in every CSI episode that shows the murder as it happens. I hate that style. I think its cheesy and overused at this point in time. When I shoot flashbacks, they're going to look and feel real, as if they're happening in real time. That way you don't feel so removed from it. The smart pple in the audience will KNOW its a flashback. I don't need to make it look weird so they'll understand it.
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They just don't want to show two dudes getting it on.
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We see Amanda Seyfried have sex with her boyfriend, though. With Megan, however, all we get is to *hear* her talk about sex and the times she's had it. She doesn't have a bf but seems to be currently fucking 1 or 2 different guys (though not dating them) as the movie starts up. And whatever happened to those guy? I guess they died in the catastrophic fire that takes place, though we never actually see them die. So that's weird. She never says anything else about it. She's not a virgin (though there's some discussion early one about whether or not she is), but when she goes after all her victims, she decides making out is enough. I guess that's the joke. Her "sex" is eating the guy. Making out is just foreplay. I guess? Even so, that's lame and unfulfilling.
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Well, that's something at least. So she might simply be a braggart. I guess that's supposed to be subversive in the 'isn't sex-bragging a dude thing' sort of way. Still sounds muddled to me. Or like it could've been more interesting. Though maybe it's not fair to criticize the movie for not being a different (if better) movie.
Xi's post is making me think of potentially HORRIFYING things they could've done. Waaaay scarier than making out and eating. Something along the lines of a vagina that can turn inside out, i.e. it converts into a functioning penis. -
It was the summer of 1982 -the greatest year ever for geekspactaular movies. Star Trek II, Blade Runner, Tron, Swamp Thing, *Hey Fool you bettah mention me in Rocky III! or I'll fuck ya in the ass!* Ahem -the inimitable Mr T as Clubber Lang in Rocky III - *Hey fool I caint pronounce thet shit! I caint even spell it! Shit, I caint thenk thet fas, jes thinkin bou thet word makes mah haid hurt! If'n I find you been funnin me - ah'ma come back an fuck you in the ass!* 48 hours, Eating Raoul, Beastmaster, Dark Crystal, Firefox, Dead Men don't wear plaid, Porkys', Quest for Fire, The World according to Garp, Megaforce, and for Conti - Vice Squad. And so many more. But one movie, stood head and shoulders above the rest, oh maybe not in quality - though some will beg to differ, but as the launching pad for one of the screens greatest ass kicking legends -Conan the Barbarian. Having read the awesome REH stories in paperback, and the breath taking Barry Windsor Smith comics, I was geeked as hell to see this. 16 years old, and in my hormonal prime. Life was good! Having read about the development of this movie for years, and the hype around it, I could not wait for it. Sure, there were trepidations. Conan was being portrayed by the great thespian who had starred in the Hercules comes to New York movie, a body builder - and everyone knew they were gay, with an impenetrable accent. *Hey fool ah'ma look thet word up too -now git on with the damn story -or ah'ma fuck you in the ass!* Oh yeah, so what the he was kinda short, he was a tall 6'1". Now Franco Columbo, HE was short. But so what? It was Conan! Finally. I read everything I could about it. Ahnuld actually had to stop training because he was too muscular to play Conan -it was a hardship the word had to endure, but anything for art. Finally the movie premiered *Bout time you got ti the damn movie fool, no one wants to read you meandering shit! Betcha didn't think I knew what that word meant! Now git one with the story -afore I fuck you in the ass!* I was in upstate New York visiting cousins when it opened, we saw it two days after opening night. It was still jam packed, mostly with teenage boys - a few had dates, and some older couples. But this was mostly a male driven fantasy, and when Ahnuld cut loose, the screams began. Read that last part again, 'the screams began'. I am 16 years old, in upstate New York with my cousins, in an Arnold Swarzenegger kick ass sword and sorcery movie, with a predominantly teenage male audience, and I am hearing screams every time Arnold flexed! What the fuck? I couldn't believe it. Every time Arnold flexed a muscle or swung the sword over his head, I am hearing young teenage boys screaming like they are girls at a Pat Benatar concert! I shit you not! But the worst, was when he got all made up with the black and green face paint, before the big raid on James Earl Jones' crib. They break in, get separated, Arnold is fighting alone, he is surrounded and the enemy is closing in, then the awesome Basil Poledouris music starts, and Arnold whips the sword out, then he starts flipping his chest muscles up and down, and holy hell! The screeching began! Then he whipped the sword around his head, and I thought the dudes in front of me were about to faint! Fucking Madhouse in there! Couldn't even hear the damn movie because of the screaming of the teen boys voices! I looked at my cousins just to make sure I was not imagining it, they just shook their heads. And that is my Conan Story. The End. * 'Bout time fool, I was fixin to whip my own sowrd out and fuck ya in the ass!*
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I won't be able to sleep tonight now, you sicko.
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A functioning penis that is...
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There were some moments early on that had me thinking it would feel that way, particularly seeing Megan as a cheerleader at a prep rally in the school gym. But there wasn't a lot of "high school" in this picture. I would have liked to see a scene set at the big "football game" (this takes place in a small town, every game is the big one), or something like that. "The Faculty" felt like a better "high school" film than this one did. Maybe a better satire too. Probably bc in that one, at least, adults existed. Here they pop in and out at random, unimportant times.
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unimportant times" That actually sounds sort of realistic. At least, outside of school itself.
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It was the summer of 1982 -the greatest year ever for geekspactaular movies. Star Trek II, Blade Runner, Tron, Swamp Thing, *Hey Fool you bettah mention me in Rocky III! or I'll fuck ya in the ass!* Ahem -the inimitable Mr T as Clubber Lang in Rocky III - *Hey fool I caint pronounce thet shit! I caint even spell it! Shit, I caint thenk thet fas, jes thinkin bou thet word makes mah haid hurt! If'n I find you been funnin me - ah'ma come back an fuck you in the ass!* 48 hours, Eating Raoul, Beastmaster, Dark Crystal, Firefox, Dead Men don't wear plaid, Porkys', Quest for Fire, The World according to Garp, Megaforce, and for Conti - Vice Squad. And so many more. But one movie, stood head and shoulders above the rest, oh maybe not in quality - though some will beg to differ, but as the launching pad for one of the screens greatest ass kicking legends -Conan the Barbarian. Having read the awesome REH stories in paperback, and the breath taking Barry Windsor Smith comics, I was geeked as hell to see this. 16 years old, and in my hormonal prime. Life was good! Having read about the development of this movie for years, and the hype around it, I could not wait for it. Sure, there were trepidations. Conan was being portrayed by the great thespian who had starred in the Hercules comes to New York movie, a body builder - and everyone knew they were gay, with an impenetrable accent. *Hey fool ah'ma look thet word up too -now git on with the damn story -or ah'ma fuck you in the ass!* Oh yeah, so what the he was kinda short, he was a tall 6'1". Now Franco Columbo, HE was short. But so what? It was Conan! Finally. I read everything I could about it. Ahnuld actually had to stop training because he was too muscular to play Conan -it was a hardship the world had to endure, but anything for art. Finally the movie premiered *Bout time you got to the damn movie fool, no one wants to read your meandering shit! Betcha didn't think I knew what that word meant! Now git one with the story -afore I fuck you in the ass!* I was in upstate New York visiting cousins when it opened, we saw it two days after opening night. It was still jam packed, mostly with teenage boys - a few had dates, and some older couples. But this was mostly a male driven fantasy, and when Ahnuld cut loose, the screams began. Read that last part again, 'the screams began'. I am 16 years old, in upstate New York with my cousins, in an Arnold Swarzenegger kick ass sword and sorcery movie, with a predominantly teenage male audience, and I am hearing screams every time Arnold flexed! What the fuck? I couldn't believe it. Every time Arnold flexed a muscle or swung the sword over his head, I am hearing young teenage boys screaming like they are girls at a Pat Benatar concert! I shit you not! But the worst, was when he got all made up with the black and green face paint, before the big raid on James Earl Jones' crib. They break in, get separated, Arnold is fighting alone, he is surrounded and the enemy is closing in, then the awesome Basil Poledouris music starts, and Arnold whips the sword out, then he starts flipping his chest muscles up and down, and holy hell! The screeching began! Then he whipped the sword around his head, and I thought the dudes in front of me were about to faint! Fucking Madhouse in there! Couldn't even hear the damn movie because of the screaming of the teen boys voices! I looked at my cousins just to make sure I was not imagining it, they just shook their heads. And that is my Conan Story. The End. * 'Bout time fool, I was fixin to whip my own sowrd out and fuck ya in the ass!*
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Thanks now Odo 19 can finally get some sleep.
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1) You saying Megan looks like a man is not misogynistic. That is a legitimate reply to when people say she is the hottest thing on earth. "Nope. She looks to much like she might be sporting a penis to be the hottest chick on earth."
2) Never be ashamed at wanting to see titties in movies. It is why women have them, to make us want to look at 'em. All part of nature's plan.
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...That Megan doesn't have sex with men because she is a cock tease. You know, she is THAT evil? That might be what they intended, but something that subtle requires that you be more explicit I imagine.
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oh and the PENIS. Still if I was drunk, the lights were low, she/he freshly shaved her beard and gaffed the living hell out her junk I would consider it.
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IS JK Simmons with his ridiculous wig and hook hand. So its funny when it happens.
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We left out the great western, Buck and the Preacher.
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... Until she starts killing guys without going all the way first, that is. Maybe its TOO subtle.
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I was about to say maybe they won't break here Xi
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probably so
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That's for sure
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Sep 19, 2009 12:18:33 AM CDT
You know Toad, I am not a huge fan of Buck and the Preacher
by continentalop
But I haven't seen it for years, I might have to check it out again and see if it plays better this time.
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Who the fuck looks at a man's shoes? I certainly don't. Unless they're clown shoes. Don't be deceived. They are probably doing a quick bulge-check, and covering for it by completing the downward visual sweep.
As for tits, they are wonderful. But I must quibble with you for just a moment, Conti, (mostly because I feel like being a pain in the ass). They do not exist to be looked at. They are there to feed the babies and that's why y'all tend to like 'em so much. Because they are emblematic of the differences between men and women that potentially result in babies. Other guys aren't gonna help those genes to move along. -
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as I'll dip into the evolutionary psychology pool. As someone who has personally participated in some of Pinker's research, let me say, it's not exactly scientifically rigorous.
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as often as possible.
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I assume that's why TDK mentioned it.
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sure. It's just not the REASON they exist. And I felt like giving Conti a hard time. ;)
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Boobs are there to feed babies, BUT a more ample bosom (to feed babies with) is what attracts the man. So in a sense, they ARE there to get the seed to make the baby, but also there to feed said baby.
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Tits and Hips are the visual cues men key on. And we aint thinkin bout no babies when we do so! Yea, I know back in the cave man days when tits and hips meant babies, it held true, but just as we have evolved not to need multiple partners *ahem*, we have evolved past just looking for baby makers. The curve's on a woman's body trigger feelings that aint about producing a family! Curves exist to excite - at least in a mans view. The sway of the hips when a woman walks with heels on, just about makes some men faint. The swell of a woman's chest in a tight blouse or sweater, sends male thoughts into overdrive. Nudity is fantastsic, but it is the imagination that fuels desire. Imagining what that curvy woman looks like without the clothes is almost as exciting as seeing here without them. And you better believe we aint thinking about making babies!
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I think they are PRIMARILY there to feed the young. And the fact that they denote a child-making ability is WHAT makes them attractive in the first place.
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But you can be sure your subconscious is.
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Uh no.
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of course not! neither are we (most of the time). I don't mean on a conscious level, more in terms of a drive to pass on one's genes...whatever 'level' that is.
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.... which are primarily concerned with self-preservation (through procreation) sees boobs and looks for the bigger, more ample boobs, the ones that can provide lots of life-sustaining nourishment. I should ask my aunt, who is a lactation consultant, if women with smaller boobs have harder times feeding newborns, but regardless of whether or not that is the case, on a purely visual level, a woman with larger breasts will appear healthier and thus have a higher fitness (in the term relating to procreation). It takes enlightenment for us to see that large breasts to not necessarily mean anything other than that biological aspect. They are certainly not a sign of a "good lay". But we can never help ourselves, or convince ourselves, oherwise.
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It is true to the literal point. Breasts exist to feed babies. And in some tribal cultures, they hold almost no sexual allure. In civilizations where women had to keep their breasts hidden, they began to take on a different -i.e. sexual (hidden fruit) meaning. The reasons for the change, almost as always, hinge on some pansy ass ultra religious male trying to cover his guilt for preferring Ruben over Ruth, so he makes Ruth cover up all that it different, and then slaps the most dire warnings on her ever showing those wondrous things outside of marriage -and sometimes not even then. Always some fucking woman hater behind it.
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I have more to say on this matter. But I have to go. Food and friend have arrived. Good night!
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Gotta cover all bases, never know who might be reading.
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Seriously? Damn, Mel is fucked up. There was that image from the very first trailer, where Mel inserted himself into one frame, his arms around one of the warriors as they all stand in front of the camera, posing like a high school yearbook photo.
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And was smiling like a madman.
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I remember those lectures clearly. I also remember thinking - 'what about the male children of small breasted women? do they think they were deprived or had less milk, or were less sustained because mommies mammaries were smaller? Will they look for a larger breasted woman than mom, the same or will it even matter?' The subconscious does trigger many desires, but anytime one starts playing that card, then they are basically saying 'my conscious mind has no relevance'. I chose an apple instead of a peach because my subconscious told me, not because I like the taste of apples better. Do not get me wrong, I know for a fact that the subconscious is extremely powerful, but it can be over stated and over ruled.
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I was only speaking for myself and the entire USMC. Ther are appearance that must be keep up as you well know.
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I am with you brother - at least in spirit! Never know who might be reading this and is holding a frying pan -or baseball bat.
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I'm out
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Because my mom is a smaller breasted woman. Though strangely enough, when I see old pictures of her in her wedding dress, her boobs are huge (comparatively). In middle school and high school I told myself I was not attracted to big boobs for intrinsic reasons; I didn't like them just bc they were big. Now I wonder if I told myself that bc my mom had smaller boobs or bc I was trying to be "better" than other embers of my species. I've hooked up with massive boobs before, and they're kinda heavy and they can accumulate sweat underneath them. But now, I like a good pair of boobs, whereas before my main concern was face and abs. I wonder if I've changed bc I'm a late bloomer or if I've just accepted what the media has been telling me all my life.
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I have a question about a movie job title I came across on IMBD and I was wondering if either of you know what a "technical coordinator" does? I don't think I've ever seen that title before.
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I'm stumped.
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The animation is now from Heroes, with Harry being the cheerleader as Syler cuts her head open in an attempt to steal her powers. I have no idea why its done in such a "realistic" style. Harry looks more like a bad Zeus riff than a cheerleader. As for a "technical coordinator", it sounds like mumbo jumbo credit given to someone that assisted with some equipment. I have no idea.
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Man I totally missed the Sylar thing because it looked so damn weird.So a technical coordinator is basically a roadie then? Maybe, kind of? or maybe just a friend who carried a bag once so they threw them a credit? That sounds likely.
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Yes, they were there originally to supply milk, but that isn't all they do.
Much like how feathers used to serve one original function, later on certain birds evolved and had the feathers develop bright colors to attract birds of the opposite gender.
So too with women's breast. They are no longer just there to supply nourishment, but also to let men tell that it is a women.
Also, certain scientist suggest that large breast developed and attract men, because men could easier tell that a women is young and fertile (younger women having firmer breast).
So back to my original assertion that women have breast to attract men. They were not created to attract men, that is true, but they did develop to do that. -
It is a generalization, but women are usually more observant than men. And one of the reasons is so they can observe small details to make sure someone is congruent.
in other words, to see if someone is bullshitting them.
So when they meet a guy who is trying to pick them up, a lot of women (including my friends, because I asked them this) check out the guys shoes to see if he has taste and money,
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Sep 19, 2009 4:10:02 AM CDT
"check out the guys shoes to see if he has taste and money,"
by xiphos_2
I'm 0 for 2 Damn it. I've got a sneaking suspicion I'm looking down the barrel at strike three and I'm probably going to be wearing the collar.
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But wear cheap shoes? Then don't worry about it. It is a congruency test. If you are honest, you have nothing to worry about.
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to some degree i raised my brother so im like, bring it on! people of my blood are a trial. but i look forward to it. the little fella is already shadow boxing, i've seen him.
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cheap shoes: maybe its different in the states but here we have 'occa' blokes. read red neck without necessarily rasist. we are proud of who we are. if we are bushies, that is what we are. the richest people in australia are mining magnates. we are talking about flanelet wearing toothless hicks here. surely you have this in the states. in oz you never know who the fuck you are dealing with. my mate works at an investment bank. one of their top clients named a race horse 'myface' because he wanted well dressed socalite women to bet on it then yell, 'come on .... insert name"
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Every society and group has their own fashion rules. You can't get rid of materialism, since every society and group has some guideline to determine where someone is on the social ladder. You get rid of cars and money, and tribesmen will show off by how many horns they have and how many cows they own. Hell even those who supposedly are non-materialistic are materialistic: they have to brag about how MUCH money they gave away or how little stuff they need.
And I am basing the shoe thing on the Hollywood crowd. You are a girl in Hollywood, and you meet some new guy in the club who tells you that he is a successful film producers or entertainment lawyer, how are you going to tell if he is being honest or bsing you to just get into your pants? You are going to look for signs that he is being congruent - and one of those is shoes. Stupid as it is, it is one of those things that guys who are fashion savvy know about. They wear good, fashionable shoes. So you say you are a producer and you got on cheap, bad looking shoes, it will send off her spidey sense (and obviously they are going to look for more than just that - like type of watch you have, or brand of clothes, or if they belt and shoes match, or what color socks, etc.).
I am sure where you live chipps there is some sort of fashion item that lets people know if this guy is being honest or bullshitting, even if they are red necks. Hell, even red necks have some sort of sign of status (like their trucks).
Plus, it isn't a scientific law, but a theory (with evidence to back it up). I believe it to be true.
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the eyes always tell all. i'm a little fella. and people don't fuck with me cause i don't bluff. the eyes are window to the soul.
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it aint the shoes, it's the watch. you may walk down to the shop in your thongs. you go for a jog. but no one ever changes their watch.
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If you guys get a chance, go over to the two Jennifer's Body TBs and read some of the shit CarlThorMark is slinging around. Jesus friggin' Christ, someone might want to alert the feds - his rants sound like the manifesto of a nut about to go on a shooting spree against women, like that guy in Quebec who took over that university class room.
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Or not. Megan does better when there are big metallic things blowing up shit around her. Though the plotline does in general get put on the back burner. You prob. should ask Mammaries what he thinks about Goat Udders in Oporto...
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But I live in Hollywood, home of a million unemployed actors.
They can look you in the eye and lie there asses off.
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Really scary strange guy.
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Women are not simple (duh) and they all look for hundreds of different traits, depending on what they want in a guy. Ask Mavra or MB, and they would both tell you they look for something different, and most women would have a completely different list than them. So it has been my experience they have become real good at doing congruency test to make sure the guy isn't trying to tell them a story.
Guys are easier, we mostly look for physical traits - maybe different hair color or build or something, but it is usually based on appearance they find physically attractive. Once you get options, then you can get picky and look for more than just that. -
I am sure there is a plethora of Amber Alerts in his area of residency.
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i grew up fighting, and you can always tell. the way a man moves. sutble things. i saw this doco, and for the professionals, they call them 'micro expressions' and it is more acurate than lie detectors. that certain blink with 'i did not have sex with that women' when you grow up always calling the bluff, you learn to pick the bluffs. honestly, i am shit with women, but i always know what a man is going to do. the shrug, the nod, the crease in the eye. you can pick it. otherwise poker would be just luck.
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im a four x man but the forks is out of vougue up here. so i went to this party today and my mate had all these left over stubbies he didn't wan't. i got this beer on special so we traded, now i'm drinking my forks. after a while on goon i am as happy as a pig in shit.
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there were quite a few poor editing decisions, but overall good. maybe just cause i'm drunk and the missus is preggies. don't know.
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Conti, You know, I've run in those Hollywood clubs, granted not as much as I used to but if I'm looking down-ish, shoes aren't the goal of where I'm looking. No more than someone saying they're really only checking out the initials on the purse I have tucked up high and tight under my arm. But I understand what you're talking about and have known far too many people that believe wearing branded clothes equals a look of success. Give me jeans and sneakers any day. With that I'm late for yoga. Gotta' run.
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Conti is referencing an old rule of thumb to determine if a person is genuine or fake. The gist is simple: If a man wears a nice looking suit, but has cheap shoes, he is probably not well off and does not pay attention to details. If a woman has really scraggly hair, or if the hair looks good in the front, but scraggly in the back, then she does not take care of herself, and is very superficial. My uncle told me this rule of thumb, and while it does not apply to all situations: What does? It still has some truth to it. Attention to details count. Like chipps said, some rich dudes wear cheap or unfashionable (which does not necessarily mean cheap)shoes, well he is also probably NOT wearing an expensive looking suit at same time.
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i go to bed now.
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The CoC is strong indeed!
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hehehe.
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Holy shit that made me laugh.
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Unfortunantly fucking cocksuckers have coopted the word redneck to mean something that it was never suppossed to mean. Originally redeck refered to proud working men, farmers and ranchers that built this country but fucking city bound hipster assfucks tuned into pejoritive along the lines of the word white trash. Worthless motherfuckers.
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I am not going to say you are wrong, because you are not (the eyes do tell the story), but I think it is slightly more complex than that - even with you. In Poker you are looking for tells, and I am sure you notice even more than just the eyes, even subconsciously, like if he taps the table with his fingers when he has a good hand, or how he fidgets with his chips when he has a so-so hand.
There is a lot of subliminal signals we send each other, coded message stuff. Which was my point about the shoes - obviously girls look at more than the shoes, but they are looking at all these signs of congruence that you are who you claim to be. What are you wearing, how do you talk (does a man with an MBA really say 'like' a lot?), how you hold yourself, can you hold eye contact or do you have to nervously look away, etc. Just so happens shoes are big for some girls.
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Sep 19, 2009 3:51:48 PM CDT
Xiphos, it is the same reason why I hate the term white trash
by continentalop
Even though I use it. White Trash was used by rich, white plantation owners in the south to explain why slavery was acceptable. If Slaves were naturally inferior to whites, what about the hillbillies and the poor southern white people? They seemed just as "dumb" and inferior as the blacks.
The plantation owners said because they were the result of inbreeding and bad blood. They could maybe be "rescued", but by their nature they were trash. It was another rational for why these superior aristocrats could have black slaves, and a justification for the racist Confederacy. -
In the Jennifer's Body TB. He keeps trying to reply to me and is fucking up his post and now freaking out about it.
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FRONT ROW SEATS!!! Don't call I'll be WAAAYYY too busy having TOO much fun! ABBA fucking rules.
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Yes I agree the southern aristocracy did sell out poor whites by taking all the prime land, refusing to invest capital in industry, both heavy and light, past that involved direct farming application, ports and shipping and disenfranchising and marginalizing the "hillbilly" type. Plantation owners exiled them to the point of near nothingness.At least blacks could point to some sense of worth based on economics, the sale and upkeeep price an individual slave had. Poor whites it was fuck you you have no worth period. No wonder the "hillbillies" resorted to thier border reiver Anglo- Scott-Irish raider roots and became great fighters, smugglers and boot leggers.The really sad thing is that poor southern whites in precivil war southern society had more in common with slaves then the ruling class, both were the pawns of the plantation owners and were set on it each other to delay the realization that the Plantation owners had a multitude of failures on thier books. Shermans march to the sea showed that the southern aristocracys obstinance, greed, arrogance and parsimony as failed public policy. Hail to the democratic army of a season and the sheer amount of destruction it can wreak when angered.
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Fyi I'm just fucking with creepy i could care less about gnr one way or the other. I find them to be entirely mediocre.
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Back when. But disregard anything post '93 or whatever, it's a fiasco and really Axel's tribute band to himself now.
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Giant robot lions. They would have kept Axle Rose in line and probably prevented him from disappearing up his own ass.
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civil war to me. for southerners was it about slavery or not? i think surely southerns were not fighting to keep slaves but to maintain independence over centralised authority, which they had never agreed to in the constitution. the economics of it is simple. as usual the officers and generals were plantation owners: none of the cannon fodder actually had any slaves anyway. who would fight and die for your right to have something that you have never had nor ever will have? furthermore the existence of slaves in the economy effectively drags down average incomes. if you are a working man in a place where there are slaves, you will earn less than you would elsewhere. as xi said, the factors of production are capital (infastructure) and labour. the cheaper labour is the less incentive one has to invest in infrastructure. the less infrastructure you have the smaller the product of your labour. for poor southerns to fight to keep slaves is for them to fight to keep their wages low. surely they would have known that. surely it is oversimplified to portray them as fighting to keep slaves.
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amistead was a fucking awesome argument against it. the bit where tie them to an ancor and throw them over the side: fuck that: it's just plain evil
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Xi, poor whites may been treated badly with respect to their pseudo aristocratic white brethren, but they were free. There is no equal or parallel you can draw between poor whites and slaves - no economic sense of worth that could supplant the fact that even the lowest white still could not be bought and sold, or have his or het children bought and sold, or have his wife and daughter raped with impunity, or be whipped and or killed with impunity. The poor white could always leave to find better circumstances in other parts of the country. Chipps, there is no mystery as to why no slave owning southerners fought, it is the same dynamic that fuels the current Republican party's ability to convince middle to lower class folks to support policies that benefit mostly the wealthy, and that is that hope that one day they will be the wealthy and want the same protections. Those southern soldiers were fighting to keep their heritage with the hope that they too one day could own slaves and plantations.
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The actual crux of the argument about southern succession were sown during the constitional ratification process. The south was promised noninterference from Washington in regards to slave ownership and farming practice in return for thier votes to raify the constitition. The were told they could seccede from the union if the Government got to involved in southern mattersFast forward 50 or so years and the southern plantation owners(the true drivers of the seperatists) were feeling the pinch from the Yankee dominated goverment. They were denied slave ownership in expanding territories and several other issues including abolishinsts operating in thier states. That's when they remembered hey we can take a powder and leave. 650,000 deaths later they were shown to be wrong.Chipps almost no middle, what little there was of it, class and lower class whites owned slaves. They couldn't afford it from the scaps they were thrown from the Plantation owners.
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no argument there. i'm just saying that if you are a poor white person trying to get a job, you would prefer to live in a economy that did not have slaves.
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Not: no slave owning
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the Civil War was just about slavery is definitely oversimplifying. At the same time, never underestimate the potential for the guy at the bottom to go after whomever may be considered beneath him. Or, alternately, to identify with whomever has the power, a kind of wishful thinking, as if maybe it'll rub off.
Or, as evidenced by the health care debacle here in the U.S., the potential of people to act against their own self-interest. One of the biggest problems with real world applications of economic theories (or the predictive power of economic theories) is the assumption that individuals will necessarily function as "rational actors." -
And in that case, the ones who were motivated, left for other areas of the country to find employment. There have always been and will always be, the types who just feel they have no power to change their circumstance, and thus sink into a perpetual woe is me I will never be able to be more than I am, I was born this way and that's the way it is. Those types, will never amount to much no matter what the economic circumstances. Sure, they do not represent the entirety or the even the majority of even the poor white trash, and the ones who do want to work, but can not leave, are certainly tragic, but migration for work has occurred for thousands of years, I have no sympathy for those who did who were 'suffering' and could leave, but chose not to.
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The city whites couldn't leave they were tied to the land/buildings by owning the plantation owners. it was the basis of the "company store" that developed later on in the earlier 20th centery. also they were dispossed from thier land all the time if a Patrician owner wanted to use the courts for that purpose. Mostly they were like the indentured servants of the 17th century which is what thier parents or grand parents were. Except they couldn't run as easy a lot of them did.
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and what do i get?
another day older, little deeper in debt.
St. Peter don't ya call me, cuz I can't gooooo...
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It should go without saying that I know very well that neither of you in any way sought to diminish the soul killing horror that is slavery. One can feel sorry for the many peoples who were affected by that brutality and it does not lessen the impact of slavery.
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Sep 19, 2009 9:37:19 PM CDT
The Civil war was fought for the same reasons as most wars
by toadkillerdog
Money, land and power. Slavery was not the driving issue, however it was economic engine that powered the south, and thus led to the south brokering deals in Europe for cotton, and that excluded the northern states. Money and power. The south felt it could operate on its own and flourish, and had the European connections in place to do so. The north feared the loss of such a huge part of the economy.
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when did I even even imply that? Its been a discussion of an historical incidents and various factors that went with it. I just assumed that I didn't need to make an explict statement that I find slavery a morally reprehensible and unsubstainable idea. I assumed that was just a given.
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Sep 19, 2009 9:44:45 PM CDT
Even teh indentured servant had a finite amount of time
by toadkillerdog
That they had to serve. And had certain protections. What most people do not understand about American Slavery is the insidious nature of it. Slavery existed for thousands of years and still does, but at no other time, in no other country did it have the American twist: Generational. Born, raised and died in slavery. And so were your children and childrens children. Forever. That type of slavery has never existed outside of America. That was the soul killing side of it.
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Neither of you did. I wanted to make sure you understood that my response to your line about Blacks having a sense of economic worth greater than poor whites, was just my explanation that what a plantation owner may value -say his donkey over a human being, in no way equaled the ability of the human being to be able to determine his or her own destiny because they are free. I may have worded my response too stridently and I wanted to make sure that both of you understood I was in no way saying either of you tried to diminish slavery. That goes without saying bro.
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Whut are we talking about tonight? Hmmm> Ooo, heavy shite. I'mma let you have this one.
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specifically the mamalukes(sp? took a big flyer here too lazy to look up) the military slave class. They were orginally children siezed from chritian or jewish parents forcibly converted to Islam and forced to seve as soldiers. They were the "shock" trops of the Islamic world.Now true depending on what country you were in you could either buy your kids out or in some cases they weren't made to serve but it was generational. Later on it stopped being that way totally.
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Until Epimondius broke the out the Spartan helots.
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Was that it was generational. The Mamalukes nor any other slave holding peoples, bred their slaves in order to create the next generation of slaves. That was what made it even more evil than traditional slavery.
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Until Epimondus broke the back of the Spartan Ephores and rescued the Spartan helots from thier servitude. I'm an idiot with a quick enter finger.
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were in bondage for about 600 years there had to be some breeding going on. The mamlukes were around 300 years some breeding had to occure.
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That was indeed a form of generational slavery - but due to the unique circumstances, not as insidious as the American form., The Helots actually had a limited freedom. They could own land, they actually fought side by side with Spartans. They were not specifically bred to create the next generation of slaves. In fact, periodically they were feared by the spartans because of their numbers and relative freedom, so that they were murdered. They were owned by the state though. It was a very tragic situation, but their relative freedom and the fact they were not specifically bred to create the next generation of slaves, changes the circumstances. As for the Mamelukes, the white male slaves where inducted into the army, and became officers. The Mameluke constantly captured new slaves to replenish the soldiers and officers who became free. They were not bred to create the next generation of slaves.
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Magandang gabi
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that because it was (is) left over from anitiquity, it wasn't really questioned like it should have been. for example in oz we have an ongoing debate over weather to become a republic (the monarchists have been able to keep the staus quo by splitting the majority republican vote - there is disagreement over the model we should use)pretty much the biggest agrument for the crown is that it is tradition. I finds this absurd. what is the tradition? i am of irish catholic heritage. the tradition that i see is one of despotism, where my ancestors were cast as being ethnically inferior, had their land stolen, had their religion outlawed, got transported to oz for protesting it. that is the traditon. what separates henry viii and hitler? why do we have a special word for king - why don't we just say hey - that is a hereditary dictatorship? napolon showed us this. kim jung ill is doing it now.slavery is like this. as a concept it is bizare, particularly when it pops up in place where the people put so much emphasis on freedom. how can you possibly justify it? really you can't - but it is traditional. the laws that govern slavery go back to early antiquity. this tradition gives it a veneer of respectability, until you scratch the surface and say 'hey, just what is the tradition here?'
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You are somewhat trying to have it both ways. If the helot slavery existed for such a long period of time and the fact that often the Krypteia murdered them and most of the regiments were used for internal security that shows me they had to bred for the next generation. How else would the Laws of Lykurgas be able to stand without a slave class to work the land, do the carpentry, animal husbantry and just about everything else forbiden to the full Spartan warrior? So some relative amount of liberty is irrelevant and the amount was not acceptable thats why there were periodic helot rebellions.Yes helots were given land to farm for thier subsistence but they were smaller plots on the Spartan homes they labor for. That relieved the Spartans from some of the care that slaves require. How it worked was that once a warrior survived the agoge, was elected to a battalion and accepted to a communal mess he was considered a full Spartinate with all the rights and responsibility attendent including siring children. In order to do this the newly married warrior was given a small homestead and a family of helots work the land to provide food for the warriros family. Usually these helot workers came from the young warriors fathers field helots. So you had family of helots working for the Spartan warrior families.Yes the helots provided combat service support as drovers, cooks, armorers and most importantly as a Spartan arming servants. There's no way sombody gets into full panoply without help. They also provided fire support with javilns, bows and slings but they were not in any way shape or form thought of as an equal in the eyes of the spartans.As far as the mamulukes go I did stipulate it depended on which country you were in about the realtive level of freedom they enjoyed but there children were also forced to serve along with outside sorces like captured western sailors and captured asians.
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I'm not bright enough to follow sorry.
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'not bright' you have an encyclopedic knowledge of antiquity.
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about Spartan life and the Legions and maybe some otehr things but it sure isn't encyclopedic. At best, and I stress at best, its a mile wide and an inch deep. Mostly I'm trying desperatly to get people to think I'm not an idiot. I fail epically in this mission and I've pretty much shot my load anyways. So I should retreat before I get wailed on by toad.
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whenever you get into a fight (especially a verbal one) it always makes sense to try to get the other guy to underestimate you. 'my right arm is injured, i can't hit with it, oh no, wait - its perfectly ok.....kawpow! lights out motherfucker!'
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(an now sasa baron coen has made it famous) is to say crazy things to try to draw people out. as i have said i'm chatholic but its funny how often when chatting with people who are discussing things like that if you start to say crazy things like 'they should be outlawed' 'they're trying to take over' 'they are basically evil' people come up with batshit crazy stuff. you give them a bit of rope and you hear the funist thing. i used to do this at the pub all the time and these really earnest people would be looking at my mate and wondering why he was laughing his ass off.
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but I assure you that in my case I'm not seeking the advantage. I'm a dope.
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then it ripped this other polar bear's jaw off. it was freaken awesome.
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or is OZ getting really cold all of a sudden?
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i think it was in a bunch boxing movies too. and maybe the karate kid. which also taught me that you can fix any injury by rubbing your hands together and touching the wound.
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today was a beautiful day. it got up to 35 c during winter. how much can a kola bear?
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You also learn proper blocking techniques from painting fences and waxing cars
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or can it be just any car?
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acording to the kata of Danial-san
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it would help you on the quick draw.
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i've certainly noticed that some things come to life when you rub them.
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so very true on both counts.
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I'm out. Take care and congrats once again on the child.
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have a good one.
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Sep 20, 2009 8:21:56 AM CDT
The Helots are more accurately described as Serfs, not slaves
by toadkillerdog
There are many differences between Serfs and Slaves, but the biggest one is this: The Helots were a conquered peoples forced to work their own hereditary lands for the Spartans, and they retained certain rights. Slaves have no rights whatsoever. Serfdom existed for over a thousand years in parts of Europe, the serfs are more properly described as a perpetual underclass and were grouped as an entire peoples, not individually owned as a slave. Serfs had the right to work their land and to pass it down to their sons.
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Was my poor attempt at saying "Good evening". I did not realize I was referencing a TV show! Ha!
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They were the ruling Military caste of Egpyt and Syria descended from slaves brought from the caucuses to be bodyguards for the caliphs. Once they had attained military rank, they were freed. But they also had power, and because they had been brought as children and converted to Islam, they were appointed by merit to various gov't posts and the military. They're own children did not become slaves, and in fact the mamelukes themselves imported slaves to continue their power politics.
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It was an evenig news show that was very popular but got cancelled, it had been on for years. It was sort of along the lines of like Good Morning America but at night. I was here in late 2005 when they announced the cancellation of the show at the end of 2006. When the news hit you would have thought Marcos was overthrown again the way the people reacted.If I wasn't tired I probably would have understood what you meant instead of thinking you were talking about a Phillipene TV show. Which upon further reflection doen't make a whole lot of sense.
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1) I saw Ron Perlman at a bat last night where I was watching the fight.
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God you guys were bored last night. Gnr rocks will rock and will rock forever. Slavery sucks.
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Yayyyyyyyy. They can beat not One(1) bad Ohio Football teams, but TWO(2). I'm enjoyin', whilst I still can.
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Damn. Jake didn't throw a single interception untl a few minutes left in the game on a 4th and 10. And he almost redeemed himself at the very end. Was close.
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Has their premiere next week when I'll be gone.
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And not too impressed so far.
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Looks like Johan saw Zombieland and said it was ok.
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we are out of the top 10
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That isn't even a challenge
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Scooby Doo 2. Which was wank
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Which was mint
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which was mint
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which was meh
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which is a load of hairy goat nob.
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which I like, although slightly shamefacedly.
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which was very mint.
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classic, but I didn't really enjoy this one. Dave is a terrible channel with non stop Top Gear repeats, but I have to say, this showing a classic British film from pre-1960 is brilliant.
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Fuck me, Katie Holmes really does damage that film.
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Firstly, she's fucking dreadful and that is her fault.
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is very badly written.
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every time she's on screen she's just a nagging shrew. I just fast forward her now.
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neanderthal fuckheads at the moment.
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fucking hate it. Load of shit with atrocious wannabe dialogue.
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or whatever it's called posts. I can guarantee that I will never watch it.
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Sep 21, 2009 3:49:24 AM CDT
I don't have a problem with Holmes in BB
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
The only time she (her performance) irritated me was when she said "It looks like quite the ohhKAYsion". I will agree that the character is weak. Only there to serve as another "conscience". But Wayne has Alfred for that so it makes her redundant and reduces her to the damsel in distress role. I prefer Holmes over Droopy Dog.
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I've only seen the shite remake with Billy Bob and Napoleon Dynamite.
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2 things improve any film by definition. Midgets and Nudity. But never nude midgets. That's just wrong. Seriously, imagine gone with the wind with gratuitous titty scene. It's much better now, isn't it.
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I watched this on the weekend and it was okay. Some quite amusing jokes in it, but it was the usual non-pixar cartoon for me. Meaning, it was an amusing diversion but so fucking slight you don't remember anything about it afterwards.
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every time she opens her mouth the film grinds to a halt. The character is much better in TDK
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Sep 21, 2009 3:55:55 AM CDT
Never seen any of the Firday the 13th flicks
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Started to watch the remake version and turned it off during the opening credits because I realised I wasn't interested.
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are awesome. Women don't appreciate them. Hours of fun.
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massively stupid. Hugely, unbelievably stupid. Has an interesting beginning with Cronenburg and a hilarious Robot v Jason scene, not to mention the genius of Virtual Reality Camp Crystal Lake. Overall though, in all honesty, it isn't a good film.
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Sep 21, 2009 3:57:59 AM CDT
That character is exactly the same in TDK
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Whinging about Wayne "doing the right thing" or whatever. But Droopy Dog was more irritating.
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if someone, of any nationality (aside from france) orders a "bottle of french champagne" then they are a cunt by definition. Re- shoes/ hair. Never thought about it, at all.
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Sep 21, 2009 4:02:30 AM CDT
Went to the thee-ay-ter again on the weekend
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Saw a play called Speaking in Tongues with the bloke from the State of Play miniseries and Life on Mars (which I haven't seen). It was adapted into an aussie flick called Lantana which is quite good if you haven't seen it. Anyhoo, the play was good.
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It's a bad character
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Sep 21, 2009 4:03:58 AM CDT
Are you reading the women and shoes discussion above?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I kind of bypassed that.
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Sep 21, 2009 4:05:02 AM CDT
Let's just agree that it's a shit character
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
And be done with it.
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Most likely will end up seeing it on dvd. Megan Fox doesn't really do anything for me.
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Around these here parts. I Wasn't a fan of Batman Begins, really on any level.
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Mrs. Jarv is making threatening noises about Endgame. I'm trying to talk her out of it.
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I've nothing really to add to that. MB and Barfydog are women? We must have the closest to 50/50 male female percentage of posters of any thread on here.
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that's probably it. Changian doctrine is wholly inclusive.
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In that I didn't realize she was female at first, It took a while. Jarv if you also include Mavra in your tally and the occassional drive by posted by Buffywrestling this TB has the highestest per capita representation by the female half of the population.
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Barfy, Mavra, MB, Buffy. That's not bad considering that there's probably about 10 of us in total.
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and I give just as much of a shit about the game we won as I do about those we lost.
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Never would've guessed. Not that theres anything wrong with that.
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Sep 21, 2009 4:44:18 AM CDT
Disappointed by the lack of whitewash action
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
But really, who gives a fuck?
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I haven't seen GIANT PIG around these parts for a while. Did you lose the login password?
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Jesus Christ- that's a joke. 10 hour flight to Cape Town then fuck all time to acclimatise for a team that's clearly knackered. Which dick did the fixtures this year?
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Didn't you go on holiday again recently?
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Did we ever work out who GIANT PIG is?
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Sep 21, 2009 4:57:58 AM CDT
Tits "are there to feed the babies and that's why y'all tend to
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Nope. Tits are there to slyly or openly ogle (depending on the situation). They are also there to fuck, either in reality or in my imagination (again, depending on the situation). I've never looked at tits and thought of babies, except when one is hanging off them. (I realise this is a comment about the subconcsious etc... but I choose to ignore that part)
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He was the first one to accuse someone of being GIANT PIG. The old adage applies... He who smelt it, dealt it.
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GIANT PIG was rampaging around these TBs unchecked, the way GIANT PIGS tend to do, but by golly when YOU go off on your Black Sea, Transylvania Transcaucus whatever holiday THE PIG vactions also?I don't need to don my Deer Stalker cap to figure that one out. Plus THE PIG posts had a faint whiff of Koala to them.
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when the missus has gone to sleep and I've got insomnia and am bored. To Quoth Coupling.
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GIANT PIG= Frankie. Seriously, the porcine disappearance was round about the time he got his new job with the IT monkey embargo.
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Sep 21, 2009 5:21:34 AM CDT
"THE PIG posts had a faint whiff of Koala to them"
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Of course it does. GIANT PIG devours Koalas by the hoof full, like Popcorn Chicken.
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I've been back from holiday for a month. I haven't seen GIANT PIG around here for at least two. Methinks it be a wily game of deception and slander ye play.
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Sep 21, 2009 5:29:40 AM CDT
The weekends convo's veered wildly from...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
men and shoes, tits, slavery and sparta? And not much actual movie talk. Very strange weekend indeed.
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be afraid.
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effortlessly. That was some good talkbacking.
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I'm starting to seriously dislike her and I don't really know why. I think it's because she so obviously sucked a dick to get ahead, but now is behaving like a proper twat.
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Scooby Doo 2? Please explain...
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Falling Down is pretty good as I remember it. I haven't seen it in a long long time so I'd have to rewatch it.
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But after reading the Jennifer's Body TB, especially CreepyDumbShits post, I think we might lose a couple.
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And SCHOOL FOR SCOUNDRELS is damn good. I saw it at a Robert Hamer festival, on a double feature with KIND HEART'S & CORONETS. Terry Thomas is real good and annoying in this movie. Made me want to go out and look up the UPMANSHIP, GAMESMANSHIP, LIFEMANSHIP books.
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*sad I know*. I think it was in the 5 buck a dvd bin in Wallyworld a few years ago, it has a scratch in it and does the skip routine in the middle, it's basically what the first one shoulda been, but it's still trivial shite to be honest. They shoulda made these in the '80's.
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Better first half than second.
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or as we call them, drop bears. seriously they'll, rip you limb from from limb.
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What was he thinkin'?
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Sep 21, 2009 6:17:45 AM CDT
Does anyone here watch Mad Men?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Whats it all about and is it worth watching?
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I will be posting under this name until the day I'm banned, and then I have a couple of back-ups just in case.The only fake name I've ever used is monkey_vs_chicken, which is just for when I wanted to anonymously annoy people, but that got boring pretty quickly. Better to annoy them and make sure they know who you are.Vroom and whatnot.
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Nice performance in the second half by the kid.
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Less dirty now?
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Sep 21, 2009 6:43:43 AM CDT
"the kid is showing me something"
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Things overheard at Neverland ranch.
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Sep 21, 2009 6:51:38 AM CDT
"Have you ever been in a turkish prison?"
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
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I don't think we'll lose any women. To be honest. We're pretty unconnected from the meathead douchebags in those type of threads.
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I spent all weekend lying on the sofa with fucking flu. Downside of working in a school- You can guarantee that I'm going to get H1N1- I got it in the last outbreak. It's like normal flu, to be honest. Scooby Doo actually reduced me to an exploratory forage to Sainsbury's to buy Whiskey, Lemons and Honey for my Mother's flu remedy. Don't think it works, actually, but you do go to sleep after it. Needless to say, after my third Scooby Doo 2 didn't seem that bad.
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I think it's generally excellent- except I wish they hadn't made him a nutjob. It would have been better without.
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when I didn't automatically assume that each Spielberg movie was going to suck- which means that I get the odd pleasant surprise from things like Munich.
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I've either disliked or flat out hated almost every Spielberg movie for a long time- with a few exceptions.
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What the fuck have you lot got against Socialised Medicine? We may bitch about the NHS, but in a pinch it's excellent.
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but she always fails, because she's a dangerous hippie from San Fransisco and doesn't understand it either.
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"I'm not against healthcare, I'm against paying for irresponsible people who have no respect for themselves." How the fuck is insurance better than that? To begin with- your premiums are related to the amount they have to pay out, ergo you ARE paying for those people. Secondly, they exist to turn down your claim as it would hurt their bottom line. How the fuck is this worse than the NHS?
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Whoops. How the fuck is this NOT worse than the NHS? is what it should have read.
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all of them. That TB is fucking horrendous.
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fucking horrible bastard.
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I can't be arsed smashing that nonsense again.
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wiped the floor with that cunt. I despise that horrid revisionist shit.
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Eurgh. Some things are best kept out of.
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Sep 21, 2009 8:00:21 AM CDT
The last 'berg flick I looked forward to was Minority Report
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
But that's not entirely The Beards fault. I just don't look forward to movies in the same way i used to. It's due to the constant stream of shit I've endured for about the past 10-12 years (with each year generally getting progressively worse) which just chips away at any interest and passion for flicks. I pity the kids today, aged about 11 or 12, who are just discovering film... I don't think I'd be remotely interested in film if I had grown up with the current state of cinema.
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Has anyone seen this? I'm very interested. Especially after reading about the production on Jaws and how (reportedly) fucked it was.
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So I know which one to avoid
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Sep 21, 2009 8:21:37 AM CDT
aaaaaarrgh!!! FUCK A MOTHERFUCKING DUCK!
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
WTWTA doesn't get released until December 11 in this shithole of a country. I'm sick to death of decent flicks getting delayed (UP for example! It came out 4 months ago for fucks sake. And absolute shit like Trannyformers 2 et al get released simultaneously. Fuck these cunts. Fuck them right in the ear.
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Sep 21, 2009 8:29:15 AM CDT
Looks like Octobers going to be another shit month
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I thought it was a good one. And the road isn't out until january 2010 for fucks sake. I'm going to try to catch these at the london film festival. fuck this.
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I never closed that bracket from a couple of posts ago.
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Cause that skiving layabout is either... a) at the pub b)developed the sniffles and pissed off home c) fallen asleep on the toilet He won't be working, thats for sure.
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rude cunt.
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http://tinyurl.com/o6rr2y
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at the moment, it's almost a case of what will I be avoiding in the next few weeks.
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Pretty funny stuff. I could see where with Zach Galifinakis it would be funnier. French humor does not always translate well. Plus I could see Zach's ritard act working very well.
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Safe for work?
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Jimmy Fallon getting the biggest laughs at the emmys was pretty good.
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Every movie he's done has been translated into american and pretty good success ratio.
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Yeah, just a BFI event.
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I mean, I can easily see that he probably did, but what's it getting at?
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is that Terminator 4 is at dawn. I do not want to stay up until dawn to watch that
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I thought she was ok. I didn't like how they made her character a man in TDK. I thought we got away from gay Batman with Cloondawg runining it for everyone. Personally I think there is no room for love interest in a Batman movie he should just bang ramdom people and thats it, the love story has never worked in the movies.
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Christ, that would be great.
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Anymore. Between him in Rush Limbaugh who could give a fuck.
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Much like the Alien series, you almost need to watch them in reverse to be able to get through them.
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Much like the Alien series, you almost need to watch them in reverse to be able to get through them.
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There isn't much love interest in the comics so no wonder it doesn't work on the big screen. I'm sure bigger DC nerds can explain Batman's love interest better (he had a kid at some point), but from what I gather he's not pinning for someone.
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Sep 21, 2009 9:06:52 AM CDT
"he should just bang ramdom people"
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Well, Wayne is a borderline Patrick Bateman anyway. I'd like to see that actually! Wayne dressed up as Batman, growling his way through a deconstruction of Genesis before he cracks someones head open with an axe. That's a Batman I'd like to see.
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Did everyone REALLY read this as a kid? Because I have a hard time believing that more people have read that then Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. I think just because it WTWTA says "Based on the Acclaimed kids novel" more people eat it up. Cloudy is the much better book.
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Not only did I not read Cloudy etc as a kid, but the first time I ever heard of the fucking thing was about a month ago when I saw something about the movie. WTWTA on the other hand is one of my earliest memories of books, along with The Very Hungry Caterpillar and The Enormous Crocodile. It does indeed hold a special place with me, and this is not some usual fanboy "raped my childhood" hyperbole.
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Like all things british America went ahead and did there own version of this. While Jay is probably smart not taking the job as the host...he fucking makes the most sense (seeing that half the show will probably be in his garage, he has (or had?) the guieness book record for most cars). And I would have much rather seen him doing Top Gear once a week rather then shilling his lame ass comedy on old people nation wide. As it stands we got Adam Corella which is fine, just means the show will probably get cancelled pretty fast.
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Sep 21, 2009 9:22:22 AM CDT
Roald Dahl wrote the screenplay for...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
You Only Live Twice. That, I did not know.
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I'm talking in general. Like outside of geekdom, people din't know about Cloudy but all of the sudden everyone loves WTWTA. I've read both like a million times as a kid. And for the life of me I can barely recall the plot of WTWTA but I know most of Couldy. I always thought Cloudy was better because it was a place that fucking rained food, how awesome is that as a kid?
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Directed Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde.
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And I know they got Cloudy in libraires there as well.
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Sep 21, 2009 9:28:53 AM CDT
I asked a few of my friends about Cloudy...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
and none of them knew what it was. They all knew what WTWTA was. I think it's an Aussie thing, because they are Australian and my age. So maybe we just missed the Cloudy train.
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And she is surprised as well, because she always saw Cloudy as the better and more popular book.
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Hook. Why not.
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I've never made it all the way through. I've tried twice and both times found it to be utter shit. But that's just me. You must've seen something in it that I didn't. One of my fav berg's (probably top 3) is Empire of the Sun.
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Cloudy with a chance of meatballs.
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We're gonna need a bigger boat?Must go faster, must go faster!This is the Minority Report? Hold on to your butts. RUFFIO! RUFFIO! RUFFIO! I sir, challenge you to a Duel! Looks like we are having a close encounter, of the third kind. Indiana Jones just went into the temple of doom! Snakes, why'd it have to be snakes? We're an-iman-iacs Dott is cute and Yakko yaks Wakko cracks away the snacks while Bill Clinton plays the sax
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Sep 21, 2009 9:41:01 AM CDT
I've never seen The Colour Purple or Always
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Or The Sugarland Express.
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In theaters when it came out as a kid.
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To be honest. Empire of The Sun is great though.
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Meh. Oprah is surprisingly good. Sugarland Express= wank. Always= terrible wank.
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1. Raiders 2. Jaws 3. Empire of the Sun 4. Duel 5. Tintin (I foresee greatness!)
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Is probably a tie between Hook and Jurassic Park. I'll probably lean toward JP because it holds up.
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Munich.
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Amistad= wank. minority Report (I think this is wank, but am alone in this), AI= wank, Indy 4= Wank, Lost World-= wank, The Terminal= Wank, War of The Worlds= Wank. Worst thing that happened to Spielberg was getting that Oscar. He just went into sugar overkill after that
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It's between AI, War of The Worlds, The Terminal for runner up with The Lost World clear by a country mile.
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1)Raiders, 2)Jaws 3)Duel 4)Close Encounters 5)Empire of The Sun
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Hook The Lost World 1941
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now I think about it. Fucking dreadful, and if anyone other than Berg had done it we'd all be on his back for hackery.
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Friday Night Lights Every other flick he's made is shite, except for maybe Welcome to the Jungle (The Rundown for the Yanks) which was unreasonably entertaining, but shite.
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I liked that movie. Not one of the best movies ever, but I found it effective.
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Its ok. Nothing special, that Teddy is creepy as hell. Minority Report is good for the first half. War of the Worlds sucked. 1941 is just a mess.
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Okay, this is what I think. IF (and it's a big IF) the flick had ended as planned with the bird cage scene from the third one, then The Lost World would be immeasurably better. The whole t-rex run amok in the city ending was absolute shit, and felt tacked on and far too long. It absolutely ruined any goodwill towards the flick. That and the black gymnast daughter twirling on a makeshift crossbar and kicking a velociraptor out the window.
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Until he got eaten up by the William Smith machine. Don't know if he'll be'll able to recover.
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I guess after Extract failed to get any audience the makers of Couples Retreat (the kid from A Christmas Story!) decided to rest the whole movie on his shoulders. Kind of funny. Imainge JP2 coming out now, the trailers would be cut to make him look like the star.
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Sep 21, 2009 10:04:13 AM CDT
Minority Report is really good
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I liked WotW at the cinema, then watched it again on dvd and thought it was a load of shit. So who knows about that. What I hated most was the fucking kid just turning up at the wifes house. Seriously Berg, just keep the kid dead and deal with it. Not EVERYTHING has to work out all rainbows and fucking lollypops.
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I liked it, but even as a kid I was like What the fuck? I want to read the books.
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Sep 21, 2009 10:04:59 AM CDT
Twitch is typically a sanctuary from triteness and trolls.
by mavra chang
The female Changians will not abandon it. And for the record, I don't recall ever noticing a guy's shoes unless I tripped over them in the dark. What does it indicate of my preferences that I've only seen my guy with bare feet? :)
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WOTW I saw on a shitty video in a theater copy. Munich I just need to see again to confirm my belief's that it sucks.
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I used to think they were cool, as a kid. Not I won't pay more then $60 for a pair. I had to buy a $100 pair before but they were suppose to help with support or some shit, they were actually pretty ugly. They are those Grey new balances, everyone fucking has'em, I saw Sandler on Kimmel wearing them. Plus they say USA on the back which I think is pretty pathetic.
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Favorite berg? Least Favorite berg?
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Have either of you ever heard of the book, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs?
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Is a very odd flick for me. It kind of felt like Berg doing Kubrick. And the two styles are so different to each other that when meshed results in a flick that doesn't know if it wants to be cold and detached, like a Kubrick flick, or warm, fuzzy and cuddly like a Berg flick. It's the bastard child of Kubrick and Spielberg.
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http://tinyurl.com/mlwg9r
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WTWTA is a much older book then Cloudy. So yeah there is a generation gap. I thought they came out relativly close to each other. So I can see why WTWTA is more important in the world of kids books. But Cloudy was just so much damn fun.
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So different in terms of tone and pacing of a movie, as well as ideas. Kubrick's movies are always mean and have sad endings. Berg is always happy and upbeat.
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If they ever make a Informant 2! I hope its about this guy, sure he's not an Informant but he's story is pretty nuts.
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Kubrick preferred "unlikable" characters. Barry Lyndon for example. That character is an absolute cunt for the entire flick. The Berg needs a hero.
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Faves: Jaws Raiders Duel Jurassic Park Twilight Zone:The Movie Least Fave: A.I. I hated A.I. enough to count it in all five of my least fave slots.
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is a pastiche of all the things Spielberg does that I hate- annoying vomitous saccharine children, confused and shit last act, overlong, overindulgent, cheesy, shatters suspension of disbelief etc. Most of his films have one or 2 of these, but TLW has all of them.
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AI is dishonest, vile garbage with serious pacing issues and a lead character that makes me vomit. Spielberg should not have gone anywhere near Kubrick.
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Sep 21, 2009 10:27:00 AM CDT
I will say this about The Lost World
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
The trailer hanging over the cliff scene is pretty damned good. A top scene in an otherwise awful flick.
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I don't get how people think this is good. I really detested it. It may possibly have been good if it had finished with Cruise being banged up- but the end with the 3 mutants living in a cottage was shit, eunuch shit. Have some balls to finish it properly- as droid said, not everything needs to be rainbows.
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A fucking sequel to Mystery Men. I wanna know what's going on with Casanova Frankenstein, Mr Furious, The Shoveler and The Blue Raja!
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Is upset that he can't get serious more grown up work. I smell another Johnathan Brandis in the making!
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Like I said good first half of a movie.
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Fuck yeah I love that movie! Too band it flopped so hard that it didn't even warrent a direct to VHS sequel to it. If they ever did a reboot, the only one they'd be able to get now would be The skinny one from Keane and Kel and probably Paul Rubens again.
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all the films I detest of his have a bullshit tacked on ending that feels completely wrong- Lost World, AI, Minority Report, War of The Worlds. Even Munich, which I liked as a rule had a horrible third act.
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Sep 21, 2009 10:35:49 AM CDT
Munich had a horrible third act?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I don't really remember it. I'd have to rewatch it. I don't remember having an issue with the third act though.
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It's called Watchmen and was, in fact, shit.
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everything after they kill the naked girl. Honestly, watch it again.
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Has another pissed off jew role coming up soon!
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I don't remember them killing a naked girl. I saw it at the cinema, and I really don't remember much from it. Weird.
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in Amsterdam. Unless I'm starshipping.
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Sounds about right.
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DED!
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I'm sure you are. I just don't remember it. At a guess I'd say it was Ciaran Hinds character. I have vague recollections of that.
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The death list included Micheal Jackson....but not Billy Mays. Sure Micheal Jackson was a huge star, and I guess he helped make music videos popular (do they even make them anymore?) but Billy Mays doesn't get a mention?
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Then I think a couple of them kill her. Those angry jews!
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that seems to somehow be getting this ridiculous revisionist hypocrisy. Just wait until the "fucked in the ass and tell" stories start appearing.
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Micheal Jackson this Micheal Jackson that, Micheal Jackson raped me with a wiffle ball bat. I don't care, tons of worse shit has been done. Plus your talking to the country the let a ritard run it for 8 years, so we really don't give a shit between right and wrong and good and bad decisions.
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To all the fucked up secerts of celberties? How crazy would that be? Think of all the fucked up shit you'd know.
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Faves
1) Jaws2) Raiders 3)ET 4) Duel 5) Munich Not so faves 1) Hook
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Just loved that flick! Funny as hell.
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Just applied for another job. Didn't think I'd be having to do this SO soon. At least this time its volentary, because this job sucks.
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Later fellas!
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it's the self righteous river in egypt fuckheads.
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Must be british for something else.
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I feel for you. Mrs. Jarv is doing the same and I will be soon.
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The nile river in Egypt runs backwards
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Is only a job because someone hasn't created a computer program for it yet.
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wankers that bleat "Waaaaah he never did it, he only paid $20m to cover it up because he was totally innocent and never mind that that kid could describe his cock in detail that's irrelevant" I especially like it when they say "waaaah he was acquitted!" because then I can point out that a) no way in fuck was Jackson going to the slammer in America and b)OJ got off.
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Do you like Radiohead?
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How it was his insurance companies idea because he was on tour and they didn't want to waste his time going to court and stuff. Something like that.
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still, least I don't have to work in a veal fattening pen. (Open plan cubicle hell).
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1.Raiders2.Jaws3.Temple of Doom4.Catch Me If you can4.Sugerland Express5.1941(to annoy Jarv sort of by I liked it)Bottom 51. Number 1 with a bullet Saving Private Ryan Fuck him.2.ET3.AI4.Hook5.Lost World
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Hahaha, I swear, those character design's for the humans in Wall-E, Pixar must've gotten from my place of work. I swear these people kind of roll when they walk. Like its a circular swaying pattern of walk, I'll have to show you to know what I mean.
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Can't believe more people aren't upset about Cameron requiring you to view 2 seperate movie before seeing his. If it were a less of a director (Richard Kelly) fan boys would be pissed having to do extra work.
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Viewing two separate movies?
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In order to fully understand Avatar Cameron expects you to see Delgo and Battle For Terra first. Delgo is the story of the Blue people, while Battle For Terra tells the story of the plight of the humans. Avatar will be the 3rd in the trilogy about when the two races meet. Have you not seen the new posters with the tagline: Between The Battle For Terra and Delgo...lies AVATAR. Dec, 2009. IN IMAX theaters that are not still showing A Christmas Carole
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I liked Pre-OK computer. They lost me with OKC and Kid A was so insulting that I never want to hear another thing they do. Ever
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Then again, I have not been paying much attention to Avatar. is that a joke or are you being serious, series?
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So insulting? The music or the band? I remmeber them on SNL performing that song and one of the blokes jobs was to like move switchs during the song like he was a 1920 telephone switch operator.
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That bumps The Terminal off my runner up spot.
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But if I were some rabid Avatar fan or foe, that would definitely be a good way to start a fight!
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I wish I was lying. It hath been fortold thoughout the geekverse that Sire Cameron ghost directed both Battle for Terra and Delgo, in order to work out the kinks of the new alien technology he found under the sea. Some say that the reason Delgo sucks is because the view screens we have for the movie are too old to potray such advance graphics that something gets lost in the transition.
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I honestly do not remember how I felt about it. Certainly not overwhelmed, but certainly not the way Xi feels about it either. I lump it in with the Color Purple, Amistead. Always
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Thank you for clarifying. Yes indeed, I do think that has a ring of truth to it. While he was doing his anti-Jesus documentary, he must have stumbled across alien tech in the desert. This confirmed his earlier find of alien tech he found while shooting titanic - which was only partial and thus he was only able to create a warm fuzzy eyeball rub with Delgo and BFT, but because he now had the missing piece, his Avatar could be made with the full eyeball carnal experience.
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Should sac up and make the next Superman movie. I don't really care about superman he is boring. But at least Berg would make a movie full of action and hopefully stay away from the fucking origin story.
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Delgo and BFT will quickly be reversed once they know that they have been birthed from the mighty ones movie making cannal.
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Hmmm maybe this'll never get near me.
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Just seems like one of those critic fodder kind of movies they can't wait to put in their undiscovered treasures section in a couple of years.
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Seeing that seems to be the norm with that directors career.
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Remaking Pinnocchio as a Sci-Fi movie. But alas,,,no. He couldn't get it to work.
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It has only been told once in film. It isn't like Batman which did the origin story twice (Batman and Batman Begins).
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And there has been a lot of rumors about makeing another origins story for the next movie. Plus people had smallville which gave us the origin story again.
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I seriously think you should be reading Vigilante, it has everything you want in a Batman comic/movie I think. The Penguin is a mobster, Vigilante is a crime solver first off gadget man secdonly, he works to help the police but they don't like him. Its pretty good. He also knows that he is not invincible.
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Is the fucking CarlThorMarks post in the Jennifer's Body TB. I'm done with that TB.
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Who cares now.
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Her agents will now have difficulty landing big paydays for future films. As box office guru puts it.
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Where the wild things are, or Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs? The book, I'm thinking Cloudy would've have come out to late in your life to care.
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Hate: 1: FUCKIN' MUNICH. Starts out well, then Whap-you wind up w/ Eric Bana in a bad Chico and the Man rug channeling his neighbours Beagle that lives to hump table legs. Get real SS. 2: Lost World AKA Jurassic SHIT. Gimme JP III or even Jurassic_Kong over it, please. 3: The Terminal. Good GAWD who's the fuckhead that wrote this and thought this would be a good idea? GARBAGE. BOOOO! 4: Attack of the Scientology Machines. This starts out well then about the time Tim Robbins shows, bangs the aforementioned Beagle repeatedly for the rest of the movie. What a wasted effort. Memo to Hollywood-those Squids didn't have no Force Fields. Fuck you you lost half the movie right there. 5: Hook. Garbage. Liked: 1: Minority Report. Yeah I know. It's still okay to me. 2: Gremlins. Yeah I know, he didn't Direct it, but I remember those ads-S.S. Presents-Gremlins. I loved it. Now-well it's what it is. 3: Saving Pvt Ryan. I really liked a few of the parts and the acting, it struck me as being a glorified Sgt Rock comic other-wise. Noted_Sage Xiphos, of course, begs to differ. 4: Empire of the Sun. This was where Young Bats learned to hate our Friends in the East. Pretty good over-all flick. 5: Da Color Purple. Well Okay it's got Whoopi, Danny G and Oprah. It is pretty effective. Loved: 1: Schindler's List. Saw it the one time. Don't need to see it again. Home run. 2: E.T. Yeah I know. You don't hear much about this one on this site, and I've not seen it in ages, but I can remember it really worked back when. 3: Jaws. It's great. Friends I know were there on the island when it was filmed. It was as fucked up a process as you've heard, if not worse. 4: Amistad. Yes I know---I just enjoyed seeing John Quincy Adams being played by Hannibal Lector. It worked for me. 5: Close Encounters. It's great. Mashed spuds Devils Tower etc. Yayyy!
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One word: Unnecessary. The whole planet knows his origin, and it has been done before. The one thing Singer got right was not to redo THAT part of Donner. It wastes time, it is groan inducing, it is in a sense lazy because half the film is eaten up by establishing the origin, instead of advancing an action plot. I have said it before, the greatest Super Hero movie of all time is: Blade. The first one. Of course that is just my subjective opinion based upon objective criteria! Ha! Still, Blade did it all: Igf an origin is a must (as it was for Blade but would not be for Supes) do it in a rapid flashback. Hell, even Watchmen got that part right. Origins waste too much time, they take away from the action and most of the time do not advancethe plot. And in Supes's case, it would be yet another slap in the face because everyone and their dogs know his origin.
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Beatin' the Boys in their billion dollar palace? Now, time for some more football, although Colts 'Fins not too interesting.
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but really to each there own. SPR, for me, was a massive failure on every level except the amphibious assault. I won't argue with somebody who likes SPR because its subjective but I'm sure as shit not going to say it doesn't suck massive balls. How 'bout them Cowboys! best image on sports center this morning was the shot of the ex Mrs Simpson sitting on the bench with her head in her hands. Runner up is the look on that bad plastic surgery addicted Hilljack Jerrah Jones.
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C'mon it's Something!
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-no one is gonna dare gainsay you on your life-experience as far's Sgt Matt Ryan there being accurate or anything, me esp. You just know too much 'inside baseball' for Hollywood to slide their BS past your eyes I know. I thought some Giant Robots might have improved it a bit, myself. But I'm special like that.
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she signaled me secretly during her live report -multiple eyelash flashing code that on she and i know ' dirk, i need you now my water stallion of love' I must oblige
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Since I thought the horseys would be 0-2 right now.
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Actually it doesn't have a lot to do with that. It's more to do with the directors choices, casting, writing, acting and most importantly not killing of in a gruesome as possible manner Edward Burns.
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I'm not even using my IMAC yet, I am too afraid too, its too nice and shiny. Right now I am just sitting at the desk with the IMAC on it holding my shitty old labtop typing this. I don't even know how to turn the IMAC on. Its so bright when it does come on...and it talks to me?
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I think it is not completely unnecessary. If you are going to relaunch the franchise, you might want to take the opportunity to show Superman starting out. They have only shown it once on the big screen, unlike Batman (who has gotten that treatment twice).
What you don't need is to show ALL OF HIS ORIGIN. To me one of the best templates is the original Star Wars trilogy, which revealed the relevant information as the series went. While we knew there was an Empire in Star Wars, we didn't find out about the Emperor until Empire; and we didn't know about Yoga until that movie as well, or find out that Leia is his sister until Return.
The funny thing is that is how the comics originally was. All we knew about Superman when he first appeared was that he was from a doomed planet and raised on earth - we weren't shown everything about Krypton or Smallville or any of the stuff until later. Which is what they should do with any future Superman movies.
Superman shouldn't discover about Krypton of Jor-El until the second or third movie in a series, just like maybe they should hold back the revelation of Kryptonite until a future movie. Don't throw all the information in the first movie - keep some until the sequels so you have something knew to show the audience. -
Yoga was discovered in 1980?
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I enjoy seeing them discover their abilities and learn to master them. I watched the first series of Smallville and what kept it interesting was he didn't have all the powers we associate with Supes. And he discovered a few along the way. He can't fly (and as I understand it, he STILL can't fly in the 8th season!?). And I like Batman Begins for the same kind of reason. I enjoyed seeing Wayne seeing a need (such as the cape), and acquiring the tools. What this also does is create rules for the character. We know what the capabilities of the character are, his strength and weaknesses, and if they cheat we can call bullshit. And that's all I got to say about that... Those look like comfortable shoes.
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Inexplicably, I like him. He's done some godawful shit, but his own flicks are quite good. I really enjoyed Sidewalks of New York. And of course he made A Sound of Thunder. That's a lifetime pass right there!
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Sep 22, 2009 3:33:36 AM CDT
Megan Fox will go the way of the Lohan
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Guarantee she'll be STV'ing in three years.
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I keep seeing the writer of The Wire credited as Edward Burns and wondering if it's the same Douchebag. Other than that, I'm entirely with Xi on this. A rule of thumb that works for me is "If an actor has been in Will and Grace then he is automatically a cunt". I let John Cleese off because he's not an actor any more. He's more of a professional John Cleese.
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for the love of god: NO! Batman needed the origin retold, because Burton glossed over it and added some stupid nonsense about the Joker (It was told in flashback) and also Begins was resetting the previous films. Burton's Bats is not an origin film whereas Superman 1 absolutely is. I think it's more of a "time spent on origin" thing that makes the difference. If we had another Bats origin, then that would be shit. Stalkerman lifts shit was also rebooting it, and would have been OK to use the origin. Or even film that cunt Routh masturbating in a cup (which is what he clearly did for Singer to get the role) or even Spacey reading out his shopping list. Or anything rather than the shit we got.
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I spent the whole first series assuming it was one and the same. Aparently it's not. Which is why he's credited as Edward D. Burns or some shit, if memory serves.
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I detest this film. Schmaltzy, boring, turgid Oscar Bait wank with a dismal saccharine book end. To be fair, the Normandy Landing is brilliantly done- and I'd watch that bit every time gladly. Then I turn it off.
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Sep 22, 2009 4:01:46 AM CDT
Superman Returns was a sequel to Superman 2
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Hence including a carbon copy recap of Donners origin story. And using Brando. Blah blah blah. If they are to "reboot" Superman then I want to see the rules defined. (I would also like to see some sort of limitation on his abilities a la Smallville. As in, he hasn't got them all yet, or he hasn't mastered all of them etc). But if we get a SR sequel with Routh then I don't want any origin shit. I just want a well paced action flick, a dead kid, minimal Lex and a different actress playing Lois. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow (or Neill Blomkamp).
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Sep 22, 2009 4:02:09 AM CDT
Superman Returns was a sequel to Superman 2
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Hence including a carbon copy recap of Donners origin story. And using Brando. Blah blah blah. If they are to "reboot" Superman then I want to see the rules defined. (I would also like to see some sort of limitation on his abilities a la Smallville. As in, he hasn't got them all yet, or he hasn't mastered all of them etc). But if we get a SR sequel with Routh then I don't want any origin shit. I just want a well paced action flick, a dead kid, minimal Lex and a different actress playing Lois. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow (or Neill Blomkamp).
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Sep 22, 2009 4:02:28 AM CDT
Superman Returns was a sequel to Superman 2
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Hence including a carbon copy recap of Donners origin story. And using Brando. Blah blah blah. If they are to "reboot" Superman then I want to see the rules defined. (I would also like to see some sort of limitation on his abilities a la Smallville. As in, he hasn't got them all yet, or he hasn't mastered all of them etc). But if we get a SR sequel with Routh then I don't want any origin shit. I just want a well paced action flick, a dead kid, minimal Lex and a different actress playing Lois. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow (or Neill Blomkamp).
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Fuck this shitheap of a computer.
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What do you guys think of Saving Private Ryan?
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hehehehe.
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it's, you know, kinda weak.
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he needs either a limitation OR a properly matched adversary. He does not need to see fucking Kryptonite (again). It's dull now- Smallville especially practically seems to be made out of the fucking stuff.
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set in the 30's or 40's. Make it pulpy it might be cool. It'll never happen though becasue it wouldn't be you know "edgy" enough for the kids even though Superman is, by definition, the antiedgy comic strips character.
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poor writer of The Wire.
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I thought that was simply superb. The problem is that period pieces tend to suck hairy goat nob (not unlike a certain Iberian that we know). Sky captain, Jurassic Kong etc leaping to mind.
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pretentious load of wank. Hate it. Thom "dickhead" Yorke came out with some utter insulting crap about "reinventing music" and how the only people that didn't like it were those that were incapable of appreciating it. Nothing to do with the fact that Kid A is the sound of 4 men vanishing up their own arses.
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I kind of liked teh first couple of seasons but I haven't watched it in a long time. I thought that lummox they got to play Clark Kent got the character.
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utter shit as well. It's a shame, because I really liked Pablo Honey, The Bends and half of OK Computer.
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I'll use The Matrix as an example (since its Supermanesque). The first one was interesting because we saw him learning and mastering his abilities, and also learning his limitations. At the end, when Neo becomes The One (Superman), it is a genuinely exciting/thrilling moment. In the sequels, when we know he's virtually indestructable, we don't care anymore, because really, who gives a shit about someone that can't die. Now I know that Superman has developed into this god-like character, and apart from Kryptonite, has no real weaknesses. So tell stories about the character before he's become a god (which is what Smallville has done). Tell stories when he hasn't mastered all of his abilites. Have him make mistakes. Allow us some doubt. Allow us to believe that there is even a remote chance that Supes may not win, or save the day. Whatever. If the character can't die, where is the interest. How can you become emotionally invested in the character if you know without a doubt that he will win. It also annoys me that the best that can be thought of for the character is a Luthor real estate scheme, and turning him into a peeping tom. The two moments I enjoyed most in SR was the plane/shuttle scene and the bank robbery scene. Those two had nothing to do with the shithouse Luthor plot, they were just Supes being Supes.
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Sep 22, 2009 5:11:09 AM CDT
I've also thought a period Superman would be great
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I've championed that for quite a few years when someone mentioned it.
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I liked them up to Kid A, when the only song I liked (or could listen to for that matter) was 'Everything in Its Right Place'. They became the musical equivelant of Richard Kelly, making impenetrable shit that only they, and spineless yes-men, consider genius.
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"They became the musical equivelant of Richard Kelly, making impenetrable shit that only they, and spineless yes-men, consider genius." I was thinking more like Haneke, because it implies contempt for the audience as well, but I'll take Kelly.
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I've never seen any of his flicks, so I couldn't make that comparison.
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thread.
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Boring! Jest not what I listen to nor do I care to. Supes as a movie-iggy any and all Donner/Reeves stuff and head straight into the action-Brainiac has opened up a portal to Hoboken in the middle of the time-space Continuum, the prezzie is discovered to be Bizzaro/Bill Oreilly in disguise, a guy is seen attached to a Goat in Oporto discussing JJ Abrams w/ Mr Luthor. Yes it should be swell.
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unless you like being told you're a cunt by a filmmaker for paying to see his film. Even if it's only telly think twice. I'm specifically referring to funny games with that.
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Didn't he remake his own flick with Roth and Watts?
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The most insulting film ever made. You may as well watch a loop of someone screaming "YOU ARE A CUNT" at the screen for 90 mins.
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good. I hate these lies about the NHS. I'm not a huge fan of it (far too much pointless bureaucracy- I know this first hand) but the bollocks posted about it is ridiculous. Some silly cunt posted that with minor ailments you're ok and with major ones your fucked. That simply isn't true. Everyone knows that the NHS is fucking dynamite when you actually need it, and crap for minor things.
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I can only think of 3 options: The home office has finally caught up with you and you're in a holding cell in Gatwick You've fallen asleep in the supply closet that you went in to steal staples from Primark has a sale on string vests. Certainly not fucking working.
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Home office has caught you and you are now filling out forms.
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rude cunt
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Sep 22, 2009 8:13:22 AM CDT
Never bought a single thing from Primark
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Only been in there once because someone told me I could get cheap luggage in there. All my wifebeaters are imported.
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Schrader/Goldblum/Dafoe/concentration camps....how come no one's seen this movie. Luckily I'll rectify that tomorrow, maybe. I just realized that I always get Schrader and Lumet confussed. Schrader is cool but he's movies always feel boring....so I guess this may be the same. I have like 3 movies of Pauls lined up in the ole queue. Maybe I'll watch Blue Collar tonight since I can finally watch Netflixs instant play.
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Was in 15 minutes. I like that movie.
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They also think that their earlier stuff sucks. They hate having to play creep. I heard the lead singer talking about how he heard Creep the other day and thought it was a different band. Then talked about how they were like Beck who can't get away from Loser. I'm pretty sure Beck doesn't care, because he's made good music you can actually listen to after Loser, plus why hate the thing that made you fucking millionaires.
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Blue Collar is nothing short of brilliant. You're in for a treat.
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Got turned into a movie? Looks like Choke.
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The only flicks of his (that he directed) that I've seen are Affliction, Touch and Auto Focus. Affliction and Auto Focus are very good. Touch is rather shite.
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I held out on watching Harlin's Exorcist movie until after I obtained Schrader's version. I wanted to watch them back to back to see how a brilliant, kyboshed movie could possibly be replaced what would undoubtedly be a typical cack-handed Harlin effort.
Although Harlin's movie was indeed shit, so was Schrader's. A tepid load of fucking assballs masquerading as philosophical horror. I hate to admit that I was more entertained by Harlin's flick, even if it went completely off the rails halfway through.
It was a weird experience overall watching them one after the other, two versions of essentially the same movie with the same cast and the same sets. I can't see that happening again anytime soon. -
I've only seen Harlins version, so I can't really comment on the two. But Harlins is indeed absolute shit. The only similar thing I've seen is the movie Joy Ride. On the dvd there is a couple of alternate endings, one of which is around 25 minutes long. Essentially the third act. It's the original ending and varies greatly from the one released, except for one scene if memory serves correctly. Anyway, to cut a long story short, the original ending was pretty rubbish. The re-shot one was far superior. A solid little thriller.
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Gotta love Ted Levine when he's in hillbilly psycho mode -- even if they only used his voice in Joy Ride.
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Marky Marks dad?
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Both suck, I can hardly remember either of them. They both put me to sleep numerous times while trying to watch. Though I think I liked parts of Pauls better. One of them had a much better ending, can't remember which one.
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Sep 22, 2009 9:26:14 AM CDT
2for2true? I thought this guy was a myth!!
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Here's a true story about CAA...listen up, kiddies..
by 2for2true Sep 22nd, 2009
09:23:58 AM
A man walks into a bank, goes up to the teller and says "Stick'em up." Teller hands over $25K to the man, he runs out of the bank, immediately signs a contract with CAA....and is never heard from again.
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I still need to see this movie. Been meaning too.
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From what I recall, in Schrader's version Billy Crawford went all glowy or something, and in Harlin's version there was some kind of final psychic battle in a cave or tunnel or something.
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Whats funny too is that the movie was kind of a hit at the box office. Why can't Renny still get a movie off the ground? Check out 12 Rounds its a lot of fun, he's still got it.
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If they both weren't just so fucking boring. Schrader's movies get me all excited like I can't wait to see them, then I get them and can barely make it through them. Happened with The Dominion, Auto Focus, Misham and probably will tomorrow with Adam Resurrected. Hopefully Blue Collar isn't boring
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I call bullshit on that!
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You love primark, because the BBC told me that they've got the worst security in the UK and you can rob at will from there.
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Pryor's finest performance I think
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Sep 22, 2009 9:56:49 AM CDT
"the BBC told me that they've got the worst security in the UK"
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
And I don't believe you when you say that you're not an inbred mongoloid.
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It just was. Me and my buddy were watching it, in uncomfortable seats at that. And we both feel asleep. This was back in college in the dorm watching it on my computer. We had chairs with backs that only go to like half way up your back and both of us could not make it through the movie. We even tried again the next afternoon.
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Fuck me. You really are a bigger imbecile than I thought.
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http://www.aintitcool.com/talkback_display/41389#comment_2717571
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You all sound like a bunch of Marks and Sparks wankers to me.
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It's only about 20 posts long!
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Sep 22, 2009 10:06:19 AM CDT
Jarv's more of a TK Maxx kinda guy
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Marks and Spencer is far too upmarket for him.
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Double post twitchs.
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Are you an Asda man or a Tesco's? Do you even have those down there? All I know about Austraillia is that if I wanted to try something different this summer I would have gone to eat at Outback Steakhouse, and you guys eat blommin onions at every meal.
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Extremely high brand name shops or Wal Mart, there is no inbetween.
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Sep 22, 2009 10:13:18 AM CDT
We don't have Asda or Tesco in Australia
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Coles, Safeway, Ritchies... But as I live in London, I have a massive Asda near me. Or a small Sainsburys.
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http://tinyurl.com/ncp3vy
If I don't see an interview between him and someone here I think I may leave. They are fucking showing his movie at Fantastic Fest a movie festival Harry runs. He's talked shit all over Boll, kicked people off his friend's list for hanging out with Boll. He better make amends and praise the mighty Bowl. -
Just like Marks and Spencers aren't they? Or Target?
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Thought you lived in Aussie land for some reason. Someone here does live there right?
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Marks and Sparks has like freash food (and good microwavable indian food). Also M&S have like suit sections. Wal Mart is more like a Tescos. I would say Target is like a cheap version of M&S. But Wal Mart is like bargin bin stuff. But seeing that its the only place to shop near me I have to shop there. I hate myself for doing it.
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But I'm a moron so I live in the UK. Chipps is also Australian (barely... he's from Queensland. They barely qualify as human. Evolution has been slow to reach Ipswich).
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Sep 22, 2009 10:25:31 AM CDT
Is Wal Mart food or clothing?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I thought clothing
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Have internet down there.
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Koala well and truly kicked. Hehehehe I resent both the M&S comment and the TK Maxx one. I buy my clothes in Spain, where they're better and cheaper. It isn't my fault that you don't have the same opportunities Jealousy is a most unbecoming emotion.
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Nap time over?
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Though they've created a think called Wal Mart Markets, for places not big enough for a super Wal Mart, or their are already 2 super wall marts with in ten miles of that place. And its just food.
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so the choice is a grossly overpriced Sainsbury's metro or a Morrisons. Gotta love Camden.
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Sep 22, 2009 10:33:38 AM CDT
Sounds like the corp from Wall-E
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I assume that's what they based it on.
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End Toy's R'Us, they pretty much have, but now they are going for their death strike. Seriously, I'm pretty sure the Wal Mart corporate plan is a model of Skynet.
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Rude cunt. This seems to have developed into standard response now.
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evil cunts.
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Is fucking Wal Mart.
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I'm taking off! Have a good one.
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I want an apology for Paul Hogan and Crocodile Dundee 2. Christ that was shit. The first one was OK-ish even if it did paint all Aussies was ignorant backwards primitives, but the second was terrible beyond belief, and made me think that Hogan was a bit of a cunt.
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it's only 4.50. Mind you, that's 10 minutes a day you aren't fucking the economy, so I suppose I should be thankful.
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I want an apology for Bridget Jones 2, Kevin and Perry Go Large, Johnny English, Ali G Indahouse, Sliding Doors, Mr Bean and Notting Hill. Cunt.
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BIG GIRL BIG GIRL! I like that movie. I know its shit, but its got an awesome soundtrack and I find it funny.
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Gave us Mel Gibson and he's flawless. What good has England ever done? The Fiennes brothers? Hugh Grant? And musicians like Radiohead (they are all the same over there you know its true).
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And Nigel Benn is from London. Therefore, both have their good points.This has been an announcement from the drive-by diplomat! Vroooom.
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Does that mean we win?
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don't spend them all in one place.
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we have given the world loads. Picking on Hugh Grant/ Fiennes is like picking on Australia for Hugh Jackman. Anyhow, musically, I give you the fucking Beatles, The Stones, The Animals, The Kinks etc.
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And he gave the best discription of clowns I think I've ever heard. I don't like clowns, never have, never will. For that matter, I was terrified of Santa Claus when I was a kid and was taken to visit him in the department store at Christmastime. Like a lot of small children, I instinctively knew that clowns were not clowns, but adult males dressed up in a weird way for reasons I would rather not know anything about. They pretended they wanted to be my friends, and yet they hid themselves behind bizarre and frightening disguises. They didn't look like fun friends to me.
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One of those films I was enjoying perfectly well right up until the end, when suddenly I though to meself: "What the fuck was the point of all that?"I been hearing good things about the preposterously titled Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call: New Orleans: And The Cradle Of Life: And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull: At World's End. It would be nice to see another good Nicolas Cage film, one that can go on the pile with Wild At Heart and Raising Arizona and Adaptation and that one where the Karate Kid's bird fucked him to death. I like that Nicolas Cage better than that goon out of National Treasure.
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on more than one occasion. To make it up to the world, I will personally go and burn Curtis' eyes out with a blow torch.
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I'm shocked at the positive review of Boll's latest. And quite frankly, a wee bit disturbed.
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Never heard of them. And Hughjackman is WAYYYY better then Grant/Fiennes how dare you compare the two. He's like a mini bizzaro Gibson. I still fale to see Englands contributions to the world of entertainment in any form.
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I plan to spend them on a bag of chips.
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neither band is making music that could be remotely called English. They're making music for dipshits at Iowa state university to listen to while they decide whether or not to get their navels pierced.
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And I didn't have a problem with the ending, in fact, all Nic Cage movies should end with some sort of *SPOILER*...alien presence at the end. Because, really, Nic has got to be an alien anyway. Or perhaps just his hair.
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And they probably get drowned out by the Glenn Beck show out there anyway.
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That's the only thing that stops me wanting to burn his eyes out meself. Blackadder was great.It's a shame he went on to make a fortune convincing Americans that England is a comfy, middle class, Hugh Grant-ified, whites-only country later in life, though. What a cunt.
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that wants to be in Musicals.
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Sep 22, 2009 11:32:58 AM CDT
it just so happens I have another 75 laying around..
by just pillow talk
Get yourself a cold beverage of your choice too Frankie. Wouldn't want you to choke on a chip.
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I felt bad for poor Nicolas Cage and his wonderful wig, because they had spent so much time figuring out those cryptic clues that girl had spent so much time on only to find out there was fuck-all he could do about it. The fuck's the point of a warning if we're all going to get killed anyway? Duck and cover was not going to help in that situation.
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Nic going back home and hugging dad...being with the family...and *WHOOSH*...Wig gone up in flames.
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A bag of chips AND a can of ice cold Diet Pepsi, courtesy of jpt?Party at my place!! (Get here quick, though, because it'a only a small bag of chips and they won't last long once Jarv's bear arrives).
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I'm convinced that anything good in that was Elton and Curtis only made coffee.
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Custody of the poor ill-fed, lack of adult beverage consumption that Jarv inflicted on him, has been correct.My bear enjoys chomping on various infidels and shitheels, along with drinking his fair share of various beers.
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And I went into it expecting to hate it. Spoiler, the girl in the movie Rose Byrne (thank you Australia) was pretty fucking terrible in the movie. But what makes it great, is that they fucking kill her. It was awesome and ballsy. They could have had some lame ending with her and Rage Cage making out as they died but they didn't. I watched that movie twice in a row. Whats also nuts, is that its pretty scary. I hope Proyas is back! Finally a director that recovered from Willaim Smith diesease!!!!
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I liked that one a lot. Some good Angelina Jolie acting, and also that guy who always plays total cunts was excellent as a total cunt (can't remember his name).Is Clint Eastwood the greatest actor-turned-director of all time? I reckon he might be.
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Are purely british. If they were influenced at all by America, they would want to make money. That's what proved that Radiohead isn't influenced by America. Coldplay maybe a little, but thats what happenes when you spend too much time hate fucking America's bitch.
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Was flimed in Australia. What was the last (non Mel Gibson movie) filmed in England?
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He's a strict carnivore. if you can lay on some scratchings (snack of the gods), then you'd be in trouble.
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Although I would alter it slightly so they're fucking as the armageddon arrives. Also, while they're fucking, Nic Cage's wig would be on fire.Apocalyptic head-fire sex is the way to go. I'm surprised more films don't end that way.
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I thought an overall solid movie, and one that was quite ridiculous too in what she had to go through.
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There's loads of Non-Mel Gibson filmed in England every year. I think TDK was filmed partially in England.
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Ben Stiller. also that guy who always plays total cunts?? The Burn Notice guy? Isn't that like his first movie.
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I kept waiting for that to be reversed, but nope, that's what happened to her.
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are cynically attempting to sounds like those godawful college rock tossers that only seem to exist in America. Radiohead are just intergalactic cunts.
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Sep 22, 2009 11:47:18 AM CDT
The party is on a strict 125 internets budget, Jarv
by franklin t marmoset
My bunker is not Buckingham Palace. I am not President Obama or Zac Efron. I cannot afford fancy shit like pork scratchings.Your bear will have to make do with any of the many fine local cats.
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Wasn't that in The Ninth Gate? Where Scissor hands is boning Polanski's wife?
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Ben fucking stiller?
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Yeah I SAID GOOD movies. Any crap movie needing lots of rain can be filmed in England.
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He can just pop across the bridge and eat a few taffs. Always a nice change from his non-stop yuppie and goth diet.
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Are all fucking great. Zoolander, Tropic Thunder (best comedy in years), Reality Bites and Cable Guy (hey Eastwood had Million Dollar Baby). Plus they all have fucking awesome soundtracks. The amount of detail Stiller puts into his movies is fucking amazing. Plus they are all well made, and technically well done, which is more then you can say for 90% of all other comedies. His comedies are calculated and hit the mark every time.
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I have made my affection of that show known many times. Just one of the funniest TV shows ever - in my humble subjective opinion which is based upon objective criteria!
The shows greatness is manifold, as is the case with most great TV. The writing is magnificent. I downloaded the scripts and just read them and cracked up. But when combined with the extraordinary talent of Atkinson, Laurie, Richardson and on and on, it was simply out of the is world great. Lord Flasheart just killed me 'I could give a couch an orgasm just by sitting on it - rah!' 'She likes the taste of a man's tonsils! - rah!' -
Stiller? Uh, nope. You might want to consider of I don't know. Orson Welles, Clint Eastwood, Robert Redford, Warren Beatty, Ida Lupino
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(although we tend to lump them all together under the category 'cunts').Sounds like the bear would be in culinary heaven here.Does he also like to eat skateboarders? I would love it if he could help us cut down on our terrible and overwhelming skateboarder problem. They multiply and multiply every day like rabbits, and yet they never seem to be having sex because they are always fucking skateboarding. "Look, I did a flip and whatnot." Bunch a cunts. At least those parkour cunts who have been turning up around the city centre are interesting to watch. They can do backflips and that.Skateboarding is for assholes (apologies in advance to droid juct in case he's a skateboarder and I've accidentally offended him again)
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Everything makes sense now.
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And unless you think Woody Allen is hystarically funny, or laugh your way through Bullworth. Stillers movie's are so well done that you wouldn't think they were directed by a actor. For what they are, they are perfect, and he hasn't made so many that he's had some sucky ones. He's got the best batting average when it comes to directing.
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well, since when has TDK been crap? Never mind, I think whatever I answer won't work.
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People still doing that these days?
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Australia is a cinematic goldmine full of magical actors and the worlds greatest musicians. While England is full of Pakistanis and Wimpy burger. It’s the place where American actresses go to become even bigger cunts then they already were. If England was so great, why do all British actors end up making it big with an American TV show?
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in the parking lots to help cut down on all the skateboarders 'trespassing' here.
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Series just bumped his head and feels a little woozy.
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he considers them to be unripe vegetables.
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Sep 22, 2009 12:08:10 PM CDT
he's just not used to other people posting the sametime
by just pillow talk
as he does in the afternoon. It's thrown him off balance more than anything.
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Tropic Thunder had some funny moments, but I would not rank it as best comedy in years. I am not a Stiller hater. He makes me laugh. But as for the Allen comparison, well he early stuff up until the the early eighties was all tremendous. As soon as he started diddling his daughter, end of game.
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Nicole Kidman, Baz Luhrmann, Kylie Minogue destroy the music and movie side of that. Ridley fucking Scott for our first director, Star Wars (the non-shit ones) for filming location, and as Frank said the simply magnificent Massive Attack for music.
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when compared to even the worst Mel Gibson film (Braveheart, mainly for its relation to England). And Christopher Nolan is no Peter Weir, shit I wouldn't even put him up their with George Miller. He's more like a bad Martin Campbell (he's a Kiwi, but they are pretty much one in the same). Plus Bale will never touch the excellence of Gibson. If Goyer knew What is best in life, then he would cast Gibson as the next villian in Batman 3: Die Hard With A Vengeance.
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Mirrors, Friday 13th (Dean out of Gilmore Girls version), My Bloody Valentine 3D (not in 3D), The Unborn.I don't even know why I bother watching horrors any more. They're almost always shit. I should just stick with The House Bunny and whatnot.
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Ok name a funnier movie in the past 5-10 years then Tropic Thunder. I'll give you a clue, its not Year One. GO!
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Watch The Collector it'll change everything for you.
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the top flicks, and I just can't imagine that. At all.
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We got none here in Bristol, anyway. I wish we did, though. I used to love going for a Wimpy burger.
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Hell, I found Beerfest funnier.
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Because Nicole Kidman and Kylie Minogue are angels. While Ridley Scott is terrible and wishes he could make a movie half as exciting as Baz Luhrmann can. And filming a bunch of models indoors doesn't really count as LOCATIONS. Just because England is filled with Games Workshop whores, Lucas was just exploiting the local labor.
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Filmed in London......so I thought, just looked it was filmed in Germany. FUN FACT! In October 1994, singer Henry Rollins was offered the role of Racer X in the film.
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Not that Tropic Thunder is shit or anything, because I liked that one, too, but Superbad was more my kind of thing.Comedy is so subjective, anyway. You can't really decide which film is funnier, because everyone finds different things funny. Look at me - I laughed my ass of at most of The House Bunny, but most people would say (probably correctly) that it was asinine garbage. Either something makes you laugh or it doesn't - not much to argue about. (I had a terrible coughing fit from laughing so hard at the bit where Ana Faris tries to relplicate that Marilyn Monroe thing where her skirt blows up)
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Exactly my point. Anyone and anything I name doesn't count whereas no matter how shit an Aussie is is automatically going to get excused. Even Droid thinks Nicole Kidman is a hack cunt. She's the Aussie Paltrow.
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Was ok, but technically it could have been filmed by anyone. It didn't have all the bells and whistles Stiller puts in his movies. Apatow couldn't direct anything else besides guys talking. Beerfest sucks balls. Its ok but its a fucking hour two long. Shaun of the Dead is the only movie that gets CLOSE to touching Stiller craftmanship. Remember I'm talking about the complete package. I would say Wright is the british director version of Stiller (and Pegg wants Stiller career). But still all the big laughs in Shaun were in the trailer. Plus probably something of 50% of the in jokes in that movie go over American's heads, such as casting wise and what not.
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I'm just gonna go all Asimov on you about this. I'm bored and this is fun.
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They all suck. That ballroom shit was mindnumbing, Romeo and Juliet was pretty wank to really wank and Moulin Rouge was unwatchable shit. Australia was just wrong. Alien is one of the greatest films ever made. Blade Runner is the shit as well. Ergo, Ridley for the win.
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Ben Stiller is fine at what he does, but I was talking about the greatest actor-turned-director of all time. You simpley can't compare Zoolander and Tropic Thunder (the only films he's directed I liked) with Play Misty For Me, High Plains Drifter, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Bird, Unforgiven, Mystic River, Million Dollar Baby, Flags/Letters, Changeling and Gran Torino.Clint wins that fight pretty easy, I reckon.
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Is tollerable as an actress and has some range. Paltrow is just a pouty bitch, she fucking has a website where she talks about how great she is for the things she does and uses.
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You know you're in trouble when you're playing spot the American in a fucking Batman film.
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spent all day resizing/ editing and uploading photographs. And I'm still not finished.
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Still is a genius. While Clint just lives off of love from his previous films. The only film in his list of films thats worth a damn is Unforgiven (because it won some Oscars, before the Oscars became complete shit). I'm pretty sure Clint would even say that he wishes he was as good and skilled as Stiller.
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The only good thing about Speed Racer was that talkback where we did nothing but come up with colourful descriptions of what Speed Racer was like (It's like being raped in the eyes by a thousand lollypops, etc.).I was thinking about that the other day on the way into work and it gave me a few chuckles.
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when was the last time you actually enjoyed a film she was in? Dead Calm, I think.
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But again, about 20 minutes too long. Plus technically its a pretty shit film.
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Movies i thought were funnier than Tropic Thunder - in no order
Best in Show, 40 year old virgin, Kung fu panda, Shrek 2, Me myself and Irene, Superbad, legally blonde, Bruce almighty, Wallace and gromit, b=Bad santa -
"I'm pretty sure Clint would even say that he wishes he was as good and skilled as Stiller."I have suddenly realised you're joking. I have not been on the onternet nuch in past few months and my ability to spot a piss-take must be weak. I will send it off to do a Rocky-style montage and build itself up a bit."Rising up, back on the streets, did my time, took my chaaaa-nces..."
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I really don't know and too lazy to look up IMDB. I just know she's a lot more likeable then Gwyneth, name ONE movie you've liked her in? Sliding Doors?
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born in New york State Lived there until he was 12 and I don't believe he ever became an Aussie, though I could be wrong about that that.
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Bruce almighty, Shrek 2, Me myself and Irene,???????? REALLY? While Bruce Almighty had one of the greatest sight gags of all time, it was a deleated scene so it doesn't count.
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I'm talking an Asimov like stand on my opion's today and will not be changed.
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anything other than that horrid dreck Lesbian Vampire Killers.
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Was actually born in heaven.
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Aint no way Stiller can compare to Clint as an actor turned Director. Clint is Iconic as an actor, and impeccable as a director
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Its up there in terms of soundtrack qulity and technical skill with Zoolander. But after the first view I was bored with it. I tried to watch it second time and feel asleep. And I was standing up while I was watching it.
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Gwyneth film I can bear- Shakespeare in Love because I like Stoppard.
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at all. Something about meaningless kafkaesque job.
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They made me laugh out loud.
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Artie Lange's Beer League, Grandmas's Boy, anything by Uwe Boll, Super Troopers, Saving Private Ryan the previously mentioned Beer Fest and 40 year Old Virgin
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But now, he's getting old and trying to put out too many movies before he autoerotic asphyxiation's himself to death. Speaking of autoerotic asphyxiation, another great Austraillian Michael Hutchence. Now that's rocknroll (say it like an aussie).
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we gave the world the legend that is MICHAEL WINNER. A fat, ugly, rude cunt restaurant reviewer that has swallowed more semen than Annabel Chong, who also happened to direct DEATH WISH! Huzz-fucking-ah. I feel the fat twat needs to be rehabilitated.
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If there's one thing I can respect, it's a top quality boob job.If there's another thing I can respect, it is extreme stubbornness in the face of overwhelming logic and public opinion.Stand strong, Series! Show us all that Ben Stiller is a better director than Clint Eastwood!! If you will it, it will be so!!!
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I was very disappointed. Shaun was outstanding though.
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Shakespear in Love...but because you like Stoppard? What else has he done? You a fan of Mandolines or movies that sit on the self for a couple of years?
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Tom Stoppard was the writer. I guess he's done a lot.
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Hehehehe.
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Sep 22, 2009 12:47:23 PM CDT
If you really need a finite answer to why Australia is better...
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Geoffrey Rush. You can't top that.
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Geoffrey Rush was in Mystery Men with Ben Stiller. 7 Kevin Bacon points for me on that one.
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Stiller is not fit to wipe Winner's jowly face after he's slobbered his food all over it. And he won't be until he's put in an acting performance as epic as Winner's in that insurance ad or a directorial performance as epic as Dirty Weekend. And reviewed some restaurants as well.
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most underrated actor ever.
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Save for maybe Saving Private Ryan's HILARIOUS gun blowing up the tank scene (i turned off the movie the second the tank blew up, so that's how it happened in my book) those movies fail to reach Tropic Thunder level of greatness. THOUGH is all those movies had just been documentaries on the making of those movies, they may have been funnier.
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I'm off. You will all bow before the majesty of Winner.
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Could WINNER be GIANT PIG? There's a certain resemblance.
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Fuck me thats an odd reference. As I stated in the Caine talkback. I have no idea who that is.
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because he never won the FA cup. Therefore Vinny is better. And Rush never smashed someones head in a car door or bit one of his neighbours.
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Had one of the funniest scenes I have seen a in a very long time. Gromit is being chased by the evil dog Phillip, they have both grabbed carnival planes and made them fly, but the planes run on quarters, Gromit runs out. he asks Phillip for a quarter and big bad Phillip, with the studded collar, and drooling evil expression, pulls out his flower covered old ladies change purse! I damn near died!
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Is probably the greatest thing England has ever given us.
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hoist by your own petard. Mel GIbson. Although Ron Howard could be better. On that note I'm really off.
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Has killed a man before.
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I used to go to the mall down there.
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Is great. I need to watch that again. Too bad Ardman is really an Austrillia company fronting as British for a Tax Break.
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have not seen him in a while
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I have to start putting out coasters for tonight's chips and one can of Diet Pepsi party.Cheers, all.
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Enjoy going through Stiller's directoreal library. There are many wonders and classics in there you'll be happy to find!
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legally blonde, Bruce almighty? Shrek 2? Come on. Now I can't tell if your joking.
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Has been complete shit. You'd think i'm a brit or something.
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Because I say so. If you disagree with me you're as evil doer.
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From that same website with the good review of his new movie. They have this 2 part article about Boll showing up at the Alamo for a screening of Postal. http://tinyurl.com/lw53dl
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Those movies made me laugh more than Tropic Thunder. I liked TT, and it had some really cool moments, but overall i thought it was uneven. It was better than anchorman, talladega nights and night at museum though
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So of course its funny. Things are always funnier when they happen to fat people. But its not good, you know this because the notion that Beer Leauge is going to be funny is easy but to not deliver all the way on the hilarity isn't. You are just using your base subjective feelings of how funny fat people are (actually Artie wasn't orca fat back then) to overcome your logical sense of comedy. So your base objective opinion is not true so it in fact cannot be funny. Where as Tropic Thunder is not built on a simply obviously funny premise, but delievers on all the factors that comedy should be. Therefore it is funnier.
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I know a girl who worked on that movie. Most of the nude females in the movie are her.
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What the fuck is that on John Cusack's back? http://tinyurl.com/l7gfoc
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She was the fat one, wasn't she.
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I believe that makes me an infidel.
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You just might trigger a DocP,MNG, Jarv, Xi - onslaught! I hope you do not have any goats in your closet!
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You should see The Hammer (Xi will agree to this) its directed by the same guy who made legally blonde 2: Die Harder. And XI what happened to The Hammer being the greatest film of all time?
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what do they have as the main headline: "Your tax $$ are being spent TO KEEP DESPOTS SAFE"Er, like every fucking time lots of representatives from nations come here? Fuck, they are a bunch of cunts. Always trying to rile their followers up.
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HE DID make fun of Harry in Postal. COME ON GUYS! We need more support in the, make Harry do a fucking interview with Uwe Boll since he is going to show his movie at Fantastic Feast. So far the only supporter we have is me. And Frankly sirs I don't think is enough.
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Man I tried to make a rant like Asi, and its fucking hard. I didn't even get close. I guess I don't have that torrets/assburger like rage inside me.
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Short= nonfunny your wrong and and an evil doer. Because Stiller is only 4.3 inches tall and a fidget there's no way he can line up s shot to be visually funny. He can't see over the 5.1 inch tall female PA. Thus short = painfully unfunny and Tropic Thunder is the second worst movie ever made after Dawson's Trek. Jar Jar Stiller indeed!
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A hot chick dies. Think about what you are doing to the world JPT, you dick.
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Holds true the the original ideas put forth in TOS. It adds to them and expands on those ideas, and doesn't just have things happen in the plot for the sake of moving the plot forward.
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I said is was the best movie the year it came out. And its waaaay funnier then Tropic Thunder which is a snorefest of a movie.
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The Hammer is a pathetic direct to Lazer disc shill of a movie. Disguised to think that its funny because the star of the movie is known to do funny things. So you all by into it being funny because you think Adam is a funny guy. But he is not, because he does not follow TOS ideas and concepts, he just shit all over them with his stupid attempts to make a movie cool and appeal to teenagers.
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Corolla is redoing a British SHOW! A FUCKING BRITISH SHOW! When was the last time a British Show was redone for america and it turned out good! Austraillia gave us Kaith and Kim and you should count your lucky stars for that.
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Neigh means Neigh!!
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If you ever come across it in a bargin bin somewhere or if somehow it gets to the library grab it I think you might enjoy it, Its pretty damn funny. With that I've finally got tired enough to try and go back to sleep.
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In case it was unclear. Jar Jar Stiller can't direct a bowl full of shit! If he wasn't so in love with himself he would have got a REAL action star like Vin diesel, who he's in love with! to star! JAR JAR Stiller sucks!
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I've had lunch now. So I'm no longer angry at the world for not makeing my head movies. And can talk rationally. Sometimes you just need to go out and fuck a goat to calm you down. But Beer League and The Hammer are pretty good. Id say that I liked The Hammer better. But I think I've only seen the Comedy Central version of Beer League so I probably only saw half of the movie.
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instantbueller.com
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Droid posting from home now?
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But I remember looking at my watch an awful lot too, so it DID drag. Careful, Xiphos. You'll be channelling everyone's fave Oporto Goat Pumper about Stiller, re: Abrams and Trek. Maybe Stiller will make Cable Guy Too and implode? Australia gave us: RICK SPRINGFIELD. England gave us: Rick Astley. And my Home State of Maine gave us: Olympia Snowe. It is the truthe..
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That was the point of the exercise, to see if it could be done. I figure after all this time dealing with the that poodle pumper I can do a decent half assed imitation.*for some reason when ever I write your new name I hear Michael Buffer in my head.
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You can thank my state for that.
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Ohhh, that movie is so good, especially at the end. Jennifer Connoley as an insect-psychic-summoner, Donald Pleasence and a chimp. And of course, creepy girls' school. Awesome!
Also watched Safe, which was good, if a little bit slower than it had to be. Superstar is still my favorite of Haynes' movies.
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I must be the only one here who thinks Maggie Gyllenhaal is good looking. Not a knockout, which is what I like about her. I thought she cute in "The Secretary" and "Stranger Than Fiction."
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But my favorite film of his is "Far From Heaven."
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Have done since Mona Lisa Smile
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and to answer his question: The Office is British.
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Sep 23, 2009 3:14:11 AM CDT
The only flick I thought Maggie G was attractive in...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
was Secretary. But that might say more about me than it does about her.
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a Yank is waging war with a Pom in a Aussie/Brit slanging match. Series must really hate his job.
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Sep 23, 2009 3:18:45 AM CDT
Jackman > Grant by a country mile
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
But (Ralph) Fiennes>Jackman. Jackmans never done anything as good as Strange Days.
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For fucks sake. That's a pointless argument. I liked Strictly Ballroom and Romeo and Juliet. But despite the fact that Scott has directed one of the biggest pieces of shit I've had the displeasure of seeing (Hannibal), he's also directed Alien. Which is of a quality I guarantee Baz will never achieve.
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Hmmm, guess a little movie called Schindler's List is not worth noting.
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Sep 23, 2009 3:25:25 AM CDT
Jarv, you're wrong. I don't hate Nicole Kidman.
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I fucking loathe her. She and Julia Roberts can both fuck off.
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Is reason enough he beats Luhrmann.
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No, I think SL is brilliant and Fiennes is very good in it. I prefer Strange Days. Thats just my subjective opinion based upon objective criteria.
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Sep 23, 2009 3:33:09 AM CDT
But Jackman isn't a cunt, Jarv
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
He's actually one of the few actors in Hollywood that I DON'T think is a cunt.
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just not that good
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Sorry droid.
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Pipe down and get back in your box!
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Sep 23, 2009 3:38:12 AM CDT
I watched RocknRolla last night and I've come to...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
the conclusion that I really don't like Guy Ritchie. Firstly, he keeps making the same fucking flick over and over again. RocknRolla is a riff on Snatch whcih is a riff on Lock Stock. And I didn't like Lock Stock in the first place! And the only other one I saw was that Madonna abomination. I really don't hold out much hope for Sherlock Holmes.
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snatch and lock stock were far superior and i liked them. saw 'taking of pelham 123' i was whelmed.
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did you see the original pelham 123 or the remake? I have seen neither.
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there was nothing else on. see it if that happens to you. was just reading about the original. it sounds much better.
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But the reviews made it sound horrible (plus Travolta as villain usually means "shitty"),
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There is a TB'er called AsimovDiedOfAIDS.
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travolta is supposed to look like this hard core ganster - which he dosn't really pull off since his head got fatter - but then wait - the ganster is an investment bank - cause that totally makes sense. it never gets nail biting - it is paint by the numbers - quickly get the bag of money across town or the train driver gets it! we need a car chase. like i said, if you've got nothing else to do....
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It was made in the seventies. Everything from the 70's kicks ass!
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Sep 23, 2009 4:04:09 AM CDT
Was it made before or after Travoltas kid died?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I would assume that would've effected his perfomance.
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and my sense of humour had failed so I didn't get it until far too late.
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Daisy Miller and Billy Jack Goes to Washington are big steaming piles of shit.
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that's why he didn't promote it.
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Are you excited about the AFL Grand Final this weekend?
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character in the TJ punisher. Which I quite like but not as much as I like the Titus Pullo Punisher.
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you're baiting me arn't you? i have not interest in it what so ever. some proudly told me the other day that they had tickets to the mcg this weekend. i asked them what cricket was on, i hadn't heard anything.
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Sep 23, 2009 5:08:34 AM CDT
I thought you loved AFL, chipps
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
It's the game they play in heaven, don't you know.
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I didn't much like the Jayne Punisher, and while the new one was pretty average, it did have some ridiculous ultra-violence to keep me entertained. And I really can't remember the Dolph one.
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but i just dont see it.
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but i just dont see it.
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a fully developed human being AND from Ipswich. Does not compute.
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home of alan langer
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Ipswich; home of Pauline Hanson
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Who'd have thought it.
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is the AFL the ground shagging version of rugby or is it Aussie No Rules?
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there's loads of Aussies and Kiwis where I work and they bicker constantly about stuff that I don't understand.
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Is quite a famous sniff bum and runner from chipp's town. AFL is Aussie Rules.
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Sep 23, 2009 5:46:11 AM CDT
"they bicker constantly about stuff that I don't understand"
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Let's not restrict that to just Kiwi's and Aussies, Jarv. You give yourself far too much credit.
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Following a game that was invented by the english, or a game that was invented by Australians?
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I would have thought that the Kiwi's would be far more knowledgeable about such matters, but it turns out that Outback Aussies know a fair amount about it too. Oh, by the way droid- best bit of I know how many runs you scored last summer (aside from gratuitous shower scene) was when the killer faces off against one of the victims and the victim says "That's just un-Australian". Which is very funny.
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At least our resident Goat-fiend.
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Just in case you thought I hadn't noticed.
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JettL93 in the TDK thread: "He said that the plot they are leaning towards now will have the frightened citizens of Gotham hiring deadshot to assassinate the batman, however when deadshot also sub-hires Bane and the two of them go out of control the people of gotham turn back to Batman to rid them of the villians they brought in
the firefly subplot will be very tiny and will more related to the scarecrow and as a story vicki vale is investigating
even with all my digging i can't find a definitive title, but David goyer and i were having lunch and he is pushing for "Batman: Redemption"" -
Under a different name. He tries to constantly peddle the worst Batman Bullshit.
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"Nolan's take on Mr freeze wowed all of us at the dinner table" Oh. My. God.
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Sep 23, 2009 6:14:21 AM CDT
"David goyer and i were having lunch"
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
hehe That's like Alexander Payne funny; Sad funny.
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I want to punch him now.
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Sep 23, 2009 6:19:40 AM CDT
Conti's the bloody Candyman, I swear
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
At first mention of either Scorcese, the 70's or Batman... *POOF* He appears!
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That Chris (good buddies, so he can call him his first name) doesn't like Penguin because he is too cartoonish.
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Christ that was funny.
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Sep 23, 2009 6:25:50 AM CDT
"why the fuck would I want to talk about you being an Australian
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Because I'm awesome and all conversations should be centered around me!
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Sep 23, 2009 6:33:04 AM CDT
that jett bloke is funny though
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
He's so obviously taking the piss. "nolan confided in me that dick grayson will appear but robin will not, graycon will be a mechanic that ghelps to build the batwing and he wants to be a superhero too but batman won't let him because of racheal, it's rel heatbreajing stuff, I actually weaped when nolan told me, i was so moved from how he described the script to me"
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Friends of mine made this. Stupid as hell, but for some reason I find it funny. Probably because I am retarded.
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he pulled the same shit with Indy 4. I think he's delusional
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the same shit with Indy.
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what the fuck is wrong with America?
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The problem Jarv, is that America is filled with humans.
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but nothing the apocalypse I will bring forth won't *fix*.
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sharpen the #2.
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as congestion clogged as New York is ridiculous
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That WE elected Bush twice and despise our "neighbors" so much, we sure as fuck don't want healthcare for everyone.
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The banning of smoking. Can't remember who. But I remember it being sort of funny. Shit I think it was Dane Cook so I take that back.
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1) Saints - Ravens; Superbowl.
2) Giants - Steelers; Sueprbowl
3) Vikes - Jets; Superbowl
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That stand up bit went from funny, to sort of funny, to not funny at all in the space of one post.
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Fucking hated that as well. A movie about real estate gangsters? Whoopy. Plus it was fucking boring.
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Sep 23, 2009 8:27:25 AM CDT
4) Lions - Dolphins; Superbowl
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Place your bets now, gents!
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And anyone else that cares. So I went to a sort of industry meeting last night. It was for the local film people around here. And it turns out that I have no idea about anything about making movies. They were talking about all this editing stuff and I was like ????? (made me feel like a dumb Aussie). They showed off a Red camera talking about noise all the time, what is noise in terms of camera and editing? It was interesting all the 'movie' talk but man trying to get into movie just at a local level is going to take a while.
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Sep 23, 2009 8:30:04 AM CDT
Yeah, I found it so entertaining that I was...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
amusing myself with instantbueller.com
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Whats that? Didn't they blow that up with a blimp once?
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OK for work?
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Sep 23, 2009 8:36:59 AM CDT
"made me feel like a dumb Aussie"
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
WTF? AsimovLives Day was yesterday you cunt!
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Sep 23, 2009 8:37:55 AM CDT
instantbueller.com is very safe for work
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
In fact its necessary for work.
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Austin person.
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*shakes fist*
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I think this may be what they are referring to... Wiki link http://tinyurl.com/yxbbzn
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Except some late shows. God Leno is so bad, but I am fucking pissed my DVR fucked up and didn't record PEE WEE HERMAN!! last night. Thats right now Paul Rubens, Pee Wee. I'll have to see if they put it up online yet.
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Did you have any idea about all that noise?
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Series, did you watch that Community show? I watched it the other day. It was ok, but 9 out of 10 jokes were cultural references, like Ben Affleck winning an oscar for screenwriting or The Breakfast Club. Not exactly hot, current topics. Seems to me like it'll get old pretty quick.
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Sep 23, 2009 9:10:23 AM CDT
"Did you have any idea about all that noise?"
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I assume that's an actual question, and that you're not being a dick. (It just sounds like a dickish question "all that noise?") I'm aware of noise because I studied photography at uni. And I've fucked about with photoshop a fair bit.
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If I must pick, I would go with #2. I'll go with teams with a strong D rather than a strong O (sorry Saints, but until you win at least two playoff games, you ain't legit).
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A bad joke yes. Yeah I talked to a bunch of people at the meeting last night to see if they went to film school and most of them said no. I don't think anyone said yes.
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Yeah I watched it. It was ok. But if you watch any piolet of any comedy show they are usually pretty bland. Most first seasons of comedy shows are not very good. If they are, that usually means that it came out in the early 90's and only lasted 2 seasons. But for me usually the second season of any comedy show is ALWAYS the best. Because if its a good show they work out the kinks from the first season, and it hasn't become SAME-O SAME-O like every show becomes. I though Community was funnier then the first American Office and Park and Recreation. Plus I'm a huge Joel McHale fan, so I hope it pans out. Plus Chevey needs coke money so I'd like to help him out. And I am glad that they went with something else rather then the IT Crowd, which had a piolet starring Joel McHale and the huge nerd from the british show in the same role.
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No love for my prediction?
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Monster Trucks this weekend. Gonna miss it again.
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Is it the main bloke?
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Is that the one with Amy Poehler in it? Any good?
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I agree! Gotta back my Jints! And going agianst Fred's Steelers - if he ever comes back to talk smack, would be a great showdown. of course Fred 'smack' talk would be so damn polite I would not know how to respond and might wind up wishing him good luck! Still, the saints remind me of the Kurt Warner Rams. So much O, just enough D. Hell that is how the Cards made it last year. The Ravens look really good on both sides this year. but until the beat the Steelers when it counts, they are pretenders. I do think Ravens or Steelers will be the AFC champions. And they will have the best games too. Those games are brutal.
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He's got a show here called the Soup where he makes fun of all other TV shows.
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I like it, a lot of people dont. Its got Azia in it and he's funny. Also her boss if really funny. It has its moments, it suffers from being a HUGE fucking Office knock off. But Louis CK is coming on the show this season, plus its in its second season so its gonna be great.
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Lost a lot of weight.
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That season 2 being the best season, does not apply to British shows.
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Sep 23, 2009 9:38:25 AM CDT
What british shows are you talking about?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
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Since most of them dont go on past their prime. Most are only like a 2-4 seasons. I would say that the first episode of the British Office is one of the best. See the first episode of the American office is just a bad copy of the first episode of the british office and so is most of season 1.
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But Harry's DVD reviews are fucking gross.
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If you predicted the Lions would match their 0-16 season with another one, then you would get plenty of love. They are off to an 0-2 start already, so Xi is probably pretty giddy right now. Myself, I hope they go 0-16 again too. I think they would go down as the worst teams out of any sport, hands down. To go 0-32 in two seasons in the parity driven NFL...fucking crazy.
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Very true, which is why there is no way to make any predictions in the NFL, let alone in season two. There is no doubt that the two best teams will not make it to the Superbowl.
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I didn't know that. I thought Crank 2 had been panned by critics. Maybe they all aren't complete fucktards.
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Sep 23, 2009 9:54:10 AM CDT
Also, most british seasons, especially half hour comedies...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
are only about 6-10 (if that) episodes long. Therefore they have to be good (or popular... a lot aren't 'good') immediately instead of the american way of letting them find their feet. Probably the only show I can think of that immediately started at the top of its game was Arrested Development (which you don't like anyway). The pilot of that is genius. As good as most nearly any of the subsequent episodes. "It's an illusion, Michael. A trick is something a whore does for money." The best episode of the UK office is the Training episode. That's probably up there with the funniest things I've ever seen on tv.
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http://www.roguefilmschool.com/default.asp
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Has topped the British Office. But now Micheal Scott has become Homer Simpson.
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I really do. Why the fuck do I live in this football heavy state. I'm pretty sure if they only showed football on tv here, there would be very few complaints.
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Sep 23, 2009 10:04:34 AM CDT
"I think the American Office has topped the British Office."
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Horseshit. At least from what I've seen.
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And aren't they all football heavy?
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For instance, the South is college football CRAZY. Certain cities are NFL CRAZY. But yes, football is the most popular sport in the U.S., so I guess you can say every state is football heavy. The Northeast is very baseball heavy thanks to the Yanks and Red Sox.
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Oh yes...NADA.
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Has said that the American office has topped the british one. That are they are so different you can't compare. What I think is funny is that there are like 5-10 different Office series in other countries. Thats pretty nuts. The season 2 finale, Vegas night is better then anything in the British Office. Because unlike the British office you really do care about Pam and Jim relationship. Its just a lot more fleashed out. There is a lot better comedy and drama balence in that the British show lacks. Plus though it pains me to say anything good about him, The boss's side kick is a lot better in the American Office then in the British, what ever that faggots name is. Also the gay witch hunt is funny as balls, and that season opener last week was pretty fucking good.
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OK and like 95% of all conversations in this state that aren't work releated are about college football.
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Is akward humor heavy. Plus other then the main four people the rest of the cast doesn't offer much. While in the American office their are actual funny situations and a more complete essamble cast.
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But basbeball had the lock on the traditional sports journalism, so it was not acknowledged in the mainstream until the nineties! Just motarded. Like how news outlets think Kansas and Indiana is the heartland, and that anything some rube from those states say is gold. Just lazy out of date thinking. The same reasoning that kept Notre Dame at the top of polls regardless of how well they played for decades, because that is just the way things are. The same reasoning that has college football voters relying on past history instead or present achievement, because: One they are too lazy to really find out for themselves, and two, it is the easy way out.
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Sep 23, 2009 10:18:38 AM CDT
Most of that is gibberish to me, Series.
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
But I watched the first two seasons of the american version (which was about 25+ episodes, which is twice more than the entire UK series.) and I did not give a shit about the tim and dawn characters, but in the uk version i did. In the xmas specials when they finally got together it was a cheesy moment but fuck me was I grinning ear to ear. Nothing I saw in those 25+ episodes made me care at all. Gareth shits all over that Rainn Wilson guy. And Gervais is far better as Brent than Carrell. However, this is based on the first two series. So maybe it's gotten better.
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Another reason why its a shit hole place to go. The only thing you can do there is blow money on expensive crap and pretend like its New York because your drunk. But its not a fun place to get drunk because you'll probably end up in a fight or injured somehow. Which was fun back in college, but now I wouldn't want to do that. Plus Boston has the Pats and the Celtics and they just role from one sports season into the next. Its just fucking boring.
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Vegas episode is the last episode of season 2 in the american one. And Gay Witch hunt was the season 3 opener. Which office is better is always going to be a across the ocean thing. Except for those people in America that think everything England does is automatically better then what America does. I would give it to the British, but since Ricky G and Merchant are so involved with the American show I feel like its still there thing, just they had a chance to perfect it in America.
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Sep 23, 2009 10:24:19 AM CDT
The UK office had 14 episodes
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Which doesn't leave a great deal of room to let the ensemble shine. But each of the peripheral characters had moments, especially Keith and of course Finchy. When your show has had about 80 odd episodes, you need to bring in other characters to keep things interesting.
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I got drunk there (very drunk) and never even got close to being in a fight.
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But I gotta give it to Rainn, maybe its because more of the later season stuff. Plus the shit the American Tim (Jim) does to him is a lot better then the shit Tim does to Gareth. Plus what happenes in Dwights life is great. But by far the best thing in either show is angry Stanley. On the bring your daughter to work day when he goes off on the Temp is probably one of the funniest things on TV. And him destroying Micheals car last week was great. While the British show handled the side love interest between Tim and the temp better then Jim and Amy Adams. America's Temp (BJ Novak) is better, and the English show doesn't have a Kelly Kapoor or Creed. So ultimatly the British office is lacking.
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Then you obviously did not drink enough.
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If so then everyone in Boston will love you because they all think they are from fucking Ireland and probably didn't know the difference in your accent.
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Yeah, americans fucking love an accent. They couldn't give a shit what you say, they just like to hear you talk. It's like that insectasaurus in Monsters vs Aliens that follows the bright light around in a trance. Person with accent = Light American = Insectasaurus
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Sep 23, 2009 10:40:28 AM CDT
The main point of this Office debate is...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
US Office has had 80+ episodes. UK had 14. Good on the US version if they're still great, but how many have been average? I barely remember the two seasons I watched. All I know is that I watched them. While I remember a whole lot of the UK version, and I watched it a long time before the US one. Anyway... UK Office > US Office And that's all I gotta say about that. Those look like comfortable shoes.
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I hear its a good way to get poon over here.
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That after season 2 I don't know if it was at the start of season 4 or half way through season 3 they tried to do these hour long episodes that fucking failed. So I guess we'll need to hear from someone who's seen all of both thats not giving it hometeam bias. Like I said had Ricky G have nothing to do with the American office I'd say sure the british one is better. But he does and he's just been able to do with the show what he couldn't do in England. Its like comparing the Hobbit to the lord of the rings.
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Sep 23, 2009 10:48:56 AM CDT
It does pay to lay it on thick
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Thats how you wake up in a penthouse apartment on wall street.
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I hope the Americans don't get it. If you haven't seen it, do so."Fuck so if I don't die from the flu then he's going to kill me with malnutrition".
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if you have an accent. Even a shitty neutral Queen's English one like me. Of course, you do have to put up with stupid questions such as "Do you know the Queen" but you can't have everything.
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Sep 23, 2009 10:52:19 AM CDT
I'll clarify that so Jarv can't make a smart ass comment
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
"Thats how you wake up in a WOMANS penthouse apartment on wall street." I know what you were thinking, Jarv. Cunt.
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I'd actually rate them equally for different reasons. The US version's ensemble cast is better than the UK's version by far. But UK version's the main players are superior.
The humor is a bit different, Gervais is unflinchingly brutal, while Carrel is a pretty sympathetic character.
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Was when Jim was working in another office, and his relationship with Quincy Jones daughter. Plus like I said American office has more LOL moments, while the British office has those. WELL that IS funny humor. Save for the last shot in the middle of the end credits.
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See with Gareth he comes off as too much of a pussy and you know he'll never do anything too bad. With Dwight there is a sort of, this guy may actually do something that fucked up, about him.
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First off, Rashida Jones >>>>> Jenna Fischer. To say otherwise will result in your sexuality being questioned by some anonymous guy on the intrawebs. YOU'VE BEEN WARNED!
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Was a lot better then David Koechner. Which is sad because David Koechner is funny as shit most times.
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Sep 23, 2009 11:04:41 AM CDT
"American office has more LOL moments"
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Nope. Not the episodes I saw anyway. I laughed more at seasons 1 and 2 of 30 Rock than seasons 1 and 2 of The Office.
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As far as the guys that go nuts for any of the girls in the office I just find werid. Like I can't watch an episode of the American Office with a group of guys without one of them going through this senario: Bus Driver: That Veronica Vaughn is one piece of ass, I know from experience dude. If you know what I mean.
Billy Madison: No, you don't.
Bus Driver: Well, not me personally but a guy I know. Him and her *got it on*. Wooo-eee!
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ruin the fun. You joy killer.
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Yeah thats true. 30 Rock is better then both Offices I think.
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Sep 23, 2009 11:18:10 AM CDT
30 Rock is better than US Office
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
UK Office is a cut above. 30 Rock is pretty funny though.
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Did the British office have a spoof of Amadeus involving two people trying to create a porn video game? I DON'T THINK SO.
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On that note. I'm off! Take it easy, lads.
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Everything came together at the right time. It was defining and they were right to quit while ahead. Have you ever seen people like us? The Office is obviously based a bit on it, and it's fucking genius. The spoof interview with the interviewer interviewing a female executive is genius: "The problem with working here really is the Glass Ceiling" "Yes, I bet that's really hard to keep clean"
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bullshit. You've only woken up on your knees in a public convenience. That really took far too long to think up and wasn't funny. Sorry.
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British office: Oh my that was funny dear. Yes it was, dear. Could you please pass me the bag of scampy flavored crisp. The American Office: HAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHHA.
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Sep 23, 2009 11:40:28 AM CDT
The episode of The Office where Dwight sets a fire
by hawaiian organ donor
in the office on purpose may very well have a higher laugh per minute ratio than just about anything out there.And Rashida Jones is smoking hot. Jim choosing Pam over her character was an epic fail.
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joke about going home with men.
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I know a guy thats been with both and he said that Pam is WAY better in the sac then Rashida.
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I'm off. See you later.
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In the original Batman (1989), District Attorney Harvey Dent was played by Billy Dee Williams. Williams accepted the role with the knowledge and expectation that Dent would eventually become Two-Face: he reportedly had a clause put into his contract reserving the role for him in any sequels, which Warner Bros. had to buy out so they could cast Tommy Lee Jones.
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That is what they mean by noise. I get it when I output DVDs sometimes, exporting from a higher resolution & standard to a lower (HD to DV/NTSC in this case).
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Have you ever been to something like that Con? Like a group of indie people meeting together letting everyone know of shit they have coming up?
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Because we have them out here all the time (there is also a huge video expo out in Vegas at the same time as the AVN expo).
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Like a local film makers meeting.
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Is one of the writers of Wolfman, he did Seven and Sleepy Hallow. But also 8mm. So Wolfman has me more excited now. The other guy has done Reservation Road and 13 Days....doesn't seem like his material, but he is on board to write Robocop. Hmmmm that doesn't seem good.
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That ass clown you like so much Jared Padalecki, was in the Friday the 13th remake. I thought I recognized him from some where.
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That little shit Jesse Eisenberg leeched off his 9 years younger sister, Hallie Kate Eisenberg, to get famous. She was famous way before he was. She was the little girl in Bicentennial Man and Paulie.
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To ensure Xi reads it.
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And I'm sure he'll be fine in Zombieland and then I'll be sick of his face by May. He's in six fucking '10 productions. Blah.
Ha, it's funny that Padalecki was in the Friday the 13th remake, cuz his on-screen brother in Supernatural, Jensen Ackles, was in that shittier than shitty My Bloody Valentine remake. God, that movie was terrible. -
writing a script for sweet valley high. this may end up all kinds of inappropriate
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Indulge us stoopid Yanks for a bit. For example(and here I KNOW Jarv's eyes are rolling)-Are You Being Served-ran for 13 years (or whatever), but they made what-6-7 shows a year?? What do they do-trot out repeats and mix them in, or just yank it after a couple of runs of the New Stuff and put in other shows? I'm curious.
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---Bloo's Clues. Sure to impress and inspire.
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Eisenberg is a talentless cockring. Fuck was Adventureland a crashing disappointment. I should've know better then to get my hopes up about Adventureland being any good. The writer/director was involved in Superbad and that movie causes anal warts it sucks so bad.
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The dream is alive its predicted in the bible.
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Nice place to visit but I wouldn't want to live there. Its I how I feel about New England in general. Nice to visit not for me to live in.Before the New Englanders get upset I'm not clowing your area, its perfectly nice, its just not for me and I've been there a lot both on my dime and Big Brothers.
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Although Jenna has a thicker body which is better but goddamn Rashida Jones is one good looking broad.
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So are Eastern Europeans. I was skunked in France(another round of hearty fuck yous to teh cheese eating surrender monkeys) had some successes in Britan but she was Irish so I don't know if that is technically counts. Spain was work but the deal closed. Hey Xiphos what about the Portuguese you might ask? well I'll tell ya. Portuguese women look like wookies and who wants that?
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I guess I'll go eat an early dinner.
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Sep 24, 2009 3:45:50 AM CDT
"You've only woken up on your knees in a public convenience."
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Pathetic, Jarv. Even by your standards.
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*hangs head in shame*
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It totally depends on the series. But- and here we go- it works like this: The BBC is full of cockbags. They occasionally luck out and find some real talent. When this happens they commission 6 shows for a series (if half hour comedy). In the case of blackadder (finest comedy ever made) the first series was a disaster, but they somehow blagged a second one. There are only 5 mainstream UK channels (fuck sky) and they fill time with original product, wank soap operas, current affairs and news, American imports, films, utter dogshit gameshows/ reality TV, Sport and yes, repeats. The BBC for some inexplicable reason keeps commissioning garbage like 2Pints of Lager and A Packet of Crisps, but as a rule British TV works on much shorter seasons. The reason I say they are complete cockbags is they keep buying quality American drama such as The Wire or Damages that is totally inappropriate for the BBC channels- both of these series (and Dexter/ Supernatural- ITV you fucks) should be on either Channel 4 or Channel 5 who tend to be more relaxed about sex, drugs, violence and alcohol. When they do this, they haven't got a clue what to do next. So in the case of the BBC they dump it at 11.30 every night and run it until it finishes or in the case of ITV drop it on the ass end of the digital channels. They are cocks and dare not move some of the unwatchable pish like Eastenders/ Strictly Come Dancing/ The X Factor that pollutes the airwaves at the moment. I do apologise on behalf of the UK for exporting Strictly to America. Sorry.
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see you later.
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Boston- I nearly got my ass kicked by a noraid collecting cunt there in 1997. A pox on Boston and those plastic paddy cunts.
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That's where a majority of collecting takes place and yes they are fake Irish.
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Where white guys love to claim they are from, or if they are from there pretend it gives them these aura of being tough.
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Like Clinton or Chelsea or something?
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JK. You're right, it is called Clinton now, and it is not a place where you can imagine the Westies hanging out nowadays.
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Crap. A Barbie movie? Info on casting of the Thor movie? A remake of Highlander and a sequel for Ghost Rider? Cronenberg remaking the Fly? Caine sprouting non-sense about Batman?
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I know it's arse, but I did enjoy it.
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Yes, the news is a constant stream of utter shit, but that's not so much AICN's fault as Hollywoods. Although I wouldn't mind some more coverage of the few actually interesting movies, instead of the usual comic book or remake stories. But this is a geek website.
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I fucking terrible. The only reason I sat through it was because it was shot in Melbourne and I was amusing myself with the spot the landmark game. I kinda like Daredevil though, particularly the DC.
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But yeah, everything coming out of Hollywood sounds like shit.
I just keep waiting for a surprise story about some movie to suddenly pop up and blow me away.
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Ghost Rider was just cheesy as shit. I still can't believe I sat through that movie. Lamest villain ever with Blackheart (fucking Buffy villain).
Daredevil was almost as bad, with a comic book movie that tries to throw in the kitchen sink. Hated the action scenes, hated the characters (everyone went nuts for Bullseye, though he was hammy it was unbearable).
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Sep 24, 2009 5:01:09 AM CDT
Bigelows doing another flick with Mark Boal
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Called Triple Frontier. One of the very few flicks I'm looking forward to. Even if I don't really know what it's about.
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But I do know that the Triple Frontier is where Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay meet up. Lots of drug smuggling and crime around there I believe.
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http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118007072.html?categoryid=13&cs=1
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Xiphos-being from New England-and still living there-I basically avoid S. New England (CT.RI. MA) just because. It's night and day-though S NH and ME are really becoming N Mass, sad to say. I agree you need some Giant Robots to make it easier to get thru yer days if you're visiting CT or Boston and not from there. You have fond memories of Tucson and we wouldn't wanna ruin That. Yes the news here on the site has been dullish, mostly film fests or whatever too. That's cool it's a slow period it does happen. Kaley Cuoco is Britney Spears but on TV. Sad that I know that. Hey Da Sawks are gonna be in the playoffs-again. Yayyyy.
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Odd, as I know it wasn't great, and it Does stand out as Ben Affleck's last real hit. I always thought they'd do another, too. Didn't see Ghost Rider, unsure if I will-but am sure it's fine for what it is-junky empty headed comicbooky entertainment. Ala GI Jose this summer.
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but I was laughing at that badger raping cage's head, Mendes' total non-performance and the utter lameness of the "Penance Stare". Not to mention Fonda and the ludicrous Ghost Riders riding out bit- "I've got one ride left in me, so I'll use it to get there" "But it will run out by then so You'll be useless and just bugger off, can't you save it till we get there" "Nope, I said one RIDE left in me. Didn't say anything about being useful". If anything it wasn't quite shit enough.
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I hear the Directors cut is better.
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is basically that Harry et al have no fucking taste at all, and are massive ubergeeks. Therefore there will always be a disproportionate amount of coverage of utter shit. Hollywood is making it worse by not doing ANYTHING good.
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That was such shit I almost cried. That movie convinced me to never pay for another Nic Cage movie again if I spot him wearing a wig. That was sheer dreck. The bike was cool, but even it could not save that shit. Daredevil -truly ambivalent about that.
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Most women and young girls are already vapid whores! by alienindisguise Sep 24th, 2009
07:32:33 AM "This will only further that pathetic trend. Fuck you hollywood" Obviously written by someone who's only regualar interaction with a female extends to urgently yelling at his mum "Don't come in!" through his bedroom door as he wipes the semen from his keyboard. -
What shall we disagree with today?
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Sep 24, 2009 8:35:52 AM CDT
Yo Series. Whaz happenin' dawg?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
What you got?
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I enjoyed it. I don't take comic book movies seriously, so it was fun. Ghost Rider sucked because it was boring, then again I watched it on my Zune. May catch it on FX sometime soon.
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Do you?
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Never heard of it.
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Well then. I'm out of ideas. Haven't watched muched recently. Though I want to see Surrogates and Pandorum and don't understand the lack of any reviews. There have been tons of advance screenings.
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Even if a tried, Prince of Persia. I didn't really like any of the Priates movies, so a bad knockoff no thank you. The third one is the only one I liked because it was so bat shit overboard and the effects where pretty damn good.
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Sep 24, 2009 8:51:40 AM CDT
Surrogates is out here tomorrow
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
May catch it next week sometime.
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By the guy who created Nip/Tuck. Its about a glee club.... its pretty awful but I keep watching it because it usually has 2 very funny moments. I wish it weren't on Fox because it will make it more of a pussy show, but FX wouldn't have the money to get the rights to all the songs it uses. So I don't know how dark it will ever get, last nights epiosde was the first time we started to see the Darker side of the high school.
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Sep 24, 2009 8:57:04 AM CDT
I quite enjoyed the first Pirates
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
But the sequels were pretty rubbish. Far too fx heavy and the third one especially made no fucking sense. And they are all way too fucking long. The third one could have chopped the entire asian section and it wouldn't have effected anything but the running time.
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Actually came out here back in April. It comes out on DVD here tomorrow.
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And if it's a show about a high school I doubt I'd watch it. I already slum it by watching One Tree Hill. I don't have time to watch another shitty show. Shit, I don't have time to watch decent shows or flicks.
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I saw the first Pirates in a stupid idea to do back to back showings of Bad Boys 2 and Pirates. Didn't realize both were over 2 and a half hours, and that Bad Boys 2 would suck so hard and we saw it first. So I was in and out of sleep during it, plus we had some nasty ass liquor we were drinking. I've tried to watch it again on the DVDs and just can't get into it, its boring and doesn't make sense. I feel like an old man when I'm watching it. So anyways we go to see 2, there were two screens showing it at the theater we went to. We knew we were a little late, like we would come in during the credits and just miss the trailers. SOOO we walked into the wrong screening and watch like 5 minutes before this is the screening that started an hour ago. So we rush over to the other screen, and in my rush and the theaters shitty lighting I ran in the wall. So I was pissed and again couldn't figure out what the fuck was going on. SO finally see the third one, I just gave up trying to figure out anything (doesn't seem like its really important to the series) and just enjoyed the awesome FX. I think I was the only person who left that showing with a smile on my face.
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Sep 24, 2009 9:02:06 AM CDT
Surrogates came out at the cinema in april?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Really?
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R rated sci-fi with a monster and zero buzz
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Haven't heard a thing about it.
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And right before the first pirates I just got done sailing around the caribbean for five weeks.
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No this site seems to have given up on reviewing movies coming out. Too busy trying to seem edgy by giving us a review of a movie that comes out close to a year from now.
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Looks pretty bad ass. Event Horizon ish. I think Paul Anderson is producing it. Its got Dennis Quad. Look up the trailer, its good. Though every critic in america likes to say that it looks just like every other movie like this you have ever seen. Becuase they all live in a world that is over flowing with sci-fi thrillers in space. Fucking critics all fucking sheep.
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It comes out Friday. I just think its funny how movies don't come out on time there. I remember the day I moved to England (June 22 1994) because it was 2 gays before The Lion King came out. Then I had to wait like 6 months (like a fucking DOG!) till it came out in England.
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Sep 24, 2009 9:17:34 AM CDT
"2 gays before The Lion King came out"
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Freudian slip?
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Maybe. I was listening to morning radio, and they were picking on this guy trying to admit he was gay. Maybe they got me.
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Which is why I am shocked at lack of buzz on this site, I mean talking about a fucking barbie movie instead of a space based R rated monster flick? Even if it sucks at least have a preview.
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England reminds me of gay people.
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There have been advance screenings of Zombieland, Surrogates and Pandorum ALL over the country the past 2 weeks. Are you telling me NO ONE sent in a review? For a Zombieland review Johan put one up over at My Mavra. Said its pretty good. I'm afraid all the good stuff is in the trailers for that one.
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Sep 24, 2009 9:27:27 AM CDT
Zombieland, Surrogates and Pandorum
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Out of those 3 I'd be most interested in Zombieland. It's got the great man, Woody, in it.
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Like I said save for a great cameo in Zombieland I think all the best bits were in the trailer, plus I have no idea how Surrogates and Pandorum will play out. Zombieland looks like a pretty simple movie, fun but simple. And I could care less about Woody, he's fine and all and seems to be making a comeback but whatever. I'll see it, but I'm more looking forward to the other two. Also Legion looks fucking cool, don't know why Dennis Quad is in everything these days.
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Bruce over Woody any time. Probably take Quad over Woody as well. Can't believe he is going to play Clinton in the sequel to the Queen.
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Ben Foster, Cung Le - Pandorum Radha Mitchell, Rosamund Pike, James Cromwell and Ving Rhames - Surrogates BEAT Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin and Jesse Eisenberg - Zombieland though Amber Heard and Mike White are nice, but I heard they are Cameos. WOW IMDB really doesn't care. DO NOT LOOK AT IMDB if you don't want a huge surprised ruined for you with Zombieland. They used to have it hidden but now its like front and center.
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Sep 24, 2009 9:37:49 AM CDT
Woody > Quiad (a close call) > Willis
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I don't know anything about all three though. I've only seen the trailer for Surrogates and it looks kinda shitty. It looks like its set in the same world as The 6th Day. Pandorum has Paul Fucknuckle Anderson involved in it. Automatic shitcan right there. I haven't seent The Queen.
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Surrogates and Pandourum could end up sucking. No one is better then Bruce. Danny said the same thing about Surrogates and The 6th day. The Queen is fucking good. A adrenaline junkie film for sure.
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How is Woody better then Bruce?
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Sep 24, 2009 9:48:33 AM CDT
Woody's vs Bruce... The Cage Match
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Actor: Woody > Bruce Weirdo: Woody > Bruce Diversity of roles: Woody > Bruce (if he doesn't get to hold a gun, Bruce dosen't play it) Comedy: Woody > Bruce (by A LONG FUCKING WAY) Subjecting the world to fewer shitfests like The Story of Us: Woody > Bruce
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You ever catch [REC]?
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I'd say Bruce is more fucked up then Woody. Woody is too open to be truely fucked up. Bruce has some skeletons in his closet. He fucking hangs out with his ex-wife and her 20 year old husband. He's the guy that's so cocksure after meeting Jenna Jamison, went to her limo and waited for her there. Woody just does drugs. Bruce looks and acts like American Psycho.
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Sep 24, 2009 9:51:46 AM CDT
Bruce does have the Die Hards going for him
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
And don't get me wrong, I like him. But if I see Woody's name on a flick, I get more interested in it than if I see Brucey-boy.
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I have it at home. Just haven't found the time.
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I think thats a tie. Just because Woody played a gay guy last year. He's pretty much either one of two people. Psycho or easy going slacker. Bruce is bruce. And too add to the werido factor, Bruce has an alternate personality called Bruno. And still shows up on late shows to just play in the band. Plus Bruce seems like a cool guy to know, Woody seems like a jerk.
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If I was Bruce I'd fuck Jenna Jameson too. A huge X next to Brucey's name is the shitty blues band.
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But you didn't know that going into the movie if you saw it in theaters.
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He's just a jerk who smokes up?
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Sep 24, 2009 9:57:52 AM CDT
Yes, but even two different roles is diversity
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
in comparison to Bruce's variations on the one role.
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Sep 24, 2009 9:59:13 AM CDT
How does Woody come across as a jerk?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I've never thought that.
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by A LONG FUCKING WAY? Are you really that big of a fan of Cheers? Bruce manges to bring the funnies in all his Action movies. What pure comedy movies has Woody been in? All I can think of that matters with Woody is Indecent Proposal, White Men Can't Jump, A Scanner Darkly, The People vs. Larry Flynt, Natural Born Killers and Transsiberian. I guess he's got Kingpin, but he's the least funniest thing about that movie. He is going to be in 2012, but I don't know how big of a role I haven't seen him in any of the trailers.
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He's trying to do Bruce. He's just a little too ugly to be as cocksure as Bruce.
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Just google search his name and read all the dickish things he's done. Sure most of them are towards paprazzi, which is fine and all, but thats part of the game with being famous.
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Serious low raspy voice with occasional bouts of screaming (Sin City/Hostage/6th Sense) and cock of the walk (Hudson Hawk/Armagedon/Die Hard).
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The Pulp Fiction about to git fucked in the ass mode! Scared shitless.
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A Scanner Darkly? I won't count No County because his part wasn't even needed in the movie and he wasn't even listed as being in it in the trailers. Semi-Pro? Battle In Seattle? She Hate Me? The Grand? The Walker? A Prairie Home Companion? Transsiberian (which was pretty good)? Surfer, Dude? Woodey is to Bruce as Dennis Hooper is to Jack Nicholson. Have then ever been in a movie together?
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White Men Can't Jump (I fucking love this flick) Natural Born Killers The People vs. Larry Flynt Kingpin (Woody is the least funny thing in it? Fuck off! You need to rewatch it.) Wag the Dog The Thin Red Line The Hi-Lo Country (Really fucking good movie)After the Sunset No Country for Old Men Transsiberian And of course, Cheers.
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Sep 24, 2009 10:14:06 AM CDT
It seems I haven't seen a lot of Woody's flicks
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I have a few to check out.
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How can you like him in that movie? Its such a nothing fucking useless part? Plus he's only in it for like 5 minutes. And so you haven't gone to the theaters to see a movie just for WOODY since 2004 maybe. Oh look IMDB on his home page Was arrested in Columbus (Ohio) in June 1983, charged of disorderly conduct - he was dancing in the street, halting traffic; he later jumped out of a moving police van laughing maniacally and finally punched one of the two arresting officers to the ground. While thats a pretty cool story, still a pretty jerk thing to do. q
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Die Hard series The Last Boy Scout Death Becomes Her Pulp Fiction Nobody's Fool Twelve Monkeys The Fifth Element The Sixth Sense Unbreakable 16 Blocks
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Moonlights as the lead singer in the band Manly Moondog and the Three Kool Hats.
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1. Since when did "going to the cinema" become the final judgement on whether or not you like an actor? 2. June 1983? the fucking guy would've been 20ish. Probably pissed out of his head. Haev you ever been a jerk when you were pissed? Fuck me. I can guarantee you that Brucey-boy has done far jerkier things than that.
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Sin City is meh. Over the Hedge was rather shite.
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Well you said that you get more excited for a movie when you see his name in it. So therefore you'd pay to see it in the cinema.
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I don't get the hate for this movie. I think its by far Dreamworks best movie. Its their funniest. A little slow at the start but the last 15 minutes are some of the craziest ever in a movie.
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Yeah thats why he is more of a werido. I was just pointing out that Woody is known as a jerk going as far back as that. You didn't think he's a jerk.
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Makes him seem like a fucking hippie, and hippies fucking suck.
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Had a baby. Alright I'm out for training for while.
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Sep 24, 2009 10:30:41 AM CDT
Being a jerk and being a weirdo are not the same thing
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
But at least this convo is keeping us in the Top 10. You night shift Yanks need to work harder. And where the fuck is that skiving layabout?
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Good let the battle rage on. Though I'm not feeling like Droids into it today. Actually have work today?
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See I think since Bruce is so calm about everything I wouldn't be surprised if he's done some FUCK UP SHIT. See Woody is a just a dirty fucking Hippie, they are fucking worthless. Though I did read that Woody's dad was sentenced to life for killing a man. Like no one would ever write about the shit Woody does because its stupid. But I could see a tell all book about the fuck up life of Bruce.
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Not a werido. He's like a talk backer that would just scream FUCK YOU if you don't agree with them. Bruce would calmly talk you into commiting suicide.
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Got a project thats due in about 20 minutes and I'm trying my hardest to bludge at the same time. It's tough work trying to do both.
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FUCK YOU!
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Yeah I should actually try to do some work before lunch today. I'm covering for someone as well.
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But this site should do more stuff like this. Blah blah blah vs. Blah blah blah. It would be fun, and if you keep it interesting. I may have to talk to those guys over at AIBN see what they think.
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I need to see this movie.
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As being the 80s. In the eighties he became well known by three movies made by Spike Lee - Do the Right Thing (1989), Mo' Better Blues (1990) and Jungle Fever (1991).
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Is that there posters with people half naked but showing that they are robots its too much of a rip off of the Terminator show posters.
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Sarah Connor Chronicles
http://tinyurl.com/ycn6aa2 Surrogates http://tinyurl.com/yc5oye7
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I just don't care about it. I want to see it yes. but it could take up to 20 years and I wouldn't be the least bit upset.
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is it just you here talking to yourself?
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Sep 24, 2009 12:25:41 PM CDT
Hey guys, if you haven't voted for my latest short film yet...
by d.vader
This is your last chance! Voting ends tomorrow at 3 pm EST. I received an email from Universal Studios rep telling us that only 13 votes separate 1st and 3rd place, so I'm trying to get as many votes for my short, "Chinese Chiller", as possible. I don't feel bad asking for votes since I know every other filmmaker is doing it too. But you guys have supported me in the past, so I hope you will with this competition too! By the way, my computer has been in the shop for over a week and that's why I haven't been around much. But its good to be back! "Chinese Chiller" http://tinyurl.com/kj5vgs
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I'v had it for about a week...have 9 articles on there I think.
I had free tickets for Padorum tonight but then I got offered free symphony tickets and the wife wanted those over the scary spaceship movie.
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Just kidding dude...I voted it for a few weeks ago when you showed me. It's really nice work. I forgot to come back here and let you know that. Sorry.
Can we vote more than once?
Someone submitted my website for a Best of Baltimore contest, so I might be back here soliciting votes too...next week. At least we aren't like the dude in Massa's article just randomly posting news. -
Yeah, I had to take some time out to play around in that political TB last week. You guys had your fun the week before with that shogunshin asshole. This was my turn. Idiots, all ofthem.
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Good to see you back, by the way. As far as voting more than once, the Voting Rules say they reserve the right to delete duplicate votes, but how do they know what's a duplicate vote and what's not different members of the same household voting on the same computer? Maybe you have to log out of the web browser first? Give it a few minutes? Reload the page? I dunno, its confusing. Let us know when it comes time to voting for your website and I'll be sure to return the favor.
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How many times can you vote? I voted like four or five times, but I'm not sure if the rest of them counted.
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so you get to have some double votes then...
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In that Fantastic Fest contest from last month. That means I won a $100 Alamo gift card, but I'm confused as to whether or not I have to spend it at Fantastic Fest. I chose not to go down to Austin bc I didn't win and thus would have to pay for a badge; I was under the impression I could use the $100 on anything else. Also, it was originally said that the Top Ten winners wouldn't be announced until the end of the Fest, so I wouldn't be able to use that $100 anyway. Thought you guys might like to know. Thanks for your votes! Your votes contributed toward me getting what looks like 4th place in the public voting. The jury at FF is what voted me into their Top Ten. Thanks to them as well!
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That's customer service right there.
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Yeah I wonder if using different web browsers would work too...
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http://blog.filmmakingfrenzy.com/2009/09/fantastic-fest-2009-bumper-results-pt-2.html
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I feel like I was there a bit ago and read one of your reviews... can't remember which one.
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nicely done...you can use that Alamo giftcard on whatever I'm sure...the next time Harry has one of those food/movie orgy things he does from time to time.Y'know, like an all-you-can-eat vienna sausauge night while showing Bruno or something.
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I opened a new browser and voted some more. I voted multipal times again so I hope they go through.
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I voted for you movie. You can only vote once right? I watched it but my computer craped out like RIGHT before the end. I was pissed. I'll need to watch it on my Mac. Oh and speaking of Mac, how the fuck does the spell check work? Like I see all the words I miss spell but I can't figure out how to get the computer to correct it.
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yes that's the site. I have been busy with a ton of other things so I don't update it as much as I would like. If you ever want something featured or highlighted on there, let me know...something you made or something. I'd gladly put it up.
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We need to put our Examniner links in each others sites. Like on the list of other sites bar. I'll add you in mine today.
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did you ever get your 50 bucks?
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Have you been getting a good amount of hits?
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Fucking suck. They are pretty awful.
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When I get a chance, I'll vote again from another computer here at the office.
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When your dad is in a federal prison for killing a judge and he worked as a freelance contract killer, I'm pretty sure that fucks you up.
Someone said the more talented you were on Cheers, the more fucked up you were. Which would explain why Kelsey Grammar was the most talented: his father was murdered on the front lawn of his house; his sister was abducted, raped and murdered; his two half-brothers were killed by sharks while scuba diving; and he is an alcoholic and drug addict.
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Sep 24, 2009 3:05:22 PM CDT
Woody's old man also comes up in Kennedy assassination conspirac
by xiphos_2
As one of the alleged shooters on the grassy knoll. If I remember correctly he got popped in a railway car anout 200 yards away from the suppossed shooting site.
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By a twist of synchronicity a discussion of Kelsey Grammer broke out on AIBN. I copied and pasted the info you wrote and posted it there. I named you as the writer.
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Has done something similar to tying someone up and parading around to Hall and Oats as he spews out facts about them and kills the person with an ax.
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But he sure does look like him, doesn't he? Woody's dad was a convicted Judge killer, so you know he coulda been involved in shit like Dealey, sure. All kinda bastards were there-guys from Hunt Oil, another real right wing dude from FLA you see in the pics, Johnny Sokko, etc. It's kinda weird. Woody's career has tanked of late hasn't it? I enjoyed Kingpin, only caught some of 'White Men Can't Jump' on TV, thought he was funny in Cheers, never saw Natural Borned Killers, like him as a character dude in 'Thin Red Line', hmmmmm. Bruce Willis is a big STAR. Period. Harrelson is NOT. Willis has done his share of shite movies-you know the ones am sure-but he's the Sixth Sense/Armageddon(fuck YOU!)/Die Hard guy too. Him I wanna see. Harrelson--well depends on the role, right? What did you guys think of Nick Cage in 'Knowing'? Just a bit of a one-note role seemed to me. Not a bad flick though.
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i mean, not awful but don't write home about it. did like armageddon. flushed hudson hawke.
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Woody's old man was one of three bums arrested in a frieght car in a marshaling yard located behind the book repository building and the grassy knoll.For years Harrelson's old man traded on that little piece of trivia both admitting and denying he was involved in the Kennedy hit.It wasn't until all the conspiritards got involved that they more or less retconned witnesses memories into saying Harrelson's dad was ON the Grassy Knoll. Its a all crap and BS and old man Harrelson wasn't involved but he did get detained that day.
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You might be interested in getting with this: tinyurl.com/ybjuaeb
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---heck you can make good cases for the other two being Howard Hunt and Frank Sturgis if you wanna. And supposedly one of the guys walking the Other way in the shots is none other than Edward Lansdale. Yeah you know which guy I mean. Best part though is the super zooming in of 'Black Dog Man'. Did you know Burt Reynolds was a sharp-shooter-?
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Yeah its pretty amazing how the conspiratards have manage to twist plausibility and fact in regards to Dealy plaza. They don't stop even when presented with proof that most of thier cherished theories can't work.Now about Burt Reynolds being in the storm drain at ground level with a rifle....
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ANd good luck with Chinese Chiller! Hope the repeat votes count.....
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I forgot to mention I dug your short. Clever idea.
I'm pitching it to Lionsgate tomorrow. Going to change the title to "Misfortune Cookie" and see if we can get Bradley Cooper attached. You don't mind, right?
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I've voted a few more times but in my case its all on faith I can't watch the film.
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Sweeet!
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One deadline beaten yesterday. As soon as I finish this fucking website I can get back to loafing around, penning reviews of bad movies and generally being a layabout. I can't fucking wait- its been a long and agonising few weeks.
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Is it for work?
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I keep forgetting I have to get in to work for 8AM while that slacking convict lies in his scratcher contemplating whether to take a shit before or after he gets to work
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Not fun. It's staggeringly dull stuff. I spent a lot of this week resizing photographs for upload.
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Sep 25, 2009 3:22:06 AM CDT
So... I watched Dork Trek last night, and...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
I have to say, it's quite enjoyable. It's all shiny and whatnot, it moves along at a brisk pace and there are never really any clanging moments. But saying that, I will have forgotten it in about three days. And there are plot holes. Mucho plot holes. Or at least a bucketload of glossed over, unexplained stuff that makes you stop and go "But, if that happened, then... aaah, fuck it.". I can see why certain hardcore trekkies wouldn't like it, because although I've only seen one of the flicks, and never watched the tv shows, I know that they usually try to be "about" something. This flick is pretty much all sound and fury. But it works for the two hours you are watching it. Then you forget it.
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Sep 25, 2009 3:24:29 AM CDT
Jarv, I'd say you probably wouldn't like it
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
It doesn't feature a midget eating it's own head.
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Sep 25, 2009 3:25:46 AM CDT
I reckon I enjoyed it about as much as T4
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Which is didn't hate it, didn't loathe it, won't remember it.
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Sep 25, 2009 3:29:05 AM CDT
And I also watched the new episode of Entourage
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Any one else watch this? It's getting progressively worse. It barely features Vincent anymore. He fucking cameos in his own show. And it's not about making movies anymore either! It's about E and Turtle and their fucking relationships, or Drama and his fucking tv show. It's annoying, but the problem is, I'll keep fucking watching it!
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Lesbians and midgets. Search your feelings- you know this to be true. Actually, that description of dork trek makes me think I probably will like it- it's disposable, quite good fun, shits all of virgin trek canon, and pisses of the nerds. Yeah, that sounds like I'll enjoy it.I like how Dork Trek is catching on as a name for it.
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Sep 25, 2009 3:52:47 AM CDT
The best part is the opening though
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
That was quite good. And although the Aussie bloke that plays Kirk's dad (from Home and Away and is now cast as Thor!?) is fine, his eyes are distractingly too small for his quite large head.
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Anyone who can distinguish Kingman Az from Dave Kingman while referring to Mammaries of Mommy as Goat-lover easily fits into that level. I liked the Abrams Trek(speaking of our friend from Oporto who enjoys the Ibex) but also didn't get worked up about it-it was fun while it lasted and you got to watch Spock talking to himself. Twice if you watched hard. Pretty cool-Bring the Red Matter and all that. Jarv resizes photos? Sounds like a job I once had geocoding Walmarts. ACK!
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FOR I AM Noted_Sage!!! AND THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE Noted_Sage!!!
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Xi has now got two fake names, Noted Sage and GIANT PIG. Just admit it Xi.
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I take my morning shit AFTER I get to work. It's common sense.
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-the late, much lamented Hate_Speech. Re: Jurassic_Kong, and Harold's collective 4 month spooging over the Great F/X. As Noted_Sage Hate_Speech said-and I quothe-Wowee Wowee Wowee Wow Wowsers!!! A BIG MONKEY!!! Indeed. It was. A Big, Monkey.
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doesn't have the cache of GIANT_PIG- They're you, aren't they bodet?
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damn it.
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Plus if I were Giant_Pig you'd have arcane Giant Robot, Baseball and whatnot references galore thru'em. It'd be hard to disguise myself.
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Fred gets to work from home because world leaders are in the 'Burgh and they brought their peasants who are not house broken, or street broken, but who like to break things on a street that do not belong to them, and block streets with their bodies until big, black clad psuedo-paramilitary types in even bigger black painted armored urban mobile assault vehicles move them out of the way by various methods including the first ever use of sonic screams in North America that Fred suspects is the unholy hybrid of Dr Claw scraping his metal fingers across a chalk board - slowly, and a highly disturbed hyena that has been violated in unspeakable fashion, coupled with and a dose of Madonna. So Fred has to stay home.
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c'mon now Locke! by kungfuhustler84 Sep 25th, 2009
03:28:04 AM You don't know Donny and Walter from the Big Lebowski?
The Hustler here. Just writing in to tell everyone to avoid anime catastrophe "Appleseed" at all costs. What a terrible movie.
I'm thinkin it's time to wash out the bad tast with some Korean crime cinema. A Bittersweet Life anyone?
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Sep 25, 2009 10:20:18 AM CDT
WOW! What an exciting fucking day.
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Thank fuck it's friday and I'm outta here. Adios!
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But we are on to you I am not the GIANT PIG SAGE you are looking for.I have only had one other name since this one got nuked last year and that one also got the ban hammer dropped on it.
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Sorry the 'Burgh has to bunker down because of the G20. How have you been pally?
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Much too distinctive to be anybody else.
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And for the idea! "Mis-for-tune Cook-ie". Got it written down. All prepped to pitch next week if I win the contest. That is, if you haven't yet done it first, you thieving bastard =).
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And anyone else I've forgotten. How you doin' up there in Protest City, Fred?
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This is severely impeding with my mooching time
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Sep 25, 2009 11:09:14 AM CDT
Hello Xiphos! Fred's favorite Space Marine
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
Fred is doing very well thank you. Enjoying working from home because the peasants are indeed revolting! Hee hee
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With is this contest thou dost speaketh of forsooth? Fred would like to know.
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Fred can not complain about work today because Fred gets to hang out at home.
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Fred can not complain about work today because Fred gets to hang out at home.
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Fred wish he knew how he did that. Would have come in handy back when Fred needed his Ninja skills.
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They weren't looking good last weekend.
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And teh short movie contest his movie is in. Its from yesterdsay on this here tallkback.This is your last chance! Voting ends tomorrow at 3 pm EST. I received an email from Universal Studios rep telling us that only 13 votes separate 1st and 3rd place, so I'm trying to get as many votes for my short, "Chinese Chiller", as possible. I don't feel bad asking for votes since I know every other filmmaker is doing it too. But you guys have supported me in the past, so I hope you will with this competition too!
By the way, my computer has been in the shop for over a week and that's why I haven't been around much. But its good to be back!
"Chinese Chiller"
http://tinyurl.com/kj5vgs
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Yes, Fred does have concerns. Polamalu looked like he would win league MVP just from his first quarter performance alone in the first game! Then he went down. Even when he gets back, you can bet he will not be as explosive. MCL's do not heal that fast. They look ordinary in secondary, and are vulnerable. The still have really really big hitters out there that will make receivers pay a heavy price for catching the ball, but that is not enough. Ground game got better against Bears, and really the should have won that game if it had not been for skippy Reed blowing to makeable field goals. But still, they should not have had to rely on kicker to win game, they looked unstoppable on that first drive, the self-destructed the rest of the game. The secondary could not get a stop when it counted, and Fred is still not sold on Cutler, even though he had a decent game. So, yes Fred is worried. Bengals look better - Fred worried about this game. Ravens look like Steelers of last year! Fred very worried about them. Jets have a really good D and can make some noise. Pats, well Fred thinks they are done. Brady is not the reason, their D stinks, and the O line can not protect Brady well enough. The book on Brady was established by the Giants in the superbowl. Rush him hard, and flush him, and he is a very ordinary QB, He does not handle being rushed well. But give him protection and he will destroy you. Chargers are done. Titans are done. Ravens, Steelers, Jets, Bengals. Those are Fred's final four from AFC. In that order. No one is stopping Saints until superbowl.
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"a highly disturbed hyena that has been violated in unspeakable fashion" That killed me! I can think of several 'people' on these boards that would apply to. BTW while I think it may be too early to predict that playoffs, I like your AFC picks. As far as NFS, Saints do look very good on O. I have not seen how they play D. But if they score like that every game, it will not matter. Still, the Pats had the highest scoring O until they ran into *ahem* the Giants in the Superbowl. So, I am not yet ready to concede anything. Giants! Hey Xi! Can't hang around long today, but should be back on in a few hours or so. later. Vader, I voted for ya!
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He's got the info and the link above (thanks Xi). Only 1 hour and 45 minutes left to vote! And to get your work friends to do the same =)
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Sep 25, 2009 12:17:18 PM CDT
Hee hee. Feel free to do so, Toadkillerdog
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
It is a beautiful day here in da Burgh. Fred expects many more protests today.
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We'll know who won in a few hours I think!
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Count up one more vote from me, Vader. Have fun in Hollywood!
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Fred just voted! Three times! Hee hee. Fred has question, there is a monitor on a bureau in the background, what is playing on it?
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Bc I don't think anything important was on there. We kept the tv on just for some more ambient light, but never intended for the audience to see what was on there. Had we more time to prep and shoot, we may have made the the an Easter Egg of some sort.
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Stay away from those foreigners. Nuttin' but trouble!
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Sep 25, 2009 12:56:49 PM CDT
Fred was thinking that is what it was: Easter Egg
by freds_balls_in_a_mason_jar
Fred wishes you the best of luck. Do you get trip to Hollywood if you win?
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Coolio!
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$1,000, a trip to Hollywood for the opening of the Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights, and also tickets to the Eyegore Awards (awards in the field of horror). I hope I get it!
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Yes, Fred is keeping his distance. But can not account for Dirk. He may be hunting for big fish at the summit. Dirk always looking to make money the easy way. Fred fears that Dirk will try and blackmail the German chancellor -her election is on Saturday. Stay tuned for 'bombshell' news out of Pittsburgh, with a German accent on it!
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Therewolf would love that!
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Brussels is my final destination (Ominous phrasing, ain't it!) Probably won't end up In Bruges (although not ruling anything out). If I do, I will certainly blab all about it. I need some sleep. Adios, amigos!
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Good night!
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Hee hee
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Is Bedfellows and Mockingbird. Yours and those two are the really standouts - I think they blow the others away (no offense to whomever made the others).
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Vote early, vote often
Did both yesterday.
And today. Good luck to ya' Vader!
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-the Denver Broncos. Orton will wake up and become John Elway just enough Sundays so that your precious Steelers will, yes, get to relive their Abject Failure vs. Denver in the AFC playoff game lo that long ago January day in early 1998. Don't say youse don't remember.
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I said before the season Denver will be 6-10, looking at the schedule-9-7 would be a minor miracle.
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This thing almost out of top 10
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to say at the moment. THe only thing I've watched recently that comes to mind is One Way Street: Fragments for Walter Benjamin. Which was an odd little documentary from the early 90's, with a tacky suicide re-enactment at the end and some East Coast homesickness courtesy of footage shot at St. Mark's Bookshop.
Fucking docs need to lay off the re-enactments. In most cases I'd rather stare at still photos than watch some dipshits act out a scene when I'm in the mood for non-fiction. -
Folks are watching The Wire? Fucking loved that show. ANd that has nothing to do with the fact that I used to see them filming it in my neighborhood.
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So I am going to watch the pilot tonight.
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I should say. Because I don't live there anymore. Even if I am unable to claim where I live now as 'my neighborhood', because it makes me nauseous.
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I liked that show a helluva lot when I started watching it. And I was pretty resistant to watching it at first.
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Brannon Braga. That's no good. Enterprise was a really shitty show. Why anyone would cast Quantum Leap and then direct him to be really serious all the time is a mystery to me.
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Sep 25, 2009 9:41:23 PM CDT
I loved The Wire -once they got off da docks
by hey_kobe_tell_me_how_my_ass_tastes
When they went inner city, it became one of the greatest shows of all time IMHO.
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But I know a lot of people didn't care for that season. I haven't fully figured out why that is yet.
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Sep 25, 2009 9:52:54 PM CDT
Da docks were fine, but felt like a typical police drama
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But the inner city stuff was human drama at it's finest IMHO
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I was never blown away by it the way others have been. I think its solid just not as great as everybody makes it out to be. I admit it could be my contrarian streak that pops up at unpredictable times is what driving this.BSG: The mini-series and first 3 sesons were excellent. Unfortunatly in the later seasons they started dragging things out and it slipped mightily from the heights it once occupied. I was also left underwhelmed by the ideas in the finale. I thought they played it way to safe and predictable.
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I recently watched one about Chuck Manson, his followers and the murders done by the BBC. It had an effective mix of interviews with participants, most notably Linda Kasbian, newspaper clippings, pictures and news footage. I thought it was well done, but I tend to agree that re-enactments tend to drag docs down.
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and MB will be happy.
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It's hard for me to be objective about SEason 2. I've got a very keen interest in labor issues, so was just glad to see that in a show. You can't make a show about a city and leave out working class problems.
As for BSG, I cringed when they busted out the song, big-time. But I kept the faith, right up until the end. Parts of the finale were ok, but on the whole, not very satisfying. And also kind of sloppy in its reasoning. -
Bye Braga!
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Ahahahaha. Of course it was a BBC documentary. It's driving me nuts. Every time I want to watch a decent doc on American history (or anything else, for that matter), I've gotta go to the Brits. Because either PBS is reallllly good about keeping their shit off the internet, or nobody cares enough about PBS docs to put 'em up.
History and Discovery Channel shows, while fun (except for some of their Hitler shows, which can be infuriating), just don't have the quality. They are all about entertainment at the expense of information. Thank god for the BBC and their lax approach to piracy. -
I don't believe I've ever heard anybody make a statement like that before. What draws and keeps your interest on that issue? By the way I'm not clowing on you. I'm truly curious and since I'm stuck inside by computer for various circumstances I think this might be an intersting topic to explore.
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By the BBC? I think maybe? What pisses me off about the History Channel, Discovery and for that matter A&E, is the relentless pimping of nonsense like UFOs, Ghosts, paranormal and the like. Fine, ok, a couple of shows about the socital phenomenon and maybe some shows blowing all the nonsense away; but for the love of reality and science stop the blowing of smoke up my ass.
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I actually struggled with the phrasing of that, and didn't really like the way I put it. It won out by virtue of being short.
I'm just sort of disgusted by the fall of blue collar jobs with little to replace them. The weird way that work for tons of people has become this abstract thing. The fact that "union" has become this dirty word, synonymous with being greedy and wanting more than you deserve. That people that are ill-equipped for office work or service jobs are pretty fucked. That newspapers have Business sections, which skew towards folks with a lot of money, but no Labor section for regular working people to stay informed about developments that directly impact their ability to care for themselves/their families.
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Owned by the BBC? Yikes.
Yeah, those paranormal shows are out of hand. There's soooo many of them. Also, 2012. But the Hitler shows really get to me. Some of them take this really enthusiastic tone. Like, here's some cool science the Nazis were doing, here's a supercool city Hitler wanted to build! Let's see what it would've looked like!! Falling all over themselves with excitement.
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I never really thought about it in those terms - meaning the 'people who are ill equipped to work for an office'. That really drives the point home about labor.
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I was wondering if that was what you meant by what you wrote.As far as the fall of blue Collar jobs there are so many people to blame for that in my opinion. That very long list includes Unions not realizing that they needed a shift in thier approach. The denigration of working with ones hands. The pimping of college like its some great panacea to all ills. Then convientely forgeting that perfectly smart and capable people don't like the constrains of traditional education. Probably the group that caused the most problems, in my opinion, are politicians of all types being crooked fucking scumbags. That's just the partial list I ran off the top of my head. Almost all of my friends back home work some sort of blue collar job like electricians, plumbers, HVAC, landscapping and the like. They make great livings yet they tell me how hard it is to get kids interested in those fields and that's just sad. Hell I've been working construction jobs on the side for over 20 years. I've made nice money as a carpenter putting in decks or remodels or as a general electrican and plumber. All of which has come in handy in my day job. Yet if I tell some people that, mostly snooty urbanites that grew up in the suburbs, they look at me like I'm nuts or more nuts if they know about my day job. Its very frustrating.
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It's like the whole "if you are poor, you're just not working hard enough" mindset, as if there are enough jobs to go around anyway. And poverty is looked at like a fucking scarlet letter. And if you are both not-white and poor? Holy shit, there are huge numbers of people who think you are probably trash and beyond saving. But heaven forbid a job that doesn't require years of expensive schooling should pay enough to support a family. That just wouldn't be fair. How greedy of people to expect that. Just because "hey, ANYONE can do that job!" doesn't mean that they shouldn't expect to be able to live in decent conditions or raise a family.
I've worked in an office, and anyone could've done my job, with a little training. And I know I got the job, at least in part, because I clean up nice, and was still young enough to be able to excuse my lack of a college degree. I've worked in construction. I've worked in a factory. Construction was the most enjoyable. Factory job was BY FAR the most difficult. But the office job paid the most. It's bullshit.
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Sep 25, 2009 11:21:47 PM CDT
History Channel just had show about Hurricane Katrina being
by hey_kobe_tell_me_how_my_ass_tastes
The product of Russian or Chinese weather control experiments. Now back to regular scheduled program.
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I thought I read that the BBC owns the history channel but I could be wrong about that. Its just a thought and I'm way to lazy to look it up.
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Launched on January 1, 1995, the channel is owned by A&E joint venture (Hearst, Disney, NBC)[1] and operates, in various forms, in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Portugal, Israel, Spain, Poland, Italy, The Netherlands, and Latin America. The network was also available in South Asia under a deal between STAR TV and AETN International until November 21, 2008. The channel has consistently produced prime time ratings in the U.S. comparable to or higher than the A&E Network itself.[citation needed]
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The blame can be spread so far around, it's like a fucking spiderweb of blame. And I see no end in sight.
I don't understand people who look down on those jobs. It is truly baffling to me. I can remember driving around D.C. with older family members and they would point out buildings, and be able to say "I built that." I thought it was amazing.
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Why didn't they just go all-out and blame Lex Luthor? Fuck's sake!
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We're hiring, as long as your an exceptional person. You seem to fit the bill like most on this TB.
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I hope you find work soon. Funny thing is, I work with people who are very 'handy 'and I have highest respect for them being able to build things or fix things. The fact that they are white collar workers means they learned those skills but still chose to pursue white collar work.
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That I was much to lazy to do myself.
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about "exceptional", but I am thinking about it. Might not have a choice if things keep on this way.
Hey_Kobe, white collar's cool. There's certainly money in it, you run less a chance of getting injured, etc. It's necessary to keep shit running. I just feel like there have to be other viable options, or too many people get left behind or stuck in a job they can't stand. And white collar jobs aren't particularly secure these days either (unless you work for the federal government, they are pretty good to the people they employ). The trend of requiring more work without offering any additional compensation is in full swing there as well. I want improvements for all workers. -
That's funny.
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and enlist I would like to suggest the Marine Corps. After all if your going to be a bear be a grizzly right?Okay obligatory tough guy plug aside, why wouldn't you want to join the best trained best motivated arm in all of the armed service? You can be a Marine and a corpsman or one of about 100 odd jobs choices that have civilian application, unlike what I do. Its something to think about and any time you have any questions fire away.
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Kevin Smith's Jon Peters/Superman story? It is hilarious.
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If I get closer, I will definitely have a ton of questions. You got an email address? If you don't want to post it, I've got one, it's just my TB name at yahoo.
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Sep 26, 2009 12:13:05 AM CDT
Oh, they also mentioned that U.S.A has HAARP
by hey_kobe_tell_me_how_my_ass_tastes
Some kind of weather deflector that puts a high pressure cone over southeastern US and acts as a 'bumper' to keep hurricanes from hitting U.S. mainland. Apparently this was in effect for three years 2002-2005 - I think I have those dates correct.
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Sep 26, 2009 12:16:56 AM CDT
Xi2 - I saw a show with guys firing missiles at tanks
by hey_kobe_tell_me_how_my_ass_tastes
That would be a cool job. Have to build up the finger muscles though. Do you do that, or do you throw bullets at people? No offense intended -cause I aint good at ducking bullets being thrown by a P.O'ed Mariner.
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for HAARP is a fiasco!
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I'll shoot you an email in a little bit. Its probably easier to answer any questions you might have that way.
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everyone would love scrolling past my tedious questions, email is probably for the best. I'll keep an eye out.
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is the conspiratard wets dream. I have picture back home of me standing in the middle of the HAARP emittir field. For such a powerful "weather weapon" and a super secret goverment program, the security is sure lame. There's not even a fence around it.
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Are you talking about a shoulder fired missle or like ones from a helo or artillary?If you are talking about shoulder fired weapons then yes I have fired all of them we have inventory and I throw bullets also.
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Is way better as a story teller then a movie maker though I do like his earlier stuff. He went of the rails around Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.
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Called Toes or towes. They had metal wires coming out of them. Then they had a javelin, that had no wires. Then they had a thing that looked like a big armored car that had lots of rockets that fired multiple warheads. Mervs. That was very cool. Uh, just how far can you throw bullets? Just in case I cross that line as I am prone to do.
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Hahahaha. Wiki's got precise coordinates for the location of the project site.
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Never saw so many disclaimers on one page before!
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which stands for tube launch optically tracked wire guided. Which is a fancy way of saying that you can guide the missle in flight to your target.As far as shooting goes it depends on the weapon. A handgun is less then the M4 which is less then a bolt action.
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Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back is really shitty, but I still find it funny. Mostly because of Jason Mewes. It's hit-or-miss, but he redeems it enough for me.
Haven't seen Jersey Girl, which I tend to forget exists. Was bored by Zack and Miri. Never did like Chasing Amy much...the beginning is good, then there's too much interpersonal screaming for me. Like the rest of his stuff just fine though. I thought Clerks was the funniest thing when it came out.
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Sep 26, 2009 12:58:53 AM CDT
Toadkillerdog could tell you more about the multiple launch syst
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Then I can. He was a Marine artilleryman and I think worked with those bad boys.
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Well, time to close up shop. Been nice conversing with you folk. I feel safer knowing HAARP protects me frum dem Godless Komonists.
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is wildly hit and miss but Mews and Smith were great in thier roles. I thought everything after it was a steep drop off in quality finally bottoming out with Clerks 2, which was just rancid except for the Lord of the rings rant by Randal.Clerks and Mallrats were mint though. I frigging love Mall Rats. I laugh me ass of everytime I watch it.
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have a good one nice talking to you also.
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Completely forgot about that one. Haven't seen it because it looked painful to watch. Someday. Maybe?
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the crap idiots will believe becasue its on the internet is staggering.
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Its really really bad.
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They both have very good scares. They were both made by the same people (husband directed one, wife the other). They both have pretty much the same story (the person you think is in the room really isn't them). They were both made in 2008 independently of this contest.
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I sent you an email. Did you recieve it?
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Sure did, thanks!
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Fuck, that isn't fair.
I prefer Mockingbird to Bedfellows. Bedfellows has a really interesting visual - the creepy guy in bed with her - but why the fuck does she reach over to grab the sheet. It makes no friggin' sense. An obvious "it's only a movie" moment.
The one thing l really give your short over everyone else's is that you actually have camera movement. You dolly in (well, actually hand held in) in your short, unlike everyone else. And you use way more pans, zoom ins, etc. then any of the other shorts (except for maybe Lameze of the Dead, but that is because they do some handheld). I have a pet peeve against lack of camera movement - it make things very un-cinematic.
Plus yours actually has a narrative. Mockingbird is a little story (Bedfellows is just a scene) but yours has cause and effect, and if people pay attention they know people's motivation. You deserve points for that.
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And didn't get into BSG whenever I did see it. Odd as you'd think I'd be the demographic, the fan of the old series etc Boxy, Rick Springfield cameo and all. But naw. Kinda sci-fi'd out. I've worked bloo collar, white collar and no collar. White collar is preferable if you're not into the manual labor routine, but there's ZERO wrong w/ blue collar. Much of my family does the carpenter/electrician/builder/iron worker routine, some of them get paid oodles though they have to work like dawgs to git it. What's this Braga TB we speaketh of? and what property is he planning to molest this time? One Day at a Time-?
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Don't know details yet, except that it was something to do with Herc. Free Zeddemore!!!
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I asked why they didn't have Supernatural talkbacks, but had shite like SNL.
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Here's a link to Vader's short."Chinese Chiller" http://tinyurl.com/kj5vgs
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The Braga TB is Flashforward but not the one about Ratings. It appears that the one MB was railling on has fallen off the top 10
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sounds like the kinda guy it would be fun to make sport of
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these days blue color is much better. we are in a mining boom so blue color is better paid, plus you go home and put your feet up and have a beer, you don't worry about targets and shit. i have two degrees, i majored in finance, and i'm thinking about getting a job on a rig or something.
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don't take this the wrong way, but how tall are you? and while i'm at it, what rank are you?
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You knew him as Jamie Farr is his other line of work...
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your rank corporal is like what we would call a lance jack. not even in charge of a section.
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5'11" and a Master Sergeant, why?Ha! good one Sal. An entire foot of Jamie Farrr's height is his nose. Is he still alive?
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Yeah Farr's still around, I think he's now about 75(!) or so. You can see him on You Tube from some Red Skelton clips(!) where he did a funny Gilligan type skit w/ Red involving an Ape Suit, some sailors, and Buster Crabbe...no it wasn't sung to the tune 'In the Navy'... And if you ever saw Blackboard Jungle-there's Farr in his nerd specs charging at Vic Morrow w/ flagpole in hand to save the day. Xiphos is a Master Sarge? Hey Sarggge--how do we get outta this chickenshit outfit?? That's how we ID Bill Paxton in my family. We refer to him as 'Chickenshit Outfit'. Works.
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what is a master sergent? our plattons only have one sergent. i think our corporal is like your sergent. so are you like the main sergent in a plattoon or are you like a warent officer, like higher than platton sergent? (we go digger, lance jack - 2ic of section - corporal/section commander sergent(lead digger)
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your Lance Jack sounds like a Marine Lance Corporal.
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are you the lead dig in a platton or or higher?
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to go w/ Noted_Sage Yack_Backer and Hate_Speech. Yes.
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in the USMC a platoon Seargeant is refered to as a Gunnery Sergeant and I'm the rank above that. I'm going to go look up the Australian NCO ranks so I can better understand. I'll be back in a few minutes with some more info after I know what the hell I'm talking about.
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fucking everyone, my mates, even the oldies, expected me to lead the the party astray. emma got sick during the service and i had to take her outside. she got tired and i took her home. so here i am at my computer, writing my self off.
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given your length of service and assuming you were not incompetent
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we have one - sergent
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which might be dangerous.If I read it right I think my rank is like what you guys call a warrant officer.
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Ya'll are now rolling with the M1A2 Abrams main line battle tank. Nice upgrade.
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its funny (your in the military, please ecuse me if i am agressively proud of my country) you guys are fucking big. you kick doors in. we are wiry cunts. we pack march. you don't stay big when you pack march. god you loose weight. we were in iraq and we in afganistan. but we also do rotations in timor and the soloms, and just march from cashe to cashe. you cant keep your musle when you march. we are very low tech compared to you. i've heard you have self heating meals. i wouldn't want that. more weight.
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there are a lot of NCO ranks but they do serve a purpose. That being said they could probably get rid of a couple without it much affecting things.
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other than sergent. keep the rank. change the name. though, you guys know the system so what the fuck
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Timor I can understand-clusterfuck city for ages--but the Solomons? what is up there(too lazy too google)
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The US Marine Corps is low tech compared to the Army. I blamed the fucking Navy for that because they have the purse strings. And believe me we walk, a lot, carring heavy field packs.The only self heating meals we have are if some sort of vehicle is around. The Army might have some sort of heated meals but I don't know. By the time the Marine Corps would get somethng like that it would already have been phased out by the Army.
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it went up a notch, my predjuce was wrong. my uncles were with marines in new guinea. they wernt fans, but shit, you had bad leadership
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i'll almost certainly go there in time. i was going to say 'im not racist but.' they can't run their contry so we police it. it is slighly more than police work, but it ant war fighting. they see us and give up. no fight. theve killed a couple of cops but shit, i come from ipswich, where they kill cops all the time.
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As in WW2, as in 60 years ago? Well some things have changed since then.
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my grand dads cousin got a vc there.
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it boils my blood they way your leaders wasted your lives. even if soliders arn't people, they are still assets. your leaders threw away valuable assets. it boils my blood.
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Winning a VC is impressive.
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Soryr you last me just a bit. Are you talking about strategies and tactics used in the Pacific theater of Operatins during WW2?
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About the Battlestar Galatica Mini-series I watched last nigh. It was ok (wasn't blown away but overall thought it was interesting and good) but I noticed one thing - no Space Marines.
Is there any Space Marines or Soldier's on BSG? Because if it is just pilots, I am going to get annoyed.
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Never try to post and talk to someone on the phone.
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to be delicate: you guys didnt do as good as us BUT you wernt trained right, your leaders were dickheads and at the time new guniea was part of my state. fair suck of the sav. australians feels that you guys, throughout history have been let down by your heirarcy. no aussie general has ever become pm. it aint a career path for us. for vietnam we traied at cunungra (i go there all the time) you guys (acording to legend) ducked for cover behind banana trees. that is a failure of leader ship.
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there is a pycopahty that runs in my family. in life it makes you a asshole. in war it makes you a hero. my family is agressive to the point of mental illness (my brohter, who will be my best man is almost certainly mentally ill)
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the soft cock in my family
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The draft will do that to you. Nobody wants to die in a war they didn't volunteer for (or even volunteer for that matter).
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They are decked out all in black and wear kevlar helmets. In the early episodes they are in the backround. As the seasons wear on they are more a part of the story.The Star Trek thing always bugged me. Why would the Captain and command staff go on all the missions? Where are the Marines or Soldiers? If I remember right that crappy Enterprise show tried to retcon that by introducing a Special Operation team for one season.
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bsb?
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But glad they exist. That would have driven me nuts if they completely forgot or excluded any sort of ground force.
One thing I know about the future is that there apparently will be no army. Marines, yes. Navy and Air Force will combine to became the Space Fleet, but no Army apparently.
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common people by pulp, look it up now. right fucking now. i'm putting it on...now.
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common people by pulp, look it up now. right fucking now. i'm putting it on...now.
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I'm going to disagree with your statements and leave it at that. I'm not sure what criteria you are using as "didn't do as good as us" and I'm staying well away from the nationlistic angle.a majority of people serving in Vietnam were volunteers. A majority of draftees ended up in Korea, Germany/Europe and the Panama Canal Zone.
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Very treacherous, staved off a Japanese invasion of the Darwin area of Australia if I'm not mistaken? You don't hear much about that part of the War, ditto places like Bougainville or whatever.
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Is better than the original. I love that song. And yes, I am listening to it right now.
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Sals right they WERE Mounties.
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i loved battle star, we didn't get on tv here, i had to scrap around for those epss, loved em.
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kill ratio, objective achievement. i've read a lot of books in my life, but my favourite is 'a bastard of a place' by peter brune. i'll post you my copy if you like.
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and have every right to be. dont get me wrong, we respect you. let me put it this way and im sure you'll understand. armys are built on legands and tradions. we are loath to wear the uniform and not live up to these guys. we need to belive they are the best. youd be the same. it's how armies work.
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queensland get hot, sometimes the tar on the road melts. when i was a young fella i used to walk up the road. i burnt the feeling out of my feet. i used to think (and i look back and think im a dickhead) that i needed to be tough like my family. armies work this way. tradition helps you endure.
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my mates wedding, full as a tick
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I'm around. Difficult at the moment. My head's in pieces - trouble at home.Thanks for asking after my whereabouts.
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I hope your troubles are short in nature and things work out. Remember there's nothing like having conversations about goofy nothngs to make you feel better for bit of time. We're always open for business.
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Sep 26, 2009 8:11:09 PM CDT
Short Troubles In Nature and Things that Work Out...
by cheeses_of_nazareth
I'm gonna' hafta' say Olivia Newton-John, Alex....
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I believe I have read Bastard of a Place. It was a very well writen and researched If I'm remembering correctly. Didn't the author write two or three books about the Island campaign?
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the answer we were looking for was Jane Fonda. And of course, Ted Turner would be the 'Trouble in Nature...'
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Who's not short?Ted Turner...Who?
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In my wheelhouse Kobe. From what you describe, those are not Mirvs - which are nuclear multiple re-entry vehicles. Or they sure as hell better not be! It is HIMARS (High Mobility Artillery Rocket System). Which is an MLRS -Multiple launch Rocket system. It sits on a carrier-launcher - which is the vehicle you saw. It is not heavily armored but it does have crew cab plating to help survive impacts. These systems are actually fairly new to the USMC, testing was done just as I was leaving the corp in the late nineties. They were not fully deployed until the mid 2000's if I am not mistaken. I was involved with other MLRS systems though - in the 1980's and early 90's. They were unmitigated pieces of shit. Fucking Iraqi artillery could out-range them, and they were not very accurate. You could only really deploy them in open field operations because they would kill friendly targets. I am not kidding. Huge collateral damage, not only because of inaccuracy but because of submunition - duds. The duds in the impact areas could go off on friendlies or non-combatants. The thing could not hold the jockstrap of the King of Battle - Howitzers. From what i have been told though, the HIMARS are a revolutionary jump, and sadly have replaced the trusty m198 Howitzer as the go-to artillery platform.
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I'm a bit concerned that I missed the MIRV thing. I know too damn many acrynims
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Good to see you. I am sorry to hear about your troubles. May your first child be a masculine child.
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I am with you on the acronym overload. Do not fret.
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there are entirely to damn many acronyms in the world.
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http://tinyurl.com/yebojwr mighty nice run of interviews. I like this one w/ Ricardo Montalbon, but good ones w/ Sherman Potter, Shatner, Don Knotts, etc. are all worthy. Yes even Captain Kangaroo has 7 or so episodes. Check it out.
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Sep 26, 2009 11:31:36 PM CDT
At least the military didn't use TLA for those systems
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I did not want to overload Kobe, but MLRS could actually be broken down into EX-MLRS and GMLRS and a partridge in a pear tree
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i passed out beside the computer, and there is still a mostly full beer here. thats rare. poor form though
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I'll probably talk you to you ladies and gents tomorrow after the games (or tonight if I come back sober).
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Remember, you are drinking for your unborn child because the lil chipper will not be allowed alcohol until he or she reaches late teens (of course they will try and sneak it). So you are drinking for two. Three actually, since your wife can not drink during pregnancy!
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Very weak you are letting down all of Ipswhich.
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Did he surprise sex Herc?
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He's been falling for Herc trolling for a while and was giving Herc shit.
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im the guy that shit usually happens to. if someone in a restrunt get a plate dropped on them or something, its usually me. last night the waitress dumped a whole plate of food on the missus. i recon the baby is already attracting trouble. not even born yet and already in the thick of things.
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is your old lady ok?
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Were you anywhere near the dust storms? Or maybe that should be storm, only one, yes? The pictures I've seen were incredible.
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just covered in food, but we were able to wipe it off. and yes i live exactly where the dust storms are, brisbane. we were lucky enough that it didn't get bad yesterday until after the wedding but thursday it was full on. my family lived in south east asia during 'the haze' in the late 90s and it was like that. plus it was this real red orange colour. it is still around a bit but it is mostly gone.
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Dang! I thought he was pretty much immune to this whole thing while in Europe. Interesting.
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Think how much it surprised him!
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Glad the dust storm didn't affect you too badly. I've seen pictures of dust storms in Arizona but the photos from Oz had that fiery dark orange red color.
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it covered everything
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Yea, it was mlrs. Looked tres cool.
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Sep 27, 2009 5:06:52 PM CDT
I'll bet they don't extradite Pedolansky
by hey_kobe_tell_me_how_my_ass_tastes
But damn curious he would be arrested after all these years. He must have visited there before.
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0 and 32 can be no more. I would like to thank Washington Redskins Head coach Jim Zorn and owner Danial "call me Mr." Snyder for putting together what has to be the single worse team in the history of Football; and ruining my sainted Lions chance at another defeated season. I now have one more reason to hate anything with the word Washington in it.
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They're AWFUL. Plain and simple.
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I've got to say I'm starting to warm up to that cockbag Rex Ryan, he's pretty good.
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I can't wait any longer I had the taste of 0 and 32 and it was cruelly ripped from me by two jerk offs that shouldn't coach or own a pee wee league team let alone an NFL franchise.
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Cincinnati? Really? This is shaping up to be a year in which BOTH teams that were in the Superbowl might not make it back.
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I'm not sure if they have what it takes to go 0-16 like the unmighty Dee-troit Lions. Tampa is mediocre enough to win a game in the parity era.
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Better do some safety post
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I will give Favre credit, I can see why we signed him in that last drive.
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Parity will make sure TB doesn't go winless.
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I posted this at AIBN, but I might as well post it here: what was his actual sentence? I mean, was he sentenced yet and what was he facing. He fled I read because he didn't want to go back to prison of another 48 days of psychological evaluation. Is that the extent of his sentence, or was he facing much more time?
I ask because if he was only facing 48 days and couldn't hack it, I have lost even more respect for the man. I went to jail for 32 days for stolen auto parts. If I can do that in LA County jail for basically auto theft, he can do 48 days for Rape and Sodomy and not whine about it. -
Horror Movie A Day. Still filling out my roster.
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But I will repost it here one at a time to pad the numbers.
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Series sold me on this one.
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So no spoilers, please
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Yes, I have never seen the Mario Brava classic
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Samantha Geimer, the victim, wrote in the LA Times -
http://tinyurl.com/ya5jemp
"We pressed charges, and he pleaded guilty. A plea bargain was agreed to by his lawyer, my lawyer and the district attorney, and it was approved by the judge. But to our amazement, at the last minute the judge went back on his word and refused to honor the deal.
Worried that he was going to have to spend 50 years in prison -- rather than just time already served -- Mr. Polanski fled the country. He's never been back, and I haven't seen him or spoken to him since." -
I can't believe he would flee just because of 48 days. However, I also wonder how accurate that is. I can imagine that they could appeal or that the Judge would have sentenced him to a year, instead of 50.
I think it highly unlikely a Judge would risk upsetting the concept of plea bargaining, there by undermining a device that saves tax payers and the courts a lot of money and time, by going incredibly over the deal. But I could be wrong. -
If available
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The British one from the 70s.
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Actually, I saw this as a kid years ago, when I was really young. I can only remember the section "The Cloak" so I want to see this again.
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The Italian one from the 80s.
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And if that is good, REC2
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...12 (or 11 if I get REC2) movies I need to fill my roster.
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pedo rapist.
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Behind the Mask, surpringly good and well made in my opinion.Spanish or American [Rec]? Its the same movie but the Spanish chick is hotter and way less annoying then the American broad.Ginger Snaps mintChronos ambitious, but in my opinion, didn't quite work for me, I applaud the affort.Dog Soldiers great funBlack Sunday I really like the Frankenheimer movie movie a lot. Any otheres don't know.Descent very effective little movie. I enjoyed it.That's it for me. Those are the only movies I know about. Have fun with the movie watching I assume the horror theme is tied in to Halloween?
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The 1960 BLACK SUNDAY - it is an Italian Horror movie.
But I have seen the 70s BLACK SUNDAY with Stern and Shaw, and I liked it a lot. I prefer the book though (of course, that usually is the case). -
http://tinyurl.com/humancentipede
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This weekend aside from Rocky 2 and a few episodes of the wire, I watched nothing but dismal shit. Seriously, Alexander, Assassins, some arse with Whoppie Goldberg in it, The Fighting Temptations- I could go on with this, but it's a touch depressing. Nearly as bad as the Garfield weekend
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BTM- superb. Very smart, very funny and they make the intelligent call of actually filming the horror movie bits properly. Ginger Snaps- mint and inexplicably overlooked Chronos- I didn't like this, funnily enough. Spanish [Rec} is excellent, American [Rec] is wank. Dog Soldiers is a rollicking little b-movie. Made for alcohol Descent is superb. Best horror film of the last 10 years. If I had to pick 3 off that list to watch for the first time I'd go with The Descent, BTM and Ginger Snaps. These 3 are a cut above the others mentioned.
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on Diary. That isn't hard. Been fisted by "Iron" Mike Tyson would be an improvement on Diary. One of the worst films I've seen in yonks.
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Sep 28, 2009 3:16:08 AM CDT
The only things I watched this weekend were...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
The Proposal, which was complete shite, but the missus of course loved it. Her taste in flicks really does do my head in. Other than that, in between boozing, I watched Smallville, and a few pilot shows. Modern Family - Why is this show so highly rated? I didn't laugh once. Cougartown - Utter shit. Embarrassing. Flash Forward - Fairly interesting premise, but kind of a bland first episode. I'll keep watching to see if it gets better. Otherwise I also watched the new Curb Your Enthusiasm, which is of course, gold.
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that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
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you mean the thing that Channel 5 are pimping as either being from the writer of The Dark Knight or the "new" Lost. Both of which make me want to avoid it- the first because I happen to know they're lying and Goyer is really the cunt responsible for Blade 3 and secondly because I don't like Lost.
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was responsible for 4 out of the wank lot that I watched this weekend. I was responsible for Rocky and Insomnia dealt with Alexander. She needs to come to terms with the fact that Antonio Banderas just makes bad films and being Spanish is no excuse.
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The fact that the 5th one (game) is set in africa, therefore the zombies are black, and the main good guy is white, constitutes the entire argument. It's fucking moronic. If Resident Evil 6 was set on fucking mars and had little green zombies killed by a white guy they'd still find a way to call it racist.
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Yeah, it's the same one. It's all very average, but i'll give it a couple of looks before giving up on it. I loathe Lost.
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Since I don't play the game, but I did think 300 was.
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what a load of risible garbage. I've forgotten who it was that said it was good the other week, but they're lying.
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two words Sofia Vergara. Good lord is she hot. Al Bundy wasn't to bad either. Hey look a link with safe for work pictures!tinyurl.com/y93cumj
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there's no way around the fact that the Persians were brown and Greeks white. The Persians were also decadent and perverted- but so were the Greeks (they gloss over homosexuality and paedophilia). It's moronic, but not racist.
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I found myself wanting to laugh because I have a lot of goodwill towards him from Married With Children. But it's just not funny. I think it's because it's so tame. It's so PG. The characters need to be more extreme.
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black chick? This makes no sense. RE has always had a fairly wide spread of good and bad ethnics- there was the japanese bird in RE2, Carlos in Nemesis, Alexa/ Alexis in Code:Veronica. Sounds like they're talking bollocks.
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Seems to me how strange it is that all the Persians look inhuman as possible.
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Yeah, the 2nd main character was a black chick. The whole argument is flawed and only maintained by precious knee-jerk cunts in search of a cause to hang their hat on.
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So far it is ok, but I think they made a big mistake. They should have started the series about 3 decades earlier and have the Third Servile War, with Spartacus, Crassus, Pompey and Caesar (ok, historically there is no evidence he fought in the 3rd Servile War, but there is also no evidence he DIDN'T fight in it either). The entire Slave Revolt, the decimation, etc, Caesar's kidnapping by the pirates and hunting them down - all of that would have been awesome.
Should have been season 1 - The 3rd Servile War.
Season 2 - Death of Crassus and the rise of Caesar. The Gallic Wars.
Season 3 - The Civil War between Caesar and Pompey.
And Season 4 take up where they are taking up now (so I imagine it would be 5 seasons then).
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I think that the editorial choice that Miller made about the Persian appearance was based on the fact that he fucked the entire story up from the get go. Instead of laying out the basics of the story well he decieded to make the Persians goofy looking because the Greeks were telling the story.What the hell is up with depicting Greek hopolite warriors not wearing lamilar or Bronze armor? That's the bigger question. Why Frank why?
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And the Greeks don't get away Scott free with that either- remember the old fuckers on the mountain. It's misogynist, homo-erotic and yet homophobic, cretinous garbage that I quite enjoy and yet I don't know why. I think because it's all so silly.
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If you haven't, I think you might dig it. It doesn't just follow around the big historical names, it also follows around the two Roman soldiers, both plebes. For me so far that is the more interesting part.
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300 has problems because Miller is a cunt and Snyder has no imagination so treats comics like story boards.
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For a while. Then I got a bit bored of it. Pullo is great though, consistently entertaining.
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Not sure how far you are in but Rome really takes off in the latter part of season 1 (THIRTEENTH!)and seson 2 is phenomenal. James Purfoy's Marc Anthony performance in season 2 is remarkable.I like your ideas about starting the story earlier except for two points. It would mean less Vorenas, Pullo and Anthony and that's unacceptable. Plus most people would be totally lost about situation and the players you involved.
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There well oiled bodies.
Hated 300 with a passion. Mostly because there is actually such an incredible story there and he made it as mindless as possible.
And anyone who wasn't a "good guy" was shown to be deformed and degenerate. The old fuckers sold them out to the Persians, so they are "race traitors." Same with the deformed guy (who is history was depicted as an able bodied Thracian if I remember right).
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So why not have Vorenas father in it, or introduce those two as kids (maybe two young for the 3rd Servile War).
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They usually refered to the Athenians as boy fuckers or perverts.
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yes, but that's because Miller is a cunt and "visionary director" Snyder is a bigger cunt with no imagination who just vomited Millers work onto the screen. I don't think I'll ever watch another Snyder film
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I believe they also practiced Pederasty, which was practiced by many Greeks.
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but I think he did that because the story was told from the Greek point of view as if you were listening to the story of the 300 from a bard. The writings found in the city states always portrayed the Persians as soft, womenly, deviant, weak and sophisticated to the point of effeminancy, like teh French. So he was sort of going with the flow there.Somebody needs to get off thier ass and make Gates of Fire with a budget of like 250 million. That would be cool.
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Which I hated because it was another movie that took and intelligent idea (the idea that our only enemy is ourselves, the entire consumerism angle, the fact there was actual believable characters), and only spewed out the dumb carnage. Fine, make that movie, just don't call it DAWN OF THE DEAD.
But, I will say the first 10-15 minutes - up to the end of the opening credits- and the end credits were very well down and pretty damn engaging. The end credits of Dawn of the Dead were scarier than anything in the movie. -
But Sparta offical stance, as written in the Laws of Lykurgas, was that Homosexuality was wrong and bad becasue it couldn't producer warriors to fill the ranks.Pederasty was more common among the Thebans like the "sacred bad" they were paired fighters and lovers.
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I think the orginal Dawn of the Dead sucks and Snyders version beats it like a red headed step child.
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If someone ever does a movie about the German's POV during WWII, are we going to show the Slavs as inhuman and the jews as vermins and parasites?
Just because the original writers were racist, xenophobic and blinded by their own propaganda, doesn't mean we have to be. Miller taking on the POV of people like that doesn't make it any more forgivable,
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"The construction of Spartan pederasty as exclusively chaste conflicts with epigraphic writings found on the island of Thera in 1898, an island colonized by the Spartans. These are graffiti, preserved on the rocks of a cliff in the vicinity of what became a gymnasium. They record sexual conquests, always of one male over another[13]. E.g.: IG 12(3).538b Ἀμο[τ]ίωνα ὦιπε Κρίμων [τ]ε(ῖ)δ[ε] "Krimon fucked Amotion here" (the verb οἴφω is exclusively physical). Thera, however, was also influenced by Crete, a culture which did not privilege non-sexual relationships.[14] The alleged sexual indulgence of Spartan pederasty was a running gag in the repertoire of Athenian comedians, and the verb λακωνίζω / lakōnízō ("to do it the Lacedaemonian way"; literally, "to laconize") took on the meaning of "to sodomize." It is not clear to what extent this is a reflection of the enmity between Athens and Sparta."
Plus they also paid tribute and honored the legendary figures of Hyacinthus, the mythical young prince of Sparta and beloved of Apollo, and Elacatas, held to have been one of the eromenoi of Heracles.
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And see that half of the discussion for the night was regarding pederasty.
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Or more accurately the official NAZI point of view, then yes they should show Goebbels propaganda Corps relentless work to portray Slavs and Jews and well every nonaryan as subhuman swine to the German people. Its what they did.Should something like that be glossed over becasue it makes people uncomfortable? I think not. I err on the side of pointing the light on the dark space of the human heart. Sure you run the risks of ignitng the sick dreams if an individual but I believe more often then not it helps not hurts.
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hated it. Utter crap. Just took Romero's original clever idea and turned the moron factor up to 11.
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about the greek wars. Especially with the Sacred Band. There's a load of epic films to be made if you take Greek mythology as well. Except Hollyturd keeps making cretinous shit like Troy, or 300 or Clash of The Titans remake (fuck you bastards). Having said that, I know 300 is garbage, but it's so relentlessly macho and clueless that I giggle all the way through it. I know it's crap, but goddamn it if it isn't unintentionally hilarious crap.
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Sep 28, 2009 4:46:54 AM CDT
Xi. you are arguing showing the propaganda machine in motion
by continentalop
That is acknowledging it as propaganda. And making people aware that they are either watching something that isn't true, or watching as we see them distort an image in an attempt to manipulate us.
I don't think the majority of people who saw 300 were smart enough or sophisticated enough to realize that it was meant to be seen as the Spartan's subjective view (and I don't think Snyder or Miller meant it that way). They just saw it as a bunch of hot, muscular europeans kicking brown, inhuman foreigners asses.
It was the same as watching an old Western and showing the Indians as a bunch of inhuman savages and the white man as noble and the rightful heir of the land.
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Would be a great movie to make. 10,000 mercs get there leaders killed by treachery, elect new captains and begin a 3 year long march back to the ocean. Killing everything that gets in thier way. The Warriors movie was loosly based on it as everbody knows.Or Gates of Fire. Goddamn Hollywood make me my movie NOW!
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Theseus. Showing his journey to Athens and meeting Bandits and thieves, and then the big thing, the Labyrinth of the Minotaur.
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in regards to the ancient Greeks I don't believe that you can apply modern mores to ancient times. its unfair to do so and in my opinion doesn't make a lot of sense. Differnt times differnt places.Maybe I'm not understanding your German argument that well. Are you saying that a POV movie shouldn't include actual events that happened because they could potentionally be percieved as offensive? I know I'm being a reductionist but I'm a bad typist and lazy to boot.
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Sep 28, 2009 5:05:11 AM CDT
I actually think the Warriors is more based on the Odyssey
by continentalop
I know they also claim Anabasis, but I once realized that almost every encounter in that movie corresponds with something from the Odyssey.
Swan = Odysseus
Ajax = Ajax, the same name as the Greek hero who fought with Odysseus for Archille's armor (just like Ajax fights with him for leadership).
Turnball AC's = The Cyclops (they are giant and imposing, but nearly blind as the Warriors run right by them)
The Lizzies = The Sirens
Mercedes Ruehl = Circe (Circe turned Odysseus' crew into pigs, Mercedes captures Ajax and when the others return they see police instead, or "pigs").
The Punks = Scylla (six bathroom stall doors, six warriors because Odysseus needed six warriors to get by Scylla)
And the climax with the Rogues on the beach is Odysseus facing the suitors in his homeland of Ithaca.
Mercy = Calypso & Circe (both loved Odysseus and Circe led him through the Underworld; Mercy leads Swan through the underworld of the Subway tunnel).
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Regarding each other's opinion.
I agree that you should show the ancient Greeks had different mores than us. I am all for historical accuracy - damn the consequences and who it offends. Same with a German/Nazi POV movie - yes, show the horrible things they did and why they did them because that is their viewpoint.
BUT what I don't think you should do is CHANGE history to fit their facts and paint them in a good light. In a WWII movie you could show the Nazi's executing the Slavs and killing them mercilessly, but what you shouldn't do it try to justify why they do it, i.e. don't show the Slavs as doing a sneak attack on Germany or that they started this horrible ordeal, or that they somehow look ugly, uncouth, dress horribly and have no features that makes you relate to them as human, unlike the Germans who you show as handsome, clean and noble. In other words, don't play favorites - just be honest.
That was my problem with 300. I want the savage honesty. The Spartans were brave, skilled, courageous, etc. They were not completely heroic and noble however (just ask their slaves, the Helots), and they were not fighting an inhuman enemy that would be so easy to hate and cheer for their deaths. What Snyder did was the same thing that DW Griffith did - he didn't make a movie about characters who were xenophobic and racist; he made a xenophobic and racist movie IMO.
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So I don't think we are that far off in what we are both saying. Just somehow not getting across to each other for some reason.
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besides being a ripping good war story is also a travel log and a study of all the various races and tribes the 10,000 met along the way. So from that point of view you could argue that each group the Warriors meet while trying to get back to Coney Island(or the black sea in real life) corrospond with the tribes they met on the March.Or we could simply say that the Warriors chose to use elements from both Mythology and Anabasis to make one great fucking movie.
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I would show a baby getting thrown off the cliff for not screaming loud enough, and then I would show a pack of boys attacking some Helots in the middle of the night for the crypteia.
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Your second statement is the accurate one - they combined the two. I think they decided to make each encounter "unique" by basing it more on Greek myths. Meeting warriors and enemy tribes is interesting, meeting adapted versions of Greek monsters and obstacles is something downright weird and unique.
Like the Baseball Furies. A bunch of guys who never talk who appear coming out of a dugout from underneath a building totally suggests they based them on the Greek myths of the Erinyes, who come from the Underworld. -
and I agree. I think we were saying pretty much the same thing just not getting it across that well or more likely not well on my side. I would never argue a change in history to fit the facts the writer or director wants. When that happens on a large scale in a movie it tends to piss me off. I know compromises have to be made its usually the scope and how good or bad they present them that botheres me. I to would like to see more of the "savage honesty" both the good and bad and in the case of the Hopolite warrior a FULL PANOPLY of armor damn it!
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was one of the best ideas I think I've ever seen in a movie. They were the defintion of cool. Fuck that whole movie is cool. I need to watch it again, soon.
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Sep 28, 2009 5:41:45 AM CDT
In Deadliest Warrior: Spartan vs. Ninja they showed the armor
by continentalop
So it seems to me that it was common knowledge they wore it.
I laugh at the people who said Ninjas got screwed. Two things about their argument sucks:
"Ninjas could sneak up on them." Maybe, but the Spartans were just as sneaky and quiet. They were famous raiders and stealthy combatants. What do you think the point of forcing their kids to live like animals and live by ambushing and stealing from the Helots was - to teach them how to be stealthy and be ruthless.
"Nijnas know martial arts." Yep, ninjitsu. But the Spartans are also master of martial arts, a thing called Pankration, which is a lot like modern MMA and I would take over almost any single old Japanese martial art. It might be the most complete martial art until recently, combining striking with grappling and submission moves. And unlike the wimpier Greeks, the Spartans insisted you should allow eye-gauging and fish-hooking. -
Someone's love for baseball and KISS. A good combination.
I love how the scariest, evilest looking gang gets there ass kicked in like 2 minutes flat when the Warriors finally stop running.
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I must have seen that film 1000 times and never noticed it, but now you say it, it's fucking obvious. Anabasis I would stay away from because Xeno did give us the word Xenophobe and I suspect it is laced with latent racism. How about a proper fucking Odyssey film? or Perseus, Theben saga, Oedipus, Jason, Bellaraphon, etc. Fuck, there's loads of it. And that's not mentioning other mythology which is untapped. But nooooooo Hollywood would rather remake Clash of The Titans again (not that I don't like it)which is watered down Theseus.
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hehehehehehehe
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because Ajax (greek) hangs himself before the Odyssey takes place.
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That's some good stuff. not very "pretty" but damn its one effective combat sytem. It reminds me a bit of Krav magra from the point of view that its adaptive and removed from a more structred sytem. The idea is to get the job done fast brutal and hard.
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But I don't think it was coincidence that they named the hot-headed, toughest and strongest Warrior after Ajax, and also made him someone who wants the title of Warlord.
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can we at least all agree that "visionary director" Zack Snyder is a)nothing of the sort, b)a talentless hack who has never actually made a good movie and c)a fucking imaginationless tool that slavishly copies comic books?
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your taking the piss with that Xenophon statement right? Its pretty funny if you are. If not I would like to ask how that head wound is healing.
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I took it for a couple of years then stopped, but I still own the complete library so i practice on my own. I should really join up again.
Personally, I think it is the best system (and I am talking about consumer Krav Maga, not the actual stuff that the Israeli Military teaches because I wouldn't know) someone can get into. It is fast and easy to learn - maybe you won't be as good as a guy who studies BJJ or a pro Boxer, but for most people who have never studied a martial art it is damn effective and easy to learn. And you won't have to be taking it for years and learning all these fucking Katas, just practical stuff.
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but seeing as they are mixing two myths anyway, there's nothing wrong with borrowing from a third.
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Whatsoever. Have not seen Watchman though, and have no desire too. Looks boring.
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but I think DoD is a good movie. Watchmen sucked. 300 was goofy beyond belief but I blame Millar for that. Snyder just filmed the funny book.
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I haven't read the work in question, but I just happen to know that is where Xenophobe comes from.
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there are so many things in it that are shit- Zombie Baby, crappy 2D characters, moronic action, shitty soundtrack, moronic unsubtle abuse of the theme (even worse than Romero did). The end is quite good.
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Check it out. He was great. Or the Moslem seige of Constantinople 717-718, time for napaulm, mass starvation and turning points. Good stuff all the way around.
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is a bad film- on every level. It just makes me cry with laughter because it's so inept.
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And the end credits for DoD. Other than that, I hated it.
I love the original DoD, so I admit it makes me have a biases. The original DoD made you think and wonder what you would do to survive such a scenario.
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I liked the idea of a baby zombie and I liked that they assassinated it. All though they punked out by not showing it. I found the charaters more realistic then the orginal. I like parts of the sound track and Romeros orginal themes bugged the shit out of me so I'm glad they dropped them.Do I think its some great spectacular movie no, but I find it entertaining. I probably give it to much credit for the beginning and the end. Plus the Laural and Hardy duo of goofy security guards made me laugh.
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Xeno (meaning foreigner) and Phobe/Phobia (which means fear).
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atrocious unoriginal garbage. Poorly handled and fucking inept. Good Zombie baby= Brain Dead. The characters operated by stupidity. Was it remotely believable that whatshisname would keep his obviously zombifying wife in the fucking basement and hide her from everybody before wigging out when she was discovered? That whole section of the film was garbage. I agree, the beginning and end were well done.
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is top notch. You can become an effective operator fast and can master the basics quickly. Its good stuff.
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Xenophon wrote something that was deemed to be inflammatory- This is half remembered from a Greek lit/art/history course I did at Uni. Co-incidentally the word also happened to mean "stranger". Although, admittedly, the lecturer that told me that was the type of lily-livered cunt that would find racism all over the shop. He refused to put Anabasis on the Syllabus.
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and most offensively they didn't get the russian chick naked. The blonde had some nice cans.
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because he said it was frighteningly xenophobic or some such pish. British Universities are full of these sort of cunts.
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Because that is so wrong, yet so right for cheesy great moments (like Return of the Living Dead).
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but midgits and nudity make any film automatically better.
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in FREAK TALKS ABOUT SEX:
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Is very well written but admitidly I have thing for that era so I'm not exactly unbiased.Some of Xenophons descriptions of the peoples they met, how the look dress or act can be funny in a very dead pan sort of way.
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Unfortunately, on Sunday, September 27th...the Detroit Lions won a game. The dream of back-to-back 0-16 seasons is dead.Now our gaze must head to St. Louis, home of the Rams, who are now are next great hope for 0-16.Long live the Rams!
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JETS!JETS!JETS!!
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and I've completely forgotten what it's called, but a Cannibal eats a clown in it. This may well be the most incredible piece of film since Dwarf eats himself.
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Fuck the NFL. Mostly because the highlight programme we get is fronted by two complete fuckheads who go miles out of their way to NOT show any actual NFL. It's so annoying.
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but now that its on the table how come you don't see naked zombies? I read a zombie book once, by Brian Keene I believe, where a doctor had a zombie tied to a table that he continually railed. Gave me the creeps for a week.
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what I watched this weekend...Wolverine - it was okay, I was entertained by it. The Ma and Pa getting killed in the barn did take me by surprise. While not saying much, it was much better than X3.State of Play - I really enjoyed this. I'm not too crazy about the ending...but I certainly liked everyone in it. Plus I've always had a crush on Rachel McAdams.Taken - Loved it. Liam is the fucking man.Defiance - I thought it was a solid movie. A pretty incredible story to begin with, that they were able to persevere for so long in the woods.
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I bet the director had nightmares about a clown and this was his "revenge".
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England have marched on in that stupid one-day tournament that I couldn't give a fuck about. Much to my surprise because I thought they were going to lose all three group games. I think they should throw the match against New Zealand because it would be more amusing than the tournament deserves if SA and Sri Lanka (the two favourites) get knocked out. Although that means that Australia will win it, I can live with that.
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It would give me the creeps for a year. I'm pretty sure we have some talkbackers on AICN who would theoretically do something like that given the chance.
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scroll up this TB I left a Jets message for you.
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Return of The Living Dead. I'm sure I've seen others.
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Some horny losers find a animated corpse and take turns with her, even though she sometimes goes cannibalistic on people?
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I think I will make that. A movie about a zombie plague that hits a nudist colony.
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I think they have detailed plans worked out and are praying for the Zombigeddon to hit so the pain from the terminal blue balls will end.
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Dead Girl is the film and it's all over the place. No fucking thanks.
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They just ordered a Real Girl instead.
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I call that my nineth birthday party.
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or any of about 100 other douchetards around here could afford 5G for Real Girl?Those fucking things are scary disturbing but not as disturbing as the defectives that order them, like Media Messiah or Lockesbrokenleg.
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Asimovlives just shoots a goat then cornholes the gunshot wound.
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even if it is true.
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Bitching about how his ex-wife fucked him over and left him for another man.
I have a personally philosophy: when a man cheats on his wife, it is the man's fault.
If a woman cheats on her husband and leaves him, it is the man's fault. Generally speaking, a woman won't cheat or leave her husband as long as she still RESPECTS him.
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Is it what I think it is? Cause thats a pretty disturbing notion.
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It's coming up to 3K and getting cumbersome. Any changian topics on the main page?
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They're these fucking weird sex toys that are meant to look and feel like a real woman (except they don't give any of the other bonuses that actual women do- such as laundry) and cost about 5K. For dedicated perverts only.
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yeah right. Its another fantasy of his.
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Depends on the woman. I've got a female friend from University that is going into her 3rd marriage at the age of 31. Both previous divorces were down to her infidelity. Admittedly, marriage 1 was a mistake and they didn't respect each other, but the infidelity in marriage 2 was a drunken mistake when away on business that she regretted at the time.
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On sex, woman, relationships, and marriage.
Part of me wants to say "Hey, I know what book you stole that from" and agree with him, then he goes on this bizarre tangent where I just have to sit back and laugh.
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I don't believe that for a second. It's probably a woman that turned down his facebook invitation.
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Family guy.HEheheh
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either way "wife" is not correct.
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There is always exceptions, and i was just saying a generalization.
Women cheat all the time on men. They did a study in Britain at one time and found out that 10% of men were raising children that were not biologically theirs. They were cockolded and didn't know it.
But woman usually cheat because she meets someone who has better traits than the guy they are with, and they usually are willing to cheat if they don't respect the man they are with. She is looking at you as a meal ticket and as a provider for her and her kids, but she isn't looking at you as genetic stock. That means she doesn't respect you.
So I say, hey maybe you should turn yourself into someone she respects and she won't cheat on you.
Of course, that doesn't mean it is always the case and that some woman aren't just bitches, just like some men aren't just assholes. But as a general rule, I blame the man. -
but to be fair I do fuck with him something fierce.I like to occasionly point out to MM what books he rips stuff off from. He goes ubernuts over that. Good times
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I've got a book at home called "100 things you should know" and that's one of them. Along with Ghandi being a bastard, US Army slanderous discharge codes, Legal highs, and, brilliantly, that the code to arm nuclear weapons in the 1970's was 00000000
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Lucas ripped off from some Anime movie called Star Blasters, but never once does he mention the Kurasawa influence from the Hidden Fortress, or how he was also influenced by Triumph of the Will. He is just doing this to try and paint Lucas as a plagiarizing.
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Like father like son.He ever gets them to the superbowl, he's a sweet, sweet man.
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which was written by a British scientist, so it centers on a British/European style living.
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From your mouth to gods ear.
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I go away for three days and all of the sudden this place has news?
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Modern Family. I can tell you why you didn't laugh. Because it was that sort of laugh out loud humor, that you under the Queens rule aren't used to. Your more of a tea and crumpits sort of snicker, oh look how funny ricky gervais is.... now if only we could get him to dress up as a women.
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No Pandorum or Surrogatges reviews? BUT FAME? Who do they think the average talkbacker is?
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has received. Fuck. It's a Tony Jaa movie and they are complaining about a thin plot? Fucking pencil jihad on them all.
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And this is not the number one talkback because this site is still head sewed to each others asses about it. Fuck me.
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Sep 28, 2009 9:02:55 AM CDT
Series RE: Modern Family and laugh out loud humour
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
The reason I didn't laugh at MF is because it's uncomfortable silence humour. Meaning it's not just unfunny, but embarrassing in it's desperation. An example of laugh out loud humour that you yanks have supplied the world are Arrested Development or South Park. And if you want to see Ricky Gervais in a dress that's your problem. Maybe you can get one of those Real Dolls that looks like Gervais. Then you can dress it up how you like!
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A review of Fame and 0 reviews of Surrogates or Pandorum and still no interview with the Dr.
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Horrid idea. Who would pay 5g's for that?
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He will not be inducted into the British comedian hall of fame. Its a right of passage in the British comedian world.
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You seriously didn't laugh at the fucking Lion King baby scene? What the fuck is wrong with you? That shit was histerical. Turn it off! I can't turn it off its who I am? No the music. OH.
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that doesn't feature men in dresses.
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Thats what the fucking British Office was as well? Yet that stands as your epitome of classic comedy.
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Sep 28, 2009 9:23:00 AM CDT
"Who would pay 5g's for that?"
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Someone who wants to dress him up as a women... Like Series.
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Name one.
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Nor am I black. I don't need my comedians to dress up as women to be funny.
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Cloudy with a chance of meatballs makes more money then Where the Wild Things Are.
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Sep 28, 2009 9:27:27 AM CDT
"uncomfortable silence humour"
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
You have failed to grasp the difference, young Series. The uncomfortable silence was created by the so-called humour falling dead flat. None of the jokes were remotely funny.
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I want to see this movie. I want it to be scary. But if this site pushes it any harder on me, I'm gonna skip it.
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Thanks for the compliments on my camera movements. The dolly was actually not handheld. All I had was a furniture dolly that I put the camera's tripod on and I had my friend push it while I tried to keep the camera centered on the actor. Its a bit jittery bc we ran over the edge of the living room rug. We couldn't pull the rug up without it showing on the camera, so I just went with it. We didn't really have the time to perfect the shot, and I've had a few pple tell me they like the unplanned camera moves in that shot bc it makes them feel like its someone sneaking up on them POV style. Anyway, I did not receive a phone call this weekend so I assume I did not win. "Lamaze of the Dead" has the most YouTube views out of anyone else, so I wonder if that won. Maybe it got passed around some zombie websites, who knows. If it wins, well.... eh. Far be it from me to toss out the "its just another zombie movie, nothing more" criticism when I myself am working on a zombie series, but there just wasn't much else to it, except for the character bits there at the end. And Mockingbird and Bedfellows are both the exact same story, both creepy yes. But like you said, mine actually had a narrative and cause and effect and characters who were more than just "there". Or at least, that was my plan. To make it a "real" scene. So thanks for the kind words, but I guess I just didn't know enough people to win this one. Thanks for voting though!
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who cares? Will that legitimise Cloudy?
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Funny as shit. The only thing funnier last week was probably the American Office season opener. I don't think being one of the highest rated new shows means that the jokes fell dead flat. You just didn't understand it. I mean does England even have High School Musical? The way British people raise their families probably not the same as Americans.
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I had that same idea for one of my episodes of Zombie Hunters. Damnit.
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no men in dresses. Red Dwarf- No men in dresses.
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I haven't seen it. Still an amazing kids book.
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no men in dresses. Need I continue?
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Because they were already wearing women's clothing.
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And dorks found Red Dwarf funny. The Young Ones.....sounds familar need to have my team at IMDB do a search on it.
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About cultural references. We do have HSM, but not to saturation point like America.
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Sep 28, 2009 9:36:37 AM CDT
We'll have to agree to disagree here, Series
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Because in my subjective opinion based on objective criteria, Modern Family is 20 odd minutes that are completely devoid of humour and a total waste of my time.
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and Red Dwarf was funny. The Young Ones was seminal and when on form, hilarious.
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That Lion King scene was funny no matter what. Plus that fat guy looks like Nathan Lane to boot. Actually the funniest thing I saw last week surprisingly was Jimmy Fallon on the Emmeys, I guess there's a first for everyone.
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Where were the cultural references that only american would understand? Gay guys adopting an asian kid? A girl having a boy over and her mum freaking out? Soccer mums? Fat kids? Sorry mate. I don't see them.
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The British Comedy Red Nose hall of fame, then The Ben Stiller show is one of the top ten funniest shows of all time.
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Don't be daft. Drop Dead Fred is also American that had Rick Mayall slumming it.
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and better than anything Stiller ever did. You haven't seen it, clearly.
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I've ever seen involves a lot more fuck up situations that are more dramatic then fummy. Stuff like The Street and Nil by Mouth. I did not find much humor in those.
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Who has the movie with him getting ditched naked somewhere after a night of drinking? That movie was pretty funny. I have been meaning to watch the Young Ones. Have you seen the Ben Still Show? Remember nothing is funnier then Tropic Thunder, and bull shit is better then anything Stiller's done. I don't get the Stiller hate. So Rick Mayall can make Drop Dead Fred and its ok? Stiller makes crap to get money and its not ok? Why because he was successful?
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Sep 28, 2009 9:46:46 AM CDT
The only moment that was almost funny was...
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
when the gay guys were on the plane with the kid and someone said "Look at the little baby with the cream puffs", and one of the gay guys got up and started berating the other passengers then realised the the baby was holding toy creampuffs. But the punchline was completely mishandled because you couldn't see clearly that they were creampuffs and you couldn't hear what his partner was saying. I actually had to rewind and replay the moment to get the joke.
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So what? How is that automatically funny. He could look like a dalek being fucked by a porcupine if the material is as shit as droid makes out. Is that stale shit the best of American comedy? Gay adoption? Teenage sexuality? Soccer Moms? Granted, laughing at fat kids is always amusing.
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Sep 28, 2009 9:49:09 AM CDT
"nothing is funnier then Tropic Thunder"
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Okay. Now I understand.
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Sep 28, 2009 9:49:33 AM CDT
Rik Mayall wil always be loved because of Lord Flasheart
by toadkillerdog
Treat your woman like you treat your plane - jump in her five times a day and take to to heaven and back - rah!
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Young angry Rick Mayall= Funny. I have to strike Blackadder, because I've just remembered that Mayall wears a dress in 2, Baldrick does in 3, and Hugh Laurie does in 4.
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Nathan Lane was a voice in The Lion King. It wasn't meant to be anything just pointing out the obvious. Its funny. Al Bundy is funny as shit in it. And refer to Xi's point about his wife. You don't see women like that on British comedies. And if you sit here and try to tell me otherwise then I know you are fucking wrong.
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Again a reference to my tirad a week ago about how great of a director Ben Stiller is.....god do you guys need cliff notes?
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I knew that had to have happened at some point. Too bad all his pictures now are of House.
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So you'll watch an unfunny comedy if there's a hot chick on it? Porn is funnier. And chicks get nekked and nasty. Much more entertaining.
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Droid you must be a lot older then I realize if you couldn't follow that Creampuffs joke. Or need to upgrade your system, because it was pretty simple and easily heard. In fact if was one of the first clips I saw of the show. Another thing is that all the preview clips of the show where in the first five minutes of the show. And the show still had the best moments saved for the rest of the show. For TV spots promoting the show to not give away all the jokes is pretty amazing.
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check out coupling. All 3 of the women in it were well worth a fuck. And it's hilarious with nary a drag scene to boot.
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Sep 28, 2009 9:59:09 AM CDT
I vaguely remember a "Stiller is a god" rant
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
He has made good comedies, except for TT. I didn't hate it, but it wasn't anywhere near as funny as I expected. Jack Black was the best thing in it. He's yet to make a classic comedy like Airplane, The Naked Gun, Planes, Train and Automobiles or Some Like It Hot.
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Is not only hot, she is funny as hell to. She's been in a lot of funny things. Big Trouble, Knights of Prosperity. I'm sorry if you can't handle a good looking female to be funny. I know most female british comedies look like this. http://tinyurl.com/y8ec5ox http://tinyurl.com/8chxcn http://tinyurl.com/ydbtyx9
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Christ it's hackneyed drivel like that that gives comedy a bad name. That sounds worse than 2 1/2men. Which is the least funny comedy ever made. The Royle Family- genius and nobody in drag.
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Is the best American comedy movie in a long ass time. And one of the most original.
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Sep 28, 2009 10:03:43 AM CDT
You could barely see the creampuff toy on the payoff shot
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
And the partner whispered something was so low it was illegible. It was shabbily done alleged comedy.
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two things- Firstly, Coupling- google it- Gina Bellman and Sarah Alexander were well worth a fuck back then, as was the other bird who'se name I can't remember. Secondly, Daisy Donovan, Thirdly, America gave the world the unfunny "comic" moose that is Roseanne Barr so there*sticks tongue out*.
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Which one? Modern Family gets no where close to 2 and a half men. See Big Bang Therory for that.
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3 things- Firstly, Coupling- google it- Gina Bellman and Sarah Alexander were well worth a fuck back then, as was the other bird who'se name I can't remember. Secondly, Daisy Donovan, Thirdly, America gave the world the unfunny "comic" moose that is Roseanne Barr so there*sticks tongue out*.
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It's pun-based wankery. Not big, not clever and not funny.
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THAT'S your berometer for comedy? Fuck me. A complete load of shit if ever I saw one.
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Tracey Ulman is only still alive because she was somehow involved with getting the Simpsons on the TV.
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Isn't very good. I'm talking about the Lion King gag. Big Trouble was a lot funnier then it had any right being. I know you like 40 year old virgin, so maybe it was the lack of penis jokes that you missed?
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Next you'll be defending Ellen Degenerate and Rosie O'Donnell.
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Annoyingly, Mrs. Jarv likes this. I hate it, almost as much as How I met Your Mother or The Class.
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Series is just funnin y'all. he tried the same thing last week with TT, then admitted he was trying to channel Asi. I seriously doubt he thinks TT is the best American comedy of the decade. Not even of the year. Just tell him his goat is about to be raped by a rabid turkey and he will go away screaming 'No, get away from my Hermione!' That works with Asi.
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since when? No one is defending Ullman.
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Sep 28, 2009 10:13:04 AM CDT
I liked The 40 Year Old Virgin for one reason
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
It's actually funny.
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Or a funnier movie in the past couple of years then Tropic Thunder? Night at the Musuem? The Invention of Lying? Ghost Town? Run Fatboy Run? How to Lose Friends & Alienate People? Hot Fuzz? What other British TV actor is working in movies these days?
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I'm just amusing myself as well.
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Your browser tabs read IMDB Ricky Gervais and IMDB Simon Pegg?
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Ellen no. Rosie at least started out OK, with A Leaugue of Their Own. Then she made that M. Knight Shamalyan crap and both of their careers have been shit ever since. And Toad. No I do think Tropic Thunder is one of the best comdies in the past decade. I'll have to look through some sort of list, but nothing else really comes to mind. Except maybe Zoolander? Even Anchorman isn't as funny. And Borat was not funny a second time. Old School was funny in the trailers. 40 Year Old Virgin was pretty good. I'd put NBT up there. The Hangover won't be as funny on DVD. Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz are good, but Hot Fuzz is boring now and Shaun of the Dead has again trailer issues (in that you can fit all the really funny moments into the trailer).
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I just wanted to see him try to defend Roseanne Barr
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And your answers always have at least Peggs movies in it.
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I listed four above.
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Classic british comedy and no men in drag.
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I will say Office Space is better then Tropic Thunder.
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Sep 28, 2009 10:21:50 AM CDT
"And your answers always have at least Peggs movies in it"
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
My answers? I've never referenced Pegg.
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Sep 28, 2009 10:21:52 AM CDT
My friends and I used to pick the most indefensible position
by toadkillerdog
On a movie or topic, and fight to the death trying to defend it. It was very funny. You did not get to choose the topic or movie, it was assigned to you. And you had to take it seriously - or as seriously as possible. The winner got free drinks the rest of the night! I think Asi does the same thing -only he really means it!
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So your telling me this is a chick????? http://tinyurl.com/y8ec5ox
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You used Shaun of the Dead.
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I'll have you know that my place of work still uses the old explorer and I have to still fucking open new windows when searching for shit. Its a fuck in the ass.
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Team America is better than Tropic Thunder as is Office Space.
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Sep 28, 2009 10:26:07 AM CDT
Recent comedies Ithat are better than Tropic Thunder
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
In the last 10 years... '99-'09... Bowfinger, Galaxy Quest, Election, Office Space, Mystery Men, Happy, Texas. And thats just 1999.
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She does have her moments. She is funny because she doesn't give a shit and she's crazy as hell. I'll give her a pass because she got John Goodman a lot of money, but a negative because she got Tom Arnold a lot of money. But he is slowly earning my respect, once he loosened me up before he gave me the jackpot.
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Sep 28, 2009 10:27:47 AM CDT
"Last time we had this argument"
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
We had this argument before?
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we only got Firefox recently and I had to do that before.
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when? I've never seen one.
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Watch that again. I saw it like a week ago. And save for Eddie Murphy as a nerd a lot of it falls flat. Its got it's moments but it doesn't work as a whole. Happy, Texas haven't seen been meaning too. And yes we can all agree 99 was a damn good year....BUT ALMOST OUT OF DECADE RANGE. I except all those movies being better then Tropic Thunder, A mainly because you can show them to all ages, and there is not a lot of referencial humor like in Tropic Thunder that may not hold up in 5-10 years.
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Sep 28, 2009 10:31:09 AM CDT
I'm still on the pre-tab browser
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
It annoys the shit out of me.
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We would have accepted that as an answer. Pretty much 1999 kicked a lot of ass. I'm pretty sure we've had this argument about Ben Stiller.
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she's got fat and old. She isn't even in comedy any more. Harsh. As I said, Gina Bellman, Sarah Alexander or Daisy Donovan.
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I watch it every few years and it's still funny as hell.
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And The IT Crowd. That actress was good in The Son of Rambow.
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Sep 28, 2009 10:34:15 AM CDT
"She is funny because she doesn't give a shit and she's crazy as
by lost jarv
That's not funny. That's just someone in need of lithium
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I won't accept as being funnier then Tropic Thunder, especially since they cover similar topics.
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infuriating. Fluctuates between moments of absolute genius and utter shit. Father Ted was epic, but I can't count that because it's all men in drag being as they are priests.
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Has good late show apperences. Her schtick is stolen by female comedies all the time. Look at Kathy I used to fuck QT Griffin. She's HUGE now and not even half as funny as Barr.
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funnier than Tropic Thunder.
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I think my favorite part's were either the idiot bosses, or the "you wouldn't steal a car" commercial about movie pirating. But the best episode was the heist one.
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Did you ever see Brass Eye? That was fucking GENIUS and really pissed a lot of people off.
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Funnier then Tropic Thunder? Hell no, that movie is garbage. 2 is ok because its so fucking random but watching it now you'd hate it because it set the presedent for the Reign of Terror from aaron seltzer and jason friedberg. 3 is by far the best, and 4 is garbge as well. Scary Movie 1 again suffered from trailer fatigue.
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Actually I caught a chunk of Dogma the other day on tv and I was surprised at how unfunny it is. I remember liking it. There is so much dialogue in it that it actually sits there and waits while the characters monologue at each other. And it's all exposition. "This is Serendipity. She's a muse." What's a muse?" "A muse is... blah blah"
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was fucking hilarious as well. As was the Stress Test.
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Never seen Brass Eye, looks interesting though. We're they involved with IT crowd at all?
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Sal - hard to believe but there they are 3-0. I still think they are smoke and mirrors - but 3-0 buys a lot of smoke! Pillow - J-E-T-S are the real deal on D and play a very good, controlled offense. 2 legit to quit. Fred - well, the hangover has hit buddy. I know the feeling. But I do think the Steelers are better than their record. I saw the Bengals game. They just can not finish games this year. Xi - I am sorry that the dream has died. But Tampa and Rams and KC and Browns are atrocious, so there is hope on the horizon for a new dream. Keep hope alive! The Giants!!! Go big blue!
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Actually yeah I found that whole scene to be terrible... but then all is save by the shit demon.
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the "I know what you did last summer" bit was fucking side-splitting. Or it was when I saw it for the first time 9 years ago. I haven't seen it since, but am willing to say that it's shit and totally to blame for the "date/epic/teen/ disaster/ twitter/ wankinginasock/" movie crap now.
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Sep 28, 2009 10:45:05 AM CDT
"I won't accept as being funnier then Tropic Thunder"
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
Accept it or not, it's true. Bowfinger is consistently hilarious. TT is periodically amusing. Scary Movie is a steaming load of shit that proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Wayans are not, and never will be, funny.
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I was just trying to think of something universally shit. I should have said Date Movie.
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Where's RoystonLodge and PapaLazarou when you need them? And yes, it has men in drag and they're friggin hilarious!
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Is also more of a tradegy to me, because you see it and your like OH look these to titans of comedy are still amusing....then shortly afterward they died and nothing funny was ever heard from them again. And Tropic Thunder is way better then Bowfinger. Save for Heather Graham banging her way to the top and the crossing the highway scene everything else is so-so. Next you'll tell me Death at a Funeral was a classic.
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I saw it at the cinema and no one laughed. An entire cinema and not one person clearly enjoyed it. The people in front of me at the end got up and said "That was shit."
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Little Britain I know Jarv hates it though.
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Scary Movie since it was an R, and I was only 8 years old. And me and my buddy afterward were like???? Umm that wasn't funny.
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Dodgeball or The Heartbreak Kid is better than Bowfinger.
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My ass off when I first saw Scary movie 3, and still laugh to this day. I may even say its better then Tropic Thunder. Need to watch it again. AWWWW I see we aren't that different after all.
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As does that League of Gentlemen shit. As does The Mighty Boosh.
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The Heartbreak Kid???? I'd have to watch it again not drunk. Like I said, Bowfiger is ok, but its never HAHAHAHAH funny. Its a lot of little small jokes, save for the crossing the freeway scene. Thats probably one of the top ten funniest seens in a movie ever. I would say that scene may be funnier then any single scene in Tropic Thunder.
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Hide your wife.
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Look Around You. The Mighty Boosh is ok, not as funny as it thinks it is.
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Agree with you on that. But, Gentlemen is in a League of their own. You probably don't like dark humor.
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Sep 28, 2009 10:58:12 AM CDT
Dodgeball has some good moments
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
But it's not Stiller or Vaughn. It's Rip Torn's "If you can dodge a..." bits and Cole and Bateman as the commentators.
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wank, unfunny, catchphrase based pish dreamed up by two fucking hacks that inexplicably caught the zeitgeist, who didn't even have the decency to fuck off in a timely fashion but hung around like a fart in an elevator making life a bit more unpleasant for everyone else. They can fuck off and dive feet first into a wood chipper. Cunts.
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says Jarv going highbrow.
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Little Britian is funny as balls. Nothing funnier then a brit dressed up in drag.
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Also the best way to describe any talkback.
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I just saw Youth In Revolt tied in with Where the Wild Things Are. Talking about trying to scare away people. Get that fucking annoying actors mug off of the Wild Things ad.
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High - Yes, Minister. Truly great writing and acting. Low - Open All Hours. Ok, it was not a flash show, but it was very funny. There was also a long running show about a dept. store. Only the first four years were really good though.
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an economics lecture given by Professor Dull at the University of Boredom.
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Well in America we only mainly got lowbrow comedy like Whipout, Grey's Anatomy, Brothers and Sisters. I guess Nip/Tuck may count as highbrow humor.
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That joke was about as funny as Little Britain probably is to you. Sent from my iPod
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and it was Torn as I remember it.
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I'm being serious. I would rather attend a 2 hour economics lecture than watch more than 3 minutes of Little Britain. And that goes for unfunny melanoma faced twat Catherine Tate as well.
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Fozzy Bear.
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There are loads of deeply dull things that I would not only rather do than watch little britain, but that I also think are more amusing. You completely underestimate the depths of my hatred for that utter shit
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But I can say, hand on heart, I would rather try to explain the merits of Bad Boys 2 to AsimovLives for 4 hours and I'm not allowed to hit him with a computer than watch 5 minutes of little Britain. That's how much I hate it.
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I know, but, thats a lot of hate.
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Anyone seen his movies?
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Can't think of one I've seen. And I feel that my hatred of unfunny toss Little Britain is both pure and entirely justified
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= Men in drag overload for Jarv.
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= Not enough men in drag for Droid.
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One for conquest
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Series
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Just looks.... eh. Which was to be expected I suppose.
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I don't know how you can make geeks look that fucking retarded and not be funny. Or how that show is a hit.
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Wet dreams?
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James Cameron's magnum opus Piranah has some awesome set shots!
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Damnit Series.
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on tv and film?
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http://tinyurl.com/ydnuwdg
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The Wayans Brothers. Am I missing anyone?
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in Brit Coms. And in America the only equivalent I can think of is black comedic actors.
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The king er Queen of drag comedians.
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Yeah, Flip was the original Madea. Tyler perry owes his entire career to that guy.
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And Denzel Washington. Didn't he dress up like women for Training Day and it was SO against type for him we just HAD to give him lead Oscar role for a supporting part.
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Flip Wilson was a genius compared to him.
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I have never seen any Tyler Perry - although I have seen the commercials with him in drag, but I do have vague memories of Flip doing Geraldine. I remember it was funny!
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MTV used to play them here in the states, late at night. Rik Mayall was awesome as PRick (the "P" is silent), the most annoying little twat ever.
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That black pple only dress in drag on tv and film, nver in real life.
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With my new Mac I got a copy of snow leopard. Do need to install this or is that shit already on there?
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Bc Snow Leopard is an update to the Leopard operating system, not a new operating system itself.
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I wish I was at Fantastic Fest this year. They are showing pretty much most of the movies I care about seeing these next couple of months all in one place. Instead of me driving around checking half assed movie schedules on line. Maybe next year.
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Ugh... disgusting. "Siamese triplets with a single digestive system". I think I just threw up a little in my mouth just now.
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But noooooo, I had to lose that fucking contest and Zombie Hunters was rejected. Now they tell me my short made the Top Ten so I won a $100 Alamo prize pack to use at the festival... Thanks for telling me now guys. Totally useful when all the badges have sold out.
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The late great Patrick Swayze dragged up in TO WONG FOO. Leguizamo and Snipers did too but they are neither late nor great so fuck those dress-wearing muscle mary's.
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Comedy is such a personal thing but I think we can all agree that people with funny faces are funny... im'a thinking
Benny Hill
Chevy Chase
Charlie Chaplin
John Belushi
Sasha Baron Cohen
Bill Murray
Gene Wilder
Eric Idle
Steve Martin
Nathan Lane
It's when it comes down to people without funny faces that the whole thing becomes more argumentative. Stars in comedy movies, without funny faces...im'a thinking
Hugh Grant
Cameron Diaz
Ben Stiller
Seth Rogen
Ashton Kutcher
You know what im saying. I dont want to discriminate against people with non-funny faces but maybe some of them should stay the fuck away from comedy. -
Not much to say on her since though. Comedy is so subjective. I like Benny Hill. Most here LOATHE him. That's fine-different strokes. Explaining Bad Boys Too to Mammaries of Mommy? Jarv-for SHAME that's even low for YOU. You KNOW he's gonna scream about how 'that Wasn't REALLY CUBA they filmed it in!' etc at the end etc. Mammaries enjoys strap on sex w/ Ibex of all races, genders and ages. It's the Oporto Way!
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when i was 10 years old. boobies. hee hee
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That The Men who stare at goats has a similar fucking vibe and look to Three Kings?
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Well, unfortunately Fred was proven correct to be wary of the Bungles -what a shame Fred can not use such powers for good and extreme monetary gain instead of watching his favorite team implode yet again. This is the second week in a row, were the Steelers looked unstoppable on the first drive, and moved the ball very well, only to settle for field goals. They should have led 21 or even 28 nothing by halftime. It never ever fails that when you are on the road, and you do not capitalize on opportunities and put the home team away, they will comeback. Fred is convinced that the Steelers were the superior team in both losses. But in both cases, the offenses lack of scoring when they had the chance meant that the defense had to play much harder and longer and by the end of the game, they had nothing left and could not make the plays when it counted. They really miss Polamalu. Fred is still cautiously confident that the Steelers can and will turn it around.
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Yeah that's the one with the scary guy in bed. Yeah it was creepy. And yeah, the guy made it in 2008 and not for this contest. Congrats to him.
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I really do appreciate it you guys. Thanks so much. Maybe next time.
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Regardless the official outcome -and I know you really wanted to win, you still were able to get immeasurable experience and the knowledge that you are able to produce (and produce well) under pressure and tight deadlines. That confidence in your abilities will only serve you well going forward. You have overcome the biggest hurdle any aspiring talent can - really believing in yourself and knowing you have talent. Just keep believing and producing and the rest of the world will also know what you and those of us who have already seen your work, do.
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For the sake of the 'Burgh, I hope you are correct!
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It is all about the 10,000 hours. Just keep working towards that number and you are set.
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But priceless shot's of Jerry looking like 'how the fuck can we be losing to the Panthers?'
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Anyway, sorry you didn't get it Vader but you shouldn't worry. You are talented and determined. You'll get there.
Oh, and if you lot want to help me out, I'm battling a gaggle of Grey's Anatomy soccer moms and a classical musical snob at The Maryland's Outstanding Blog contest. My site, Cinematropolis--which has reviews of both Surrogates and Pandorum, Series--was nominated in the categories of Pop Culture and Misfit, which is probably appropriate.
Anyone who wants to, and I'd be quite grateful if you did, can go here and read the details on voting. Basically you can do it once a day in each category.
http://cinematropolis.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/cinematropolis-is-nominated-for-a-mobbie-vote-here/
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what I want to see now is who's gonna break the first review of 'Human Centipede'? And I really hope 'break' is the appropriate terminology.
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Sep 29, 2009 3:49:15 AM CDT
Are we still here or kicking it in another changian TB?
by i_am_not_the_droid_you_are_looking_for
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everyone jumped ship. Where's Jarv, he's usually the only around here this time of day.
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you see my question above? About The Men Who Stare at Goats looking similar to Three Kings? Care to engage?
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Paranormal Activity still not coming here.
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From being in the top ten. Kansas City metro area is fucking beating us.
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changian and I shall mooch there. This one takes too long to load. Well, I will once my next fucking meeting finishes. Do these inconsiderate people not realise that I don't actually come here to work ? Fools
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The game? Whaaaaaa????
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or the biography of portugal's least favourite son.
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Chris Morris who was behind Brass Eye played the boss in the first series of the IT Crowd. You have to see the Drugs Brass Eye, just for when Morris gets Z-List tossers to say "Don't eat cake" to the kids. Incredible.
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Looks good. Maybe not the 9 o'clock news good, but close.
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Was Crapston Villas. Thank you for Troma for releasing it on the DVDs.
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Pretty weak. Not impressed, you can tell they tried to hard on stuff that just didn't work. Save for like one or two songs, the album is mostly throw away.
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Unless they are the biggest games? I guess they think people will just buy it no matter what? Or do they not have enough writers to keep around to review all games.
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Worth seeing?
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if it is, then yes....in a schlocky sort of way it is wort seeing. Very 80s cheese-a-riffic.
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If so then it is worth seeing- even if the "twist" is so shameful that knight shamladingdong would be embarrassed.
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did you ever cover that one Jarv? are you still writing the Schlock vault over at Mavra's place?
Your remembrance of the Boglin inspired me to create this:
http://cinematropolis.wordpress.com/2009/09/25/bloglins-1-pandorum-baltimore-book-festival-dollhouse-2-0-weekend-dvds/
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since it isn't really Mavra's place anymore, but you know what I mean.
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It aired on sci-fi last week I think. I have no idea if it's any good or not. Or how bout Pig Hunt? The giant hog film that isn't the Korean one?
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although if you liked the original at all,then it's possible you will enjoy this on some level. But seriously, a cgi monster baby? Lame!
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The one with Shatner. Is this worth hunting down?
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WTF?
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I got it on the DVR (thats not saying much just that I have access to watch it if I ever get around to it). Seriously I need like a high school kid right about now. If my dad had my movie collection I'm pretty sure I'd be about 100 pounds heavier. Watch me get a kid that doesn't like movies.
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I got tired of writing for mine. It's mostly just overflow articles from my site. Since the site is taking off, I don't realy mess with it much. I think I've made like 10 bucks all told since I started. Weak.
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yea, I know...my collection...just sits there. I started the Movie A Day thing, similar to Quint's, and I still don't get a chance to watch much. There's no such thing as rewatching a movie in my vocabulary anymore.
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Isn't doing great. I don't have much to write about, and have been too busy to see movies. And I am so sick of siting in front of a computer at work, even with the new IMAC at home I don't even want to look at it let alone write stuff. I would like to write more. I hate how the site is set up. Because if you spend time write a good review, it could be kicked off the home page in like an hour with some ass hat (we'll call him the Republican examnier) who just poops out a two line sort of sentence about nothing. Puts like 3 out in an hour maybe someone else puts something, then my article is no where to be found.
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It's Alive. Find Pontypool if you can--I think it was playing on demand somewhere. It's well worth your time. As is Trick R Treat, which I saw yesterday. Pretty good little movie.
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At least for the next 2-3 years (Hopefully longer). I just had the national frisbee compition, didn't do as good as I wanted. I had been putting a lot of my time into that. I should have the video up on you tube tonight (if I can figure out IMAC's editing software). Does your other site cinetropolis generate cash flow at all?
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Pontypool I've heard of....don't know where. Did you do a write up for Mavra? Also do you know what happened with the whole Mavra leaving thing?
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Since I got bitched at over at Mavra, I probably shouldn't ask, but you wouldn't want like a weekly one-shot a week column over at Cinematropolis, would you? I'm trying to highlight other citie and places. I've got a guy in Japan(an American) whose gonna do on,one in North Carolina, a few girls lined up, and now I'm just asking all the legit writers I know.
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I'd say keep double posting your stuff there. Like I think its a really cool idea that has a SMALL chance of actually tacking off. And I'd like to stay with it because of that.
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Do you help run it? I would like to say I am too busy, but its more of a I'm too lazy thing. Though after the move, new job, wedding and now that the world championships are gone. I think my life will slow down more and I'll become bored and want to do more. I've been trying like hell to catch up in comics to get back to that, but its fucking hard with like 40 new titles I want coming out every week.
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Just found out that there are actually three near me! How have I not seen them. That place is awesome.
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but it gets me alot of free swag and what not. It isn't very old, only a few months--I started writing it in May. You should check it out over there sometimes. The one thing it is sparse on is comments. I've found with alot of movie blogs, people read and justmove on.
If you look a fewcomments above, I put a link in for a best Maryland blog contest I was entered in. Voting is going on now.
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Do I help run it? or I need help running it?
It's just my blog. I built itfrom scratch around the time the mass blog/site exodus happened here with everyone jumping off to other pursuits. Except instead of picking one, I ended up writing for all three, and eventually Cinematropolis won out. Except for two articles that I posted from a contributing writer, I've written every artcile over there.
I don't need help running it, I just want to provide a greater variety of content and opinion, and keep it a Baltimore blog and one that highlights film and evnts elsewhere. It's called Cinematropolis, so the more people I have submitting stuff from other places, the better it is.
Heck, even if you just feel like writing once in a while, or doublposting some of your Examiner articles(with your link) that's fine too. -
Doo wha now?
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here it is Series:
http://cinematropolis.wordpress.com/2009/08/12/the-weekly-creepy-the-war-of-the-words-comes-to-pontypool/ -
Sep 29, 2009 11:4